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She dies at the very end by walking into the sea. I don't know if you'd feel satisfied, bcs it's kinda suggested her and the ML reunite after death and fulfil their final promise to spend Christmas together.

I am a bit surprised that you can empathize with the friend who lied abt the rape, but don't extent the same amount of grave toward the BFF. Personally, similar to you, I don't blame the friend who lied, she was terrified. She was against not one person but an entire group of people with powerful parents and money who were watching her every move. However, from the BFF's point of view, of course you couldn't forgive someone who took part (even if a small one) in hurting someone she loved so deeply.

Revoking what I said about Copycat Killer being more graphic after having watched half of season 2.

Echoing what noona said: absolutely not! You might get that impression from the first meeting of ML with the reporter girl, but trust me (us), it's really nothing like that. There's a reason for... well, everything :)

ahhh ;) there'a a bit... but not much. this is not a romance-centered story
There's actually no FL - all main characters are dudes, women are just supporting characters.

It's bromance in its original actual meaning, not what the word evolved to for whatever reason. No romance or hints of romance between the guys.
In my personal opinion not much space to ship them either. It's not one of those dramas where dudes have deep long stares that suggest soul connection and whatnot.
If there are any in here, it's more for a comical effect than anything else. So unless you develop a completely new story for the characters in your head, I don't think there's much shipability here.
It's just a wholesome story of male friendship (not only that, but in the bromance department that's what it is).

There is a movie.

I'm just at episode 3 of s2 and already have cried like 5 times...

I found it very romantic, but in a bittersweet way. However, as the sachapz stated: depends what you mean by romantic. There aren't many moments that would give you butterflies etc. The attraction between the characters is more emotional than physical I'd say. Personally, I felt like for the ML the girl is like a ray of sunshine in a dark suffocating world. And I found it very moving and romantic.

Well, I probably know (and I suppose everybody else who watched it knows) which scenes you refer to. In my impression it gets a bit less... vulgar in the later episodes (or maybe I just got used to it😋). They certainly went most "wild" in the first two eps though. Not really my type of humour either, but I pushed thru because I found the other parts really fun. To me personally, this drama is overall both really fun and wholesome. Maybe try giving it another chance?

I think Copycat Killer is more graphic. This one (at least the first season) is not overtly graphic. However, there are still scenes that are hard to watch (not so much for blood etc., but just emotionally difficult to get thru)

I guess it's not really that deep for me. I simply like them musically. Liu Yan's song is a rather atmospheric ballad and I do appreciate the pipa solo in between the verses, makes me think like he's actually the one playing and singing ;)
Xi Fang Tai's song is probably the most interesting to me in terms of arrangement. It sound both very modern and at the same time very traditional, with the drums and all. I also think her singing voice sound ethereal and captivating, light and seductive at the same time - exactly how I saw her character in the drama.
Does that make sense? :P

It's already out on Viki.

I'm two episodes in and... wow. If someone told me Ivy Shao here and Ivy Shao in, say, More than Blue were two different actresses, I might've believed them. She's so different here... Granted, they gave her this femme fatale look, dark clothes, black sleek hair, red lipstick (she looks great btw), but it's not just that. Her entire aura, energy around her is completely different.
Good actress.

So speaking of character OSTs, my favourite ones are Liu Yan's and Xi Fang Tao's songs.

Aside from these, I really like Faye's song from the main soundtrack "Cong Ci Yi Hou" - both music-wise and lyrics-wise.

I don't think he knew this technique before. The way I understood it, he learnt it while being inside that dream machine thingy.
Otherwise this would be an extremely big plot hole in the story for me.

This show is sooo much fun!

A bit disappointed that the previous cast is not the real one, I was excited for Wu Kang Ren in this.
Still, Ivy and Fandy are a reason enough to give it a try. Tony is a bonus :)

One more day and it'll finally be available on Viki! I nearly forgot about it...

If you mean actual bromance then yes, you could say so. They seems to gradually develop a form of friendship and they are super fun to watch whenever together.

If you mean "bromance", as this word seems to have gradually evolved in drama community, meaning censored romance then no, I don't think there's any hint of romance between them, minus a few light-hearted jokes.

Aw, thank you so much! Although my Mandarin "skill" (emphasis on inverted comas) would probably allow me to understand maybe 1-2% of what they're saying, I'll bookmark this link :)