And is she going to keep Zhou Weiwei's looks? Can she just do that, permanently take on someone else's appearance, outside the context of their original mirror swap?

I assume so? I mean, if we met her again in the drama, she'd look the same, don't you think? So I think she's spent so long as Weiwei that she defaults to that now.

Maybe it's a matter of exposure. Or maybe, after her father died, her mother took her into the mirror and kind of... specifically (randomly?) made her Zhou Weiwei's reflection? I have no idea.

but I was also wondering how much what he tells her is because he's taking her back to Dixing. Stopping Dixingren from being in Haixing is supposed to be his job, so he can't have people there know he's not fully on board with that

That's a good point -- it could well be The Envoy (role) speaking, rather than Shen Wei (person).

but even now I still like to think she genuinely didn't/doesn’t like sunlight. There have to be Dixingren like that!

*nodnod* I like that idea, too.

Huh. Are you saying you're taking GCC's magpie wish seriously as something that had a real-world effect? I always thought it was narratively calling on fairy tale tropes, and turning them into dramatic irony, but in-universe it was only superstition.

I think it was a superstition that worked. You know, like how prophesies always work in TV-land? I don't think anyone in the show took it seriously, but when I went back and watched, and Original Weiwei phoned just after they made the wish... it seemed suggestive? But maybe not! Maybe it was pure coincidence.

Original!Weiwei is really something. I totally understand her initial feelings, and even her jealousy and resentment of mirror!Weiwei - but her entitlement towards Ji Xiaobai, and her apparent lack of any understanding of what she's (trying to) do to him is pretty appalling.

Yeah. Her sense of ownership. Ugh!

If Shen Wei really is Dixingren, he wants to know sooner rather than later. *g*

Ha! That works. :-)