Whenever I read this novel I always stop to read the comments after this chapter, and always see quiet a lot of people commenting that they wished Song Alan had handled the situation differently, so that he and Xingchen could have escaped and killed Xue Yang. I get how they feel here, but tbh for me, the real tragedy here isn’t Song Lan and Xingchen, it’s Xue Yangs inability to finally except that he’s become emotionally attached to another person. It’s obvious that he loves Xingchen hopelessly and that he loved the life the three had together.

You really need to read this novel at least twice to actually understand the subtle hints of just how much and how long Lan Zhan has loved Wei Ying.