An Insight to Xiao Lanhua's Character

*Why is XLH stupidly help Yingzhou, Danyin or even Jieli repeatedly even after got hurt by them and hurting herself?*

I wonder why so many people are still asking this, are we watching the same drama?

Xiao Lanhua is a very selfless person, she is so simple-minded that she can find a little light in the deepest darkness, she can find a positive light in everything and everyone, and she considers everyone's life to be as valuable as she is. She understand that some people are just unlucky, not actually bad person

it's not because she doesn't appreciate or love her life that she helps her friends and endangers herself. Precisely, because she knows very well the value and importance of everyone's life, because she is very grateful for the life she has right now, that's why she helps others too. Even though she's just a low-level fairy and is weak, she wants her life to be meaningful even if it's short by helping others. She wants to repay the kindness of those who have been kind enough to save her life before (such as by Siming, CH and DFCQ) by helping others too. Because she knows, if no one helps her back then her life will not be long until now. so she shows her gratitude by always doing good deeds and helping others so as not to waste the efforts of those who have saved her. Because she knows what it's like to be helped by people over and over again, she feels lucky and has to do good things as a way to repay people who have helped her, because she knows not everyone is lucky and what it's like to be unlucky because no one helped (just like Jieli). So she doesn't think about the cause and effect, she only thinks that by doing good and helping others there will be goodness that comes to her. Her principle of life is that feeling is not a burden but the reason why we survive this time. we can survive because we help each other.

She is a person who has no prejudice against all the living beings. Although she isn’t Goddess Xishan, in her small and weak body she can shows us the kindness of God to everything around her:

• Including the sinful immortal Daqiang who was short-tempered and wanted to strangle her at the first sight. She thought that he must be lonely after being imprisoned in Haotian Tower for so many years, because she also felt the same loneliness and desertedness for thousands of years.
• Including Fairy Danyin, who was short-tempered and made a riot in the Palace of Life, because she knew that she was kind, but she was hard-spoken and soft-hearted.
• Including Yingzhou who has turn into a big and scary monster, because she knows Yingzhou changed not because of himself want it but because he had no choice and was possessed by the devil's spirit
• It also includes Jieli, who has a bad attitude towards her and rude words and deeds, because she knows that she has a rough life and that being a profiteer is just due to the misfortune of the environment.                                                     

*Why I thought XLH is actually a thoughtful person?*

Altought there are people who said XLH is stupid, I couldn’t agree with them, because in my eyes she isn’t stupid at all, she is pure and kind but not mindless. She had her own view and principle of life. It is difficult for a person to keep positive mind and attitude to see things all the time, but XLH did it. It is mean that she is a very thoughtful person. She knows how to distinguish right from wrong, she doesn't immediately swallow rumors/ what other people say to certain things, instead she take her time to think, analyze it herself, and judge what she thinks is true according to her heart and she doesn't let others make up her mind or make decisions for her.

There are several scene where we can see that XLH is indeed a very thoughtful person, such as:

- When she doesn't know yet that Daqiang is DFCQ, just because Daqiang is acompany her in the Siming Hall and didn't do bad things towards her, she thought Daqiang is not a bad person. She would start to feel lost when she woke up and couldn't find him. She spoke for him when her friends said he was a sinner,and after Daqiang made fire for her, the first thing she thought of was that why he was there for her. She worry him that he went to a very dangerous place for her. When she knew that Shui Yuntian was finding the fugitive immortal, she secretly let him go. She has always looked at people and things with her own eyes, instead of judging it by Shui Yuntian's rules. I always think that Xiaolanhua is very good because, no matter what she does, she always thinks about the good of people first, she has her own thought and undertandment of life.

- When XLH take the fairy examination and save the other fairies from Yingzhou, she show us that she also has great leadership skills, she has a lot of idea, she is selfless and put the safety of everyone ahead of herself. Also when XLH save Yingzhou she show us that although she is weak, she can save and protect the other who are stronger than her too, she show us what is mercy, forgiveness. She never hold grudge and see something without any prejudice. She show DQ that she has her own principle and view of the world, She made him knew that ‘Emotion isn’t burden, but the reason we survive this time’ and also show that ‘There’s still more good people in this world’

- When XLH knew that DQ is the one behind her 1^st rank in fairy exams, she said that she will cancel her result because she is a girl with principle, she has righteousness personality, although she is weak she will never cheat and take something that doesn’t belong to herself

- When XLH is bow down to DFCQ in Moon tribe war. I really think this is a clever and unique thing, because if other heroine will not gave up her ego and will not bow down to their enemy, she cleverly knew when to gave in and respecting the tradition of the Moon clan people.

