Every plot strives to distance us from the truth. If it weren't like that, one episode would be enough for us to discover the backstory of each character. In the case of HY and YX, we only see the blurred surface of their motivations. Let's give a look:
●HY demonstrated, right from the beginning, her nature, besides being very needy, is also very affectionate, such as her delicate and faithful friendship with Chai Jing.
●The way she tried to see and understand her mother's supposed cruelty towards her, demonstrated her ability to forgive, overcome, and love. This profile presents HY's broad and diverse emotional universe.
●We have to look at these two complex characters, HY and YX, with a three-dimensional vision, but we are looking at them from a frontal perspective, because the plot only showed us their facades.
●We know, beforehand, that the two are destined for romance.
•Objectively speaking, let's look at HY and YX's facade:
1- Initially there is a natural defensive and distant posture between the two, after all, he is the widower of HY's older sister;
2- Both are presented as people very capable of loving and protecting, HY in relation to his mother and CJ, and YX in relation to his adorable daughter Ling Zhi, as well as his adoptive mother and aunt.
3-As the episodes progress, other pieces of the three-dimensionality are revealed, showing how HY cares for LZ (fire scene). Furthermore, she does not deny to her mother that she has feelings for YX and was expecting reciprocity and once she heard, behind the window, YX's servant reveal his feelings and the protection he dedicates to her, (scene at the clinic), this is what made her accept the marriage proposal.
●HY and YX demonstrated empathy when they got involved with the Deng family.
●YX clearly loves and admires HY, who knows that his days are numbered and needed to have a strong and worthy woman by his side to take over Ling Zhi, his adoptive mother and aunt, after his death.
●The brutal murder of HY and Chand An's mother changes everything. The feeling of revolt reaches its highest point, and gives a clear turn in HY's facade.
●HY, APPARENTLY, assumes a hostile, hateful, totally reprehensible behavior with the objective of being, in fact, hated.
•She adopts this strategy because she devotes all her existential strength not to revenge, but to the JUSTICE that she will do with her own hands, since the State is negligent, lenient, and slow in the face of Shi Yang's repeated crimes.
●She then immerses herself in a "kamikaze" mission. For this reason, she begins to behave coldly with Ling Zhi and YX, with the aim of supposedly not making them suffer for her own loss.
●HY mourns the death of the Princess Consort, increasing her anger.
●When we look at these changes from the perspective of a single wall (facade...), we do not judge, but we PREJUDGE and label HY as an evil person, psychopath, etc.
●The knife that she finally stabs YX was the height of our shock, even though she tried to hit him several times with her hairpin.
●We completely forget that she is just a teenager and that she grew up maladjusted, in an environment of extreme violence into which she was thrown by her father and by the good intentions of her mother who for 17 years never tried to find out how her daughter was treated, in other words, everything is kind of absurd and even hard to believe.
●On the other hand, very scarcely, in a dropper-like pace, we learn about YX's past. He is an enigmatic and pragmatic character. Despite his tactics as an officer of the Empire (which requires him to keep state secrets), he has character and ethical sense (scene in which he covers HY's body with his cloak).
●Finally: to deny that all this hell happens exclusively in the lives of women would be to deny that the sun does not shine. Therefore, I add to the list, all the pain and indignation repressed in each woman and emerging impetuously through the righteous hands of HY.
》HY and YX, characters developed within the premises of Psychology:
We are before the famous JOHARI Window, which presents the 4 windows of the individual:
1-Open area or arena (known to self and others, represented by behavior, attitudes, feelings, skills, known to everyone);
2-Blind spot (not known to self, which is information about the individual that we subjectively interpret but that does not necessarily correspond to reality);
3-Hidden area or facade (not known to others, which are the individual's secrets, fears, personal feelings, are not shared, only he knows);
4-Unknown area (information which are unaware to yourselves as well as others, like feelings, capabilities, talents, due to traumatic past experiences, or events which can be unknown for a lifetime. The discovery of one's own abilities can be done by the person himself or by others).
》Conclusion
I believe we should look at both HY and YX through this window: they go far beyond what we see or know, after all, as individuals, we all have these same windows...
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