#the reread value? staggering. returning to the donghua once you Know? exquisite.

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THE LHJC DONGHUA SONGS RIGHT. like 绕梦 is lovely and beautiful and all and then you read the rest of the book and come back and listen and get absolutely slapped in the face with “剑已封鞘 藏起尘嚣万千” like HEY that’s MEAN you take that BACK

YES literally the lyric I was thinking of (though honestly even just the opening of 如蝶翩翩 萦绕世外桃源 Hits Different, and I'm half-surprised they didn't sneak in a 惊魂 reference alongside e.g. 满树花落吹庭院 随风又飘进枕边). I first watched the donghua before reading the novel and that was. Precisely the experience upon returning to it after reading. Like excuse me how DARE you.

Then again it fits in some kind of meta sense because that's exactly the sort of thing priest does within the novel itself with descriptions like, say, 无情 coming back to haunt you once you Realise.