There are two ways you can interpret the ending: happy or horrific.

Happy endings are usually classified by whether the main characters get together in the end. By this metric, you can argue that Sissy has a happy ending. I see it a bit differently:

By the end of the novel, our main character finally has a sense of "family, " a lifelong commitment he can be secure with. Although he acknowledges that he was forced into these circumstances, he feels satisfied regardless.

The horrific side is that this ending represents class conflict, in which such a huge power dynamic between a couple inevitably means that one person may not be in a position to consent to anything. Any decisions made by the weaker person is just an illusion of choice created by their more powerful partner. Li Chengxiu's decision to give in to Shao Qun's persistence to settle for a "comfortable" life draws parallels to our own capitalist reality, in which the rich have the final say. The poor can scream, shout, and struggle all they want, but in the end, they are just goods to be bartered around among the rich. Here, Shao Qun's gaslighting has succeeded--and he has bound Li Chengxiu with him for life. Li Chengxiu himself has completely given in to the idea that he has no personal autonomy and is satisfied with letting others decide his path.

So, most of Li ChengXiu's suffering starts from when Shao Qun's group of friends find him and Shao Qun kissing on the rooftop when they both had gone to school together. Shao Qun panics after his friends sees him kissing a boy. No, even worse, a sissy. So, Shao Qun fled the scene, going abroad to avoid it.

I see a lot of people blame Shao Qun for this, but I think it's understandable that he did that. Being found out as gay by his homophobic friends is truly scary, and add to that the fact that most people at that time is homophobic, I understand why he fled, and while his actions indirectly caused suffering for Li ChengXiu, it's not exactly his fault.

Coming back to Li ChengXiu, after Shao Qun's friends found out about him and Shao Qun, they thought that our MC had somehow seduced him or something. So, they started ordering the people in their school to torture and bully him. One day, someone wrote a fake letter to Li Chengxiu, disguising as Shao Qun to make him wait after school. Unknowingly, this prank will absolutely ruin Li ChengXiu's life and future.

Because, when waiting for this fake Shao Qun, Li ChengXiu had fallen asleep and woke up at night when the school had already been closed. Scared, Li ChengXiu went to the school's locked entrance to call for help. Luckily, or maybe unluckily, a security guard heard him and opened the entrance for him. The security guard invited him to ride on his motorbike to make him get home faster. Though hesitant, Li ChengXiu agrees. That security guard ended up trying to ass*ult Li ChengXiu, but Li ChengXiu manages to escape after screaming and making the security guard panic. But in the toussling, the security guard bashes Li ChengXiu's head on the pavement and injured one of his ears.

Stressed and distraught, our MC goes home only to find his mother who had drunk herself into unconciousness, and who is currently foaming at the mouth. Li ChengXiu's mother is then hospitalized, putting strain on their already limited economy. Li ChengXiu tries taking up more jobs than the one he already had as a chef in a distant relative's restaurant, but he just couldn't make enough money. Realizing this, Li ChengXiu drops out of school. Dropping out is a huge devastating event for our MC, as he has tried his best to get good grades so he could get the goverment's help in paying for his schooling when he gets to high school. Oh and I forgot to mention, through all this, Li ChengXiu was only a MIDDLE school student. Li ChengXiu had held onto hope that after he gets to high school and then college, he could lead a normal life and get a normal job that could support him and his mother. Dropping out absolutely shattered this hope.

Li ChengXiu also went door to door in his small neighbourhood community—begging them to lend him some money so he can support his mother in the hospital. But times were tough for them too, and even after going through the whole community, going on his knees until they were rubbed raw and bloody, he could only get a meager amount. What's even worse is that Li ChengXiu's mother died while she was in the hospital, making all of his efforts useless.

Chengxiu basically has no agency in the relationship except a bit of push back by withdrawing his love from the ML. He's left with no job, no money, no real friends, and a child that will likely grow up without proper emotional support if he doesn't step up and takes care of it (considering how screwed up Shao Qun is, his family obviously shouldn't be entrusted with more kids). Chengxiu knows that if he rejects Shao Qun again, the latter will either continue to stalk him and destroy any future attempts at friendships and romantic relationships, or he will commit su*cide if he can't obtain CX. It's basically emotionally blackmail that makes CX go back to SQ.

It's very realistic that SQ is at one hand sexually attracted to CX, but his status as the 'cool and macho' school bully and rich brat surrounded by a group of admirers and equally spoiled rich brats who can do whatever they want and suffer almost no repercussions makes sense - isn't it the same in real life? CX admits to himself that his misfortune in his youth wasn't 100% SQ's fault. SQ and his gang can't be blamed for the school officers harassment and assault, nor is it their fault what happens to CX's mom - it's just his bad luck. SQ is only 12 years old at the time, has received zero moral guidance in his upbringing and is scared and confused about being "abnormal" because of his same-s*x attraction. Something that I'm sure a lot of homosexuals still experience in many places around the world to this day. Sure, young SQ is an a**hole, but he's also a victim of a prejudiced society and pressure from his peers.

he eventually just says f*ck it, this is too much work, let me just r*pe him. He called his friends, who also bullied the MC and they forced the MC to get drunk than the ML took advantage of him when he was still struggling against him despite the drinks and gaslighted him in the morning after... Yeah

(the so called crematorium part is not so much since he staged the ICU portion and also secretly got a surrogacy lady using Cheng Xiu's s*erm then using the baby to coax Cheng Xiu to stay with him. That's super low of him to use a kid as a trump to keep Cheng Xiu by his side. Even when they are together with the kid in tow, Shao Qun did not have any sense of responsibility towards the kid. He just find him noisy and interferring with his love life with Cheng Xiu.)

