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I'm not pitying the prince excessively, but he is pitifull in the sense that he wasn't and isn't treated like a person but as a title, an object to be admired and fantasized about. As a child his name was repeatedly changed, his father didn't want him to have a personality, his accomplishments weren't to outshine his older brother the crown prince etc.

The ML Prince regent was trying to be a human person to his little nephew, he dressed in clothes the child gifted him instead of following cold impersonal court protocol, he offered the child emotional support when the Queen mother demanded the child perform like a machine just like the the Prince regent was expected to by his father the King. The little Crown prince's dead father even wanted to give up his title, because it was so suffocating. The Queen mother told the little Crown prince not to call the Prince regent his uncle, too familial, even though a child needs closeness like that. You could see that the Prince regent knows the Queen mother does not wan't him to be close with the little Crown prince and the Prince regent is conflicted over that, because he knows the little prince needs family., just like he did.

Also, when the female lead asked for an audience, the Prince regent accepted only after she referred to him and their relationship on a personal level, him as her senior at school. Finally, the prince said to the FL, if you want my hand in marriage, I want your love. So, emotional intimacy is a theme here. The female lead doesn't have much of that either, so the FL and ML have that in common.

How so? She was just aroused by him, he is hot LOL!

This is a really good and entertaining representative of the style of romantic comedy it aims to be. It's a gender role reversal of the more typical rich insensitive chaebol man (IU, the unsentimental business woman) and a girl in trouble (Byeon Woo Seok, the sad prince). When it's not the traditional boy saves girl, the story can look at things from a more interesting perspective, the characters are more interesting people, even if the story style is still the traditional romcom.

The most anticipated BL's in the world right now are probably

Heated Rivalry from Canada, a series
https://youtu.be/ADi1iextoUM?si=Rzncwpwxoe27ruZr

10 Dance from Japan, a movie
https://youtu.be/E0LyJ62xSzE?si=n6A26sekMuvzu8gi
https://kisskh.at/781120-10dance

I did delete it then. It just feels weird deleting comments. Feels like I'm hiding, and not taking responsibility of saying something silly.

Lots of crazy things get said here. This time it was me, I definitely missed the mark 😒😂.

My mistake, sorry!

Okay, thanks for the info!

She asks for a divorce in episode 15.

My favorite modern C dramas with well written relatable female characters are
The Rational Life https://kisskh.at/68431-wu-fa-lian-ai-de-li-zhi-pai
and
Nothing but Thirty https://kisskh.at/37221-nothing-but-thirty

It's used to refer to a spouse or a partner, a husband or a wife, and it can also mean sweetheart or lover.

I'd love for these delusional, narsisistic, mentally ill, entitled and dangerous male and female charcteres to get handled properly too. There's so many people in the comments alone that think Fang Lei is just an annoying woman, when she needs treatment and a restraining order, or that Lin Tao is a poor heartbroken man, when he is abusive, needs therapy and a restraining order.

I made no such claim. You can read what I said again "..They said she shouldn't have objected to or reported being SEXUALLY HARASSED BY MALE CUSTOMERS, because they thought it somehow made their son look bad." and I also said "Lin Tao was an ABUSIVE man who didn't take "No" for an answer. He repeatedly followed Qiao Lin around HARASSED her and her friend the doctor at his work."

Harassment and abuse are general terms, then there are spesific kinds. For example...
Harassement: verbal, physical, psychological, and sexual harassment, as well as cyber harassment, discriminatory harassment (based on race, gender, age, religion, disability, or sexual orientation), workplace bullying, and power harassment
Abuse: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, cultural abuse, verbal abuse, financial abuse and neglect

Anyway, when it comes to reading comprehension it's a good habit to re-read and recheck your conclusions, especially if you think the other person is saying something bad. It's even more important, if one or more of you is speaking a foreign language.

You didn't see Qiao Lin was sexually harrassed by a customer when she was at work selling make up? Episode 4, starting at 3minutes 42. The man sexually harassed her, and then tried to blame Qiao Lin when his wife turned up. They fought and the police got involved. In detail the man tried to get Qiao Lin's contact details to help her career in exhange for sexual favors, which she refused. Then he groped her and she slapped him, he kept coming at her and she kicked him.

I'm an adult human being, I make observations, ask questions, form and test ideas, analyze data, and draw conclusions using my adult brain. I don't fabricate lies to confirm my bias.

Abuse is abuse, it stands on it's own. Claiming to love someone does not make abusive actions acceptable. Love does not change abusive actions into expressions of loving feelings.

She wasn't the best sister, but they were kids, the family dynamics were their parents responsibility. She is a little impulsive, but stands up for herself. Her ex fiancee is an abusive ass no woman should go near. The way she tried to bribe the doctor's patient was peak irresponsible, and he was fine with it, what the heck was that storyline 😄?

😂 What? Lin Tao is a classic abusive man. Lin Tao's family harassed Qiao Lin from the beginning of the show and Lin Tao sided with them. They said she shouldn't have objected to or reported being sexually harassed by male customers, because they thought it somehow made their son look bad. No empathy for her being repeatedly violated at her work. Lin Tao didn't defend her to his parents. He made financial decisions about both of them without talking to her, which she was naturally upset about. Lin Tao was an abusive man who didn't take "No" for an answer. He repeatedly followed Qiao Lin around harassed her and her friend the doctor at his work. He told people Qiao Lin was his, he kept saying she decided to end their relationship without his permission, as if a person needs permission from a partner to end a relationship. He is the kind of man no self-respecting woman stays in a relationship with.

The willingness to use extreme manipulation like that, is evidence she needs help, she doesn't have to actually try to kill herself. She is acting like an entitled, attention-seeking monster because she is unstable and needs therapy.

The ML and the other male friend absolutely have an obligation to talk to Fang Lei's family, to tell them she is unstable and threatens to commit suicide in an attempt to manipulate people. The willingness to use extreme manipulation like that, is the evidence she needs help, she doesn't actually have to try to kill herself. It may be that her father is useless and doesn't realize she needs help, parents can be like that. The minimum expectation is you notify a person's family or equivalent, when you notice they are unstable, otherwise you are being negligent, which many people sadly are.

Fang Lei, the dead woman's sister, is such a disturbing and sad character. These men should help her, talk to her dad and get her in therapy. It's disturbing how her behaviour is presented like she's an annoying woman just trying to get a man. It centers the man, like how the man is part flattered and part annoyed because she wants him, when it's not about the man. It's about her mental health that she needs medical help with. Let me guess how the story will end for her... she'll just magically snap out of it, because of some other pretty boy. 😒

I get that this is how female characters were written in the past, men especially liked to write female characters like this. Women that scream, throw things, treathen to kill themselves and scheme, when romantic relationships don't go their way. The truth is most women behave like the FL, they say what they would like in the relationship, which men often take as nagging, and then the women leave relatively quietly, because they accept the men won't treat them like they are full human beings. Like here the FL asked the ML to stop trying to buy her, while keeping her at an emotional distance, and when the ML still wanted a transactional relationship, she asked for a divorce.

Yes. Thank you for putting it so clearly and in detail. The female lead's perspective was seriously ignored in previous comments.