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I also liked the lead actress.

It has a cartoonish manga style, and the characters are deliberately grotesque. It’s supposed to be funny. Pay attention to the lyrics of her song at the end—she sing that she’s a failure, meaning that no matter what she does, she keeps failing. That’s her story. So both of them have some kind of psychological issue and trauma, and it’s through that shared trauma that they develop a relationship

Right now, all the clues suggest that ML’s someone who’s going to explode at some point and become violently jealous. I also think Nihei Shogo is his brother, which is why he said, “You have to stop controlling people,” because he knows him and knows what he’s capable of.

He also hugged her so tightly that he hurt her, which is another sign that he can lose control.

There’s also one scene where he’s standing and leaning against the wall, and suddenly his eyes turn black. So little by little, you start to understand the choice of the ending song too.

He’s right on the edge. If they decide that he can overcome it, then maybe the story will turn into something else, but for now this is clearly what they want us to think.

It’s a really excellent series and it keeps you on edge the entire time. The only problem is the lead actress’s greasy hair. I keep wondering how he can stand touching that greasy hair.

Spoiler… I think he’s his brother.

I went back to watching it because there wasn’t much else on, and I really enjoyed episodes 6 and 7. That’s the thing with this series—it’s not very consistent. At first it was a comedy, then it turned into a melodrama, and now it’s simply a very pleasant drama. I don’t know where it’s going from here, but I hope it continues in this direction.

They used a promotional photo to make him look like some famous actor whose name I can’t remember. Anyway, the series is a revenge fantasy and it really reminds me of movies from the 1990s. It’s very clichéd. In general, they seem to be going through a phase of making dramas about marital infidelity and revenge. They always release several series with the same theme around the same time.

To think that this story is horrifying when it involves only forced clothing, while in America the situation goes as far as irreversible treatments—it is simply unbearably horrifying.

Unfortunately, it does not stop at clothing, especially in America. The deranged majority gives it complete legitimacy. It is abuse.

Yes, notice how accurately he recreates their clothing too: the girl is wearing a red dress, and the boy is wearing a light-colored striped shirt. Every detail is accurate.

It would’ve been less creepy if he hadn’t acted like a child.

I disagree with everything you said. I do not know what you consider love, but when a partner ignores your discomfort, shakes cigarette ash onto you while you are showering, or subjects you to a cruel test while knowing perfectly well that you cannot answer back or resist because you are at the very bottom of the social and economic hierarchy, that means he has complete control over you.

Had Fan been Bei’s equal financially, you might have been able to justify the destructive and violent behavior by saying, “Fine, he is choosing this. He has money and can leave whenever he wants.” But He is poor, controlled by greedy parents and a brother who is constantly getting into debt. He has no future without Bei.

I think this kind of dynamic is common in Chinese dramas, and viewers who enjoy Chinese dramas often like this sort of relationship dynamic,

I am not judging you for liking this dynamic, by the way. It is a fictional series created for entertainment. It is not supposed to portray a healthy relationship. In a way, that is probably one of the positive things about Asian dramas: they sometimes go beyond what is socially acceptable. This is not something that would be acceptable in real life; it is only entertainment.

So just enjoy it. You do not need to justify their actions in order to enjoy the series. I also wrote that the series was nice.

He constantly uses him for his own personal needs, especially one specific need that we all know what it is.

I do not remember him ever thanking him for all the effort he puts into cooking.

He keeps buying him things even though he knows it makes him uncomfortable. When he says he does not want to accept them because they are expensive, he tells him that he understands nothing

Giving is not measured by money.

Fan return the keys to his apartment because his friend asked him to, instead of talking to him directly.

He even shook cigarette ash onto him while he was showering, as if even while he was trying to get clean, he still had to dirty him.

On his birthday, he did what he did to him and then simply went home.

To me, this is abuse. I do not see it as love.

Yes, I expected some kind of progress afterward—a reaction or something—but that was all there was. It actually showed more resistance instead of saying things openly and expressing them in words.

I see this as sick.

Episode 9 was nice, but their dynamic continues to frustrate me.


It is frustrating that there is not much dialogue between them, and Bai Lu exploits Fan for his own personal needs, almost as if he bought him with money. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether Fan actually loves him, or whether he simply feels guilt and obligation because of his morally bankrupt parents.

There is also the overused storyline of exploitative parents who sold their own child and then have the nerve to keep extorting him over and over again, while no one ever calls them out for it.

The first three episodes were funny, but by episodes 4 and 5, it had turned into just another Chinese melodrama, seemingly only to justify their usual violence. They simply love being violent; it is their way of expressing themselves. there are gangsters, there is jealousy, and the result is always violence. Had it still been funny, it probably would not have mattered, but it was no longer funny. And, of course, the editing continues to be very poor.

There is objectively no connection. You simply don’t know much about manga or this trope, so you act as if the wheel has just been invented. It reminds me of people connecting random dots just to make them fit the story they already want to believe.

Calling someone "dishonest." just because they state facts is strange. Both stories use a collection of long-standing tropes that neither of them invented. the differences between them are significant.

You can really tell that the director loves anime, and maybe Ghibli . The scene with Natsuki and his ex on the hill was so beautiful—it looked like a painting.
And there’s also a scene in episode 2 where the grandfather and his grandchildren are sitting on a bench, looking up at the sky. It’s so picturesque.

What a gorgeous series. Episode 2 was wonderful.

Episode 4 went by quickly for me, although I did skip the more difficult scenes. This is clearly a live-action manga style, and I can usually enjoy things like that without any problem. Sometimes, though, the cruelty is exaggerated too much. The characters are very grotesque, and even though they are flat, secondary characters with no real depth, their nastiness still comes through strongly.

I don’t mind this kind of style as long as there is some added value. In practice, the episode is still entertaining because the romance has not developed yet.

The fact that male stalker character is so different from the very serious role he played in his previous drama only makes me appreciate his acting ability more. I have mixed feelings while watching him

I’m waiting for episode 5.