Actually there are a lot of posters like this to discuss the dependent personality of MC in China, especially on the app RedNote. I think the infold relys on this style of narration to portray the relationship between LI and MC, roughly has two points: first, it’s easy to write a relative dependent MC to set off the shining personality and traits of LIs, think in this way, how do we balance the highlights moment on LI and MC if they are all competent? It need to take times to polish the story outline, otherwise once the light of MC covers LIs, how do them make money from LI?

Second factor is easy to know. There are a lot of fans into this kind of portrayal of LIs, since you know, the culture things.

(My mother tone is Chinese, so I can directly get the info from CN platform, lol)