tbh when i read 48 hours, it bothered me a lot how everything was just not rationalized well at all. i feel like the author is good at building conflict/emotions but not very good at actual logic. there was just a lot of things that made me go wtf, e.g. who the hell drinks alcohol when they're thirsty? WHO? wtaf @ the fact that out of 10 people, no one even knows alcohol = SEVERE DEHYDRATION GDI. also yes, the fact that no one bothered checking pulses. lol. a lot of things were left "unexplained", but to me a lot of it felt like poor rationalization. and tbh it also immediately felt to me xiuchen were blatantly cut from the story because china doesn't give a fuck about xiuchen.