#snake immortal

I hear you on this one. Of all the characters, Snake Immortal Yan You’s betrayal of Run Yu for Xu Feng made me more irritated than most especially after Run Yu got tortured to save his ass.

How I figure it works out though, is that I personally feel like the Snake Immortal has a problem with Run Yu in general. I think he harbors a deep grudge against Run Yu that he hides behind the whole Xu Feng and Jin Mi thing and later with pretending that he doesn’t want to follow another Su Li. I think that had nothing to do with it.

I think he always needed to strike out at Run Yu because of Su Li.

I think that Su Li really fucked Yan You up. He did so much for her, and suffered so much under her and despite it all, it was clear that she didn’t love him like the son that he tried to be to her. She only saw him like a tool. Now add in her obvious obsession with Run Yu (I hesitate to call it love because it was super unhealthy and horribly damaging and dangerous to Run Yu while he was trapped with her) and you’ve got a spiteful sort of rivalry happening on Yan You’s part. Also add in how Li-er chose to stay with Run Yu over Yan You as well. Li-er chose Run Yu, Su Li always loved Run Yu more and did everything for vengeance and for Run Yu’s sake. To Yan You, Run Yu must have been a person that he hated hearing about/knowing that he’d never live up to him or be as important to the people that Yan You loved as Run Yu was to them and wouldn’t be chosen when pitted against Run Yu to those people either (and he wasn’t, as seen with Li-er and Su Li both). So he took something/someone that Run Yu wanted and loved away from him in a kind of cruel retribution for something that Run Yu really had no control over or part in. 

I also think that it’s more than possible that Su Li was just abusive all around to those in her care. With how easily she smacks Yan You around when he brings Run Yu to come meet her, I’d say that wasn’t really just a knee-jerk one-time reaction. Not with a woman who tortured her own child so much that he internalized it and started doing it to himself to get in front of it. It really makes me concerned for Li-er to be honest.

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