At the end of Everlasting Regret, Wang Qiyao continues to reach out for love in spite of a lifetime of unhappy entanglements with all the wrong men. Battling against a younger rival, she attempts to secure the affections of a young lover by giving him a box of gold jewelry that she had owned for 40 years.
小說中的王琦瑤在最後一部裡，儘管一輩子所託非人，她也不惜放手一搏，甚至捧出珍藏四十年的金飾盒來討好小情人。