Wen Xinran is a national second-level psychological counselor
Creation is not easy, and infringement must be investigated
Introduction
One day you wake up and you receive an alien message telling you "don't answer."
What kind of reaction would you have: hesitation? Panicky? Smell a rat? Curious?
There was a person, hardly any emotions, who pressed the reply button without hesitation.
This person's name is Ye Wenjie.
As the soul of "Three-Body 1", Ye Wenjie's personality is extremely complex.
She is a respected professor of physics, knowledgeable, gentle and kind, and has been a physicist for three generations of her family.
She is the supreme commander of the ETO (Earth Trisomy Organization), her heart is like a rock, her emotions are weak, she kills her lover with her own hands, indirectly kills her daughter, and has a sad heart that sees through human nature.
It was she who launched the earth coordinates to the three-body civilization and led the three-body invasion of the earth civilization.
It is also she who leaves the secret laws of the universe to mankind, so that the earth civilization can compete with the trisolarans.
Ye Wenjie is a contradictory person: obviously a villain, but people can't hate it.
This complex character stems from her unusual life.
01
Destiny is a reincarnation
Jung said: When the unconscious does not become consciousness, it is called destiny.
Ye Wenjie's life has felt too much darkness of human nature.
She came from a Kochi family and entered Tsinghua University at the age of 14 to study astrophysics.
Without that event, her life might have been otherwise.
Only, no ifs.
The drama version only shows a small part of the original book.
When Ye Wenjie was young, he witnessed his father Ye Zhetai being criticized and killed by his own students for defending physics.
At that time, her mother, Shao Lin, was righteous and indignant shouting slogans to defeat the reactionary authority; And the one who came forward to expose her father was her own sister Ye Wenxue.
Perhaps since then, her outlook on life has been subverted.
And that's just the beginning.
Ye Wenjie, who was disappointed in his family affection, went to Daxing'anling alone.
There, her emotions were lit up by Bai Mulin, a reporter with the same thoughts.
She never thought that she would suffer the same fate as her father, and it was Bai Mulin, who she liked, who framed her.
Wang Ziwen acted so well: no arguing, no blame, no hysteria, just with his eyes, looking fixedly at everything in front of him.
From that moment on, she no longer believed in love; And the experience of radar peak gave her the final blow.
Under the arrangement of his father's student Yang Weining, Ye Wenjie got out of the sea of suffering and came to Radar Peak.
Political Commissar Lei Zhicheng gave Ye Wenjie the warmth of a father and brother, and he not only expressed his appreciation for her at one time, but also entrusted her with heavy responsibilities.
Therefore, when Ye Wenjie found that Lei Zhicheng was as hypocritical as Bai Mulin, and the good treatment of her was all out of use, the remaining light in her heart was extinguished.
From family affection, love to friendship, a series of betrayal blows make her despair of human nature.
In her view, the only way to save human civilization is to introduce a higher civilization.
Because of this, when she received a message from an alien civilization, she did not hesitate to respond;
Because of this, when she found out that Lei Zhicheng had also discovered an alien civilization, she was murderous.
Some people say that even if Lei Zhicheng wants to monopolize the fruits of alien civilization, Ye Wenjie will not kill people, right?
What's more, there is her husband Yang Weining.
In fact, with Ye Wenjie's state of mind, she doesn't care about the signature of research results, she cares about her own life.
In the first 30 years, her fate was controlled by an invisible hand, and she was powerless to get rid of, let alone change, and could only silently conform.
From the moment she communicates with an alien civilization, she goes from being forced to accept her fate to being the one who rules her destiny.
Even the fate of the entire human race will be changed by her.
How could she let Lei Zhicheng take away her dominance?
02
Whoever hates will live as he is
There is a word in psychology called "compulsive repetition."
It refers to the fact that when we have excessive feelings for someone, whether it is love or hate, it will form a fixation.
In the future, you will find that no matter how you break free, you will live like that person.
That person, usually our parents.
After Ye's father was rehabilitated, Ye Wenjie returned to Beijing to work and took her daughter Yang Dong to her remarried mother's house, her mother was very enthusiastic, but Ye Wenjie reacted indifferently.
The stepfather tactfully expressed her wish that she would forget the past, but received a cold response: You are not qualified to comment on my father.
Throughout her life, Ye Wenjie was unable to truly reconcile with her mother.
As an adult, she can understand her mother's behavior; But in her bones, she despised the person who betrayed her feelings for her own interests.
However, for Yang Weining, why is she not like this?
Yang Weining is Ye Wenjie's husband and the one who saved her from fire and water, and without Yang Weining, even if she escaped the high fever in Daxing'anling, she would have been imprisoned for political problems.
And at Radar Peak, without Yang Weining's protection, her life would not be too good.
