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Right... I was, no still am so heartbroken about SmartxBoom too 😭💔I didn't want to bring back your pain, but Hyeonseo really reminds me soo much of Jin, I just can't forget about it after the first time I felt the same puppy vibes from him in the BTS🥹

Wait next ep is already tomorroww? Omg I almost forgot the time, because each day waiting felt like ages. 😭 Ahhh finally 😭😭
Tbh honest, I just hope that the next eps just continue this way. I don't care anymore if Myeongcheol and Hyeonseo break character. I love their off-screen chemistry more anyway. Just let them be themselves, smiling and flirting with each other, then it will be the best experience for us watchers 🥰❤️

Oh thanks for the link. I'll definitely check that out. The other actor (the one who appears first) seems also familiar 🤔 But tbh I'm not the biggest fan of those channels that hide ALL the spicy stuff behind the pay wall. I've watched some of those short BLs before and I know they have to make money somehow, but still, if they don't even give us half a decent kiss without paying or even cut the kiss in the middle, it just takes away too much from the story or rather takes you out of the story and that's always just such a bummer 🥲

So about Mignong, let me put that in another reply with spoiler tag bcs maybe others still want to check that out too.

Hi, beautiful stranger! I just listened to the Nevertheless OST for the first time in a long while and I suddenly remembered that I never replied to your comment. I read it and it made me think a lot, so I thought I should find a quiet moment to reply and then just kept postponing until I forgot tbh 🙈 I'm truly sorry 🥺😥

I'm sorry that you are/were going through such a painful time and I hope you feel better now 😔 🫂 But I agree we often forget how brave it is to go out there and put yourself in uncomfortable situations, especially when we're aware that it might not end in our favor. So, I'm glad that you give yourself the credit you deserve, even if late! Sometimes, the outcome isn't the most important but the things we learned (often about ourselves) along the way.
Honestly, I kinda envy you that you seem to be getting braver as you age, bcs I'm the opposite. I'm getting more timid, I just avoid situation in which I could become vulnerable (like you bravely made yourself) and most situation s in which I could get unlucky, but that also means I can't really get lucky either bcs I'm not really in unforseen or exciting situations and dont make many new experiences 😔 I guess reading your reply really hit a nerve 😪 I dont know why I'm writing all this tbh, maybe just to thank you for making me reflect a bit about myself and to say I'm proud of you! You keep being brave and proud of that regardless of the outcome. And one day, you'll surely find some luck along the way, as well 🍀 I'm cheering for you 🤗

Lastly, I hope I'm not opening up old wounds by replying now 2 months late. But I still felt like I should reply bcs I felt the honesty in your reply and to a certain degree, it also felt like another brave moment of vulnerability, so yeah, I didnt want to let your words go to waste! 🥹
Take care & stay brave 💛

Wow... now that you explained it like this, it suddenly all makes sense. I thought all we got was BDSM from Temu, but it's just that Haejun's "super sensitive to the point that any kind of physical contact hurts him". Jaehun is such an angel, I wondered why he didn't even use that belt when he already removed it, but now I know he just empathizes with Haejun and knows even stroking him with a feather could break him. How touching, I'm almost crying 🥹

"Visuals? Solid 10, total cuties." - That's it. That's what I'm gonna say if sb aks me again, why I'm even watching this. Look at those cuties. Especially their off-screen chemistry is the sweetest stuff I've seen in a while 😍 (and about the acting, having seen them in Sweetheart Service and Myeongcheol in various other stuff, I think they def can act, but how to act when there's not plot, no direction, no nothing... I feel like in ep 7 they just gave up and decided to be themselves and I don't blame them 😂)

"whomever is in charge of plant care gets a solid 10 rating from me" - Agreed, 1000%. They're doing a great job 😂👏
As a plant lover, I recommend the BTS to you. There is literally a whole biotope surrounding them that you don't even see in the finished eps. I understand now why they didn't remove the plant from the table in ep. 7, there's just no space to put it elsewhere 😂😂😂

Btw your user name literally sums up this drama perfectly... "WhatInTheWorld"?!?? 😂

