#he simu

Since you know it hurts, why risk yourself like that?

First and foremost, I don’t say the above lightly. This scene made me feel a lot of things so I took some time to really put some thought into the actions she has taken here.

Her relationship with Duan Xu is built on imbalance from the very beginning. She is centuries old, a ruler of the spirit realm, someone who has already seen how attachment ends.

He is temporary. He is fragile. And the more she experiences the world through him, warmth, touch, breath, the more dangerous he becomes to her sense of detachment. The more he even stays in her world, in the Void, the more dangerous it becomes for her and her duties.

So she pushes him away and interrupts any intimacy that they were building.

She even uses her own magic to push him down and not allow him to move.

He’s confused in that moment because he’s still operating from honesty. He doesn’t understand why she pulled away from him in the previous scene, why she suddenly feels distant. But she understands exactly what’s happening. She sees the trajectory. She sees what this turns into if she lets it continue.

And instead of slowly pulling away, she does something harsher.

She tries to rewrite the entire meaning of what they’ve been.

By forcing the kiss, by making it physical, abrupt, and stripped of tenderness, she turns something that was building quietly into something that feels transactional. Then she follows it with words that deny everything, calling it a game, a fleeting interest, something shallow.

That is not how she actually feels.

That is how she needs him to remember it.

So she chooses the version of herself that he can walk away from. A “villain” in his story.

There’s also something very specific happening in the way she gives him the medicine too before pushing him down on the bed. It mirrors the kiss. Both are forced. Both are about survival.

And that’s the contradiction at the center of her character.

This scene isn’t about rejection.

It’s about a woman who understands exactly how this ends and decides she would rather be misunderstood than be the reason he stays long enough to be destroyed by it.

SN:

Chen Feiyu’s acting here was incredible. The camera zoom into his eyes when she first kisses him, you can feel his pain. He did an AMAZING job non-verbally conveying heartbreak, sadness, and confusion all with his eyes.

I literally felt so bad for this man.

And that tear at the end? No words.

Our poor Duan Xu.

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Love Beyond the Grave (2026)

DILRABA DILMURAT (دىلرەبا دىلمۇرات) / DILIREBA (迪丽热巴) as He Simu / He Xiaoxiao