- When XLH helps DFCQ’s heart problem. At the end of the sixteenth episode, when DQ told her about his dead emotion tree and the way his father hate him. She is the first one who find out that there's more secret that has not been unfolds about DQ killed his father and his father hatred towards DQ. She want to make everything clear between DFCQ and his father. She is the one thoughtfully plan the mission to make DFCQ emotion tree live again and make him sleep peacefully. Also the way she cleverly bring the mirror to record the meeting between DFCQ and the father so that DFCQ can also solve his relationship problem with his brother Xunfeng.

- When XLH is trapped by RH. XLH can seeing through Rong Hao (RH)'s disguised CH is the absolute highlight. She is pure and kind, but not mindless. She kept the memories of DQ in her mind, so she discovered the difference between the hall of life in the fantasy and the real one. Therefore, a problem was designed to deceive the true body of the Mirage Lord. After the life book was taken away, she also took advantage of the distraction of the master of the sea when the powerful appeared, and snatched the life book back in time, and she acted decisively and alertly. When DQ rescued her from danger, she actively admitted her mistakes and took the initiative to reveal all her emotions to DQ. I really like the hero and heroine of CLJ always speak out what they think to avoiding a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings.

- When she guessed that DFCQ asked for the life of book through JL and guessed the reason why DFCQ asked for the book of life. XLH can guess that because she remembers very well every trait of the people she cares about. She remembers that JL was never interested in book of like and she remembers that DFCQ has always been interested in the book of life and has a secret about it.

There are more of it but i hope you’ll find it yourself while watching the show.

*Why does XLH stubbornly still want to go back to Shuiyuntian? Why she runaway dan don't want to stay in the Cangyan Sea? Even after being tortured and branded as a traitor in Shuiyuntian?*

XLH doesn't want to live in Cangyan Sea, not because she doesn’t like Moon clan people.

Although she is a fairy from fairy realm, she has no prejudice against all living beings including people from moon clan. Even though she read a book in Shuiyuntian that said the moon clan people were evil, she never had a bad feeling about them. When XLH visited Cangyan Camp, when she knew that bringing flowers means bereavement, her sincere apology softened my heart. She felt that the people of the Moon Clan were also human, which was different from what the Shuiyuntian book describe.

Xiao Lanhua doesn't want to stay in the Cangyan Sea not because she doesn't appreciate DFCQ's struggle to save XLH.

Remember the firefly in the Beiming Stone that has recognized its master and its home for the first time, the firefly will not recognize the person after that as its master and the other houses as its home. Just because it's given a better place to eat better, it won't change masters and betray its home. XLH is just like that too.

XLH felt that she had been saved by her master from Yunmeng Lake in Mortal Word, could have the blessing of being brought to Shuiyuntian (SYT), got a place to live and had the miracle of being able to cultivate into a human form in SYT was a blessing. She had considered Siming as her master and Shuiyuntian as her home for the first time, so it would be difficult for her to acknowledge Cangyan sea as her new home.

All the people and places she loves are in SYT, although not everyone there likes her. Her master Siming, her house Siming Hall, her plant spirit friends, and her savior CH, etc all were there. So it's very unlikely for her to betray SYT.

In her little and simple-minded mind, It's okay for people to think she is a spy as long as she doesn't think like that. She thought there must be a way to solve all of this, surely she could explain that she wasn't a spy. That's because she always sees problems from a positive point of view. This might look stupid in other people but this is what XLH thinking, she is just as the same as the firefly that only remembers her first house. It lost her light when it left its master. So everyone please try to understand and think in XLH perspective too please.

But after she found out about the problem that DFCQ had with the emotion tree, she promised him she will not runaway from Cangyan sea anymore. She will stay by DFCQ side to heal his emotion tree. She tried her hard to keep her promise but she had to help her friend (Jieli) to leave the Cangyan sea. She didn’t knew that JL is a spy of Hai Shi City, who tricked XLH to accompany her to escape. When she escaped, The Bone Orchid was actually in XLH's hands. She did not disrespect DFCQ's concern. It's just that in order to protect her friend, she gave Bone Orchid to Jieli. Although she is the weakest little Orchid but she never lost the courage to save the people around her. Moreover, she also actively protected herself and tried to unplug the hidden heart hairpin, only to be interrupted by Dieyi, and then rescued by fake CH. So, at the end it’s not that she want to escape or runaway, only the situation at that time make it hard of XLH. After that incident she never tried to runaway, she only tried to follow DFCQ to the human realm.

