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My guess is that there was a scheduling issue with the actors, kinda like at the end of "21 Days Theory".

They are at odds for almost the entire series, so they are never really together as a couple until the end. One of the guys runs hot and cold seemingly at random but the two of them are not a couple at that point so I don't think their standoffs count as breakups.

I wasn't expecting Shakespeare so I enjoyed it enough to watch next week, when it looks like the story proper will get underway.

I wish Thi had started out with at least a little more backbone. When he was defending his student from Noey's gang he was valiant enough to put a stop to it, but I would have liked it more if a fire suddenly got lit within him and he gave Noey a verbal takedown that left Noey speechless.

Noey is not a nice guy at this point, but based on the trailers I think it's supposed to throw people off from how sensitive he is. Okay ...

But I do like this kind of "opposites attract" / "enemies to lovers" combo.

In an earlier comment @Nauriya said that it's a quote from "2gether", which this director also directed. It did seem very strange and random to me too!

Episode 8 has lots of Tan-Foei. Tan is really stepping up his game but Foei is still skeptical, especially after Cher gave him terrible advice lol.

For some reason the main couple really irks me. I watch m/f dramas by the dozen, including many with BL side couples, and I enjoy them a lot, but in this series I skip all of the guy-girl scenes. The guy is bland as unbuttered toast and the girl is bearable only in small doses. What's really damning to me, though, is the misleading title and it's obvious aim at the BL audience.

Today's episode gave us the most BL content yet, and the scene in the music store and afterward was wonderful. If the whole series had been like that I'm sure I'd be less annoyed.

I agree 100%. And with the cliffhanger that we got today, I have this creeping fear that Maitoh has been misreading Shogun's behavior this whole time and is about to be rebuffed. (Not sure how that could be possible given Shogun's obvious favoring of Maitoh, but since when do these series ever present believable human behavior?) 😄

When FM and Nine went to the men's room to clean FM's shirt, I concentrated really hard and sent mental messages: "FM .... take off the shirt. Take off the shirt."

And he did!

I use these powers only for good. Y'all can thank me later. 😄😄😄

That was proof that they really had no idea how ridiculous that wig looks.

It does take you right out of the fictional world the series tries to create.

I almost died when he told Chompu that he'd specially styled his hair before meeting her the first time.

Is Champ's character on a different timeline than the others? He withdrew from his major and transferred to a different faculty, then suddenly it seems like just days later he's showing a straight-A grade report to his family.

Looks like that happens in the next episode. He coughed in this one -- the death knell.

I made a Rain-Payu BL Cut from the series and because of all the Rain-Payu fans I'm going to offer it here for a limited time. If you come back to this page and find this comment and want to download the BL cut just send me a message.

This is not just a bunch of highlights. I try to tell their whole story. So it's long and because it's in 1080p there's 9 files.

Lather .. rinse .. repeat.

The only joy to be had is in the side stories and the ridiculous scenarios that pepper the Fah-Sher saga.

Like, I love how nobody in the cafeteria bats an eye as Fah strides across the room wearing just the living room drapes around his waist.

Why does Sher think that Charles is an asshole?

"Fahlan probably got bitten by a vampire. He's covered in hickeys." 😂😂😂

For once, though, we had a pained reaction to someone applying disinfectant to a cut that was completely reasonable. 😄

Love the series but I'm going to confess that I find Bai Lang kinda annoying. I'd be able to handle a guy like that only in limited doses.

Factoids like this are another reason why people not on MDL are missing out. 😄😄😄

Just binged the first three episodes. Best and Art have great chemistry and I think their performances are excellent. Shitty grasp of physics aside, this is one I know I'll enjoy. If everyone has to die in the end I don't have a problem because I know to expect it. In other BLs they don't warn us that a character death is coming and we feel betrayed. Here I think it's more likely we'll feel misled if the world really *doesn't* come to an end in the final episode.

Golf is a piece of work. It's daring to have a lead character who is so deeply flawed. Compared to him, Nut from "Miracle of Teddy Bear" could be the Dali Lama, and given the unrelenting sweetness of Art they could have easily titled this series "Bambi vs. Godzilla".

Golf seems to be undergoing a bisexual awakening. He swapped the hand that he asked Art to massage -- not sure if that was scripted or just a miss by the director, but I like to think it was scripted because it shows that Golf's hand was just fine, he was just hungry for the physical contact. And he seemed awfully hopeful when he thought he'd heard Art ask him to take off his clothes.

Art is cute as hell so if anybody is going to convince Golf to make the switch it will be him.

I think Golf's girlfriends might have stayed for more than a week if he'd taken his shirt off more. I haven't admired a physique this much since seeing Ashing in his boxing trunks in "Even Sun".

One of the most unnecessary final episodes ever. They should have ended this at Episode 12.

I believe Foei was attracted to Tan before the kiss. It explains his overreaction when Tan flirted with one of Foei's friends, and why Foei would blurt out that he likes Tan after they'd made out only that one time. Foei seems too self-controlled to suddenly flip from disliking Tan to liking him just because they'd kissed. I think the feelings had to have been festering in him for a while.

The way Tan became emotional (and even shed a tear) after Foei told him how ashamed he is for liking Tan, I think he was the one who was discovering something about himself he'd never realized.