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This part of the story surrounds the relationship between mother and daughter.
This part of the story surrounds the relationship between mother and daughter.
Our FL, Niao Niao, is stubborn, rude, and reckless. However, she has an upright mindset that will not allow her or those around her to be mistreated. Her mother, Yuanyi, has a different mindset; she holds the idea of a gentle young woman's behaviour that was popular at the time, “bear with it”. Their different yet similar personalities continually clash, each refusing to relent and understand the perspective of the other. If you think critically while watching the show, you will understand the perspective of both Yuanyi and Niao Niao. Yuanyi has underlying guilt due to the abandonment of her daughter, which results in her being extra firm with her daughter when trying to teach her. It seems she believes that if she can teach Niao Niao to be an upright lady, then I can suppress some of the guilt that she feels for leaving her, which caused her to be uneducated to this degree. Although the show really only shows the perspective of the FL, you will be able to understand the reasoning behind the mother's behavior. However, both refuse to see where they’ve gone wrong. Yuanyi always chooses to see the worst in Niao Niao, leaving her daughter feeling isolated. Despite the continual warnings from almost all the people in her life whom she respects, the mother refuses to see how her behaviour is not benefiting her daughter at all. Niao Niao refuses to see that she is too narrow-minded in how she deals with conflict, often disregarding that her scheme almost always impacts more than just the intended target.
I find that the root cause of their misunderstandings lies in the fact that they do not actually know each other. The show does a good job of showing multiple different mother-daughter relationships, and some mother figures were just as strict as Yuanyi, but none of them are meeting their daughter for the first time in 15 years. Yuanyi’s desire to “fix” Niao Niao before they have even fostered a relationship makes it even harder for them to understand each other's perspectives and motives. However, as this part progresses, we see their walls slowly come down, and they begin to understand each other, without really changing who they are. We see them grow, which is nice to see. Niao Niao becomes more receptive to her mother’s advice, and Yuanyi becomes more willing to defend her daughter by the end of the first part. There is still far for them to go but they are coming along
Our FL, Niao Niao, is stubborn, rude, and reckless. However, she has an upright mindset that will not allow her or those around her to be mistreated. Her mother, Yuanyi, has a different mindset; she holds the idea of a gentle young woman's behaviour that was popular at the time, “bear with it”. Their different yet similar personalities continually clash, each refusing to relent and understand the perspective of the other. If you think critically while watching the show, you will understand the perspective of both Yuanyi and Niao Niao. Yuanyi has underlying guilt due to the abandonment of her daughter, which results in her being extra firm with her daughter when trying to teach her. It seems she believes that if she can teach Niao Niao to be an upright lady, then I can suppress some of the guilt that she feels for leaving her, which caused her to be uneducated to this degree. Although the show really only shows the perspective of the FL, you will be able to understand the reasoning behind the mother's behavior. However, both refuse to see where they’ve gone wrong. Yuanyi always chooses to see the worst in Niao Niao, leaving her daughter feeling isolated. Despite the continual warnings from almost all the people in her life whom she respects, the mother refuses to see how her behaviour is not benefiting her daughter at all. Niao Niao refuses to see that she is too narrow-minded in how she deals with conflict, often disregarding that her scheme almost always impacts more than just the intended target.
I find that the root cause of their misunderstandings lies in the fact that they do not actually know each other. The show does a good job of showing multiple different mother-daughter relationships, and some mother figures were just as strict as Yuanyi, but none of them are meeting their daughter for the first time in 15 years. Yuanyi’s desire to “fix” Niao Niao before they have even fostered a relationship makes it even harder for them to understand each other's perspectives and motives. However, as this part progresses, we see their walls slowly come down, and they begin to understand each other, without really changing who they are. We see them grow, which is nice to see. Niao Niao becomes more receptive to her mother’s advice, and Yuanyi becomes more willing to defend her daughter by the end of the first part. There is still far for them to go but they are coming along
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