Ellariya

Episodes become sadder and sadder. My love to Shang XiRui becomes bigger and bigger.

Shang Xirui: Do you know what a zhiyin is?

Cheng Fengtai: I do know. I’ve been listening.

Ok so what gets me here is that the word “zhiyin” can mean soulmate or confidant, but specifically it means “the one who understands my music” (like Yu Boya etc.) And since Xirui is an opera singer, he’s basically asking if Cheng Fengtai is the only one who understands him, and CFT says “of course, I’ve been listening.”

Is there anything more romantic than someone who understands you? Is there anything more romantic than someone who understands you because they’ve been paying attention to who you really are and what you find meaningful?

Ahhh. I love Chinese romances. So slow burn but so effective. Also Shang Xirui is definitely more beautiful as a woman than I am, and I’m cool with that.

*Sees Shang Xirui perform literally once*

anyway, everyone read this fic

for some reason, this translation of jihwa's line makes me want to start gnawing on drywall even more than the one i remembered from netflix: "you might start falling for each other soon"

on the surface, maybe there's not a lot of difference. jihwa's just poking fun at them for acting like an old married couple (because they are one). but something something about how juwon's apartment is sterile and dongsik's house is haunted and both just echo with loneliness. about how neither of them have had a place where they feel whole and safe and loved for years (or maybe ever, in juwon's case), or a person to whom they could show their entire selves. they have both lived alone for years and have resigned themselves to solitude, because that's all they've known for so long. until. until—

You didn't do anything like that. None of that happened. By any chance, is this the precious secret of yours that someone took to the grave?