That's entirely fair! I have a lot of sympathy for Wang Xiangyang too (I'm doing a post on him and Bai Suxia in a couple of weeks), so maybe this is my blindspot. :-) Here are my thoughts about what you've said, but please don't take them as me trying to convince you to change your view.
I guess I mostly don't see those things as sinister or concerning because none of the SID seem to, either. And I think if my partner were having anxiety attacks and saying everything feels like an illusion, I might not think counselling/some kind of medical intervention was a bad idea? Especially with a history of her not being comfortable going out alone, etc. We don't know if he talked to her about it; maybe he was still thinking about how to raise the subject.
But otoh, maybe you're right and those were warning signs that he wouldn't live up to his promises to protect her, once she stopped fitting the image of what he wanted. Maybe his photography was a symbolic attempt to capture and contain her.
Finding out that his Weiwei was a 'monster' instantly ended his love for her, now that she could no longer fit his ideal imaginations of the future.
That makes the whole story much more tragic and rather sinister, I think! Though, I guess in that reading, Shen Wei is saving her from an unhealthy relationship by sending her back to Dixing...
Idk, I prefer my reading -- that Ji Xiaobai is flawed but basically good, and just temporarily thrown by this frightening and confusing new information about a lover he thought he knew; that their relationship was real -- but I see how you can get to your reading. *nods*
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I guess I mostly don't see those things as sinister or concerning because none of the SID seem to, either. And I think if my partner were having anxiety attacks and saying everything feels like an illusion, I might not think counselling/some kind of medical intervention was a bad idea? Especially with a history of her not being comfortable going out alone, etc. We don't know if he talked to her about it; maybe he was still thinking about how to raise the subject.
But otoh, maybe you're right and those were warning signs that he wouldn't live up to his promises to protect her, once she stopped fitting the image of what he wanted. Maybe his photography was a symbolic attempt to capture and contain her.
That makes the whole story much more tragic and rather sinister, I think! Though, I guess in that reading, Shen Wei is saving her from an unhealthy relationship by sending her back to Dixing...
Idk, I prefer my reading -- that Ji Xiaobai is flawed but basically good, and just temporarily thrown by this frightening and confusing new information about a lover he thought he knew; that their relationship was real -- but I see how you can get to your reading. *nods*