Overall I enjoyed it, but only in spite of several awful characters and a mediocre story. MiGu has to be the most unlikable friend I've ever watched. If they wrote her like one of those generic frenemies who betrays FL for whoever or whatever, then okay. But they wrote her as if she never really did anything wrong, which is ridiculous. She mentions at the start how weird it is that she became besties with FL when they've got such a big age difference but never bats an eyelash over the fact Zhuo Ran is THE SAME AGE. So she's basically pursued this dude from when she saw him for 10secs in the airport. Finds out he's her besties terrible ex, and continues to orchestrate meeting him. Knowing he has zero interest, she switches out FLs medication because a stranger asked her to, became an accessory to his crime when he took the gun to the highly secure event (she knew that was a real gun, even if she pretended not to she was right there when the police said they were investigating a homicide by 3D printed gun-she knew). She continued to simp for this sociopath, and even when she discovers his identity fraud and a whole secret layer, she does nothing. He comes to her with a gunshot wound and she still does nothing until the cops come to her. When she does turn him in, she feels bad not for the people who suffered and died because she lied and protected him, but for HIM. Not only a shitty friend but a shitty person. And FL is like ah don't feel bad babes. FEEL BAD YOU PSYCHO. TBH I'm annoyed at his mother too. If you knew the druglord had murdered one son, and his dad, and was using your safety to make the other son do unspeakable things, would you really just sit there for 8 years letting your son become the worst person he could possibly be. She was really ill, like hun just off yourself and remove the main threat from the son, and off yourself when he's around so the druglord can't lie and pretend you're fine. The son was useful, so he would've been kept alive, and he would eventually get out. Job done. And surely giving the heart to her was a big ethical no no, knowing the son orchestrated the whole thing? Or did they not realise? Isn't it just an even worse version of organ trafficking? Anyway, I liked the leads well enough I think, their chemistry was good, when she wasn't behaving like a lunatic. She had some absolutely whopper mood swings, and somehow even though his EQ was in the basement he managed to understand what she was doing. It also leaned a bit propaganda-y. Oh sure the baddies were all Chinese, but they also went abroad, which made them just foreign enough to be the baddies. Like come on, Zhuo Ran spent like 18yrs in China, and 8 abroad but they never shut up about him being trained abroad and living abroad and being foreign military blah blah blah. And the made all the truly bad stuff happen abroad, at the border, or out at sea. I felt awful for the cousin. At the start when they were like "she has ADHD" and then rolled out this absolutely unhinged young woman, I was like wow...are we really saying this is ADHD, but it made more sense once they revealed the kidnap and brutal assault. Girl was traumatised, severe PTSD. From then on I just wanted her to be safe and happy. I really didn't care about soldier poet, but I was gutted for her with the way the dealt with him.
I feel like the camera work for the fake kisses could've been way better. Also, my condolences to the actors playing the love rival and the MLs self appointed nemesis. Love rival was cast to be an absolute knob for 20 episodes, have 30 seconds of self reflection, and 3 seconds of admitting he was a bellend in episode 22. The bit where he declared himself her bf publicly without her consent was the last of him I could stomach. I skipped basically all his scenes after that. He was too painful to watch. The nemesis must've been handed a script and direction just telling him to look like he was about to puke every time he was on screen, he was an absolute caricature of a person less engaging than the lady at the orphanage who got like a line and a half of dialogue. Oh well, work is work I guess. The plot was generic, the affection between the leads was very mid. There are far better ways to show affection between characters without having to actually be physical with eachother, but all they did was pan out from a weird camera angle and blur. The seconds leads were cute but also had little believable chemistry. I enjoyed all the clothes. I know nothing about what genuine historical clothing looks like, so this was all just pretty to me, and I assume they took liberties with a lot of stuff, especially considering they leaned into modernised historical dress.
