the whole story is layered with many subtle foreshadowings that make me take a deep breath each time I remember all the things that the ML said in the interrogation room to the MC

an example was when the ML turned himself in, where we were told that he hadn't spoken for two weeks after doing so and had only said something when he saw the MC. I can't imagine how he felt when he saw that MC didn't remember him and also that his downfall would be by the very person who had led and taught him how to do it

because I already expected that Li Zhe (MC) is Chen Mi (ML) 's brother but finding out that the MC (might have) subconsciously approached the ML with the intention to use him to kill the five people (who once bullied him by burning cigarettes onto his back) and also told him how to hide evidence from police officers so that he could mu*der them successfully was a lot since I was still processing the MLs backstory

and it bothered me that the MC even used drama's to guise him telling how to kill them because it showed that he knew the consequences as a newbie police officer

and I only felt sorrow for the ML because he had such a hard life and was still as kind and gentle as he was as in the beginning and the author notes in the end about him was like a punch in the gut omg

in the end it was too late when he finally remembered everything and realized that he had always loved the ML but he had already been sentenced to death and was to be executed without delay