Muttery Monkey

If "gay only for you" works, then "straight only for you" might work as well. 🤣

Basic relationship advice: If you actually like your lover, don't introduce him to the tigers. Lol.

Then again, I never dated Mafia before. So what do I know?

Are you sure you mean Danai and not Danil?

If they used to be playmates to "satisfy their needs", is it safe to assume that they are both into BDSM?
If so, who would be the sub and who would be the dom? Danil didn't give off any sub vibes when asking Kamol to sleep with him...

But Kamol going vanilla to sleep with his uncle makes even less sense.

So here is the question about Danil and Kamol:

"Used to be an orphan": He got adopted by Evan. Because that's what Mafia does. Mafia is really big on adopting children (based on KinnPorsche and this series). Maybe because the family's own children don't survive long enough?
And Danil is Evan's brother, so technically Kamol was sleeping with his uncle. But it's all normal, right?

+1 for the Baiboon and Khom scene that you described :)
And I also want to know his age... I hope it's legal at least...

I have no clue why I'm loving this so much. But it's awesome!
Let's go, pet the tigers!

How to leave your lover - Mafia edition:
Mafia doesn't simply break up with their boyfriend. Mafia invites their boyfriend to pet the tigers...

Because subs in other languages are often based on the English ones and if a sub isn't there in English, it won't be there in other languages either.

But does Kim know that Kamol did a background check? I'm not sure if Kamol doesn't know or if Kim doesn't know that Kamol knows.

But Kamol seems like the jealous type... So if he knew, would he really entrust Day with Kim?

Didn't notice the hair because I'm distracted by his earlobes. Something seems wrong with it in some scenes (especially of the first episodes). Like one of these homemade piercings gone wrong - things teenage girls would do during sleepovers when they aren't old enough to go to a piercing studio...

Kim: "I'm staying with Day & Itt. You can't make me leave!"
Also Kim (5 min later): "I'm coming with you. You can't stop me!"

I use the camera function of the google translate app on my phone. Works well enough to understand what is going on (but it is a bit annoying to pause and fumble with my phone every few minutes...)

My wild guess is that when someone first starts watching BLs, seeing "boy loves boy" on screen is new in itself. That novelty is lost after a binging a few shows and our bored brains start craving to be shocked and surprised again.

While I can understand that notion, I personally don't seek "new" in BL. For me, BL is like comfort food. And I'm not gonna complain to my default pizza place about always delivering my default pizza in the usual quality. Instead, I'll tip them generously and ask them politely to come again next Sunday :-D

So probably it comes down to expectations towards a genre?

Correct. And I guess that's exactly the point (of the OP). There is hardly anything new in the world and maybe that's ok and nothing to complain about... All the "new" ways that I can think of, have somehow somewhere been done already.

How could the gay character in every Asian (non BL) drama possibly find a happy relationship? After all, he is the only gay boy in the whole wide world :-D

Some things are just unheard of...
Like, back in the day when I started watching Kdramas, I believed that there actually was a possibility that the girl would end up with the second lead. Now I know better.

Open relationships might be a bit extreme :-D
But I'd already be happy to see a couple that is confident in their relationship and trusting e/o, so they don't have to chain e/o to the radiator in the basement to prevent contact with other human beings (= potential love rivals).
I tried to think of BLs that have the talking / trusting component and not a lot come to mind...

Your question got me thinking about how a BL could be "new"... given that they are essentially love stories and the plot will always be somewhat along the lines of "Boy 1 meets Boy 2".

Commonly the "new" element is, that the circumstances of "Boy 1 meets Boy 2" are "special". E.g. the Boys are reincarnations of a couple from several decades ago (Until we meet again). Or Boy 2 is a ghost (He's Coming to Me). Or Boy 2 has multiple personalities who get jealous of each other (Innocent). Or Boy 1 can read thoughts by touching people (Cherry Magic).

Sometimes writers also add another genre to the mix. E.g. BL + timeloop (Triage) or BL + crime (Manner of Death). In these cases the series often end up focusing more on the other genre.

Then you could chose an unusual narrative style or filmography style. Like a non-chronological or backwards story telling. Haven't seen that yet in BL, though.

And lastly, the actual relationship could avoid the classic tropes.
Imagine that instead of the tropy "love-rival comes between them / cheating / senseless jealousy"-plot, Boy 1 and Boy 2 decide that monogamy is outdated and welcome multiple others to become part of their relationship.
Or the hetero Boy decides to stay hetero because he is just not into guys, and the gay Boy ends up forever alone.
Or instead of misunderstanding each other for 3/4 of the season, they actually talk with each other, voice their feelings and find compromises to make their relationship work.

I have been searching for a while. It seems that there is no official translation but I also could not find a fan translation. If you know Thai, you can find the original on meeb: https://www.mebmarket.com/ebook-72758-Love-Storm

@Not a Robot, maybe the scale of iQIYI is reversed, with 10 being the worst?

But in outbreaks, apocalypses etc. stuff is happening and shit is going down. In this show, NOTHING ever happens. At all. Ever. Any retirement home has more plot than this.