I need some good bromance dramas with little to no romance. I need to recover from watching this please!!
Have you tried The Untamed, The Spirealm and Word of Honor, the novels are BL but because of the censorship they removed any bit of romance. (Though the Untamed still gave signs that they were more, but you only see them when you start looking)
I’m dropping this drama here at episode 17. There are a lot of things I didn’t like about it, but honestly…
After episode 17 the FL has less scenes (thankfully) because I honestly had the same reaction. I took a two week break after episode 17. I was so done with how useless she was, every big fight she only cried and screamed. Hell during episode 16 and 17 she didn’t even hide, like are you kidding me? My feelings for the kid are mixed.
The bond between both MLs grows after episode 17, which I personally loved, to me they had more chemistry together than the ML and FL. But yes it is a painful and sad series, so I definitely get why you need to take a break, take care of yourself.
should i watch this or is this going to disappoint me like revenged love and abo desire?
If you didn’t like Hua Yong or Chi Cheng, you’ll probably won’t like Fan Xiao, but it’s different for everybody. Give it a try, if you don’t like it, don’t force yourself to watch it.
MDL can sometimes have it wrong. If they follow the manhwa which so far they are doing, they aren’t cousins nor half siblings. Il Jo is adopted. The family doesnt know that Il Jo is adopted and only see him as a illegitimate child.
I feel like I’m missing half of story when I watch this series. Also why for crying out loud is Hae Jun / Kim Hyeon constantly grunting like he is in pain or uncomfortable. It’s just a few buttons being opened why are you grunting? But on positive side at least we didn’t have any flying plants in our view, like last episode.
Down below a explanation about why the MLs aren’t cousins. So if you don’t want to know don’t open the spoiler…
The family doesnt know Il Jo is an orphan, the entire family thinks the uncle had an affair and out of that came Il Jo, an illegitimate child. ML2 is a major jackass, the entire family are major AH to Il Jo, they assume a lot of things.
They only find out around chapter 60 of the 72 chapters in the manhwa, and even knowing Il Jo isnt a cousin, the rest of the family doesn’t treat him better.
Il Jo doesnt know his biological mother, she was 20, the father left her, she begged a church to take in the child, the nuns dropped the child at an orphanage. Il Jo was around 6 years old when the uncle adopted him. Only he didn’t get his spouses agreement, so the uncle couldnt “formally” adopt ML.
But in the manhwa the uncle had been living alone at the countryside for some time, with only the ML by his side, including when the uncle became sick. So I assumed they divorced and the uncle moved away, ML2 is probably blaming Il Jo for said split.
Down below a explanation about why the MLs aren’t cousins. So if you don’t want to know don’t open the spoiler tab, for the record, no they are not related, “cousins” but not by blood and didnt grew up together.
Not cousins, in the manhwa the uncle adopted Il Jo, he was an orphan. So not related to each other.
Il Jo is the adopted child, but nobody from the family knows that. They all think the uncle had an affair and the affair bore Il Jo, thats why they all say and think he’s an illegitimate child. Jeon Han is a child of the brother of the uncle who died. So they are “cousins” but not by blood, they are not related to each other. The uncle lived in the countryside, so they did not grew up together. And Jeon Han didnt want to know Il Jo because he also thought Il Jo was an affair child. I think they only met twice before, once when the uncle invited JH to the country side and once after high school or during high school. JH (and the readers) only finds out that IJ is adopted very late into the manhwa.
Wait, isnt he just playing?? Fan Xiao said it to his friend that he is just playing cz he s bearing 🤔
Fan doesn’t really know how to love or what it is to feel love. He’s used to people abandoning him, dropping him, favoring others. What he said to his friend is because he doesn’t understand his feelings, he can’t live without You, feels possessive over him, jealous of the people around him, yet also protective over You. He doesn’t understand that he in fact already has feeling for You, so he keeps telling his friend that it’s just because of boredom. Yet he wants You around him 24/7. In this case his actions speak louder than his words. It might have started with Fan just playing with You, but by now, he isn’t playing anymore.
Loved this episode, it was beautiful, heartbreaking and infuriating. Loved those small but emotional and caring moments, You coming home and watching Fan cook, Fan standing up for You to You his brother (even if it was for alternative reasons), You sharing what is troubling him, Fan silent support when You was looking out the window, the moment at the cemetery, beautiful and raw. And last but certainly not least, how You mentioned that he knew that Fan fixed the problems of his brother, that he isnt used to being cared for.
I stopped reading the novel around chapter 41, which translates to episode 5, I want to be suprised by the series. But the scene with You’s brother came out of left field, the rage that I felt for that unreasonable guy. Blaming his brother for being gay, for his mothers death, yet still taking advantage of his brother. I hate people who do that and honestly I felt some satisfaction from Fan’s rage, putting out the cigarette on the brothers hand felt good, I won’t lie.
So far this series is giving so much more than what I’ve been expecting. And honestly it’s so nice to see decent kissing scenes instead of the stiff kisses or those dead fish kisses I’ve seen lately from series. Some companies need to start understanding how to give viewers decent kissing scene.
