I think this is the most perfectly designed for me sequence in any drama
Can I ship Sannyang/Li Gexiao any harder? I mean, they were already damaged, deadly, honorable, with messed-up pasts, hot. So I thought nothing could make me ship them harder. Ep 12 proves that what seems impossible is not.
Though they need to work on Gexiao's major suicidal tendencies. Seriously, dude! Volunteering to drink poison as an experiment = not a road to long life!