Disappointed with the ending tbh. Nice that they ended up together, but Sam never chose her for real. If the fiancé hadn't backed out she would've just married him. Couldn't they have made her braver at the end? The grandmother should die alone, and soon. The fiancé was a waste of air, knowing full well Sam barely liked him as a friend and was trying not to marry him. Why would you want to marry her fr? Mon is a doormat. No way I would have stuck around for the shit she ws put through. I'm grateful we finally got a Thai GL, and I hope we get more in future, but Jesus Sam was just as toxic and pathetic as some of the BL leads and I was really hoping to leave that with the boys.
It's rare to get this much closure for not only the leads but many secondary characters too. Love it. We usually don't get this many redemption arcs and massive personal growth in one show either, which I liked. Sometimes a person I hate will get a ridiculous redemption or blanket forgiveness because of a shitty backstory, and I was afraid they'd do that with assistant slingshot. I'm so glad they didn't. I felt awful for him and his trauma but honestly his appointment with the concrete was necessary. Putting him in jail would've been unnecessary extra waffle. I don't think they really needed to bring the bio-mum back, but I just glossed over her. All she really did was make the Hae Yi and FL feel worthless for a bit and then leave. I guess the Hae Yi got some closure. I'm glad she picked Seon Jae in the end. She would've been great with Geon Hoo, but I feel like Hae Yi and Seon Jae needed eachother more, and understood eachother better. Geon Hoo was a way more stable person, so he took the rejection better, and the big hints they dropped for him and Soo Ah is enough for me. ML and FL had chemistry off the charts, and I love them together. They were so believable and natural, I was kicking my feet the whole time, and I felt like I was interrupting every time they were being sickeningly adorable. The rest of the cast were great together, but the only relationship that even comes close to FL and MLs chemistry is the mother daughter relationship oof Hae Yi and Haeng Seon. They were so wonderful together and supportive of eachother. I like that we didn't get a stupid sacrificial breakup between our leads, even though Hae Yi did try to do the daughter equivalent. After assistant slingshot yeeted himself, and ML went quiet I was nervous they'd make him break up with her out of guilt and I'm so glad they didn't, and it was just him grieving before she went to him. Well done to the writers for not walking into that trope. Complete side note: I am floored that FL is 50. I honestly thought ML was actually older than her, and that they were putting a younger actress in dowdy cardigans to try to age her a bit. They both look great either way but I was genuinely surprised.
Ah I'm just finished ep11 and that car scene had me so anxious. Like dude LOOK AT THE ROAD. Chi Yeol was 90% looking at her and 10% at the road. I was just waiting for Hee Jae to run in front of the car so I could stop being worried about his driving. 😂😅
Oof. This went from a generic medical romance to a melodrama in the last few episodes. I hate the way they painted themselves as the heroes gone to save the poor violent Africans from themselves. It's ridiculous to see them paint themselves as bastions of morality tbh. The second trip to Africa is totally pointless, does less than nothing for the story, and WHY TF would his dad come and kidnap him from his wife, take him back to China, and then hide him? There no reason. Absolutely no reason. Like leave a fucking letter for HIS WIFE. And for aaaalll the other doctors to go along with it? Never mind hiding him but allowing him to get on a plane days after major brain surgery?! The dumbest shit I've witnessed. This show had at least two too many break ups. Like okay, he married her despite barely even liking her as a person, they divorce because she realised he doesn't even like her, and he's the worst. They wait a few years and get engaged again, then break up again, then get back together again despite nothing in their relationship changing. Then they marry again, go to Africa where he gets amnesia because ofc he does. And now they're more or less dating, with her knowing they're married, and him thinking she has a crush on him? The biggest oof. And the only way for him to become a better person is to get a traumatic brain injury? So basically personal growth is just impossible by itself. Cool. I'd been waiting since the start for her to have to do brain surgery on him at some point and I was starting to think it was the one trope they wouldn't do, but of course they did. I laughed when the bomb went off, and was like FINALLY the mandatory medical drama plot when one of them has to perform an operation on the other. Is it even a medical drama otherwise? Side note: It felt like every second family member and acquaintance needed brain surgery at some point? Are they just super unlucky? I don't know a single person who's had brain surgery... Glad they phased out the lawyer because he was really getting on my nerves. She rejected him politely multiple times, had zero romantic intentions for him and he would not take the hint. He started off like a normal nice person, but Jesus dude, take the L and move on.
