In Between Us || Zhanyi

Before the story process

Hi!! Long time~~~[Don't miss the end note]

Before I post any new part some insights for all readers to make the story more approachable.

This story made me learn many things, especially how culture and region make things different. How the concept of MARRIAGE, LOVE, VIOLENCE varies from place to place......person to person.

Now the main point before you invest more to the story............this story is based on typical arranged marriage in Indian Culture, where marriage is more sacred and superior to Love.

Even a person loves someone but married to other then his/her loyalty, commitment, responsibility, surrender, body all submitted to the person married ....not to the person love. In general it is applicable to both male and female but society's expectation always lies towards Women. There are people both male and female who support this system and foster this expecting men to be ultimate dominate and women to be utter submissive.

Now coming to my story.....I have sketched 2 distinct character one Independent, open minded, believe in challenging society norms and other who believe and carry this norms.

I don't bag any character but Zhan, here is reflection of an independent person so it was not so surprise for me when at many places I saw readers found him arrogant or cold.   The fact is protecting your own peace is very hard, when we always swayed by other's manipulation and emotions, so amidst when you have to be strong, you have to ignorant what people say because people will always say something or other because they are not experiencing what you do. They just watch.........most time one sided.

Now coming to Yibo.....here Yibo's character sketch on proper submissive believe character where he entered the marriage with all orthodox believes...... Here I have a line to say.....if someone is weak that can be not fault of the other person being strong. So Zhan failing to understand Yibo AND Yibo failing to understand Zhan are the most realistic part according to me and exactly that I wanted to portrait.

Even many love marriages broken down as after certain time those people didn't understand each other then here we have two strangers........ I exactly wanted to display how two pole apart people came in harmony by hardship.....Trust me it never comes easy...it never so easy like music stream, flower shower, heart beat and two people together......For being together two people need to fight a battle ....maybe at starting or maybe in middle.....who sustain, only they get their happily ever together.

Also if you go through Yibo had the least response whenever Zhan interacted...so just tell me without being biased how long you have ever accompanied someone who never responded to you?

AS readers you can hear Yibo's monologs so you feel Zhan ignorant but if there was no monologs, no internal part then tell me whom you would have called ignorant?

Now some will say..Zhan didn't try to know Yibo, would Yibo speak if Zhan asked....NO....now some say Kuan is gem, he knew Yibo better...........Here I say No....Kuan is here sketched as reader who just saw and hear certain fraction of Yibo and assumed a judgement.

And I can say Zhan knew certain things about Yibo that even Yibo didn't know till now. 

Leave so complicated question, just answer can you ever make someone understand anything that they don't wanna understand like often our parents do...they script their hardship to manipulate us emotionally......as if if we aren't there those hardship wouldn't take place. will you say their hardship is false...no, and that is why we always felt guilty and afraid to deny them.