Sinasina

Have you watched the latest episodes? Up to 23?

There are many things to criticize this show for, but to me chemistry is not it, no.

I think it does, but you can skip ahead to 17 & see if you enjoy that.

Lip blocking is still 100000000x times better than "let's not rock the boat, bros for life!". (obviously it's pretty effin stupid, but it's not too annoying to me)

It's quite beautiful & frustrating at the same time, though mostly frustrating.

I think his romantic history had been erased for drama. .^

none (well almost none)

South Pole, jeez. ¯\_༼ ಥ ‿ ಥ ༽_/¯

I have not read the novel, but in my experience with cdrama adaptations of novels that I have actually read, I can tell you that the secondary couple in dramas are often dramatically different than what's in the novel. This is where script writers tend to just change everything.

I don't know about WJT, but Luo Qiu Yun deserves lead roles as well, but it's difficult to break through the B-lister hell in C-ent.

FL dated another male friend fresh out of high school.

It's because this is a cdrama, so they have moved on from a friendship to an elementary school level romance. Handholding in next episode etc..

But you are right, the romantic plot is not very good right now.

> what the heck was that conversation in the beginning

That's a fairly clear confession. That's what "let nature take its course" means in Chinese culture.

I think it's likely they will explain it precisely that way in the next episode. Though it's hard to justify why she did not call before..

It's a novel adaptation, I just think maybe it was difficult to fill up the episode quota so they bloated the bro part "a bit".

No kisses yet as of e17, but e17 has a semi confession that no longer fizzles out with "bros for life".

There is light at the end of the tunnel now.

The problem is not the slowness, but rather all this awful bro for life crap that's repeated ad nauseam despite ML confessing all the time from e5 to e14, it's just silly and repetitive.

Also I'm sorry but in real life M&F friendships the man will not touch the woman's hair so casually.

It is true the dialog is quite great most of the time & there are many beautiful scenes, but every episode has that one super frustrating moment when they backpedal from some kind of insane escalation.

>because a propper and fit friends to lovers is done that way!

Very strongly disagree, because everything is wrong with their "friendship" & they are making grand romantic gestures and backpedal in every episode..

The "my friend did this, what should they do" trope is just really really dumb. Personally I don't think the advice given is the real problem here, based on the information that is told to the dumbo married couple.

If I had to guess it's probably happening in e22, with the bros for life thing ending in 17~.

So there is still plenty of time left to give us the "good stuff" after ALL THIS SUFFERING.

Personally I think in this show the various acts of setting boundaries are not worth analyzing. It's just pure BS.

To me this show would go from 5/10 to 8/10 if every episode had that 1-2 minutes of setting boundaries cut.