are they seriously trying to say "it would take so much longer and cost so much more if we wanted to film the same thing for real" because yeah THAT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB and if you can't afford it then you don't do it! WHY SHOULD PEOPLE PAY TO SEE WHAT YOU WEREN'T WILLING TO PAY TO CREATE!!! Why must these ass movies deplete our already dwindling resources and kill off jobs in a dying global economy. IDC about the jobs lost by top actors but what about the b-listers and the extras and the production crew and the writers and the costume department, people who aren't rolling in the wealth their fame has brought them? I cannot believe this person thinks they are some kind of admirable trailblazer doing what no one could.
Being same age as KSR i relate a lot with her. I don't dare to compare my sufferings with her cause it was nothing as compared to her sufferings I can totally understand why she fell for such a lowlife nasty guy At a young age without much experiences we tend to ignore intial signs of being in a wrong relationship. We tend to trust the potential we see in that person but in reality it's our potential and good qualities that we project on that person, people think we only project our insecurities on others but that's not true. We believe that if we were in that person's situation we would have done better and with that belief we keep ignoring evey sign that screams to run. And i think that's what happened to her and that is the very reason why there are so many restrictions on minors, that time period is very delicate and they are not capable of making wise decisions. And still there are so many people blaming KSR for this they don't even understand such simple thing. She was trying to make a come back and she was getting work but KSH and his agency crushed her last hope as well. She got bullied and called problematic woman in the entire nation when she was just 22-23 She was mocked, shamed on national and international level and still KSH didn't even try to acknowledge dating her when his fans were bullying her for posting their pic. Even if KSR posted that pic cus of being hurt or cus of any other reason i don't believe her intention was to hurt that loser KSH. They told in their statement that they don't know her intentions as if to tell her that it's ur mess and have nothing to do with us and with that line they even made her a target of cyberbullying once again. I think she felt really lonely and wronged still she didn't give up. Getting shamed infront of the whole world is no joke i don't know how she withstand all of it. I am not even surprised that she hid her marriage and she did the right thing. And the way her husband said they rushed into the marriage it's not surprising either cause she wasn't even healed so obviously people rush things when they are not healed completely. There was no one to guide her i don't think her family could have helped much that i can tell being from the same generation as hers. When you are not healed properly it's not wise to jump into big commitments like marriage and she was too young to understand that. She went through a lot and it can't be healed in just 2-3 years it takes a lot of time. That's why i am not gonna blame her cause she was brave she didn't run from her mistakes genuinely tried to make up for it. She was too kind for not exposing trash KSH and his agency before she took her life. When i heard she is no more i was heartbroken, my first ever kdrama was her Hii School love on, i was so sure that she will become extremely successful. She was more talented and beautiful than this mf KSH. She had so much potential and just cause of some greedy selfish so called star she couldn't do anything with her talent. After witnessing this animal ksh getting defended so fiercely i feel disgusted, there is so much agony and resentment and it's piling up and it's taking a toll on my mental health so i am taking my time off of this disaster where humanity no longer seems to exist. May god have mercy on her soul :)
I’m not a shipper, but you don’t end a romance story with a breakup. You end a breakup story with a breakup. This drama was a romance story, but then just as the ship came into dock it suddenly veered off into a breakup story. Fine, but there’s a reason it’s unorthodox. Romances don’t end with happy endings just to make shippers happy. They end that way because that’s how fictional narrative works- by capturing a specific part of reality in a way that is realistic to that particular part and maintaining it to the end. Do you know what realistically happens at the end of a budding romance? Two people get together as a couple. The end. The drama plays out as though it IS reality and not a limited story about a specific phenomenon. A story shouldn’t suddenly change tracks like that. Why? Because then it undermines itself. Suddenly making a romance story a breakup story right at the end is no way to complete the narrative. Reality is an ongoing narrative that hasn’t yet ended, so it gets to have hiccups like that. Dramas don’t.
Also, it seems at best unfair and at worst manipulative of the writer to try and make the ending more poignant by engaging and indulging shippers with the romance. The heartbreak should come from within and not projected onto it from the outside by heartbroken shippers. You don’t need the romance story to feel the tragedy of the breakup story. If you’re telling a breakup story then the tragedy is already built into it. Just pick one or the other. That way viewers are in no doubt of what they’re signing up to, but more importantly the narrative maintains integrity.
