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We know this ship ain't sailing as a canon coz China is trash in terms of their treamtemt of lgbtq folks.
We just do not give a fuck and enjoying the ship anyway 🤣

Reasons why Ben and Sa Xin are THE headcanon ship people love:

1. PERFECT setup for soft enemies to lovers because the initial dislike they had for each other did not come from them actually disliking each other, but the idea they had about each other in their heads (that was then proven wrong as the drama progressed).

2. Even when Ben was annoyed at Sa Xin, he was still protecting him.

3. The way their dynamic works follows far more the typical "straight" love lines than "male friendship" IN ASIAN MEDIA, example: Ben being protective over Sa Xin, instead of them being "us two against the world" seeking revenge together. ML manipulating and keeping FL out of danger against her will is literally a trope.

4. The fact their scenes together have more depth and emotional impact to both character than any scene Ben had with Doctor so far. The devil is in the details. For the doc he bought a generic drink, for Sa Xin he made his special date drink with full on magic trick.

5. Majority of scenes he has with a doc happen in context of Sa Xin reacting to them, him being the cause it happened, or him being mentioned in them by Ben. The way he was dancing with the Doc while also keeping his eyes on Sa Xin for the majority of the time.

6. The fact the whole intro does not have ONCE scene between Ben and the Doc. Guess what it has tho - bar scene between Ben and Sa Xin.

7. How their bar scene borderline mirrored the composition of the lead couple bar scene:
https://i.mydramalist.com/yWODwR_3f.jpg

8. Truth to be told, his "love line" with Doctor is so shallow so far it feels like a way to pass censorship. Like when they tried to give Wuxian female love in in The Untamed drama version 🙂 The way their scenes are always sandwiched between scenes liking him with Sa Xin is literally a full on circus.

9. The chemistry is there 🔥

Now, I am 100% aware it will never be a canon, coz China is HOMOPHOBIC in a legal sense. They censor gay relationships in art and media. But that's also exactly why this pairing makes so many people excited, because this goes further than your typical queer-biting bromance things we see from China. I love a good dose of male-male friendship and brotherhood. This ain't that. You know what felt like brotherhood? Li Zan and Jiang Lin.

Anyway, I'm here to kill two birds with one stone: find my people, and piss of people who hate this ship for no fucking reason 🤣

Ps. I do not hate the female doctor, I think she is a great character, love her scenes and want to see more (they are painfully underusing her potential as a character). I just like Ben's dynamics with Sa Xin more 🙂

I get it now. By all means you are emotionally a child. No thought in your brain, it's all emotions you don't know how to explain, justify nor deal with. That's why you do not want to engage in actual conversation, instead act like a hormonal edgy teen with all the excessive !!!! "byes" and mediocre jokes, thinking they make you look good. They do, to other children. As an adult, I just feel bad for you.

And if by age you are also an adult, that's even sadder.

Do you usually also scream at people all the time when you talk to them in real life? All the !!! kind of ridiculous. No offence, but maybe you have some issues with emotional regulation. It's worth checking out.

Romantic relationship are based (or at least long term) should be based on friendship. Liking the chemistry between two male characters and wishing there would be a romantic love line between them is not disgusting. It has nothing to do with BL, since lgbtq relationships do not exist in a bubble of BL content. There are gay relationships in "regular" shows.

We are all aware that China is homophobic and this ship will never be a canon. China would rather keep an already produced dramas in basement to never release than let people view a content that might even hint gay relationships. We are aware. That's the sad reality. Which does not change the fact that many people do enjoy the chemistry between Ben and Sa Xin and think they could have romantic potential and it is not disgusting.

By that logic, everyone who ever shipped FL with SML is also disgusting, because from the start we know who the FL will end up with and wanting her with someone else is "disgusting".

I honestly wish you all the best. Seeing you get this moved and affected by random people's opinion about fictional characters that by all means should mean nothing to you is sad.

The amount of anger and passive agressive bravado - honestly pitiful. Find happiness. Focus on the positive 👍🏻

"no offense" but then calling other's preferred ship disgusting 🤡 some people live outside of reality.

of course you don't. Silly me thinking you might want actual proper discuss of the subject. Some people just want to talk shit and not take accountability for their words I guess 🙂

it's 100% fine to disagree with people. Can you explain tho what's disgusting about shipping them? Unless you just overall think being gay is disgusting, there is no reason to use that word to describe the ship.

People be acting as if shipping two characters that are not canon romantically linked is a new thing, when it's been part of watching dramas since forever - whenever people shipped a straight or gay relationship.

Amazing, how it's ONLY an issue when people ship two people of the same gender. But when people talk about great chemistry between female and male characters in dramas and how they wish there was a romance between them, no one criticise shit 🙂

as i replied to Riakrazy, Jun Seo sold himself in a completely different light on their first date. She was into the caring, empathic and manly dude he was on their first date, not the "bro" dude who barely pays attention he was on their second. Jeong-su who is not interested romantically in You-jin still treated her with more care during their date than Jun Seo did towards Si An. Like, if he is not an empathic and caring person who pays attention, why act this way on their first date ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

aybe accept the fact that the man could be tired after all that physical game < she literally said maybe you are tired, and he said no, he feels fine lol He a liar or something?

The issue is - on their first date in the Paradise he sold a completely different picture of himself. He was caring, empathic and paid attention to her. And now he treats her more like a buddy. He was interested in him in the first place because of how he acted on that first date, for him to do 180 in second.

The same way he rightfully should not change for her, she should not change for him. He is a person who does not need to receive nor show much confirmation of emotional support, she is one that wants a lot. They are not wrong as individuals, they are just wrong for each other. But how you framed it was as if she was all wrong and Jun Seo is this truest realest person ever. When he is not.

You named the type of reviews used in scientific research, not media consumption. Maybe you what tools are used where first.

Your review is just a "prediction" based on collected data. That's what we do in science. You you did was a REVIEW OF DATA not review of piece of media. There is a difference between these two things.

Your "review" is not a review on the title, it's a "review" of the data so far knows about the title.

Here's the question tho - are you planning to just leave it as a rapid "ongoing" review till the end? Even after the drama ends?

No matter the type of a review, it's based on data or material that exists and was studied/reviews. This title did not even air. At best what you wrote could be seen as a comprehensive prediction, not a review.

well yeah, hope all of them burn in hell later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh sorry, I thought I clicked it.
fixed it 👍🏻

So what you are saying the whole fucking village bullied a child for years because her mother had an affair with Yeon Su's dad? But neither the dad nor Yeon Su got any shit...? When you need TWO FUCKING PEOPLE INVOLVED FOR CHEATING? Someone burn that village and all the people in it alive, for fuck sake.

While I hate how Kang Hui treats Yeon Su now, I also think she is way too kind and polite to everyone else in that town.

Oh I agree with the romance. I don't think there was any issue with chemistry itself, but it was for sure one of the more underdeveloped elements of the plot.

Relax, take a break from internet or something😂

the revelation of the fact she was his daughter was enough. They did not needed that additional last scene with the hypnosis bit 🤡