
nathsketch:
And Tong Hua's Weibo post:

Thank you @windiaaa041293 @nathsketch
Screenshots of Tong Hua's older posts are particularly precious to me because her Weibo settings are such that it only goes back 6 months, so anything earlier than that are no longer visible.
Her post says this:
Let's start off with this topic. Actually, the conclusion of every story is not the real ending of those characters. On this topic, I am a very unrealistic person. I always feel that the story is just a chapter in their lives. Even though my story has ended, their lives will continue in another dimension, so the true ending cannot be found in any story.
-- Tong Hua, 13 Aug 2013
This is particularly notable because of Yang Zi's teary reaction during the recent LYF fan gathering, when she talked about Wen Xiao Liu, and how Tong Hua messaged her after roughly 12 episodes were broadcast to tell her there was a hot search saying in this world, there is no longer any Wen Xiao Liu. So in that sense, what she says is both true and false. Xiao Yao will continue to live on in another dimension, but Wen Xiao Liu no longer exists. And from Yang Zi's reaction, I get the feeling that he will not be making a comeback, even at the end after Xiao Yao leaves for Qingshui town. She may adopt a different persona, but Wen Xiao Liu is truly gone.
In that sense, I think her post only applies to those who were still alive at the end. Xiang Liu's death is an indisputable fact by the end of the novel. Unless she intended to bring a part of him back in the 4th novel she planned. To that end, I would even be happy with mentions of him before the events in Lost You Forever, in the 2nd novel with the Guifang clan and the ruler of the Underworld. Unfortunately we will never know unless she revisits the universe again one day.