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The contrast between their faces in the manhua makes me so ill

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When Zhou Xing reports to Wu Mingkong, his voice is softer and has a higher pitch than when he talks to Lai Junchen, making him sound subservient. With Lai Junchen he uses a low and somewhat tired voice. I adore subtle details like these, and overall his VA does a stellar job. He gives Zhou Xing an air of maturity, grace and serenity that makes you wanna listen to whatever he has to say, even if you know he’s a villain with fake ass morals.

Speaking of voices, I can’t wait to hear Lai Junchen begging Zhou Xing not to abandon him, since it’s rare to see the sadist-in-chief being so desperate and vulnerable. His mentor is the only character who ever gets to see this side of him. Who else can make the fearsome Lai Junchen kowtow so hard that his forehead starts bleeding? That scene really does have some twisted “guilty son runs off to dad” vibes. In that time period, mentorship was supposed to resemble a father-son dynamic anyway, albeit theirs is an exceptionally toxic one.

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