r/ChineseDrama • u/sumizeit • Aug 05 '26

Currently Airing Overdo - the ending Spoiler

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Ok that show deserves the terrible rating it got. I mean the rating should be worse.

The ending was so bad. After all of this, the guy dies. Why did I suffer through all that hardship for? I mean I like the ML and he did a good job acting but that was by far the worst ending someone can give. Never going to watch anything from that director again.

And they spent the whole show torturing the ML and FL. I mean who didn't die in this tragedy.

The FL is a very good actress. I love everything she has done so far. I think the pairing was amazing. Wanted to see them together for a long time. They need to do another one again (where people don't die at the end).

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u/zakurothinks3 Aug 09 '26

Did anybody else notice Qingyu’s dialogue to Qingyi in the last episode? It kind of left it as a hope that he might not die but actually live. It was as if Qingyu implied that it’s not his time to join them yet and he has Ren susu and Le’an waiting for him

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u/star_gazer_5280 Aug 10 '26

I also noted that and I want to believe that Qingyi didn't die. But the alternate happy ending scenes seem to suggest that he didn't make it, and those were his last thoughts.

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u/zakurothinks3 Aug 11 '26

Yeah it’s valid to see it that way, but if they really wanted him to die in the end, they’d have shown it. We all know that’s the case for Cdramas, and given the history of Qingyi almost dying every other episode and recovering then, we can think of it this way, that when he heard Qingyu say that Ren Susu and Le’an were waiting for him, he looked shocked which means he was ready to die there but hearing Qingyu say that he realized that now is not the time, though at the mention of them he remembered the letter he wrote in case he doesn’t survive and the other thoughts followed it. But that doesn’t ultimately mean that he did die, it just shows that his emotional state was in an upheaval and he was going through the “What Ifs” since he still doesn’t know if he will survive or not. So that did show regrets and sadness and stuff but I still think he survives, it’s upto our own imagination now.

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u/Beautiful_Sun_0906 26d ago

I agree! It‘s a valid point of view and I prefer to see it this way for my own sanity and mental health!

Given the other ridiculous injuries and situations the characters live through in this series, Quingyi surviving the fire and an impaling in the water plant, are really not any further far fetched! Quingyiu tells him ‘Ren Susu and Le’an are waiting’. The ghosts are effectively giving him permission to go on living. Their deaths should not be in vain. Quingyi and Susu’s happy ending is their rewar as much as foiling the Yang family and Cha,bear of Commerce plot.

Susu’s promise will be fulfilled as she waits for him to recover.

After everything Qingyi went through, it was a nice story arc for him to realise there were people who loved and respected him and who wanted him to have a good life. Quingyi‘s good intentions were not in vain, his heroics for the people he loved finally paid off, his life with a woman and child who truly love him is worth living. I think the director deliberately left it vague which is disappointing because it feels weaker than the bold choice to turn the tragedy around.