I'm watching so you don't have to
Overall: I wish I could communicate to creators that the majority of us who enjoy BLs don't want to see abusive parents, cliche wannabe girlfriends/fiancees, love triangles and idiot/fickle MLs. I'm only giving it a 6 because it hasn't finished airing. 61 episodes about 2 minutes each. Airing on Stealing From My CEO YouTube channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPI1JWvmjRBKQdQr6dtkfhjV70qOc_r5j&si=AMF9kD-Ry2JtT4EoContent Warnings: murder, manipulation, slap, theft, child abuse/torture/violence
What I Liked
- the bond between the two guys (i.e. I'm rooting for the pair that is not the end game)
- that they are uploading it (eventually) to YouTube instead of just their app
Room For Improvement
- the main lead is an idiot and I actively don't want him to end up with the other guy
- started with a flash forward
- mom did an exposition dump
- cliche female character
- nonsense things that aren't funny or enjoyable (that magic serum is one example)
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Between cruel, deceitful, and loving and nostalgic characters
'Stealing from My CEO' is a Chinese drama and romantic series with an LGBT+ theme with a plot about two adopted brothers, Chen, from rich parents, and Gang, a poor orphan, who are separated, while still children, when an ambitious employee of the family mansion hatches plans to steal and blame Gang.Thirteen years later, now young, the two adopted brothers meet again. By then, Chen has assumed the name Lucas and is a successful CEO, engaged to the ambitious employee's daughter, Nana, who, posing as Gang's biological sister, manipulated Lucas' guilt into convincing him to commit to she.
Meanwhile, Gang finds it impossible to tell Lucas his true identity, because during that time, without relatives, home or friends, he has been forced to be a thief by Green Dragon, a man who picked him up on the streets after escaping, and now pressures Gang to rob Lucas and his fiancee's house. To carry out the heist, Gang will have the help of Crane, Green Dragon's son. The story also tells of a love triangle between Lucas, Gang and Crane.
Good and evil characters, drama, intrigue, boss-employee relationship, love triangle, romance, tension, threats, dangers and adventures are the ingredients of the series.
Despite being poor and orphaned, and the mistreatment to which he was subjected, Gang, the main character, is a noble and innocent spirit, a quality that he preserves contrary to all the suffering he has suffered in his childhood and adolescence.
The series, signed in vertical format, also has a moral purpose, through the reflection of the life led by the most marginal sector of society, since having lived among scammers and thieves, both Crane and Gang survive with candor and innocence, wanting not to continue their lives as thieves and, instead, study to be able to enter university and carve out a future free from criminal acts.
Despite its low budget and numerous flaws: linear content marked by conventionality, emotional affectation, narrative scheme of melodramatic and sentimental exaggeration, overacting, low blows, reproduction of gender stereotypes, caricature characters, linking economic success with crime, discrimination and little desire to investigate social contexts, the series seeks to criticize the lack of protection of the most disadvantaged classes, the determinism that can lead directly from poverty to crime and inhumanity.
Between cruel and deceitful characters, on the one hand, and loving and nostalgic characters, on the other, it will be discovered who the young employee in Lucas and Nana's house really is.
'Stealing from My CEO' paints the misfortune of two young people who hope to escape with their own efforts from a world of theft that is not the one they dreamed of the squalid moral misery of a father who forces his children to steal, the undeserved life of opulence of ambitious father and daughter who will do anything to climb the ranks of society, and a young man who has not forgotten the one he once called brother and with whom he shared games and laughter in childhood.
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