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Loved it🥰 this drama needs deeper lenses to view love. I guess different viewers watch a drama at varying points have different expectation. Most i would say love a HE desiring the last frame to be leads live happily and are reunited. Life is already so harsh so drama provides that platform of escape and hope 😅... this drama is on another lenses where it ends with sacrificial love at its peak. A paradox of an unloved, despised, abused man choosing to save the worlds by his one action - make LSS a goddess and him to die at her hands (coz that is the only way to eliminate dg). He knew LSS would not n could not kill him if he didnt orchestrate the last scene. So after this unfathomable sacrifice, viewers would still hope against hope to see a good outcome for TTJ - perhaps some might say his sacrifice is the best outcome coz it is what he desires for the worlds and true to his heart - he loved people despite what he suffered. Yet some would also hope, like me, that his desire to be with LSS will be met as well. Regardless, accepted it is what it is, still a perfect 10 for me🥰

Yes, this is a must watch show for everyone. I will recommend this to everyone till eternity. It is right up there in my all time favorite dramas list.

Exactly.
Like when i saw the ends i was outraged.
But my first interpretion of them was a happy open ending. Even all factors say its one. I don't know where this bad ending things came.

Between even if its a bad ending I WILL NEVER. NEVER. NEVER. REGRET WATCHING IT

NOR WILL I STOP RECOMMENDATING IT

Yes it definitely is an open to interpretation ending. I understand people's sentiments but I also feel it's unfair to just label it as a BE. There is a bigger message here.

THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO SAY.
THE ENDING SHOULD BE INTERPRETED BY THE VIEWER ITSELF.
For me it was a happy open eding.
For others it was a sad open ending.

I have full hope he would have been back. Its TTJ he won't go away just like that. Specially seeing how he has a wife and daughter now.

I just wish we have a small proper extra episode so that it puts an end to the debate of happy or sad open ending

My thoughts on the ending…

As I said earlier, I LOVED the finale. Yes it was bittersweet, yes it was painful but it was also BEAUTIFUL and POIGNANT. I thought I would be really sad and angry watching the finale but surprisingly, though I was sad, I wasn’t angry. I understood why they did, what they did. I understood TTJ’s sacrifice. TTJ loved LSS, but he also loved the world. LSS loved TTJ, but she also loved world. In the end, their love for all beings was greater than their love for each other. Their love was selfless.

I don’t think TTJ is gone forever, because I think it was only LSS who fully turned into a goddess. Even her phoenix form appeared when she transformed. TTJ became godlike but I don’t think he fully transformed into a god. So there is a chance he would still come back. LSS also promised she would say everything she wanted to say next time. He did leave his divine wisp in the shell, so he isn’t fully gone. And if he didn’t fully transform into a god, he can reincarnate.

And even if he did become god; I still don’t think he disappeared completely. Although they did say earlier they gods didn’t have souls, when LSS transformed, she did meet Chu Huang and others in another realm outside of the three realms. So there is a place like that where the gods still exists. Who is to say, TJJ won’t find a way to come back? Or LSS won’t find a way to reach that realm?

Another thing that really struck me is the inscriptions; YXW, beloved wife of TJJ and TJJ, the loving husband of LSS. TJJ was the LOVER and LSS was the BELOVED.

LYX and BL are truly legends who brought these characters to life. We already knew about the tombstone scene from before but during their farewell scene there was one part when I felt LYX and BL were truly crying and it wasn’t just acting. That’s how immersed they were in their characters.

Yes, the drama wasn’t flawless. It had some editing and technical issues. They had to cut down on episodes. But the team put their hearts and souls and it shows. This is an UNFORGETTABLE drama. I still would prefer an epilogue instead of just a voiceover by LYX and BL. They could have easily given us one and I don't understand why they didn't film an epilogue. I would also like to know what happened to YQY. Did Pian Ran come back? But still as a finale epi, it was grand and epic.

TTEOTM team, please take a bow.

Yesterday, I before watching the finale I was upset and said that wanted to give it a 100/10 but could only give a 10. I take my words back and I still give it a hundred on a personal scale.

I am sorry, but I think those who rated this drama low or gave it a 1 star didn’t understand the show at all. Not the dramas fault.

And yes, I would be rewatching it. I am ALREADY rewatching it.

Very well put. It indeed is a thought provoking show. Nothing was ever and black and white here and one needs to put themselves in each and every characters shoes to understand their actions.

Exactly.
It was something we needed in the crowd of drama where the ML becomes good from evil in a brink.
I love how they all were morally grey.
EVERYONE OF THEM.
May it be tantai jin, or Xiao lin.
May it be bingchang or li susu.

None of them were good.

Finally a refreshing, thought-provoking show that respects its adult audience (ML is not a goody two shoes/FL is not childish). I had a blast watching! Really appreciate how it introduces morally grey characters on the premise that regardless of your background, you are ultimately who you choose to be. YBC/TH manipulated people using honorable reputation. GYJW/SJ started as innocent but succumbed to desires. XL/MY abandoned their loved ones for peace. YQY/LSS did bad things for good causes. PR/SY sacrificed themselves despite being demons. And oof TTJ/CJM underwent such an immense development I can hardly think of a more complex character. He changed from being a vindictive, emotionless schemer to saving the world in a benevolent, selfless way.
I was getting tired of all the "love conquers all", "karma knows best" or "good vs. evil" tropes. Feelings are fleeting. Reality is unfair. And life is not always black and white.
Last but not least, unbeatable chemistry between the leads omg. 0 dead fish kisses. Too bad we lost some eps due to airing restrictions but definitely an iconic, creative xianxia!

THE ENDING SHOULD BE INTERPRETED BY THE VIEWER ITSELF.
For me it was a happy open eding.
For others it was a sad open ending.

To be on safe side lets call it a OPEN ENDING.

thanks to all mdl users for another enjoyable discussion experience, and thanks to the novel readers for helping to explain things. to those who didn’t like the drama or the ending, i hope you have better luck on another drama you are currently viewing or watch in the future.

1. The upbeat background music and LSS smiling while talking to her daughter at Mohe River
2. TTJ isn’t completely lost, a fragment of his soul is in the Heart Guarding Scale, and that fragment of soul is also smiling contently
3. The drama purposely choose to flash forward to 500 years instead of 1000 years like in the novel. Going by this LSS would still be in the process of collecting his souls, so it made sense at this point in time TTJ hadn’t reincarnated yet!

imo the the choice of timing and the bgm and the smile made my heart feel less heavy, that “yes some things will take time but it’s ok we’ll get there eventually”

Definitely one of the best dramas I've watched!!

Kinda hating how Youko Twitter is all about BFTB now. TTJ’s body ain’t even cold yet you heartless monsters 😭😭

Open Ending with hopeful note is fitting for this tragic story where characters have so many conflicting feelings, love and hate. Forgiveness and Revenge. Hope and Despair. For entire drama, writers balancing two different side of spectrum. If ending go extreme good or bad, it will ruined the entire message of the story.

Completely Happy ending will ruined it for me. Bad ending also will ruin it and make everything futile.