At first, I thought it the subject matter would be handled with care. The author recognizes the original owner as a trans individual—the MC concludes that they were presenting as female because of the incongruity experienced with their assigned s*x at birth—and the MC points out that she most likely presented as a girl because of dysphoria. However. There is basically no respect given to this character past this point. The MC was talking with the original's social media agent and discovered that the original owner was trans. Once the readers are brought to this realization, the original owner proceeds to be misgendered at every opportunity. When referenced in past tense, the pronouns used are completely incongruous with her gender identity. The pronouns the author uses in these instances are 'he/him.' And the author created her? But it gets worse. In chapter five, the main character describes the original owner in this fashion: "Lu Xi suspected he had entered a girl's room but then thought that the original owner had identity recognition issues, always believing themselves to be a woman." This is, in my opinion, an extremely flippant way to approach this subject. 'Always believing themselves to be a woman' sounds to me that the author is insinuating her identity would and will not be respected by anyone else if they knew her assigned s*x at birth; that her gender identity has no validation besides it being a 'disorder.' Additionally, the original owner is referred to by her present guardian, her cousin, as a cross dresser rather than a member of the trans community. Here: "In his view, Lu Xi, as a pure cross dresser, wouldn't have the guts to get into a fight. At most, he'd just have a quarrel with others."

There is a very big distinction between cross dresser and trans, not that there is anything at all wrong with either. However, cross dressing is referred to as 'cross' dressing because it generally applies to someone who identifies as one gender dressing in clothes people associate with the opposite gender. Using it as a substitute for transgender basically bypasses acknowledging their preferred gender entirely, by saying: he's a boy who just likes to wear feminine clothes—rather than: she's a girl. Not to mention the fact that she was misgendered yet again.

The cousin viewing his cousin as a “confused boy” made me so furious. Being trans is not a confusing phase that is only for the mentally ill, that rhetoric is absolutely disgusting and needs to be viewed for what it is: transphobic. Furthermore, the ORIGINAL LU XI IS TRANS. She is a trans woman that wanted to get s*x reassignment surgery in Italy. That is NOT just being a “cross dresser.” Crossdressing and being trans are very different things and it deserves to be treated and written about as such.

I started suspecting the male lead of forming a secondary personality after being traumatized by his mother's death, long before a side character developed such an illness. The odd jealous remarks to the woman around his father, his father's overly strong reaction to shut down this behavior, and his episode in the bathroom talking to himself. He might have had bipolar disorder since he was a child, but it is clearly not all he has going on. His calm and knowing reaction to the roommate acting as their dead crush honestly confirmed it for me. The main character accepting that all of his boyfriend's behavior was just the bipolar diagnosis alone is a bit sus, but he did not see the same situations as the reader. It IS clear from clues that the male lead let go of his mother's grudges by the end of the book. He may have felt no need or desire to inform his partner of anything but the ongoing mental health issue. He was resistant to revealing even the bipolar disorder after all. His dead mother (or whatever other personalities he might have had) are staying buried in that grave his father pulled him and his lover from. It's not great behavior to hide such a thing, but it is in line with he and his father's characters to keep it from the protagonist. He wants to present his best side to his lover and his father doesn't want the shameful aspects of his son's illness to get out to his enemies.

attempt to provide the mu*ders with a serious non-supernatural ending.

At the beginning of the story, Ji Nian and a Criminal Psychologist had a match rate of over 90% for their criminal profiling of the mu*derer of student Lin Yuezhi (I will refer to her as LZ for convenience). They came to the conclusion that there were 2 mu*derers, with one being a "Man able to easily overpower a girl, is effeminate, has OCD, and is smart." And the second one is "A student, one of those so-called freaks or outcasts."

The student issue was handled first. Quite clearly we as readers have the suspects Wang Qiaoer (LZ's chubby female friend) who grinned suspiciously upon seeing the body, and Liu Siyi, who was relieved. Later, the police identifies Chenbin (LZ's chubby male admirer) as a suspect and even we as the reader come to believe it considering he stole LZ's head and some time later, hides it in a pot outside Ji Nian's room (ew) but during the interrogation, we find out he didn't actually kill her, he just discovered the head and stole it, leaving the case of the student mu*derer unsolved.

The organized mu*der wasn't touched until the end of the series, and the author points it at School Doctor Meng Haiwei. She is the pretty overqualified doctor who graduated from Princeton University with a Master's degree in Psychology. She is the sister of the previous school nurse whose 6 year old child was killed by Lin Yuezhi, Xiao Ruiyang, and Qu Feng. We're told that MHW committed the mu*ders in order to exact revenge on the 3 for causing the demise of her sister's family. This is in line with previous statements that perhaps the motive was revenge. But you'd have to understand that "their motive was probably revenge" only started getting mentioned halfway through the story. MHW also doesn't match the previous descriptions, she's not strong enough to easily overpower a man, nor is she an effeminate man, in fact, she's a woman! MHW gets arrested (poor officer Shao, I could tell he liked her) but her accomplice never was. She was the one who attacked Lu Xi, but if memory serves right, there was 2 of them, so then what happened to her accomplice??? What about the student who killed the girl??