I never watched this drama with english subtitles so i may not know every term, so the terms may be a little off.

1. In the first case, the guy from Jin Yuan Meng recognized LLH because of the three dots on his ear, which correlates to the the poison, and in the last episode, or the other ending, you can clearly see there are no dots on LLH's ear. this was was made me believe LLH was still alive.

2. when DFS had his veins (?) "cut off" by JLQ in the last few episodes, LLH gave his Yang Zhou Man to DFS, which not only saved his life, it also made him more powerful. LLH's Yang Zhou Man  and DFS's Bei Feng Bai Yang work like the flowers. LLH had to eat both the flowers because the Yin and Yang flower had to cancel out, while also doing its job. If DFS  lived with Yang Zhou Man and Bei Feng Bai Yang then LLH could too.

3. Because LLH has Nan Yi blood, then he must die. The emperor only let LLH leave the palace bc he knew LLH doesn't have much time to live. LLH gave the emperor the flower because he knew in front of the emperor he must die. He had no choice. Therefore even if LLH were to still be alive, he can't announce it to the world. 

4. In the last episode, when the begger said he found LLH's bag  on a dead person, the bag was really new and clean, definitely not like it was on a dead person. LLH has also used that excuse before, when he lied to QWM. when he told QWM that, he very much did not die, so it should be okay to assume that LLH pulled the same lie twice.

5. In the letter LLH wrote for FDB, he signed off as LXY, not LLH. He claimed there is no more LXY in this world, but never mentioned LLH. What does LXY have to do with LLH? I can bet LLH is hiding somewhere laughing on how so many people thinks hes dead all over again. 


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Thank you! I definitely needed this! I actually missed some of your points. I feel a little better now.

I watched both versions of the special episode, which left me exactly where I was before watching them...

oo interesting analysis, I may not need this since in my delulu land he is most definitely alive, but I most definitely wanted and love this!

@jumala yeah I watched both special eps, they're both as confusing and honestly can't say if they made things any better lol

Okay, so. In the special episode, LLH really just didn't want to be found. He knew his friends are looking for him by spreading the image poster of him in villages, so he changed his hairstyle to look different from the poster (when FDB and DFS found him at the beach, LLH's hairstyle is different).

So he used the same technique as he lied to Qiao Wanmian. During the Qingming festival where people pay respect to the dead, he intentionally placed his wallet to a dead body so that his friends thought that he is really dead.

And call me crazy for noticing 🙈 but at the beach when they found him, he wore that grey inner layer of clothing. He never wore that grey one in the whole 40 episodes 🙈 so that cannot be a ghost 😂😆

And, I know this is probably less relevant for the drama, but in the novel he is still alive 2 years later. I thought the novel ending was heart-wrenching when I heard people talked about it. But after I read it myself, to the contrary, LLH is very happy at the end of the novel, albeit he is mostly blind and has paralyzed right arm. He finally lives his desired life of fishing. FDB looks after him financially and gave him a house back-facing the ocean. DFS comes regularly and plays chess with him. LLH still has his intelligence to some extent, since he remembers the exact number of chess steps he defeated DFS in (possibly the game went on over a number of days). And per my interpetation, it is hinted that there is a slight chance LLH might still remember DFS and FDB (that he is just being his sly old self here).