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I'm a fan of both dramas and it just makes me sad when people get partisan about them and try to sow discord in the fandoms. It's not a war. We can support both.
RL is also pretty morally grey but it's set in the real world so the premises are different. Personally I'm all here for both repressed-obsessed Chi Cheng and batshit crazy unhinged Hua Yong LOL

They were implying that being a RL fan means being a hater of ABO Desire. Which is a super reductive way to look at it and also not correct, since I am proof that it's possible to be a fan of both.

I agree that none of the characters in RL even come close to the unhinged craziness that is Hua Yong, but that doesn't mean that they aren't red flags. All of them. Did it become less toxic toward the end? Yes, but I'm betting ABOD will get sweet toward the end as well, because that's how romance works.

LOL are you actually calling RL "safe and sweet" 😂
You do know it's possible to like both series, right? You don't have to be a hater of one just because you like the other.

Yep. Save yourself the bother. That time could be better spent.

I decided to not watch the latest episode until I had time to come here and read everyone's verdict... and now I'm glad I did. Thank you everyone for your sacrifice 😂

Gaga is re-releasing all three films in September, the first one is uncensored including deleted scenes, dropping on September 3rd. (Two and three are from 2017 and 2018 so I'm assuming they are both censored.)

This series is so much fun and SeaKeen are soooo good together. I hope they get a lot more work after this.

Definition of a vengeful ghost I guess

If you really can't afford to pay to watch it legally, then you'll just have to watch it on some pirate site

😂😂😂

The weirdest I've heard was in a Vietnamese BL where they played a jaunty version of our national anthem as BGM 😂😂😂

It's kind of funny-weird when they use a lot of royalty free music for the BGM and one of the songs (in this case, the one that plays in the old house and when they open the sealed pot later on) is in fact a super well known song in your country 😂If you don't believe me, search for "En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt", it's a Swedish summer hymn. (And yes, the credits claim that all the soundtrack is original but hahahaha nope.)

I agree, it's like it's written for 11 year old girls but with NC scenes, how could they have thrown so much money and time at it and still have it end up so bad

It's in fact just normally mediocre but with some decent chemistry up until episode 5, when they decide to throw that curveball

Yes, I should have specified that it was high-tier dramas.

Thank you but I would have appreciated a spoiler tag on that comment :/

It's Doctor's Mine. I can't recommend it :/

It does not disappear in 5 minutes :)

I agree, it's hard to see how this can have a HE.

I agree with everything you said! CC was very clearly and forcefully established as a red flag who it is a Bad Idea™ to cross right from the start, and he was always supposed to be one. And like you said, everyone is more or less messed up. Even WSW's mother, who was the greenest character of the lot, made some super questionable decisions that had me up in arms. GCY is often cited as being a super green flag, but people forget that he started out more or less the same as CC—maybe not quite as vicious, but definitely problematic, and his initial pursuit of Xiaoshuai was just as a player, he wasn't serious at all and basically just being an annoying stalker who didn't want to take no for an answer. Both CC and GCY are typical Bad Boy characters that I enjoy in my fiction but would avoid like the plague IRL, haha.

I also agree that CJD's writing is consistent and within the weird, fictional universes she creates, it tends to make sense when it's supposed to make sense (except when it's obviously bonkers). When it needs to, her writing can absolutely carry a very powerfully emotional, angsty narrative. It's also entertaining, never dull.

And I agree about sweet, green flag characters, I do enjoy seeing them as long as they aren't in fact "beige flags" rather than green flags (i.e., just bland characters with no personality and drive to be anything but a steretypical non-entity). Red flags can be very interesting. But it all depends on the writing. I'm watching a Thai BL that I'm very seriously considering dropping because the red flag character (and the situation on the whole) is so terribly written. Nothing about it makes sense, nobody's reaction makes sense, they even drag it out unnecessarily for extra tension (which just made me super angry), it just leaves everyone in the comment section wondering if it was written by an AI 😂 So yeah, the quality of the writing is quite important.

It seems I also wrote a wall of text in reply to you XD