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In Killer and Healer? No (SE = sad ending, BE = bad ending). There is however an alternative ending where 1st couple gets happy ending (=HE).
But it's so worth the tears!

Well... HE for the present, right? I liked the past couple a bit more, to be honest.

Are you watching Last Twilight? Also the same director in Moonlight Chicken and it had interesting storylines (for me main was meh but the others were really good).
Only Friends is nice as well (2nd pairs meh for me).
Stay With Me has a really nice, warm storyline (it's ~Chinese BL, though). If you want to know the major theme of it - just watch opening and the song will tell you everything. There is lip balm that isn't a lip balm there 🤭
What did you eat yesterday? has older pair (they are almost 50) but the everyday issues are really nicely portrayed.

I highly recommend this hidden gem, Chinese BL: Killer and Healer.
🚨spoiler - SE/BE for basically everyone (there is alternative HE for 1st couple...) 🚨
We have 2 pairs: police officer and doctor (a bit from enemies to lovers) + opera singer and criminal (here we have revenge + more of one-sided love). The story is set in ~1920, I think.
Police officer hates drugs. Doc accidentally gets arrested during drug bust and since he was not at home his little sister gets kidnapped (their parents are dead). Doc (MC1) goes to Hong Kong to find his sister and police officer (ML1) goes there to get to the source of drugs.
Police officer meets FL1 first but ultimately she fells in love in MC1 (not reciprocated). She is however not bitter about not getting the guy and once they are all back she even helps them. Yes, it is possible to have FL in BL that one does not hate.
Then there is her friend, FL3, who is a bit of airhead and she fells in love in one of the colleagues of ML1 (PO1). PO1 doesn't feel the same (he is not interested in anybody, as far as I remember) but there is actually another policeman (PO2) who falls in love with her. She is a bit annoying but not bad.
There is also FL2 who falls in love in ML1. As you can guess he is very clearly not interested (literally in her face not interested). She decides to go revenge route against ML1.
There is one beautiful but sadly unreleased song from the show that shows parts of the series dedicated to the 3 FLs. FL1 is in red dress. FL2 in white coat and FL3 is in the forest. Link: https://youtu.be/-UnH-nof90w
Now to the second pair. Criminal (ML2) loves opera and asks opera singer (MC2) to perform in his house. MC2 gets sick (gues who is treating him? 😉) and hence it's decided that he must stay in ML2's mansion. MC2 had tragic past and wants to get revenge on the one who is the source of it.
Stockpile on tissues!

EP3
I don't know who is bigger drama queen here... Mai's imagination is just wild.
Not that I am complaining but why is he always in just boxers when he is in apartment? Do people walk half naked all the time?
Trough stomach to the heart, right Mai? (but not in the kind of way shown in mother's video 😉) I know the tactic 😏 Sadly for you Jade doesn't get it if you don't tell him (he might still not believe, thought).
Tong/Gus - they are kind of meh for me so far.
Ending: how is Jade going to misinterpreted this... check next week 😒

I'm on EP2 and have thoughts:
1. Why were they dressed like Japanese/Chinese highschoolers in the fantasy?
2. Continuity!
The monitor was showing Jade's project but a few seconds later it was desktop with 1 open window, then back to the project (this change I can allow as we were shown back of the screen for a moment, when Jade got back to work).
Gus's coat got splashes of coffie on it (like from left to right) and then they were like 90-98% gone...
3. Why all shows recently have to do the accidental/fall kiss? It was in Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun, Twins and now here... Let's hope that the 3rd was the charm and are are not going to see them for some time. I think my 1st was in Kiss Me Again - poor Pete 🤭.
3. What a sh*tty office Mondee has - can't they afford "lightbulbs"? Then again I go to this gym where in locker they are unable to exchange a single light for months (and it's a normal ceiling lamp) - one of the members got angry after the custodian said it's because he doesn't have the right lightbulb 🤦‍♀️ and she bought it for him. Now we have light in changing room 🎉
4. Fingerprint scanner to log entry?! If I could not log in, I would have written to HR to correct the data (and they would probably contact IT to check security cameras) - why is it such an issue in here?
5. Good for Mai to clear the misunderstanding right away 👍 (sadly it haven't penetrated the delusion)
Now criticism: sticker should have "fan dii na" 🤭
6. Uea and King are like in-laws, testing if their future son-in-law is good enough 🤭
7. Why was Jade vomiting? 🤨 That's a strange reaction to what was happening.

