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Stepbrothers or adoptive brothers these are two very different situations. And that's all I wanted to emphasize here.
For me, in the case of adoptive brothers, that love was absolutely fine. And growing up together in many places around the world results in strong feelings, it's really nothing new.

Bravo! and Thank You!

Thank you for your answer.
In the series that I watched before, I did not notice that the authors of BL "consistently devalue femininity" I will be more careful on this topic in the next series. Greetings.

To all those below (at the beginning of the comments) who are wondering about the subjectivity of Truth/Lie and our FL's work for the God of Truth:
Neither Truth nor Lies are subjective.
Truth is Truth and a Lie is a Lie.
So.. we have:
1. There are no wrong questions - all questions are right.
2. All of FL's answers about Truth or Lies - were true and accurate.
3. Conclusions from these answers - they were NOT ALWAYS right! Because they were taken out of context, and that was the problem.
Greetings.

Thanks for all your recommendations.
I have the impression that the female role we are writing about was much easier in historical dramas than in contemporary dramas.
In the last few dozen modern dramas I've seen, FL has had to flip over and fall for ML to save her, or flip over so she can fall right into ML's arms.
Seeing this situation again and again makes me sick.
Why spread and perpetuate such an image - an illogical and clumsy woman who, left to herself, will probably die of stupidity - in her country and show such an image of a Korean/Chinese woman to the whole world?
It's high time to change that.

Thank you. I watched it a while ago and would like to revisit it.

"There are only a couple really well written romance kdramas out there with smart female" - can I ask you about examples, I'd really like to see some. Thank you in advance.

For me ML is more mature than FL.

Yes - I managed to watch it only for Anson with long hair and long robes.

I agree - much better than Hidden Love!

Thank you :)

Thanks for the refreshing comment. I agree with almost everything.
I just have one remark: labeling whether someone is gay or not (also other gender identity) is slowly losing its meaning these days because everything is becoming quite fluid.
Kazuma has been and is with only one man. He never tried or sought out other men (during this period 10 years). Only his past and present are known, the future is not.

In my opinion - being a man - I don't have to be gay to fall in love with another man and be with him. It's a subtle difference and I can feel very well what Kazuma said and I don't see any homophobia here.
For instance: today I love a man and what will happen in the future - life will show.
More and more - the appearance, property, height, age and even sex of the person we REALLY love - become secondary in the face of true Love.
Greetings.

It is exactly as you wrote.

Yes - if they wanted to make her a good lawyer - this is an obvious script error.
It offended me too, because it is unforgivable naivety from a lawyer's point of view.

In a formal matter: there was no stepbrother situation here. They were two completely alien genetics. Half-brother - occurs when one of the parents is common, this was not the case here.

" (..) Leo Luo BEFORE Leo became a skeleton" - perfect term. I watch movies with him often because he's a good actor, but I don't understand this transformation into a skeleton, because this thinness makes him much uglier than he was.
Although this page is not about him, do you know what happened to make him so thin, is it some kind of disease? Thank you in advance.

Imo Korean fans are the same.

Oh thank you for that brilliant comment. Hit on point in 100%. I had fun.
I can't agree more - as a foreigner, this is how I perceive every other modern cdrama.

My Octopus Teacher -brilliant document!

I downgraded my rating for the ending.
The show used to be good, now it's just average.