#because this might have been how drama!Duke used to tell himself he should operate

[silviakundera]

Today's episodes of The Double have this exchange from the novel running through my mind again,

“The duke loves plays so much, aren’t you afraid that there will be a day that you will also enter the play and be watched with amusement by others?”

The pupils of Ji Heng’s eyes slightly deepened. He didn’t expect that Jiang Li not only didn’t retreat a step, but also said such provocative words.

“Jiang second miss thinks I’m a person who can enter the play?” He shook his fan neither lightly nor strongly and said, “I’m not as kind as second miss.”

Meaning, he was not as kind as Jiang Li and would not shed tears for insignificant people, shedding tears for the joys and sorrows of other people.

“Plays are plays, they cannot be real.” He almost lingeringly spat out this cruel sentence.

“People who are in the play are not aware that they are in the middle of a play.” Jiang Li said quietly, “Just like me encountering a story here that moved me, perhaps there'll be a day that you will too.”