I haven't read the VIP chapters, so I can only offer a few thoughts based on what's available.
Xing Yan: When all is said and done, the Xing Yan we have now still hasn't quite shed his childishness. In matters of love, he is always a little bewildered, but that is precisely what we like about him. If he grows up and becomes mature at the end, that might be one way to announce the story's close, but it certainly wouldn't be what we like or what suits this book's style. That is why the thought of him marrying and having children always leaves me a little uneasy. Yet Xing Yan is bound to grow up; that is an inevitable law, and also one way to bring this book to an end. As he is now, there are many things Xing Yan still cannot take in stride. For instance, he is always somewhat at a loss where love is concerned, a little awkward in the face of worldly government authority, and rather uncertain about the path of cultivation. So might the ending concern itself only with his maturation in these respects?
Lingyi: From the very first moment I saw her, I don't know how Xing Yan felt, but I, for one, fell for this "little dragon girl," with her occasional, youthful inner contradictions. A jade flute's shadow stirred ten thousand acres of waves on Poyang Lake; a heart fluttered as the Dragon Palace's young daughter first awakened to love; a zither on Waterfall String Mountain, the full moon of the fifteenth flooding the hall's entrance. A beauty's kindness is the hardest gift to bear. Though she herself may understand that, between heaven and the mortal world, lovely blossoms and a full moon are destined to dissolve into emptiness, she still