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| Love Never Fails Ending Explained: A Xianxia Tale of Miscommunication, Face-Swaps, & Reincarnated Rubbish, If I'm Being Honest... |
Honest Review & Spoiler Alert, lads.. Episode 40 of Love Never Fails brings the girls back from the dead, the ML (Male Lead) still refuses to speak, and that post-credits scene actually slaps.
Alright, grab a cuppa, ‘cause we’ve just slogged through all 40 eps of “Love Never Fails” and we’ve got thoughts. Spoiler alert: it ends as it lived — with beautiful faces, confused plotlines, and the main couple still not having one proper conversation. Let’s unpack it.
🌸 The Ending (Ep 40): Everyone's Alive-ish, But Emotionally Dead
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Just when you thought this xianxia couldn’t throw in more curveballs, the finale has both female leads (yes, plural) come back to life. Surprise! The lads are fine too — all thanks to the girls’ noble sacrifices. Classic.
Liu Xue Yi’s character waxes romantic about how he’ll always find FL in every lifetime. Aww? Not quite. If Hong Ning had anything to say about it (and she rarely got the chance), she’d want the actual facts instead of this vague reincarnation poetry. These two go down in CP history for refusing to communicate. Not even in ep40. Consistency is a skill, we guess.
🎯 Post-Credits Scene: Kun Lun’s Red Thread Moment
Don’t miss that post-ending bit. Seriously. Kun Lun’s little red-thread scene had more emotional impact than the entire ML’s four-lifetime arc. Quiet, poetic, and it knew exactly when to fade to black. For once, they nailed the vibe.
🧨 Final Verdict: Crappiest Xianxia I’ve Ever Finished (And I Will Never Do It Again)
They live their life and together again~
— It'sme°🌻 (@HappysisHu) May 18, 2025
the end.#LiuXueyi #HuYixuan#LoveNeverFails
how i can move on from these two?
want to see the special episode later, and waiting for the spin-off❤️🔥 pic.twitter.com/cHmY2DUhjl
Let’s be real — this was a filler-loaded, misunderstanding-fuelled fantasy spiral. Four arcs of reincarnated nonsense, one limp villain plot, and zero relationship growth. The only thing that kept this afloat? Hu YiXuan and Yuan BingYan.
Yuan Bing Yan dodged a bullet by not airing with this mess back in 2022. Her fans can now comfortably pretend it would've been better with her intact version. But here’s the truth: even with her, this thing was unsalvageable.
🧍♀️ The Women Who Carried the Wreckage
Hu Yi Xuan, dragged into the mess thanks to re-filming and AI face-swaps, honestly did her best. She put real effort into her scenes, and if ten people watched this, at least ten more now know she exists. Hopefully this leads to better roles, ‘cause she deserves them.
Yuan Bing Yan didn’t get her full cut aired, but still left an impact. Somehow.
🧍♂️ The Blokes? Bland.
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Liu XueYi and Ao RuiPeng were… there. It’s wild how two actors with proven history (they were in “The Blood of Youth” after this) could feel so meh here. Again, maybe it’s the script. Or the lack of one.
📺 Plot Summary in a Nutshell:
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ML avoids talking for 40 episodes.
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FL and 2FL die to save everyone in ep39.
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Everyone revives in ep40.
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Romance never levels up beyond “I vaguely like you, maybe, probably, but I shan’t explain.”
🗂 Romcom/Romance Checklist
Romance Intensity: 1/5 — You’d get more sparks from static cling.
ML Type: Cold wall. Occasionally poetic. Never helpful.
FL Type: Better than the ML. Honest tryer.
Tropes:
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Bickering Start
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Rebirth
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Misunderstanding Olympics
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“If I told you the truth, there’d be no plot” Syndrome
Major milestones (official CP? kiss?): Mate… we waited 39 eps. Nothing felt earned.
Ending: “Happy” but mostly in the “it’s over” sense.
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📸 Best Part? Weirdly Enough — The First 10 Episodes
Yeah, we said it. Before the plot got tangled and the AI kicked in, there was potential. You could almost see what this drama was meant to be.
🧾 Final Remarks
Yuan Bing Yan’s original version was scrapped due to her 2023 tax issues. Hu Yi Xuan stepped in with some AI smoothing and full reshoots. Whether that worked is up for debate, but she deserves props for stepping up.
Director Zhao Li Jun’s past work didn’t prep us for this one. Ying Ying Lu co-directed — her modern stuff shows more polish, honestly.
Wrapped filming in Sept 2021. Aired in 2025. A cursed timeline from start to finish.
Tonboriday Rating: 1.8 / 5
Watch it if: You love reincarnation. And pain.
Skip it if: You value your time.