tbh SPL didn't strike me as especially pseudo-incesty either (although I think I saw some people on Goodreads freaking out about the yifu stuff). Yeah, re: QJJ (and I think Hua Xiangyi is a bit younger than Qi Zhuyin).
We got to see their interactions more in general - a lot of the book involves unreliable narrators talking about stuff after the fact (the 2020 drama kept the unreliable narrators, but did more showing vs telling). In the 2020 drama Highlight for spoilers! *Lao Pan's driving motivation is desperately attempting to rescue his sister despite the fact that he has no idea how to contact her superiors (In the 2020 drama he's a burned KMT spy and she's a CCP spy. In the book they're both CCP spies by the time the story starts).*
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Date: 2025-04-13 03:37 am (UTC)We got to see their interactions more in general - a lot of the book involves unreliable narrators talking about stuff after the fact (the 2020 drama kept the unreliable narrators, but did more showing vs telling). In the 2020 drama Highlight for spoilers! *Lao Pan's driving motivation is desperately attempting to rescue his sister despite the fact that he has no idea how to contact her superiors (In the 2020 drama he's a burned KMT spy and she's a CCP spy. In the book they're both CCP spies by the time the story starts).*