Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Sickly ✓

Actively dying ✓

New identity ✓

Palpable self-loathing ✓

Wears furs

Seeking vengeance/restitution for dead friends/family

Total score: 4/6

Xiao Se (The Blood of Youth)

Sickly ✓

Actively dying

New identity ✓

Palpable self-loathing

Wears furs ✓

Seeking vengeance/restitution for dead friends/family ✓

Total score: 4/6

Murong Jinghe (Kill Me Love Me)

Sickly ✓

Actively dying

New identity

Palpable self-loathing ✓

Wears furs ✓

Seeking vengeance/restitution for dead friends/family ✓

Total score: 4/6

Li Lianhua (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

Sickly ✓

Actively dying ✓

New identity ✓

Palpable self-loathing ✓

Wears furs ✓

Seeking vengeance/restitution for dead friends/family ✓

Nut Allergy ✓

maybe i’ll just rewatch the good episodes at some point and determine that it ends there actually

​apparently it’s based on a novel, which makes me wonder if the novel fails the same way. the last handful of episodes felt like they were written on the fly with no regard for what happened before and no plan for where it was going. or it may be a case of thinking they will have more episodes to finish the story and being forced to cram it in and then failing?

but that doesn’t seem right because some really pointless dramatic scenes were stretched forever while things that should have taken multiple eps would unfold over the course of approximately 13 seconds.