Yang Weining is true love for Ye Wenjie, but Ye Wenjie does not love Yang Weining, and marries him, half to protect himself, and the other half to repay the favor.
And when she "had to" choose between the outcome she wanted and Yang Weining's life, her choice was the same as that of her mother.
She did not hesitate to cut the rope, causing Political Commissar Lei and Yang Weining to fall to their deaths.
Whoever hates will live as he is.
She, like her mother, is a victor who emerged from the catastrophe at the expense of the innocent.
One became a university professor and was respected; One married a high-ranking official and lived a happy life; The husband, who was buried by their own hands, is buried alone in the ground.
Decades later, Ye Wenjie was asked: Have you ever regretted it?
She said: No, I'm calm.
Calm is her protective color.
The first change occurred during her adolescence, a critical period for the establishment of her outlook on life and values.
When she saw her parents turn against her and her father die tragically and could do nothing, all she could compete with the world was calm.
In her heart, an obsession was implanted: human nature is sinister.
She also had a short period of happiness, during that time in Qijiatun.
Because of selflessly tutoring the children in their studies, the whole village of Qijiatun saved her and her daughter's lives with their own blood.
It was a rare warm color in her life, so even in her later years, she was willing to be with her children, which was her remembrance of happiness.
03
The tragedy of the idealist
After the ETO organization was cracked, Chang Weisi asked Ye Wenjie a question, which was very intriguing.
The question is: Do you think the three-body problem can transform and improve human society?
Ye Wenjie answered: A scientific and civilized society must have a higher moral standard.
Ye Wenjie has always been deeply influenced by her father and is an idealist.
At that time, Ye Zhetai could survive as long as he did not cling to the theory of physics, but as an idealist of scientific supremacy, he would rather die than compromise with this absurd world.
Ye Wenjie inherited her father's "idealism", and she, like her father, wanted to change all the dirt and dirt.
It is extremely painful for such a person to live in an era when everyone is drunk and awake.
From her home in Beijing to the Daxing'anling Ridge to the isolated Red Bank base, her world is cold and desperate.
And the message from the alien civilization gave her a chance of hope.
Regarding the background of the establishment of the second Red Bank, the drama version does not touch much, but it is described in the original work:
Ye Wenjie returned to Beijing and met the students who had killed their father, immersed in the pain of going up the mountain to the countryside, but had no remorse for the evil deeds they committed.
This made her more convinced that she had made the right choice.
The "evil" of human beings is engraved in the bones, and external forces must be used to save human madness and rebuild social civilization.
However, do higher civilizations necessarily have high moral standards?
Just look at the demise of the Aztec civilization, Tasmanians and Indians.
Without a savior, morality is not the first need of civilization, survival is.
This is the "Law of the Dark Forest" that Ye Wenjie has spent most of his life realizing.
In front of her daughter Yang Dong's tomb, she taught this cosmic law, including technological explosions and chains of suspicion, to Luo Ji (the male protagonist of Part 2 of the Three-Body Problem), completing her final mission.
Liu Cixin is very good, the law of the dark forest, even in the real moment, is still very insightful.
Ye Wenjie, Evans, Yang Dong, are all idealists, but they deal with the world differently.
It's like a stain on a blank piece of paper, Ye Wenjie desperately wants to wash the stain, Evans chose to tear off the whole paper, and Yang Dong left the table directly and stopped playing.
In fact, there is also a way to play, that is, like Shi Qiang, to see the parts other than the stain and coexist with the stain.
But that's too hard for idealists.
postscript
In the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", there is a scene, which is very hidden.
When Ye Wenjie went to see her daughter Yang Dong, the back of a man in jeans appeared in front of the tomb, who is this person?
If you guessed correctly, this is the male protagonist Luo Ji in the second part, Yang Dong's classmate.
Here's the problem:
Ye Wenjie valued Wang Miao so much, why didn't she tell him the laws of the universe and choose Luo Ji, who met for the first time?
Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao are not the same kind of people in their bones.
Wang Miao is kind and weak, lacks understanding of the "evil" of human nature, and cannot bear the heavy responsibility of confronting the three bodies.
Luo Ji is different, he is timely and hedonistic, opportunistic, irresponsible, and full of ridicule of the scholar's sense of mission.
This kind of unreasonable and moral person is frightening, according to the three-body calculation, Luo Ji's deterrent index is as high as 90%.
What's more, he has a dual degree in astronomy and sociology.
The law of the dark forest belongs to the category of "cosmic sociology", and only Luo Ji can really read it.
With Luo Ji's appearance, Ye Wenjie's extraordinary and legendary life will also come to an end.
A few years ago, she sent a signal that directly led to the invasion of Earth by the Trisolarans;
A few years later, she passed on the laws of the dark forest to Luo Ji, shocking the three-body civilization.
What would you say about her?