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And muzzled.

Agreed. I really enjoyed how Sister Lan and Feng Qinglang's grandma are portrayed. I wish I knew women like them.

Xu Xiaoxiao is really her father's daughter. I can see their forked tongues whenever they speak. She inherited all of Papa Xu's selfishness and cruelty. The intellectual, tactical, and high EQ traits her brothers developed over time missed her completely.

You know what? Let's send her to Hunter School with Xu Changyang. The experience may knock some sense into her since no one else will. In the meantime, can somebody take her phone and delete her socials?

At this point, I don't know what to do with Shi Yuhao except look forward to his downfall.

I feel the same exact way word for word.

Yes! Looking forward to future CBLs.

If I pass away before Immortality and other shelved series are released from prison, hopefully another BL enjoyer will play one of them at my grave. It's good to be kind to your elders to help their bones or ashes rest even more in peace😆

I see big things on the horizon for Kim Yoonsik and Park Siwoo! Hopefully Cho Minkyu gets more prominent roles too. His arc as Investigator Song made my heart race, and it was already racing from the suspense of the last two episodes and the 🔥 between Prosecutor Joo Taeseon and Investigator Lee Chaeha!!!

Looking forward to more from Director Yang Kyunghee!

After Episode 10, I asked myself: "Should I retire from watching BL once A Winter Sun finishes and just revisit my favorites? Because both this series and A Winter Sun feel like peak, so everything else will disappoint me, right?

Of course not! I'll keep enjoying BL until Gen Gamma (or whoever comes next) wheels me into the old folks' home) 😂

Shi Yuhao, aka The Rat, aka That #@%!ing Snake, is lucky he's not destroyed yet. Here's why I think his downfall is inevitable:
1. Xu Changyang. Green-flag golden retriever puppy on his way to Spec Ops training/Hunter School (not a man to mess with). He has infinite patience and the sweetness to woo Feng Qinglang for years. He also has a powerful father who would Thanos-snap anyone who harms his son.
2. Shi Yuhao's career is tanking. He's desperate and lashing out. Desperate people make mistakes.
3. He's left a trail of broken hearts sleeping with anything with a pulse for career gain or because he can't keep it in his pants. He probably has lots of enemies.
4. All of us here. We may simply reach through the screen and take care of business. I'm from the Caribbean. I have chanclas ready for him. I hear slipper-throwing is universal. Imagine thousands of us taking aim at him 😉

Please share your thoughts, my delightful fellow viewers.

His talent is unreal 😭 I stumbled across his martial arts/dance clips and was completely mesmerized. There's something so focused and confident about him, like a celestial being who descended to bless us with his beauty and skill.
I hope he finds even more success and takes care of himself. (And if he ever quits smoking, I'd be the happiest fan alive!)

Same. I think he's not the innocent cutie he seems to be on the surface.

Here are my two cents as a danmei reader of six years with limited Chinese reading proficiency, so I only read short danmei in Chinese and more popular, longer ones in English. Consider Silent Reading (Mo Du / 默读). It has an official English translation in progress with five volumes so far. It's a crime drama danmei with charming leads, lots of push and pull, and a degree of enemies to lovers. The angst comes from the cases, not from the leads mistreating each other.

As for Thai BL novels with official English translations that have angst without toxic relationships between the leads, check out works by Sammon (who's actually a medical doctor), like Manner of Death, Spare Me Your Mercy, Triage, and others in an interconnected universe. Many of these are set in the same universe. Also consider novels from Patrick Rangsimant (also a doctor), such as My Ride, I Love You and Imaginary Boyfriend.

I cannot tell you how much I love this comment.

Yes. https://www.lofter.com/front/blog/home-page/zeliawang

Same! Between them and the leads from The Prosecutor's Proposal, I'm close to being thrown into a padded cell.

Shi Yuhao: My first thought when seeing his scheming face in Episode 9 was, "Not this snake again!!!" The bear in Molie that chased Xu Changyang and Feng Qinglang many episodes ago should have detoured and eaten Shi Yuhao when he was lurking in the forest. Guess he's too bitter and poisonous even for a desperate bear to eat 🤷🏾‍♀️

I agree. I'm so happy Park Siwoo and Kim Yoonsik are booked and busy due to the success of the this show. During a reaction video, Kim Yoonsik promised he'd dance while Park Siwoo ran a coffee cart if the show got to number one on Wavve. I think it has! I can't wait to see that.

The way his eyes rolled back in pleasure almost killed me. To me, it was perhaps the most erotic part of the series so far. Bravo.

Thank goodness Oh Jahyeon isn't my mother. Her characterization left me deeply unsettled. I do love a baddie, so I'd totally watch an entire series about her. Props to the actress Seo Hangyeol.

Thank you for such a detailed review. I'll definitely read the novel now, especially since the show is ending soon. It helps that I can picture the actors as the characters, so I think reading will be even more enjoyable.

Does anyone else find this series so beautiful that it is difficult to articulate exactly how it makes you feel? The behind the scenes content and other extra footage on the members' YouTube channel help make the wait for Fridays a little more bearable. I have heard that the viewership numbers are not very high. If that is true, what can we do to attract more attention to this show?

I also love how the bear and whale emojis match two of the lead actors so perfectly. Xiong Yiwen has the surname Xiong 熊 🐻, which is the Chinese character for bear. Liu Jingyu has a given name that sounds very similar to the Chinese word for whale, 鲸鱼 🐳. As a Chinese learner, finding these little connections brings me so much joy.

Thank you ❤️