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It's his scare tactic, a total bluff. He did it to Amm (girl leaving with Sand in EP2), "Freddie Mercury" and Nick - it's just Boening taking him up on a challenge which he was not expecting.

B (Ray is so charming when he wants to)

I third 😉 that!

I think they can do it like HIStory/Love Class - each season with different couples and their issues (perhaps with cameos from "oryginals").

I would not be counting on there being season 2 - they hardly happen in BL.
If they wanted to do S2 they could go HIStory or Live Class route and make each season about different couples (perhaps with cameos from OGs).

Have you thought that perhaps Sand needs to fix other's messes? Like with his mother (Ray reminds me a lot of her). I also think that after Boening he might be looking for somebody who would be crazy about him and not dump him for the next shiny thing (Ray had "Mew episode" but it's a bit different - white moonlight is hard to resist).
Fruit loop? More like green tea b*tch! 😉

In novel he was attacked by black panther. It was not a dog. Diao even thought that it was a big cat.

I haven't watched the series yet but I read the novel. So in Diao's mind if the marriage gets postponed Yi would loose face and hence Diao's family could never bother him for money (they have been leechin for years). Yi's dad told Diao that he would help him if he managed to escape for at least 30min and then told Yi that he would help him if he got Diao in under 30min. At the end it looked like Diao's friends were helping Yi. The final betrayer? Nong! 😂
Still the whole thing made little sense to me.

I am not excusing Ray. There are however people who need other people. By that I mean that they need to be fulfilled by doing things for the other, they find purpose in making them happy. Is that healthy? Hell no! It's similar with his rehab - why did he came? Because Sand wanted it. I hope for him it all starts with doing something for Sand but end up doing it for himself.

Depends on which part(s) got you hooked.
If you want toxic mess, then in recommendation there is "Love Mechanics". I haven't watched Friendzone but read that it's similar.
Together with Me (it has "preque": Bad Romance) has some messy relationship (they basically sleep together at the beginning on 1st EP and one is in a relationship with a girl) and you get the added bonus of "grandfather's of BL", i.e. Max/Tul.
Kinnporshe (with actual SA is the novels but here kind of romanticised) - only shhh in the comments, as we are tying to beat them 😉
Kiss [me again]/[Dark Blue] kiss - it actually has 3 series but 1st (Kiss) focuses on straight couples.
Moonlight Chicken has some relationship drama but I watched it (like most) for 2nd couple (Liming/Heart) and for literal crumbs from 3rd (played by the same actors as Sand/Ray).
You want a lot of mess and toxicity (even physical violence)? Love Syndrom is at your disposal.
From other countries:
History 1 - Obsessed - here we have kind of time-traveling to avoid past mistakes (it's not SF) and we end up making somebody super obsessed.
Light on me - also messy relationships in highschool but in a quite light way (I don't mean it's comedy).
The Eighth Sense
The End of the world with you - we get backstory of how messed up their relationship was
My beautiful man - I think in EP4 (season 1) you get "kings" perspective and it makes you look differently on their relationship
Zettai BL(...) - if you like comedy that makes fun of BL thorpes you should check it out (it's from POV of "mob" = background character, who realised that he is in BL manga and all the guys around him are going to get together)

SKAM S03 - this series started in Norway and each season is about different person from friends group. Season 3 is about Isak who is closeted and the boy he meets (Even has mental issues).
The series was such a hit that there are remakes in like 7 other countries. I watched FR and IT. All 3 versions had Season 1 and 2 basically the same (they just more country specific). The differences are starting from season 3.
People say that Norwegian version is the best but I personally really liked FR and they expanded more on Luc's and Elliot relationship in further seasons (NO had only 4 seasons) but could not do Elliot season due to oryginal creators not allowing it.
On of the further seasons has GL (they made 12 seasons so far).

