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Okay, I have to start by saying that this is very, very silly. The plot is mostly dumb. I mean, it's genius, the whole idea of a straight boy coming up with a plan to get revenge on his ex-gf by seducing her new bf is just about absurd enough to be absolutely hilarious AND dramatic at the same time. And this show pulls off both! Still, it's hard to deny that many plot lines feel rushed or unfinished, many things that actually happen to the characters and all the action moments are really chaotic and weird and not believable… But what I realised right from the start is that not only do I not care about any of that but I also genuinely like that for this drama. I'm pretty sure that a lot of the things that make this show look deeply unserious exactly when it's actually dealing with serious stuff are that way because of how little budget they had for it, and then of course there's the fact that Asian BL dramas are generally known for having cartoonish plots of varying degree because that's not the point. But here it's really all so fitting that it made me appreciate it even more, and the silliness definitely adds to how charming this show is. I think I can put it like this: I adore all main character interactions even if most of the time the reasons for them to be interacting are kind of dumb. Anyway, it's brilliant.

I know, I'm just being extremely subjective and irrational because I'm so in love, but I'll be irrational then. So yeah, it’s my number one favorite BL of all time now because honestly it’s out of this world.

I’ve felt so many emotions it' s hard to describe. I literally haven’t felt this much about anything in my own life for months — maybe even years. The chemistry between the two leads is insane, and I guess it's a consensus at this point that it's what makes this show so great. All the other characters (except maybe Wang Zhen — I don’t mind him, but I don’t particularly care for him) are incredible too, but come on, Ziyu and Tian Xu Ning are the goats.

Those who watched the show already know how deep and touching their story is, how it's toxic at first, and then dramatic, and of course very sexy and romantic all through, so I won't talk more on that. But let me be a little shallow here for a moment because I just have to share. It's typical to appreciate how beautiful the leads in dramas are, even to thirst over their looks, we're all lovers of beautiful boys here so it's super normal. But I don't remember myself this crazy about the characters' looks in a long time... Like, I literally couldn't shut up looking at their cute little faces, I just had to scream about how cute they are in every frame. I had to voice how much I couldn't handle seeing Ziyu's adorable face and wanting to boop his nose and not being able to... And I just had to whine about Tian Xu Ning's fffffffing freckles... But yeah, it's about the characters, so I'll talk about the characters, like how Wu Suo Wei is the most precious foxy baby angel and Chi Cheng is a stunning drama king and the cutest tall-bean bad boy I remember seeing which is kind of crazy because he's a walking cliche but at the same time he really, astonishingly isn't. Anyway, the two of them are the prettiest, handsomest couple I’ve seen, quite possibly ever. They are just extremely cute and pretty. I’m honestly amazed at how gorgeous they both are — incredible-looking guys. Phew okay I'm done. For now...

And then the humour in this show… I wheezed with laughter more times than I can count. I suspect the translations available to us are far from perfect, not to say that it’s generally harder to translate Chinese and make it clear and funny - and I still was so, so entertained, even when I sometimes got confused by what was said or how it was phrased. I'm now feeling a desire to study Chinese that I can barely keep at bay, I really don't have the mental capacity for something like this right now but it's becoming a sort of obsession.

I also have to say that I hate the voice over aspect of Chinese dramas, but I want to express my appreciation for the voice actors and how perfect their voices suited the characters here, that can be said for everyone but especially the guy who voiced Guo Cheng Yu. I don't know how it would have been had it been possible for them to film like they do (almost) everywhere else in the world, of course it would have been better overall, but as it is I think the voice over (being obviously a voice over including all the fake ass sounds of footsteps, objects, environment, children's voices, etc) was done well - I mean, again, the actors who voiced the main characters. And yes, Ziyu who voiced himself is an especially bright little star and I love his voice with all my heart.

I love almost all the music. There are two English songs that appear only once around episodes 20-21-22 that weren't really necessary, but all the others, like the theme songs for the couples and the op and ed and MOST OF ALL the theme song for Suo Wei's mom and house - gorgeous.

The speed at which disturbing moments (though there weren’t that many of them here, and I’m grateful for that) switch to unhinged hilarity is genuinely insane but then again, it's the world of Asian TV for you (I love it). Korean dramas got me kind of used to simply having absurd comedy and heart-wrenching tragedy in one show, Thai dramas radically closed the gap between how quickly one can replace the other, and here, in this beautiful mess of a Chinese drama, it all gets just kind of mushed together — and I don’t even care at this point. I just watch with my mouth open. I don’t even register whether I’m laughing or gawking or screaming or crying, or why exactly I'm doing any of those things. I’m just enjoyin seein ma boys.

I realise now that the most content heavy parts of this review are the one where I shit on the plot and that other shallowly thirst over the actors' looks............... but you gotta believe me, my love for this show is DEEP. So will be yours, go watch it, or rewatch it, because I'm going to do just that anyway, so see you on Y**tube I guess