I'm just going to be haunted by the fact that Grandpa Bai never played with A-Qing again. I can tell.

The ending image is also really something, although admittedly I am a little annoyed that Jin Tong decided to make his heroine's primary motivator romantic love and jealousy, because come on.

(Also it's weird that A-Qing jumps straight to killing her rival when she carefully uses non violent strikes against the skilled swordsmen who unjustly killed her lead goat and demands compensation from them, not their lives?)

(Why does her temperament totally change?)

I am being nitpicky, the language was beautiful.

A-Qing made a gorgeous and terrifying antagonist.

(Non Lethal, not non violent. She absolutely does fuck those guys up when they try to kill her for resisting them)