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He didn't force it, but the way that scene is shown it's implied. I do wish he'd also shown them all meeting each other, but ig it'd have been more complicated for some.

It's a meta on meta on meta ending. They are reading the story their friend Tong wrote based on their real life story. In this story the actors Zhen Xin and Gao Zhun acted out their story as we saw it. So it's like one of those shows where you see someone you thought was just a character become the real one, and who you thought were real aren't. So Zhen and Zhang aren't real according to this ending. But in the novel it's later revealed that they are all real people and they'll eventually meet Fang and Gao in the future.

No its the real couple FC and GZ who's story was adapted into the script ZX and ZZ were acting in. The book they were reading was about this story of ZX and ZZ acting in their story, so the actual story characters are ZX and ZZ all along! This is what the end end credits reveal in this series, but in the novel there's more to this.

Ofc I also loved all the characters here, all of them were iconic and that's what made me wish that they got more screen-time. The actress was annoying at first but her reaction was funny at the end 😂

Hi! I hope you watched both the end credits. Ofc the one you're talking about is the real Fang Chi and Gao Zhun. Ngl I was hoping for the finale to be one hour long, coz I wanted to see the resolution or atleast an honest conversation between Zhang Zhun and Xie Danyi. Zhang Zhun called for Zhen Xin, I don't remember him mentioning Fang chi outside? And there are a lot of theories about the ending, including the one from the novel, but I think the director wants us to make our own interpretations about who are the characters and who are the real people in this series.

This had a strong start, and the plot was intriguing, the acting, music, everything was really good. But I'm not satisfied with the ending, and they've changed many things from the novel which should've been included to make the 'revenge' part of it work better. Also the random bits they added to try to be funny didn't work for me. They took up an entire episode with Sky's trauma that didn't exist in the novel, when they should have used it to maybe really payback some of these villains one by one, but no they kept talking sh*t till the end. I was also hoping for a season 2 or something, since the pacing was off but ofc that didn't happen. So overall I feel like this could've been better.

This series shouldn't have been named Payback. And everyone praising this to the sky and beyond..you guys need to chill.

I'm happy finally someone mentioned this. Like can we be realistic and address how they flew over every major villain, it felt like they were randomly killed off.. the payback didn't feel like one?

I didn't read the book so Idk how it was, but here I was expecting 2 seasons from what everyone kept saying would happen, but it didn't which is disappointing. There were too many villains and they died too easily. The acting was definitely good, they did what they could with what they were given

Lol ig that's depends on perspective coz to me it felt like the director made it as smooth as possible! The aspect ratio changes whenever the movie starts in the series and sometimes its meant to be confusing so that we experience what the actors are experiencing themselves- being too deep in their roles that the character becomes part of who they are. And showing directions in between or rehearsals would take away from that immersive feeling which is the opposite of what they want to show.

They will be acting together in another project tho, under the same director!

It was Fang Chi and Gao hun, they were the OGs. And Zhen and Zhang had parallels with them but they weren't fully explored in the series, that's why I kinda wished the runtime for the finale was longer

The ending felt too anti-climatic.

Its supposed to feel like an original story for a reason. Did you watch all the end credits? Also in many of these chinese dramas, especially in the BL genre, there are no intimacy coordinators. I think some actors mentioned that, which might be a culture shock for many. There are also many weird ways they bond and build chemistry, this might be considered one of those.

Can you tell me what you understood from that ending? If there was something unclear about it or unexplained that you felt dissatisfied with? And whether you already knew the ending of the novel? This is just a question so please feel free to say whatever you want

How is it disappointing? You mean the ending?

If you really liked it please rate it well as the rating needs to go up

I'd have to do more research on those, but idk if its possible since these actors are quite well known and might be banned since this work has already been reviewed by NRTA and in the shelf for more than 5 years

Idk to me it seemed like they got it. Those asking here are only doing so after reading all the other comments, and if the ones reading the novel hadn't shared the ending mentioned there none of this would've happened. Not everyone will catch the frame changes during certain scenes so the end credit will only mean that the ones everyone thought were fake were actually real. That's all. Someone shared that the author herself retconned her work, so maybe that was originally the ending she was going for. The one shown in the drama. Should they have explored more of that? Yes, but they didn't and said something special (episode?) would be released later so lets wait for that.

They didn't. It hasn't been released in China. Do you think its possible? They can't tolerate even one kiss scene between men so something of this level would probably make them faint!

It wasn't his fiance but transactional gf