they just have to force 'it makes sense to be sad ending' logic, rather than 'let find the some logics to make…
the just don't want for us to be fully satisfied. if the journey is good, let make the ending giving 'a little' bad after taste. if the ending is going to be satisfying, let make the journey more irritating . if the project time and budget are too tight, let just finish it and pray for the best.
the director/the writer : "the story is too good. we can't make the viewers fully satisfied. it's forbidden to give them all the joy. so MAKE THE ENDING TRAGIC !! HA .. HA .. HA"
if they minimize all the irritating cliche tropes and typical "go north, then south, and finish it with lukewarm ending" route, it would be "kdrama in chinese language, played by chinese actors/actresses". so they need to keep including it to maintain some trademarks.
how i wish there's a online platform where the viewers can question directors/writers about their decisions regarding cdrama's plot/pace/ending, with a big "what the hell were you thinking?"
good story overall. but again, the "i want to leave a big impression, so proper closure is off the table" card is been used by the cdrama writer. I really want to mock cdrama writer's mentality when dealing with the ending of a colossal drama.
to think that the writer though the viewers would applaud all this long messy angst/stubbornness/misunderstanding/bias, makes me wondering if they have a different view about what entertainment is. or maybe they just in a mission to rise the viewers's low blood pressure as a kind of health campaign. if so, they've done one excellent job.