A naturally airheaded, ghostly Shangxian Ting versus a laughably weak, scheming Shangxian Ning.
Wherever the two of them go, they may look unreliable, but they always get the job done.
That's Yanliu's assessment, though Huaqiao vehemently disagrees.
"My Shangxian would never be like that."
Indeed, in the eyes of outsiders, Ting Xian is the only official who started out as a ghost, and she's more than ten times as capable as Ning Qingjue, who had her parents paving the way for her career.
Theme: Human nature is good