When fans and viewers saw Zhilian and Zhixi, formerly known as Wufu, say those words, they had a bad feeling.

When Zhi Lian returned half of the jade pendant to her master, saying she was going to help her senior brother, the fans and viewers panicked.

When the fans and viewers saw that Senior Brother Zhiheng received a letter from his master and replied that his junior sister had not arrived, they couldn't sit still.

The comments section was in complete chaos.

"No, what's going on? I'm so worried! Someone tell me that Chiren will be alright."

"Don't torture me! Don't torture me! I'll cry myself to death!"

"Where did Zhilian go! How is she! Tell me quickly, I'm so worried."

"Please, my darling Zhilian, don't get hurt. What will Shizun do if something happens to you? He hasn't even had a chance to tell you he likes you yet."

"I'm about to cry, I'm really crying!"

Zhi Lian finally appeared. In the video, she no longer had her usual charming aura, and the smile on her face had disappeared, replaced by solemnity.

As a barrage of comments shouting "Zhi Lian, no!" flashed by, a single tear slid down the corner of the girl's eye. She softly murmured, "Master, A Lian is in pain." Then she vanished in a flash of light, leaving behind only a stone. It began to absorb spiritual energy to temper itself, and eventually, it mended the hole in the sky.

There was a brief pause in the comments section, after which the number of comments surged dramatically.

"I should have realized it sooner. Zhi Lian has an extraordinary talent for cultivation and can use the power of heaven and earth for her own purposes. There is a colorful spirit stone in the spirit pool. Now that I think about it, isn't it the incarnation of the Sky-Mending Stone!"

"I just remembered that Zhixi had told Zhilian some legends about the mortal world before. When she got to the part about Nuwa mending the sky with stones, Zhilian suddenly said she was sleepy and didn't want to listen anymore."

"Screenwriter, I'm sending you razor blades, my dear Zhilian darling!"

"I really coughed up blood! Master, what should I do! Tell me, Master, what should I do?!"

"Saving the world is the responsibility of the Stone that mended the heavens, but as Zhi Lian, she should have stayed with her master. Her master was planning to take out the jar of peach blossom wine that they buried together on her birthday in three days to express his feelings to her!"

The comments section was filled with cries of anguish, but the truly heartbreaking part was yet to come. They saw the withered peach tree in Zhilian's courtyard, saw their master alone digging out the peach blossom wine from beneath the tree, saw Zhilian accusing their master of drinking, saw the peach blossom wine fall to the ground, spilling everywhere, then saw Zhilian's figure disappear, saw their master close his eyes, tears streaming down his face, his once upright body now swaying precariously...

"Clang." The jade pendant hidden in the sleeve fell to the ground. The two halves rolled to different places, lying quietly on the ground a short distance apart, as if the two people would never meet again.

"I can't see the screen anymore, I'm really crying my eyes out."

"Why do you have to do this? Zhilian, come back to me! Let's not care about the world anymore, okay?"

"Master's heart is truly broken; his A-Lian will never come back..."

Soon, amidst cries of grief, the news of #ZhiLianDie# trended on social media. Some netizens captured the final scene where the master saw ZhiLian's phantom alone, paired with a sad background music, which moved many viewers who hadn't watched the series to tears.

Many people went to Ye Chu's Weibo and learned that the girl who played Zhi Lian's real name was Ye Chu.

"The acting was so good, I cried buckets while watching the drama."

"My mom just finished watching a TV series and came to check on my precious daughter to make sure she's alright."

"The female fans were heartbroken because of their master. It was so painful."

"Is Chu Chu still filming on set? Is everything alright? I rushed here to check after seeing the news, I was so worried and scared, sob sob."

Ye Chu was unaware of what was happening on Weibo. She was preparing for her final scene tomorrow, and Gu Yu was with her in the tent as they practiced.

"Don't let your eyes only show sadness," Gu Yu reminded her. "Yu Ji is a strong, decisive person with her own pride. Even if such a person chooses to commit suicide, she should be neither humble nor arrogant. She has followed Xiang Yu for many years and is no longer the same person who didn't understand the situation. Perhaps she had prepared for her death even earlier."

Holding her long sword, Ye Chu sighed after a long while and asked, "I can't understand why Yu Ji would commit suicide? Did she really feel there was no hope left?"

"That's a good question, young lady." The actor playing Fan Zeng walked in carrying a bright red kettle of hot water. Without even looking at Gu Yu, he asked Ye Chu, "What do you think of Liu Bang as a person?"

Ye Chu pondered for a long time, and finally shook her head helplessly.

"There are only a few words about Yu Ji in history, so if you only think about what Yu Ji was like, you won't be able to act anything." He put the bright red kettle on the table next to him, patted his bottom, and sat down in the chair.

"Liu Bang was no gentleman; he was a street urchin. But undeniably, he was good at recognizing and utilizing talent, which is why so many talented people flocked to him. But old habits die hard. What man isn't lustful? Not to mention that it was an era of male dominance and polygamy. After conquering a city, Liu Bang would inevitably indulge in singing and dancing, and when he encountered a young and beautiful woman, he didn't care whether she was married or not."

"Based on the various aspects that history can provide, you can have many conjectures. Everyone's conjectures are different, so these historical figures will look different in your mind. Liu Bang was Xiang Yu's sworn brother. When Xiang Yu captured Liu Bang's parents and wife, he didn't boil them alive. If he had entrusted Yu Ji to Liu Bang, Liu Bang would have had no choice but to comply out of consideration for their relationship."

"But could Liu Bang really not have any feelings for Yu Ji?" Ye Chu shuddered as she listened, only to hear the other person continue, "Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, could he tolerate his beloved beauty being taken by another?"

No, it's not possible.

Ye Chu thought to herself that the proud and arrogant Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, would not be willing to endure such humiliation. Therefore, Yu Ji's suicide was not only due to the fact that this intelligent beauty understood and made her choice, but also partly due to the coercion she received from Xiang Yu.

The Han army swept across the land, and the songs of Chu echoed from all sides. Xiang Yu asked her, "Yu Xi, Yu Xi, what can we do?" What could Yu Ji do? Having followed Xiang Yu for so many years, did she not know his arrogance? She knew. Did she not know what she was about to face? She knew. Not only did she know, but the person before her knew as well.

So Xiang Yu asked, "Yu Ji, what do you want to do?" What could Yu Ji do? She couldn't break through the encirclement, nor did she want to suffer that humiliation, so she could only choose how to die. So she stopped dancing, drew her sword, and committed suicide.

"Thank you, senior." Gu Yu, who had been listening from the side, spoke up. The other party shook his head, got up, picked up his bright red thermos, and walked out. Before leaving the tent, he couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, these are chaotic times."

As soon as the other party left the tent, Ye Chu could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes. She could only let them slide down her cheeks, fall to the ground, and quickly seep into the soil.