Deliciously toxic-scintillating show, but the end could have been better
Yes, Watch!! One of the best toxic-scintillating-tearjerker shows around right now, though with a tiny-winy tame ending. ...but Yun Qi (Fan Xiao) is plain yummmmmmmmmmmmmm 😍
BL-needle Score: 8. Reasonably high BL-ness
It rarely gets better than this if you love high-octane, emotional roller-coaster with a liberal dose of toxic. The script, production values, direction, all are quite good, but what really stuns in this show is the acting by the leads and particularly by Yun Qi. To say I have become an instant fan will be understatement. Don't g et me wrong the guy who plays Shulang is also very good, but pales in comparison to Fan Xiao, which off course is the author-backed role.
Initially the show might seem just about okay, but wait till you get to Ep 6-7 and then BOOM..it just explodes!!! Thereafter there is not one boring moment and they keep you completely hooked, the angst, the obsession, the deep-dark-unavoidable attraction...all of it is portrayed just so right. And then once it turns to being a emotional tearjerker towards the end, it so satisfying I tell you.
The ending is a tiny-winy tamer considering how good the pace and tension in the show was overall, which made me downgrade the overall score from 9 to 8.5 after the final episode
Go watch, you will not regret. You can watch it for just Yun Qi as well...he gets a direct entry into the Top 3 of my List of Crushes here on MDL 🥰
BL-needle Score: 8. Reasonably high BL-ness
It rarely gets better than this if you love high-octane, emotional roller-coaster with a liberal dose of toxic. The script, production values, direction, all are quite good, but what really stuns in this show is the acting by the leads and particularly by Yun Qi. To say I have become an instant fan will be understatement. Don't g et me wrong the guy who plays Shulang is also very good, but pales in comparison to Fan Xiao, which off course is the author-backed role.
Initially the show might seem just about okay, but wait till you get to Ep 6-7 and then BOOM..it just explodes!!! Thereafter there is not one boring moment and they keep you completely hooked, the angst, the obsession, the deep-dark-unavoidable attraction...all of it is portrayed just so right. And then once it turns to being a emotional tearjerker towards the end, it so satisfying I tell you.
The ending is a tiny-winy tamer considering how good the pace and tension in the show was overall, which made me downgrade the overall score from 9 to 8.5 after the final episode
Go watch, you will not regret. You can watch it for just Yun Qi as well...he gets a direct entry into the Top 3 of my List of Crushes here on MDL 🥰
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