how murdery is that couple? a review of otps from 2025 cdramas
luo shu & qi menglin (under the moonlight): if you'd told me when i started the drama that i'd find them distressingly adorable together by the end i wouldn't have believed you. they are really more into preventing and solving murder than committing it, though. 🔪/5
chang yu'er & gu pingyuan (legend of the magnate): when i originally started drafting this i had them scoring lower, but then yu'er went and started stabbing more people (for altruistic reasons). as a pair they're too sweet but her willingness to draw blood to protect her own increases their average murdery factor. 🔪🔪/5
su yishui & mu qingge/xue ranran (love of the divine tree): only one of them really has any killing instinct and it kind of gets hugged out of him. 🔪🔪/5
mei zhuyu & wu zhen (moonlit reunion): between them responsible for a whole lot of demon deaths, both very good with stabbing tools, but both have pretty strict moral codes that make murder a less desirable course of action compared to others. 🔪🔪.5/5
yuan zhong & ji tanyin (a moment but forever): damn, this one's hard to rate. she was originally intending to kill him, though she didn't technically try to and i'd say she's more of a lover than a fighter. he was ready to murder the whole world because of his spiritual trauma, which is...pretty murdery...but it wasn't driven by bloodlust and he gave up that idea eventually. overall i'd say only moderately murdery. 🔪🔪.5/5
sima jiao & liao tingyan (when destiny brings the demon): what's the average of "has killed hundreds" and "probably wouldn't kill an ant in her kitchen". ?🔪?/5
mu xuanling/pearl & xie xiechen/zhao ming (the blossoming love): sometimes it's not how many bodies hit the floor, but whose body it is. and they killed god, so... 🔪🔪🔪/5
nie jiuluo & yan tuo (love on the turquoise land): while yes, mostly they're killing alien zombies, they are very comfortable causing death and destruction generally. there's an undercurrent of unhinged that feels pretty murdery. 🔪🔪🔪.5/5
zang hai & xiang antu (legend of zang hai): a true murder couple bonds when one of them agrees to contract kill for the other. plus they're both pretty good at making corpses: he's an elaborate horror movie trap kind of guy, she's a "stab it in the face if it pisses you off" kinda gal. 🔪🔪🔪🔪/5
fu yixiao & feng suige (fated hearts): i lost count of how many people they killed between them after the first five episodes (sooo many assassins to take care of). don't let the sweet domestic moments fool you. they use threats of violence for many different purposes (flush out traitors, access medical care, flirting) and it's never an empty threat. 🔪🔪🔪🔪/5
su muyu & su changhe (blood river): okay so they’re not *technically* the otp but also they *are* the otp. who are literal assassins. who kill a lot of people. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪/5
xiao ren & lu zhao (gemini): they'd call it a date if there's dinner after the stabbing. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪/5
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