He is an amazing actor - I mean, he makes Ye Zun in the mask look different from Shen Wei in the mask. That is incredible work.
For me, it was the way the narrative introduces Shen Wei. He is *very* clearly not an ordinary professor, and I felt it was made clear he is Dixingian from the first moment. And of course, after his dramatic reaction to seeing Zhao Yunlan, the Black-Cloaked Envoy turns up (verrrry dramatically and imposingly!) to hang conspicuously around Zhao Yunlan, and Professor Shen just happens to fall off a roof and turn up again immediately after the BCE has gone... that's classic. It honestly didn't occur to me that there was meant to be a mystery here. ;-)
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For me, it was the way the narrative introduces Shen Wei. He is *very* clearly not an ordinary professor, and I felt it was made clear he is Dixingian from the first moment. And of course, after his dramatic reaction to seeing Zhao Yunlan, the Black-Cloaked Envoy turns up (verrrry dramatically and imposingly!) to hang conspicuously around Zhao Yunlan, and Professor Shen just happens to fall off a roof and turn up again immediately after the BCE has gone... that's classic. It honestly didn't occur to me that there was meant to be a mystery here. ;-)