Rewatching is its own special pleasure

I'm rewatching Nirvana in Fire very slowly, with copious pauses to try and draw people's faces. (Quote from a newspaper series on portrait art: "If you can draw shadow shapes, you can draw anything". It turns out that drawing shadow shapes and even seeing them in the first place is really hard, ha.) And I'm stuck on episode 7, which has such good scenes--

( like the one with Nihuang in the courtyard )

( and the one where Xia Dong comes to ask MCS about his intentions )