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She can still go back in time and be with him, and each time, it gets better. Each time she returns, they both have memories so it's happy too. The ending has a purpose that ties to the theme of the story.

This kind of setting of "the heroine is infinitely reincarnated until she successfully breaks the cycle of fate" is simply tailored for multi-season dramas~

I just realized that "Unclouded Soul" refers to "Xiao Yao's pure heart, which is not dominated by desires," which was the key to her ability to use time reversing spells.

The ending of The Unclouded Soul is bittersweet but hopeful open ending
1. Happy/Sweet because Xiao Yao finally figures out and masters time travel, letting her willingly return to a beautiful moment with Hong Ye and relive their love.
2. Hopeful because Xiao Yao goes back in time knowing everything that went wrong before. With that knowledge, she can change events, avoid the bad things, make their story much happier, and most likely break the repeating cycle for good so they can live peacefully together forever. If Xiao Yao succeeds in breaking the cycle of reincarnation, Hong Ye will not die.
3. Sad because we just saw Hong Ye sacrifice himself, which hurts a lot, and the drama ends very suddenly without showing us the full happy life afterward. We’re left guessing a bit and still feeling the pain.

Only Xiao Yao's pure heart ("unclouded soul") and accumulated wisdom (reincarnation memory) can completely break the cycle and save Hongye. Because she can repeatedly reverse time and restart reincarnation, Hongye has the opportunity to truly survive without having to sacrifice.

The theme that the whole play wants to convey the most: love and pure heart, which can finally overcome fate and desire~

They need a season 2

I think there is hope too that with each cycle she learns how to break out of it

So, a loop (an eternal Mobius loop) that repeats until she can figure her way out, but they left signs of hope that with each learning, she will break out of the loop, right?

that doesn't sound so bad to me

7th year would be 2023. There were couple of nasty sexually transmitted disease videos that circulated. I was still new to Xu kai and Cdrama at the time, it shocked me. That shock helped me get over it. This is how it is for him. Then Aug 2025, another shock. After a month of that, I stopped looking at YT videos. I don't want to know anymore.

Yu Zheng built his career on publicity. That's how he was able to get started by creating publicity to make himself a known entity. He understands that all publicity, good or bad, is powerful tool. Now I think about it, that might be why costar has such massive marketing behind her.

I came across an interesting Facebook post recently. She was responding to someone saying that Xu Kai is bad.
Source: Facebook. Stacey Hendron.
"I'm not a Xu Kai fan but did you actually pay attention to the Bai Lu Xu Kai scandal back? Who benefitted? Xu Kai earned a bad reputation and Bai Lu fan base skyrocketed. Dirty tactics in C-Ent with emerging actresses. Manipulating public opinion by using a popular actor's name with a dating rumor to boost the actress's career. Look into it and you will find out. All the actress PR team had to do was confirm or deny rumor, but they stayed quiet instead of shutting down the rumor while the actor's PR team deny the rumor. This stirs up trouble in fandom and behavior is toxic as well. I've seen worse than Xu Kai's fandom when seeing how Yang Yang fans act attacking."

no problem, hope I didn't' offend you

What proof was there she ever dated him?

views not viewers

MDL shows Jan 8, so it seems it came days earlier. 40 episodes in 10 days is fast.

that site has malware

This drama has potential to appeal to a diverse audience. Seven Tan is a fantastic casting choice.

Shenzhen’s rise is something people still marvel at, and a story like this can really connect because it captures that whole era through one person’s life. The city’s transformation from a small fishing village and farmland into a major global metropolis in just 40 years is mind-boggling to me.

Xu Kai has said in multiple past interviews that he doesn’t care about billing and that it doesn’t matter to him, which is why he’s willing to collaborate regardless of billing. Maybe his agency cares, but he never made it a big deal. He didn’t hype it up, market it, or turn it into a talking point — he simply answered the question and moved on.

Recently, Bai Lu publicly spoke out against billing, saying it can hinder collaborations between actors. Her team and fans are actively marketing this as a positive trait, and she’s getting a lot of praise for it. What’s ironic is that some Bai Lu fans used to emphasize her first billing over Xu Kai and treated it like a win. But now that Bai Lu says billing should be done away with, those same fans are praising her for being “above” the issue.

Costar is definitely his favorite, always has been.

Yu Zheng has publicly described her as someone he "raised like a daughter."

I gave up searching for XK on YouTube. The only sincere videos are fan-made; the rest seem crafted to push someone else’s narrative.

Real studies have shown that first ratings everyone sees influence the ones that come later. MDL should not be putting up a score, especially on day 1, until the drama is done airing. MDL knows this, that's why I think they do it on purpose.