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What has liking smell of your partner to do with the events in series I was referring to? Not to mention that he was the one who gave the shirt to her.

Let me go back to end of EP19 - I get clothes change. But why undershirt needed to be changed as well? You don't see much of them under the layers and they basically look the same. I would get it if they used the other's underdershirt as it was smelling bad (presumably like most the people in mine) but I think ML's undershirt was smelling nicely so what is the difference between using his and leaving the original one? The only logical conclusion is to ogle shirtless ML... 😏

I don't know exactly how it works but perhaps it's online with subs? I saw people discussing for example Killer and Healer (great series, BTW, but brace for tears) audio, so it's not a new concept.

Ther was talk about audio drama for S2, so perhaps it's better to wait for it that rot your brain...? 😋

You mean "Addicted" (there is another TV series that's more direct adaptation of it - "Addicted Heroin" - that hasn't finished it's run because CH said enough and hammer of censorship fell and is still holding)? No, I have not. I have however read her other novels and I would suggest not to do it. My "favourite" examples come from her novel "Counterattack" (also available in movie format, done pre-"Addicted Heroin"). We have here 2 BL couples. MC1 gets rejected by his GF because she wants somebody better (=money), so he smacks his head with brick (she tries to break up with him multiple times and it always ends with brick - at the end she does it out of like morbid curiosity), so he lands at MC2 clinic (after each "bricking"), because MC2 is a doctor. Then they try to figure out plan how to make MC1 life better but ultimately it turns to MC1 deciding that since GF wants ML1 - he is going to get him instead because logic 💯 (as usually in her novels). ML1 is quite wealthy and Day-like (basically a thug), loves his snake and big buts (which MC1 is an owner of). ML1 has kind of friendship with ML2, who is a snake seller. Warning - you might need to 🤮: one of the snakes is being used to check if girls are virgins (let's forget the disgusting aspect and add this to r/BadWomansAnatomy - how a woman could write that, I will never know). ML2 also kind of stalks MC2. Another 🤮 story is why MC2 doesn't want to be in relationship. His ex did a number on him (it's explained around chapter 200, I think). Ex wanted to break up, so he did what any other sensible human being would do - arranged for gang r*pe of MC2 🤦‍♀️. After the said event he was like: "MC2 you are dirty after it, so we cannot be together". Silver lining: it turned out that MC2 wasn't physically r*ped (I have no idea how he - being a doctor - couldn't tell but it was revealed like years after the incident).
If I remember correctly she was writing those novels at a time when from r*pe to love was a valid relationship development (I think Love Syndrome might be from similar time) and many authors used this trope. I am not making an excuse for her - I find her novels to be super toxic as well. Spare your brain cells!

Yes, some are just simply trash (like "Not me"* - the series was great because they basically only took names and the switch of twins from it and the rest was scriptwriters being awesome).
There are however novels that add to he series (especially Chinese... you know - censorship 🙄). The Untamed = Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is just one of the examples. I liked "love letter" and SA-rescue scene from "Love Sky" ("Love in the Air") better then the series one - it was more detailed in the feelings of the characters (something that's sometimes hard to "translate" to screen). "Manner of Death" showed a totally different vibe of Dr Bun (he was so cold!). KinnPorsche - the funeral scene was so much funnier (Khun almost burned the whole house down 🤣) and PeteVegas were so much worse then in the series (Pere was r*ped multiple times before feeling appeared), so skip it. "Semantic Error" was more in-depth of their relationship and it's development.
*in novel there was no social commentary, Tod was basically a passerby 2 times, Sean figured that it's White in like 5 seconds but kept it going to get in White's pants (which he did in the bathroom - it was more like SA or at least dub-con - while his other friend was sleeping on the floor in the next room; another friend was at the same time "getting busy" with Black on the bed in said room). Did I mention that it was trash? 😮‍💨

Good for you - save your brain from this! 😋
But seriously the novels made Day much more brutal/thug (especially 1st volume) and Itt much more whining 😒 Let me add to that that I think only Night knew that Day SA Itt (he saw the recording on a DVD). Why you ask? Itt was embarrassed to be the bottom (it's like the notion of r*pe hasn't even crossed his mind...). Everybody in Itt's orbit seem to think that Day can do no wrong (except from time to time: Nick*) and all of Itt's complaints (often + whining) are baseless (not all were). Even his whole family is brainwashing him to think that he should just obedently follow Day 🙄
*Nick is another character who is constantly being put down... especially by being called rhino(ceros). Link to explanation: https://youtube.com/shorts/q8V-vkqNO8s?si=QjVrliEeoTPvR6XQ

