I increasingly feel that Shen Ni must be a tricky character to write because everything with her is so repressed and internal (e.g. when she hears Bian Jin telling Zeng Qingluo that they shouldn't see too much of each other, the text doesn't tell us how she feels, just that she keeps running a finger down the wall over and over), and I think the author is doing an excellent job so far.
Bian Jian calmly pulls out a concealed dagger — to be clear, this is Zeng Qingluo's dagger, which she has hidden away very well on her person — and tells Zeng Qingluo to wait for her there. OMG BIAN JIN JIEJIE SO COOL AAAAAAAAAAA
using her organic memory — she has hyperthymesia — and not her memory module I wonder if this will become Significant in the future, especially given what we know of the Black Box virus. Also, if I was the sort of person to care about 'rep', I guess this book would be 'double neurodiversity rep', between Shen Ni's hyperthymesia and Bian Jin's OCD/cleanliness fixation.
Of course, Shen Ni bursts in at this moment, literally kicks over Li Chu and all of his men — they're left wailing on the floor — catches hold of Bian Jin round the waist and pulls her behind her. CLASSIC romantic clinch moment. Ning Yuan knows how to give us what we want.
Shen Ni pulls on a fresh pair of gloves I love this, I love the little unobtrusive acts of care that the text presents to us but doesn't necessarily draw our attention to. Chi Yu/Ran Jin in The Creator's Grace are written very much like this as well.
Re: Chapter 4
Bian Jian calmly pulls out a concealed dagger — to be clear, this is Zeng Qingluo's dagger, which she has hidden away very well on her person — and tells Zeng Qingluo to wait for her there.
OMG BIAN JIN JIEJIE SO COOL AAAAAAAAAAA
using her organic memory — she has hyperthymesia — and not her memory module
I wonder if this will become Significant in the future, especially given what we know of the Black Box virus. Also, if I was the sort of person to care about 'rep', I guess this book would be 'double neurodiversity rep', between Shen Ni's hyperthymesia and Bian Jin's OCD/cleanliness fixation.
Of course, Shen Ni bursts in at this moment, literally kicks over Li Chu and all of his men — they're left wailing on the floor — catches hold of Bian Jin round the waist and pulls her behind her.
CLASSIC romantic clinch moment. Ning Yuan knows how to give us what we want.
Shen Ni pulls on a fresh pair of gloves
I love this, I love the little unobtrusive acts of care that the text presents to us but doesn't necessarily draw our attention to. Chi Yu/Ran Jin in The Creator's Grace are written very much like this as well.