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Welcome to the RL brainrot 😂

I agree, some people think that if you criticise something they love or have a different opinion it's like a personal attack on them. But it's not, we all have different baggage and preferences and everybody cannot like the same thing. While I loved this series to bits and got the full-on brainrot, I can still see why some people can't get past certain elements of it, and that's fine. But also, if someone has misinterpreted something, being hostile and dismissive isn't how you have a conversation that might change their mind. That will just make them dig in their heels. Let's not play into that whole partisan fandom thing. Love what you love, and let others love what they love. Diversity is good.

Sometimes it doesn't matter how calm and factual you try to be, though. Some people only want to pick fights, and then you have to choose whether you want to lower yourself to their level or walk away.

What do you mean? Here on MDL? Just don't interact with any gay series if you don't like them. Coming to the comment section of a LGBTQ themed series and commenting there is not how you avoid recommendations

Yeah, there was a Thai version as well. I dropped that midway though but it ended at around the same place as SWM (I think) and hasn't been renewed for a second season afaik.

I'm watching it too, but it's not close to RL in my mind. Too slow, nothing much is happening so far, the plot isn't plotting, I feel more frustration than enjoyment, but I'll still continue. With RL there wasn't a boring or slow moment even when it was frustrating. The script and the pacing was better.

Viki, Gaga and RevengedLove YT are the official platforms. KissKH is a pirate site that hosts pirated uploads.
I don't have different tiers on Viki, I have just standard and can watch it no problem. Maybe that's a regional thing? I'm in Europe. Viki has the better subs though.

"A Country Scene" with Qian Li

Stay With Me is the remake of Addicted, but sadly it never got to continue the storyline either. Every single Addicted adaptation has been cursed that way.

Sometimes BL veers a bit too far into the fantasy realm LOL

Oooh, interesting! I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me!

Yes, and I also think it's a pride thing for guys to not refer to themselves as the "wife" since there's still a status thing involved when it comes to genders. In English you can just say "son-in-law" and "spouse" without implying the gender of the direct subject, but that doesn't really seem to be possible in Chinese.

媳妇 (xífù) is also the word WSW uses when he visits his parents' grave later and talks about Chi Cheng. It's translated as both "wife" and "daughter-in-law" on Gaga. So I think this is just how they would refer to their partner in front of their parents.

It's like it was written by a thirteen year old with no experience and no emotional maturity

AI is the only valid excuse for this trainwreck, seriously

After last week, I decided to give it one more episode to get some answers. But this episode was nothing but even worse writing than last week. No clarifications, just attempts to smooth over and find excuses, "there's always a reason", and Knight saying "it's not the whole story" means that it actually happened, he just had... extenuating circumstances? Sorry, but there are no extenuating circumstances for outright SA and r*pe. This is not the kind of ambiguous situation where people might have misunderstood or misinterpreted what was happening. This is too frustrating.
And Mild, being told that he's a "coward" for not being able to face his attacker and then letting him kiss him and hug him... no, sorry, that doesn't really make any sense at all, unless, you know, THEY ARE IN FACT ROMANTICISING A R*PIST. And the promised explanation? Nowhere in sight. I don't think I can put up with more of this purely out of hope for a clarification that might never arrive.

If this was the kind of dark series where everyone is more or less twisted, I might have been able to stomach that, but here they are trying to make it an emotional journey or something, without even getting any of the emotions right. Nothing makes sense. I was going "wtf" throughout the entire episode. I just can't.

I foolishly thought this might be a new start for Lee Longshi, but nope.

40 full-length eps per series/season (for anything other than an ever-running soap opera) is standard only in China, I think. Even Korean series don't tend to be that long, and Japanese series tend to be 8-16 episodes at the most, and often with a shorter runtime as well. Even American TV series don't normally exceed 24 episodes per season. With streaming based series these days they are sometimes much shorter. The reason is the huge Chinese population, no other country has a viewer base that big, so they can afford to make dramas with that kind of length.

Thank you! I'm always interested in the hidden layers, the hints and aspects that tend to fly completely over our heads as western viewers, simply because we don't have the cultural references.

I fear for the ending.

It definitely got much better in episodes 3 and 4, it feels a lot more coherent and there aren't so many confusing time skips and flashbacks.

Just out of their teens

I saw only one pic. But I didn't check if there was some kind of menu to see other pics.