Character Relationship Map: Terrorizers

Characters

• Zhou Yufang (played by Cora Miao) — protagonist

  Zhou Yufang is a depressed writer struggling with the emotional aftermath of a miscarriage and the collapse of her marriage. She begins an affair with her former newspaper boss, leaves Li Lizhong, and...

• Li Lizhong (played by Lee Li-Chun) — supporting

  Li Lizhong is a hospital employee whose ambition is threatened when he frames a colleague to improve his chances of promotion. After Zhou Yufang leaves him, his professional failure and jealousy inten...

• Police Chief (played by Ku Pao-Ming) — supporting

  The Police Chief is a friend of Li Lizhong who drinks with him while Li falsely claims to have received the promotion. Li steals his gun after spending the night at his home. The Police Chief later wa...

• Shu An's Mother (played by Liu Ming) — supporting

  Shu An's Mother intervenes when Shu An is preparing to visit Li Lizhong after making a disturbing prank call. By catching her before she leaves, she temporarily prevents the planned confrontation and...

• Shu An (played by Wang An) — supporting

  Shu An is an aimless young woman involved with the criminal Da Shun. She injures her leg while escaping a police raid, makes anonymous prank calls, and becomes the subject of Little Qiang's photograph...

• Little Qiang (played by Shao-Chun Ma) — supporting

  Little Qiang is an unemployed photographer who photographs Da Shun's arrest and captures an image of Shu An watching it. He rents the gang's apartment as a darkroom, becomes obsessed with Shu An, and...

• Da Shun (played by Yu An-shun) — supporting

  Da Shun is Shu An's criminal boyfriend and a member of the gang whose apartment is raided at the beginning of the story. He is arrested but later released, allowing him to reunite with Shu An. He subs...

• Little Qiang's Girlfriend (played by Chia-ching Huang) — supporting

  Little Qiang's Girlfriend is distressed by the photographs of Shu An that he displays in their apartment. While he is away photographing strangers, she attempts suicide, revealing the emotional damage...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Shu An's Mother → Shu An (mother)
• Little Qiang → Little Qiang's Girlfriend (Strained Romantic Partners) — Qiang's fixation on Shu causes a severe rupture, but he and his girlfriend later reconcile.

  The plot identifies her as Qiang's girlfriend. Upset by the photographs of Shu displayed in their apartment, she attempts suicide; after Qiang receive...

• Little Qiang → Shu An (Romantic Unrequited Obsession) — Qiang's fascination grows from a photograph into an intense, unreturned attachment; Shu steals his camera and leaves with Shun.

  Qiang photographs Shu watching Shun's arrest, later creates a collage of her image, admits he is obsessed with her, and asks her to be with him when h...

• Shu An → Da Shun (Romantic Criminal Lovers) — Their relationship reconnects after Shun's release and becomes part of their joint scheme to extort men.

  Shu flees a police raid with her criminal boyfriend Shun. After his release, she leaves with him, and later he helps her seduce and extort men.

• Zhou Yufang → Li Lizhong (Family Estranged Spouses) — Their marriage deteriorates after Zhou's miscarriage and emotional isolation; her departure intensifies Li's jealousy and desperation.

  The plot identifies Li as Zhou's husband. Zhou leaves him because he is ignorant of her pain, and he later pleads with her to return and tries to forc...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Little Qiang → Da Shun (Unknown Photographer And Subject) — Qiang's photograph of Shun's arrest also captures Shu watching, setting the image-based connection between Qiang and Shu in motion.

  During the police raid, Qiang photographs Shun being arrested.

• Li Lizhong → Little Qiang (Narrative Unwitting Informant And Target) — Qiang's photographs and contact with Li connect Shu's story to Li's suspicion and escalating violence.

  After recognizing Zhou's picture in the newspaper and learning what her novel concerns, Qiang contacts Li and gives him photographs of Shu and Shun.

• Zhou Yufang → Shu An (Narrative Indirectly Entangled Strangers) — Their lives become connected through Shu's misleading phone call, which contributes to the misunderstandings surrounding Zhou and Li.

  Shu makes a prank call asking Zhou to meet at the apartment to settle something with Li, but Shu's mother stops her from going. Zhou later visits the...

• Li Lizhong → Police Chief (Social Friend) — Their friendship provides Li access to the weapon he takes before the final violence.

  Li drinks with his police chief friend and falsely claims he received the promotion. He stays at the friend's home and steals his gun the next morning...

Story Analysis

Interlocking lives, desires, and misunderstandings turn private distress into escalating violence and an unresolved ending.

Plot Progression

1. Arrest and Interwoven Lives — Shu escapes a police raid while Qiang photographs Shun's arrest. Zhou struggles with depression and marital strain as Li schemes for a hospital promotion.
2. Calls Across the City — Zhou returns to newspaper work while Qiang's fixation on Shu damages his relationship. Shu's prank call draws Zhou toward the apartment and deepens the connection between the separate lives.
3. Separation and Obsession — Zhou leaves Li, while Shu reunites with Shun and resumes robbing men. Qiang's confession and photographic collage reveal the depth of his attachment to Shu.
4. Violence and Uncertainty — Zhou's award-winning novel and Qiang's photographs feed Li's suspicions as his professional hopes collapse. Li takes a gun, commits violence, and the final scenes leave key events and Zhou's condition...