To teach him a lesson. Being gay isn’t a choice, you’re born that way. The fact that ShuLang’s brother blamed…
This! If he was in front of me I would’ve done more than just a small burn, disgusting creature. Blaming his brother for his mothers death and being gay, yet still financially taking advantage of him. He could’ve made something from himself, Fan was right. If You hadnt stood up for himself those bullies would’ve done the same thing to the brother. If You wasnt gay those bullies probably would’ve found another reason to bully him.
Ugh this one had so much potential, it was one of those series I was really looking forward too. But this series has so many plotholes and weird decisions that it’s hard to even be positive about it. Especially the last two episodes.
I personally had hoped the blood of Pharpai would’ve made Phu also into a mermaid, because why else had it had to a mermans blood. It would’ve been epic if as a side effect Phu had become a mermaid. If the ending scène was an nc scene where they zoom in on Phu his lower back with that beautiful 8 point star on it. Or the 3 of them., Phu, Nawa and Ping walking into the ocean together.
Than we have the chief dying and finding out that he orchestrated the dead of Nawa his parents, so what happened there? Who was the other merman who killed the chief?
So many lose ends and rushed storylines. Why did Phrapai do a 180 in a matter of minutes? hours? and went from I can’t let you kill yourself, I’ll kill Phu myself to I’ll sacrifice myself so you can give the blood to your lover. Personally I don’t feel that bad because I didn’t like Phrapai, he was obsessed, too possessive and kind of a coward for never mentioning or being honest to Nawa about his feelings. Not to mention the constant head petting, what was that. Gave me the ick everytime I saw it.
I feel sad, especially for the actors, they deserved a better storyline. I did like the chemistry between the 2 couples, they were cute together. Maybe if this was made between 2020 and 2022 it would’ve been good/better. But there have been so many great BL’s, bad writing, mediocre directing just doesnt cut it anymore.
"I just want your life to revolve around me. I want to be the only one in your eyes", says Fan Xiao even…
Was he really played though? We know as a viewer (and reader) that Fan had this whole elaborate plan of seducing You and driving a wetch between You and Lu. But Fan never mentioned anything about liking Lu, he gave him expensive gifts, yes. But it was Lu who thought that it was more, that it had to meant that Fan liked him. He himself ended the relationship with You on assumptions. He dropped a good guy who did everything for him, for somebody who just spoiled him with gifts. If the relationship between You and Lu was good, Lu wouldn’t have accepted those gifts, he would’ve rejected them.
1 
1 
2 
The bond between both MLs grows after episode 17, which I personally loved, to me they had more chemistry together than the ML and FL. But yes it is a painful and sad series, so I definitely get why you need to take a break, take care of yourself.
I’ve been reading it here.
ML2 is a major jackass, the entire family are major AH to Il Jo, they assume a lot of things.
They only find out around chapter 60 of the 72 chapters in the manhwa, and even knowing Il Jo isnt a cousin, the rest of the family doesn’t treat him better.
Il Jo doesnt know his biological mother, she was 20, the father left her, she begged a church to take in the child, the nuns dropped the child at an orphanage. Il Jo was around 6 years old when the uncle adopted him. Only he didn’t get his spouses agreement, so the uncle couldnt “formally” adopt ML.
But in the manhwa the uncle had been living alone at the countryside for some time, with only the ML by his side, including when the uncle became sick. So I assumed they divorced and the uncle moved away, ML2 is probably blaming Il Jo for said split.
I stopped reading the novel around chapter 41, which translates to episode 5, I want to be suprised by the series. But the scene with You’s brother came out of left field, the rage that I felt for that unreasonable guy. Blaming his brother for being gay, for his mothers death, yet still taking advantage of his brother. I hate people who do that and honestly I felt some satisfaction from Fan’s rage, putting out the cigarette on the brothers hand felt good, I won’t lie.
So far this series is giving so much more than what I’ve been expecting. And honestly it’s so nice to see decent kissing scenes instead of the stiff kisses or those dead fish kisses I’ve seen lately from series. Some companies need to start understanding how to give viewers decent kissing scene.
I personally had hoped the blood of Pharpai would’ve made Phu also into a mermaid, because why else had it had to a mermans blood. It would’ve been epic if as a side effect Phu had become a mermaid. If the ending scène was an nc scene where they zoom in on Phu his lower back with that beautiful 8 point star on it. Or the 3 of them., Phu, Nawa and Ping walking into the ocean together.
Than we have the chief dying and finding out that he orchestrated the dead of Nawa his parents, so what happened there? Who was the other merman who killed the chief?
So many lose ends and rushed storylines. Why did Phrapai do a 180 in a matter of minutes? hours? and went from I can’t let you kill yourself, I’ll kill Phu myself to I’ll sacrifice myself so you can give the blood to your lover. Personally I don’t feel that bad because I didn’t like Phrapai, he was obsessed, too possessive and kind of a coward for never mentioning or being honest to Nawa about his feelings. Not to mention the constant head petting, what was that. Gave me the ick everytime I saw it.
I feel sad, especially for the actors, they deserved a better storyline. I did like the chemistry between the 2 couples, they were cute together. Maybe if this was made between 2020 and 2022 it would’ve been good/better. But there have been so many great BL’s, bad writing, mediocre directing just doesnt cut it anymore.