I don't have an objection only towards ep 16....since ep 13 there was a change in yijin's character.. Like in the earlier episodes we were shown he's too mature for his age and it was a reason why i started loving his character in particular..but the writer actually messed up in the end with the character developments with time,yijin in particular. He became a different person,backwards to an immature self,kinda unacceptable for me and the logic in the end that grown up heedo wants her daughter to read her diary to become motivated about her youth,dream and friendship but what was actually in there?huge pile of regrets?lame.
The way some of y’all are upset on how people feel about the drama 😭 everyone has the right to feel how they do and rate the drama as they want! What happened to everyone having their own opinion, this drama isn’t different than any other drama in that aspect.
Personally, I’ve been reading why people thought the ending makes sense and I appreciate that pov. I can understand that side better now but my opinion on the ending hasn’t really changed. I just feel like I can accept it at some point now if that makes sense. But overall the ending did make me feel different about the series so my rating won’t be as high as I expected but I’m gonna take into account how I felt about the rest.
All in all, everyone is different and that’s ok and should be respected 😭 I think this drama was extremely popular so people are probably still gonna watch it and the rating isn’t gonna drop that low.
A série é linda, por inteiro, mas o que é esse final? Completamente injusto não só com os personagens, mas com o telespectador que torceu por cada um deles!
Primeiro, a gente não vê o Yijin no final? Isso significa que depois de tudo oq vimos, do quão importante eles foram um pro outro, nem contato eles mantiveram??? Depois de toda a história dizendo o quanto eles eram importantes um para o outro, ele sequer mantém contato depois de todos esses anos?! A gente fica sabendo dele por um comentário da mãe da Hee do, um simples, "vi ele esses dias"???
A Heedo lutou pra ficar com ele, mesmo ele tentando manter distância, pra ser ela a desistir? Na verdade, a gente viu a Heedo passar por muiiita coisa, como o início do relacionamento dela com Ko Yurim, o início difícil na esgrima, a desonra na primeira medalha de ouro e até um país inteiro odiando ela. Mas ela desiste do homem que ela ama todo o coração, na primeira oportunidade? Sendo que aguentou ficar longe dele por meses só ouvindo a voz dele na fita? Não faz sentido! Ainda mais considerando pelo o que o Yijin passou em Nova York, no meio de uma guerra! Dividir o fardo, ok, mas era uma guerra, cara! Não tem comparação! Era assustador, de atormentar qualquer um! Ele estava a protegendo. E ok, ela queria que ele dividisse a tristeza e a felicidade com ela, mas isso foi na primeira tentativa! Eles sequer amadureçam o relacionamento deles! Nunca houve uma conversa sobre o quanto ela estava chateada com ele por causa dos desencontros. Ela exigiu dele, uma coisa que ela mesma não deu! Ela mesma vivia dizendo que estava bem, quando não estava e quando ele fez o mesmo… aí sério??
Ou coisa: ok, eles não precisavam terminar juntos (precisavam sim), mas o drama faz o maior mistério sobre o marido atual da Heedo, apenas pra não mostrar ele? Sequer uma informação! Um flashback deles se conhecendo, NADA! Acompanhei a personagem por 16 episódios! Nós vamos de 1998 a 2022, e não é contado pra gente com quem ela resolveu construir uma família! Não mostra sequer os amigos dela, aos quais a gente criou laços e foram tão importantes??? Eles são apenas mencionados!
O final é injusto demais. E eu choro sempre que penso. Pq me apeguei a eles. Quem é o marido da Heedo? Como se conheceram? Ele é bom com ela? O que ele faz? O Yijin tá bem? Casou? Tem filhos? Onde está a Ko Yurim? E o Jiwoo? Seguem juntos? Tiveram filhos? Cadê todas aquelas pessoas??. Sério, que final injusto! Foi um tapa na cara, porque eu amei cada um deles de todo coração, torci muito por todos eles e não recebi nada em troca, apenas o fato amargo de que a Heedo é casada com um qualquer aí, tem uma filha marrentinha, conserta cadeiras, vive com a mãe, e só. Só isso… o final só serve pra fazer a gente chorar e por nada… o choro é só de desalento. E eu já vi MUITOS dramas em que o casal não fica junto, mas ao menos o final era aceitável, bem amarrado… isso? Isso é só kkkk INJUSTO!
