I actually think that if they ended on Chapter 57, it would have actually been a surprisingly beautiful and dark ending. To me, I read chapter 57 as one of a few possibilities- an inevitable moment in Shuli's fate, meaning a common point in both her past life and her present life. Taken as a moment in her past life, it's beautiful, because it shows that Jeremy wasn't actually as distant from her as she had originally thought, which makes the current life sweeter, and the inevitability of that moment in the future deeper. Taken as a fixed point in her future, it'd be the payoff of everything she had done in her reborn life. Even though if this is her future, and she's still destined to die, I think she would be satisfied even with that death with a life she had lived without regrets, the way she had wanted. Taken as an epilogue to the fairy tale, it seems fitting as a transition from Ch. 56, which was a very sweet moment for the family, showing their resolve being reunited, but also the dark inevitability of people around them being much more jaded. I.E. The you can't escape your fate theme, but with a life lived well, is there a need to escape that physical fate? The open ended-ness and vagueness of the end also kind of appeals to me after the ordeal they had encountered with the trial. But yeah, this is probably not an end, but a segue or a dream that they will transition to the next chapter with.