DramaMama

Most dramas...BL or Not that I have seen have never really fetishized grape or grapists to this extent. I haven't seen a grapist and abuser being described as "visually appealing object meant for entertainment".
If they do that , i will be sure to rip them apart in the reviews but I am sure nobody will dare to ship a female character with a grapist in 2025. That man will never become a romantic lead in a modern drama.

Romanticisation of the most henious criminals as lovers is a prime example of why the Fetishization here has crossed all bounds.
I am sorry but I don't think this is about BL vs straight as much as it is about THIS BL VS GOOD WRITING. I wouldn't justify this direction and defend this writer just because its not a woman being graped. I also don't think any of this is light hearted even though they did try to present the abuse as comedy. There's many chinese bromances as well as queer films with amazing depth for me to defend a badly written abuse saga

I feel personally attacked by this title

There's a lot of women who actually don't support content like this. Personally, I support queer content more because of their humane way of writing characters and its the most basic respect I can give to those creatives.

You don't get it. They won't to it in the modern genre in other dramas because the feminists will rightly rip them apart for unnecessary fetishization of grape.
But here, the empathy is less so you can go far with these things . Exept very few, most fandom will support it and the pros (money) are far more than cons. The drama isn't dark. The audience is!

That's ironocally the main target audience. Its sad because this shouldn't be for them.
I mean, MDL isn't actually taken seriously among lovers of good content in general. BL fans are almost like Kpop fans... its organised group of young ppl who are manipulated by producers and dragged into parasocial relationships. That's why they can rip you apart for disagreeing on the internet but the internet isn't the real world. In the real world, people understand marketing tactics...the manufactured "protect your idol" thing. I have worked with marketing folks.
So many of these young fans are unaware that "protect your idol/BL" is actually a well thought out marketing tactic to use people's emotions. That's what brings traffic.
There are better stories are queer content (for example, your name engraved herein) in the same language where the content is truly worth praising.

This drama reeks of fetishization of gay men for women...All the people who made the drama know it. This is exactly the audience they wanted to target. They didn't actually give any depth to it on purpose and if you think they are sorry for giving it soft porn flavor, you're wrong. I bet they wanted to make it more perverted because that would bring in more money. This isn't same quality queer content here.

Both chinese as well as western fans of the drama fetishize these men...the funny part is that they both blame each other for being more perverted because politics is also involved here. Overall, the producers understand that real life drama like this will only popularise their bad content so they deliberately let such things happen and even exaggerate it.

Let it be! Its the harsh reality of the world.

Omg...I can't believe mio Imada isn't here. Just started trillion game and she is truly very versatile man.

Waiiiitiiing

Woohooo...my favorite chinese actor

Well, to be fair, this drama had the most organised marketing and attacking any counter opinions was a part of that. For me, like I said, it didn't live upto the standard of chinese queer content or bromances. I didn't get attacked but I surely saw a desperate attempt to defend abuse and everything about this drama like some people's life depended on it

Omg...that's esther bruh...its her voice! Of course she is gonna keep it
Because she has excellent enunciation. You can watch my journey to you if you don't want that voice but this drama is actually darn good

Don't really rely on MDL ratings. You judge for yourself. If its not for you...its not! There's high rated kdramas of MDL that I didn't like at all.

I think you have described abuse romanticisation here. Iam sorry but i didn't think the narration was mature enough to be called dark because they have removed the dark parts...like how the person who is abused feels. How they suffer from trauma and ptsd after it, how it affects their view on relationship negatively. They tried to make comedy out of it. I actually remember watching a few dark romances surrounding stockhome syndrome (in the same genre). In those dramas/movies, the audience were shown a full range of emotions a victim of sa feels. I also remember that in the end, both guys end up together but we felt so uncomfortable about it. Everyone felt like something very wrong had happened. We wanted the victim to somehow escape. I am sorry i forgot the title of that movie, otherwise i would have cited in here. It was a random watch but traumatic enough to remember

Man, the first two don't even come close to the gems in the rest of the list. The first one was creepy to me

I am sorry that you had to see someone saying that your point of consent is stupid and this drama is above that. Its really not! No drama is. I don't reply to reviews but I can see that reviews like yours are getting attacked even though you have been very generous with the rating. I personally think its one of the worst BLs I have seen the ones that were all about abuse. The reason I consider it to be worse than even the worst ones is because the acting and direction was solid in those. The abused person was shown as a miserable victim and the actor expressed that without outwardly saying it. The abuser was shown as evil beyond redemption and the editing was done amazingly to deliberately make you uncomfortable. They made sure that despite sexual chemistry, I never dare to ship the abused with the abuser and nobody did that. They were not trying to make think that it was cute. Here, they were trying to make me think that the couple was cute and dark romantic which made it cringe worthy and unwatchable for me. You don't deserve the hate for not liking a bad drama.