This is not just a stand-in story of "you love me but see others through me." The real sadomasochism is that when Shou used a carefully planned "death escape" to tear the substitute's identity to pieces, Gongcai desperately discovered that he had already fallen in love with this living body, and that soul that was completely different from Bai Yueguang was his only salvation. But Shou's determination to leave made this awakening come too late and too painful.