I feel like I watched a different drama to other people because this was painful. I'm a completionist so I rage watched most of this with one finger hovering over the skip button the whole time. Oof. I saw several reviews about the chemistry between the leads being what sucked you in...who? I felt like I was watching a sociopath trying to woo a block of wood. Zero chemistry. He fixated on her in a really creepy way from early on. I dunno what sort of attorney he is, but he said a few times that they couldn't do anything illegal blah blah (note to ML, it's still illegal entry even if you have a key, and you slashed her tyres...a crime), but he was walking around casually committing identity fraud. He was a con artist with an attorneys license. She was supposed to be smart, and okay at times she was, but there is no universe where someone with an ounce of logic would choose to be with ML romantically or in a working relationship. He was super aggressive, violent, assaulted her multiple times, stalked her, lied, gaslit the shit out of her, ruined her reputation, orchestrated an entire plot to turn all her loved ones against her, cause her serious financial harm and then offered to be her sugar daddy like WHAT... He was unhinged and dangerous. He terrified me, and based on how she carried herself he terrified her too. I saw no difference between her pretend niceness while lying to him, and her supposed real affection for him when some of his secrets were revealed. She looked scared of him the whole time. AND HE NEVER APOLOGISED FOR DERAILING HER WHOLE LIFE. Like he made me feel physically uncomfortable every time they interacted, to the point I found myself fidgeting any time they were together and alone, they were so uncomfy to watch. I haven't seen either of them in anything else, so I can't say if that was down to their acting, or if that's how the characters were meant to be. The main plot with the sneaky financial shenanigans was mildly interesting, and if they hadn't tried to shoehorn a romance in it might've been worth a few more stars. But tbh it was hard to keep track of the different antagonists, and who was who's boss or enemy. It didn't make half enough sense for that many players, even with the FL reading out half the script to us near the end so we understood her husbands story. At that point I didn't even care what his motivation was, or if he was dead. Also also, the usb was in the statue the whole time? That was obvious from the second she saw it in the office and took it, thereby giving it importance to the plot. But you're telling me not a single person looked at it? She literally had it broken in pieces and sat gluing it back together and didn't see that? And multiple people broke into her house and didn't check it? The coworker in the office didn't check it as he trashed it? Are they idiots? The OST was nice.
I'm always hesitant to watch a highschool set BL because often the roles feel a little awkward or too grown up. But I'm so happy I watched this. 100% the best highschool BL I've seen, and one of the best BLs of any type I've watched. Everyone felt super genuine and realistic. The leads romance was so sweet that my teeth hurt from watching them. It was just incredibly wholesome and innocent, they were so respectful of eachother and caring. I know some people prefer a BL with more physical affection, but for this age range, this was absolutely perfect. The acting was brilliant and the chemistry our leads had was phenomenal. They made me feel like I was interrupting the whole time. There was more affection and sweetness in their little pinky finger holds and cheek kisses than you see in a lot of other BLs that are saturated with a lot of emotionless physicality. The parents were great honestly. I like that they didn't all immediately jump for joy, because sadly that's not the world we live in yet. But even the principal wasn't awful. She was just afraid that the world would be cruel to her son, but with some wise words from the best dad and seeing how scared the kid was to be honest with her, she was firmly in the "be my sons safe space" camp. The dad was so cute when he was all nervous to meet the boyfriend at the end, and I love that they mentioned his prized guitar again, because I was just thinking as they tidied up the music room "isn't that the dads super expensive guitar? are they leaving that there?" 😅 Well done to the cast, the crew, director, the folks who prepped all the music. Everything was wonderful. I gave it a 9/10, but tbh after writing this I think I'll go change that to a 10. 💜💜💜
I can't stop laughing at the big reveal scene at the end. All I can picture is all the people who plotted dudes demise standing in an orderly queue outside waiting for their turn to come in and reveal their part of the conspiracy. Like were they all just stood outside the door like "ah ML you and the maid with the photo of your mum go first"... "no sorry Mr Policeman, you and Zhi Xia have to go last"... "wait Mr. Jin and your lady friend, have you been in yet? Okay go ahead". That along with the slowest knife attack I've ever seen had me crying with laughter at the whole scene. Also, you could make the worlds worst drinking game out of this show if you drank every time there was a r*pe, attempted r*pe, or someone got drugged so that they could then be r*ped. Like why was that everyone's first choice to deal with a grudge? I wish they'd taken ML back a bit earlier, because he an FL have really nice chemistry (though it felt more like friendship than romance for the most part) and it would've been nice to build on that more.
