30 days of Guardian: Day 1 - Favourite episode

tassosss made a 30 days of Guardian meme! Since I have been talking about Guardian nonstop for way more than 30 days so far, let's see if I can do it in a structured way. You can find their original list here. I made a couple of changes (4, 5, 10, 11, 18, 19).

Day 1: Favourite episode

I'm glad there will be lots of chances to talk about specific favourite moments later, but for favourite entire episode I'm going to pick episode 8. Which was the episode when I fell utterly and deeply in love with the show. Also it is consistently great the entire way through.

The episode title, btw, is "Zhao Yunlan fails at impressing Shen Wei with antique books". Yes. Yes, he did. So much fail. I was screeching out loud watching this and wailing "oh nooooooo", especially when Shen Wei just... walks off. AND ALSO this is then the episode where Shen Wei first has a fight with Zhu Jiu and then rescues an unwell Zhao Yunlan and brings him home and tucks him into bed and then cleans his apartment and it's generally the episode of him realising in despair what a disaster he has fallen in love with. IT'S ALL SO GREAT. Also I just watched all these scenes, for research, and I adore Zhao Yunlan flirting so utterly shamelessly after he wakes up and finds Shen Wei in his apartment. "If you keep on rejecting me it'll be my life's greatest failure!"

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