ShortCircuit

You're right, Qin Shi even said at one time that her father KNOWS how families work, given he'd been divorced and remarried three times, LOL. I'd forgotten about it. Maybe that's the stigma that TJH's mother couldn't accept on her side.

Thanks for the reminder!

Those lawyers heading up the firm are bit less nice now that they're trying to get their own money back before the firm folds, and leave all other investors hanging out to dry... Also, Li Dai, Tao JunHui, Wu Fei and all the rest are acting in Ally McBeal while Yang Mi and Xu Kai are in an actual meet-cute rom-com LOL.

I guess the law firm will either fold, or Qin Shi will get exposed and forced to start out her own firm pretty soon (because 40 eps and only 6 have passed, yet we're on the brink of her being discovered and brought "to justice" about the fake husband and child...) But I just want to have mom still heavily waging a battle with her, LOL, and them growing closer in the end over time.

And yay, there's a THIRD brother in the family - something's suspicious here. Why would TJH's mother make such a fuss over QS's family back in the day? So many kids, is their father someone who's rich and has a side-family like in the webnovels, and THEY're the side-family?

Older brother's wife is a cook so good everybody can't even make small talk before gorging themselves, but she doesn't participate in the debates regarding family? That's the first meek woman in this drama... What's the deal?

You know, there's a lot of meat to this story, even with all the tropes, and it doesn't definitely hurt there are so many good-looking people in it. If that's shallow of me, well, tough luck. I like it and that's that.

No, seriously, Xu Kai's expressions are killing me. Each and every time. And OMG, exposed so early?!

I might've been disengaging and missed that Mr Cheon was a tool, too. I had the impression they (all of them) used to be closer.

Then again, I haven't watched the last two eps yet, so I guess I'll have to wait and see what gives anyway. I just hope it doesn't end in a cliffhanger, since Lee SungMin is scheduled in at least two dramas as main cast before there's even a hint of SD season2, LOL. It'll take forever for it to come, if this season doesn't have at least some explanations.

Elevator guy was a hotel employee, he slipped her the key card to her brother's room.

I didn't notice Hua's lips swollen from the kiss, just smeared with lipstick. Then again, it was all over his lips and face, so yeah, they smooched intensively LOL.

Okay, those were a few pretty good first episodes. There were laugh-out-loud for real moments for me (Xu Kai's expressions are soooo cute LOL, all those THIS IS MY LIFE NOW moments, yes please may I have some more? :D)

I like all those picture-perfect women, I wish I had clothes and jewellery like that *jealous*.

But THE MOTHER!!!! I think I will LOVE the war between her and her intended daughter-in-law, the mother is to die for LOL. Also, ALL the women in this drama have their husbands or lovers well under control, LOL. Maybe that's why I like it. But OMG what Yang Hua thought was going to happen and what actually happened, ROFL, that was BEAUTIFUL.

I have NO idea why I couldn't wait until mid-December, now I'll have to wait for each episode dammit.

Somebody please tell me there's a novel or something, and that it's been translated, this would look so good as a novel :D

Maybe real voices, but dubbed at least in some scenes. There were a few unsync-ed moments.

But if that's Xu Kai's real voice, it's pretty nice. Not so sure about YM's...

I'm halfway through the first episode and it hits me... Xu Kai looks like a smol Xiao Zhan. OMG I have a type. But seriously, with that fringe, he does look a lot like XZ LOL. How come I didn't notice before? :D

So yeah, I was going to watch this anyway (because Xu Kai) but now I'm 100% committed. I hope he keeps the hairstyle, too :D (and I like his interactions with his mom LOL).

I read somewhere (might've been MDL) that the author stopped updating because she was either writing the script for BU, or heavily involved in writing it (as a collaborator). So it isn't that there's not enough story, but that it needs to merge with the UWMA timeline and make sense, and if there's any time after UWMA's plot ended, there'll be more plot added to BU, too.

Also, UWMA ended just before the pandemic, so not much filming took place afterwards, so the past 3 years mean nothing in terms of having the opportunity to plot/write it (I guess they didn't know either when to start working on it, given what happened). AFAIK, writing a script and writing a novel are two completely different things... So we get lots of side stories in order not to get too fed up with UWMA revisited AND the FWB part of WinTeam's story.

Though I don't mind FWB scenes each episode :D. Or just Win looking at the (double) sun, Luke Skywalker-style, LOL, I don't care, as long as he's on the screen :D

Listen, the first time, even when horny as hell - or particularly then - there needs to be a bit of trust in whoever is proposing to do it with you. Win asked, and Team followed (the first, and the second time.) He was left alone to decide before going after Win.

Then the first time, Win asks again and again, exactly because they don't know each other and what follows would be a one-night-stand. And Team trusts AND wants him enough to say yes again and again.

Imagine if it were one of the three of idiots - A, B or C - asking. (They'd also be horny and a bit buzzed.) I can't see Team saying yes to either of them. Or basically none of the other guys who were there, available and at least in part, willing (I mean, this is Thailand, but there aren't really all that many gay or bi people there).

So, the chances that Team would say no to any rando offering are quite high, actually. He said yes to a guy he likes enough to follow inside a room to have his first sexual experience with. Give him a break, he's 18. Hormones speak, but in this case, they didn't drown eveything else out.

The kiss by the poolside - Win led with his tongue, LOL. If I were Team... I wouldn't have made it inside in time :D

And that's why he asked for like, five times before going any further. And in this episode, Team had all the time in the world to follow or not.

Last week there were lots of people saying the asking took too long, and wasn't needed. Your question shows exactly why the asking needed to happen for that long and that in the end, it's still Team's choice, each time.

