ashesinthewind

The very first episode had three of my favourite things ever - cats, Spanish and FirstKhaotung. I can't believe how lucky I am. <3

I don't believe they will just give up because of a handful of idiots. They've already organized themselves and have started with the filming and I truly believe they will find a way. The director has to try to keep the crazies away, but giving up at this stage? Nope, I don't think so.

Same here, two weeks since the last episode aired and I still can't move on. At least YunYi are successful and the special episode(s) seem to be in production already.

Thank you! I don't mind the predictability, there were predictable couples in the earlier seasons, too. However, I liked some of them, while in this season, I don't like any of the three you mentioned. I'll skip the rest of the season.

Can anyone spoil me about the final picks so I can decide whether I'm interested to watch at all?

Jade: Co-workers kiss all the time, right?

Nope, they really don't, Jade. I've been working since I turned 19 and would know if they did.

I agree, and would like to add that it must have been the first time he's really felt sexually attracted to anyone to such an extent, because he had no problems admitting to himself that he wants to sleep with Shulang and did everything possible to make it happen and after it happened, he couldn't get enough of it, but only with Shulang, no one else. There are intense people like that who only act on their attraction when they actually feel it.

CopperPung would be an unconventional couple for Domundi (way more than CopperFifa), so I don't think it's happening, although I personally would take it over CopperFifa every day. I feel sorry for Pung, because he's probably my favourite there, and as an introvert myself I feel for him and I wish he would find a partner, but better without one than accepting being someone's second choice. Let him find someone else.

Fifa is really popular, wow.

I'm still not sold on RyujinPatji, but it seems it's inevitable, the way the production is pushing them together. NorthOtto seems like it will be happening, too.

For some reason, I'm not fond of any of the "obvious" couples this season. In the previous seasons, there was always at least one I liked.

They are in Thailand! It's so unreal to watch them there in that sunny weather, here we had a blizzard yesterday and there's a lot of snow and it's cooold!

Can we hope that they are in Thailand because the production of the extra episode(s) is starting soon? Please?

If you didn't enjoy the other two because of the toxicity, you need to know that the ML here is more than or at least just as toxic as Hua Yong, IMO. If you didn't enjoy the other two for other reasons and not because of the toxicity, try this one, IMO it's better than them, although I'm very biased.

Thank you so much for this link, it made my day!

This is such a brilliant and articulate analysis of You Shulang's character that I' saving it.

It was a fake relationship. Both of them were trying to escape their demons - Shulang was trying to forget Fan Xiao, and Lu Bowen was trying to escape his ex-brother in law, who was both a minor and in love with him.

According to one of the extras, the kiss never happened, it was just an angle kiss to fool Fan Xiao and the brother in law, who have been both watching.

Same here! I've been waiting for this show ever since someone posted about it filming in August. Now the waiting starts anew...

He still doesn't know that Fan Xiao was the one who ordered someone to slam into his car as revenge for rear-ending him and got his arm injured.

https://chrysanthemumgarden.com/novel-tl/ffb/

Here. It's almost done. There are other translations, but this is the best one.

Figures that My Drama List will strike exactly when I want to post something.

I was wondering how exactly they would adapt 10 chapters in one episode and of course they didn't, because as I suspected, it can't be done. My greatest disappointment will always be that they stopped not at chapter 106, but at chapter 103, because I really wanted to see Shulang find out about the last bit he didn't know about. I hope this will be in the extra episode they will be filming.

On the positive side, I really, really liked that they decided to omit the parts when Shulang and Fan Xiao met (with the exception of the motorcycle scene), because this emphasizes even more the fact that Fan Xiao did his best to stay away and yet, Shulang didn't stop loving him despite it.

Huihui is another great female character in the story, pointing out the obvious and making Shulang understand that nothing Fan Xiao does would affect him if he didn't love him. It's so funny because we're given only bits and fragments of these female characters: the mothers, Bai Ting, President Shi and Huihui, yet it's enough to see how awesome all of them are.

I've said it already, but I'll repeat myself: this is the BL of 2025 for me, no competition. We had two interesting, real, complicated, multilayered main characters who actually got to shine in their own story without any side plots and distractions, great chemistry, good production, tight script, and, as far as I'm concerned, a very good balance between angst and sweet moments, although I still wish they'd adapted the entire main story until chapter 106. My favourite episodes are, after rewatching, everything between 5 and 8, and episodes 10 and 14 for the angst.

That was a very bad translation and irritated me too. The brother meant that the last time since You Shulang appeared, Fan Xiao has had a panic attack when he was 18 and saw the ocean again. This means: Fan Xiao sees the ocean again when he is 18 and has a panic attack and then he keeps away, as he told Shulang himself. Nothing of the sort ever happens again until Shulang leaves him and refuses to come back.

Fan Xiao is 26 when the series starts and has to be 29 when it ends, because it's stated that 3 years have passed. His age is mentioned: he said that what happened to his mother was 19 years ago and that he's been 7 at the time.

You Shulang is 28 - 29 when the series starts and has to be 31 - 32 when it ends.

I'm a little baffled where this RyujinPatji thing is coming from. They were already in the second season and had no interest in each other whatsoever. I remember that Auau directly asked Ryujin who he might be interested in, and Ryujin just as directly named several people, but Patji was not one of them. The same goes for Patji, I didn't notice him being interested in Ryujin last season, like, at all.

Of course, things might have changed now that they've got to know each other better, but I honestly hope they will keep their options open and won't feel forced to choose each other only because they've been cast in Mr. Fanboy.