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there is some minor differences but i would say it’s a lot but a lot like the manhwa 🥺🥺💞

FIRST EPISODE SO GOOD 😭 i’ll be hibernating until next week, somebody wake me up when episode 2 drops

6 MINUTES IN ANS ITS ALREADY SO GOOD FCK I NEED ALL THE EPISODES

LITERALLY THE BEST CHINESE BL DRAMA CURRENTLY AIRING THIS IS CRAZYYYY

“not reading all that” while confidently throwing around words like queerbaiting and homophobic is exactly the problem 😭

you can dislike the drama all you want, but calling a confirmed queer love story “queerbait” just because it didn’t fit your personal expectations of romance/intimacy is still something selectively homophobic.

that’s not true at all 😭i’ve been waiting for this drama for so long, so i looked to it very closely since then. the director has consistently described it as a “love story,” “queer drama,” and within LGBTQ+ framing from the very beginning, not as a BL drama specifically. the BL label is something audiences applied based on expectations and marketing spaces, not something the creators explicitly defined it as.

and this is important because a lot of confusion comes from people assuming every queer-coded or male-male love story automatically falls under BL, when in reality that isn’t always how the creators themselves position it.

in multiple interviews (including the japanese ones), the language used stayed very consistent: “love story,” “queer love story,” and broader LGBTQ+ terminology. there was never an official claim like “this is a BL drama” from the director or script team.

so if people interpreted it differently, that’s understandable, but it’s not accurate to say the creators or script “made it something else” on purpose. the framing was already there, it just wasn’t labeled in the specific category some viewers expected.

and that’s completely fair 😭 you have every right to dislike the way the relationship was portrayed or to feel uncomfortable with how subtle it was shown on screen.i think where we disagree is on the word “queerbaiting.” because to me, queerbaiting is when creators tease queer romance while refusing to actually confirm it. but here, the story was openly confirmed by the director, the actors, and Netflix as a queer love story from the beginning.so i fully understand criticizing the execution or wanting more visible romantic development. i just personally don’t see it as “bromance” or queerbaiting when the romance itself was never hidden or denied by the story/team.

and what feels inconsistent to me is how quickly people jump to “it’s not queer / it’s bromance” specifically when the romance isn’t portrayed in a very explicit way. you can dislike the delivery, but erasing the queer framing altogether because it doesn’t match a certain expectation of intimacy is where it stops being just criticism and starts becoming a double standard.

i never said i was “better” than you 😭 and as a queer person myself, i’m not talking about you as a person, i’m talking about your behavior of denying a confirmed queer love story because it doesn’t match certain expectations of intimacy or romance.

you absolutely have the right to feel hurt or disappointed by the show. my point is simply that criticizing the portrayal is different from completely erasing the fact that it was still written and confirmed as a queer romance.

except queerbaiting does not apply to a story that has been openly confirmed as a queer romance by the director, the actors, and Netflix themselves 😭

y’all can criticize the execution, the intimacy, or the writing all you want, but throwing around “queerbaiting” at every queer story that doesn’t fit your personal expectations is exactly why the term is losing meaning.

this is just being selectively homophobic atp.

"stop promoting queerbaiting show?" can you even read interviews & synopsis/tags ? it’s confirmed to be a queer romance. can you please stop throwing "queerbaiting" it’s literally homophobic at his point and it hurts us, lgbtq+ people, thanks.

it’s really long😭 i cannot wait to give it a 10/10 😭💞

can anyone make a "lost to you" page?

as a fluent in japanese, it’s not a normal "i love you" he said 😭 he used the sentence "愛してる" which stands for "i love you" but is only used for intense romantic feelings when confessing to your crush or you’re romantic partner. it’s really but really weird to use that for friends or family as this sentence implies "i’m in love with you". a normal i love you that go to friends or family would be "大好き" or "好き"

can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭

those people are saying that because they don’t kiss or anything but it’s very clear from episode 2-3 that this is a gay romance and at the end of everything, it gets confirmed :)

bromance but they confessed they’re in love with each other at the end 😭 be for real 😭😭

yes, they’re in love with each other, they confessed to each other.

it’s impossible to complete a drama that have 8 episode of 35/40 minutes that was released 2h30 ago 😭 the full length of the drama is 5h30mins 😭

the director + netflix + actors have confirmed it was a love relationship multiple times 💞🙏

exactly… it’s honestly weird to say it’s “not a queer romance” when you skipped over the entire emotional timeline just because you were only looking for explicit queer elements….