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I can’t at all agree about Jim being boring. I love his character, and Earth brings it out so subtly. Perhaps it’s just too subtle for some people?

I’m an older straight (ish) women, and I totally empathise with Jim and Wen and their relationship. I don’t understand any antipathy towards Jim - he’s worn down by his experiences of life and love, and yet he still loves his restaurant and is full of kindness. He has perhaps taken his responsibility towards Li Ming too seriously and not always looked at things from his point of view, but now that has changed so nicely. It was beautiful to hear LM say how he loved him.
As for JimWen, all praise to Wen for persevering with his sweet flirtatious love for Jim. He knows that Jim really loves him back, and is not put put off by any of Jim’s rebuffs.
Can’t wait for the next hour!

Yes, “on the wild side” is a good description . I’m not normally into tattoos, but I loved Yok’s little birds!

I really fell for First in Not Me. I would call him a bad boy though - he seemed to be a sensitive artist and lover, and they were all fighting against social injustice. As an actor he’s so versatile - all big shoulders and sweaty in Not Me, the unsmiling and elegantly dressed Alan - and heartbreaking with it - and the conscientious, closeted schoolboy in Eclipse, until Aye manages to bring out the loving and sunny side of his nature. And in real life he is so different again to all these characters.

Thanks, that’s really interesting. I taught severely and profoundly deaf children for many years, but retired some time ago, and cochlear implants were fairly new then. But I have heard that they are particularly beneficial for people who have grown up with normal hearing and speech. (I know of course that they only give the full range of sound.)

Still, of course this just a story, though that’s sometimes hard to remember in a series that seems as real as this one is!

Why is nobody saying about Heart, “This boy should be speaking.”? If he lost his hearing 3 years ago he should still have reasonable speech. If it is psychological from the shock of suddenly going deaf, he should be having psychotherapy and speech therapy, and be considered for a cochlear implant to give him back some useful hearing. Not just shut him away from the world…

True. But unfortunately we can’t choose to get rid of them!

Does anyone actually LIKE the sound effects? Why do they use them? When I started watching BLs they were nearly enough to put me off the whole genre… but luckily I persevered and just try to ignore them.

Glad to read some more positive comments after a spate of damning ones! It’s not quite as good as I thought it was going to be at from the start, but I’m still enjoying it a lot. I like the chemistry between them, and love the character of Pond (and his body).
It’s a bit difficult to believe that these two well-developed men are high school boys though!

Am I the stupidest person in the BL world? I have watched every episode including 11.1 and 11.2, and I really don’t know how the situations have been resolved. What happened about Dew being shot dead? Are they happy ever after in one universe but not the other? I give up!

It’s on Bilibili

Gemini seems very fluent in sign language - impressive. I wonder why Heart is unable to speak at all if he lost his hearing comparatively recently. Perhaps it’s psychological, from the shock.

Oh, I don’t want to see Khao and First not together!

I agree - some good series are dragged out to make up the episodes and lose momentum.

Glad it’s not just me!

I like Kuea a lot more in this series - he’s so much livelier, and more attractive. But there’s something strange about Zee’s face… is it that there’s a filter on it? Or is he using Botox? And the whole cast are all wearing so much make-up, much more obviously than in most series.

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Although it’s good to see Kuea now being his adult self, there’s still something slightly unwholesome about his and Lian’s relationship. I don’t mean the love-making - that’s quite well done - but it’s their whole interaction that makes me feel uneasy. Think I won’t persevere.

All that lipstick! They’re all handsome enough not to need those artificial looks.

Yes, I think I like that idea! I’m happy with that.