*Why does XLH really want to bring back DFCQ's 7 emotion tree even though she knows it will make DFCQ lose the power of Hell Fire and make him weak?*

On Episode 17 when Shang Que said that the Late Moon Surpreme is thing things that concern DFCQ the most all these time and he couldn’t sleep because of that. she said to SQ and JL, then i had to go in and had to find the right medicine for DFCQ because it must have been bothering DFCQ for thousands of years, she just wanted DFCQ to sleep well. It's as simple as that for XLH. She just wants him to be happy.

She thought that DFCQ has done so many thing for her, she had to pay back the goodness that DFCQ gave to her. She thought ressurecting DFCQ Tree of feeling is a good choice becuase DFCQ will not becoming a heartless human being. She has always think that DFCQ is actually is good person in nature but she doesnt know what's stopping him doing that. when in Episode 14 minue 29.00 XLH is so happy when she knew that DFCQ didn’t hate her or didn’t have no feeling for her and the reason DFCQ said that before was because his feeling has been removed from him, he has no choice but all his good action to XLH is not false. Knowing that he is really isnt a bad person in nature, it's just becuase all his seven emotion got detached. Xiao Lanhua think that if there’s still a little hope for DFCQ seven feeling to be back, she’ll try to do it. She thinks that it will make DFCQ free from the prison of the heart that has restrained him all this time. XLH indirectly restores the DFCQ that was once just a fighting tool, a killing machine, a terrifying monster into an ordinary living being with feelings. If XLH sees the slightest hope for DFCQ to be released from the prison that has held him captive for so long, she will do whatever she can.

It’s not that DFCQ doesn't want his seven emotions tree to return, i think he's just afraid that all the feelings that have been locked and imprisoned in his heart all this time will come out and overflow from him. He was afraid of what would come out of the box that held all the feelings he had been holding back all this time. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want the tree of his feelings to come back. This is evidenced by after the tree of his feelings returned DFCQ thanked XLH for saving him and returning his tree of feelings (episode 18). Even though he had to suffer from all the feelings that had accumulated and hid in his heart all this time, he was happy to be able to feel the good feelings and memories that he once had. The beautiful feeling that had been forcefully erased because the feeling tree was forcibly killed down by his own father. So, I think XLH is doing a good job and always thinking about DFCQ in what she does, she does all of this for DFCQ. Because she loves DFCQ, she doesn't want DFCQ to continue to be a heartless monster, a walking dead and a killing machine. She just love him so much without she even realize so that she make all these decisions. Imo XLH not only accidentally helped free DFCQ from prison without feeling but she also tried to find the right medicine and help him solve heart problems related to his father.

Then I also thought that even without XLH's help, DFCQ's feeling tree would still slowly start to live again, it has been starting when XLH accidentally touched the tree (episode 1). It was happened even when Xiao Lanhua didn't know about the DFCQ feeling tree. I came across a weibo post saying that DFCQ himself has been waiting for a long time for someone to revive his dead tree of feelings. DFCQ wanted his feelings back so XLH came to help him with the thing he has been longing for a long time.

I came across a weibo post saying that when XLH fell into the Haotian Tower in the first episode of Canglan Jue, the seven soul of Dongfang Qingcang that were floating around XLH represent the or the seven emotions of DFCQ. The seven emotions of DFCQ subconsciously approached and led the little orchid to his side, and settled into his desolate and lonely heart, unintentionally touching the seven emotions tree, moved his heart and signed the concentric mantra. So from the start it was DFCQ unconscious initiative from the beginning, because he actually instinctively wanted to be filled with emotions. XLH came to him because DFCQ needed her, so everything that happened is according to his subconscious heart. So, you all can’t blame XLH for the thing that DFCQ wanted it himself.

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Conclution:

Whether in the drama or in the original novel, Little Orchid has always been alone and without parents and this setting has been deepened in the drama.

Little Orchid has no parents, no father, no mother, no brothers, no sisters, no love, no great power, her fairy roots is decay, her master left her. She was isolated and left alone in the Siming Halls. She had no one who take care of her. She was looked down upon in the eyes of others. Her plant friends could only accompany her for a while during the day. Later, she found someone that can accompany her in Siming Halls, she thought her life will not be lonely anymore, but it’s only makes her accused of being a traitor and espionage, then she got kicked out of her home by people she considered her clan and family. If it were me, I would definitely go crazy.

