**Spoilers Ahead
Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities 镜双城 starring Li Yifeng and Yukee Chen has wrapped this week for its Tencent VIP subscribers. The show premiered to lots of criticisms from the acting to the main couple’s chemistry, but it looks like even the show’s ending left a great deal to be desired.
Fans of the novel pointed out that the drama adaptation already took a lot of liberties when it changed the story from author Cang Yue’s original work. Throw that in with the poor editing, viewers say the finale was even harder to follow. To be fair, both the book and the drama does end with the main character dying, but with the amount of changes made by the show’s scriptwriters, some are saying they might as well have changed that too!
Now as for the show’s ending, let’s just say that it wasn’t the reunion with Bai Ying that many had hoped it would be. Yes, the sea king’s mission was finally completed. But with everything that Su Mo (Li Yifeng’s character) had been through, many feel that the least the show’s scriptwriters could’ve done was to give him the chance to be happy in the end which he richly deserved. Yet he still chose to sacrifice himself when the dragon god came to bring him home to protect Bai Ying.
And why is it that it’s only his story that didn’t get that happy ending whilst the rest got theirs?
“King” of Tragic Endings?
After this latest heartbreak, Netizens actually reminisced on how the endings of Li Yifeng’s last three historical fantasy dramas all ended in tears. In 2016’s Legend of Chusen 青云志, Li Yifeng’s Zhang Xiaofan was forced to endure heartbreak after heartbreak starting from his entire village being slaughtered to how his beloved Bi Yao (Zhao Liying) willingly sacrificed herself in order to save him. In his 2014 drama Swords of Legends 古剑奇谭 Li Yifeng’s Bai Li Tu Su was able to defeat Shao Gong, but at the expense of his life. His fight to the death against Shao Gong left his strength and energy so depleted that he died in Qing Xue’s (Yang Mi) arms. In the end, Qing Xue was left all alone to make her way into the world. And now, we also have Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities to add into this heart-rending mix.
Sad right? I wonder how his next costumed drama will pan out. Hopefully the next one will take a happier turn for his character.
Dominique
White hair and dying. I cbf with those types of ending now.
Thoughtful
Badly edited drama. I loved the main actors and the acting. Li Yifeng is a compelling actor in whatever he does. But the pacing and editing didn’t do the drama any justice; with secondary and tertiary characters getting more screen time and closure at the expense of the main leads and a badly rushed ending. Would it have cost the production to tack in a few extra episodes to end the drama properly? I feel cheated as I watched and rooted for the entire drama only to be completely dissatisfied by the ending😩
Anon
Mirror is just a crap drama in almost every way. As for LYF, I think it is high time that he breaks out of his comfort zone and improve his acting skills. In every drama, whether costume, republican or modern, he was just LYF; the characters he played were totally forgettable.
Anon
I don’t mind any crap as long as nobody uses water army to attack hard for 100% good feedbacks and ratings. Crappier things than this does that, it’s so obnoxious!
Notyourbusiness
You are just a crappy ugly deprived immoral person.
Daniela Prandini
I haven,t seen the last episode yet, but i like it. LYF is a good actor.
Xiao Lin Fei Dao
Mirror Twin Cities: My interpretion of the ending part
Most people would think the ending is hella rushed and I totally agree. I think it’s due to their new regulations of being capped around 40 episodes.
*SPOILER ALERT BELOW!!!*
Su Mo appeared towards the end without explaining much and left many viewers confused 😵💫. How I interpret the ending is he appeared because of the pendant contains half of his soul/spirit/energy which he gifted her in the earlier episode. Before Su Mo died, he requested that his soul should be distributed all over Mirror Cities and the sea to bless the world. Bai Ying was travelling all everywhere towards the end, and the pendant will therefore collect all the scattered pieces of his soul. Finally the ending, at the sea scene, we can see the pendant glowing and Su Mo then appeared. This means that the pendant collected all pieces of his soul and finally brought him back. Therefore he appeared after 3 years and then the happy ending 🥰❤
Xiao Lin Fei Dao
Finished the drama Mirror Twin Cities. Wish there were more eps 🥲
Overall, Mirror Twin Cities is a super good drama series. The cast, plot, costumes, graphics and cool sceneries are all great! Love the main characters! Su Mo is so cool 😎
Have not seen such good wuxia/fantasy drama since Legend of Chusen! I would rate this series 9/10. If it wasn’t for the ending part, it would have been 10/10!!
Daniela Prandini
I agree.
ZhiDuu
Why those he look so much like Deng lun !!
ds acting was so bad ,specially the female lead ,let alone the plot itself , i can't believe someone was paid th write this cheap crap
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Hunter2020
Trash drama. It’s 2022 and I cant believe theyre using the same cheap CGI effects as Three Lives Three Worlds.
Lorie Johnson
The show was ok. More overly, Li Yi Feng is a very good actor, and he deserves a good movie to star in.
I wanted a happy ending for sumo. This is just not right I am so sad
I wanted a happy ending for sumo. This is just not right I am so sad. The translation to English was really bad. There were so many errors in wording and spelling but I guess they did their best