No, he died right in front of JC‘s eyes. 5 years later that was his soul watching over them from heaven like he promised when he died. JC imagines him with tears in her eyes.
The ending is beyond disappointing, not to mention illogical. Now why would WZ after spending his night married…
That‘s what makes me so angry and disappointed. It’s completely out of character and ruins the character of WZ. He doesn’t deserve this. At least in the book he had no choice, but here he had a choice!
I felt maybe they didn’t want to make it a HE in order to not take away from the meaning of everything WZ has done and went through before. But this ending here also takes away from the meaning of everything he’s done. 1 it renders the entire love story meaningless because if revenge and getting famous for taking the evil Emperor down is more important than being with your pregnant wife there is no real love to begin with. Because in the drama here he had a choice and the Emperor would still have died. 2 This ending here takes away from his character development. In the final confrontation he seemed just desperate and enraged and revengeful. So the words he said to JC before dying seemed empty, they didn’t fit what we just witnessed. So disappointing. In my mind WZ is not like this. Such a shame that they had to ruin this character.
But in the novel she got to travel with her child and Ziming.
2 This ending here takes away from his character development. In the final confrontation he seemed just desperate and enraged and revengeful. So the words he said to JC before dying seemed empty, they didn’t fit what we just witnessed. So disappointing. In my mind WZ is not like this. Such a shame that they had to ruin this character.