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They are both to be in Me and Thee (guest roles but still), so perhaps the change is permanent or Chimon needs more time?

Don't forget about Cherry Magic (both of them were 2nd couple in the remake).

Also there are important (trauma related) aspects in EP16. Since Faifa and Yotha are brothers one should at least check the EP16 before processing to Fai's story (the best IMO).

I would say that the series wasn't that bad - the source material was what it was, though

Have you seen Man who defies the world of BL (Zettai BL...)? I love how all the tropes are being shown there - one of them is after some house party they all (5) stay to sleep and there are 2 couples there (who our 5th wheel and narrator clocks in like 2 seconds) that decide to get frisky because "others are asleep". Great comedy (manga is hilarious but series is not bad as well).
I read novel that Not Me was based on (don't do it - your brain doesn't deserve this torture) and it being nothing like the series is just the tip of the ice berg but let's go back to the main subject: Sean basically SA White in the bathroom of his apartment while his friends are in the bedroom, then comes Black and he has (kind of out of the blue) sex with Gram on the bed while stuff are happening in the bathroom and last of their friends sleeps on the floor next to the bed! Nobody noticed others activities! 🤦‍♀️

Then I would say like >90% of BLs should be disappointment to you.
Do you know orgin of BL? It was yaoi. Do you know how yaoi came to be? In short: women in manga were treated like subhuman (authors and characters), so women started to create stories where there were 2 guys in a relationship, to have more or less equals in a relationship. In other words it all started with basically women wanting equality, so they substituted women with men in the stories. This means that BL is actually doing what it was supposed to do 🤷‍♀️

I just remembered Love Syndrome III... they definitely weren't quiet considering how Day likes to "operate".

It was loud, as there was music and they had some distance to next tent, so nobody definitely noticed (that was sarcasm).
On the other hand let's remember My Engineer and Love Syndrome III...

Yes. Series is called: Engineer Cute Boy (each story divided on to 2 books) and here are links to authors books.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/JittiRain/author/B087Z69NW5
Meb: https://en.mebmarket.com/index.php?action=search_book&type=author_name&search=JittiRain&page_no=1

I think I liked their characters more in A Boss and a Babe and disliked in Only Friends (Enchante will forever be black stain in their career for me - I dropped it and only restarted because Jimmy was having a cameo there).
Yes, FaifaWine are simply the one of the best: no silly misunderstandings, being mostly straightforward with each other, not playing stupid games, not using their trauma to justify hurting others, Wine being quite assertive (when needed) and Fai just the sweetest... (I already watched last EP at least 3 times and EP17-22 last week I think 5 times in total, so I have it bad 😅)

Agreed 💯!

Am I lying here, though? 🤭
(sadly I do not 😒)

I think ArcArm arc is the weakest. A lot of peope loves YothaGun (especially their chemistry but I would say that Yotha was a jerk to Gun as well, so...) but for me (and many more) the last storyline (FaifaWine) is the best (Fai being just the greenest forest ever and FaifaWine being generally great communicators).
Theoretically you could skip ArcArm (EP01-08) and wouldn't miss much, I think but since Yotha and Faifa are brothers and they share a monster... I mean they share a mother and she is part of their storylines, so it's best to watch either the whole Yotha thing (EP09-16) or at least EP16 to have idea about the trauma (flashbacks are IMO not enough to get the cruelty of the whole situation for Faifa, whose story is in EP17-24).
Slight note that the main and side couples basically show up in every storyline (except KlaoWa - who were considered by many as scene stealers - only appear starting YothaGun arc), so you might miss some details if you skipp but it should not make it incomprehensible.

I think it's part of the culture - like you have to honor/respect your elders/parents, so it basically doesn't matter what they do you have to forgive them. Sill I think there is a slight progress here, as shows start to at least allow for some resistance to this kind of behaviour (if I remember correctly in Bed Frinds it ended with no contact with Uea's mother, which is actually a big deviation from "normal" resolution).

I read part of the the FaifaWine and it was fine (there was more of Fai making Wine kind of think he was hitting on him, just to get disappointed the next second 🤭) but once we got to Fai's enlightenment that he is in love I couldn't with the 2nd hand embarrassment (we got his PoV and he is just to hyper), so good luck to you.
Honestly I think that I like series Faifa more but they could have kept not only the scene with the car=bus but also the one where Fai invites Wine for a run and it turns to Faifa running with [it seemed] like half of the school 😂.

Oh she did something about it - made it worse! She basically torned him from his family, then dropped like hot potato when she got new family and did not care how he was treated in said family (I get that Yotha and Newton were kids and felt resentment towards Faifa instead of the monster that gave birth to them), used and abused him (telling your kid that he was chosen because with Yotha she wouldn't have any reason to return was just 👿 and she still expected him to chauffeur her to and from airport without even carting to let him know about the plan change).
You know when she actually seemed to take notice of him? When he decided to stop this. He wasn't going to pick her up, get meal together etc. On other worlds he was no longer under her thumb, so she kind of love bombed him to get him back in to the fold. I do not believe for a second that she was truly remorseful and not just manipulating Faifa.

Every time somebody says something to the point that "Faifa doesn't know how to love" I would like to smack them. Fai is somebody who loves people a lot - he was just being surrounded by people who cannot see it nor appreciate it (his monster... I mean: his mother even said multiple times that he loved his siblings and father and missed them a lot) but since meeting Wine he finally got somebody who sees the true him and appreciates him.

You are not the only one. I have been calling her a monster at least since EP16 but I thought badly of her since the whole "I forgot my son is severely allergic to milk".
When I think she reached the bottom, she finds ways to sink deeper 🤦‍♀️

I think you forget about the show that started it all (I think): My Engineer (and the famous RamKing tent scene in last EP, if I remember correctly).

What did Pakistani did to deserve her? You know that torture is prohibited by Geneva convention, right? 😉