#My theory is that they were initially servant girls YZY took in and trained (hence the whip proficiency)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[mikkeneko]

#We know they came from the Yu sect along with YZY and described as 'young women' so did they likely were young when they left#And we know that YZY favours them immensely (to the point she lets them speak a lot more freely than she does her own children)#And they in turn are extremely loyal to herand very skilled fighters.#So what's up with that dynamic? Who are they to her? Who are they to each other? Who are they as individuals?#My theory is that they were initially servant girls YZY took in and trained (hence the whip proficiency)#I also very much love the idea of this double standard; that YZY has these surrogate 'children' she favours over her own#to shadow JFM's affection for WWX (child who is not his own).#Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli just keep losing!!! - absolutely fascinating.

also I think there's something to be said here for class/status cutting both ways -- that JFM feels like he can favor WWX and Yu Ziyuan allowing these liberties to her handmaids precisely because they aren't members of the gentry class and will never have the same expectations to meet? Because they don't have the same obligations to them that blood would confer? (I don't feel qualified to speak on Asian parenting styles but I have definitely read meta that implies that)

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