Interestingly, I also see Zhao Yunlan as being introverted at heart, despite his high comfort and skill levels with other people, and all of his networking, general bonhomie and sociability. He has extremely few close relationships - only Da Qing, before Shen Wei comes along. He doesn't show his true self more easily than Shen Wei; in fact, his extroverted, casual, flippant and thoughtless ways are a protective facade, in many ways.
This is exactly how I see it, too! In the novel they even go out of their way to mention it, and while I don't see very many similarities between either of the two protagonists' drama and novel selves, this is one aspect of ZYL's personality that I think they lifted wholesale from the source material, but which you wouldn't really notice without the benefit of actually being inside his headspace.
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Date: 2019-05-12 02:44 pm (UTC)This is exactly how I see it, too! In the novel they even go out of their way to mention it, and while I don't see very many similarities between either of the two protagonists' drama and novel selves, this is one aspect of ZYL's personality that I think they lifted wholesale from the source material, but which you wouldn't really notice without the benefit of actually being inside his headspace.