Hey, step back a wee bit and try to see this all from another point of view. How would you feel if a bunch of…
I have no opinion on this because I'm not entitled to one. I hope these two people I've never met will be happy in their married life together I guess. But just to respond to what you're really leaning in to: "how do you thing your parents would feel about it? Are you not scared how your parents will have to react if their friends realised who your partner is, and even worse if they were victims of that criminal? And what about your own friends or coworkers who will see you with your partner knowing who it is?" - If his parents have no issue with it the comparison doesn't hold. His friends and coworkers don't get to dictate who he's with. They could share a concern sure. But don't rent a truck to protest your friend's marriage. That is insanity in a real world context. And even if his parents did object, he's not obliged to follow their wishes. "fan are the "friends" of the celebrity. They can even be considered family because they spend a lot of money on you, wish you to succeed and even celebrate your victories and send you present on various occasions." - Fans are not friends. They are fans. I understand the way the industry works, we are supposed to form an attachment to celebrities so we spend more money, invest more time and affection etc. But it doesn't matter how much we put in, we will never be their friend and we will never be entitled to dictate their life choices. If a stranger buys me a drink in a bar that doesn't entitle them to my time or energy. The comparison to football... I don't think it carries through. The football industry doesn't foster the same attachment to the celebrity that the movie/tv/music industry does, so I don't think anyone would care who their fave footballer is married to, maybe just a passing eyebrow raise, and if they play badly, I would just think they need more training, or maybe some rest.
Is it weird to call a BDSM movie wholesome? This somehow was. I put off watching this for ages because I was afraid it might be a sensationalized or mocking take on BDSM, but I think it was done really well. They really stressed the consent, and the fact noone was doing anything wrong, which is refreshing. It's not my thing so I can't say for sure how accurate they were with everything, but I've been online enough to recognize it as a lot more accurate than some other portrayals.
I read reviews and spoilers. I thought I was prepared for this beautiful depress-fest. I was not prepared. I knew exactly what was going to happen but it only made it worse because I was already upset before things went to shit. I am bawling. I'm marking this one down to revisit if I need a therapeutic cry.
This was fine. The acting was great. The people were different types of awful, and to varying degrees. I saw and was a party to this kind of sh*tty juvenile relationship f*ckery when I was in university. But that's when we were all 18 and idiots, and full of hormones and allowed to fully make our own decisions for the first time. But these people are supposed to be adults with careers... grow tf up everybody and stop cheating with your coworkers, or cheating on your coworkers, or pretending to cheat on your coworkers with other coworkers. I mean come on, it's really not that hard to just NOT do these things. I felt bad for FL but also really annoyed with her. I can only assume she had so much grief and trauma from her brother and parents that she ended up with some sort of self flagellation kink, because who the hell throws themselves that far under the bus just to dump their bf and avoid their love interest? She really didn't have to go that far. She could've just ghosted them all in the first place. She didn't need to destroy her reputation and do that much emotional damage on those fools.
