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I knew I saw him from somewhere! He's definitely Kao's deadringer!

It is readily implied in the drama. What novel? This drama is original work.

it was his ex bf that's why tan yin walked out when he saw it

This is one of the major misconceptions of the west about China, that everyone in China is straight, lmao. ISTG they are just as wild and open as those in America. only difference is that they don't receive the same rights and recognition

I loved the still life room scene at the end of ep 3. the blue lighting with yellow flashes, paired with that ambient music, highlighting the intensity between the two boys who were very close to crossing each other's lines... it was so good.

i felt that The Spirealm was more of a bromance, haven't finished it though.

^^This! How can we encourage more LGBT productions from China if we're just going to boycott? Even though the BL market in China is growing, its sadly dominated by overseas productions. In fact, over the past 3 years I think only "Stay with Me" and "In Your Heart" were the only local BL productions to come out of China

i find it strange though that he learned how to speak so fast lol. unless he only became deaf later in life, I can understand that

I am not watching S2 if Xubin and Jiongmin won't be in it. THEY made Season 1. I'm afraid this will end up as another Addicted Thailand.

man, people in MDL are definitely NOT fans of time skips lol. this is like the fourth comment section where I've seen people endlessly complaining about it

All of those questions are not actually answered in Ep. 3-4. We will have to watch the remaining episodes to find out. Hwang Daseul is like this, she likes to leave out some key details and let her audience figure things out, and then explain everything in the last few eps. It's her own way of adding suspense.

if I focus too hard, I can trick my mind into believing that Orca doesn't have those fugly extensions on his head. And you know what, he looks wayyyyyyy better without them.

The teams behind this drama and the movie are completely unrelated, am I right? they just coincidentally decided to adapt the same novel at the same time?

Don't you fret my sisters, I'll go on a temple pilgrimage (in Beijing and Shanghai at least LOL) to make sure our prayers are heard!! this drama deserves to be SEEN

I will be going on a trip to China in a few weeks and I WILL find a temple, light up some incense sticks, and pray to the GODS that this drama will see the light of day again

OHMYYY GAGAOOLALA FINALLY PICKED IT UP

Not that strict in recent years. I am aware of how the Addicted (2016) boys were treated but China has become lenient since then. Probably censoring BLs would be all they can do now (like what they did to Spirealm and Blue Canvas). Nonetheless several magazines in China are flying in a LOT of BL stars recently for photoshoots and they have not been censored. They started to recognize the growing popularity of the genre.

They're not exactly crucifying LGBT people in the country, they just turn a blind eye on them I guess.

Finally finished it... I guess some of the reviews here are true, the latter episodes are better than the first ones. but still it's nowhere near the good JBLs out there.

This is Yoji Iwase's show without a doubt, his presence alone carries the whole series. Taishin, though well meaning, can get quite annoying with his slow-ass talking. I don't have a lick of knowledge of Japanese, but I can recite every word spoken by Taishin after he speaks with 100% accuracy... that's how SLOW he speaks lmao.

I also felt that the editing was quite choppy and should have been polished further post-production. But all in all, there really is nothing to see here except for Takara's visuals

Ep. 8... at least we got rid of Neil's godAWFUL wig in Ep. 3, but when do they finally rip off those repulsive extensions from Orca's head?

So as I've said before, the production design, hair & makeup, OST, and cinematography are all topnotch -- even made me want to go back to Kaohsiung despite it being too deserted for my taste -- but the story really needs a strong push forward. We are already in Episode 8 and things are still taking time to manifest. Two absolute BANGERS that I loved in this episode though --- Orca's song and Reese's body... I mean DAMN, I did not see that coming.

I liked how gritty and un-fabulous this drama was, more BLs should be like this. The only BL that had the same grittiness as this one was My Tee (Cause You're My Boy).