smoky_topaz

I watched it without any prior knowledge about this series. The same goes for the actors.

Ngl. The first two episodes got me hooked fast. Storytelling, acting, cinematography and BGM - every facet of this drama looked good and promised a great drama experience.
The third episode even made me cut some onions.
Sadly after that the story lost its focus and transitioned at warp speed to a run of the mill college BL with all the stereotypes and never recovered from it.

Phoon as a character got introduced with some major trauma. When his backstory got revealed it made sense, that he was an emotional mess and chose the wrong side after a given ultimatum from his dad.
But after that part the story started to lose its core points and became the average college BL.
Phoon’s deep rooted trauma and grief and self blame got completely side tracked for fluff and when it came up again, it didn’t got addressed in a believable manner. A shown healing process would’ve upgraded the story in a big way.
But no.
SuperFah to the rescue and bam, the sky looks beautiful again.
Uh. That’s not, how it’s works.
The dialogues leading up to the obligatory skinship scenes were more of a turn off than turn on for me too.

So. When I look at the whole drama after finishing it:
In the end it was the usual college BL without a personality to stand out and make it unique.
Thanks to a higher production quality in a shiny look, but the interior didn’t get upgraded.
I only finished it because the start got me invested enough to sit down until the end. (And a shrivel of hope, that - perhaps - the story remembered its origin plot and qualities. It didn’t.)