"plot device" ...? Can there be a device for something that barely exists in this drama? Don't remind me of the marriage announcement that just fell through the cracks of the sieve that this drama's plot basically is 🤣

"spoiled by the plant removal" - Indeed we are. Never ever would I have thought that I would be begging for a "plant removal" one day. Sounds like sth that you would order in a beauty salon 😂😂

"Ewww…. That not sexy that’s just sticky." 😂😂😂 Why is that so hilarious ??? Without context, I'm thinking about various other things that would make sense in the BDSM genre they promised us, but yeah we got the SFW version. It's just sticky cake cream, but still ... eww 😂😂

"My neighbor down the street could hear that camera printing" - I bet mine too!! 😂😂 The horrendous loud background music is the reason I always have to turn up my volume step by step till it reaches the max in order to hear the dialogue and then suddenly the loudest weirdest noises appear out of nothing (if it's not a camera printing, it's the grunting 😶) creating the biggest jump scare for me and all my neighbors (lesson learned close the window before watching next time)🫠

"Hey, another BTS just dropped " = literally my favorite words these days. Literally makes my heart jump with joy 🥹

Ohh I didn't realize that the insta pics were basically from that last ep. Those cuties😍 Btw, you're doing the lord's work by posting the teaser photos from the shorttime yt channel here, I kept staring at them for a good 10 minutes yesterday. Myeongcheol's smile... damn🫠

Haha you're right, Myeongcheol looks really tired in this BTS. But I love that he still has the energy to fool around with Hyeonseo 💕them laughing while kissing with the cream is literally me while watching the BTS🤭
Hyeonseo on the floor reaching up saying "JaehunJaehun~" had me melting 🫠 And Hyeonseo squeezing Myeongcheol's cheeks afterwards and later wiping his pants for him...he's the sweetest I caan't- 🫠 🫠 He really has the strongest puppy energy I've seen in a while. He reminds me a lot of Jin from Top Form. Have you watched that drama? I'm normally not really interested in the puppy kinda type and always drawn to the domineering, dark and broody characters, but idk how but both Smart (Jin's actor) and Hyeonseo somehow managed to win my heart 🥹💗

No, I haven't watched Mignon. But you know what I'm gonna do tonight??? 😆Hahaha suddenly I'm so excited to have sth to watch while waiting for the next ep. 🤣 thank u thank u 🙏

Ohh I haven't heard about a special, but who knows. I take everyything we can get 🥹🤲

Nahh don't be sorry! I didn't meant it that way. I don't think you shared any spoilers till now. And to be fair, since there isn't any plot, there aren't really many surprising things which could be given away anyway😅
"Contract, what contract?" - Jaehun probably, now that he has finally fallen for Haejun to the point of no return 🤭 The English speaking part was cute too, caught me off guard and made me laugh way too hard though it was just one sentence 🤣
"Myeongcheol is a damn good kisser." 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ Let me print that out that statement and put it on a billboard for the world to see🔥
Right, right! I totally agree, Hyeonseo was definitely told to act this way. I didn't mean that as criticism directed at thim, I'm just so happy we get to see him kissing less tensely and going all in in the real eps as well (not only the edited out bits and pieces from the BTS you mentioned). That also makes it less awkward overall, bcs imagine how to act a kiss while being told to act like a wooden board (while you're character actually signed up for that in a contract and agreed to do that stuff, but whatever...)🤦‍♀️

I can't believe we have only 3 eps left. I keep praying for another drama of those two with a good plot and good production, so they can actually show what they've got 😭 The kisses are great and all, but we could have gotten so much more if they just started out like that from ep 1 or if there was at least a believable build-up to the point where we are now of both being allowed to act comfortable with each other😭
The only thing they really did right was the styling of Myeongcheol, I think the hairstyle he has here looks the best out of all dramas I've seen him in 😍

What was that ending... left me wondering whether the version I saw was cut, but I ended up finding two more versions ending exactly the same way :/