There was supposed to be Red Peafowl but it seems to be dropped 🙁
To be honest - I liked "Love Syndrome". They were quite "faithful" to the novel and they did good job portraying their respective characters. The novel series itself is just a giant ball of red flags submerged in ocean of toxicity but I still enjoyed it (it's similar to watching for example "House, MD" - fun to watch but I would hate to work with him and wouldn't wish boss like that on anyone).
This series has some serious plot holes but the jokes are not so cringe as in "Crazy Handsome Rich" and I like for series to make me laugh, so I am suspending my disbelief and watching this one 😁

I think GMM might also have something to do with it. There are some couples that constantly get fan meets, their series are heavily promoted and others aren't.
Let's take "Not Me" (NM) Vs "Bad Buddy" (BB). IMO NM was much better (and I am not fan of Off but I liked him here) but BB got like crazy promotions and budget (by comparison), so it got super popular. NM (that actually had interesting plot and not just same old university rom-com) was treated like some kind of unwanted step-child that should work on its own without support from "parents" (GMM).
I think that there are several couples that - perhaps because they are already established? - are having significantly less promotion than others (FirstKhao are one of them - I get them being busy with their life but I felt like ForceBook and MarkNeo had more fan meets/variety shows/publicity after "Only Friends").
It is also true that some ships are really active on social media and that makes a difference (FirFir and Khao are the opposites of that 😅 - they are both a bit of lazy cats in that department...)
On a side note: let's hope that First hasn't again got in some kind of accident and broke another part of his body 😢

I sometimes think that they could condense the series (no to the point of Korean BLs but still) - there are often unnecessary pauses (sometimes plots) and I really do not want to see BL "The Bold and the Beautiful" where you get contestant closeups instead of plot...

Agree (the 🍷 is so suspicious). Once I heard that vampires "overlord" is missing for surprising long time I was like: running a bar takes to much time, so he doesn't have time to rule the city as well... 🤭

For me the most weird thing is the whole ex debacle. Ex in parallel world has twin brother - so was he the same ex or not? If he was then how does that work? Phum would have to be originally from pararell word, so how could he take over the body?
And how exactly are the vampire guards/army traveling between pararell words? It just so happen that all of their counterparts died?

Thank you for the updates, you are an 👼
🤞 we get it fast and with great quality (storyline + acting)

Oh, yes - voice over was hard to swallow...
In some instances I see our bar owner showing Day's personality a bit 🤭

When I watch it it seems a bit like Crazy Handsome Rich but done better 👍

I admit that I like Dunk's voice but in looks department - at least for me - they are not better than FirstKhao. Additionally some people have this magnetism in them, like First's smile or Khaos "shitty puppy dog eyes" and it makes them even more alluring.
I haven't seen any extra "charm" (I don't think the voice is developed to be in that category).
However people have different tastes, so if they prefere JoongDunk's look - 👍

Not really - it's written basically from Peem's perspective (like a diary, perhaps?). There is 1 chapter from Phum's perspective and that's it.
Novel gives a different feel because everybody except Peem seems to be like gangsters (they were constantly fighting) and there was no damaged painting. Additionally all - except Peem and to some degree Phum - seem to be changing girlfriends at similar rate as underwear...
Let me also add that I saw on Meb that there are 4 books and translator mentioned about 70 chapters (there are currently 15 translated), so perhaps we get others perspective in other books...

Considering how they always tease us about PhumPeem, I doubt we are going to get resolution of QToey next EP.
To be honest I would like ChainPun to at least start (QToey don't interest me so much at the moment) - Pun is so chaotic, that it must be hilarious 😁

Check the novel - it's even better there. If you don't mind the spoiler then in chapter 12 Tan tells the story of how they met and how he asked Fang to be his BF (as they were already established at the beginning of the novel). Once he asked Fang, Fang punched him and asked why he waited so long to ask 🤣

As far as I know the story was supposed to be BL but only after main character's fans got furious that removed it, so I guess that once original author sold the rights they had no say in it... (it's not like in Thailand, I guess 🙁)