hope kdrama writers realize that they can create a drama that has happy ending at the same time make it realistic. people in real life can be in a healthy relationship, get engaged and get married also if they gonna make another youth drama please don't give a message like growing up/adulting sucks sure it's hard but there are still a lot of joy in adulting lmao
I haven't still completely recovered from the emotional damage happened from this drama. It still hurts like my own breakup. But still i want to give my final review on this drama. I still see people talk about the realistic ending and appreciating this drama saying it is good in every aspect. I don't blame that because everyone can have their own opinions and i also agree this is one of the best dramas I've ever watched. But people talk about the reality here and trying to justify the ending is a joke to me. This is the most painful drama that I've watched. I never felt this much of pain from any other drama. Because the other dramas with sad endings that I've watched so far could be accepted even if they were sad. But this ending is different. It's far from reality. ALL THE BREAKUPS ARE NOT REALISTIC. They were wonderful together. They had this amazing relationship but then they suddenly became strangers to each other. Breaking up in good terms, supporting each other from a distance... These things never made it realistic. What's the point of breaking up to protect love if they can't even be a part of each other's lives anymore. It was clear that they became strangers after the breakup. They just threw this breakup out of nowhere just to make it more "realistic" but why can't they see that breakup is the most unrealistic thing happened in the drama? People use big words to describe the reason. "They didn't want keep apologizing to each other, their support wasn't reaching each other anymore....". Although they used these words to justify their breakup, the reason for their break up was simply that they weren't ready to be in a relationship with sacrifices. After everything happened between them, how could that be a valid reason to breakup? That breakup just made them into strangers. How is that be a reality? Only breakup is realistic? Overcoming problems and staying together is not realistic? What kind of theory is that? Yu rim even changed her citizenship and left korea to permanently to live in a different country. Their situation was lot more harder and more difficult to bear. That should be the relationship where they couldn't see a future together. Because no one knew what would happen next in that relationship. Until yu rim retires, she couldn't go back to Korea and since people hated her alot, she wasn't even sure if she could ever return. It'd be more realistic if they broke up. But still they didn't breakup and continued their relationship. If we look at the whole drama, yu rim and ji woong's relationship wasn't something that special. It was beautiful ofc. But it was something that we all had in one point. But na hee do's and Baek yi jin's relationship was one in a million kind of a relationship. That was the whole point of the story. But a normal relationship like ji woong's and yu rims could survive but not yi jin's and na hee do's? Just because they were busy, they couldn't see a future together. I have lot of friends who have long distance relationships. But all of them are going even stronger than the normal relationships. And my childhood friend is still dating her first love but they're also in a long distance relationship. Then aren't these people a reality because they are still together without drifting apart from each other? When you're young, of course you will have problems. That's the point of having a relationship. It will not be perfect all the time. Until you settle down in terms of career and other matters, every relationship has its own problems. But the relationship is what matters. Of course everything depends on the value you give to each other. If there's no mutual feelings and values, it won't be a successful relationship. But if there's still love and the relationship is still important, then normal people will still endure these problems and try to protect what they have. I still can't belive this whole breakup and the reason behind that because what they had was not an ordinary love. They obviously were in love with each other even the time they decided to breakup. Im struggling alot to accept the whole thing happened and move on. I also loved this drama and whole story was precious. But I must say the ending was very unrealistic and unreasonable and it 100% ruined the beautiful journey they came on. I still can't forget the last scene in the tunnel where they said goodbye to each other. It tore me apart.. They were not supposed to be like that. They meant to be in each other's lives for a long time. I have never regretted anything other than the fact that I decided to watch this drama.
You can be sad and angry by the ending, but reading some comments feels like they are missing the whole point…
What do you think is the whole point? For me it has several themes. On the one hand it's about fixing what's broken, enduring even when you keep failing and holding on to what you love. On the other hand it's also supposed to be about letting go of the past and looking forward to the future. I didn't think the drama did a good job at the theme of letting go. It told us more than it showed us the value in it. I'm not saying it failed entirely, but most of the drama was set in the past and mostly explored the first themes I mentioned. It did a good job of it but where the romance was concerned there was a conflict between the past and the future- BYJ and HD's husband/father of her child. This meant that there was also a conflict between the themes. In order to make the point the writer had to make the romance of the drama a failed relationship. The problem is that the plot of the past isn't really about letting go, only the present is. The past is more about the first themes I mentioned and the drama is mostly set in the past. If it had been about the past and the present in equal measure it might have worked better.
