I have genuinely never been interested in BLs before The time of fever!
I have genuinely never been interested in BLs before and have never really been drawn to the genre, but I recently started watching Agent Kim Reactivated and really liked Won Taemin, so I looked up his other projects. The first thing that came up was The Time of Fever, so I watched it yesterday and I was genuinely so surprised by how much I loved it and how sincerely beautiful it was.
I genuinely never expected to love it as much as I did because this is not usually something I watch at all and now I’m desperately looking for something with a similar emotional feeling.
What I loved most about The Time of Fever was how beautiful and natural the relationship felt. It wasn’t just a story about two people meeting and falling in love. They already had this deep, intimate friendship and cared for each other so instinctively that they didn’t even fully understand the extent of their own feelings.
They were already so deeply connected, and then somehow found themselves falling in love with the person who was already closest to them.
The feelings felt unexpected, confusing and almost inevitable at the same time, because the love was already there in some form before they ever understood it as romantic.
I think this is also why my favourite show in the entire world is Weak Hero Class 1, especially Suho and Sieun’s relationship. Their relationship isn’t romantic, but I love the same kind of deep, precious and irreplaceable bond between them. They find each other unexpectedly and gradually become so important to one another, with Suho instinctively caring for and protecting Sieun, and Sieun slowly allowing someone into his life despite being so emotionally closed off. I love relationships where two people become each other’s person almost without consciously deciding to, where the bond is built through all the little things they do for each other and the importance of the relationship is felt rather than constantly explained. That kind of connection is genuinely what I am always yearning for in fiction.
I’m not just looking for friends to lovers, I’m looking for people who become irreplaceable to each other before they even fully understand what they mean to one another.
I would really appreciate recommendations that capture this kind of relationship whether it ends up being romantic or not !!
ml
I genuinely never expected to love it as much as I did because this is not usually something I watch at all and now I’m desperately looking for something with a similar emotional feeling.
What I loved most about The Time of Fever was how beautiful and natural the relationship felt. It wasn’t just a story about two people meeting and falling in love. They already had this deep, intimate friendship and cared for each other so instinctively that they didn’t even fully understand the extent of their own feelings.
They were already so deeply connected, and then somehow found themselves falling in love with the person who was already closest to them.
The feelings felt unexpected, confusing and almost inevitable at the same time, because the love was already there in some form before they ever understood it as romantic.
I think this is also why my favourite show in the entire world is Weak Hero Class 1, especially Suho and Sieun’s relationship. Their relationship isn’t romantic, but I love the same kind of deep, precious and irreplaceable bond between them. They find each other unexpectedly and gradually become so important to one another, with Suho instinctively caring for and protecting Sieun, and Sieun slowly allowing someone into his life despite being so emotionally closed off. I love relationships where two people become each other’s person almost without consciously deciding to, where the bond is built through all the little things they do for each other and the importance of the relationship is felt rather than constantly explained. That kind of connection is genuinely what I am always yearning for in fiction.
I’m not just looking for friends to lovers, I’m looking for people who become irreplaceable to each other before they even fully understand what they mean to one another.
I would really appreciate recommendations that capture this kind of relationship whether it ends up being romantic or not !!
ml
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