I think people are forgetting that for our FL that the number of people who have genuinely been kind to her is very small—Shen Run/Yan Rui, her eldest and second brothers, eldest sister, and her two friends, her mother, grandma chen...many of whom have died or suffered due to schemes of others. She is of course a gaurded person who doesn't trust anyone easily.

She is surrounded by schemers who will stoop to any level, taking lives being the least of it.

She is also grieving the Eldest brother's death, mind you, this person went against his mother to help FL clear her mother's name.

So when Shen Run—the person who took an oath with her to seek revenge, someone who probably understands her much more than anyone, having shared the traumatic experience—now sets his own revenge aside and says he'll protect the very person responsible for it all, of course she feels abandoned and lashes out. To her, it must feel like the one person who was supposed to stand beside her, who repeatedly promised to do so, has suddenly apparently chosen the other side.

Anyone would feel betrayed.

I actually think FL lashing out at Shen Run shows just how much she cares about him and trusts him. She is usually so cold and poker-faced around everyone else, rarely allowing people to see what she is really feeling and thinking. But with Shen Run, all that restraint disappears and she lets him see her hurt, anger and sense of betrayal.

in the drama two things surprise me:

First is that she is too impatient that she can’t wait till ml can take revenge

Second is that she didn’t make it clear to sml that it was her father that she planned to take revenge on. After all it is much easier for sml to agree when it is an indefinite person rather than her father. I would think she agree to marry him only when he knows who the other person actually is

Vix:

Phoenix23:

I actually think FL lashing out at Shen Run shows just how much she cares about him and trusts him. She is usually so cold and poker-faced around everyone else, rarely allowing people to see what she is really feeling and thinking. But with Shen Run, all that restraint disappears and she lets him see her hurt, anger and sense of betrayal.

Yes, and I think it humanizes her. It just goes to show how consumed by revenge she is. In Qingyuan's own words, avenging her mother is all she lives for. When she's so close to the truth having learned how cruel and manipulative her own father had been it must have been heartbreaking to hear that from the one person she has come to trust and rely on so much. She is tired of waiting and would willingly sacrifice her own happiness to see her goal to the end.

Yup...the character is written very consistently

VictorL:

She has always been guarded and self-reliant...she never planned on getting help from anyone except her 2 friends and Grandma Chen, she doesn't share anything with Granny Chen either...so I still see that consistent with the characterisation

True, but she did specifically ask him his thoughts and only agreed when he said he would help her. So I’m still surprised she wouldn’t know the importance of specific versus generic —character flaw, then, or reading more into his words than reasonable or “rebound” from SR saying not now?

I don't understand your question...please elaborate a little

VictorL:

She initially agrees to marry him because he agrees to help her avenge her mother even if the person is powerful. It puzzles me that she would put so much trust in his statement when he doesn’t know the specific person.

So is she

a) trusting his statement because SR told her “not now” (rebound) or

b) not realizing the difference between agreeing to an abstract versus a concrete (character flaw/failure in thinking)?

Oh..you mean FL agreeing to marry SML??

VictorL:

Yes. The reason she agrees surprised me (in the novel she provisionally agrees if he gets his parents’ approval—which she doesn’t think he can get and she later breaks off the engagement because the sml is too wishywashy when dealing with her sister’s infatuation; the sister offers to marry in as a concubine)

I haven't read the novel...

I still think FL has no plans of marrying SML and going with set up of Madam Hu and Li family lady...(I had made a post about the same...I can't find it, will repost it later)....

Going by comment section today's episodes says otherwise...I'll have to watch and see if my theories were right or wildly off

VictorL:

Enjoy—episode 23 is a “humdinger”🙂

You were right...ep 22 and 23 were 🔥🔥