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They wanted a wuxia ending, where everybody dies and women are left crying, LOL. It's a stupid thing. Like a xianxia ending, where the male god has to disappear for a million gazillion years and then they get a one second reunion. Like, the drama would show a span of thousands of years of these guys' lives and then oh, wait, let's just give them a one second reunion. LMAO They want to show romance but don't know what the ladies want.

To me, he returned because of the last scene. The camera panned from his back after showing a rider with the pendant. He was riding toward a full-grown tree with a figure underneath. Then, the very last shot was of her turning (at the sound of hooves?). If it were a dream--his dream would not have her just turn as an OE and her dream would not show a headless horseman riding toward a tree. LOL. Her dreams/supernatural sequences had been full-blown dressed-up, touch-feely experiences with conversations.

Did you watch Episode 40.5? So, if we include that as part of the drama, are you saying he dreamed eight years ahead of his daughter and also all the funny sex stuff? LOL. I'm not arguing with you (not vehemently, anyway). I just find that funny.

Yes, I understand. I was talking about international fans who have seen Yanxi over and over while probably most of China, without VPN, has a more distant memory.

I know he was never truly fooled but the suspicion was confirmed with the pendant. The story of the civet and the Concubine is a very famous Chinese lore passed down. A'Li would recognize his insinuation

ahhhh.

I meant, from her POV, she forced him.

I wonder how one could think the love of a man was real when one forced him to murder his wife. LOL. Delulu,

9 for me.

WJY is known internationally because of Yanxi Palace, which is banned in China. But we get to watch this outside and everyone knows who she is. There's a reason why she received first billing.

To let us know that the ending is NOT a dream and that he survived. That this was a real HE.

How do we know the last bunch coming wasn't reinforcements? Just curious.

I beg to differ. If you chose to believe that about the ending, I won't argue, but Episode 40,5 obviously showed he really came back and they had a daughter, with HIS VOICEOVER explaining it'd been 8 years since his marriage. When has there ever been a dream sequence of something 8 years ahead, with daughter and all, mirroring the source material?

Going to go read! Writing mine soon.

When i rewatch, I stop at Episode 40 31:15 mark. That's the perfect ending. I just ignore the last ten minutes happening, LOL.

I actually interpret it as soldiers coming to his rescue.
He looks up, sees them, puts his wife's pendant in his mouth, looks up, and thinks, "I'm going home." Cue flower blossoms raining down, bwahahaha.

He did not die to free Xue Fangfei. He died because of greed--he wanted everything he thought he deserved, including his past happiness with XFF. He did not kill her so that she could come back to do all those wonderful wifely things HE had enjoyed, before becoming a dog, with some other man. He'd thought XFF would switch her love back when HE was the powerful one, when HE held all the cards, when HE called the shots. He totally ignored the fact that he'd smashed her head with a shovel and buried her alive to advance himself, LOL. Even in death, he didn't truly understand Wanning's explanation of his character to him: that he would kill XFF to live while Xiao Heng would die for XFF. SYR died, not to atone his sins, but to show XFF he could still control her, get her acknowledgment that she cared. She did not.

Yay! Thank you. This way, we who love these kind of stuff can return to it to add or reread!

Her next role coming in 2025.

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