I almost spit out blood while they are on the hot spring and the ML have a fling to one of the hot spring's guest on his back and suddenly get tired of MC and became distant with him (MIA) and come back as he pleases to like a s*umbag move he is

using a baby to bind the uke to him was kind of a thing that I just couldn’t accept, unlike the author’s other books where I can somehow accept the ML to be together with the MC in the end, the things the ML did is just not enough for me to forgive him, their relationship still felt forced, awkward and unbalanced, the MC felt like he got no other choice because no matter what he did, the ML would still disrespect him and decided things for him, ML still doesn’t have regard in human/all living things’ life, you can say it that this is definitely a personal opinion, because I just hate when stories using a baby or pregnancy to progress,

it is a happy ending, he still manipulating our MC, and I don’t really like that. Yeah I understand he is crazy to the end, he can do anything, hurting himself, other people, he will do anything to get what he want without considering the methods, 🤷🏻‍♀️He is a psycho bah!

It broke my heart that MC's first time was r*ped by that man! ML is such a jerk, a f*cken ass hole, manipulative, a player, and a rapist! I'm in so much pain reading this. I can't even breath!!! Omg!!! MC was manipulated into being a mistress! Cheating tooo!!!! WTF! I hate him! Cheating while on a vocation and after he already slept with MC, he did it with a stranger!!!! Ch27 This guy is a scum! Ahhhh the pain! I can't even handle this! The only good thing this s*um ever did was get MC to quit work and go back to school. He physically ab*sed MC, hit and r*ped!!!! OMG nooo! No!!! Ch 32 I can't.., I've been biting my nails the whole novel! At this rate I won't have any left! Every chapter is a knife stabbing at my heart. I can't help but to cry out loud every now and then!

I guess xiao quns had a rough childhood too like chengxiu. one had gone insane and one keep fighting to survive. 97% of the story is basically li chengxiu's suffering and moving out house to house, Sissy only describe his appearance and I admire him hes fcking mentality and physically strong. And we definitely deserve to know shao quns past, he craves a lot of attention causing his sociopath gayass got depressed

Okay f*ck I wasn't gonna write this because I have forgiven him for what he did when they were still a teen. It is understandble. Boys at that age are the most curious and impulsive. I understand it.

BUT F*CK! I know he doesn't treat MC as an equal. Okay, he is treating him really well (sh*t no. He treats MC as a PET. LOL) and has this temper but for him to actually cheat behind him. To have the guts to say that MC doesn't trust him, bro, I think you are sick! I am nauseous thinking MC is with this sh*t ML. F*CK YOU! I HOPE YOUR D*CK WILL ROT! I especially hate people who are intimate (cheating) to others when they are in a relationship. It's disgusting.

ML, YOU ARE F*CKING GETTING MARRIED AND YOU THINK MC WONT LEAVE YOU? PLEASE GIVE HIM A BIT OF RESPECT! I'm so mad about this thing, MC does not deserve to be treated this way! He is so precious T.T

I wished he didn't end up with ML. MC is better with the second ML. I am so sad.

I understand the ML's side though, he is just too manipulated by what kind of family brought him. He is mentally derailed but lets give him a chance. I am okay as long as MC is willing and happy to spend the rest of his life with him. Actually, MC didn't actually suffer that long compared to other MC of angst novel like this one. ML actually suffered more here because of his (ML) s*upidity about how to love a person.

Both of them are deeply hurt. I just want the both of them to be happy and be set free from the past.

I sympathize with the second ML. I hope he could find someone who can love him back unconditionally and be happy. When second ML asked MC to live together in US because second ML can't go back to China due to being framed by ML, I really hate MC when he hesitated to go. Bro, I understand you, but for the sake of the relationship of you and second ML, I had hope that you could at least try to go out of your comfort zone. You can't be inside your shell forever. You want happiness, but don't take a step to chase the happiness that you want. You think second ML's business is more important than you? You broke up with him just because ML told you he will not trample on second ML anymore if he separated from second ML. What a naive and s*upid MC. It's fortunate that he found someone, finally. He can be happy.

I love how the ML suffered in this novel, he has come a long way, and he deserves a third chance with the MC.

The appearance of the third ML is a game changer. HAHAHAHA. He is so cute. Btw, he is a 19 year old boy who has a one-sided crush to MC xD

The ending of the main story and the extras are just so beautiful.