Despite all of that Little Orchid still lives innocently, cherishing every trace of kindness from everyone to her, even at the cost of her life.

In front of people who are weaker than herself, she will not hestitate to help,

In front of people who are stronger than herself, she still doesn’t hestitate to sacrifice her life to protect the people.

Jie Li said that Xiao Lanhua was the dumbest fool she had ever seen. But in fact, she actually think that the Little Orchid was the best miracle that she met and could make her believe that there are still good people in this world.

CangLanJue makes me think that what we are watching is fantasy, but it is also the story of the human heart. The healing power of the little orchid has healed everyone in the drama, and it has also healed me through the screen. I may still not dare to be a fool who trusts everyone, but I am willing to believe that there is more kindness in this world.

In conclusion, Xiao Lanhua is the truest of The Goddess that purifies the word with tenderness and love whether as the weak, low level little fairy or as the high deity, powerful Goddess of Xishan, Xiyun.

Xiao Lanhua teach us about what is kindness, love all being, sincerity, having no prejudice, forgiveness, showing mercy, protect and put everyone's safety, security and happiness first.          

Aren't  those all the traits that a good and great God should have? If this isn’t it, then a God should have what kind of power to be considered good and strong?

When we are in a world where even the powerful Gods like Sky Emperor and the Ancient Demon Taishu only remember about fighting about power, authority, glory, having greatest strength, having war, being number 1 in the whole world, uniting the three realms, etc, but never really properly use their power to help people in need. Never really take care of the people under them.

XLH was able to show that she could do so much more than what those High Gods with great power couldn't do only with her small and weak body and brain.

XLH has all of these traits of what Good and Great Gods had to have means that she is so much more better and greater than those hypocritical High Gods.

 I think it shows that XLH is a great character and deserves praise and love from many people .

She show us what's the true meaning of being strong is.

Strong is not only can been seen through power but through hear. It is rare for the weak to have the heart of the strong. And Xiao LanHua is. XLH is not only strong in heart, but also helps others to become stronger by finding their positive traits. DFCQ, CH, JL, and DY themselves are more powerful than XLH, but with The Little Orchid, she can make them more powerful, because the strong will have more perseverance, courage and determination than the weak.

Just like The Turtle God said, XLH only has one destiny in life. Which I think it is to protecting all people from the harms and bring peace to everyone in the three realms.  I just want to conclude that Xiao Lanhua is the truest form of Goddess of love and peace who will embraces and heals everyone with her kindness. XLH with or without her real body and identity as Goddess of Xishan is a such great character with all her unique powers and uniqueness. She deserves more love because of this!

Thank you for reading this whole long ass post i made!

I hope there will be people who are willing to read this long post I made with so much effort J

And lastly i wanna say, if you still throw hate, saying nonsense horrible and awful thing to character Xiao Lanhua instead of getting know her better and try to stand in her shoes, maybe this drama might not for you. It's okay, just don't watch this drama, don't waste your energy writing about the things you don't like and badmouthing other people. It's not my loss. It's not CangLanJue's loss to lose an audience like you, but it's your loss to miss the opportunity to enjoy this best drama to the maximum & full level.

And maybe just like what DFCQ said to XLH in the drama which i wholeheartedly agree!

"Forget it, from the start, XLH is just so different from other people in the Shunyitian, XLH is much more precious"

Maybe you are just like Shunyitian people to XLH

maybe only DFCQ, me and several intellectual people in this world who want to understand XLH and knowing her worth and how much valuable and precious she is.

From now on please show more mercy to Xiao Lanhua please y'all!

Hope God will bless all the intellectual people who love Xiao Lanhua!

Thank you Tia for taking the time to type and post this analysis! Great Job and this will also help me reply to such haters next time. 

I am loving the growth and progress of the story and each character in this amazing drama so your insight  has also helped me see some things I may have missed and I can now go an rewatch the episodes again with better understanding of Orchid.

Look forward to you posting more analysis of other characters if you have the time. Yes you have my expectations of more posts like this from you so you can consider this my humble request:)

 LoveFairyNDevil:

Thank you Tia for taking the time to type and post this analysis! Great Job and this will also help me reply to such haters next time. 

I am loving the growth and progress of the story and each character in this amazing drama so your insight  has also helped me see some things I may have missed and I can now go an rewatch the episodes again with better understanding of Orchid.

Look forward to you posting more analysis of other characters if you have the time. Yes you have my expectations of more posts like this from you so you can consider this my humble request:)

Thank you so much for your kind word and reply ❤️ I'm glad that there's someone who enjoy my analysis ?. 

