First of all, I don't believe the ending from a character perspective. At this point in the story, Jingnu and Qi Yan have gone through a lot a lot. Frankly, I would argue a lot of what happened beforehand was worse than what kicked off the ending. I simply do not really believe that it makes sense for Qi Yan to run away to that extent especially when Jingnu gives both strong reasoning for why she's doing what she is from a political perspective (which, as a reminder, is essentially for survival considering how they're still in the relatively tumultuous and politically unstable period after a new emperor, a female one at that, rises) and gives a plan for how they can be punished after the political situation calms down. That's a lot more than can be said for a lot of the earlier conflicts.

I understand that the idea is that now that she's accomplished her revenge and Jingnu is in a position of power, Qi Yan is a lot freer to leave. However, clearly she doesn't consider herself as having fully accomplished her revenge, otherwise this conflict wouldn't exist in the first place. Add in how much the previous conflicts have left both of them reflecting on how much pain and suffering it took to finally be together, and I just don't believe Qi Yan's actions as a response.

Second, I dislike the ending from a morality/fairness perspective. This ending would make significantly more sense and even be in some specific ways cathartic if the story largely involved Qi Yan constantly making sacrifices for Jingnu. However, I would generally argue that over the course of the story, both of them made reasonably equal sacrifices and compromises for the other, and if anything I would argue that Jingnu compromised more for Qi Yan overall. (Feel free to take or dismiss this point as you please; I ended up with the feeling that Jingnu did more for Qi Yan over the whole duration of the book, but trying to justify it further would require the aforementioned reread that's not going to happen so if you feel differently that's fine.)

The counterargument that I can see involves the fact that Qi Yan lost more (her entire tribe and way of life) than Jingnu, but I disagree for two reasons. The first is that I would argue this isn't really relevant to the relationship directly between Qi Yan and Jingnu - if anything, Qi Yan reflects at several points that she's hurting Jingnu despite how Jingnu wasn't really responsible. The second, closely related, point is that I don't believe Qi Yan would hold that against Jingnu. Again, Qi Yan's internal monologue considers herself as hurting Jingnu for things that are not Jingnu's fault, and it was never really brought up even during earlier conflicts where Jingnu compromises because she feels that Qi Yan deserves vengeance. It's possible that Jingnu becoming the emperor makes things feel differently to Qi Yan, but frankly if this is the case I'm very unconvinced it's backed up enough by the actual text and starts to feel like making excuses for the plot instead of examining it.

Finally, I think this ending fails to provide a satisfying conclusion. If the goal was to write a tragedy, then write a tragedy. This ending is claimed to be a happy ending, but then even ignoring everything else, it fails from both a background and foreground plot view. In terms of background plot, the idea that Jingnu can just stop being the emperor and that Qi Yan finds some magical fake death pill does not feel adequately backed up.

In terms of foreground plot, there's quite a few issues. After a big melodramatic plot where both characters reflect multiple times that "it sure is nice that after all of this struggle and suffering we've finally managed to get together, this love really is worth holding onto", ideally a happy ending would provide moments of actual happiness for the characters; it's a reward, like how when a book writes a big political struggle it'd be pretty disappointing if the aftermath was relegated to one sentence at the end of a book, or if a big mystery ends with the criminal just getting away anyways or getting arrested offscreen. There's a reason Sherlock Holmes lays out all the little clues instead of just going "anyways I figured it out, dude's arrested, peace".

Another issue is that amnesia as an ending is almost always an awful idea. Introducing amnesia that isn't later reverted into a relationship naturally makes the relationship feel way more hollow. It strips out all of the complexities, the growing of feelings, the struggles and learning that makes a relationship, especially one as tumultuous and complicated as this one, special. The fact that it's implied "oh well maybe she'll get her memory back later" just makes it worse; at that point just write in her getting her memory back then.

Ultimately the ending feels extremely rushed, has very questionable setup, and even if you don't care about any of that, it more or less feels like it puts the actual happy ending x years down the line, and we just never actually get to see them talking over their problems, reuniting for real, living a life they enjoy, etc.

The FLI basically turns from naive manipulation target to badass schemer and female emperor. And the MC from revengeful malicius genius to still genius wife of the FLI with a well written inner conflict

One thing that annoyed me extreamly is the illness of the MC. The condition on her lungs is comletly fine, the "water condition" reflects a real medical condition after considerable lung damage through drowning. What was not okay was the effect on her brain, it was just so random, seemed to be a self insert from the auter had no actual effect on the story and was later just abandoned and forgotten. The "I got dementia now suddenly, without any reason" was so annoying and useless. However the story was so good that I continued reading.