If you need translations for sth, let me know! 🙂 I can help as long as there's Korean subs or the sound quality isn't too poor bcs sometimes I really have a hard time understanding Korean words acoustically even though I actually know them. Then I'm just as lost as you probably are🤣

Hahaha I can confirm I did the zooming to the max or rather almost pressing my face into my screen as well 😂😂 But tbh it's not that important whether we're delusional. For this drama delulu is definitely the solulu 💯🤣 And yeah.. Haejun just wanting to eat up Jaehun (including the icing) had me suppressed screaming🫠

I never watched the teasers before. The eps are so short and I don't want to spoil the ep for myself by knowing half of it already. But you made me soo curious, I still went to watch it 🤣 Holy... 🫠
((Let's ignore the fact that the hospital form(?) and whatever they scribbled on it is absolutely hilarious 🤣 and that the music is awfully loud but I still had to put the volume on max to understand what Haejun said 🙉))
How are their kisses still getting beettterr?? 😍 I feel like my screen's been on firee since they allowed them to be relaxed with each other and Haejun finally started moving his lips🔥🫠

Hahaha I was actually confused if you're seriously asking if sth is scripted in this non-sensical show that obviously has more of a black whole than a script?? 🤣
But now I get your question.. Idk 😅 I guess it's Myeongcheol "directing" the flow of the scene, probably trying to stay in his role but failing 🤣 I bet the script for that scene just says: "then Jaehun and Haejun look eo. in the eyes until they kiss." and he just improvised everything 🤣
After the last BTS, I'm convinced the director told Myeongcheol that Jaehun isn't cold to Haejun anymore, so Myeongcheol just let out 80% of himself for the whole ep, but gets confused himself about as who he is teasing Hyeonseo/Haejun right now 🤣 Probably also explains why Hyeonseo suddenly looks SO comfortable and smiley 🤭

Oh.. Tbh I didnt even realize there were no sub on YT bcs my Korean is good enough to understand that much 😳😅 and I dont use GagaOOLala, so I didnt know they also upload the BTS. Is it just the same but with subs?
Anyway you're right. I'd like to know, too... And the BTS are wayyy too short in general 🥹 Give us more!! 😭😭

Wow the ML absolutely killed it with his acting! He reminds me a bit of Fan Zhi Xin from My Lethal Man, not exactly in the looks, but they have a similar intensity in their acting that keeps you hooked. The FL was really good too.
The story is dark, twisted and cruel, and though the revenge went a bit too smoothly and everything was a bit too dragged out for my liking, it was still very good for a short vertical drama.

I feel you... in retrospect, the way Jaehun strained his hand, trying with all his might not to put his creamy fingers on Haejun was actually hilarious, but then he still ended up putting the cream all over him and I was way too disgusted to actually laugh😶

Honestly, I get a little sad seeing all the hate for the actors bcs it's really not their acting that's the problem. Even if it might be lacking at times, their still rookies it's fine!! I've seen way worse (especially in BLs) where the story was totally fine, but I could barely watch 5 minutes at once bcs the acting gave me goosebumps. 😬
Especially when after Sweetheart Service, people should know they can act, and they even had enough chemistry for people shipping them though they weren't meant to be a pair there. Looking through their insta and seeing the BTS they both really seem to be very sweet and hard-working. It's not fair to drag them through the mud just bcs of the faults of the production crew🤦‍♀️

Let me tell you'd be the better writer for sure LOL But I still hope you're prediction is wrong bcs if they end it like that I'll literally flip the table... and then come for them in the comment section on YT (which is still waay to nice btw)😭

OMG you have eagle eyes 😯 HAHAHA Not me literally replaying that scene 5 times now, just to find out if we're delusional🤣
First I wanted to say you're definitely delusional and Myeongcheol just looked down on Hyeonseo's lips bcs he was going for the kiss soon, but Hyeonseo thought "here goes nothing, I'm gonna take the initiative today" (tbh even if that was the case I'd still love their little eye conversation 🤭🥰)
But now after watching it a few times, I actually noticed Myeongcheol looked down at his lips twice(!) and even raised his eyebrow a little the 2nd time. So my verdict: NOT delusional!😆 I think you're right he literally urged him to kiss him with his eyes...holy s... ahhhh those two will be the death of me 🫠💕

