Is there a trick to help me with character names

I’m watching Nirvana In Fire and the cast is huuuge! Plus, all the scheming and factions and plotting. I’m constantly pausing the show to google who TF they’re talking about lol 🫠

I was thinking about it and I believe my difficulty lies in the fact that the names are short and many are similar to my western eyes (like Li and Lin). Because when I watched LBFAD I didn’t have this problem, for instance with Dongfang Qincang (which I’ve seen some people write Dong Fang Qin Cang, but in the Netflix subtitles it was written the other way).

So is there a trick you use to remember names if you don’t speak mandarin like me?

(Or maybe I just have a problem with names and extensive casts… because when reading War and Peace I also had to use an index, but in that case the names were also similar due to nomenclature rules in Russian families.)