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Yes. I feel like a lot of people are no longer interested in a well-written story or characters. Give them some pretty surface, and they'll love it.

I don't think it's worth it. Very underwhelming.

I still think it's weird and unprofessional since he had to know what he's getting into, but fortunately, it was just a small moment, and I think it works ok with his character the way he is portrayed.

Ling Jiu Shi's actor is mostly terrible :( However, the series is very good, minus the nonsense ending. It works best when you read the novel and understand what's going on. The music, the vibes, the acting of other people are amazing.

I still can't let go of the pilot, which is why I keep watching even though I find almost everything here bland and disappointing. There is so much potential indeed, especially in the first episodes, but it all has been going nowhere.

You are right, it's a fact that the majority of women have rape fantasies. I've read these studies because I've been enjoying this aspect of darker romances since I was a teen, and I still love it. I love romance in general in fiction, but I'm aromantic in real life. It astonishes me that so many people seem unable to tell fiction and reality apart.

MC is very strong and smart here, and he makes ML pay for everything in a pretty satisfying way. ML is psychopathic, and he's utterly obsessed with MC, which is why he does most of these toxic things. Their relationship is definitely unhealthy, but when they are together and they have no conflicts, they are actually very harmonious and well-suited. I think it's definitely worth watching, it's the smartest and the most beautiful dark romance I've ever seen, but it's very toxic and psychologically challenging.

ML drugs MC several times, molests him, regularly invades his privacy, stalks him, and blackmails him. There is also severe dubious consent in this series because MC has to sleep with ML when he doesn't really want to: he agrees to it, but as a result of blackmail.

Yes. I'll describe some of his actions below under a spoiler tag if you want to check for triggers.

But didn't he know what kind of role he's auditioning for?

Just started watching; Zhen Xin looks like a teen, so I can't take him seriously in the role of a psychiatrist... Doesn't it look ridiculous? Is it meant to be like this? And Zhang Zhun is so weird, he says he wants to be an actor, but then he keeps saying he's not ready for a scene (even at the rehearsal stage), and it hardly feels like he read the script.

Yeah, and he began to judge him so quickly and based on pretty much nothing but rumors :( At least in the novel, LJ does catch BJ lying directly and witnesses him doing some disturbing things.

Wait until E31! It almost got me to cry. I'd never think this was possible during the first half of this show, when I couldn't stomach listening to FL for a single minute without cringing :D

I was really struggling, too, but I'm glad I pushed through. It got so interesting later on, and FL stopped being as childishly annoying, at least for me.

Thank you so much! Turns out I had this series bookmarked, but I didn't watch it. Will bump it up my to-watch list!

Enigmas were like a theory, yes: they established they might exist, but no one knew if they do exist. About the breeding programs, I don't think ABO Desire had this kind of arc? Unless you mean Gao Tu's mother?

In ABO Desire? No one even really knew Enigmas are real there.

I don't know who Dua Ziang is, but out of the three I do know, I would vote for Fan Xiao and Hua Yong. If I had to choose just one, I'd pick Hua Yong simply because he stayed loyal and obsessed for like 15 years; Fan Xiao is yet to catch up. As for Lu Feng, I never felt like he actually loves Yichen, so I wouldn't call him devoted. He's obsessed and crazy for sure, but he never bothers to understand what Yichen is feeling or thinking. He just doesn't seem all that interested in his personality, like we can see from the mother plot, the kidnapping and the hospital arcs.

Barely toxic, to the point where I'm wondering why the main character was ever presented like some big red flag. Makes little sense to me.

Yeah, I don't think it makes sense in the series. The novel explains it much better.