ML is just batshit crazy

The origin of this obsession for me. No redemption arc. 严子贤 can't take no for an answer. Everyone dies. I've watched this like 10 times.

My max rating for verticals is 9.5, this is the one and only exception. 赵振栋 is a lunatic until the very last scene. No redemption arc

Re-steal the bride. 李菲 has both a beautiful crying face, and can hold crazy face forever without blinking.

The vertical version of Tale of Love and Loyalty, 申浩男 crying and losing his mind

Double identity, forced abortion, contract prostitution, no redemption arc until the last few minutes. Love in the Edge of Divorce is the watered down version, and it's so watered down I don't even have it on this list

ML seeks revenge on the people who killed FL but he hallucinates so hard that he is still able to interact with her. I love seeing 申浩男 cry.

Two psychopaths trying to heal the other one, 张翅 can really beg with his eyes.

DD/bg, this version is the most Charming Gentleman Mask, also the one where they fuck the most.

Lots of lines are delivered while staring directly into the camera. Really makes the crazy feel real

A woman is reborn and decides to tame the "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" ML who imprisoned her because he killed himself at her funeral.

Build your own psychopath. 黄星 is raised to not have feelings.

angsty xianxia, 黄靖洲 needs 杨弋墨's blood and heart to survive

This one jumps right into an abusive relationship in the first scene. 沉思 as a red flag simp.

严子贤 plays two people, an evil twin and a has-good-intentions twin.

Cute and funny! Two red flags find someone who matches their crazy.

张翅 is a reborn "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" type and needs to hide The Crazy.

Fakecest. The FL experience is that ML is abusive, but everyone is lying to both of them and nothing is as it seems. 张翅 with big crybaby eyes again.

Mr can't-take-no-for-an-answer throws money at the problem

Seduce the fiancé's evil uncle. Being the "bad guy" is 沉思's comfort zone

A woman is reborn and decides to tame the "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" ML who imprisoned her because he killed himself at her funeral.

FL sells herself to ML to get experimental medicine for her dying sister but he only gives her a few pills each time, and condems her for being a sex worker.

梁思伟 is a reborn "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" type and needs to hide The Crazy.

FL is wearing her own book and 王译磊 is the unhinged villain

Fall in love with your rapist, who is also your brother (fakecest)

Torture her in the name of protecting her from the person who wants to kill her. Unfortunately there is a very long redemption arc.

Stepmother fantasy, another 黄靖洲 and 杨弋墨 collab

Seduce the fiancé's evil uncle 甄子琦

陈瑞丰 keeps a contract prostitute for 3 years, stalks her when she leaves.

A "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" type is reborn and needs to hide The Crazy

Just 申浩男 again, choking the woman he loves, keeping her as a canary, the typical story.

李九霖

FL is homeless asks ML for help, ML is like sure, but guess how she pays rent...eventually FL refuses to become a concubine and leaves him. ML staged an assassination attempt on himself, and gets seriously injured, to win back FL because he fucked up the relationship so badly.

A puppy bites the hand that fed him

DD/bg

DD/bg, this one is the most crybaby

The first act is true red flag lunatic revenge behavior, the second act is an orphaned puppy, a sweet interlude, and third act is back to red flag lunatic but now he's motivated by love.

ML actually has a mental illness and can't control the red flag behavior, the old split personality trope. Boring.

DD/bg, this one is the most "break her legs and chain her to the furniture"

The sweetest version of DD/bg, this one is the most bratty and emphasizes the "grooming a minor" element and makes the whole drama so uncomfortable to watch. ML isn't a true asshole, but in this version is the most explicit about the fact that he is a hebephile who trained his 14 year old wife to act that age forever.

沉思 is a self-aware asshole and he's so good at it. So satisfying.

FL sells herself to ML to get experimental medicine for her dying sister but he only gives her a few pills each time, and condems her for being a sex worker.

A woman is reborn and decides to tame the "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" ML who imprisoned her because he killed himself at her funeral.

10 out of 10 unrepentant asshole ML. Treats FL like shit because he thinks SFL is FL.

代高政 is perfect a perfect red/black flag here; delusional, manipulative, abusive, believes he's not a bad guy, etc. If he was the main character this would be 10/10