Chapter 153 (Different Paths, Same Destination) (Comic Forum)...

164L:

What culprit was it?

Who would think that!

165L:

Lanlan in my first playthrough is truly my ideal woman, okay?

166L:

The world is so awful, and you're blaming it on a savior?

167L:

However, the first playthrough is typical of shonen manga, and Lin Cai is the savior (whispering).

168L:

My wife did nothing wrong, so how did she become the culprit?

I think the real culprits are those awful extended families.

169L:

The original poster should clarify their statement. The term "culprit" is too heavy and should not be placed on Lanlan like that.

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458L Original Poster:

That's what Yanlan herself was thinking.

Because the personality of Yanlan in the first playthrough is too different from that of the current Yanlan.

What is Yanlan's personality like now?

Unrestrained and flamboyant.

He would brazenly use his sister's work card to break into prison, and openly take contraband from the branch office of the Special Administration Bureau while wearing his sister's uniform. He was a master of explosive art and did whatever he pleased.

Yanlan in the first playthrough was clearly completely different.

He was more composed, his eyes like dim stars.

In Lin Cai's memory, when she celebrated Yan Lan's birthday, Yan Lan smiled, but the smile was forced. She wasn't happy.

However, in the final moments of her life during the first playthrough, when she sacrificed herself as a ritual offering, Yanlan's unbridled nature returned.

Not only is it unrestrained, but it also brings a sense of liberation.

I feel that Yanlan was under immense pressure throughout the entire first playthrough. He was weighed down by heavy guilt.

As the younger sister, Yanlan is definitely the person in the world who knows her older sister Yanju better than anyone else.

So she kept thinking, if she hadn't been in a bad state during that time, and if Director Yan had joined the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, would everything have been different?

On a side note, although the two sides are fighting tooth and nail on the forum, judging from the actual comics, the Geminis seem to have a pretty good relationship.

Taking the latest update where Lin Cai and Yan Ju confessed their feelings as an example, it's still a bit strange that Yan Ju stood in front of Lin Cai's house at night. But what if Yan Ju was just going home?

Lin Cai and Yan Lan live across the hall from each other, which means there's a possibility that Director Yan also lives there, and then comes home at night to find Lin Cai's door unlocked. Director Yan might not have initially planned to delve deeper and explain things to Lin Cai, but in the end, he still opened Lin Cai's door.

Does everything make sense now?

459L:

Pick up a piece of colorful candy.

Director Yan was too busy with official duties to pay attention to the feelings of a subordinate she didn't know well or who wasn't important to her—a common problem among those in positions of power. But Lanlan cared.

Although Lanlan didn't say anything, she had been paying attention. When she found Lin Cai sitting alone behind the door with her knees drawn up, she was too embarrassed to ask, so she begged her sister to go and check on her.

Yanju knew everything, but he couldn't resist his sister, so he had no choice but to coldly open Lin Cai's door.

Ahhhhh, what a delicious combination to have a childhood sweetheart who falls from the sky with a rebirth and redemption storyline!

460L:

Talking about Lin Cai in the Twin Towers is still a bit excessive.

461L:

Double push is just lurking underwater, not dead.

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1259L:

Yanju and Yanlan are a typical Gemini pair, awkward but caring for each other.

Although Yanlan has been acting as if she's avoiding Director Yan, it seems to me like she only avoids him because she's done something wrong...

1260L:

At least in the first instance, the Black Market Auction House, they really did something wrong.

It is known that the Blazing Sun Crown was left to Yan Ju by Shan Fengyang, and Yan Lan took the Blazing Sun Crown from the black market auction and gave it to Yan Ju.

A reasonable deduction is that Director Yan lent the Sun Crown to Lanlan, then Lanlan lost it and only managed to find it after a great deal of effort.

Of course I felt guilty.

1261L:

Hahahaha, so cute!!

1262L:

Trying hard to squeeze sugar out of a knife.

1263L:

How could such a close twin relationship have developed to the point where Yanju disappears in the first playthrough (most likely perished), and Lanlan sacrifices herself as a ritual? *sobs*

1264L:

The atmosphere that had finally gotten a little lively was immediately ruined by the upstairs neighbors. Don't mention it!

