Lin Pingzhi doesn't smile? People who have read the original will laugh out their big teeth when they hear this!
Ling Huchong did have a similar evaluation of Lin Pingzhi: "Senior Brother Lin is silent and follows the rules, as if he is a 'little gentleman's sword'." But think about it, Lin Pingzhi regarded you as an enemy, and determined that you "didn't want to take my sword score, but in fact he did take it", he couldn't afford to provoke you so he pretended to be polite and respectful, how could he talk and laugh with you?
Lin Pingzhi and Yue Lingshan are not "unsmiling". The first thing he said to Yue Lingshan, who had restored his original outfit, was, "Senior Sister Yue, the younger brother is under the mercy of Master Fang today. The first to enter is the eldest one, and the younger brother is naturally a junior brother." I think that my junior brother still recognizes him so naturally, you say that he is "not smiling", do you believe it?
The most "laughing" is the twenty-fifth time, Lin Ping visited the old mansion in Fuzhou at night, Yue Lingshan rushed to meet, and the little couple flirted late at night. In this paragraph, "the two laughed at each other", and the dog food was scattered so that Fox Chong "didn't know if he was still in the world". And their words are very shallow but very sweet words that are common between couples. This is not at all the same thing as Ling Huchong's image of "silent and following the rules".
Did Lin Pingzhi be wary of Yue Buqun from the beginning, and he was always vain and submissive to Yue Lingshan, or did he start to have a vision of true feelings, and only later became more and more extreme and narrow-minded? I never figured this out.
However, no matter whether Lin Pingzhi was true or false to Yue Lingshan, they did have a happy time when they were in love and mixed oil in honey. Whether Lin Pingzhi has always been scheming, or whether there has been a change later, he is by no means the only image of "not smiling".
The love between Lin Pingzhi and Yue Lingshan has Yue Lingshan's fresh and fun ingredients, as well as Yue Buqun's deliberate design and guidance. However, if you ignore Lin Pingzhi's own charm and only attribute it to external causes, it is also not objective.