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His shocked faces are always so funny

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You're different from them. I believe in you, so believe in me. JUSTICE IN THE DARK ep.21 ↳ requested by @fishy-lava

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The look on LWZ face says it all.

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That little lip part Pei Su does at end, the longer LWZ stares at him. Gets me every time 🥰🥰🥰

"The monsters are all cleared away, and I'm the last one. Can you shut me up in your home?" [ 默读 | Silent Reading, epilogue, chapter 179 ]

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Wow.... so in novel, Pei Su (Fei Du) really be giving out indirect info about himself all the time 😂😂😂

LWZ knows what Pei Su's password is.....for EVERYTHING and the special meaning behind it. Strong sense of purpose and obsessed you say? 😂

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In episode 22, Pei Su eats to tell us they had sex

Or rather: eating as it relates to desires and how Pei su suppresses his own but drops that inhibition because of LWZ.

Every eating scene indicates an advancement in their romantic relationship.

Episode 3 | Very important scene. Pei su is asking for help in a roundabout way - he feels insecure about major changes in the people around him (Tao ze). The scene ends with his comment on LWZ: "same old, same old". Although other people may change, LWZ is the only constant in his life - someone he can potentially rely on for a sense of stability. Pei su barely eats, though. They are not at that stage yet.

Episode 6 | Pei su eats one bite (and LWZ notices). "Besides the little white flowers and the PSP, what else is there"? The conversation they have later over coffee is when LWZ almost lets slip that he cares for Pei su more than he says.

Episode 8 | LWZ remembers Pei su's birthday, and Pei su finds out the candies Tao ze gave him are actually from LWZ. They have a banter-y, no-fighting conversation as Pei su allows LWZ to know a bit more of his past. But this meal gets interrupted, and again Pei su barely eats. Later on, Pei su asks LWZ what they eat when they work overtime, and on the way home looks at Fairfield hotel (in the novel Feidu gets them food from a fancy hotel).

Episode 10 | Nobody eats in this lunch scene. Pei su calls LWZ out for his special "care". LWZ shows increased interest in Pei su from here on out.

Episode 13 | In the novel, this is after Feidu kisses LWZ for the first time. Pei su has a dubbed over line after LWZ feeds him: "Shixiong, if you were a girl, I would love you uncontrollably".

Episode 14 | Pei su eats hesitantly, in shock that LWZ came back for him. After this meal, LWZ confesses (novel) in his meaning of life speech, and ropes Pei su into his living routine (washing the dishes)

Episode 16 | LWZ is working up Pei su's appetite. Also, honey feeding scene (deleted). This is the episode Pei su moves in. Later the 3 questions conversation while sipping wine: LWZ says it's important to him to know why Pei su pushed him out of the way of the bomb. Pei su answers it was instinct. They are skirting around one word and it's love.

Episode 17 | The morning after that small "argument". They eat together, but not in sync as they are divided by the case. Pei su eats well but is interrupted by FM88.6.

Episode 22: Pei su eats enthusiastically, happily, without prompting

This is the day after LWZ confesses ("...but this time, I will hold onto you. I promise I will do it.")

This is also after Pei su's sequence of discreetly (or not-so-discreetly, ahem sock on couch) showing off to XHY that he lives with LWZ. The PDA continues with serving LWZ (and nobody else) food and tea

Pei su is still elegant, but his eating here is in stark contrast to all those times before. He even licks his lips.

Satiated, uninhibited, opened up to his mortal desires...

Indulging in a desire - desire for food parallels desire for sex. The censorship-safe representation of them sleeping together is showing a desire for something else - food. And Pei su shares the food with LWZ.

Also attaching an interesting paper on sex and eating. It begins with: "In Chinese culture, the concepts of food and sex are traditionally linked, and many expressions describe food and sex in terms of each other". 大饱眼福 - "a beauty to feast one's eyes on". 饱暖思淫欲 - "when the belly is full, the mind turns to sex"

Aaaaand adding episode 30 in now that it has aired:

Pei su rejects eating with the hets when he sees LWZ is not there. We only ever see him eat with LWZ present.

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Even in the deepest heart to heart we see of them Pei su mostly avoids looking at LWZ's eyes

But here, Pei su only looks at LWZ's eyes and NOTHING ELSE. LWZ can see his entire soul through them. Everything.

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They are clearly holding hands here. Nothing you say will change my mind🥰🥰🥰

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Pei Su just described LWZ's place to his mom 😂😂😂

Frying pan (Yugio) in the novel is fat, so this is clearly just the same cat 😂

So Pei Su just told his mom that he is going to be living with LWZ 😂

And Pei Su's little naughty/shy grin at the end:

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It had to be done.

I don’t know if Priest is a genius or a psychopath for all these connections in Justice in the Dark

(Below is my best effort to map them all out - spoilers up until episode 29)

And I’m pretty sure I still didn’t get all of them ;-;

But I was running out of space ;-;

Key:

Yellow Circle & Square: The Sunshine Fund, its members and subsidies

Yellow Arrow: funding & money

Light Blue: SID members

Green: The Janitor Group, its members and subsidies

Red Circle: Dead person unassociated with any group

Red Arrow: Who killed them

Dotted Red Line: Attempted but unsuccessful murder

Black Line: Familial Connection

Dark Blue: Unassociated person

Blue line: Connection (business partners, acquaintances, friends, dating etc.)

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Trying to put into words why this is affecting me so much is like trying to quantify the love that is in Pei su's eyes

But it comes down to: this is Pei su's bare soul. This is his true self without masking anything at all. There's immense pain and sadness in his eyes, and then - relief of freedom. A silent "I love you", and "are you proud of me? I did it, I succeeded. I overcame their monsters, and then finally overcame my own."

And Pei su is cradled in LWZ's arms on the first day of the rest of his life.

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JITD Finale [Spoilers] Fei Du x Luo Wenzhou || Final Boss

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I’m going to hire a hitman to track down and take out whoever deleted this part from this scene I’m so serious.

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so that's what it feels like

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"But this time I'll hold on to you."

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Can you lock me up in your home?