@CoffeeJelly
Spoiler!
They will end together. Cen Li forgave him.
The novel is an omegaverse, it means they will have a child later. Remember when ML saved Cen Li/Qiao Yuan from being raped after his assistant setted him up with the old geezers on the rooftop. In the novel MC was drugged and ML had intercourse with him and impregnated him. Of course Cen Li didn't remember and found it months later about his pregnancy.
