In the days following the departures of Liu Zhilin and Huo Wan'er, the trending topics were filled with people crying.
Viewers who have followed the series and watched them journey ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ together have developed a fondness for these vivid characters and hoped the story would give them a happy ending. However, the final story turned out to be disappointing.
The most painful thing about this place is that Liu Zhilin and Huo Wan'er are not bad people. In fact, they have been following Song Chenye all the way, doing good deeds and fighting evil. Their nature is not bad. In fact, due to their good family education, they have formed a correct worldview.
Ironically, the grudges of the previous generation destined one of them to live and the other to die.
【Waaaaah, why! Liu Zhilin is dead, and Wan'er is dead too! I'm so devastated!】
【Scam! This is blatant fraud! What happened to the promised happy ending? I'm asking you, where is the promised happy ending?】
【I'm truly speechless at your nonsense! Who said it was a happy ending? Come out here! Get the screenwriter to rewrite the script immediately, and everyone has to reshoot!】
【That's what Yuan Sitong said... If Huo Wan'er hadn't died tonight, I would have gone to settle accounts with Yuan Sitong today.】
【Song Chenye has avenged his great enemy, isn't that a happy ending enough?】
【Is it possible that when Yuan Sitong said "happy ending," she meant Song Chenye had a good ending? After all, you didn't ask who had a happy ending in the first place, so the final ending will definitely be Song Chenye successfully taking revenge, then retiring from the martial arts world, fulfilling his purpose of leaving the mountain! Isn't that a happy ending?】
【Huh? Oh my god, so we were all fooled! Waaah, that's not what I meant by "happy ending"! (I'm devastated!)】
【And what's most despairing is that even though Song Chenye killed them, I can't hate him at all. I even think he's quite tragic. For revenge, he lost his brothers and his confidants. In the end, on this path of revenge, he's the only one left to walk.】
【It's truly heartbreaking. From anyone's perspective, this is an unsolvable problem. I cried the day Liu Zhi died, and I've been crying ever since. Now Huo Wan'er is dead, and my eyes are swollen from crying.】
【From Liu Zhilin's perspective, he knew he couldn't stop Song Chenye, so he chose to trade his life for Song's. When the sword broke, he didn't dodge, letting Song Chenye kill him. From Song Chenye's perspective, he broke with his brother but never intended to actually kill him. An unexpected event occurred, and his brother didn't dodge, so he ultimately killed him...】
【Huo Wan'er's story is also very tragic! Originally, she wanted to keep Song Chenye, and even drank the same cup of wine with him. But the medicine was switched, Song Chenye was ambushed, and she never told Song Chenye her feelings until she died. In Song Chenye's eyes, Huo Wan'er betrayed him and conspired with others to kill him...】
【Stop talking, stop talking! I'm really going to send the screenwriter a knife! My heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys are all aching from all this torture!】
【The greatest charm of "The Legend of the Wind" lies in the fact that even though the plot may be somewhat clichéd and many people have already guessed the ending, everyone still stubbornly watched until the end and was able to empathize with all the characters.】
【That's so true! In the beginning, Song Chenye was ruthless and single-minded in his revenge, which I enjoyed as a fast-paced, action-packed story. It was so satisfying to watch him kill his way through! But then he killed them all in the end, and I was unhappy. I cried while reading! Why is that?!】
【So the name "The Chronicles of Chasing the Wind" truly only represents Chasing the Wind himself, right?】
Wow, you found the key point!
When viewers then looked at the title of the TV series again, they suddenly understood.
What a masterpiece, "The Chronicles of Wind Chaser"! It leaves the protagonist with nothing but a name!
—Director, you wouldn't do that, would you?
The audience members wore deathly smiles.
Seeing this, Director Deng wiped his forehead and said, "These days, audiences shouldn't be so easily angered—I think I'll stay home more these next few days."
To avoid him being afraid of being mobbed by fans of the show when he goes out.
Meanwhile, Zhao Qinyuan and Yuan Sitong are reaping a lot of heartbroken drama fans, while also giving their own fans a good dose of torture, with their fan counts on various platforms skyrocketing.
As for the lead actor Xiao He, he is naturally the actor who attracts the most fans. However, because he was filming on set, he was not as active in promoting the drama as Yuan Sitong and Zhao Qinyuan, and he did not appear in public very often.
However, whenever Xiao He attends a promotional event or live stream, his popularity and traffic are absolutely the highest.
When the series officially concluded in early September, Xiao He's popularity reached its recent peak.
When viewers saw Song Chenye finally reveal the truth about the Song family's destruction in public, and kill all his enemies under the siege of multiple parties before leaving triumphantly, they could only describe it as "satisfying".
In the end, Song Chenye realized that his recent headaches might have made him a target for some people, so he decided to temporarily retire from the martial world and return to the mountains to continue his cultivation.
He wrapped his Xianyun Sword again and embarked on his journey home.
I remember when he went down the mountain, he used the alias "Chasing the Wind" and was also carrying the Idle Cloud Sword.
This sword witnessed the rise and fall of the Song family, as well as Song Chenye's final revenge. In the end, just as it had come, it disappeared into the black shadows, low-key and reserved, silently accompanying its young master.
They remained as low-key and silent as when they arrived.
"The fallen leaves drift away with the wind, while the idle clouds share this life."
The wishes that Song Chenye's parents had for her back then have finally come true at this moment.
The direction they were heading in after that was freedom.
...
Although the later plot of "The Legend of the Wind" clearly leaned towards a heavy tone, with many important characters leaving the show one after another, Song Chenye really had a lot of personal charm, still retaining most of the audience and leading everyone to the final ending of the story.
His journey has been filled with bloodshed and hardship, and he has also experienced emotional struggles and mental torment. However, he is still himself, the last patriarch of the Song family, a chivalrous knight-errant wielding the Xianyun Sword, Song Chenye.
"The Legend of Chasing the Wind" is a very old story system. The protagonist is burdened with a blood feud, brothers and confidants with different stances, investigate the past along the way, do good deeds, and finally even participate in the martial arts alliance leader competition to compete with heroes from all over the world... This is a very pure old-school martial arts style. It is old wine in new bottles, but it is still unforgettable.
Amidst the grudges and entanglements of love and hate in the martial arts world, Song Chenye's stance has never wavered. He is righteous, kind, and discerning, possessing both a compassionate heart and ruthless methods. He is a rare, purely righteous protagonist in the present day, and not even a seemingly innocent but actually wicked character.
Oh, of course, fans of the show call this "righteousness turning into evil".
After all, he was someone who could kill so many people in the martial arts world, both the righteous and the villainous, that they all respectfully called him "Great Hero." His strength goes without saying.
However, when fans accompanied Song Chenye all the way to the end and watched him retire from the martial arts world and return to the mountains, they were heartbroken once again.
Even though everything is over, and the story is relatively complete for Song Chenye—his mission is over and a new life is about to begin—the ending still carries a faint melancholy that leaves one feeling utterly heartbroken.