Edit: In fact I really think if you want to explore the themes of letting go of the past then the emphasis should be on the present.
This drama broke me to the point that I wish I didn't watch this. I wish I can forget this story. It's too heartbreaking for me to witness two lovers who completes each other drift apart. They have a deep-rooted love but still didn't survive. It made me scared of loving someone because it made me realize that no matter how much you love them, there is always a chance that you will not end up together. What if I love someone like how Yijin loves Hee do and won't be able to move on? What if I will have the regrets Hee do has? What if time will also be the one to ruin the great love that I'll have? It made me scared to experience love because I know I can't handle a break up like they had. This drama also made me jealous of their youth, their friendship, and their memories. As someone who's very introverted, I wasted my teenage years alone with a very few happy memories. This made me want to go back in time and experience being a teenager again and take a lot of photos so that I can go back in time through those. This gave me a lot of regrets that I wish I never knew. Twenty-five twenty-one is a masterpiece but the end was really not it. I wanted this to be a happy ending. Not necessarily them being together but them living a life with no regrets.
By writing a reply to someone it has just occurred to me the problem and irony of writing about letting go of the past by focusing almost entirely on the past.
I don't see what value this drama shows us in terms of enjoying and embracing change. What happened to the basic rule of show don't tell? We saw in the present that her relationship with her mother was greatly improved so yes that ticks the box. But we obviously don't care about her relationship with her husband because why would we? So how did HD and YJ breaking up contribute to showing us the value of letting go of the past and moving on to the present/looking forward to the future? I suppose you could say that she wouldn't have her daughter but her daughter could've easily been YJ's.
I want to stress that there are many things that I think this drama did right and I still love it, but since there's a lot of comments questioning why some people don't like the ending and accusing us of missing the point I keep thinking a lot about it and this is a good way of getting it out of my system.
I don't dare to compare my sufferings with her cause it was nothing as compared to her sufferings
I can totally understand why she fell for such a lowlife nasty guy
At a young age without much experiences we tend to ignore intial signs of being in a wrong relationship.
We tend to trust the potential we see in that person but in reality it's our potential and good qualities that we project on that person, people think we only project our insecurities on others but that's not true. We believe that if we were in that person's situation we would have done better and with that belief we keep ignoring evey sign that screams to run.
And i think that's what happened to her and that is the very reason why there are so many restrictions on minors, that time period is very delicate and they are not capable of making wise decisions.
And still there are so many people blaming KSR for this they don't even understand such simple thing.
She was trying to make a come back and she was getting work but KSH and his agency crushed her last hope as well.
She got bullied and called problematic woman in the entire nation when she was just 22-23
She was mocked, shamed on national and international level and still KSH didn't even try to acknowledge dating her when his fans were bullying her for posting their pic.
Even if KSR posted that pic cus of being hurt or cus of any other reason i don't believe her intention was to hurt that loser KSH.
They told in their statement that they don't know her intentions as if to tell her that it's ur mess and have nothing to do with us and with that line they even made her a target of cyberbullying once again.
I think she felt really lonely and wronged still she didn't give up.
Getting shamed infront of the whole world is no joke i don't know how she withstand all of it.
I am not even surprised that she hid her marriage and she did the right thing. And the way her husband said they rushed into the marriage it's not surprising either cause she wasn't even healed so obviously people rush things when they are not healed completely. There was no one to guide her i don't think her family could have helped much that i can tell being from the same generation as hers.
When you are not healed properly it's not wise to jump into big commitments like marriage and she was too young to understand that.
She went through a lot and it can't be healed in just 2-3 years it takes a lot of time.
That's why i am not gonna blame her cause she was brave she didn't run from her mistakes genuinely tried to make up for it. She was too kind for not exposing trash KSH and his agency before she took her life.
When i heard she is no more i was heartbroken, my first ever kdrama was her Hii School love on, i was so sure that she will become extremely successful.
She was more talented and beautiful than this mf KSH.
She had so much potential and just cause of some greedy selfish so called star she couldn't do anything with her talent.
After witnessing this animal ksh getting defended so fiercely i feel disgusted, there is so much agony and resentment and it's piling up and it's taking a toll on my mental health so i am taking my time off of this disaster where humanity no longer seems to exist.