PS. Win is three years older than Team, it's not like he's experienced beyond belief and Team is a meek lamb led to the slaughter. And well. The trope IS love at first sight for Win.

Less UWMA, that's good, more Manow and Phruek, well, at least they're kind of new to the story, Tul and Waan, okay...

They tried to film it like UWMA was, with akward pauses and silences - because it fit Pharm's manner and character. Also Dean's. They were forever being either shy or reserved for minutes at a time, LOL. This doesn't work as well with WinTeam, but I guess since they're rewinding parts of UWMA, they're still trying to blend them together.

WinTeam rock - despite keeping it way more above the waist than I'd expected, they really have great chemistry. The intimate scenes are the best ones, though small-talk, everyday WinTeam are also good. I really really hope they don't introduce much more drama in between them than Team's nightmares and fear of drowning, because not every relationship needs huge problems to overcome. And Team's problems are kind of huge already anyway.

The music keeps being off - I don't really like it. I hope they get something, at least a new theme, in it, so that it becomes its own part.

A, B and C are really complete idiots - seriously, how come there are always some "students" who seem (or are portrayed) as) complete idiots, and yet we're supposed to believe they got into university by being that stupid? ITSAY must've spoiled me, and then Not/Me completed the erasure of idiot students... Dammit. My standards have been raised...

So, are they going to end each episode like that?

... Because I could get used to it LOL.

That was cute :)

I took it that it was more functional than sentimental, though, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see what they actually meant. Including that tiny bit right in the middle of the discussion about how they identify friends, enemies and just acquaintances was kind of telling.

From my POV, Minato was maybe a bit tired of being on his toes all the time - he maybe has a strong streak of self-doubt and was never certain about Tsumugi's real feelings for him. So he let her go and now he's waiting / not waiting to see if she'd come back or leave for good, now that Sou is in the picture again. Kind of like, love and let go and if they come back to you, they really love you too?

Nana's response definitely is the complete opposite, more like - if I can't have you, NO ONE CAN! (with a vengeance). Now she's planted doubts in Sou and Tsumugi's respective minds... even if they do end up together, it'll take a serious fight or some depression episode to bring those words back. You can't do that to someone you KNOW is depressive (he has NO friends, WTH! That, despite being a good-looking, cute, shy, intelligent guy who just happens to be deaf. ) Is she setting him up for another break up with Tsumugi, or if that doesn't work but he still finds another girl, will Nana get between them again? That's really, really low.

Now I wonder if, that first try to get him friends aside, did she ever try again in those three years they've known each other, or just grew complacent about his dependency on her (re: the JSL and emotional needs). That's not healthy...

I hope they solve this in a decent manner and it doesn't lead to more hurtful episodes.

It's freaking one-sided, don't go brazenly into other people's relationship!! Especially since she KNOWS Sou doesn't have any friends. He just met his old friends that he missed a whole lot, there's no need to go and place guilt on him for breaking up Minato and Tsumugi just by existing in their lives again, WTF, that's not a normal response!! She's in love with him, okay, he's a lovable character, but that intrusive and abrasive attitude would definitely push ME away if I were him, so what would Nana gain by it? She's deaf, not stupid, WTH. And the whole re-gifting thing, WHAT THE EFF!!!! That was really, really mean and uncalled for, it's not Tsumugi's fault and actually, it's nobody's fault. She taught Sou because she wanted to, what, is he not allowed to show anyone else interest ever again?!

Sou also came a bit grayish, FINALLY, in this ep. He's not really a shining knight with pushing away everyone in his life, from family to friends and lovers AND new friends who happen to be hearing impaired. Did anyone ever get this kid a psychologist to work through the trauma of becoming permanently deaf after a life of hearing?! He's been using Nana as a lifeline, knowingly, and now he met his old friends again, he's drawn to them more - is he trying to recapture the carefree teen years? But he was kind of an introvert before, anyway (what with the music separating him from everyone, all the time, and not having many really close friends anyway.) It just might be he's a naturally cold person towards people he's not directly involved with. And sadly, Nana got friend-zoned hard.

I HATED it when they did the whole emotions/dislikes/functions separation - because when the JSL teacher asked Tsumugi what was it about Sou, she said "he's teaching me words", NOOO! I wish he'd have asked about Minato, too, so at least we get a heads-up.

I get where she's coming from, but man, does Nana suck right now.

I am not sure I got all the details, as it suddenly went from creepy mysterious killer to full-blown conspiracy, and I also am not that sure I actually like that.

I mean, what's KJH's angle in this? If he's in it, who would try so hard to kill him? After all, if KTR didn't pull him out of the car, he'd be toast. The whole thing that had him move to this town - is there a chance he's someone's "sweeper" come to this police station to do exactly that - get rid of all competition for some major shadow money-mover?!

And KTR did check if he was "Friend" when he had him calling from the hospital during his discussion with the killer. Unless there's yet another accomplice.

Why are all these old guys so affected when one of them is doing evil stuff? If they were friends since forever, and at least three of them are police officers, they'd KNOW the fourth is a bad guy, and have to make some decisions. KTR acts like Mr. Cheon is a bosom friend who yet needs another chance - he's a freaking drug maker/dealer!! Off with his head! And Chief Seo's head too - off with it!! Why would KTR CARE, if he still has some decency in him?!

KTR's daughter is quite strange - why isn't she in therapy, if she's so affected by seeing her dad shoot someone? I had the impression there's more to just the abduction, but if it's just that, it wouldn't really underline why KTR let his family go. Where's the mother, BTW? Where's the husband, too?!

I hope the final eps of this season make some more sense. I am all for mystery and switches, but I need them to be cleared up in the end in a satisfactory manner. Here's hoping.

I couldn't make out his face, was that KJH?!