Ming Lan is not the only stepmother in the whole play. Besides Xiao Qin, Ran's stepmother, Bai Lianhua is the most important part and stepmother. She has dominated her family for many years and is Ming Lan's strongest rival after marriage.
Ming Lan cares more about being a stepmother than her own mother. In life, Sister Rong has all the food, clothing, housing and transportation. Skills, polo, throwing pots, auditing, housekeeping, etc. They are all taught seriously, and I can't wait to give Sister Rong the eighteen martial arts that Mrs. Sheng taught her. On the other hand, Xiao Qin secretly killed Gu Dalang, his sister's child, and even killed Gu Yeting at an early age.
Ming Lan and Xiao Qin are both stepmother. Why are they so different?
Sister Rong is not here, Gu is there, and the threat is different.
Gu has three wives, Daqin and Baihe. Each of his wives gave birth to a son for him, so the three sons and three mothers of Guhou were born. Xiao Qin gave birth to his third son Gu Tingwei.
Because the family has no other children, only three sons, and the inheritance of the future title will inevitably be selected from these three people. Gu Dalang is in poor health, and Gu Tingwei is the third. Duke Gu has always been very strict with Gu, apparently hoping that Gu can inherit the title and provoke the burden of the family.
If Xiao Qin wants his son Gu Tingwei to inherit the throne, he must get rid of his two brothers, so for Gu Tingwei, the biggest competitors are two close brothers. Therefore, Xiao Qin set up various plots to harm Gu Dalang, kill Gu, and clear the way for Gu.
But Ming Lan doesn't need to deal with this situation at all. Because Gu's existing sons and daughters are just illegitimate children. My son was also taken away by Mannia, leaving Sister Rong, an illegitimate daughter, as no threat at all.
With different experiences, Ming Lan knows how to treat people equally better than Xiao Qin.
Anyone who has seen the original works knows that Ming Lan is a man who has traveled through the past from modern times, but this plot was cut out in the TV series. Since it is crossing, modern people's thoughts must be reflected in Ming Lan.
Ming Lan, an unmarried woman, lost her mother in her early years and was bullied. She has been trying to save herself. Because I have experienced it, I know more about Rong Jie's loss of his mother's helplessness at this time, so Ming Lan will be so gentle with Rong Jie.
This is a kind of empathy and mutual appreciation.
But Xiao Qin is different. She is the eldest daughter of Dongchangfu. She was spoiled since childhood, but she didn't love Daqin so much. Completely different experiences make Xiao Qin less kind to other people's children than Ming Lan and less open-minded than Ming Lan.
Xiao Qin's heart is full of hatred and jealousy, while Ming Lan's heart is love and tolerance.
In Know No, not only Xiao Qin has been targeting Gu, but Gu's eldest brother has also been targeting him, because Xiao Qin has been secretly telling Gu Dalang that he killed his mother for nothing, so he and Xiao Qin will jointly plan Gu.
When the Daqin family was divorced by Gu Gong, there was such a story.
At that time, the family had great economic problems, and the emperor was investigating these things, so the family had to find a sum of money to fill this huge hole.
However, at that time, the family didn't have enough money to fill this big hole, so we had to look for funds. At this time, the White House took a fancy to Duke Gu, wanted to marry his daughter, and promised him a large dowry to help him tide over the difficulties.
In order to keep the whole Houfu, Gu and Daqin agreed to divorce her first, marry Bai, and then divorce Bai to welcome her back after the storm. However, after the divorce, Daqin was unhappy and died soon.
Out of guilt and compensation, Gu Gong married Xiao Qin as his second wife. In Xiao Qin's cognition, no matter how Duke Gu promised at the beginning, how to make up for it now, the elder sister Daqin's family was killed in vain.
In addition, after Xiao Qin married Hou Fu, she found that Gu Gong's dialogue was not sincere, and she was not as affectionate to herself as she was to her sister. Out of hatred and jealousy in his heart, Xiao Qin treated Ye Ting badly.
On the other hand, Zhu Manniang did all the bad things, and Gu wanted to kill her, and she had no mutual affection for her. In Gu's mind, Ming Lan is everything, so what he has is Gu's wholehearted love. Love me, love my dog, make me more tolerant and love Sister Rong more.
To sum up, although Ming Lan and Xiao Qin are both stepmother, their education, experience and threats are completely different, which inevitably leads to their completely different stepmother images.