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ITS OBVIOUSLY A HAPPY ENDING. WHY?

I know that many people are really dissatisfied with this drama’s ending. I personally thought the writer trying to be creative with her ending but kind of backfired as many people got confuse with the game concepts and thought that the bug cycle was repeating themselves over and over again now that Jin Woo is still stuck in the game.

On the surface, the drama ended with a bittersweet note with a glimmer of hope at the end. However, after a second viewing, I have to admit that it is after all a clear cut happy ending. I realised many small details that the writer gave to us – that it was clear that despite the ending is ambiguous, the writer aimed for a happy end to both of our main leads. First of all, lets clear the confusion regarding the concept of the game world.

1. At first, I thought that Emma, while one of her features is to delete bugs, is a bug itself as she’s the reason why the game world and the reality world collide when Marco stabbed Se Joo with real knife. I mean, if she’s not there, the whole mess of the game become real wouldn’t happen as Se Joo will just bleed after the stab and probably recover after he go to the hospital. Jin Woo wouldn’t be in that mess and the only one suffers is only Se Joo with the stab wounds on his stomach.

2. Marco is Se Joo’s bug thus he do not need to be deleted for Jin Woo to reset the game. Bear in mind that Se Joo is the one who create this game and he set the rules. Among the rules are those who gave Fatima the Key to Heaven will win the game and become the new Master. And he also put one of Emma’ s features is to delete bugs and once bugs are deleted, the game will reset. And that is exactly what Jin Woo did; level up, get the key, kill the bugs and hand over the key to Emma and Emma reset the game.

3. Jin Woo made sure he killed all of the bugs and also sacrificing himself in the process to end the game’s sinister elements. Since he already do this and reset the game to zero, there are no more evil cycle of one has to sacrifice themselves to save the others. Once Emma reset everything, it is a new game without bugs/errors/glitch. J One lost all the data and build the game back from scratch that is why it took them another 1 year to release the new game as they have to rebuild everything. The good thing about the whole thing is that is game is finally safe to be played unlike Se Joo’s original game which mix game world and the real world. The writer made it clear that the evil part of the game was buried once and for all when Jin Woo sacrificing himself at the end.

4. It was obvious that Yang Ju finally delete Emma from the new game when we hear that he regretted of keeping Emma where Emma in the end reset the whole game and delete all their hard work for the past 1 year. So no Emma, no more glitch in the game. There is no more Emma so the features of her to delete bugs and reset back the game is no longer there as well.

5. Regarding whether Hee Joo can see Jin Woo or not, she can see him as she is wearing lenses. All game users can see Jin Woo if he made an appearance that is why the guy at the restaurant insisted that Jin Woo is not NPC but an advanced user. ‘Instant Dungeon’ is to make one become invisible from the enemies and hide themselves. Se Joo did hide himself for 1 year as Marco is there to hunt him so he keep using the instant dungeon feature to remain safe. Jin Woo in the other hand just use the feature to save himself from getting deleted by Emma. So if he didnt use the instant dungeon feature, other game users can see him. The problem is getting him out of the game and I believe that is Se Joo task to do that.

And now the for ending, the writer purposely tell us about the 'Instant Dungeon’ and how a user can use it to hide themselves. And later at the end, it is shown that Jin Woo after all did use that feature to save himself. But why is he helping in killing low-level NPCs for other game users just days after the game was released? It is not actually a 'Master’ task to do that and he knew the game is now free from bugs and no one is getting killed for real. But he did it anyway. Why? He did that as a call of help to alert everyone that he is after all still alive but somehow still stuck in the game. He clearly let them know that he is still alive by helping the other game users. Now that Hee Joo knew that he is alive and hidden, it is only a matter of time for him to be saved just like how he saved Se Joo the year earlier. So, technically, it is only a matter of time before he can get his happy ending.

I am pretty much disappointed with the ending but upon second viewing, it wasn’t really that bad like I initially felt. The writer for surely aimed for a happy end, it just that, its not in-your-face type of ending like other dramas.

It seemed that many people are mad with the ending and seemed to confuse with the game concepts. Here are the explanation:

Explanation to those who has watch the drama on why the Emperor is not weak:

Unlike everyone, I still feel he is wise and intelligent king who sees the bigger picture (like Guo Jia). Of course, I would want him to be tough a bit like killing Cao Pi but I personally feel he didn't bribe the enemy or barter his kingdom or giving his lands as collateral. He just simply compromise and manipulate his opponents' greedy for power nature. Just look at everytime he compromise with Cao Cao. He always give him something but he received something bigger in return. For an example when he asked Cao Cao of truce for the first time by giving him the 'Chancellor' title, he got his first 6 months rest without conflicts and at the same time use Cao Cao's army to pacify the nation at the south area. At the same time, he managed to save the whole Sima family and put Zhong Da in Ministry of Works. Cao Cao is still powerful with or without the 'Chancellor' title but by simply giving him what he want and satisfy his lust for power, the Emperor got to exchange many things in return. What a clever negotiation imo.

