If I hadn't watched the show first, I likely would not have even noticed this since admittedly I care way more about the main couple than the supporting characters, but Wen Qing in particular really didn't stand out to me as a character here which is surprising considering that I loved her in the drama. The same goes for Wen Qing who literally hasn't even shown up yet despite being quite prominent for much of the drama.
Speaking of female characters, I was quite surprised at how much of a non-presence Jiang Yanli is here compared to the drama where she was an important supporting character. They couldn't have spent an extra 5 minutes adapting the part where A Qing reveals the truth? That was important information! Poor A Qing was absolutely robbed of her time to shine in the drama, (which is a weird contrast to all the other female characters who all got more screentime compared to the novel) she contributed so much more to the Yi City plot here, both in her actions and in her characterisation, and I finally understand why people like her character so much. In the drama it was never explained how Xiao Xingchen figured out that Xue Yang was a bad guy so the whole section of the flashback didn't really make much sense, he just went straight from killing Song Lan to stabbing Xue Yang for no apparent reason. This volume picks up halfway through the Yi City arc and here, the original was definitely better than the adaption which actually skipped an entire story beat towards the end, leaving me confused after watching it. You know a story is dark when this volume contains more than one massacre, and yet it can still be considered the calm before the storm 😱
“But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
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