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At least Johan admitted he was jealous, although not in the way North thought. I'm starting to think that the guy is just inadequate and doesn't know how to communicate affection for anyone, not just North. He's trying (not very effectively) to show he cares by picking up North, driving him around, lending him clothes, texting him regularly, etc., but no one seems to have let him know that this is not enough. North is as clueless as ever, and I can't blame him.

I think it's time for Johan to confess and tell North why he's doing what he's doing, because they won't be getting anywhere if they continue like this. I wonder what would happen if North would just cancel all of it and tell him whatever, I'll take the interest to you ordering me around for no apparent reason, now let's not see each other again.

They are still dragging Ter and Hill and this was already episode 9. *sigh*

Ouch, calm down. And yes, I can say that to someone who assumes things about me and calls me "fucking crazy", because I totally missed the part where I said I was disappointed Fadel had had time to recover. You say that it's "bad practice" to speculate, but at the same time, you claim things about me I never said. And learn not to curse at people you don't know, this is certainly bad practice.

I'm leaving here, because I certainly have no time for YOUR nonsense.

Well, Fadel kills people. Doesn't that make you uncomfortable?

The show is not to be taken seriously. We know why Style is after Fadel, he wants the car and likes the challenge. I guess feelings will develop later. As for why he kissed Fadel, I think it was clear that he felt he could, because just moments before Fadel would've cracked if the uncle hadn't interrupted them. Style wanted to just continue where they'd left before, too bad Fadel had had the time to recover, so to say.

I watch on Gaga and the episode has the same running time as on YouTube - 59 minutes and 50 seconds. I've never had a show cut on Gaga, so IMO the YouTube version is uncut.

Whoever came up with the idea to have Dunk's character pursue Joong's, thank you very much, I'll love you forever. This is by far Dunk's best role, at least from the ones I've watched. I can't resist Style and Fadel won't be able for long, too.

Bison is so adorable, I want to cuddle him.

I'm totally convinced after the second episode. What a fun, hilarious, sexy show!

This is so good, like really, really, really good. If it contunues like this, it will be the first Japanese BL I'm going to rewatch. Why can't we have two episodes a week? They are short ones.

If done right, this can be one of the best BL series next year. A crime mystery with a popular BL couple and a lot of suspense. Let's hope they will get it right.

True, thank you! I just checked and realised where I've seen the other actor - he was in I Saw You in My Dream. Still very excited!

It's PondPhuwin and this is enough for me, I'm seated. :)

SeaKeen enemies-to-lovers and the side couple from Summer Night together - I can't wait!!! It's the only mock trailer I've watched more than once so far, so this is saying something.

Yes, please. This is so much better than what they gave them this year.

This is the first time I'm really, really excited about a ForceBook new series. I'm very glad this doesn't look like a romantic comedy, but something more serious. Together with the SeaKeen and GeminiFourth series, this is the one I'm actually most excited about.

Bas is so good, an absolute delight to watch. ❤

I see some people don't agree, but given the situation, North is behaving pretty reasonably and responsible to me and given how Johan ordered him around, he was way more calm about it than many people would've been. Everyone would've lost their temper if forced to make the same cup of coffee so many times.

I guess at some point, if Johan keeps behaving the way he does, North will probably notice that money isn't what Johan wants, but we haven't come as far yet.

I can't get that mad at Johan even though I understand why people have problems with his behaviour, because the moments when he gets all soft on North make up for it, like he so clearly wanted to stay there with him while North was making the coffee and at the end, because he was honesty worried about North. He's not approaching North in the right way, but I guess that at this point, he knows North is not into him and hopes that North would start liking him if he forces him to spend time with him. Obviously, it's going to take more than just that.

Well, it's obvious how ridiculous this is and IMO this is exactly what they are trying to show. I'm sure all cups of coffee North made (with the exception of the last one :)) tasted exactly the same and Johan, being dumb and not knowing how to keep North around for longer, pretended they tasted any different than if he himself would've made them. It was an excuse to make him stay longer, and a very bad one, but North, being oblivious as hell, didn't catch up on it.

It's so funny because everyone around North (not only Ter, but also his engineering friends) are telling him Johan is hitting on him, but he's choosing to ignore it for now, probably because he still has no feelings for Johan.

Well, Johan, you can't have it both ways, you know. First you make him think he owes you a lot of money in order to keep him close, and then you're sulking because he tries to his best to pay you back. He doesn't know why you're doing what you're doing. Your actions brought him to that bar.

