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Definitely felt like that to me as well. Guess they wanted to make it a bit more "dramatic" this way? ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
(Come to think of it, this happens pretty frequently with movies based on novels as well - adding more suspense and tension by changing characters for the worse... Usually, I tend to feel like these are the types of changes I could've happily done without, but ah well...)
Their meeting had a different vibe here than the novel.
Lui Zhigeng seems approachable in the novel but he seems so arrogant here in the manhwa.