Compared to Weng Pinting, Bi Yanling responds to attacks with "constant self-verification".
This reflects a self-awareness that is highly dependent on external validation.
Once attacked, Bi Yanling frantically tries to force those around her to acknowledge her pre-set [idealized self]. Each of her defenses is an immediate output of cognitive distortion, essentially a covert cognitive manipulation from a disadvantaged position.
If Bi Yanling were dealing with her students, she might be able to use the gap in status to make up for her disadvantage in self-awareness, forcibly getting the students to agree with her and completing the cognitive manipulation.
But standing in front of her is Weng Pinting.
Nan Zhubin sat in the audience, glanced at Bi Yanling, then at Weng Pinting.
Perhaps when Weng Pinting called Bi Yanling through Bai Qinghua's phone earlier, she had already confirmed this cognitive pattern of the other party.
