I will deeply explore the charm and true nature of Consort Gyokuyou from The Apothecary Diaries. She is not just a beautiful and kind royal wife. She is a character with amazing strength and wisdom to survive in the life-threatening environment of the rear palace.
Consort Gyokuyou is a woman who never loses her bright and cheerful smile. She is loved by the emperor the most and stands near the very top of the rear palace. However, behind that smile hides a desperate reason to survive.
She strongly inherits the blood of a foreign land in the west. Because of this, she faced discrimination within her own family and grew up enduring severe bullying since childhood. If she cried, the people around her rejoiced, and if she got angry, she was treated as the bad guy. In such a harsh environment, she chose a way of life where she never lets her smile fade.
Her smile is the strongest armor that hides her weakness and fear. She never denies others and never lets anyone figure out her true feelings. In the rear palace, where a single moment of carelessness can cost your life, she never shows her raw emotions. At the same time, this reflects a sad shadow, showing that she always lives in loneliness and deep tension.
I am strongly attracted to the perfect balance of light and dark that Consort Gyokuyou possesses. She acts like a kind mother to absolutely everyone. At the same time, to protect the people important to her, she is a cool-headed strategist who calmly calculates and manipulates the people and situations around her.
Normally, people struggle to balance kindness and cold calculation. However, instead of holding a grudge against her harsh upbringing, she turned it into the strength she needed to survive. Her way of living, blooming nobly by her own power out of a muddy environment, gives readers strong courage and inspires deep admiration.
If Consort Gyokuyou existed in modern Japan, I declare that she would be highly successful as the general manager of a top-class luxury hotel.
No matter how unreasonable the demands of the guests are or how much the staff fights in the background, she would never lose her smile. While gently wrapping others in her soft attitude, she would actually move everything exactly according to her calculations to solve every problem. The hotel she works at would become a place where everyone feels perfectly comfortable, but very few people would ever touch her true heart.
The way Consort Gyokuyou lives teaches us something very important. That is the fact that a smile can become a strong weapon to protect yourself.
We sometimes feel like we are going to be crushed by the malice of others or a harsh environment. When that happens, instead of getting angry or crying and showing your weakness to the enemy, try to smile quietly. By controlling your emotions and wearing the armor of a smile, we can protect our own hearts. Tomorrow, if something bad happens to you, I want you to try smiling beautifully and strongly, exactly like Consort Gyokuyou.
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