Oh dear, I'm going to die laughing!! Chinese fandom, you are so wonderfully fannish!
I totally expected a massively emotional scene between Jingyan and Mei Changsu and was initially very disappointed not to get it (I also felt robbed that I didn't get the scene where Prince Jing convinces Xia Dong to let them into the Xuanjing Bureau). But after much thinking about it I had to admit that it's entirely consistent with his characterisation that MCS basically runs away and hides the moment Jinyang finds out - he really, really didn't want to him to know what Lin Shu had turned into, and he was never able to cope, and everything that happens in the show is consistent with that (I mean, maybe deep, deep down he did want Jingyan to recognise him , but only in a fantasy way in which he could magically go back to being Lin Shu at that moment, but what actually happens when his identity is revealed is that Jingyan says "This person is nothing like Lin Shu, how could you possibly think there was a connection?" And after that MCS never gives Jingyan the opportunity to say "Actually, I did realise it was you, it's just that you and my mother both gaslit me about it so I thought I must be going mad, and then I had to persuade my father that Xia Jiang was lying!"). See, so much to think about! How can I not love it, even if it wasn't what thought I wanted?
Re: The Story of Minglan
Oh dear, I'm going to die laughing!! Chinese fandom, you are so wonderfully fannish!
I totally expected a massively emotional scene between Jingyan and Mei Changsu and was initially very disappointed not to get it (I also felt robbed that I didn't get the scene where Prince Jing convinces Xia Dong to let them into the Xuanjing Bureau). But after much thinking about it I had to admit that it's entirely consistent with his characterisation that MCS basically runs away and hides the moment Jinyang finds out - he really, really didn't want to him to know what Lin Shu had turned into, and he was never able to cope, and everything that happens in the show is consistent with that (I mean, maybe deep, deep down he did want Jingyan to recognise him , but only in a fantasy way in which he could magically go back to being Lin Shu at that moment, but what actually happens when his identity is revealed is that Jingyan says "This person is nothing like Lin Shu, how could you possibly think there was a connection?" And after that MCS never gives Jingyan the opportunity to say "Actually, I did realise it was you, it's just that you and my mother both gaslit me about it so I thought I must be going mad, and then I had to persuade my father that Xia Jiang was lying!"). See, so much to think about! How can I not love it, even if it wasn't what thought I wanted?