Ming Wei isn't likable in the original. I don't like people this cowardly either, but I really love the lines Xiaoying wrote for Ming Wei: "Green mulberries grow along the road. Whose young man is that? Bright eyes, pearly teeth, a face like jade, radiant as the sun."
I think that before he met Li Hongyang, before his family fell apart, before all these things happened, he must have been a wonderful boy. Otherwise, how could he have attracted Li Hongchang and made him love him so deeply? Xiaoying may be his creator, but in her stories there are only protagonists and cannon fodder, never supporting characters. I don't want to clear his name with this extra chapter. I just want to give this wonderful boy a happy ending.
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In the end, she fell in love with someone else. . . .
I just read the beginning of the original article... And then I came to see Ming Wei's fate. In fact, I would have wanted to curse a person who betrayed his lover, but after reading this, I felt that it would be more painful for a person who regrets it later after making a mistake!