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Storyline Snippets

Ma'an Village (马庵村▪︎ma an cun)

Zhang Family Castle (张家堡▪︎zhang jia bao)

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Portrayed Pettiness

Zhang Qi Ling (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Philosophical Wisdom

Jila Temple (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Portrayed Pettiness

Wu Xie (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Resemblance between Nightfall and Hemlock's features and actions as based on Mission 117.

Continued from Mission 115's take.

Weapon Metaphor

"Lost thorns" and "chipped blade".

Enraged Mode

Going all-out.

Planning Proposal

A suggestion to the superior.

Pinpointed Side

"There it is" and "there she is".

Defeated Aim

Fallen from temporary grace.

Replicated Angle

Focused ground.

Note: A continuation to the shared traits that may suggest a sibling or relatives' relation between Hemlock and Nightfall.

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Photography Parallels

Modern day AU on Rebirth's (冰湖重生) Yan Xun (portrayed by Zhang Kang Le) and Zhao Chun Er (portrayed by Xia Meng).

Reference point

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Portrayed Pettiness

Pang Zi (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Noted Significance

Crossover: Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (藏海花) × Riverside Code at Qingming Festival (清明上河图密码)

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Philosophical Wisdom

Jila Temple (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Similar context caught across Hemlock and Nightfall's remarks.

Mission 116: Hemlock

• "ずいぶんと腑抜けたツラをするようになったな<いばら姫>..."

(Zuibun to funuketa tsura wo suru youni natta na <ibara hime>...)

ずいぶん (随分, zuibun) - quite

腑抜け (ふぬけ, funuke) - weak-willed

ツラ (面, tsura) - face, surface

Your face (expression) started to become very weak (weak-willed), Thorn Princess...

• "家族ごっこがすっかり板についたようだ"

(Kazoku gokko ga sutsukari ita nitsuita youda)

家族 (かぞく, kazoku) - family

家族ごっこ (kazoku gokko) - playing family / playing house

It seems like (you're) completely accustomed to playing family (house).

Mission 30: Nightfall

• "今の先輩はおままごとでふぬけています"

(Ima no senpai ha omamagoto de funuketeimasu)

先輩 (せんぱい, senpai) - senior

おままごと (omamagoto) - playing house

ふぬけ (funuke) - weak-willed

Senpai is now weak (weak-willed) due to playing house.

Note: From the recurring usage of "腑抜け" (ふぬけ, funuke) had the context reflected in Nightfall's sentence came to a clearer view as compared to the previous assumption. While some words were used in different variations, the conversational theme involved in these remarks were similar.

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"Evil destroys even itself" (Aristotle)

The sequence of events involving the burning of Zhang Nian's laboratory.

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Resemblance between Nightfall and Hemlock's features and actions as based on Mission 115.

Aesthetic details

Straight and white hair, sharp eye shape, and stoic expression.

Offensive reaction

Natural reflex in knife-throwing.

Directed scepticism

Scrutinisation towards Yor.

Calculated considerations:

May mirror Yuri having a sibling associated to Garden.

Recent chapters' central focus on the Briar siblings, and Nightfall.

Note: Alongside the stated considerations is the possibility where Hemlock and Nightfall's case being siblings or relatives separated by the Westalis-Ostania conflict somewhere in the timeline.

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Drama Stills

Rebirth (冰湖重生): Wrap-Up Special

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Encountered Lost

The contrast of lost through the differed perspectives of Zhang Qi Ling and Zhang Hai Xing.

Where warmth was felt from its absent giver.

Zhang Qi Ling & Bai Ma

Amidst the silent encounter had he finally gain a sense of belonging from the perspective of someone he loved.

Where warmth was lost from its present giver.

Zhang Hai Xing & Zhang Hai Ke

Amidst the concluding tolerance had she finally learn to move past an ideal that no longer fit into the ever flowing time.

Where comfort of a friend was eventually found.

True companionship as offered by Wu Xie to the Zhang clan members.

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Philosophical Wisdom

Zhang Qi Ling (Adventure Behind the Bronze Door)

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Pinpointing Nightfall's thought process and consideration.

An insight on Nightfall's completed thought process was shown in Mission 67 (Part I) in an emphasis of her natural reflex of halting her own thoughts from straying too far off, making the probability of the exagerrated actions to only exist in her mind and nowhere near its implementation in the real world.

Note: Where details serve as a dependable series of hints that follow the characters' respective thought process amidst an ongoing narration, the introduction of change in the guise of development had overwritten the remnants of understanding that became the base of a logical connection.

Despite bearing a distinguishable definition in each word, the misconception of wanting one to "develop" while in full expectation for them to undergo "change" instead persisted in most and accepted by the majority; The former had maintained one's core amidst an expanded perspective, while the latter had extinguished the traces of the said core into one of a different nature, deeming it to be an unreachable shadow completely covered by the "newfound" side.

Analyses could only exist in the presence of a steady progression, for it could never be used to reason out any point of occurrences that involve abrupt changes. And thus, from the evident decision granted on the path preferred by most alone had all attempts done for its sake fall out of range and of further use.

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Into the Dreamworld (V)

Dreamcatcher (드림캐쳐) • JUSTICE MV Stills

Wishing all members the best in their respective dream-pursuing journey and a blessed endeavour in all that they pour their determination into! To hearing more from each chosen path while anticipating future group gatherings. ❤