Same! I watch EP as it's airing and then I do marathon of all realeased EPs so far. Every. Single. Week.
It starts to be unhealthy 🤣

So far I managed to see like 1st 8 min od EP1 od this show and I have to pause during interview after every sentence because the cringe is just too much (even opening was "cringye"). I so liked Yim as Syn. He had such peaceful, calm, cute and dignified presence. Just a little cinnamon bun 🥰 I think that Twins were trying to capitalize on this with Deaw but he is not as cute (I do feel sorry for him most of the time - his roommate is on my "naughty" list 😡).
I read the book and Jade was not such a caricature of an airhead. I guess they had to change a lot since they released Bed Friend beforehand (in the novel Jade was convinced that Mai liked Uea and since Jade thought that they both were single he tried to "middleman" their love 🤷‍♀️).
I am hoping that I have strength to soldier on trough this cringe and get to Yim/Tutor, I liked in Cutie Pie. Su su na [me]! 😤

LOL we posted almost imat the same time 🤭
Yes, that's the look, I meant.

I saw it in this short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/o4UKdRlG9f8?si=XGPy1utdZQLnzX07

I don't think it's Volleyball that would keep him on the team, if anything. I think he really enjoys Jujitsu but likes his friends (and BF 🤭) in Volleyball team. In flashbacks we could see that he did not like Volleyball as a child. To be honest I am not sure Zee liked it either.

I also think that he is just faking to be nice and has some nefarious plan. So far, if the opportunity comes, he chooses to be the bad guy (I really disliked him after all the things he did to his roommate - it's straight up bullying!).

I doubt it. The preview showed that Sprite was talking about straying forever and it seemed a bit like goodbye. I think they might go Not Me route - real Zee is going to be himself (=super mean) and that would clue First that something is not right. Or perhaps Sam is going to figure it out if he starts dating Tun and sees Sprite during competition (while cheering for his BF 🤭).

Nah, Sam is too soft. Zee would have walked all over him.

I think he is faking it for nefarious purpose. So far he was constantly choosing to be baddie to even his friends (especially his roommate 😡), so his quick change of heart is suspicious as heck.

I think you mean Jack and Mike, right?
Koh shares room with Deaw (monk-in-training? 🤔 He reminds me of less cute version of Syn from Cutie Pie), he has number 8 shirt (in one EP Deaw had No. 8 but usually has No. 6), is one of the baddies of the series (what he was doing to Deaw was just wrong) and now is buttering "Zee". I will admit that at the very beginning I was shipping him a bit with Deaw but now I know that my baby, Deaw, deserves much better!

Seeing cameo from another Thai show is not as shokinng as seeing cameo of Yim/Tutor in Korean BL, let me tell you 😄 (even though I saw all the KR shorts with them beforehand 🤭)

I don't know who frustrates me more: Wataru/Gilbert or his partner... One is so spoiled + super whiny and the other so submissive that I am stuck on cringe almost the whole time they are on-screen (and that excluding age gap and how they met 🫤).

I loved the meeting with Kayoko (they have been shopping buddies for 5 years 😯) and her hubby - they are both so lovely. Their interactions with Kenji were giving us a bit of background for our mains. They have been together 8 years 😱! If I remember correctly the washing machine incident 😒 with his ex was 9 years ago, so it seems like they split up not long after it.

Perhaps he wants to "defeat" Only Friends? 😉
(I think in my calculations the most onscreen kissing partners had Boston with 7, runner-ups are Sand and Nick with 4 each)

Have you seen Zettai BL? That's the true BL Universe 😈
I liked manga a bit better because they were not forcing our MC to actually successfully rise a flag. Additionally Mob is to knowledgeable and sly to fall for that world's tricks! 😉

August deserves some punishment for that. I am not saying physical but perhaps a little physiological torture, as what he did was damaging on so many levels.
When did the band disappear from Day's forehead? 🤔
For me the interesting part was that when Day was touched he immediately expected Mhok and was like giddy/happy? When it turned out to be Augus his enthusiasm diminished. I think he was fooling himself into thinking that he is still in love in August but the feeling s were disappearing. I think that they diminished the most after he got stood up, then when August was acting out of character it was like Day was sensing something weird about it and that was making him unhappy.

I don't know if you seen the "after" (or was it behind the scenes?) clips - Sea said that he has pollen allergies, so when Jimmy showed 🌻 in his face he was trying not to breath and to that Jimmy said that that he will bring him antihistamine 🥰

I am up to date with EPs and the series is really nice.
I am wondering about Koh - for many EPs he was for me the most dislikeable character (his harassment of Deaw - or how he is called, as the subtitles cannot decide - was nasty and his current behaviour towards "Zee" is suspicious 💯).
I like that we get a little backstory about all major characters.
Tun chasing after Sam reminds me if milder version of Fire/Dynamite from Cooking Crush.
I hope next week we will get conclusion to Mike/Jack arc.
How is Sprite doing in Jujitsu? There was hardly anything from that side in recent EPs. He doesn't seem to be so bone tired, so perhaps there is off-season there? 🤔
Twins parents - one of the flashbacks made me think that mother was in the wrong (she was pushing her aspirations on kids) but some other scenes with father made me think that he is as well not the best parent, so no twin "won". I do wonder about Zee's resentment (we were shown more of the reasons for Sprite to be resentful).
Next week is going to be 🔥!