So the trust issues between Kongming and Eiko seem to have been mostly resolved by their commitment to each other in last week’s episode. This one opens with Eiko noting that she understands Kongming’s regular excursions must be in service of working for her sake, in this particular case, to find that rapper he insists will be instrumental in securing those 100,000 Likes. Of course, there’s still a level of uncertainty about what kind of rapper he’ll be bringing on-board, but acting as a vehicle for funny imagine spots driven by That Wacky Zhuge Liang is one of the reasons we’re here for Ya Boy Kongming!, isn’t it? And it still feeds into the driving structure of the show, with both us and the characters in the story curious about what Kongming’s plan of pursuit is actually going to be.
With that in mind, it thus makes sense that most of this episode would wheel over to…
