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

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.

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

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.

A "break her legs and chain her to the furniture" type acts like a white rabbit.

马小宇 as the psychopath ex, FL gets a face swap, but it's 2ML's dead wife's face, and then he's like, please come live with me.

Fakecest. The FL experience is that ML is abusive, but everyone is lying to both of them, and aML is actually the good guy. 张翅 with big crybaby eyes again.

Secret step-sibling love, but ML is just in it for revenge against her, and when she leaves he can not let go, to the point of just showing up on campus one day...in England. Rich people problems.

I'm conflicted about this one because ML is only an unrepentable asshole because he's stupid. The people around him keep manipulating him into abusing FL and he just believes them every time. I feel such sympathy for him because his motivation is not red flag, but he absolutely deserves a bad ending because he sucks.

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

ML is a vampire. This might be cheating; is it even possible for a vampire to be anything but a red flag? OK, Angel from Buffy, but that because he was cursed with having his soul returned.

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

This is one where I don't think it's explicit about the ML level of crazy, like, sure he broke his own leg to get her sympathy, but he also he fell in love with FL at 16 and then broke up every relationship she ever had until he could finally catch her.

I was really hoping for a more sinister motivation, there was a really good back story that could have easily been changed to a serial manipulative psychopath thing. They went for a more everyone had their own demons.

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.

It's Chinese Republican Era so ML is red flag by default but this guy enslaved and traumatized his amnesiac ex girlfriend because he still loves her.

Japanese storytelling is something else. Do you want to feel a deep empathy and understanding with a literal stalker? Here you go.

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 raised him

DD/bg, probably the highest quality in terms of production, but lease memorable in terms of lunatic ML

DD/bg, this one is the most crybaby

There's like 10 versions of this one and it's so much fun, he's not a certified red flag dumpster fire in all of them but for sure this one and the Lan Bo version but I need to find that one with subtitles because reading Chinese takes me fucking forever and I got too tired to finish

The ML murders his long time girlfriend, five years later she comes back for revenge with a new identity. ML is a mob boss kid and FL becomes an assassin.

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 trained his 14 year old wife to act that age forever. It really gave me the ick but it's 黄宥天 so I stuck it out.

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