Since the time of chasing "Acquaintance with Junchu", if there is one word to describe the feelings brought to me by this drama, it is "reversal".
At first, I regarded Lin Haoqing as an absolute villain, but as the plot progressed, I found that he was not only not bad, but also very good, and over the years, in order to protect Ji Yunhe, he had been hiding.
As long as he could protect Ji Yunhe's thoroughness, even if she resented him and hated him, he would have no regrets.
Even the reason why he wanted to compete for the position of the Lord of the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley was to prevent Ji Yunhe's fate from being controlled.
I thought that Li Shu was an affectionate man, but he plotted for so long, but it was to release the blue feathered bird, just when we thought he was a unscrupulous villain, he used his life to buy a chance for Xue March.
The last wish is also the hope that the blue feathered partridge will help him save Snow March.
When the Qingyue Partridge first came out, I thought that Ning Ruochu was a negative person who had always been chaotic and abandoned, and had hurt the Qingyue Partridge by any means, but later we found out that he was also a victim, and his love for the Qingyue Luan had never changed.
However, in comparison, the biggest reversal still comes from Lin Canglan -
At the beginning, not only did Ji Yunhe hate Lin Canglan to the bone, but even I, who prided myself on being calm, every time I saw Lin Canglan appear, I was also praying that he could get off the line early to receive a box lunch.
In order to let his son grow up, when Lin Haoqing was young, he let Lin Haoqing make a choice, and when Lin Haoqing grew up, he let Ji Yunhe be Lin Haoqing's whetstone.
If that were all it, every time Ji Yunhe made a contribution to the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, he would torture Ji Yunhe with a reward and let Ji Yunhe die and come back to life.
The most damning thing is that the frost poison on Ji Yunhe's body also has a certain relationship with him.
Screenshot of the TV series "Acquaintance with Junchu"
It's just that we never expected that Lin Canglan, who is regarded as a great evil person by us, also has his bitterness, and to some extent, he is not only a good valley lord, but also a good father.
All of this has to start with the poison of frost—
At first, Ji Yunhe thought that it was Lin Canglan who gave himself the frost, but later we learned that not only was the frost not under him, but he himself was also controlled by the frost.
Frost is not false from the Valley of Flowers, but in addition to the identity of the victim, Lin Canglan is not directly related to Frost.
At that time, because of the death of the ancestors of the Lin family, Lin Canglan tracked down all the way and found the Immortal Master, in order to protect himself, Lin Canglan pretended to surrender, and was poisoned by the Immortal Master under the frost, and has been subject to the Immortal Master ever since.
Unwilling to be a puppet of the Immortal Master, for so many years, Lin Canglan had been trying to solve the hidden dangers of frost.
Therefore, he found that the earth immortals and heavenly immortals could control the frost together, so he and Qing Shu joined forces to find someone to test, and as a result, those people died one after another, only Ji Yunhe survived, and Lin Canglan wanted to use Ji Yunhe to break the frost, completely get rid of the control of the immortals, and then revitalize the Lin clan.
I really don't have a good evaluation of this--for those "guinea pigs", Lin Canglan is indeed cruel; but from another point of view, if he does not do this, not only will he be subject to others for the rest of his life, but even the other Imperial Spirit Masters in the Valley of Flowers will always be pawns in the hands of the Immortal Master.
But one thing is certain, only a person like him who is "fierce and fierce" can seek a future for the Valley of Flowers.
Although his means are difficult to agree with, in the context of such an era, if someone else is replaced to do the position of the valley lord, perhaps he can't wait for others to shoot, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers has long been played.
From this point of view, he is indeed a qualified valley lord.
We can accept that Ji Yunhe is cruel, and the last thing we can understand is Lin Canglan's cruelty to Lin Haoqing.
Who Lin Haoqing's mother is, there is no explanation in the play, but as a motherless child, Lin Haoqing is really bitter -
When Lin Haoqing was very young, Lin Canglan brought Ji Yunhe to him and let him have a sister. But later, Lin Canglan let Lin Haoqing make the first choice in his life, either to leave his favorite puppy or to leave Ji Yunhe.
For a child of a few years old, such a choice is too painful.
Shortly thereafter, he forced Ji Yunhe to push Lin Haoqing down the snake cave, just to make Lin Haoqing break his heart and only regard Ji Yunhe as his opponent.
In my intuition, Xiao Ji Yunhe secretly went to send fruit to Lin Haoqing, Lin Canglan actually knew, the reason why he had not exposed them was to make his son hate himself.
