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No, his death is not onscreen. We can assume he probably died sometime after the show ends.

I think it does pick back up in the last 10.

Lusi's pairing is with Yuning in this drama. It's an open ending/sad ending. She's not with and doesn't end up with Tang Xiao Tian

I loved it from the beginning and was hooked. If you're not enjoying it at all now, maybe this one just isn't for you. Or give it a few more episodes and see how you feel. The leads romance really starts to build from episode 11/12

I think if you've come this far, you might as well finish it. I thought the last part, the last 5 or 6 episodes did a good job of tying up the storylines (revenge arc) and were good episodes with drama and some action too. Worth it even if the ending was not the one I was hoping for. Not to mention LYN and ZLS really give a beautiful performance in those episodes.

Unless of course you really don't want to finish it, in which case, don't. 😅

Yes, basically. The male lead doesn't die on screen, but he's dying at the end. When he actually dies, we don't know for sure.

Happy to hear your thoughts on it now that you've finished. I agree, it's a really beautiful drama, despite some editing and writing issues in the back half.

And hey, as she left the guild at the end, maybe she went to follow him before he passed. (I suppose thats where the OE element comes in for many of us)

You are right to find him suspicious.

A very sad but kind of open ending (to a degree) The ML can't be cured of his poison and is going to die, but we don't see it on screen. He plans to leave so Duan Wu doesn't see it. She begs him to stay, and thats the last we see of him. She then seems to leave her business and resigns as head of the jewelry guild. Whether that's to follow him/be with him, or to go her own way, is left up to the audience to decide.

40 years later, she has travelled the world and been successful in business. (Assumedly the ML probably died long before then)

It would have been a really cute chubby baby. 🤣

She immediately resigned as head of the guild and gave her business to CSJ, and travelled, I think it's fair that some people assume she may have left to follow him.

Either way, he died at some point after though.

(The jewelry competition was only a couple days later. I don't think he was so ill that he died in that time)

It's open in the sense that he plans on leaving so she doesn't see him die but she begs him to stay. Then we don't see him again, leaving it open to whether he left or not. She then resigns her position as jewelry guild head and travels, whether she's with him, or left to go find him or is on her own is left up to the audience to decide.

We only know that 40 years later she's travelled the world and been successful in the business industry. At what point he dies, we don't know.

There was never any love line between them at all, no.

If anything she seemed closer to Kang Ju at the end. 😂

Yes, Ning-Ge actually kind of did tell us the ending this time, literally! 🤣 It's not what I wanted at all obviously... but i'm choosing to believe they did spend some amount of time together before he finally did die. He wasn't blind at the end yet, so there was some amount of time. #copium😭

Yes, she had a long life in the business industry and saw the world in that time. We don't know if Yan Zijing did end up leaving or staying, or maybe they travelled together. And we don't know at what point he died.

No. At least none that has been posted yet.

Is she with the SML at the end? No.

Assumedly, he did at some point. Though we don't see it.

It's kind of an OE, but a sad one. Yan Zijing planned on leaving because he doesn't want her to see him deteroriate but she begs him to stay. and that's the last we see of them together. So we don't know if he did leave or not. Then we see her at the competition where she wins and is made head of the jewelry guild, but turns it down. 40 years later she's travelling in the desert as a merchant. So I like to think they spent what time they had together. Or to think that she gave up the position at the jewelry guild so that she could spend what time he had, with him.

For those that are curious about the ending - my thoughts.