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So about Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue being half brothers

So about Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue being half brothers

So I reread this post about the Nie brothers' mothers today (Original MXTX weibo post here)

I've known about that post for a long time, and before I never thought much of it, I thought, oh, she's explaining how they're different because their mothers were very different.

Today though, the bit about it becoming clearer in the revised edition caught my eye. So, firstly, this signals that it's before she revised the text (and it is, it's from 2016). And once I realized that, I started wondering, wait, does this mean that the explanation for them having different heights is "they're half-brothers, actually".

So I went to check the original version, and that whole paragraph after Nie Huaisang is first introduced explaining their relationship is missing.

Maybe she already knew that they were half-brothers and just didn't put it in because she didn't think it was relevant. Or maybe she indeed only came up with it after the fact.

Either way, I find this super interesting. 😆