The daughter does come back, only without a body: she borrows the sect elder's power to form a spirit and stands at her mother's bedside saying that this time she will be the one doing the protecting. From that night Su Wan's needle starts moving again: one dress, one studio, one show, sewing back everything that was taken from her.
When the doctor slides the diagnosis across the desk, Su Wan asks only one thing: how long can I hold on. Her ex-husband Chen Hao arrives with his new woman, demanding the deed to the flat, custody of her daughter, and her signature on a form refusing treatment. She signs, smiles them out, and then sits alone on the floor of her rented room waiting for a daughter who died ten years ago to look in on her.
