It's not at all clear to me whether TGD knew that TY was LLZ and CWH's child, and whether LLZ knew either. It's plausible to me either way, as an audience we never get to see what type of relationship LLZ and TGD had, and how much information they exchanged.
I think one's take really depends on how they see TGD.
If TGD is generally a decent dude, he wouldn't have let Tang Yi take his surname. That is like, a BIG DEAL in Chinese culture. Taking someone's surname means that you essentially sever all ties with your previous family. You are abandoning your bloodline. Married women in China do not change their surnames the way it is common in Western cultures to do. To actually take on someone's name is becoming a part of their family and throwing away your own. If you read TGD as a fundamentally decent character, I can't imagine that he would have let Tang Yi take on his name knowing whose son he actually was.
I think the fact that we're never really quite sure who TGD is or why he left CWH in prison for 24 years is one of the most narratively annoying things in the story because we never get it resolved. XD
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Date: 27 Feb 2020 20:14 (UTC)I think one's take really depends on how they see TGD.
If TGD is generally a decent dude, he wouldn't have let Tang Yi take his surname. That is like, a BIG DEAL in Chinese culture. Taking someone's surname means that you essentially sever all ties with your previous family. You are abandoning your bloodline. Married women in China do not change their surnames the way it is common in Western cultures to do. To actually take on someone's name is becoming a part of their family and throwing away your own. If you read TGD as a fundamentally decent character, I can't imagine that he would have let Tang Yi take on his name knowing whose son he actually was.
I think the fact that we're never really quite sure who TGD is or why he left CWH in prison for 24 years is one of the most narratively annoying things in the story because we never get it resolved. XD