Hahahaha I'm so happy that I have you to share my thoughts about the BTS, bcs nobody else seems to be watching them 🥲

You being pissed about the badly filmed kiss scene is literally me when I screamed at the screen MOVE THE DAMN PLANT 😭 LMAO not them f*ing up the last thing that they had going for them 🤯

You're so right. It was so cute when Haejun tried to take the lead in the kiss! Jaehun, you DID teach him that and dont act like you dont enjoy it!!😏😭😂😂 But yeah, no blame for the actors that they might get confused who or what they're portraying, the directors dont know what they're going for either...
Do you remember the Text message about jaehun's up coming marriage at the end of ep 5... what happened to that teased plot? 🤣

I finished ep 7 and the BTS now! What can I say.. how can the BTS be soo sweet and natural 😍 Why does even the cheesiest dialogue feel normal in their BTS? 🤭 Today's highlight: the way Hyeonseo asked Myeongcheol "shouldn't you hold my hand or sth?", then him agreeing to his request and asking to interlace fingers. Did you see how they smiled at each?? I'm meeltingg🫠

Tbh I think half of ep7 is actually just Myeongcheol and Hyeonseo being themselves (but that makes the ep weirder bcs it doesn't fit their characters but whatever, the drama is lost anyway..💀 ). The whole coffee scene is just their real dynamic 🥰 (also after finding out from the BTS that the coffee tasted bad and both knew, the dialogue suddenly makes sense, which just didn't flow in the drama at all. And that's not even mentioning, that they didn't dub every sentence they actually said 😂)

Agreed 🙂‍↕️ "The kind of BL that "sneaks up on you like a thief at 3AM", just to hit you on your head with a frying pan, knocking you off your feet as you're already dying with laughter slowly drifting into insanity 🤣🤣🤣

"begging for more stupidly hilarious scenes" - me on my knees rn after finishing ep 7, which was way to normal to fill up my weekly dosis of laughter (SOS I definitely need help🥲)

Same 🫠 Until now I thought, I'll take smiling Jaehun sweetly caring for Haejun over broody Jaehun being a tryhard at Temu-BDSM any day....
but now that the ncie Jaehun escaped the BTS and showed up in the drama itself, the sudden switch is kinda jarring ngl😵‍💫

Ep. 7
Kinda let down, wayy too normal, but I still laughed a few times at least 🥲
- Honest respect for skipping the annoying "jealousy over some stupid ex from 10 years ago" - trope👏
- The dubbing not fitting their mouth movements is a given by now, but leaving out whole sentences is next level 😂
- Jaehun holds a whole monologue about birthdays and what noodles made by Haejun mean to him and then proceeds to NOT EAT A SINGLE NOODLE and go for the cake right away?? 😂
- Taking a selfie with a printing camera (making A LOUD ASS SOUND that almost blew my ears out btw), but the printed photo shown isn't a selfie at all?? 😂
- Not moving the frking plants on the table out of the way when they're really in the way? C'mon I want to see the kiss, not a plant and a soup bowl? Where is the staff from ep. 4 when you need them?? Plss do your thing 🫳🪴🤣
- Putting cream all over one another isn't exactly my thing, but you do you... but pls don't rub it into their hair and ear at least. I got goosebumps just from imagining how that feels 😖

Hahahaha same, I bet others think we're crazy but this shit show is making me laugh so hard with its absurdity that I just cant stop 🤣 (+ no matter how bad the rest, those kisses are still 🔥🤭 )Thanks for the reminder! Actually, I just saw that the BTS dropped a few minutes ago, but I'll save them for later after I watched the real ep... or else I have nothing to make me sane again 😂

That leg swinging made me cringe so hard, I swear for a second my soul left my body 🫠
(But I dont blame the actor. There's a snippet of the BTS where you can see that some crew member seriously shows Hyeonseo to do exactly that kind of 5 year old's leg swinging... 💀)