Sand helped Ray to face his issue, fight with his addition (not sure how successfully seeing how he had drink in the pool...) and to have some goals in life (earning money to go to the festivals with Sand is a start, I think).
What is so bad to like to travel together? It's not like they plan just to travel (I see it more like vacation plan).
Thy both grew, are more honest with eachother and different people's relationships look different. I think that being there for your partner and supporting them is a big part of it.

Can any of the 3 couples make it realistically?
I think that Mew/Top have the lowest chance - Top would have to tip-top or gets "dark Mew" and they would fight (there are toxic couples that can exist in such a setting but still 😮‍💨).
Ray would get jealous of somebody looking at Sand and blow up. How much if that can Sand take?
Here I am afraid that Nick has too soft heart and can forgive a lot, so Boston might take some risks and then we get back to creepy spying and downward spiral.
So the verdict is... none?
Just joking - they all have chance but relationships need constant work, so if they are committed not only to each other but to make it last and be good partners they can.

I think they met in uni.
Cheum mentioned that Boston knew her bro since the were year 1 (when she accused him od SA her bro) and I think that Boston mentioned number if years of "Mew owning Ray's" (end of EP5). Ray kissed Mew like 2 years earlier (Boston told this to Top in the car). Now they are graduating.

I meant like in childhood (kindergarten and home).

Perhaps it's his clothes (I mean First's)? They look quite similar to the ones he wore in Not Me.
Ray's furry black jacket caught my eyes, I won't lie. The one he was wearing for passport photos - was it his mom's?

Isn't it a bit othe other way around? Like fairytales in childhood were there to teach us about good and bad. Here people use the series to dissect right and wrong and how one should behave in such situation (this series should land on r/AITA 🤣). Besides - have you never interpreted novel/poem in school? Same thing (just this one is for fun).

So I was watching endings (let's face it - obsessively).
Order:
01. Mew - starts touching aquarium right away, looks up
02. Ray - drives I think close to residential area (walls on the right look like it) and close to overpass (on the left hand side), looks tired
03. Nick
04. Sand - rides on wide road with trees on the left hand side that divide from lanes going in opposite direction (or is it just bus stop?), can barely keep his eyes open
05. Ray - the same
06.Top - slight simile (twice; or was it lips twitch?), leaned for moment towards window, leaned back, moved his hand (reflection in window)
07. Mew - was loooking mostly at the aquarium or straight away and down, was touching aquarium a bit at the end, same clothing
08. Boston
09. Top - the same
10. Ray - the same
11. Sand - goes down (on the left there is overpass), makes U-turn, clothing seem to be the same
12. ? (basing on how it was done so far - Ray and I am hoping for new ending for him as well)

Correlations:
Ray/Sand - riding car/motorbike on a different roads (but hopefully finding themselves on the same one, going in the same direction)
Mew/Top - reflections of water from aquarium/bath (like our good/bad behaviour reflecting on others)
Nick/Boston - not sure here but perhaps that single lamp (like their whole life is in the darkness and their partner is a "lamp of hope/love/2nd chance")?

I see another solution. The animation that Nick was working on. Wasn't Dan mentioning opportunity to go to USA because of it? So perhaps they both can go there together.

Let me correct your sentence: "the second anyone LOOKED AT Sand" 😉

He is so freaking jealous of Sand that I doubt it.
Do you remember the pool playing scene where Sand gave Ray audio clip of Boston/Top? At one point Sand said that Mew is so nice, so no wonder people around him fall for him. Ray snapped and grabbed the ball - was that not jealousy taking/acting?

Nah, he was always bluffing about the threesomes (it's the 4th he proposed) - he is using that to scare perceived competition (let's face it - Nick wasn't one). Only this time somebody took him up on it.
Mansion has a lot of [burial] grounds, so they can manage 😉

She should have at least talked to him about how wrong what he did was (not yell but at leas say something). They should have apologized to Boston as well.
And I don't think she told anybody about it yet - they all think Boston is SAer...