In order to make you grow, I would rather you hate me all your life, and being a father to this extent, whether there is no one after that is difficult to say, but no one before is basically sure.
Later, Lin Haoqing chose to make his words clear with Ji Yunhe and join forces with Ji Yunhe to seize power, they thought that they had done everything seamlessly, but they did not want everything to be within Lin Canglan's plan.
In order to help his son refine his heart, Lin Canglan forced Lin Haoqing to kill him, otherwise sooner or later his position would not be guaranteed, and Lin Canglan forced Lin Haoqing to attack him, claiming that only a fierce heart could achieve great things.
(It's just a pity that Lin Haoqing is not Lin Canglan, no matter how much he resents Lin Canglan, he has never made a move to kill his father.) Fortunately, otherwise, Lin Haoqing's life would really be ruined. ）
Lin Canglan's actions can also be regarded as another interpretation of "the parents love their children, and they are far-reaching".
Compared with the father-son relationship between Lin Canglan and Lin Haoqing, the feelings between him and Qingshu are also distressing.
The relationship between Lin Canglan and Qing Shu is very similar to the relationship between Lin Haoqing and Si Yu.
Shu is a vein of the Nine-tailed Fox of Qingqiu, and Lin Canglan is a demon master, the two were originally the relationship between master and servant, but Qingshu fell in love with Lin Canglan and spared no effort to help Lin Canglan.
Lin Canglan wanted to find a way to crack the frost, Qing Shu fully assisted, and Ji Yunhe's change was caused by the two of them.
Lin Canglan wanted to sharpen his son, and Qingshu selflessly cooperated, and also became the person that Lin Haoqing and Ji Yunhe wanted to eradicate.
For so many years, Qingshu has always regarded Lin Canglan as her center, Lin Canglan wants to go east, she will never go west, Lin Canglan wants to point to chickens, she will definitely not scold dogs.
It's just a pity that even if she pays so much, Lin Canglan will not respond to her feelings in the slightest, when Lin Canglan decided to sacrifice himself to sharpen his son, he once persuaded Qingshu to return to Qingqiu, but Qingshu refused.
Even the reason why Qingshu was trapped by Lin Haoqing later was to help Lin Canglan act.
Seeing Lin Canglan's stiff body, Qing Shu was all gray, and after handing over the token of the secret room to Lin Haoqing, she took out her own elixir and completely destroyed it, and then leaned on Lin Canglan's shoulder and accompanied him to another world.
In the eyes of our outsiders, Qingshu's life is a tragedy, because of love, but also because of such a poignant ending; but for Qingshu, this life is worth it - to be able to accompany the person he likes, do what he wants to do for him, and to die on his shoulder.
Qingshu's obsession in love is actually not much different from Lin Canglan's obsession with his son and the Valley of Flowers.
I have not read the original work, and I do not know how Lin Canglan and Qing Shu in the original work are.
But from the perspective of the drama version of the story, Lin Canglan cannot be regarded as a good person, but to say that he is a bad person, it seems that it is impossible to say.
Somehow, I always felt that the reason why he chose to raise his son in such a cruel way was because he already knew that his life was short.
If he does not make up his mind, speed up the growth rate of his son, and wait for his own death, his son will not say that he will guard the Valley of Thousands of Flowers, and even whether he can protect his own life is unknown.
I believe that whenever he saw his son 'hating' his own eyes, Lin Canglan's heart was more painful than anyone else's, but no matter how much pain, he had to make up his mind.
Some people on the Internet say that Lin Canglan's cruelty is because of his own experience -
At that time, because Ning Qing threatened the life of Lin Canglan's newlywed wife, he asked Lin Canglan to hand over the medicine introduction, and under the pressure of Ning Qing, he had to hand over the medicine introduction, was planted with frost, became the valley lord of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, and became a puppet in the hands of others.
Therefore, he hopes that his son will be fierce, because in this way, his son will have no weakness.
It's just that he never expected that in his son's heart, there is actually a weakness, and this weakness is Ji Yunhe, the person who was regarded as a "guinea pig" by him, which is also considered to be the cycle of cause and effect.
However, whenever I think of the scene where Lin Canglan regards himself as the last whetstone, he still can't help but be very distressed——
Some people said that Lin Canglan was too cruel to Lin Haoqing, and his heart and mind were only his own Valley of Flowers, but under the circumstances at that time, what could he do without being cruel, could he not let his son become a puppet in the hands of others like himself?
Perhaps, from beginning to end, he played only one role, and that was father. It was only when he used the wrong method that there was a series of tragedies.
(Originality is not easy, if there is a reprint, please indicate the source.) ）