Chinese GL

- In the north they 'do not believe in gods, they revere only Bian Jin and the plains worshipped the Buddha; the north worshipped Bian Jin and Diwu Que silently praying to Bian Jin in front of Bian Jin's face?? Bian Jin and Shen Ni being worshipped together??? Okay. Okay!!
(But also, this and the whole thing about how in the north the people don't care about whatever charges have been levelled against Bian Jin, and worship her as they believe is correct... the part of me that is obsessed with weaponisation narratives looks at this and goes: she is a blade, or she is a god, but does she ever get to be human?)

- Wild theory time. 1) the fact that the time capsule from the future goes back at least as far as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and 2) the four craters, at least one of which contains rare metals and dangerous levels of radiation from a 'meteorite'. I'm so tempted to theorise that this is in fact a post-nuclear-apocalypse future, and the time capsule is in fact from their past, left as civilisation was on the brink of collapse as an attempt to save or rebuild future civilisation. Probably that is not where the story is going. But still. Adding those craters to the murder board.

- Bian Jin's little thought spiral there at the end about how, looking at Shen Ni playing up being cold in order to get Bian Jin to rub her hands, she can hardly imagine Shen Ni feverish and refusing to let anyone know, enduring it alone... Bian Jin, you wanted to field medicine your own spine. You are in no position to talk.

- Love Shen Ni starting the game and being entirely unprepared for Bian Jin to finish it XD