Help! Trapped in a Crazy BL Novel

Lee Dae Won is a greedy heffa

I love these dumb ass short dramas, my god. This one lowkey had a lot happening, but you know what, I love that. I would rather have a lot happening than nothing at all. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10, and I am going to lay out the pros and cons and be done with this show.

Pros:

The main side guy, who's actually the main love interest, is lowkey so bad; I love him. The main main guy, who became the side guy, is also kind of sexy, but a tad hard to look at, and he looks vaguely similar to Sunghoon's doppelganger left cousin (the side MAIN guy) left cousin's cousin. If you are picking up what I am putting down right now...

Next up, the plot is actually so fun. Like, of course it seems like your basic trapped in a BL novel, but the main lead, Lee Dae Won, street name Greedy Heffa, is so aware, so that made it so much better. Every time his character did anything cringe, like fainting, he was like, there's no fucking way this is happening, and I love that. It really brings a comedic aspect to it all and makes this a fun watch.

Yeah, this was really good for what it was, and I think they did have a few irrelevant side characters... wait, I'm mixing up my shows right now. No, they didn't; there was lowkey no one else but that dumb landlord. And I love the love triangle vibe, and I usually don't, but for our main guy who became the side so fast, oh my god, we could have at least had him in a little bit longer, but whatever.

Eveeybody dies in their nightmares ah story, and I say hell yeah to that. Like I think the love interest finding out about the book and about how he was going to die was actually pretty interesting, and I wish they alluded to that sooner and built more on that because I thought that was actually really fun.

Love a good enemies-to-lovers mixed in there; always really fun to see.

Okay, I am going to talk about this in my cons because it is one of the biggest downsides of this show, but besides the AI I actually really liked the part with the book changing. I feel like we could have hired somebody to do that instead of draining the ocean, but you know what, whatever. I really did like that part. It was a really fun edition about how it kept changing. I think it did a pretty good job of keeping the audience on edge with the forever-changing kind of vibe.

My final pro was the ending message, like you learn to live with what you have. Like I love that, because I really thought he was going to be trapped in this world forever and live happily ever after, but he didn't, and I love that, like a lot. That was good writing.

Cons:

AI. THEY ARE IN THE WALLS. BRO, THEY SHOULD PUT CHATGPT AS ONE OF THE MAIN DIRECTORS BECAUSE I BE DAMNED HOW MUCH THEY USED IT. I feel like for most of these shows it's actually quite easy to ignore, but this one, it's impossible; this shit is everywhere, bro, you see it even when you close your damn eyes. Like, hey, how hard is it to pay someone? Pay them with the money you spent on ChatGPT Premium, come on now.

The main guy who got pushed to the side is lowkey chopped.

ALSO WHY DIDN'T WE PICK BOTH? COME ON NOW YOU GREEDY HEFFA.

And finally, the ending was mid. I think that this whole show was pretty good, and then they kind of played in the face with the ending, and I hate that. Like, it was such a lackluster ending; come on now. I feel like we could have had them meet earlier and had an actual happy ever after instead of playing in my face and leaving it up for interpretation kind of thing. Like we just suck at writing at that point. But whatever.

I thought this was pretty fun. If you pay for iQIYI, it comes with it, so def watch, but don't pay for it lmao. But go them; this kind of ate (ignoring them draining the entire ocean), and I would recommend. Okay bye!

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I hate verticals

I really do hate vertical shorts they usually lack story and fail to hook me but this drama, man. The concept of the story was amazing, it had me absolutely hooked. Why did they make this a vertical? The story had so much potential and I would have loved to see it played out as a proper drama with more time for character depth and a more well played out ending. I’m being serious when I say this drama would have done numbers if it wasn’t a vertical.

All this aside, genuinely surprised a short was able to grip me this hard and will definitely be giving other shorts more of a chance because it was an extremely enjoyable watch even if I have a few criticisms.

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Surprisingly a vertical with good writing ??

I accidentally stumble upon this while browsing IQiyi. A few times i avoided it because the cover gave an AI impression so I was worried it was another IQiyi slop.

BUT IT WAS NOT!

The plot has kinda the same premise as Love For Love's Sake: the ML has a shitty life, then after passing out (in this case getting his by a truck lmao), Isekai-ed into a BL novel.

The short has a mix of light comedy and emotional parts. Nearing the end when Leejung finds out about everything and wanted to save Daewoon from dying in the novel was sad as hell 😭

BUT IT IS A HAPPY CUTE END, where their roles from in the novel were reverse (q-q)

I really recommend watching this to pass your time!

But WARNING: I think they do use AI for the novel book cover, and maybe the still shots of the buildings (which was honestly weird).

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vertical series, where main character goes into a BL book

Overall: one of the better vertical series. 1-11 free to watch. 53 episodes about 2 minutes each. Aired on Shortime app (my referral link is https://playground.shortime.en/invite/NKNIWI (all letters) and it should get you a bonus) and iQIYI app

Content Warnings: death (it's complicated/kind of), blood, manipulation, threatened suicide

What I Liked
- a misunderstood character (appeared to be a delinquent but wasn't)
- I laughed a few times

Room For Improvement
- love triangle though it ddn't bother me as much
- stood there staring in the middle of traffic

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