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"It's not that [Chen Wan] is bad with words, it's that his heart is clumsy. But a clumsy heart also means one that is free of ulterior motives." In his earnest, desperate, and stubborn way of loving Zhao Shengge without any desire at all for these feelings to be returned, Chen Wan's authentic feelings come from both a pureness in his straightforward sense of love, but also a devastation in that he is willing to set himself on fire in order to keep Shengge warm. And perhaps that's why I have so many mixed feelings about this adaptation of the novel Reply to Keats 奇洛李维斯回信 by Qingming Guyu 清明谷雨 — a story about the sourness of love in everyday life, of a very grounded, realistic, and yet heartwarming romance — especially when it's depicted through the heavy-handed use of generative AI assets.