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I think he just lives with the powers he absorbed but never uses it for evil ever again!
That's a good point she could potentially change the course of the present timeline but either way it would be hard as we know they can never completely destroy the kunlun mirror. The way I see it, she wanted to go back to relive it all again and to be with him

I actually don't mind that she went back to the beginning, it means they get to fall/be in love all over again and go through all the good and bad together! I also feel like with time loop dramas, it's hard to break out of the loop and they will just continue to cycle ... so them being together throughout is their happiness

There were other aspects of the drama that I thought were worse than the ending haha. It didn't make sense to me that BZ and PP were suddenly strong enough to take down QQ, TS & AO, also disliked how their characters turned out >< ! Overall, still a good drama !

Definitely an open ended drama depending on how you choose to interpret it.
My takeaway is the beginning is the end and the end is a beginning.
I appreciate HMH & TSY's work in this drama

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who thought that the fact QQ, TS & AH dying because of Bingzhu was a plot hole!
I believe that this was an open ended drama, it's either a HE or SE depending on how an individual interprets it. What i've come to understand is - the ending is the beginning and the beginning is the end..
It seems XY will continue to go through these cycles to relive her lifetimes with HY

In ep 2 when mu mu goes to his boxing match she asks jin feng zi, and he answers that it's from a chinese saying to which mu mu says "drink while you can" 今朝有酒今朝醉 (jīn zhāo yǒu jiǔ jīn zhāo zuì)

Yes the swap happened 20 yrs ago during the rebellion led by Princess' Yi's brother