I totally got teary when they said goodbye to each other (well he said goodbye) she is such a sweetie but is pragmatic…
To state he did not give false hope is a kind way to excuse emotional aloofness. Mo never needed promises—only honesty with emotion. Han Li did not gracefully take an alternative path; he chose silence when a bit of truth could have given her dignity. That is not maturity, that is evasion masquerading in cultivation garb