Veil of Shadows (月鳞绮纪) ends with a bang. The heroes gather the power of the Star Stones, destroy the nine-headed serpent Jiuying, and everyone who died comes back to life. Wu Wangyan (雾妄言) wakes up in Wu Xiang Yue (无相月) feeling it was all a dream. Lu Wuyi (露芜衣) and Jiling (寄灵) land in another timeline as ordinary people. Only Wu Shiguang (武拾光) remembers what truly happened. It looks like a perfect happy ending for the main cast. But look closer, and three quiet wounds never heal. This article digs into those regrets—not to ruin the finale, but to ask: when a story gives everyone a second chance, what kind of pain still lingers?
1. Leaving to Find Self
Li Jie (历劫) was never born like other people. He came from two obsessions of a dead leader named Yuan Wuhuo (源无祸). After a Six-Eyed Butterfly demon swallowed Yuan Wuhuo, two beings emerged. One was good, one was evil. Li Jie was the good one. He followed an inner voice to Shi Lin Zong (侍鳞宗) and became Jiling’s right hand. The other, Yuan Wuhuo, became a tool for Jiuying (九婴). For a long time, Li Jie didn’t know his own origin. He only felt a deep need to protect Jiling.
Inside the Star Stone illusion, he saw his face on Yuan Wuhuo. They looked identical. After Yuan Wuhuo was captured, Li Jie’s body was taken over by the butterfly demon. He had to pretend while secretly hunting for the Dragon God’s power. Lu Wuyi used her speech magic to control everyone, and only then did Li Jie reveal himself. But she beat him. After Yuan Wuhuo died, Li Jie woke up in Shi Lin Zong. In his dream, he met his other self and finally learned the truth. He was just an obsession. A leftover thought.
He didn’t want to believe it. Who would? So after the team used the Star Stones to kill Jiuying in the past, Li Jie made a choice. He put down his mission. He left Shi Lin Zong. He walked away to search for himself. Maybe it was because Jiling stayed forever in the past. Without her, Shi Lin Zong meant nothing to him. His whole reason for existing was to protect her. Now that reason was gone. So he left. Not angry. Not relieved. Just empty. And that emptiness is the first regret.
2. Growing Up Apart
You Chi was a kid who followed Wu Shiguang everywhere. When Wu Shiguang was small and in trouble, a family of weasels took him in. You Chi came from that family. From then on, he was Wu Shiguang’s little shadow. They went through danger together. They fought side by side. But during the final battle, You Chi ran into something he couldn’t handle. Jiuying had taken over Lu Wuyi’s body and cast a speech spell on all the sisters of Wu Xiang Yue. They became her puppets to destroy the four pillars holding up the earth.
Wu Shiguang sent Mo Yuntan, Jin Zheng, and Li Jie to guard three of the pillars. He planned to send Hua Qi to the last one. But Jiuying, inside Lu Wuyi, attacked him hard. Hua Qi had to stay and heal him. Then You Chi came back. Seeing Wu Shiguang bleeding on the ground, the kid volunteered. He ran to face the person breaking the last pillar. But he was just a young weasel with shallow training. The enemy was a thousand-year nine-tailed fox who had already absorbed the pillar’s power.
You Chi couldn’t win. He knew it. So he took the hits on purpose while stealing a token from the enemy. That token triggered a trap spell. The fox died in the magic circle. But You Chi died too. When the Star Stones reversed time, everyone who fell came back. You Chi opened his eyes again. But he was different. No longer the playful, sticky kid. He became calm. Serious. He took a position as a mage in Shi Lin Zong and stopped hanging on Wu Shiguang every day. They still knew each other. But the old closeness was gone. That’s the second regret.
3. Sisters, Strangers Again
Lu Wuyi was not born from a mother. Jiuying made her from parts of the Wu Xiang Yue sisters. Wu Wangyan gave her heart. That’s why the two were always closest. Before Lu Wuyi died the first time, she regained her real mind for a moment. Besides Jiling, the person she thought of most was Wu Wangyan. And before Wu Wangyan sacrificed herself, her last wish to Wu Shiguang was simple: save my little sister.
Their bond was real. It was the kind of sisterhood that didn’t need words. Lu Wuyi would burn the world for Wu Wangyan. Wu Wangyan would give her own life without blinking. But after the Star Stones reversed time, everything changed. Lu Wuyi was erased from this timeline. Not killed. Not missing. Just never existed at all. Her name, her face, her voice—gone like a thread pulled from a cloth.
Wu Wangyan woke up again in Wu Xiang Yue. She remembered nothing about a younger sister. She looked around and felt no hole in her heart. The two who loved each other most became strangers to each other. That is the third regret. Sometimes a happy ending means losing someone without even knowing you lost them. And that might be the saddest kind of ending there is.