[English] Ending and Achievement Guide

There are no real English text guides. The bad endings of the game are pretty self explanatory. So instead, I will explain how to get all achievements and "secret" endings based on my completion of the game, along with the chinese guides.

You should play out the game yourself and complete it, only using this guide if you want to max out achievements or are stuck on what options to choose.

Achievements

Achievement: Charge Ahead

In Chapter 1, show willingness to take the job.
Then, later in chapter 3 after Man Sui kills you and you disarm her, choose the first option to "Cut the chatter, just hit her"

Well-versed in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 4, select Lu-Bu.

Careful Consideration

Chapter 1, Scope out the lambs first.
Chapter 6, Don't share food with the villagers.

Upholding the virtues of men

Chapter 8, don't hold her hands.
Chapter 9, don't hold her hands

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

Achieve all the above 15 achievements. Presumably 100% story too.

Endings

Ending: Killed by the Cat

Chapter 2, Step back fast. You die.

Ending: Killed by the Soldiers

Chapter 5, Strike immediately. You die.

Ending: Mutual Destruction

Chapter 9 end, Trust Tongue. He will lie to you, and the next day, two of his goons will kill you.

Ending: Killed by the rebel army

Chapter 12, sprint away. You will get shot and killed by the deserter soldiers

Ending: Payback

Chapter 13, First option money in. You choose to sell the three girls off, and go to Luoyang with Man Sui. On the way, you fall asleep, and she kills you, taking revenge for you having killed her father and not changing.

Favorability points:

Chapter 12, General Li's rebel army. Choose to negotiate, +1. Fight straight away, 0 points
Chapter 14, On the cart to Luoyang. Say you regret killing, +1. No regret, 0 points
Chapter 15, After the beggar child comes. Top option gives them coins, +2. Bottom option admonishes them, 0 points.

Ending: Wordless

Achieve 0-1 favorability. This way, you have successfully did everything you shouldn't do. Man Sui disappears. She tries to kill the Swine Demon but fails and gets killed. She keeps your portrait with her, implicating you and getting you captured and executed as well.

Ending: Flee Quickly

Achieve 2 favorability. I believe any combination of achieving two points works. The best "bad ending" Man Sui still has thoughts of revenge, but doesn't entirely hate you anymore. She disappears again, but leaves a word telling you to run away. You manage to escape, but find out that like the previous ending, she failed and implicated you. You eventually grow tired of running, and confront the guards. You make a proclamation, calling out the Swine Demon for his sins. You realize you became the hero you idolized and wanted to be as a child. Although those hiding and watching you were mostly sheep, some showed determination, engraving your figure. You had become their heroes. Although you did everything bad, you did one good thing at the end, and get killed by the guards, leaving a spark of hope and rebellion.

Ending: Gone

Achieve High but not max favor. (3 points) Man Sui doesn't proceed with the assassination or framing. Instead, she informs you of your past and relation with her father, and disappears forever. You live, she presumably drowns herself in the river.

Bodies of the Starved

True Ending Intro:
Achieve max favor. Choose all correct options: Negotiate with General Li, Regret killing people, and Give the beggars money. Man Sui realizes you have changed, and doesn't kill herself or you. Instead, she decides to run away, but you meet her at the river. This is the intro to the two true endings of the game. You decide to push the blame onto the terrible world and corrupt officials, specifically the Swine Demon. From here on out, there are two options, each leading to the following true endings.

Real Conclusion: Together in Death

Choose to kill the Swine Demon together. Beautiful ending. You and Man Sui devise a plan to assassinate the Swine Demon under the guise of performing shadow play. You succeed, and there are a few amazing frames. After killing him successfully, you two get barraged by the archers and guards, and die together. Then, your spirits go in peace to a land free of suffering or starvation.

Real Conclusion: Living Life Together

Choose to join the rebel army. My favorite ending. You join the rebel army with a promise to kill the Swine Demon, and Man Sui will spare you until this promise is complete. In the end, you meet with a now grown up and beautiful Man Sui, and you go together to go meet the girls you saved and left with Kite.

[Sora_Plays1]

to reach bodies of the starved you have to reach 2 endings other than died halfway.
that way you'll unlock Chapter 7 of Sui's story and bodies of the starved will be unlocked for you once getting max affinity by doing everything the guide says from chapter 12.

[rouzoro]

Was stuck with the Gone ending despite following the options, but I figured out that I had to select 'Give the beggars a scolding' and then go back to choose the options again. Now I've reached Bodies of the Starved!

[Salome]

Loved every ending every one of them was emotionally beautiful.

[Salome]

appreciate the guide. Js managed to 100% the endings thanks to you!!!

[Luoqiu_Is_Autumn]

good

[Aurore]

I have tried to retrace my steps couple of times, and I was able to achieve true ending. On the top of 3 answers that are suggested, one thing I changed in my play through to make Liang change even more visible, was saying "No" to Man Sui in the bath house scene when she asked " If I said I don't want revenge and won't go to Luoyang, would you let me go?" please tell me if I'm correct

[Salep]

the reason why u guys still dont get the ending u want is this guide is crap with missing information. just google translate the chinese one

[lucarioaur]

whats considered favotiable

[sssawfish]

For "Upholding the virtues of men" the two choices to hold hands are on chapter 8 and 9, not 9 and 10 like the guide says.

[WaterConnoisseur]

Found out why, you need to get the other endings first