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Omg ikr ! The saddest part of the drama was hearing that Kla’s only wish is for Tong to be happy, healthy, and have a loved one… and what about you? Your only wish is to win one basketball championship? 😭

Maybe I’m crazy, but I don’t wanna believe he’s gone yet haha Maybe a side effect of the perfume is reviving the dead?

I agree. I think it’s too early to tell if Kla is officially dead DEAD. As someone who just spent the evening reading the novel to see if Kla comes back, I can assure you the book is very different.
In the book, Mark and Tong are making out when Tong gets a phone call that Kla has overdosed. His body was found next to drugs and is currently being autopsied. He stays dead in the novel, so there is a possibility that the overall outline of the novel stays the same, but I was in shock reading the differences.

The novel kinda shaping up to be different though. So I started reading the book at the point of the most recent episode to see if Tonkla comes back, but everything in the book has been different so far. Like the general story beats are the same, but how they happen is very different.
For example, before Kla dies, Tong was told that the Golden Blood would kill him at 21, and he has a fight with Mark about whether he knew this or not. Mark does know this, upsetting Tong. So instead of having a fight about whether Mark is using his blood for good reasons, Tong fights with Mark for hiding the truth about his Golden Blood- maybe this will still happen, and everything is arranged differently in the book though. And then Tong gets drunk and decides he was going to loose his virginity so his blood wouldn’t be pure and maybe he’d live longer. He and Mark kiss passionately. And then he gets a phone call that Kla died from an overdose. He is told Kla’s dead body was found next to drugs and he is currently being autopsied (there is more behind this, but so far, this is what Tong knows).
There’s no mention about Tong’s blood being made into a special perfume antidote either.
So far none of this has happened in the show. Mark and Tong are in a relationship. Tong has DEFINITELY lost his virginity to Mark. They haven’t had this discussion about his 21st birthday being his death day. And Kla definitely doesn’t just “overdose”. We saw the poor boy get skewered 🥲
So I don’t know if Kla is dead for good. So much is different in the novel that it’s hard to be 100% sure where this story goes from here on out. Maybe the result will be the same, but the journey there is DEFINITELY different.

First 10 mins in and I’m not opposed, but I AM very confused 😵‍💫 Who are these characters, how do they know each other? Is public jacking off just a regular lunch break for the Dude 1? Is Dude 2 breaking in to rob Dude 1 only to get robbed of his virginity? Dude 2 has a “girlfriend”? Is the bridge really more secluded than the fountain? So many questions and I don’t even know the characters names yet 😆

Omg… I’m so sad…I thought maybe it was my imagination playing tricks on me or a fever dream… those scenes were some of the best part 😭

Were some scenes from Ep. 1-8 released on wowow cut from the original Youku Ep. 1-8, or am I just misremembering? I admit it's been a minute since I saw the first 8 episodes on Youku...

You’ve sold me! I’m all on board with this theory!

Favorited BLs Watched:
1. A Tale of Thousand Stars
2. Bad Buddy
3. Eternal Youth
4. Semantic Error
5. SOTUS
6. Seven Days
7. You Make Me Dance
8. Not Me
9. SOTUS S
10. Color Rush
11. Guardian
12. Roommates of Poongduck 304
13. Vice Versa
14. Kieta Hatsukoi
15. Silhouette of Your Voice

Favorite Dramas I Completed:

1. The Untamed
2. Ossan’s Love Returns
3. Kiseki: Dear to Me
4. Happy of the End
5. Love for Love’s Sake
6. My Stand- In
7. HIStory 3: Trapped
8. We Best Love: No. 1 For You & Fighting Mr. 2nd
9. Unknown
10. Love is Better the Second Time Around
11. 4 Minutes
12. Spare Me Your Mercy
13. Cosmetic Playover
14. HIStory 2: Cross the Line
15. Jazz for Two

Favorite Dramas I Watched:
1. Word of Honor
2. My Beautiful Man Series
3. Stay with Me
4. Kiseki: Dear to Me
5. The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
6. Theory of Love
7. Be My Favorite
8. Blueming
9. My School President
10. I Will Knock You
11. Jack o’ Frost
12. Love Class Season 2
13. Unintentional Love Story
14. Our Dating Sim
15. Our Dining Table

That’s so exciting! The show ended right as they brought in the suspected culprit… I even read the books because I thought they’d never drop the remaining episodes. I’m so pleasantly surprised!

So March 7th is the date it’s released in Japan? But April 3rd is the date that the 9th episode is released in Japan? I’m confused by the two dates; someone please break it down like I’m a kindergartener 😂

Thanks for being one of the first people I've seen on this platform to properly address the difference between bromance and censored BL!

Outside of the fact that that was one of the most traumatic parent reactions I've seen in recent BLs, my first thought was: how is Shen Nan getting water/food? There's bars on the window and no gap in the door. Unless the father went through psychopathic levels to keep him in there, like sneaking in at odd times and making random schedules to prevent Shen Nan from rushing and over powering him, I saw no food in that room... I don't know why I'm even fixated on this...😅

I feel so sorry for the ML…every episode is just him being raked across the coals by the FL. I kinda don’t want him and the FL to end up together…
Atp, I either wish he would tell her about his condition. Or he dies in her arms so she can realize that her revenge has blinded her from realizing what’s really important. Their love for each other. Then she’ll know all this lying was futile and she should’ve just enjoyed their reunion and the brief time they have together…and then she has to spend the rest of her life living in regret.

Wow! This is definitely going on my watch list! I’m excited to see Pond in another BL so soon! But… that hair cut is… really something… it’s unflattering, startling, fake looking, shaggy, and at some angles, pretty? I’ve never been so confused by a hair cut before 😅

EP. 5 Timestamp: 13:00 minutes
And I quote (WeTV): Don't worry. I won’t tell Cheng Fengjie anything. I’m deaf and mute.
Gaga/IQIYI: I can't hear and I can't speak.
Idk what else to tell you. Other than that he's NEVER said I'm NOT mute.

Thank you 😊

He told Zi Xiang that he is mute, so I'm just going based off what he told him in the show, but I agree that it could've happened when he was so young that maybe he doesn't feel comfortable speaking anymore.
But also, you can muteness from severe viral or bacterial infections, like meningitis- which can cause permanent speech loss and deafness.
So whatever rendered him deaf could've also left him permanently mute as well. It's hard to say without more details.