Relationship with Other Characters

• Could develop more distinct dynamics with different women
  • Subtle favoritism toward Yaling (proper noble wife)
    • Yaling has direct access to MC but chooses to check in with Jiaolong first due to mutual respect
  • Professional respect for Weilan (good at playing her role)
  • Mild disdain for Zhenzhen's emotional displays
  • Wary of Peizhi's influence
• Show how she subtly favors some over others
• Her assessments of newcomers reveal her own views
• Build relationships beyond just being gatekeeper

How Yaling Views Jiaolong

Publicly/Casually:

• Treats her as a highly competent tool of MC's authority
• Occasionally wonders about Jiaolong's feelings for MC, but it's a passing curiosity rather than concern
• Otherwise doesn't think much about her - just expects and receives perfect service
• Occasionally tries to investigate if Jiaolong harbors feelings for MC by probing with comments about marriage or suggesting matches
• Uses her freely as an information source about MC's moods and schedule and about other women's activities/gifts/reactions to MC
• Might occasionally ask "Has he seemed tired lately?" or similar questions, showing she does see Jiaolong as someone who observes MC closely
• Sometimes shares intimate details about her relationship with MC through Jiaolong, knowing this information will be recorded and possibly strategically shared

Privately:

• Occasionally wonders if Jiaolong's perfect professionalism masks deeper feelings
• Never quite sure enough to bring it up with MC
• Slightly amused by how Jiaolong maintains her composure even when delivering intimate messages or arranging private time
• Appreciates how Jiaolong makes everything run smoothly without needing to be asked

How Cinean Views Jiaolong

Publicly/Initially:

• Sees her as just another servant, albeit a well-positioned one
• Views her rigid professionalism as slightly comic
• Makes intellectual observations about servant psychology using her as an example
• Is polite but slightly condescending

Privately/As She Falls for MC:

• Becomes hyperaware of Jiaolong's role as gatekeeper to MC
• Studies how Jiaolong interacts with other women to learn the system / how other women successfully get his attention
• Asks seemingly casual questions about his schedule/habits
• Grows frustrated as she realizes Jiaolong won't help facilitate meetings without clear purpose
• Resents having to go through her to reach MC
• Sometimes catches Jiaolong's knowing looks when she makes obvious attempts to get information about MC

How Yaling+Cinean View Her Together

• Share amusement at her perfect composure even in awkward situations
• Mentions her seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of everyone's business
• Both rely on her in different ways but neither fully trusts her, knowing her ultimate loyalty is to MC

How Jiaolong Views Yaling/Cinean

Towards Yaling:

• Maintains perfect professional deference while privately noting her every preference and weakness
• Appreciates how her casual warmth makes the household run smoother
• Records meticulously how she likes to be approached about different matters
• Never forgets she's MC's wife and therefore most important to keep happy
• Uses Yaling's natural openness to gather information while maintaining boundaries

Towards Cinean:

• Watches her intellectual facade start cracking as she falls for MC
• Notes her increasingly transparent attempts to gain information about MC
• Catalogs her methods of trying to create connections with MC
• Maintains extra professional distance, knowing Cinean is studying her responses
• Slightly enjoys denying her the access she clearly wants

Towards Their Friendship:

• Sees how it benefits MC by keeping both women happy
• Notes potential future conflicts as Cinean's feelings develop
• Carefully manages information flow between them to maintain harmony
• Records their interactions for potential relevance to MC
• Uses their friendship to gather more information about both

Friendship with Weilan

From Jiaolong's Perspective:

• Initially views Weilan as "just another woman pursuing MC" but is impressed by her lack of drama
• Finds herself genuinely enjoying their conversations rather than just gathering intel
• One of few relationships where she can relax her professional guard somewhat

From Weilan's Perspective: Weilan values Jiaolong’s guidance in navigating household dynamics, subtle tips about the MC, professionalism, and shared respect for order. She appreciates Jiaolong’s non-competitive support and occasionally confides in her about anxieties she wouldn’t share with Yaling.

