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I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO RANT ABOUT THIS.
⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD⚠️
So okay.
Si and Shancai decided to go on a sort of food strike in order to show Si’s mom that they love each other and have no purpose without each other. Si is locked up in his room by his mom and Shancai remains unmoving outside his house. Si’s mom refuses to give in until Yuanzi (the girl Si’s mom was trying to force him to marry) tells her that she will never marry Si.
Si’s mom finally sees how much they love each other and lets Shancai into Si’s room. At that point, it had been days since either had had food or water. Shancai walks into Si’s room and they see each other. Shancai walks towards Si and collapses. She dies from starvation. Si dies shortly after, from lack of food and water yes, but from a broken heart.
Everything that happens after takes place in a parallel universe. The girls that were mean to Shancai in the first universe weren’t mean to her in the next one, hence why they were at her wedding with Si and why Si’s mom was so accepting of the two being together.
Earlier in the show, Si and Shancai mention that they’d be together in the next life, too. If you notice, there are two scenes in which Si and Shancai are together and playfully running though grass. The first one is in Shancai’s dream, before they die. Pay attention to their attire. The second scene shows Shancai wearing Si’s jacket from that scene. It’s both an Easter egg and something to tie the universes together.
Also, depending on how you pronounce Si in Mandarin Chinese, it can mean death. The most direct translation of Si to English means the number four (F4 sound familiar?). Four is a traditionally unlucky number due to how close the pronunciation is to death.
Essentially, it’s a modern Romeo and Juliet but with parallel universes and 100x better because hot boys.
If you want me to go into detail explaining the wedding scene I totallyyy can and I totallyyy will. I love that show more than most people.
It’s been a year since I’ve watched meteor garden and I still don’t understand the last episode