As befits a game based on a period of history where nearly everyone dies horribly, there are a lot.
Fuchai
- Fuchai herself is put through the wringer in every route. And yet she always defeats the dragon god even if she dies in the process.
Yiguang
- Yiguang, who always seems so carefree and easy-going, telling you that if you died he'd die with you rather than live on alone. He does so in his BE.
Chenfeng
- The whole concept of Chenfeng is tragic in and of itself. He's the one love interest not based on a historical figure...because he's not important enough to go into the history books. He's just a war orphan picked off a battlefield by Fuchai's dad as a Replacement Goldfish for her dead dog. Fuchai is all he has, but he's useless to her when she's facing down kings and gods. He's helpless as he watches her suffer and be hurt, and it drives him to despair.
Wu Zixu
- Not only is his own route devastating, he'll make you cry in everyone else's routes too. Out of eight route endings, he dies in six of them, more than the protagonist herself. In the only ending where he outlives Fuchai, he gives up and allows himself to be killed on the spot rather than live on without her. As much as he fights with Fuchai, he admits in a heated moment that he considers her success and safety as king his sole reason for living, and he really will protect her at any cost.
- The letter. Just, the letter. He dies for you and *then he apologizes* for not having done more.
- His own route, where the Ng court tries to force Fuchai to kill him. She's willing to do anything to save him, even offer him her own body...which finally drives him to call her by her real name and admit he has feelings for her. But he rejects her offer, explaining ruthlessly to her that he needs to die for her to maintain control of the court, and he'll do it without regret if it can ensure her a future.
- Even though Fuchai hinted that he should fake his death, she can't be sure he survived that stab to the chest. She spends most of this route not knowing for sure if he's really alive or if he's dead on her orders.
- His dream sequence, where Fuchai gets to be there for him at his most broken and abject, just like he was there for her, and tell him how grateful she is for everything he did for her the way she never got to in life.
- His bad ending, where he charges through an enemy army like a madman in the vain hope of saving Fuchai, only to learn she's already dead when he reaches the altar, at which point he completely gives up on living and passively allows himself to be beheaded by the man who betrayed her, whom he'd so desperately tried to protect her from.
Goujian
- The thing is that Goujian's not wrong for being a Manipulative Bastard. His kingdom is at war with Fuchai's, and she's taken him prisoner, made him a slave, befriended him under false pretenses, and has the power of life and death over him. As he says, wouldn't Fuchai also try to win the sympathy of someone who can trample his people and have him killed with a word, if their positions were reversed? It doesn't have to mean anything. Unfortunately, it does mean something to him, and he deals very badly with it.
- The dream sequence implying that he'd cried in front of Fuchai over being given food, just because someone was treating him like a human being again.
- In his bad ending, he lives for another sixty years with the knowledge that he betrayed and killed the love of his life and never gets over it.
- In every other character's route endings, he's still not over you. If he sacked your capital, he's rebuilt it identically to the old one. If you faked your death, he's trying to track you down.