May god have mercy on her soul :)
Also, it seems at best unfair and at worst manipulative of the writer to try and make the ending more poignant by engaging and indulging shippers with the romance. The heartbreak should come from within and not projected onto it from the outside by heartbroken shippers. You don’t need the romance story to feel the tragedy of the breakup story. If you’re telling a breakup story then the tragedy is already built into it. Just pick one or the other. That way viewers are in no doubt of what they’re signing up to, but more importantly the narrative maintains integrity.
Personally, I’ve been reading why people thought the ending makes sense and I appreciate that pov. I can understand that side better now but my opinion on the ending hasn’t really changed. I just feel like I can accept it at some point now if that makes sense. But overall the ending did make me feel different about the series so my rating won’t be as high as I expected but I’m gonna take into account how I felt about the rest.
All in all, everyone is different and that’s ok and should be respected 😭 I think this drama was extremely popular so people are probably still gonna watch it and the rating isn’t gonna drop that low.
Just my think piece though 😂
A série é linda, por inteiro, mas o que é esse final? Completamente injusto não só com os personagens, mas com o telespectador que torceu por cada um deles!
Primeiro, a gente não vê o Yijin no final? Isso significa que depois de tudo oq vimos, do quão importante eles foram um pro outro, nem contato eles mantiveram??? Depois de toda a história dizendo o quanto eles eram importantes um para o outro, ele sequer mantém contato depois de todos esses anos?! A gente fica sabendo dele por um comentário da mãe da Hee do, um simples, "vi ele esses dias"???
A Heedo lutou pra ficar com ele, mesmo ele tentando manter distância, pra ser ela a desistir? Na verdade, a gente viu a Heedo passar por muiiita coisa, como o início do relacionamento dela com Ko Yurim, o início difícil na esgrima, a desonra na primeira medalha de ouro e até um país inteiro odiando ela. Mas ela desiste do homem que ela ama todo o coração, na primeira oportunidade? Sendo que aguentou ficar longe dele por meses só ouvindo a voz dele na fita? Não faz sentido! Ainda mais considerando pelo o que o Yijin passou em Nova York, no meio de uma guerra! Dividir o fardo, ok, mas era uma guerra, cara! Não tem comparação! Era assustador, de atormentar qualquer um! Ele estava a protegendo. E ok, ela queria que ele dividisse a tristeza e a felicidade com ela, mas isso foi na primeira tentativa! Eles sequer amadureçam o relacionamento deles! Nunca houve uma conversa sobre o quanto ela estava chateada com ele por causa dos desencontros. Ela exigiu dele, uma coisa que ela mesma não deu! Ela mesma vivia dizendo que estava bem, quando não estava e quando ele fez o mesmo… aí sério??
Ou coisa: ok, eles não precisavam terminar juntos (precisavam sim), mas o drama faz o maior mistério sobre o marido atual da Heedo, apenas pra não mostrar ele? Sequer uma informação! Um flashback deles se conhecendo, NADA! Acompanhei a personagem por 16 episódios! Nós vamos de 1998 a 2022, e não é contado pra gente com quem ela resolveu construir uma família! Não mostra sequer os amigos dela, aos quais a gente criou laços e foram tão importantes??? Eles são apenas mencionados!
O final é injusto demais. E eu choro sempre que penso. Pq me apeguei a eles. Quem é o marido da Heedo? Como se conheceram? Ele é bom com ela? O que ele faz? O Yijin tá bem? Casou? Tem filhos? Onde está a Ko Yurim? E o Jiwoo? Seguem juntos? Tiveram filhos? Cadê todas aquelas pessoas??. Sério, que final injusto! Foi um tapa na cara, porque eu amei cada um deles de todo coração, torci muito por todos eles e não recebi nada em troca, apenas o fato amargo de que a Heedo é casada com um qualquer aí, tem uma filha marrentinha, conserta cadeiras, vive com a mãe, e só. Só isso… o final só serve pra fazer a gente chorar e por nada… o choro é só de desalento. E eu já vi MUITOS dramas em que o casal não fica junto, mas ao menos o final era aceitável, bem amarrado… isso? Isso é só kkkk INJUSTO!
