From start to finish, Yuran never lifted that white cloth, and the ending came as she ended with a kiss upon the white cloth. Everyone saw her lips move, but there was no sound, yet it was clear to see as she said, "Why not wait for me?"
At this point, the entire performance concluded.
Yuran was still standing there, calming her emotions. She hadn't performed it like this last night. When she performed it in front of Bo Yan the previous night, Bo Yan told her no, rejecting it over a dozen times, in over a dozen different versions.
Bo Yan almost took her by the hand to teach her, letting her contain her emotions before releasing them and even demonstrated it once for her. When Bo Yan performed, she was almost suffocated by his interpretation.
And her interpretation today perhaps didn't register with her, but to onlookers like Xuan Ze and the others, that was the feeling.
Suppression, gloom, darkness, a storm brewing.
It hinted at Tang Wan's inevitable fate throughout.