s01e08 — The Indoctrination

@shei350: I don't know how it really is (suddenly the author's real idea), but it is known that the party prescribes to make all evil unambiguous evil, not to justify it in any way, not to make it logical and not to exalt, so that there is no temptation to sympathize. in games, unambiguously negative Persians will not become playable, etc. they prescribe such things in plain text at their committee meetings and then censor a little and put a stick in the wheels. therefore, the chances of meeting well-thought-out villains of Chinese origin are minimal.
there are also scenes of cruelty with blood. Well, gay stuff. here animators walk on the thinnest ice in a roundabout way, even xs as officials missed.

@shei350: The author himself commented on this in the book, I can lie now, but there was something like, all the characters are multifaceted, complex, gray, I'm tired, I want to make a couple definitely evil.
In general, such negative characters are only in flashbacks.

these are flashbacks of the main character during his youth, it's just that in the original novel they are inserted throughout the narrative, when necessary, that is, he remembers about different episodes of his life gradually. In the anime, they are sliced right away to show why Wei Ying actually came to the dark path

@furbacchera: After the fourth episode, I didn't understand anything at all, so I went to read Manhua quickly in order to understand something. Nevertheless, the celestials have a more linear and understandable narrative in Donghua

To which Lan Zhan said "banality"😏😏