I still see people talk about the realistic ending and appreciating this drama saying it is good in every aspect. I don't blame that because everyone can have their own opinions and i also agree this is one of the best dramas I've ever watched. But people talk about the reality here and trying to justify the ending is a joke to me. This is the most painful drama that I've watched. I never felt this much of pain from any other drama. Because the other dramas with sad endings that I've watched so far could be accepted even if they were sad. But this ending is different. It's far from reality. ALL THE BREAKUPS ARE NOT REALISTIC. They were wonderful together. They had this amazing relationship but then they suddenly became strangers to each other. Breaking up in good terms, supporting each other from a distance... These things never made it realistic. What's the point of breaking up to protect love if they can't even be a part of each other's lives anymore. It was clear that they became strangers after the breakup. They just threw this breakup out of nowhere just to make it more "realistic" but why can't they see that breakup is the most unrealistic thing happened in the drama? People use big words to describe the reason. "They didn't want keep apologizing to each other, their support wasn't reaching each other anymore....". Although they used these words to justify their breakup, the reason for their break up was simply that they weren't ready to be in a relationship with sacrifices. After everything happened between them, how could that be a valid reason to breakup? That breakup just made them into strangers. How is that be a reality? Only breakup is realistic? Overcoming problems and staying together is not realistic? What kind of theory is that? Yu rim even changed her citizenship and left korea to permanently to live in a different country. Their situation was lot more harder and more difficult to bear. That should be the relationship where they couldn't see a future together. Because no one knew what would happen next in that relationship. Until yu rim retires, she couldn't go back to Korea and since people hated her alot, she wasn't even sure if she could ever return. It'd be more realistic if they broke up. But still they didn't breakup and continued their relationship. If we look at the whole drama, yu rim and ji woong's relationship wasn't something that special. It was beautiful ofc. But it was something that we all had in one point. But na hee do's and Baek yi jin's relationship was one in a million kind of a relationship. That was the whole point of the story. But a normal relationship like ji woong's and yu rims could survive but not yi jin's and na hee do's? Just because they were busy, they couldn't see a future together. I have lot of friends who have long distance relationships. But all of them are going even stronger than the normal relationships. And my childhood friend is still dating her first love but they're also in a long distance relationship. Then aren't these people a reality because they are still together without drifting apart from each other? When you're young, of course you will have problems. That's the point of having a relationship. It will not be perfect all the time. Until you settle down in terms of career and other matters, every relationship has its own problems. But the relationship is what matters. Of course everything depends on the value you give to each other. If there's no mutual feelings and values, it won't be a successful relationship. But if there's still love and the relationship is still important, then normal people will still endure these problems and try to protect what they have. I still can't belive this whole breakup and the reason behind that because what they had was not an ordinary love. They obviously were in love with each other even the time they decided to breakup. Im struggling alot to accept the whole thing happened and move on. I also loved this drama and whole story was precious. But I must say the ending was very unrealistic and unreasonable and it 100% ruined the beautiful journey they came on. I still can't forget the last scene in the tunnel where they said goodbye to each other. It tore me apart.. They were not supposed to be like that. They meant to be in each other's lives for a long time. I have never regretted anything other than the fact that I decided to watch this drama.
Edit: In fact I really think if you want to explore the themes of letting go of the past then the emphasis should be on the present.
What if I love someone like how Yijin loves Hee do and won't be able to move on? What if I will have the regrets Hee do has? What if time will also be the one to ruin the great love that I'll have? It made me scared to experience love because I know I can't handle a break up like they had.
This drama also made me jealous of their youth, their friendship, and their memories. As someone who's very introverted, I wasted my teenage years alone with a very few happy memories. This made me want to go back in time and experience being a teenager again and take a lot of photos so that I can go back in time through those. This gave me a lot of regrets that I wish I never knew.
Twenty-five twenty-one is a masterpiece but the end was really not it. I wanted this to be a happy ending. Not necessarily them being together but them living a life with no regrets.
I don't see what value this drama shows us in terms of enjoying and embracing change. What happened to the basic rule of show don't tell? We saw in the present that her relationship with her mother was greatly improved so yes that ticks the box. But we obviously don't care about her relationship with her husband because why would we? So how did HD and YJ breaking up contribute to showing us the value of letting go of the past and moving on to the present/looking forward to the future? I suppose you could say that she wouldn't have her daughter but her daughter could've easily been YJ's.
I want to stress that there are many things that I think this drama did right and I still love it, but since there's a lot of comments questioning why some people don't like the ending and accusing us of missing the point I keep thinking a lot about it and this is a good way of getting it out of my system.