That being said, I adore Johan and North and their chemistry and this was my favourite episode so far. I still like North best, but Johan's growing on me, although he's coming on a little too strong at times. But they are both cute and hilarious and I'm enjoying them very much.

So Ter and Hill confessed, but are not together yet? Please make it make sense. :(

I mostly agree with you, actually, although with some reservations. I want to clarify:

1. I don't get why Ter is shipping North with Johan either, unless Hill has told him something before, because North is definitely not into Johan yet, he clearly stated to his friends that he has seen a side of him that is not swoonworthy and that he doesn't care that someone is good-looking and rich if that person has indebted him. Johan will have to put some work here and I personally like this. We already have a couple (Hill and Ter) who were both into each other from the beginning and I like that Johan and North have different dynamics and Johan's feelings for North are one-sided as for now.
2. Ter might be annoying with his shipping, but Hill was the one who actively sold his boyfriend's best friend to his friend without missing a beat. I highly doubt North would've ended up breaking expensive wine bottles and puking on expensive clothes if Hill and Ter had gone to pick him up and bring him to his dorm. There's nothing expensive he would've ruined there. I put the responsibility on Hill and not so much on Ter here.
3. I don't want to defend Johan and I get he's using his wealth to get what he wants, but North was the one who started the fight and he would've been held responsible for the mess he caused in any country. As he himself said, he would've had to pay for the damage in the bar or at least some of it, medical bills, etc. What Johan basically did is clear up the mess in the bar for him and pay the other parties off so they'd leave North alone, and therefore become the only person North is indebted to. Of course, whether this is for better or worse for North, he himself doesn't know, but we do, we're watching BL after all. I bet that Johan will not take any money from North and will use the situation to force North to get to know him and eventually like him, so all of this makes me accept that situation more easily than I would normally.
4. That being said, I absolutely feel for North and can understand why he's not ready to warm up to Johan yet. For such a young person who's struggling with money to begin with, to suddenly find himself in such a situation must be terrifying. I saw a complaint somewhere that North wanted to talk only about debt and interest in episode 7. Um, what else is he supposed to do, a debt of over 10000 € is not to be taken lightly. The Johan/North story, from what I've seen, will be slow-burn and I personally think that under the circumstances it can't be anything else.

North and Johan have my whole heart, I love them so much!

And I really like that North is not swooning over Johan's good looks, but will make him work to win him over. North is by far my favourite character, I find him very charming and natural.

I'm repeating myself, but unlike many, I love the series, it's cute and it makes me smile. :)

I was curious and checked how much money North owes Johan in a currency which value I can understand. It's over 10600 € and this is quite a lot of money. North is lucky Johan seems to be gone for him already. :)

Yes, there's no other explanation for the video with Mas with it and for the e-mail if Khem was indeed dead. The only explanation is that Khem never died and we ended up watching the story we saw him writing during the entire time he was in the house, only that not a ghost has been writing it, but a real person; the protagonist of the story was a ghost, but not the one who actually wrote it. We were inside Khem's written story, not in the real world.

After thinking a little more about it, this is my theory: if we separate ghost!Khem's story completely from the story of the Khem we saw at the end of episode 10 - first in the library when he bumped into Mas from 2020 and then when Toh asked him to go with them to Chiang Mai - the story does make sense.

I think what happened is that Khem, who is a talented writer and loves history and Chiang Mai, met Mas by accident with his Shakespeare book (who, as we know, likes writing tragic and impossible love stories) and either was attracted immediately to him or found him memorable enough to incorporate him into his story later. Then he got invited to accompany the other 4 to visit that historical house and write about it in order to promote it. As we saw in episode 1, he started visiting the library in Chiang Mai and learned some things about the history of the house and the people who have lived in it. Inspired and after the road accident, which definitely happened, although no one died, he created the entire story we saw, imagining himself as the main protagonist and choosing the boy with the Shakespeare book (yes, there has to have been some attraction, otherwise it would make no sense) as his love interest in an impossible love story that happened and was connected to the house he's supposed to promote. The baby Mas named after the moon at the end was still part of the story and therefore ghost!Khem's story ended up having a hopeful, although open, ending for the mains.

Outside Khem's story, the real Khem probably has approached Mas from 2020 and asked him to help him with the video in order to make the story he wrote a little livelier. Whether they would end up together or not in the real world is open for interpretations. :)