tang yi and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
aka episodes 15 and 16, the more or less 24-hour period in which:
his boyfriend unceremoniously hangs up on him
he spends the rest of the night calling and texting said boyfriend, whose phone is now off for unknown reasons, and leaving increasingly cranky and immature voicemails
after a night of probably very little sleep, he has to stoop to going to the police station (enemy turf) to ask his boyfriend’s boss and coworkers where his boyfriend is (so embarrassing)
he learns that his bf (who, let’s not forget, has on two very recent occasions been attacked and injured seriously enough to be hospitalized, and who still hasn’t called him back) took a sick day, and doesn’t know whether to be worried or offended so he just rapidly cycles between the two
probably at this point he starts to remember all the angsty voicemails he left last night, and wonders whether his bf is ignoring him on purpose because he’s being a little baby
his brain is just going “oh no, is he breaking up with me? i was too clingy and he hates me now. he’s either breaking up with me or he’s deathly ill. those are the only two options” over and over
the tension within his gang (which tbh was already kind of hanging by a thread) is heightening after his erstwhile lieutenant (who just a couple days ago assaulted him and tried to have his boyfriend killed) was murdered in prison, which wouldn’t have happened if tang yi hadn’t let the cops arrest him
once he finally sees his (thankfully very alive and cute and not mad at him) boyfriend, he’s acting real weird and has apparently been snooping into tang yi’s past for the last day and is now making him talk about his painful childhood
he finds out that his beloved sister is being held hostage
he’s so overcome with rage that he runs off to rescue her without thinking and walks right into a (fairly obvious) trap set by a xing tian meng member who’s been working for his enemy behind his back
he realizes he’s definitely getting murdered in this creepy warehouse tonight
he’s on the verge of finally achieving the revenge he’s been living for for the last four years when suddenly his bf reveals that the man he’s about to kill is actually his long-lost biological father
and it’s only downhill from here, babes!
