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Falling In Love With A Rival is exactly that plot, though it does have pretty low production value, the plot's a bit choppy, and it got cut off part way through due to censorship regulations changing (typical Chinese BL issues).

I'm a fan of the novel - is the drama very different? Spoilers are okay (but remember to check the spoiler box so you don't spoil others).

Just making a note here to myself (and anyone else who finds it useful) that it will likely be up on Tencent's Youtube page on October 6th, free & subbed & complete.

Is it dubbed? The other dramas I've seen with Dilraba have all been dubbed, so I assume her accent isn't "standard" enough.

A lot of people here don't like the younger sister. I also found her annoying, but I would have found her way less annoying if the male lead paired with her had done a better job convincing me he liked her. She was young, spoiled, and immature, but it would have been cute and likeable if there had been any chemistry between her and the male lead. Instead, it looked like he had been asked to pretend to date her, rather than actually liked her. He looks at her like a very tired teacher who's counting the minutes until he can give her back to her parents.

It's being slowly subbed. So far subbed through episode 6.

Is this an adaptation of "Everyone Thinks that I Like Him"? The plot seems really similar. https://www.novelupdates.com/series/everyone-thinks-that-i-like-him/

In addition to the specific plot stuff mentioned by others, Taiwan was a colony of Japan for 50 years up until the end of WWII. Japanese culture remains a strong force in Taiwan, and Taiwanese Mandarin is often sprinkled with Japanese loan words.

You can be bisexual and demisexual. You can be straight and demisexual. You can be gay and demisexual.

@AnitaSuperStar please edit your comment and save it as a spoiler. Although it's a question, the question itself spoils at least part of the plot.

Peach blossoms symbolize love, romance, or sex.

Is it in this actor's contract to always take his shirt off on screen? I think he has at least one shirtless scene in every project he's in. Not that I'm complaining XD

In the original novel, the accident and fall out was just a dream sequence.

In the original novel [see spoiler below]

Hey @moonchild - I was agreeing with you and responding to @arroz

That's not *exactly* true. Our bodies mature faster than our brains. Is it a bad idea and immoral for a 40 year old to date a 15 year old? Absolutely. It is a mental illness to find her body attractive? No. But as an adult, you have to recognize the difference between "she looks attractive, I can see why the other 15 year olds want to date her" and "I want to date her".

For those who really are cursed with the mental illness of pedophilia, there are medications and therapy that can help, but due to stigma it is really difficult to seek treatment (and comes with the risk of jail time, even if you've never hurt a child).

So I think we have to be careful to distinguish between actions and feelings.

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True. Fortunately we are not mind-readers, so if someone's feelings stay in the privacy of their own mind (or journal or therapy session), they're not available for judgement, nor should they be.

For myself (I teach all ages, including adults), I'd be worried there would be some unintentional bleed over into my actions, so I would take every effort to avoid the situation, including arranging a different teacher for my student and ending contact with them after that. Obviously this is a hypothetical situation, so there may be other considerations if this happened in real life. But I take my duty as a teacher very seriously and would not want my teacher-student relationship to be compromised.

Having a crush on a teacher is totally different from having a crush on a student. If a kid likes an adult, that's just part of growing up. When an adult likes a kid, there's a problem.

Okay, in the first comment, I was exaggerating a little when I said "majority of the series is before they get together". Half of the series is before they get together. In the second comment, I was saying that the spoilery synopsis, which includes the breakup, describes the first 23 episodes or so.

None of which is really important, since my point that the synopsis is a spoiler still stands.