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Yup! Also the magic spell/motion YQ taught YT in this episode today, I am sure there is going to be a call back to this moment because there was a scene of YT and YQ using the same spell to fight each other.

Prayers it is a happy ending.

Yeah I think 1-4 pretty much confirmed based on teaser videos for tomorrow.

The drama said we are not even going to give him a chance 🤣 Got him calling YT sao sao at first sight.

Hi! I read the comments under bilibili videos from novel readers

Okay so there are some speculations of how the plot will proceed onward from here from teaser clips people have been watching:

One speculation:
1) Youqin's cousin who likes him exposed Yetan's identity to the heavenly emperor
2) Heavenly emperor planned to lock up Yetan and throw her back to the human realm
3) Hu Sui ran to Youqin who was being punished/locked up to tell him what is happening
4) Youqin broke through the "prison"/got really injured in the process and basically told his father he quit being Empyrean Xuan Shang and that he will never turn on Yetan
5) Youqin takes Yetan away (probably to the human realm?)

- So this is where people don't know how the story will go anymore

6) Potentially YQ and YT escape to the human realm/beast realm(?) along with QK and CF and both pair(?) or just YQ and YT get officially married
7) Both heaven and void realms pissed off and want to kill the princesses (exposed as twin flowers)
8) You got the kings choking the princesses scene
9) QK sacrificed herself
10) Guixu opened up at the same time (?)
11) YQ tried to close Guixu aka potentially sacrifice himself but YT didn't let him and let herself go in and explode(?)
12) YQ fainted here and there is some theory that heavenly emperor wiped out his memory during this time so he doesn't remember YT anymore
13) YT lives/revives(?) and now is part of void realm
14) Ghost scene of QK bidding farewell to YT and CF crying on the floor
15) YT decide to go to the heaven realm and fight/get revenge
16) YQ don't remember her at this point so they fight but the fighting reminds him of something (his past with YT where he did the sword dance with her)
17) YQ probably remembers again and there are scenes of them hugging/crying/looking at fireworks (YQ in his white outfit and YT still in her void outfit)
18) No idea after this

Reminder this is just speculation from teasers we have seen so far and people trying to put together a timeline.

Edit: Man Man apparently also dies(?) at some point which further YT's path for revenge

Just perfect characters and perfect casting.

Let's hope, some people are convinced it might be an open ending too because LLD in an interview said it can be HE or BE depending how people look at it.

People really forced a happy ending. 🤣 Good for us. There are some series where I like BE but this won't be one of those dramas.

Yup! She was conflicted BECAUSE she saw these shards as individual people but she also didn't want YQ to go back to his old position with expectation to always sacrifice himself for the great good. She wanted better for all of them.

Fun fact about Qing Heng in the novel:

The heaven realm didn't designate that Youqin had to be the one to marry. Like the void realm, they were just candidates. Meaning Qing Heng was also a candidate to marry Yetan. In the novel based on the spoilers I read, Qing Heng actually had a crush/liked Yetan too.

Yes! They broke a lot of the typical xianxia tropes and you don't feel like you need to scream at the characters to talk to each other just so they can have 10+ extra episodes of angst. Even when Yetan didn't tell the 3 shards right away the truth, the not speaking part then was justified in that moment because how can you tell these 3 shards with their own personalities and dreams that they are just shards and were meant to revive someone else? That angst and hesitation made sense and wasn't forced just to add in extra episodes.

Yes! Yetan is still passionate about wanting to learn and be educated. Youqin is in love but he remains alert/careful in front of his father because he knows his father is lowkey out to get him and he has to make sure Yetan's identity doesn't get exposed.

From the novel spoilers I have read under bilibili videos, YT couldn't trust YQ to fight the world for her. There was one scene where she stabbed him too apparently. She was proven wrong when YQ sacrificed himself to protect YT and revive QK. YT apparently didn't find this out until later on. QK and CF got their happy ending. Hence the title of this drama: 星落凝成糖

星落 = star falls = YQ falls/dies
凝成糖 = become sugar = 2nd CP got their happy ending

But apparently the author released an epilogue chapter recently and it was happy ending for YQ and YT too.

And at this point, the drama has changed several things already from the novel so can't really rely on the novel anymore to know the drama ending.

In my feels so I just want to write an appreciation post for Youqin and Yetan. I love them as a CP but I adore them as individual characters so much.

Youqin: For once, there is a normal male character in C-drama land. Youqin is someone who is sincere and kind and not just the typical cold male main lead. His character setting is supposed to be cold/unfeeling but he managed to give his character depth with the way he was hesitate with others touching him and not knowing the best words to say after being isolated for so long. At the same time, he is respectful to everyone. Even with the arranged marriage, his kindness shined through with not wanting to marry as he knows his partner would be a widow soon. Even the way he rescued Yetan in their first meeting was very respectful VS dramas usually using these rescue moment scenes to force romance by having the ML and FL hug/touch/accidentally kiss right away. In the beginning, he might be flabbergasted by Yetan's very existence and get miffed, but he would always reflect on himself if maybe he went too far with his annoyance. He would take the punishments meant for Yetan because at the end of the day, he knows Yetan didn't want to be in this position either as his marriage partner so he tried his best to make it up to her in anyway possible. He is a thoughtful character that put the world and his family before himself and hid away his own fear because he was not only raised to be a hero but he was also born one in terms of his personality and temperament. Another great thing about Youqin that C-netizens have been praising him for that I also agree with, he got a mouth LOL. Meaning instead of letting misunderstandings build up, he went to Yetan right after pretending to forget whatever happened in the human realm to explain why he did what he did and that he loves her. It is just so nice to see a male lead character who has such depth and is straightforward with his affection. HE is someone who actual men should strive to be like.

Yetan: Underneath her mischievousness lies her desire to be accepted, tons of love to give, desire for knowledge, and open-mindedness. I am so happy LLD played this role because I think Yetan is a character that many actresses could had accidentally played into the typical FL trope of "tomboy who is disrespectful to everyone for the greater good". Her mischievousness were never to show "oh she is so different from other female characters so that makes her so special". Her mischievousness had reason and logic. For example, she ate the cow to steal the pass to go meet Qing Kui. And despite her childhood, Yetan stayed strong enough to not let her past twisted her into someone resentful when she had all the rights to. She was able to see Qing Kui not as the enemy/rival in their father's affection but a sister who loves her. This is something very hard to do because it takes a lot of vulnerability/strength to be able to accept your sister was loved more but you can also love that same sister because that sister wasn't at fault. Because of the discrimination Yetan faced since she was young, she became someone who is able to look past others' surface levels. She didn't want to marry Youqin but could acknowledge that he is a good person who cared about the world more than his own self. She is fierce in her love for those she cares about like Qing Kui but is also willing to apology when Man Man scolded her for not being more sensitive about Qing Kui's heartbreak.

Both are characters that continue to grow not just as individuals but as partners together. They found not only love in each other but someone who can actually see who they are underneath it all. I just love slow burn romances like theirs because they didn't /change/ because of each other, both characters were already good people, but they /influenced/ each other to be even better, to be more open, to love, and to live outside of people's expectations for them. 💕

No problem! 🤗

Yes! CXX and LLD in an interview mentioned that a lot of the funny moments in the beginning of the drama that seems out of nowhere are actually double meaning/important and ties into moments later in the drama. There are no coincidences.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yup! ZXC also has a drama right now too so it was an attempt of one stone on two birds 💀 Anytime a drama with a CP starts getting popular, dating rumors follow to break up drama CP to make them lose popularity. Just sad that irl dating even has an impact on CPs in dramas just because of the shipping culture in C-ent.