Fu Wenpei is a woman who's spent years in knots, holding herself to double standards:
She repeatedly tells her daughter to behave, be sensible and dignified, and never talk back to her elders. Yet in private, she deliberately shows how aggrieved she feels, secretly hoping her daughter will stand up for her and fight back.
She teaches her daughter to uphold the dignity of a proper young lady, yet lowers herself to serve pregnant Wang Xueqin like a maid, cautiously tending to her and constantly putting herself down, trapped in a lie of self-punishment she can't escape.
Yiping, who has transmigrated into this world, looks at her mother and doesn't argue or lash out. Instead, she turns her mother's own logic back on her. “Mom, do you want me to be sensible and obedient, and not talk back to my elders? Or do you want me to stand up for you?”
Faced with this question, Fu Wenpei can't admit to her base motives: deliberately acting weak so her daughter will fight for her. So all she can say is that she wants her daughter to be sensible.
And sensible Yiping, when Wang Xueqin deliberately picks a fight and spills hot soup on Fu Wenpei, scalding her, doesn't rush in like she once would have. She simply checks the injury, then gently urges her mother to be understanding of a pregnant woman's moods and to forgive her magnanimously.
The mother who once told her daughter to put up with everything is now forced to taste the bitter misery that comes from being magnanimous…
Good guy, you come here to write Yiping, where is my Shengbao 😢😢😢
The writing is very natural and smooth, and the words are eloquent but the rhythm is also very suitable.