I hate it when people have Yue Qingyuan have possessive vibes like he's going to atticwife or manipulate Shen Jiu
The man is a pathetic sack of shit in a lot of ways but he's not going to go stalker/lock Shen Jiu in a prison
It's closer to say that he would sit in a room and refuse to leave unless Shen Jiu tells him to then that he'd try to hold Shen Jiu anywhere
Yue Qingyuan is desperate to be the atticwife
But when it comes to Shen Qingqiu having other relationships you only have to look at how he treats Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu
He keeps the brotherly distance that Shen Yuan clearly expects and wants. He is glad that Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu are close now and asks Shang Qinghua to look out for Shen Qingqiu
He is sad that Shen Qingqiu loses his favourite disciple!
His only issue with Luo Binghe is everything that Luo Binghe did! And even then! He only really puts up a token "I don't approve of your husband" protest (which he has every right to) and then let's it go
Also he didnt pretend Shen Jiu wasn't wrong for what he did to Binghe and even challenged him on that in the water prison in the extras but then offered to let Shen Jiu kill him like that's a normal thing to do
Tbh I don't think Yue Qingyuan necessarily even wants Shen Jiu to forgive him or love him. I don't think he thinks he's worthy of that.
Yue Qingyuan would just be incandescently reassured and happy if, instead of torturing white lotus Binghe, Shen Jiu tortured him.
Yue Qingyuan isn't trying to possess or own or control Shen Jiu
He's wanting Shen Jiu to own and control him
All his mess ups in accidentally undermining Shen Jiu were failed attempts to make him look better
He tries to stop Shen Jiu ruining his own reputation. He's terrible at doing so but that he what he's going for
If you have had a toxic ass friend/relative who says the most out of pocket shit to stir and you laugh nervously and are like "they didn't mean it" in an attempt to defuse the situation only for the toxic ass friend/relative double down and make everything worse? Or you try to make apologises for them and people ask you why you're defending their behaviour you know the vibe
Yue Qingyuan is not being a manipulative controlling asshole who is abusing Shen Jiu
Just please! Stop making him into something he isnt