I did this analysis because i really love Xiao Lanhua and Yu Shuxin potrayal of the character but it seems intl fans has been so harsh to her so i couldn't help but want to defend her!

 If i find any interesting analysis about CangLanJue more, i'll post more in the commentary post in the future~~ 

 #HIKIKOMORI:

Since you are open to criticism my opinion Esther Yu should stay away from innocent babylike roles and start to play the other side of a woman. She is approaching 30 and she will have to grow her skills. A character like XLH in xianxia is tired now and personally believe it brings nothing new to her as an actress. She got potential. The character in LBaFD is way too cliche and standard in cdramaland unfortunately to the point Dylan is the one stealing the show. From some things I have seen (her other dubbing work of more mature and sensual characters) she can playing more flirty women.

Thank you for your suggestion on Esther Yu. I will try to explain her position as well so that u can knew her point of view. Despite everyone talked about her getting easy working in ent business and actress as a rich people, the reality is very different with it. Esther has been debut since 2015 but only in 2020, she got CLJ as her first ever Xianxia drama on her belt & she got it not so easily. It has been around 8 months that she got no job and she rarely got a casting call before her sudden break out on YWY2. So, i think she isn't in the place to picky on her character yet. She is the type who will look out the whole story & production rather than only looking at her own character. It's not easy to looking for baddass character in cdramaland these days too and even if there is, she wouldn't even get the chance to got offered by it yet. But i really hope that day will come, if there's a chance in the future if she'll got offered by a good character rather than innocent & bubbly woman. I think she'll surely accept it. 

imo, unlike what you think, she is still young, she is still 26 yo and categorized in 95 flower, there's still time for her to improve and got more chance in the future. She is at the age to act these type of role right now. Even there are many 95 flower upwards that still take this kind of role. Why is she, a 95 flower with a cute face baby face not suitable for it?

She want to take acting as her long road journey, she'll go to acting road for a long time. There are still time for her proofing her worth slowly by trying other type of character later.

She ever said before that she won't take cute character anymore (i think this was 2017), but the reality is different, she can't always get what she want & it wasn't even easy to got cast in drama. Later, she got advice by a senior actor that she must not rush to remove the cute image of her character if she doesn't even have a representative role to play yet & she haven't even got the public remember her role yet. The public surely won't remember her. Her teacher said if you have played a certain character so well to the extend it became your representative role and to the extended u have become the first person that appears in people's memories if other people remember a certain character, then that also a proof you have been successful as an actress. Because it's just useless if you change into so many characters but no audience/people remember you.

So for now her goal is to have a representative role with the image she currently has. Just because she has different goals from other actresses doesn't mean she's a bad actress or typecast. She just wants to have a different goal and path from other actresses. Don't you think it would be easier to distinguish acting from a very different roles than to make a distinction from similar characters right? She wants to make every character she plays, even though they are similar, but each has their own differences and uniqueness.

Most importantly, as an actress she has her goal and she knows where she has to go to achieve it. She got her potential to be a good actress, she is a young actress with great passion and dedication in acting. That's why she learns more about dubbing and always by actively participating in dubbing her own drama. he has also written a long essay (about 5000 words, i forget the details) to show his understanding of the character he plays and always memorizes the script that will be taken today, 3 days before his shooting schedule, etc. 

In conclution, If she has achieved this goals of her or if she got a better chance/ got offered to try another role than what she has done previously, maybe she will gladly accept and try it because she has always wanted to do that but she couldn't get the opportunity to do so. So, let's pray together she will accept her goals and got offered by a better role next time, until then i hope everyone can watch her growing to achieve her goals. Thank you once again to make me had a chance to talk about this matter ?.

Proof link of her interview about this matter:

https://share.api.weibo.cn/share/329260026,4803589791028467.html?weibo_id=4803589791028467

Thank you for this!

I love both Esther and Xiao Lan Hua. Perhaps there are cultural differences at play here. I saw some downright nasty timed comments on Viki about her behaviour "mentally retarded". People's appreciation for cuteness vary. Being Chinese, I share mainland's overall sentiment and personally found her SO FREAKING ADORABLE. ;_; 

Also loved that she insisted on using her own voice. I felt every diverse emotion she portrayed in this drama through her real voice. It elevated her performance.

One last thing, what is up with the amount of comments hating on her appearance?! Esther is pretty and lovely, a perfect match for Xiao Lan Hua who grew up an "ordinary" little grass. Ultimately, her acting skill was what made this character so enjoyable.