When watching the TV series "Qing Yu Nian", I was puzzled by the mysterious behavior of the eldest princess, and later after reading the original work, I understood that there was a big reason behind her madness.
According to the original work, the reason why the eldest princess Li Yunrui constantly designed to murder Fan Xian was actually because she hated Fan Xian's birth mother Ye Qingmei, and the reason why she hated Ye Qingmei could not be told to anyone - because it involved an unlicensed unrequited love.
The TV series adapts the blood identity of the eldest princess, so that her hidden emotional line can be accepted by mainstream values, and its crazy behavior can still make logical sense.
1. What does the eldest princess want to do?
As the most powerful woman in Qingguo, the eldest princess Li Yunrui can be said to want the wind to be windy and the rain to be rainy, but she is not satisfied with this, she has greater ambitions.
She wants to unify the world and be the lord of the empire.
Awesome, right? In that feudal era, it was a shock for a woman to have such an ideal.
2. Where does Li Yunrui's ideal come from?
When Li Yunrui was still a little doll, the young and beautiful Ye Qingmei came to the Chengwang Mansion, which brought great impact and shock to the little county lord.
For a little girl like Li Yunrui, Ye Qingmei is an omniscient and omnipotent magical big sister, and Sister Ye opened a window for her to let her know that the world can still be like this, and women can live as wonderfully as men.
Ye Qingmei has become Li Yunrui's idol, and she hopes that when she grows up, she can change the world like Ye Qingmei.
The most direct way to change the world is to end the war and unify the world.
As a result, Li Yunrui, who became the eldest princess, had a goal to strive for.
3. Why does Li Yunrui hate Ye Qingmei?
Originally, Li Yunrui was just an ordinary royal relative, and his fate when he grew up was already doomed: he was either accused of marrying the children of an official eunuch's family, or going to the enemy country and relatives.
The appearance of Ye Qingmei changed Li Yunrui's fate.
Ye Qingmei helped Prince Cheng kill his two older brothers and assisted him in becoming the Emperor of Qingguo, and Li Yunrui also transformed into the most honorable eldest princess.
It is reasonable to say that Li Yunrui should thank Ye Qingmei, it is Ye Qingmei who helped her have a supreme and noble status, otherwise, where she has the energy to call the wind and rain.
However, Li Yunrui, who became the eldest princess, hated the person in her heart the most was precisely the benefactor who changed her fate- Ye Qingmei.
There was only one reason--the later Qing Emperor of The Prince of Cheng fell in love with Ye Qingmei, and in emperor Qing's heart, Li Yunrui was always inferior to Ye Qingmei.
Li Yunrui deeply loved Emperor Qing, because of jealousy, she hated Ye Qingmei, and it was Ye Qingmei who robbed her of the person she loved. But Emperor Qing did not love her, and the more she was tormented by this love, the more she hated Ye Qingmei, and later, this hatred continued to Ye Qingmei's son.
4. Why did Li Yunrui have an affair with Lin Ruofu but did not become intimate?
In the TV series, when Prime Minister Lin Ruofu talked to Fan Xian about the eldest princess Li Yunrui, he commented that the woman was crazy.
Obviously, Lin Ruofu did not love Li Yunrui at all, nor did he have a trace of feelings, but was full of hatred. Lin Ruofu felt that Li Yunrui had used him, but in fact, Lin Ruofu was not used in vain, and he rose all the way to the rank of prime minister under the protection of the empress dowager and the eldest princess, and achieved the position of prime minister under one person and above the group of ministers.
Li Yunrui also did not love Lin Ruofu, she chose him, and then used him to conceive a child, and then gave birth to Lin Wan'er, in fact, she wanted to make her reputation stink, did not want to marry any man and had to leave the palace, leaving her beloved Qing Emperor, in order to stay with Qing Emperor for a long time, she did not care about what reputation, in that era, her behavior was shocking, no wonder Lin Ruofu said that she was crazy.
With the child as a bond, Li Yunrui also controlled Lin Ruofu for her own use, and she supported Lin's forces, and the ultimate purpose was also for herself. Although Lin Ruofu became the prime minister, he had to be driven by Li Yunrui, so he hated it in his heart.
5. Does Li Yunrui love Lin Wan'er?
After Li Yunrui was ordered by Emperor Qing to leave the capital, Lin Wan'er went to visit her mother and wanted to say goodbye before her mother left the capital.
At first, Li Yunrui did not want to see Wan'er, but later looked at Wan'er, who was thinly dressed, insisted on standing in the rain and blowing the wind and waiting, and finally allowed her daughter to come in and meet her.
Wan'er complained that her mother rarely visited herself, nor did she care about herself at all, after moving out of the palace, she did not wait for her mother's visit when she was sick and dying, as a mother, Li Yunrui never cared about Wan'er's feelings.
Li Yunrui retorted: Why should I care about your feelings? Joy, pain, loneliness, sadness, these things as long as they are alive who will not have? But you can only feel it if you live! Lin Wan'er, as long as you live, I don't care about anything else.
Lin Wan'er was not reconciled, and asked rhetorically: Is it true that harming Fan Xian is also for his own good?