The same thing happened when the Emperor still offering his truce after Tang Ying's death. Killing Cao Cao is never the answer since his army will split and different warlords will be born to avenge his death. The killing cycle will never stop and the peace that they have been trying to achieve for the past 10 years will be for nothing. The central plain will be in chaos again. The Emperor just simply ask Cao Cao to move to Ye City and continue to fight the south area. By simply giving Cao Cao Ye City, the Emperor in return got to save Sima Yi, use Cao Cao to pacify the south part of the country, took over the capital without Cao Cao's watchful eyes, stop being a puppet Emperor to anyone, move Cao Cao's army away from the Capital, build his own army in the capital and slowly grow his power and influence among the people. It was a brilliant negotiation! He just give one city to his enemy and yet he managed to score other advantages in return.

The Emperor didnt give up his throne because of love for the Empress but because of his people. He didnt want his people to go to war just because he wants to hold on to his position. He values peace and going to war will destroy everything that he has worked on for the past 20 years -- the country will be scattered again and the unification of the country will be put into halt.

I understand your concern but relationship between sister in law and brother in law are permitted if he/she no longer married to your brother/sister or had died. It is not a taboo relationship because you are not related by blood and the relationship ended when you are dead or no longer married.

I personally feel that the Emperor is a wise and intelligent king who sees the bigger picture (like Guo Jia). Of course, I would want him to be tough a bit like killing Cao Pi (lol) but I personally feel he didn't bribe the enemy or barter his kingdom or giving his lands as collateral. He just simply compromise and manipulate his opponents' greedy for power nature. Just look at everytime he compromise with Cao Cao. He always give him something but he received something bigger in return. For an example when he asked Cao Cao of truce for the first time by giving him the 'Chancellor' title, he got his first 6 months rest without conflicts and at the same time use Cao Cao's army to pacify the nation at the south. At the same time, he managed to save the whole Sima family and put Zhong Da at Ministry of Works. Cao Cao is still powerful with or without the 'Chancellor' title but by simply giving him what he want and satisfy his lust for power, the Emperor got to exchange many things in return. What a clever negotiation imo.

The same thing happened when the Emperor still offering his truce after Tang Ying's death. Killing Cao Cao is never the answer since his army will split and different warlords will be born to avenge his death. The killing cycle will never stop and the peace that they have been trying to achieve for the past 10 years will be for nothing. The central plain will be in chaos again. The Emperor just simply ask Cao Cao to move to Ye City and continue to fight the south area. By simply giving Cao Cao Ye City, the Emperor in return got to save Sima Yi, use Cao Cao to pacify the south part of the country, took over the capital without Cao Cao's watchful eyes, stop being a puppet Emperor to anyone, move Cao Cao's army away from the Capital, build his own army in the capital and slowly grow his power and influence among the people. It was a brilliant negotiation! He just give one city to his enemy and yet he managed to score other advantages in return. :)

Its not a taboo relationship as the brother already dead. The Empress is free to marry anyone she likes (not sure how it worked in Han dynasty though). Plus, the writer did their relationship tastefully like the Emperor resist the Empress many times before they truly fall in love with each other. It was a rather beautiful love story. I usually didnt like overly romantic relationship in serious drama but the writer put enough dosage of it -- not too many nor too little.

The brother is already dead and in real world, you are free to marry your sister-in-law if she is no longer married to your brother. Its not a taboo relationship as they are not related by blood. In-law relationship ended with death/divorce.

I feel sad that many people in general didn't get the brilliance behind the Emperor's benevolent decisions. He win battles with wit and intelligent but many viewers prefers him to be a ruthless king that take lives. Viewers keep wanting him to take lives but taking one person live will escalate to something even bigger but they failed to see that. Like Guo Jia said, 'A wise ruler is not the one who kill powerful subjects but to work with them to pacify the nation.' And that is what exactly the Emperor did.

They failed to see that many times his kindness save them from enemies' traps and never once he was caught red-handed by the enemies. Everytime when he compromised with his enemies, he got more advantages in return -- just by giving something small, he achieved something bigger in return. He won the hearts of his enemies and supporters and they call him a great and a wise king for a reason. He strike fears in the heart of his enemies just by being kind -- I find it really brilliant how his kindness is the reason why he managed to turn around the weak Han Imperial Family name into something that the people respect and love.