The acting was poor, the music was appallingly loud, the story was mediocre and super melodramatic. But the only redeemer is the FL actually chose to be with the 2ML who genuinely cared for her, rather than the truly awful ML. Even with losing 2 children because of him and his gf, him assaulting her sexually, physically and emotionally over years and basically treating her as less than a person, cdramas will normally give him a few seconds of realisation and a tearful apology and have FL gas lit back into a relationship with him. It's refreshing to see the idiot FL actually choose the better person (even if he was faking brain damage to keep her close- truly a sign of how bad ML is that 2MLs red flag was barely a blip in comparison).
MiGu has to be the most unlikable friend I've ever watched. If they wrote her like one of those generic frenemies who betrays FL for whoever or whatever, then okay. But they wrote her as if she never really did anything wrong, which is ridiculous. She mentions at the start how weird it is that she became besties with FL when they've got such a big age difference but never bats an eyelash over the fact Zhuo Ran is THE SAME AGE. So she's basically pursued this dude from when she saw him for 10secs in the airport. Finds out he's her besties terrible ex, and continues to orchestrate meeting him. Knowing he has zero interest, she switches out FLs medication because a stranger asked her to, became an accessory to his crime when he took the gun to the highly secure event (she knew that was a real gun, even if she pretended not to she was right there when the police said they were investigating a homicide by 3D printed gun-she knew). She continued to simp for this sociopath, and even when she discovers his identity fraud and a whole secret layer, she does nothing. He comes to her with a gunshot wound and she still does nothing until the cops come to her. When she does turn him in, she feels bad not for the people who suffered and died because she lied and protected him, but for HIM. Not only a shitty friend but a shitty person. And FL is like ah don't feel bad babes. FEEL BAD YOU PSYCHO.
TBH I'm annoyed at his mother too. If you knew the druglord had murdered one son, and his dad, and was using your safety to make the other son do unspeakable things, would you really just sit there for 8 years letting your son become the worst person he could possibly be. She was really ill, like hun just off yourself and remove the main threat from the son, and off yourself when he's around so the druglord can't lie and pretend you're fine. The son was useful, so he would've been kept alive, and he would eventually get out. Job done. And surely giving the heart to her was a big ethical no no, knowing the son orchestrated the whole thing? Or did they not realise? Isn't it just an even worse version of organ trafficking?
Anyway, I liked the leads well enough I think, their chemistry was good, when she wasn't behaving like a lunatic. She had some absolutely whopper mood swings, and somehow even though his EQ was in the basement he managed to understand what she was doing.
It also leaned a bit propaganda-y. Oh sure the baddies were all Chinese, but they also went abroad, which made them just foreign enough to be the baddies. Like come on, Zhuo Ran spent like 18yrs in China, and 8 abroad but they never shut up about him being trained abroad and living abroad and being foreign military blah blah blah. And the made all the truly bad stuff happen abroad, at the border, or out at sea.
I felt awful for the cousin. At the start when they were like "she has ADHD" and then rolled out this absolutely unhinged young woman, I was like wow...are we really saying this is ADHD, but it made more sense once they revealed the kidnap and brutal assault. Girl was traumatised, severe PTSD. From then on I just wanted her to be safe and happy. I really didn't care about soldier poet, but I was gutted for her with the way the dealt with him.
The plot was generic, the affection between the leads was very mid. There are far better ways to show affection between characters without having to actually be physical with eachother, but all they did was pan out from a weird camera angle and blur. The seconds leads were cute but also had little believable chemistry.
I enjoyed all the clothes. I know nothing about what genuine historical clothing looks like, so this was all just pretty to me, and I assume they took liberties with a lot of stuff, especially considering they leaned into modernised historical dress.
I'm grateful we finally got a Thai GL, and I hope we get more in future, but Jesus Sam was just as toxic and pathetic as some of the BL leads and I was really hoping to leave that with the boys.
