This is a youthful story that centers around self-discovery, with a plot driven by the ways the lines become blurred between love and friendship, often unnoticed at first. Set in the early 2000s, it's a throwback to an era of adolescence familiar to millennials like myself. As our characters meet and friendships blossom, a soft, slow-burning affection develops. Fed by quiet, lingering encounters, a deep yearning becomes spellbinding, leaving both the characters and viewers aching for the next gentle moment to nudge those feelings into full bloom.
The story is beautifully written and guides us through a passionate romance that feels less like a drama and more like someone reminiscing about their youth. It is one of my favorite BL dramas. A pure love story that I could watch again and again.
This story has been a victim of censorship in China multiple times since it's creation, rewritten across various platforms with alternate endings. Getting my hands on any of the original prints has been impossible thus far but as soon as I find one, I will link it below. There are speculations that the author wrote this story based on their own life experience and gave it an ending they themselves never received in reality. I don't know about you, but that makes me even more invested in the story. It was already compelling enough without knowing that, but after getting 6 episodes deep and learning that detail, the yearning somehow became even deeper for me.
Today I finished episode 8, after a week-long wait with a foreboding trailer forshadowing the worst. I can admit without spoilers that the ending is deeply satisfying and leaves you without unanswered questions.
I hope this encourages you to watch, it certainly delivers.
Ep 8 has me SPINNING OUT!!! That NC scene was out of this world!! Probably the best NC I've yet seen.... Just for that plot twist ending of the episode to make me freak out for a week. Ahhh wth is going to hapen next!? And I thought I was desperate to find the book last week... my desperation just deepened!!
Decided I am going to binge this over the next two days before continuing ep 1 of Rebirth. It took them 9 years to make a sequel?! This one has been on my list for ages and I am mad at myself I didnt binge it in advance. Can't wait to get the whole story at once.
I wish I could find another masterpiece on THIS level but I am still looking. I will update here once I find another. I can also suggest more Greats! Such as: Solo Leveling Naruto [they have guides to skip filler eps] I thoroughly enjoyed Parasyte The Maxim.
I absolutely loved the first 6 episodes, and I continued to love it as more episodes went on. But by the time…
Yes!! Agreed. Kdramas barely ever drag the plot like cdramas sometimes do, and I always prefer 24 eps for modern cdrama romances like this because they fit it all in nicely without complaint for 24 ep series. it is when they push to 30/32/36 that I get worried. This plot doesn't have enough going on to justify 30 eps if you ask me. If there was more happening with like career change, I would get it. But I see nothing like that happening and it is ep 22 today...
I also finished POJ and thought I would try watching this after reading your review. I just binge watched the…
I absolutely loved the first 6 episodes, and I continued to love it as more episodes went on. But by the time we got to episode 14, I feel like we are taking steps backwards and not forwards. I thought by ep 21 that would have turned around but it seems they are dragging it out. I don't mind a slow burn if it is done right, but I am really starting to get impatient.
Just binged the first 6 eps and omg I am kicking my feet!! I love Miles Wei so bad, so I am excited he has two dramas airing THIS WEEK but I am even happier that this is the first pure romance of 2026, It is JUST what I needed!! I have been in POJ haze with it ending this week and this is exactly what I had been missing from my drama palate!!! I am cracking up and covering my face from second hand embarrassment all through these first episodes. I need more, This is making me renew my mango subscription after ending it when Flourished Peony 2nd season finished airing last year.
I have been wondering the same!! Him fixing that hack, plus being so pro L&J. On one hand, it feels too good…
So far, we know Kang Sin Jae's mother's business partner is one of the people running the organization. His age is really the only indicator for how long this network has been in place. The the app itself is part of the evolution of that twisted shadow network that grew into the tech generation. I would say since the internet was born, it had always had a presence online but the app likely started in the past 20 years, potentially as a website first. The network itself, I would roughly estimating 40 to 60 years I would start my guestimation at. But that is being generous, considering how vile humans have always stuck together throughout history and people have always used power and corruption to cover up their dark deeds and orchestrate underground organizations. It probably goes far back.
The story is beautifully written and guides us through a passionate romance that feels less like a drama and more like someone reminiscing about their youth. It is one of my favorite BL dramas. A pure love story that I could watch again and again.
This story has been a victim of censorship in China multiple times since it's creation, rewritten across various platforms with alternate endings. Getting my hands on any of the original prints has been impossible thus far but as soon as I find one, I will link it below. There are speculations that the author wrote this story based on their own life experience and gave it an ending they themselves never received in reality. I don't know about you, but that makes me even more invested in the story. It was already compelling enough without knowing that, but after getting 6 episodes deep and learning that detail, the yearning somehow became even deeper for me.
Today I finished episode 8, after a week-long wait with a foreboding trailer forshadowing the worst. I can admit without spoilers that the ending is deeply satisfying and leaves you without unanswered questions.
I hope this encourages you to watch, it certainly delivers.
Solo Leveling
Naruto [they have guides to skip filler eps]
I thoroughly enjoyed Parasyte The Maxim.