I think you should know that here instead of being sad for poor Yuan I was thinking "Oh @respectthepetty is gonna love this!"
EFF THE RED THREAD! GIVE ME THE BLACK BRACELET!
@imlivingformyselfdontmindme, I looked absolutely feral this episode because my smile just kept getting bigger like a comic book supervillain, and it's all because of the colors and that damn bracelet.
Yuan, who has been the lighter one, just could not get his self sorted out this episode as he started to unravel. He kept getting darker the closer he got to revealing his secret to Qian.
Once he got down on bended knee to cuff Qian, I truly believe Qian had to have a moment where he knew.
Then the shots of Qian!
He, in his darkness, was opposite of the light-people, but unlike with Yuan where he is in the shared space with him, with these people Qian was isolated from them.
Even the background helped show the division between Qian and the other light-people in his life.
And after that moment, for Qian everything existed in grey when it came to Yuan.
Biggest smile - Yuan had on the pink shirt after the confession.
And even though Yuan tried to meet Qian where their story began (in the red), Qian would not budge.
But even then, the red lingered.
For both of them.
Qian can't go back to his darkness BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE TRUTH NOW!
Yuan's confession has already changed him.
And it has changed Yuan who continues to sit in the light and the dark.
Even when Qian finally comes home, he isn't completely dark.
And Yuan defends Qian's action as the bright light glows behind him in his back shirt.
And this is the part that got me: Both of them, without each other, are isolated. We saw it the entire episode, but the final scenes reinforced it by boxing them in. Yuan, in the grey, mixing their colors once again
and Qian, trying to get back to the black.
But they are both still connected by that red thread of fate!
I'm praying that Qian slipped that black bracelet onto Yuan's door and not Lili because if the girl I hooked up with a few years ago was right, a black bracelet is a way to wish the receiver good luck like the Mexican red bracelet is given as a gift to protect a person.
If Qian gave Yuan that bracelet, it means he still wants the best for Yuan. He still wants Yuan to be safe even if Yuan is in the "dark"
Things have changed. Qian is lighter. Yuan is darker. But that red thread still connects them.
And what Qian doesn't realize is that that black bracelet represents Qian. It will become a part of Yuan, and he will carry it wherever he goes just like his love for Qian.
And he'll still have it after four years of separation.
That bracelet, and his love.
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