He's a bad person. What happens if he does something good?
Of course he'll die.
No matter how delicious a rotten person's sincerity may be, rotten is still rotten.
A Bad Seed's Pet
The Dog Tangled by a Snake
The Ye Gong Who Easily Disappears
A nontraditional bad ending: The male lead is responsible for 1.5 bad endings, and the girl is responsible for 0.5 happy endings, adding up to 1.0 bad ending.
Three niche Hong Kong film shorts. Their riddles correspond to Heaven, Humanity, and Earth.
Reader's note
Three short stories, just over ten thousand words each, all free to read.
The original plot and ending remain unchanged. I don't believe villains deserve happy endings, but I added some brighter extensions. You could call them a tiny, insignificant atonement in a fantasy about a pure-blooded bad seed after death.
Theme: Hold fast to your original, kind-hearted self.
