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Loved it beyond measure!
Where Colors Dream moved me because of how inevitable Yanzhen & Xinyu feel without the story pretending either of them are perfect.They both begin by trying to use the other. Jiang studies Yanzhen closely enough to manipulate her, Yanzhen lets Xinyu believe she has been successfully read, but attention is dangerous because eventually it makes you remember her favorite snack, has you washing her hair, teaching her how to drive, rescuing the art that actually belongs to her, because Xinyu sees value in Yanzhen's art beyond her ability to replicate others.
That said, I do not think the twist at the end means Yanzhen felt nothing. I like that the story never made them simple or harmless. It does not reveal that everything calculating was secretly false and everything gentle was pure. Ultimately at the end Xinyu cannot sacrifice Yanzhen once the plan demands it and Yanzhen still completes the con and leaves, but it is obvious neither of them manages to keep the relationship inside the role they originally assigned to each other by the end of it all.Yanzhen trying to imitate Xinyu's coin roll at the end and her crying hinted as much. As to what her possible motives were? That's where I'm stumped, but that is also why I can't wait for season 2!!
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