We usually don't get this many redemption arcs and massive personal growth in one show either, which I liked. Sometimes a person I hate will get a ridiculous redemption or blanket forgiveness because of a shitty backstory, and I was afraid they'd do that with assistant slingshot. I'm so glad they didn't. I felt awful for him and his trauma but honestly his appointment with the concrete was necessary. Putting him in jail would've been unnecessary extra waffle.
I don't think they really needed to bring the bio-mum back, but I just glossed over her. All she really did was make the Hae Yi and FL feel worthless for a bit and then leave. I guess the Hae Yi got some closure. I'm glad she picked Seon Jae in the end. She would've been great with Geon Hoo, but I feel like Hae Yi and Seon Jae needed eachother more, and understood eachother better. Geon Hoo was a way more stable person, so he took the rejection better, and the big hints they dropped for him and Soo Ah is enough for me.
ML and FL had chemistry off the charts, and I love them together. They were so believable and natural, I was kicking my feet the whole time, and I felt like I was interrupting every time they were being sickeningly adorable. The rest of the cast were great together, but the only relationship that even comes close to FL and MLs chemistry is the mother daughter relationship oof Hae Yi and Haeng Seon. They were so wonderful together and supportive of eachother.
I like that we didn't get a stupid sacrificial breakup between our leads, even though Hae Yi did try to do the daughter equivalent. After assistant slingshot yeeted himself, and ML went quiet I was nervous they'd make him break up with her out of guilt and I'm so glad they didn't, and it was just him grieving before she went to him. Well done to the writers for not walking into that trope.
Complete side note: I am floored that FL is 50. I honestly thought ML was actually older than her, and that they were putting a younger actress in dowdy cardigans to try to age her a bit. They both look great either way but I was genuinely surprised.
Because otherwise this is a weird take.
This show had at least two too many break ups. Like okay, he married her despite barely even liking her as a person, they divorce because she realised he doesn't even like her, and he's the worst. They wait a few years and get engaged again, then break up again, then get back together again despite nothing in their relationship changing. Then they marry again, go to Africa where he gets amnesia because ofc he does. And now they're more or less dating, with her knowing they're married, and him thinking she has a crush on him? The biggest oof.
And the only way for him to become a better person is to get a traumatic brain injury? So basically personal growth is just impossible by itself. Cool. I'd been waiting since the start for her to have to do brain surgery on him at some point and I was starting to think it was the one trope they wouldn't do, but of course they did. I laughed when the bomb went off, and was like FINALLY the mandatory medical drama plot when one of them has to perform an operation on the other. Is it even a medical drama otherwise? Side note: It felt like every second family member and acquaintance needed brain surgery at some point? Are they just super unlucky? I don't know a single person who's had brain surgery...
Glad they phased out the lawyer because he was really getting on my nerves. She rejected him politely multiple times, had zero romantic intentions for him and he would not take the hint. He started off like a normal nice person, but Jesus dude, take the L and move on.
I saw several reviews about the chemistry between the leads being what sucked you in...who? I felt like I was watching a sociopath trying to woo a block of wood. Zero chemistry.
He fixated on her in a really creepy way from early on. I dunno what sort of attorney he is, but he said a few times that they couldn't do anything illegal blah blah (note to ML, it's still illegal entry even if you have a key, and you slashed her tyres...a crime), but he was walking around casually committing identity fraud. He was a con artist with an attorneys license.
She was supposed to be smart, and okay at times she was, but there is no universe where someone with an ounce of logic would choose to be with ML romantically or in a working relationship. He was super aggressive, violent, assaulted her multiple times, stalked her, lied, gaslit the shit out of her, ruined her reputation, orchestrated an entire plot to turn all her loved ones against her, cause her serious financial harm and then offered to be her sugar daddy like WHAT...
