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It's on AO3. I will link it in a spoiler below.

I should caution that it is a Dickens-length novel of over 300,000 words, but worth every hour it takes to read it.

I think that's inevitable!

I'm only four episodes in but I'm enjoying this much more than I expected.

As the plot has unfolded and I've wondered where it's headed, it's made me think of my favorite "Drarry" (Draco Malfoy-Harry Potter) fanfic (which the author said was based on a Nicholas Cage movie that I can't remember the title of.)

In this story Harry is an adult, married to Ginny with kids, and he's in a funk but doesn't quite know why. Draco is also married, and although he and Harry have been long out of contact Harry hears that Draco has also been unhappy in his own marriage, and in fact that Draco's marriage is on the rocks.

Because of a kindness that Harry does for a stranger, the stranger offers him a chance to experience an alternative life where he is happy. Harry falls asleep and wakes up in bed next to Draco! (This scene, with Harry's shock as Draco proceeds to make some moves on him, is quite funny.) It turns out that they are a couple, and quite happy together.

The story goes on to create an amazing and fulfilling alternative world for Harry, where he has a different career, Fred Weasley is still alive, and Ginny is married to someone else. This alternative life is so wonderful that when it comes time for Harry to return back to his real life he is quite sad.

When he does get back to his real life, he and Ginny agree to get divorced and Harry decides he needs to recreate that relationship with Draco by convincing Draco that they should be together. The rest of the story is about his pursuit of Draco and how he manages this daunting feat.

ANYWAY, I'm wondering if "Two Worlds" will set up a similar situation, with Kram and Tai falling in love in the alternative world only to have Kram forced to return to his original world. Then, once he's back home he decides that he needs to pursue the scarfaced Tai and win his love, and that is how the rest of the series goes.

Working against this idea is the terrible thing that "scarface Tai" did to Kram's family (no spoilers here), so I realize it would be a lot for Kram to get past. For this reason things probably won't work out the way I hope but it did make me consider the possibility.

Pie has superstar genes. I hope he gets a good project soon.

I must have watched a different trailer. I cringed almost the whole time. Hard pass for me.

Revisited some favorite scenes and it holds up beautifully. I don't know if I could handle the angst of watching it again from start to finish, though. 😂😂😂

I have Eng-subbed the entire series. Message me for download info.

English subs ... click the spoiler below

Sorry, haters. I enjoyed it.

Wow, I have the same aversion to Mew. For me the issue is acting style. The way he delivers his lines in his earlier series is so mannered and whiney.

I'm going to watch the first couple of episodes of this one, mainly to see if it will be more of the same. If not then I'll give it a chance.

To me, ZeeNunew seem so plastic. I'm sure it's partly due to the way their studio relentlessly skin-smooths all of their actors when they're in a series, but there's more to it. The rest is maybe just a gut feeling.

Joo Ha's character gets more depth around episode 5. Generally this is a very slow burn series. I think "Love for Love's Sake" has spoiled me a bit.

Preach! Getting through this series has turned out to be a chore. It makes me wonder if Win has the chops to be a male lead.

To your list I'll add that Saint puts me off. The character is so smug and annoying, and when he started as a sneaky a-hole, lying to Guy about a room not being available, he lost all respect from me. (So what if he thought better of it later. He was no longer trustworthy.) The Kdrama's Woo Young had unimpeachable virtues and because of that was a much better rival for Kyung Seok.

The story here is so stripped down and homogenized. It boggles my mind that anyone who's watched the Kdrama would think this cartoon is a better adaptation.

I’ve rewatched it a few times and even fixed the English subs to create my own edition, but I always skip the last episode. It’s so cringy.

I wonder if they put the kiss in the trailer to reassure us after that awkwardly kissless ending to "A Shoulder To Cry On"-- but, putting that aside, this looks promising.

I like the "Tee and Non" part... if only! haha

I don't feel invested in Guy and Liu.

Maybe Est (Note) should have been cast as Guy. Now, that's a man who's hard to take your eyes off.

Someone needs to tell Liu that you don't smell the base notes of a scent right after spraying. They come with the dry-down.

The character in the kdrama who's the counterpart of Saint was squeaky-clean, and even ended up inviting the ML to live with him. Saint, on the other hand, is a bit of a conniver.

It's funny how Saint is enough of a jerk that I don't think there will be anyone wishing he beat out the ML in winning the FL's heart, as there was with the kdrama.