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Great fun
If you’re looking for a fun and flirty BL that focuses on the heart rather than the NC scenes then this is one for you.
The plot focuses on three years in the engineering faculty of a university. As part of the buddy / peer mentor/ ice breaker system, each new student picks a mentor from a jar to help them get to meet people they would not socialise with otherwise. The opening scene is in a bar where the newly enrolled Wine is introduced by his peer mentor, Yotha’s mentor Arm who starts to tell the story of his own experiences as a newby and the bond he builds with his fellow Perfect 10 Liners, a group famous for its good looks and huge fan base.
The first third of the drama follows Arm as he sits in the bar and recounts how he picked the Perfect 10 Liners group and met his mentor Pun who then introduces him to Arc and this section is all about their love story. I just knew this drama would be a doozy from the moment Arm sent a picture to the ‘Engineering Cute Boys’ IG account of a random hot guy he knew nothing about who turned out to be his ‘Perfect 10 Liner’ senior Arc. What he didn’t know was that Arc hated having his photos taken and swore he would kill the kid who posted it.
The second section of the drama is where we find out about the second year Perfect 10 Liner initiate Yotha a jaded, clinical Irish twin who thought his younger brother, Faifa, was a much better person than him and deserved all the love he didn’t think he should be entitled to. He meets Gun who is afraid of the dark and insisted on sleeping with all the lights whereas his roomie, Sand, who realised that this was a serious problem for Gun can’t sleep because he needs darkness. Faifa, hearing about this situation offers to swap rooms because his brother ‘rarely sleeps at the dorm anyway’. After Yotha and Gun initially clash, they start to become aware that they are both seriously hurting and after one particular incident they start to realise they could just be what the other needs to heal.
The final section is all about Faifa who finally bumps into Wine when Wine comes to the university for an pre-enrolment orientation course. They meet again once more and then for the third time Wine picks a Perfect 10 Liner ticket from the jar. Over time they push past misunderstandings and insecurities as one learns to be brave and the other to focus on his own wants and desires.
There are plenty of amusing scenes, one of my favourites (which had me chuckling for ages afterwards) being when one of the professors on the interview panel comments to one of the others that the students are just getting weirder, moments after a flashback to Arm and Gun’s interviews in which they made the craziest comments related to themselves.
My only criticism would be the unrealistic intimate moments. There were no bodice ripping, passionate kiss scenes when finally floodgates open. The lead up to a night of passion tended to be quick pecks on cheeks and foreheads and while I get that the actors are just playing a part and are not necessarily gay, there was no real chemistry in these scenes - there are plenty of camera angles, lighting directions and hand and body placements that could have been employed to make things appear more passionate without crossing any boundaries.
Would I watch it again? Probably not but I really enjoyed this one nevertheless
The plot focuses on three years in the engineering faculty of a university. As part of the buddy / peer mentor/ ice breaker system, each new student picks a mentor from a jar to help them get to meet people they would not socialise with otherwise. The opening scene is in a bar where the newly enrolled Wine is introduced by his peer mentor, Yotha’s mentor Arm who starts to tell the story of his own experiences as a newby and the bond he builds with his fellow Perfect 10 Liners, a group famous for its good looks and huge fan base.
The first third of the drama follows Arm as he sits in the bar and recounts how he picked the Perfect 10 Liners group and met his mentor Pun who then introduces him to Arc and this section is all about their love story. I just knew this drama would be a doozy from the moment Arm sent a picture to the ‘Engineering Cute Boys’ IG account of a random hot guy he knew nothing about who turned out to be his ‘Perfect 10 Liner’ senior Arc. What he didn’t know was that Arc hated having his photos taken and swore he would kill the kid who posted it.
The second section of the drama is where we find out about the second year Perfect 10 Liner initiate Yotha a jaded, clinical Irish twin who thought his younger brother, Faifa, was a much better person than him and deserved all the love he didn’t think he should be entitled to. He meets Gun who is afraid of the dark and insisted on sleeping with all the lights whereas his roomie, Sand, who realised that this was a serious problem for Gun can’t sleep because he needs darkness. Faifa, hearing about this situation offers to swap rooms because his brother ‘rarely sleeps at the dorm anyway’. After Yotha and Gun initially clash, they start to become aware that they are both seriously hurting and after one particular incident they start to realise they could just be what the other needs to heal.
The final section is all about Faifa who finally bumps into Wine when Wine comes to the university for an pre-enrolment orientation course. They meet again once more and then for the third time Wine picks a Perfect 10 Liner ticket from the jar. Over time they push past misunderstandings and insecurities as one learns to be brave and the other to focus on his own wants and desires.
There are plenty of amusing scenes, one of my favourites (which had me chuckling for ages afterwards) being when one of the professors on the interview panel comments to one of the others that the students are just getting weirder, moments after a flashback to Arm and Gun’s interviews in which they made the craziest comments related to themselves.
My only criticism would be the unrealistic intimate moments. There were no bodice ripping, passionate kiss scenes when finally floodgates open. The lead up to a night of passion tended to be quick pecks on cheeks and foreheads and while I get that the actors are just playing a part and are not necessarily gay, there was no real chemistry in these scenes - there are plenty of camera angles, lighting directions and hand and body placements that could have been employed to make things appear more passionate without crossing any boundaries.
Would I watch it again? Probably not but I really enjoyed this one nevertheless
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