Qiu Haitang is NOT the villain people make her out to be. She's a parallel to Ning Yingying, she's genuinely a kind soul, but was too blind to see the abuse happening around her especially since the abuser was someone she trusts. Even the book describes her as innocent! I mean, in her point of view she was justified for seeking vengeance against Shen Jiu especially since her POV is "my family was very kind to him and he brutally killed them."
This rant comes specifically from the amount of hate that gets thrown on her. The hate reaches a genuine point when people start wishing her to be in an abusive incestuous relationship with her brother. (No joke this is a real fairly common thing.)










