Metal and Wind is an interesting combination, as we learn more about Xia Lin, her disposition, struggles, and history. Metal represents logic, self-control, rationality, and even rigidity. Wind's the opposite in a lot of ways; formlessness, freedom, flexibility.
Given the, imo, implied metal defense art as well as her extreme confidence in it and mention of her aunt's project, I wonder if she was deeply steeped in Metal to start out and branched out to Wind after whatever events shifted her from her original, "simpler", Way.
It wouldn't be a mismatch with her relative openness to our/Renxiang's funky cultural misadventures and her own doubts surrounding the identity of her heritage, at least.
Given the, imo, implied metal defense art as well as her extreme confidence in it and mention of her aunt's project, I wonder if she was deeply steeped in Metal to start out and branched out to Wind after whatever events shifted her from her original, "simpler", Way.
It wouldn't be a mismatch with her relative openness to our/Renxiang's funky cultural misadventures and her own doubts surrounding the identity of her heritage, at least.