The other thing I was slightly unhappy about was the ending, it should have been flashed out more. But maybe I got that feeling only because I had to wait for every new chapter, because at that point the story wasnt fully released. The auter also wants to add extras where this problem might be amended

the suffering just continues until the very dreary and sudden end. There was some Power Rangers villain behind everything the whole time who never really gets dealt with. Somehow despite not actually discussing what their last fight was about the miracle couple ends up together in retirement town, pretty much the same ending as FGEP. I dont know what happens in the extra chapters because quite frankly I'm not sure they deserve extra chapters in my mind.

when the northern tribes are attacking the luo river nobody in the Wei kingdom can think of a way to defend the river, so the MC has a flashback to when her father recalled the enemy having "sudden ice castles" and is inspired to freeze the river into walls. The enemy she took this from was the Wei kingdom. Nobody in the Wei kingdom including the general that had made that strategy in the past could think of this strategy? And to top all of that off the Masked Villain coincidentally had harvested like a few barrels of oil years ago that perfectly countered ice walls so there was no point for this entire sequence of events anyways.

For example, we get a cool side romance with Xiao-Die and Nangong Shunu, but we never find out how their story ends or check in on them during the finale. We know that NGSN's mother disapproves of their relationship, but it's not really resolved in any way, just brought up. And surely XD deserves to know that her sister is alive at the end?!

Qian Tong, for instance―we get this great setup with a servant who's incredibly loyal to Qi Yan and a cute scene of him fussing over her health, but there are so many opportunities for him to be around in a scene, talk to her, actually bond with her that just aren't taken until he needs to roll back around for more plot. Qi Yan adopts a new horse to replace the one she lost at the very beginning of the story, bonds with her, and then gives her away to Qian Tong to keep her safe, and likewise the horse is just never seen again. Bayin chooses to break things off with Qi Yan but feels conflicted about it, Jinwushu has inherited his grudge against the Wei kingdom but still wants to see his "father"... neither ever get mentioned again, and we only hear about the kingdoms being united sometime in the distant future, which makes all this division between the two virtually irrelevant.

And what happened to Jiya and her son? What happened to the main f*cking antagonist whose influence Qi Yan had been fighting against the entire story? The former princess just peaces out to the north of the Luo and never bothers anyone again? Are you kidding me?

there is a very weird plotline about this beautiful man called Liu Yuan, who tries to get Qi Yan to shield him because he's caught the attention of the gross, lecherous sixth prince. Qi Yan and Nangong Jingnu respond by discussing how he's such a terrible inconvenience to them, and take the attitude that he's got a chip on his shoulder about being good-looking even though he says it's caused him to be nearly assaulted and bullied a ton, which we even see some of! They even treat it like he's doing something wrong because he doesn't want to be r*ped and is desperate to avoid it. And then Qi Yan straight up delivers him to the man who wants to r*pe him, while we get a fairly graphic description of how he's delivered naked and unconscious in a sack, and the guards who deliver him to the prince mock and grope him while he's passed out. This is never resolved, and we don't even get to see him conscious again after he's r*ped. We never hear about what happened to him after that, at all, and both the narrative and Qi Yan seem to instantly forget about him. It might have worked if it felt like it was intended to show how low Qi Yan is willing to go for her goals, but instead it feels like the story thought this was completely fine.

The ending is rushed, disappointing, and almost exactly the same as the ending to her previous book, Female General and Eldest Princess - which I also found disappointing for the same reasons. As far as I'm concerned, 'and then they faked their death and ran away' is on the same level of rushed, sloppy writing as 'and then they woke up and it was all a dream'.

Nothing is said about the masked lady, who is still in the north; nothing is said about Qiyan Agula's loyal supporters, after her 'death' or after Jingnu disappears; the final two deaths are glossed over, brief and barely touched on, despite being so important to Qiyan. It was good, but it could have been better, and the early chapters hinted at a potential that the book did not, unfortunately, live up to.

but because they basically left the others alone. I mean Xiao-Die probably doesn't even know her sister is alive. And what about Yuxiao and her brother? Poor children. But it can be also said, that it's up to our imagination what happens after Qi Yan regains her memories.

Like when Qi Yan and Bayin severed their ties and both went their own way.