The Dramanticist

With most reincarnation stories, it's not just about the main romantic pairing but everyone is linked by karma to each other, including the antagonist and families. They are cosmically linked to be reborn relatively at the same times and in the same places to ensure they all can balance or resolve their entwined karmas. Sometimes they are reborn with slight variations in relationships (enemies become siblings or parents become children, etc) to help them each expand their spiritual understanding and growth.

This doesn't just happen in Thai dramas but in KDramas (Tale of the Nine Tailed, The Legend of the Blue Sea, etc) and CDramas (Till the End of the Moon, Love You Seven Times, etc) as well. It's part of the whole trope of using reincarnation and multiple lives. Even Cloud Atlas (2012) had a variation of the same tropes.

The very first thing I ever saw him in was https://kisskh.at/301-three-dads-one-mom

He was adorable in this one.

Huaien is wearing female clothes and hair accessories when Xiaobao meets him on the road. So they take him at face value as a handsome and beautiful woman.

It's both a comedy sight gag but also plausible since I myself have absolutely seen women who look like Huaien before.

What I'm saying is that it WAS done correctly and wasn't censoring. It was a character and narrative choice. The characters do not kiss in that scene in the novel or in the show. It is purely about the aphrodisiac and is not an intimate or even consensual sex scene. The kisses between them happen later because of character arc reasons. It depicts a change in intimacy between them to have them kiss purposefully and with consent.

As I understand it, they don't kiss in the novel until later on. The show is accurate to the novel in this way.

No problem! It's a very good drama, imo, but I don't want you to walk into it thinking it's BL. It's more of a crime noir.

No.

I rec "Yes or No" (Thai) and "Spider Lilies" aka "Tattoo" (Taiwanese). Two of my favorite WLW movies of all time. There's also "In My End Is My Beginning" (Korean). Then for a couple of really short web series, there's "Wishing for Happiness" (Taiwanese) which was a bit heart wrenching and "Out of Breath" (Korean) which was deeply adorable.

There is also "A Bizarre Love Triangle" (Korean) but even tho it's wlw, it's also about a poly-triad with a man involved in the poly.

Lastly, I want to rec "The Painter of the Wind" (Korean) which is probably the most mainstream KDrama with a queer / wlw main romance story in it there's ever been. It was certainly the only mainstream KDrama I've ever seen that had a bisexual/biromantic main female character. There are some things they did to get by the censors on Korean tv because it was a mainstream series and frankly the primary story is not romance, it's a historical drama so there's not as much romantic content as the others. BUT the main wlw pairing still won the Best Couple award cuz the romance/chemistry was THAT good.