ShortCircuit

"Amen", on a BL drama's page, LOL. Okay.

So you don't like the trope - which is NOT even the trope you're dissing, as the parents never even marry and they're NOT ever stepbrothers, even just legally. But you're so lazy and uninformed (and seriously, if you don't like the premise, just don't watch, what's so hard to understand??!) and still you want to "warn" others against the drama you don't personally prefer?!

Why the heck would you do that? Who appointed you gatekeeper?!

This is freaking ridiculous, LOL. Get a life, guys, you're wasting time better spent watching what you like to tell us, who DO like this kind of drama, not to watch? Why?! It makes no sense.

The novel is mainland China though so why put this on Taiwanese dramas, LOL?

So don't get excited and don't watch, kthxbye.

Might be SSE too, since the JJWC notice is so recent. I'll be looking forward to it, thanks for the heads-up!

Who got the license?! It's not Seven Seas, they don't have it on their website (they got Sa Ye and some FeiTian novels, and You've Got Mail! :D but this one isn't there...)

So in Addicted Heroin they're actually legally brothers (their parents DO marry before the two of them meet each other), one of them basically bullies the other into sex (I'm not calling it rape but it had that flavour the first time), the same one forces cohabitation with the unwilling brother. Classic or not it's as abusive as they come. But those were a bit different times, so it gets a hall pass.

In A Certain Someone (this drama), they're never even legally brothers, because their respective parents get freaked out by their sons falling in love and separate in order to force them apart, too. Both teens are VERY sensible about falling in love (no rapey scenes here), both are WAY deeper as characters than the two in AH (ever wondered why that freaking suitcase is so damned important to Jiang Tian?), and when they are reunited, they both want to continue where they left off, it's amazingly natural for them to just be together again as adults.

Now if we're going to pick and choose how the stories are similar... Let's add Unknown (Priest's Da Ge) to the discussion. Also (unofficial) brothers, made worse by the fact that one of them is actually a father figure for the other one, obviously they live together, the conflict is about how different they perceive their bond, etc.

These are already three different danmei novels, by three different authors, who just happen to have some similar set-ins. They are not in any other way similar (not in the novels anyway.)

And hey, it's not just damnei - just look at Go Ahead. (Unofficial) brothers (and sister), cohabitation, love, conflict based on perceived relationships. They didn't take it from AH either. It's a pretty common setting - kids growing up together for reasons would fall in love eventually.

Seriously, it's like saying that all wuxia have qing gong scenes, LOL. Or all xianxia dealing with the Immortal Realm have a Jade Emperor. And so on, and so forth.

What can you do, tropes are gone be tropes and there are good reasons for that.

He looks like water, barbers and combs weren't invented at the time. I guess - based on these stills - he's a bad guy. Only bad guys manage to not comb their hair or wash their faces while being evil in kdramas.

PS Dammit now Paramount is getting in the action, too. Soon we would have to pay 11 streaming apps to watch what we'd want to watch. Makes for an easier choice of what not to watch, though, for now.

But how did Tonkla know who did it? The detective hadn't told him yet. Or had he?

I guess for the sake of making the timelines more convoluted, a lot of interlinking scenes are just thrown about at random *sigh*. Or I might not be paying enough attention.

Thanks for explaining!

So, huh, all Nan had to do was call the police?! And then why all the 007 shenanigans with Tyme, when she could have done it all by herself?

Did Great time skip back to his mother's side before the shooting? Wasn't it a gap of 4 minutes? How come the shooter was ready to shoot right then when Great just got back? Is there a closing time loop or what?!

So I guess we'll see a switch of POV from now on, from Great to Tyme or something.

I didn't quite really see who the guy in the beginning of the episode was - the one in the club - and whatever happened to him?! Was he somewhere in the story before?

It's getting really hard not to really hate NaGyeom - what more does she want from him?! She's the snake in the grass.

Also, Ha Seol has a little streak of carelessness about her own life - if she really has that little sliver of doubt about him, why go look at secret/hidden manholes with him, LOL?

Congrats to all the people who took that time to make their profiles informative and inviting :D

I tend to get to some pages and check out everything, from pics and gifs to quotes and lists, and I enjoy them :)

... On the other hand, I am a complete minimalist and like to keep secrets, so no detailed profile for me LOL.

IMHO it's her best story. Xianxia (old dragon undergoing tribulation/calamity gets his bones stolen, then he has to trace back to where all the bones are so he can recover his power. On the way he meets a strange amnesiac monk who could completely destroy him... but doesn't, and together they try untangling the whole magic mess.)

The dragon is the snarkiest shou ever to exist and the monk is the quietest gong to go on a walkabout, LOL, and if A Certain Someone has slow romance, Copper Coins is slow AND insidious, and it comes as a surprise to them, too, LOL. Out of all her novels that were TLed, I think Copper Coins is the very best. And the fan TL is also very good. Highly recc'ed!

Now imagine if they do Copper Coins!!! I SO want to see that snarky dragon :D

It's not even a trope - as in a drama trope, this is in the original novel. And the novel is great.

They're not stepbrothers of any kind, the parents don't stay together throughout the story, they're forced to separate as teens and will meet again as adults.

That good enough?

Just the unwed son from the little shop. There's a reason he's not married *wink*.

The title is A Certain Someone. It's avl in oceanofpdf, don't know about wattpad.

You could try oceanofpdf. Look for A Certain Someone by Mu Su Li.

ETA You could also look for Copper Coins and First-Class Lawyer by the same author - she's GREAT at what she's doing.

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