Storylines

Surrogate Role Development

• Creates connection with Yaling through this service
• Way to prove worth beyond sexual adequacy
• The ultimate expression of her devotion
• A way to physically embody her worship of him
• Her chance to create something lasting for him
• The closest form of intimacy she could ever achieve with him
• A way to feel truly useful/valuable

The transformation into baby obsession works because:

• She's never had proper intimacy with MC
• The pregnancy would be 9 months of carrying a part of him
• She'd finally feel physically connected to him
• Her religious devotion would frame it as a sacred duty
• It gives her a clear purpose and identity

After becoming pregnant:

• Becomes radically focused on the pregnancy
• Treats it like a religious experience
• Obsesses over every detail of the baby's development
• Feels truly "owned" by MC for the first time
• Finally has status/purpose in household
• Lives for MC's moments of attention to the pregnancy
• Dreams of future pregnancies
• Sees herself as a sacred vessel for his legacy

This better serves her character themes:

• Devotion without presuming romance
• Finding meaning through service
• Religious fervor meeting physical reality
• Transformation through submission
• Deep need for connection with MC

The proposal scene could be incredibly emotional - her begging Yaling for this honor, explaining how she'd devote her entire existence to carrying MC's children, knowing she'll never have genetic claims but desperately wanting to serve this way.

Emotional Arc

• Crisis when old coping mechanisms don't work anymore
• From looking down on Hila to accepting their lifestyle
• Realizing her "special childhood connection" matters less than new relationships
• Learning to find meaning in being pathetic instead of fighting it

STORY PROGRESSION:

1. Establish baseline desperate devotion
2. Show various attempts to prove worth
3. Develop religious following organically
4. Crisis with Weilan revealing inadequacies
5. Surrogacy as attempt at redemption
6. Formation of cult as unintended consequence
7. Finding peace in extreme devotion

Internal Conflicts

• Struggle between devotion and resentment
• Desire for recognition vs acceptance of status
• Religious faith vs harsh realities
• Looking down on Hila while envying their community/stability
• Wanting to be special to MC while knowing she's least important
• Pride in being "closer" than Hila while being more pathetic

Professional vs Personal Approach

• Admires but can't copy Weilan's confident direct approach
• Uses Jiaolong as buffer not just from propriety but fear of rejection
• Carefully plans "acceptable" reasons to see MC through official channels
• Takes pride in doing things "properly" while privately yearning for spontaneity
• The formality gives her safety but also traps her

Attention-Seeking Evolution

• Started as child's instinctive understanding: pain = MC's care and attention
• Grew into complex adult relationship with pain/pleasure/attention
• Genuinely enjoys some masochistic elements now but feels guilty
• Struggles between authentic desires and learned behaviors
• Tries desperately to be "proper" through Jiaolong but envies Weilan's direct approach
• Wants to run to MC like she did as a child but forces herself to maintain formal distance
• The contrast between her careful surface behavior and turbulent inner needs
• Tries to avoid manipulative behavior but falls into familiar patterns when stressed
• Guilt over manipulative impulses makes her overcompensate with rigid propriety
• Her attempts at being "properly undemanding" become their own form of emotional manipulation
• She seeks and associate attention with masochistic behavior because getting whipped was what got her care and friendship from mc in the past subconsciously but she knows it's wrong feels guilty and don't want to be dramatic and manipulative but can't help it.
• One time she questions if he even still likes her, then privately when alone she berates herself and punishes herself for bringing drama and asking something so stupid.

Calendar Anxiety

• Obsessively tracks MC's schedule through Jiaolong
• Plans deliberately undemanding brief visits
• Practices what she'll say to not waste his time
• Constant fear of being too needy/clingy
• Watches him spend long passionate nights with others while she gets quick functional visits
• Her role as "training assistant" means she helps prepare other women for longer sessions than she gets

Complicated Optimism

• Despite issues, genuinely happy when getting any time with MC
• Takes real pride in maintaining Loprin Manor
• Finds satisfaction in training Roulan well
• Has moments of pure joy swimming
• Can be playful/sweet when not overthinking things

Use her path to develop the MC, particularly his morality

• After she shows her pathetic self MC feels bad for her, and thinks about making her a mind control slave to be "happier", he struggles with this for a bit but then decide that he wouldn't do that to loyal friends.

1. Uses her character to explore MC's development

• Shows MC wrestling with power vs loyalty
• Reveals MC's capacity for mercy/cruelty
• Makes her path about more than just her patheticness

2. Creates Deeper Drama

• Not petty household politics but real moral conflict
• Stakes are her fundamental identity/free will
• Shows value of genuine devotion vs forced submission
• Her pure loyalty actually saves her

3. Adds Complexity While Maintaining Core Appeal

• Still pathetic/devoted but now serves larger purpose
• Her very patheticness creates the moral dilemma
• Loyalty becomes active choice rather than just default state
• Makes her more significant to overall story without changing her nature

Spy Discovery Arc

• Notices archivist's suspicious behavior
• Struggle between wanting to help and fear of overstepping
• One genuine success that matters
• Makes her later concerns more credible
• MC rewards her loyalty

Weilan Dynamic

• Not petty rivalry but fundamental clash of approaches
• Weilan's natural confidence vs her learned submission
• One major confrontation rather than ongoing drama
• Resolution through MC's intervention
• Shows different forms of devotion

Roulan Training Resolution

• Culmination of years training Roulan
• Moment of pride in serving MC this way
• Bittersweet success as Roulan pleases MC better than she can
• Acceptance of supporting role
• Shows growth without changing core nature

Her reaction to realizing you are the necromancer

Almost a delusional sense of fate, like of course, her master is the necromancer. It's just what has got to be. Her loyalty unwavering, strengthened. Her master deserves the world and Zhenzhen will do all in her power to give it to him. She feels entitled for him, has strong conviction in a manifest destiny where he ascends to godhood and she reaches heaven with him as his miya. Like that would be an inevitable outcome.

Potential Drama

1. Early Path Events:

• Creates scene when she discovers Jiaolong scheduled another woman during "her" usual time
• Breakdown when she realizes MC doesn't remember childhood memory she treasures
• During the archivist spying arc leading to the rebellion she could raise the issue with Jiaolong but the message doesn't get passed down or something, and she could feel vindicated and this makes MC give her a reward.

2. Mid Path Events:

• Gets caught spreading rumors about Weilan's past
• Tries to prove worth by "exposing" imagined threats to MC
• Attempts to insert herself into household decisions she shouldn't

3. Late Path Events:

• Emotional breakdown over Weilan's success
• Scene where she finally realizes her behavior pushes people away

Each event would:

• Show different aspect of her emotional instability
• Involve multiple characters
• Have consequences in household
• Reveal more about her psychology
• Build toward either:
  • Acceptance of limitations
  • Deeper descent into obsession
  • Finding peace through religion
  • Starting unintentional cult