Okay read for an evening, sometimes plot becomes really interesting but in general this a bad writing and logic slowly dying in convulsions. Main character is so overwhelmingly miserable that author could not think of a convincing reason why everybody hate her so much, except her love interest and only friend, who is also in love with her. This makes side characters stupid. Second female lead is a knockoff Hannibal Lector, and she is so clever and invisible because everyone else is stupid. She just goes around saying creepy stuff related to the murders and everyone just "Oooh, aaah, alright". Police appears a few times, they investigate something behind the scenes or so narration tells. Police here performs even more poorly then in real life. All their work is done by A REPORTER, who can go around and mess with investigation and question suspects and witnesses instead of a police. And her conclusions jump off the bat.
Me spoileé el final en tiktok (ayno) PERO aun así fue increíble leerlo, tbh me gusta como terminó aunque deje la expectativa a una continuación que puede no llegue. En fin, REN PINSHENG yo te defiendo y JIANG WANSHU yo te protejo de este mundo que no te merece 😭💖
Ok, maybe my expectations were too high and I'm upset that I wasn't impressed, but also this was just not well-written at all. I've seen this described as the lesbian version of Killing Stalking, and unfortunately that was a big title to live up to. For all of my criticisms of Killing Stalking, at least it was actually interesting. Sorry, but this was just boring. Not just that, it was cliché and predictable, while also managing to be ridiculous? Like, why is a reporter taking it upon herself to track a serial killer? Where are the actual detectives and investigators?? Why have they not stopped this rampant reporter that could potentially compromise their investigation? She literally goes around showing people a murder victim’s dead body like it's the most normal thing to do.
Another thing that got on my nerves is every time the serial killer would mimic the actions of the protagonist in the mc's novel, our mc would go through this whole monologue of "Hmmm, this seems really familiar. Wonder where I saw this before..." as if she doesn’t know what she wrote in her own damn story! Not to mention, it’s painfully obvious who the serial killer is, and if our mc just put her two brain cells to work she could figure it out.
As for the cliché: the mc is a meek, studious pushover who gets harassed by debt collectors because her dead beat dad owes money and abandoned her. A tale as old as time…Oh, and she also gets bullied…in college. Like, come on. This is so ridiculous.
I will say, I did like our mc’s friend; she was the only redeemable character for me. It was sad to see her so hung up on getting the mc to notice her feelings for her, especially knowing that the mc was too busy falling in love with her professor that has absolutely no personality other than being hot and highly suspicious.
I’d imagine there’s some lukewarm twists and shocking moments further into the story, but honestly I doubt it’s done in a clever manner and can live without knowing how the story concludes.