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There were very few times when I felt sorry for Fan Xiao and the jail time wasn't it (also, let's not forget that his horrible family went down with him, and they deserved it as much and he was happy about it), but the accident with the motorcycle and Shulang's non-reaction was indeed one of them. However, he did tell him later to stop driving said motorcycle, so he still cared, only showed it differently.

The time skip was necessary, there's no way they could've reconciled otherwise. Shulang had to find out by himself that he still loved Fan Xiao, and given the circumstances, he needed the time.

I absolutely support both actors, they are amazing! I'm so happy they've kept the adaptation so close to the source material!

But Fan Xiao was never poor, he went to work and earn his own money on his own. It was his own wish. His money was still there. He never complained about having to work, on the contrary, he was proud of achieving something on his own. How is that a bad thing and why should You Shulang be blamed for it?

The jail time was deserved, and Fan Xiao was the one who practially sent the e-mail by using You Shulang's hand. You Shulang wouldn't have done it on his own. He had the possibility to do it way earlier and never did. I wouldn't have blamed him even if he had, with the way Fan Xiao had him trapped.

Fan Xiao had good reasons being the way he is, but unfortunately, another person had to suffer because of it, a lot. Fortunately, You Shulang is strong and clever and could deal with it and fight against it. Exactly this is what makes the story so different and so much better than all comparable stories in which one of the characters is a red flag. I woud've never accepted them as a couple if You Shulang hadn't been as strong as he is and made Fan Xiao pay. It's so great to finally have a MC who won't just take the bad guy back with just a slap on his hand.

What else was You Shulang supposed to do? Accept him back just like that?

You Shulang did absolutely the right thing by not taking him back without making him realize how horrible he's been.

Episode 3.

Yes, You Shulang helps him one last time with that female client, and then he'll ask Lu Zhen to show him the pieces of the portrait Fan Xiao painted of him in order to see what Fan Xiao wrote on it. After that, Lu Zhen is just gone from the narrative. He is shortly mentioned in the very last extra of the novel, but this is it for him. He acknowledges his mistakes and never tries to get Shulang back, because he feels he doesn't deserve him.

To be honest, I don't understand why Lu Zhen and Shi Lihua are listed as mains. They aren't. There are two main characters, the rest are supporting ones.

Spoiler: yes, You Shulang will beat Fan Xiao because he'll find out that he's been the one to sexually assault him while he was unconscious and then played the concerned friend the next day. For the betrayal and the lies, it was enough to throw Fan Xiao out and break up with him, but the assault is a different thing entirely and he will not let it slide without making Fan Xiao pay.

They are following the book very closely. Shulang and Lu Zhen will meet one last time and then Lu Zhen will disappear completely, unless they've changed something, but I don't think so.

It's no wonder years of therapy haven't helped cure Fan Xiao's trauma, because his misery and contempt for the rest of the world are so great that he would even deliberately sabotage and hurt himself in order to show how nasty he is and boast about it to his horrible friends and hurt the honest, caring, generous person he loves in the processs. He's been miserable and unloved his whole life so the pain he feels himself and the fact that he's a pervert no one loves doesn't matter, he's used to it. Falling in love is bound to change that, but he has to discover for himself what it means for the person he loves to want to have nothing to do with him and to despise him like the rest of the world.

The truth is, Fan Xiao doesn't know how to love, because no one has loved him except for his mother who's been dead for a long time, and he needs to learn what this means, and the process is long and painful. Unfortunately, it will be long and painful for poor You Shulang, too, because no normal person would ever want to be loved by someone like Fan Xiao.

Guess the scene I wanted to see will be next week. ;)

Hao Yi Ran outdid himself in this episode. <3

No, and Lu Zhen doesn't ask to - he thinks he doesn't derserve to try to win Shulang back.

You Shulang's brother is called Zhang Chen.

Same. I can't finish it even though it's good and I can see that it is. I think it's the many horrible characters who are honestly so horrible that I can't watch them. The fact that one of them here is the father of one of the mains makes it even harder.

This is, hands down, the best GMMTV BL this year, by far.

It's so honestly funny and Khun Thee and Peach are such an unique couple.

I'm watching on Gaga with VPN set in Malaysia and it works. To my knowlege, any country in Southeast Asia should work. The rest of the world is excluded.

Yes, it seems so. The most glorious part for me, together with the confession.

Well, it's starting. Layer by layer, Fan Xiao's mask is peeling down. This doesn't mean he will become a better person, but at least Shulang won't be in the dark anymore.

Fan Xiao thinks to himself he has to tell the truth but keeps lying. Oh boy.

Watching this episode, I realised something I never did while reading the book - if there had been any way to do it, Fan Xiao would've kept everything he did to Shulang a secret forever in order to keep him as a lover.

The second couple sort of made an appearance after all. :D

The mystery/psychological/supernatural/horror genre seems to be my favourite, because I've been loving all shows they've given us so far - Khemjira, Mystique in the Mirror, Goodess Bless You From Death and now this one. Hopefully they'll keep them coming next year, too.

The production, the visuals and the vibe of this are so great, and I'm very happy they finally gave Force and Book adult roles. This was one of my most anticipated GMMTV shows from this year and I can't wait to see what will happen.

I thought I was the only one!

I adored RL until they reconsiled after Wu Suowei's mother's death. After that, only the second couple was worth watching IMO. The entire arc with Wu Suowei getting kidnapped by Chi Cheng's father, the prison, etc. was lost on me.

Objectively, ABO was not very good. Revenged Love was good, however, it had a completely different vibe and I wouldn't compare the two.

It's canon, they are both heavy smokers and the cigarettes are also used a as symbol about how much they are mutually addicted to each other. There was no omitting that.

Nope, he won't. He will cling to Shulang for as long as he can.