1265L:

Just mentioning it makes me involuntarily recall the whole story, and I feel like crying and wanting to kill that old thief.

1266L:

First the knife, then the tears

1267L:

But no one can refute the fact that Yanlan received so much favoritism.

1268L:

Otherwise, how could they have done that? Lanlan, who had received all the favoritism, was abandoned.

1269L:

Yanlan was forced to experience countless separations throughout her life.

Most farewells are final.

1270L:

Why did you stab me for no reason?

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1564L:

It's amazing how, despite their past experiences, Yanlan and Yanju, the twins, still have such a good relationship, which is evident in many ways.

1565L:

Yes, you can grab a bit of almost anything from the entire comic.

For example, Lanlan often swaggered around in Director Yan's uniform, treating the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs as her happy hometown.

1566L:

The original poster's analysis of his personality is indeed reasonable. I went back and read the update again, and I found that Yanlan in the first playthrough was not so much more composed, but rather more like Director Yan.

1567L:

I was shocked.

1568L:

After her sister's death, overwhelmed by guilt, she began to live like her sister...

1569L:

She swallowed the Gemini's knife with tears in her eyes, and felt that she would not be able to forget it for a week.

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2589L Original Poster:

How come this thread is being reposted so fast? (Shocked)

In the time it took me to type a reply, there were over 2,000 replies.

Let's get back to Yanlan.

As mentioned earlier, Yanlan's personality in the first playthrough is more like Yanju's. Yes. To be precise, it's not similar, but rather an "imitation."

In the scene where Lin Cai reminisces about the last birthday she spent with Yan Lan, Yan Lan is looking out the window, deep in thought.

[Screenshot of Yanlan seen from the window.jpg]

[Screenshot of Yanlan looking out the window.jpg]

The old thief gave Yanlan two close-ups here, and the angles of the two close-ups were different. One was an exterior shot looking at Yanlan's front from outside the window, and the other was Lin Cai looking at Yanlan's side from inside the room.

There were changes in the two instances.

The first time, and initially, from this frontal view outside the window, it was clear that Yanlan was observing.

At this point, the leopard was already chasing after her, but Yanlan's first reaction wasn't sadness, sympathy, or grief...none of those. Yanlan simply observed and thought about things without any conscious effort. This was her most fundamental reaction.

Then, the camera cut to the side. It was clear that Yanlan's initial observation and contemplation had shifted to seriousness and composure. She had figured out how Director Yan would react to such a scene.

Director Yan's anchor point is absolute fairness. Director Yan should take this seriously and deal with it swiftly and decisively to make an example of someone. Therefore, Yan Lan should do the same.

Absolute fairness is Yanju's anchor point.

So it was absolutely fair, and later it became Yanlan's anchor point in the first playthrough.

After Yanju's death, Yanlan lived her life in Yanju's image.

She is the relic that Yanju left to this world in the first playthrough.

2590L:

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2591L:

It feels so fatalistic

2592L:

No matter what, I only feel sadness.

The unrestrained, flamboyant, and capricious Lanlan has surprisingly transformed into a calm and serious person, smoothing out all her rough edges.

I'd rather she stays the way she is now.

2593L:

Don't say that Lanlan has become like Director Yan; in the end, Lanlan sacrificed herself to uphold the law.

2594L:

Lanlan's love for this world has nothing to do with Yanju.

Although Lanlan seems to be doing many things haphazardly now, upon closer examination, it seems like she's doing dirty work for Director Yan.

For example, smuggling gangs are now wanted throughout the entire world, but the contraband hasn't actually entered the black market yet, and Lanlan even managed to blow one up.

2595L:

It's true!!

2596L:

On the contrary, I think this is absolutely fair because Yanju and Yanlan are consistent in their core values.

They are all very gentle people.

You have to understand that Yanju and Yanlan's grandmother is Shan Fengyang, whom Guan Yunji described as "the sun everyone follows," someone who must be both scorching and warm. I don't believe that Yanlan, raised by such a grandmother, is truly a reckless and unruly villain.

It could only be that her growing up experiences made her unconsciously put on a shell around herself.

2597L:

But overall, neither Yanju nor Yanlan had a pleasant upbringing...

2598L:

Therefore, Geminis take different paths.

But in the end, it all ended the same way.