Li Yunrui said that if Lin Wan'er had fan xian in her heart, she might not necessarily take his life. Because Fan Xian entered the capital, far more than taking over the financial power of the inner treasury, Emperor Qing meant to let him take over the inspection court, in the future he will be a person standing on the cusp of the storm, it can also be said that it is a bait for the imperial power struggle, the giant beast pounces on food, he will not have a good end except for his crushed bones, so Li Yunrui has to do everything possible to kill him, lest Lin Wan'er be affected by Fan Xian in the future.
From the dialogue between mother and daughter, it can be found that the two people are not in the same dimension at all, and they are completely chicken and duck.
Lin Wan'er is just an ordinary aristocratic girl, with a simple mind and a kind heart, while Li Yunrui has met Ye Qingmei from the past from modern society since she was a child, and she has an extremely intelligent and strategic brother (Emperor Qing) to teach, her realm and insight can be said to be comparable to no one except Ye Qingmei and Emperor Qing.
Moreover, although Li Yunrui gave birth to Lin Wan'er, she was not ready to be a mother, it can be said that Lin Wan'er's birth was just a means for her to keep herself by Emperor Qing's side, and Lin Wan'er, like her father Lin Ruofu, was just a tool person for Li Yunrui.
However, after all, she was pregnant in October, after all, she was born of her own flesh and blood, and the love between natural blood relatives was constantly cut, and Li Yunrui did what she thought her mother should do. In her opinion, she loves her daughter Lin Wan'er very much, and staying away from Wan'er is precisely to protect her.
As the eldest princess of power and opposition, Li Yunrui is not satisfied, she has more lofty ideals and goals, for this ideal and goal, she does not hesitate to do the work of betraying the country, but she knows that what she does also has a huge risk, so she wants to cut her daughter off from herself, so that if she is defeated and discredited, she will not affect her daughter's life, is this not maternal love? Or isn't that the greater maternal love?
Therefore, from the perspective of ordinary people, the eldest princess does not love Lin Wan'er, but from Li Yunrui's concept, she deeply loves Lin Wan'er.
6. What did Li Yunrui do?
Judging from the first TV series of "Qing Yu Nian" that was broadcast, Li Yunrui did a lot of bad things.
Several assassinations were carried out against Fan Xian: the first was when Fan Xian was still in Danzhou; the second was the Niulan Street assassination in Kyoto; the third was when Fan Xian escorted Shaun back to Northern Qi.
In addition to controlling the internal treasury, he also engaged in smuggling business in Northern Qi, wantonly embezzled the property of the national treasury for private use, and established a private armed force.
By controlling Lin Ruofu to control the ministers in the imperial court; by controlling Zhu Ge in the Inspection Yuan, he controlled the movements of the Inspection Yuan; in order to promote the war between Southern Qing and Northern Qi, he arranged for the assassination of Niulan Street to find a reason for the expedition to Northern Qi; and then he did not hesitate to contact northern Qi envoys privately, betrayed Qingguo's secret probe in Northern Qi, MuYan Bingyun, and released Shaun back to disturb the Northern Qi court to stir up new hatred and old grievances, and various measures eventually led to the decline of Northern Qi's national strength.
From qingguo's standpoint, Li Yunrui has done a lot of treason, but for Li Yunrui, her goal is the ultimate reunification, and in order to achieve this goal, she can do whatever it takes, and it doesn't matter what treason and traitor.
In the original novel, Li Yunrui's story still has a long period, and there are unspeakable things between her and the prince, I have not finished reading it, and I will not discuss it in this article.
Judging from the content of the TV series, the eldest princess Li Yunrui is a strong woman with super ability, strategy, courage, means, and ambition, but her ambition threatens Emperor Qing, so after discovering that she is involved in the Inspection Temple, Emperor Qing does not hesitate to decide to drive her out of Kyoto, and when she turns away, shoots an arrow through the armor at her back.
This arrow made Li Yunrui, who deeply loved Emperor Qing, break his heart.
When Lin Wan'er asked Li Yunrui which man she was entrusting her life to, she was speechless, this was the deepest secret she buried in her heart, it was a sadness that she could not touch, love but could not, how desperate.
And all the ideals and goals, are not to prove themselves in front of him? Unifying the world, such a great goal, if it can be achieved, it will prove that she Li Yunrui is stronger than Ye Qingmei, and she can do what Ye Qingmei did not do.
Also, although Emperor Qing loved Ye Qingmei, she finally killed Ye Qingmei, she Li Yunrui could not be used by the people she loved and then eliminated, she had to protect herself, so she did everything she could, using all means to increase her strength, to compete with Emperor Qing.
After understanding the psychology of the eldest princess, I also understood that her madness has its rationality.
The eldest princess is a very intelligent woman, but her biggest weakness is that she loves someone who should not be loved, and this love is the source of her tragedy, she is strong, after all, she did not defeat that love, all her crazy actions are paying for this love, in order to make that person give her a big thumbs up.
Watching "Qing Yu Nian", the most touching thing to me is the eldest princess Li Yunrui, this woman who wants to control her own destiny, although she may not realize her ideals, but she is living according to her own wishes, even if she is not good to die, she will not regret it, because she has not wasted her precious life to tangle, arbitrarily, boldly, even if she dies, she must be vigorous.
The most unfortunate thing is that as powerful as her, she cannot get rid of the cage of emotion, and all her madness, all her conspiracies, come from her irrepressible love.
A sigh!
Women, when can they not be controlled by feelings, when can they be truly strong.
Women, when can they only please themselves, when will they be truly mature.
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