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You're right. There was an eerie feeling in the last scene, check out his hands while "holding her", it looks like he's not there, like he is an illusion. And the actress has been crying and picturing him everywhere she goes, so no reason to believe that's not the case here.

The irony: he left because of his hallucinations and now it's the FL who is constantly hallucinating.

I refuse to believe that it was really him. She had a dream, rushed and out of the blue, he was there? Yeah, no. This isn't a fantasy/paranormal drama where this kind of things could happen.

It's a rom-com. No paranormal stuff.

He's been away for at least a year. He isn't posting on his phone. He hasn't contacted his parents (his mother having health issues on top of that), or his friends or his sister or the girl he loves. Either he is dead, or he has amnesia but there's no reason for him to not come back.

It will be interesting to hear what the director or actors have to say about this ending. They'll probably say: "of course it's a HE, he is back, isn't he"?

Except that it doesn't look like he is back. He looks like an illusion and it looks like the FL is losing it.

Unfortunately, there are medications which.... how to translate that? control the emotional state. My sister is mentally handicapped and has to take plenty of meds. One of them is for a specific pathology and it does that: before, she used to feel so much that she would go on rants and episodes and make herself sick because of those strong emotions. It was very destructive for her and she was in real psychological pain.

Now that she takes those meds, she is much better. She still feels, but her emotions don't overcome her anymore. Of course, she is used to taking meds, has been taking them for decades, contrary to the ML who is just starting them so she isn't as apathic as he is. For someone who is just starting to take those kind of medication, yeah, the first months/years can lead to this kind of reaction.

Artists in China aren't allowed a private life, love stories. Or when they have one, they have to take incredible precautions, like we saw in the last episode. That's got to be heavy stuff to not be able to just go outside with the person you love.

It's strange for me to get that but that's how it seems to work in Asia, or South Korea. It's sad. That would explain how things turned out in the novel the drama is based on.

It' s a nice drama. Nothing out of the ordinary but still nice. I am more interested in the second couple than the main one, though. Maybe because they are a bit older and in a more complex situation: the SML is a soldier who has seen things, done things and who had trouble and still has trouble being in a relationship with a movie star.

He has a self-esteem problem. A simple, poor soldier while she is a famous, wealthy, beautiful movie star who is loved by millions of people.

He doesn't see himself as worthy of her, hence the reason why he left her and refuses to give their relationship another try. He thinks she deserves someone better and of her own social circle.

I think the SFL will try to move on with her agent but they will both realise that it's not working and they are better as friends. And as to the SML, apart something dramatic happening to him, I don't see how he could change his mind about the SFL.

Or maybe it will be simply to see his best friend, a doctor, managing to be in a successful relationship with a famous actress, that will cause him to evolve on that subject?

Probably imaginary. Everytime he goes there, magically, the young boy runs to him. As if he is always there waiting for him. In a flashback/nightmare, we saw a woman asking the ML to protect "her baby", maybe the little boy?

So I would say the ML is imagining the young boy, maybe living a normal life and growing up, even if he died a few years ago while he was much younger.

Oh my god, episode 8!!! Lol! I mean, the first 5 minutes, I was in shock then bam, the twist. And then the son's dream had me laughing so much. And the murder twist, with the cat and the dog's faces when they realized their act caused the death of the guy, that was hilarious.

Average so far. I have only watched two episodes and while there seems to be a good mystery, the FL is annoying and for someone so high in her career, she can behave like a kid. The ML is... okay, I guess? Nothing really out of this world.

I'll give it another chance, just in case. I need some good adventure drama since Tibetan sea flower ended.

Yeah, I watched the last episodes. The brother goes to the spiritual retreat to be the new Deren (I wonder if he will quit at some point, like the previous Deren), and his sister... goes into the world to live her own life?

I mean after that. Do they reunite? Does he spend the rest of his loooooong life at the monastery? Does she get married? Does she have kids? Does she join the Zhangs again and stay with the Wangs?

I was disappointed when Wu Xie said that this was the last time they were on the same side and would be enemies the next time they meet. Does this mean she stays with the Wangs? I mean, the future is not written. She can do a 180 and be on the patriarch's side. After all, she seemed opened to Wu Xie when he told her how naive her brother and her had been, with the ZQL murder spree. I thought he had opened her eyes so why would they be enemies next ?

I thought the antagonists in this drama were great. Started as enemies, then antagonists, before turning into "friends" (for Feng) and allees for this adventure for the Zhangs siblings.

There's potential for more adventures for the Zhangs siblings, IMO.

It's sad, in the end, the whole group betrayed him. I don't know if Wu Xie told him about the whole story. I also wonder what happened to the Zhang siblings. On the path to redemption, they deserve to come back, somehow. They were interesting characters.

I must have missed an episode because I don't remember seeing Wu Xie's mother and grandmother. In which episode do they appear?

I thought about Zhang Nian but I didn't recognize him in the flashback. But yeah, most likely it was him.

Who impersonated ZQL to murder Zhang Haike's wife? Zhang Nian or someone else?

Episode 30, damn! What an emotional episode. So heartbreaking. So much explained about ZQL. A lonely soul wandering the world with only a few moments of peace and joy along the way. Immortality or a verrrrrry long life isn't appealing.

They had no idea where ZQL was? Maybe it's when they heard that he was tomb raiding with WS that they decided to act. Only for him to vanish behind the bronze door.

So plan B was to use WS. Just my theory.

I thought the black box in the early episode and the strange round structure behind this bronze door had a sci-fi vibe. That's why I thought about the meteorite to explain everything: it comes from space, after all.

Yeah ZQL is like the messiah. Poor guy can't catch a break.

In this universe, can't everything be explained by the mysterious meteorite? I remember an episode of the old MacGyver show, where a scientist was studying a meteorite until there was an attack on her lab.

She and her dog ended up confined in the lab with the meteorite. Unfortunately, the properties of the meteorite made every living things in the lab die of old age within a few hours: the scientist, her dog and plants.

I guess here it's the opposite: the flowers growing there were affected by the meteorite and provided longevity to the Zhang, which were the... owners? Of the land where the meteorite crashed.

The siblings heard of the legend of those flowers. Maybe they heard about the Patriarch's mother and thought it could bring Niata back to life? Unfortunately, it's not an immortal miracle since ZQL's mother died after a few days out of the "garden", right?

Apart from that, am I the only one who thought that the brother and his soon-to-be wife were under the famous bell, the one provoking hallucinations? And someone used that bell on them to make them turn on SQL?

Well, the answer to the mystery of what is behind the bronze door... was answered in the original title: Tibetan Sea FLOWER.

Probably the Wangs or a Wang. I just had a look at the casting and there's a Wang. There's also Wu Xie's mother and grandmother. Have they been seen in previous dramas? Or had a role to play? Usually, it's Wu Xie's uncles who appear.

He is behind the bronze door during that drama so he can only appear in flashbacks.

He played a scary character in "The bionic life". Really intense and not likeable. He did very well. It's not an "idol" kind of drama though, more sci-fi.