FTCU:
I’m just saying that, CX’s will be going DARK. You couldn’t tell in the novel but in the drama,you can absolutely see how his facial expressions keeps changing whenever XY & Jing are getting lovey dovey. It looks like he’s on the verge of snapping.
Exactly, the drama has chosen the route of showing more of his change to the audience. In the novel, his true intentions and feelings regarding XY and what he did to Jing are kept under wraps until later, and as a reader of the novel for the first time, that impact is great when it all comes out.
I suppose the astute reader could guess earlier on what was going on with CX, but now with the drama, things are very apparent. I think it's a necessary choice because with the drama, a lot of the viewers have already read the novel and know where he is headed. Making it a huge aha moment like in the novel would not work, so they have decided to depict his gradual descent into crazy obsessive mode.
In itself, I don't mind seeing more of CX (I really like crazy ZWY lol), but it is unfortunate when other things are left out and changed because of it (I guess for this thread, a major impact is on the scenes between Jing and XY in this period of the story). I'll have to watch ep 13-14 to see how it plays out for myself. I'm still hoping there is a decent proposal or something between Jing and XY at some point, and not just that, also some acknowledgement that it was Jing who helped XY come to terms with her parents. We got a little bit in Ep 11, but it pales compared to what was in the novel. It's kind of the point of their story in my opinion. XY helps Jing with his family issues; Jing helps XY with hers.