He was unhinged and dangerous. He terrified me, and based on how she carried herself he terrified her too. I saw no difference between her pretend niceness while lying to him, and her supposed real affection for him when some of his secrets were revealed. She looked scared of him the whole time. AND HE NEVER APOLOGISED FOR DERAILING HER WHOLE LIFE. Like he made me feel physically uncomfortable every time they interacted, to the point I found myself fidgeting any time they were together and alone, they were so uncomfy to watch. I haven't seen either of them in anything else, so I can't say if that was down to their acting, or if that's how the characters were meant to be.
The main plot with the sneaky financial shenanigans was mildly interesting, and if they hadn't tried to shoehorn a romance in it might've been worth a few more stars. But tbh it was hard to keep track of the different antagonists, and who was who's boss or enemy. It didn't make half enough sense for that many players, even with the FL reading out half the script to us near the end so we understood her husbands story. At that point I didn't even care what his motivation was, or if he was dead. Also also, the usb was in the statue the whole time? That was obvious from the second she saw it in the office and took it, thereby giving it importance to the plot. But you're telling me not a single person looked at it? She literally had it broken in pieces and sat gluing it back together and didn't see that? And multiple people broke into her house and didn't check it? The coworker in the office didn't check it as he trashed it? Are they idiots?
The OST was nice.
The parents were great honestly. I like that they didn't all immediately jump for joy, because sadly that's not the world we live in yet. But even the principal wasn't awful. She was just afraid that the world would be cruel to her son, but with some wise words from the best dad and seeing how scared the kid was to be honest with her, she was firmly in the "be my sons safe space" camp. The dad was so cute when he was all nervous to meet the boyfriend at the end, and I love that they mentioned his prized guitar again, because I was just thinking as they tidied up the music room "isn't that the dads super expensive guitar? are they leaving that there?" 😅
Well done to the cast, the crew, director, the folks who prepped all the music. Everything was wonderful. I gave it a 9/10, but tbh after writing this I think I'll go change that to a 10. 💜💜💜
That along with the slowest knife attack I've ever seen had me crying with laughter at the whole scene.
Also, you could make the worlds worst drinking game out of this show if you drank every time there was a r*pe, attempted r*pe, or someone got drugged so that they could then be r*ped. Like why was that everyone's first choice to deal with a grudge?
I wish they'd taken ML back a bit earlier, because he an FL have really nice chemistry (though it felt more like friendship than romance for the most part) and it would've been nice to build on that more.
But just to respond to what you're really leaning in to:
"how do you thing your parents would feel about it? Are you not scared how your parents will have to react if their friends realised who your partner is, and even worse if they were victims of that criminal? And what about your own friends or coworkers who will see you with your partner knowing who it is?" - If his parents have no issue with it the comparison doesn't hold. His friends and coworkers don't get to dictate who he's with. They could share a concern sure. But don't rent a truck to protest your friend's marriage. That is insanity in a real world context. And even if his parents did object, he's not obliged to follow their wishes.
"fan are the "friends" of the celebrity. They can even be considered family because they spend a lot of money on you, wish you to succeed and even celebrate your victories and send you present on various occasions." - Fans are not friends. They are fans. I understand the way the industry works, we are supposed to form an attachment to celebrities so we spend more money, invest more time and affection etc. But it doesn't matter how much we put in, we will never be their friend and we will never be entitled to dictate their life choices. If a stranger buys me a drink in a bar that doesn't entitle them to my time or energy.
The comparison to football... I don't think it carries through. The football industry doesn't foster the same attachment to the celebrity that the movie/tv/music industry does, so I don't think anyone would care who their fave footballer is married to, maybe just a passing eyebrow raise, and if they play badly, I would just think they need more training, or maybe some rest.
I felt bad for FL but also really annoyed with her. I can only assume she had so much grief and trauma from her brother and parents that she ended up with some sort of self flagellation kink, because who the hell throws themselves that far under the bus just to dump their bf and avoid their love interest? She really didn't have to go that far. She could've just ghosted them all in the first place. She didn't need to destroy her reputation and do that much emotional damage on those fools.