Their friendship works because:

• Neither tries to use it for advantage with MC
• Both value competence and proper conduct
• Share similar class background allowing natural rapport
• Complement each other's roles in household
• Respect each other's boundaries

With Zhenzhen

From Jiaolong's View:

• Sees Zhenzhen's religious devotion as both admirable and slightly pitiable
• Professionally frustrated by Zhenzhen's emotional unpredictability
• Has to carefully manage Zhenzhen's access to avoid disrupting household harmony
• Understands but quietly judges Zhenzhen's desperation for attention
• Keeps careful notes on Zhenzhen's patterns to predict/prevent drama

From Zhenzhen's View:

• Resents having to go through Jiaolong to see MC
• Sees Jiaolong as an obstacle between her and her "destiny" with MC
• Sometimes tries to emotionally manipulate Jiaolong with religious rhetoric
• Envies Jiaolong's daily contact with MC
• Doesn't fully grasp that Jiaolong's professionalism is genuine rather than act

With Peizhi

From Jiaolong's View:

• Deeply wary of Peizhi's influence over MC
• Stressed by having to maintain perfect professionalism with actual royalty
• Carefully tracks every interaction for potential political implications
• Anxious about making even minor mistakes in protocol
• Senses something "off" about Peizhi but can't identify what

From Peizhi's View:

• Amused by Jiaolong's careful professionalism
• Sometimes deliberately creates protocol challenges to watch her manage them
• Uses Jiaolong as source of information about household dynamics
• Respects Jiaolong's competence while seeing her as ultimately insignificant

With Dou Rong

From Jiaolong's View:

• Required to maintain strict professionalism due to Dou Rong's research role
• Uncertain how to classify Dou Rong in household hierarchy

From Dou Rong's View:

• Sees Jiaolong as another example of MC's control methods
• Studies how Jiaolong manages household for insights into MC's character
• Appreciates Jiaolong's efficiency while pitying her controlled state

With Sunwei (Secretary)

• Gets along very well, like brothers and sisters. Mutual respect and teamwork is all evident.

Managing Different Types of Women

The Direct Pursuers

Women like Weilan who are openly pursuing MC:

• Provides clear protocols for proper approach
• Rewards adherence to rules with more access
• Uses their directness to gather honest information, uses them as spies/barter information
• Shares their successful methods to encourage others
• Maintains their enthusiasm while tempering expectations

The Political Players

Women seeking alliance/advantage:

• Tracks their true motives behind stated ones
• Notes which political factions they represent
• Carefully manages their access to prevent manipulation
• Records their methods for MC's analysis
• Uses their ambition to gather intelligence about wider political landscape

The Innocent Admirers

Young/naive women genuinely falling for MC:

• Protects them from more predatory rivals
• Guides them toward appropriate behavior
• Uses their sincerity to encourage genuine feelings in others
• Carefully manages their expectations
• Records their pure reactions as baseline for judging others

The Strategic Allies

Women like Cinean who mix genuine feeling with ambition:

• Notes how they balance different motivations
• Tracks when feelings overtake strategy
• Uses their complexity to gather multi-layered information
• Carefully manages their access to prevent manipulation
• Records their methods for pattern analysis

The Established Relationships

Like Yaling or long-term companions:

• Maintains their happiness as priority
• Uses their security to gather deeper information
• Notes any changes in their patterns/moods
• Manages potential conflicts with newer women
• Records their successful relationship methods

Relationship with MC

• You treat her professionally so that she would do her job well
  • Though midway through her events the player is given the choice to give in to baser desires and harass her
• Impressed and admires the work and planning he puts into his relationships.
  • He was the one who taught her how to manage everything.
  • The level of thought and manipulation really impresses her and scares her, also makes her horny.
• As a woman she thinks he's very bad news and would not want him in vicinity of girls she cares about.
• She's in denial about being annoyed that MC treats her cooly/professionally while being so flirty with so many different women.
  • She's trying to "break" his disinterest by subconsciously flirting with him, acting in seductive ways even unintentionally and smirking to herself about it
  • But she's thinking that it's not going to work, after all it has never worked
  • She PROTESTS TOO MUCH in her internal narrative about preferring freedom and how he's gotten way too many women
  • The subtext is definitely that she wants him
• Coping mechanism
  • "Since I'm not one of his women, I don't have to be careful about making others jealous. I can dress how I want, move how I want. It keeps them on edge, reminds them their position isn't guaranteed. And if that makes me more noticeable to MC... well, that's just part of maintaining professional authority."
• She's been subtly tempting MC (while telling herself she prefers freedom)
  • "Accidentally" touching him while showing documents, letting her hand linger
  • Making suggestive comments about other women's techniques/preferences while discussing schedules
  • Describing explicit details about planned encounters "professionally"
  • Using her knowledge of what turns him on with others to subtly mirror those behaviors
  • Taking advantage of her position to be physically close during private briefings

Sex with MC

• One day she does too much and MC just decides he wants her (Player is given a choice to do so)
• She gets what she secretly wanted (being taken) while maintaining her stance about "preferring freedom"
• Afterwards she can keep up her professional facade but with that underlying tension
• Ends up destabilizing her