Irina Kostina

No worries. I didn't think of it this way, but I guess you do have a point. CHT was happy with him and that's all that mattered. This bestie should have bowed out instead of acting like a five year old frowning over a toy they didn't get, but instead, she stood in their way (though not to the same degree as everyone else did) and ended up losing her (literally, since FL dies at the end of the story, though it's not explicitly shown, either, for obvious reasons)

There's no need to imagine what they would have done to her if they found out hsia tien ching was cht. Ouyang Ti talks to the overweight dude in graphic detail about what he'd do to "lry's girlfriend" before lry stabbed him

No worries. I think you have a point. She was way too petty about it, imo. Like, ok, i get it, she loves her (coincidentally, i'm gay myself and i've been in love, so i do have some perspective here, since this fictional character and i are both lesbians), but at this point, she was being so nasty about it over what? her loving him instead of her? that's just demented

You have to remember that she also tried to go for an interview, but then gave up at the last moment bc her DID (disassociative identity disorder) got triggered. So she also probably believed she was partially to blame for his execution, because she hoped it would change things.

Yes. Iirc, he was dying for 18 minutes.... Jesus Christ... They also don't show CHT's death, either, but for obvious reasons (suicide contagion and all)

Holy.... you got a point.

Honestly, i also think she died by suicide. Weirdly enough, a lot of movie reviews claim that the ending is open, but, imo, there's nothing open about it.

Iirc, he was eavesdropping and caught the mom abusing the boy. And the boy experiencing dv at the hands of his parents triggered hallucinations in him, so he unintentionally strangled the kid to death and snapped out of it when it was too late, so Li Renyao just put the kid on the bed