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A Slow Death

I honestly feel cheated.

After watching The Sign back 2024, I was blown away. When they announced a new BillyBabe project. I was buzzing. It was around the end of September 2024 and thinking wow, that's too long, how will I wait?

Thankfully time stops for no one and when the pilot was released early 2025, I thought, YES!! Give me that angst, tear my heart out with the aching and tragedy.

😂

If you haven't watched it while reading this. It's nothing like that.

We are back and forth back and forth, ghost fight in the middle, and then a quick unravelling of the past. With the most lukewarm ending I have ever experienced. Not even anger. Just ok, that's it. Sure.

What feels like nothing for the first few episodes, people standing around talking instead of showing us,some CGI and then it's all laid out with repeated scenes to fill in the gaps. Quick death. Quick resolve. 3rd life teaser. End

I'm genuinely disappointed in the production.

Billybabe, the costumes and the sets, all beautiful. Everything else was hacked to death

The scenes I was most looking forward to were first life Kaewta's death ( see, dramatic b!tch) and it was so anticlimactic that I winced physically. I was left to believe his killer beat him from the tree, and left him to die for DAYs in Thai heat.
No. He took a smack to the head, watched his rescuer come towards him and die. Within hours. I mean, it's a death I guess, but not I wanted 😂

Then there was a whole real life conspiracy that just stopped. None of those people were involved in Kaewta's death so why were there?

Kun Yai just died. No explanation, nothing from the monk. He just went with a tear and a wimper and Saen followed him off screen.

Also, Granny Yam was the most unnecessary character. What's was her point? She was just there randomly and dies off screen, twice.

As we move to life three, I honestly had no idea what was happening. Other than they would have to have died in order to reincarnate but I'm left wondering if Yai did.

The timelines don't seem realistic either. There's 30 years between life 1 and 2. What happened to mum. How old was she when she had Kaewta?

I'm sure the special ep would have told us something, but so they spent so much time in the first half doing nothing that they then had to chop whatever they planned and rush the ending. Where was Saen, Sophee, the needless brother and the maid. Just forgotten.

I really do love BillyBabe and I wish them all the love and luck in the future, including a better production team.

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When 2 Vengeful People Fall In Love

Apparently this was low budget, but I didn't really notice honestly.

They wore the outfits and sets were beautiful. It didnt bother me that they didnt have 20 places to use. What was seen suited the plot. That condensed feeling to a mansion and a few palace places was suitable for the characters and their desires to escape.

We start off with Shuan having the upper hand. He helps Ziang escape from a failed assassination of his brother, the Crown Prince, only for Ziang to be told to go back and get close to him, as another way to kill the CP. This backfires tremendously as Shuan already recognises him, and strings him a lot for his own plans to avenge his mother.

But all this quickly falls away as soon as the two begin to fall in love. It is fast and tense, and before I knew it, all revenge plans had been scattered to the wind, and the two were just trying to escape the CP. This all leads to a desperate rebellion and the inevitable scene on the bridge. After there, the ending was the only way it could end.

Shuan couldn't forgive Ziang, and Ziang lost his mind in an attempt to be with him again.

The Crown Prince and Shuan loved each deeply growing up, and they had plans to support each other when the CP became emperor. But for some reason Shuan gave CP the cold shoulder, and distanced himself from CP, making him suspicious of him. I interpreted it as he was ready to begin his vengeance plan and didnt want him getting involved. His plan was never made clear. I imagined it was just simply to take down the ministers in court who were responsible for his mother's death. But the Cp felt he was being betrayed and losing his position. Spurred on by Minister Gu, he descends into a paranoid desperation to get rid of his own brother, and finally leading to the rebellion when all his plans fail.

I believe Shuan took CP's side in the end, simply because he loved his brother. He knew what he had become but couldn't let go of the version he knew. When all is destroy, Ziang takes all the blame. His revenge plan was forgotten because Ziang wanted to get close to him.

And the hate just got worse. Shuan refused to co operate with Ziang, pushing him over the edge, and leading to his own fall, where all he could hope for was death.

It's like two people, who were dynamite to those around them. Wanting revenge for the people they love, fall in love with each other. When trust is broken, all that anger and pain, is naturally directed to each other.
Dying in each other's arms feels like the most natural end when you have to lead characters like this. One proud, dedicated and spoiled, the other a highly trained soldier ready to risk everything for what he wants, these two in their setting, I dont think could have a happy ever after.

I think, did the writer add in Ziang's failing health because she knew that Shuan could never live peacefully with him? What would hurt more, Shuan dying and leaving Ziang to his grief, or giving them both peace in their passing?

Nothing felt forced. One decision was the result of the one before.

For the leads, it was Shakespearean. For the others though, I felt information had been edited out. Towards the end, the editing did get quite jumpy. I wanted to know what happened to Minister Gu, did Huo travel the world with Shen? I would have liked more info on the side characters.

I also would have liked to have seen a shot of the two meeting in another life, as their hair was tied together. Since it was mentioned, I feel like the final scene should have been that, just to lift the mood a little.

It wasn't perfect but has left deep impression on me and I now feel a little haunted. I dont normally like sad endings but since this is a rare chinese bl, with a historical setting, I had to give it a shot and dont regret my decision.

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The 'Hot Mess' One

We all have that one show on our list that is, on paper, a complete disaster that has you wondering how horny was the writer and how drunk was the editor?

Mine was Love in the Air because, BossNouel's NC scenes swept the floor with everyone else's half hearted attempts LOL

My Stubborn has topped it, as aggressively as Sorn, because at least Love in the Air made sense.

I looked forward to this every Sunday and I can give credit to the stylists who knew what they were doing when they gave Boat that hairstyle.

This reminded me those old school yaoi's I would read in the 00s, on some website, covered in links with all sorts of digital viruses, posted inconsistently in parts by some exhausted student who translated it, and would stop in protest at the mere mention of the next chapter by readers.

Jun is a naive, perpetual child loved by all and often treated like he's five. So of course, Jun most of the time, acts like he's five. He occasionally shows some sort of self awareness but it's over ruled by Sorn, who is a walking red flag incarnate.

Seriously, in reality, he would have been slapped with a restraining order by episode 3.

Perhaps Boat is just too pretty to ignore, and his chemistry with Oat is heavy for most of us, which is probably why we kept watching.

Boat and Oat, undeniably kept this show above water. The mess that is between Sorn and Jun's relationship could have been thoroughly investigated over the 12 episodes by an emotionally intelligent writer, but that's not what we're getting here.

The two, yes TWO, side couples are so underdeveloped, I wonder why they bothered. Was it just a checklist to add more gay? Because My Stubborn was not afraid to get graphic with Sorn and Jun so it really wasn't necessary.

I would ff them because I just wanted to get back to the glorious dumpster fire that was Sorn and Jun. There was so much of an emotional mess between them, that they didn't have time for anyone else, and in comparison to BoatOat's NC scenes, when the side couple's NC scenes happened, it was painfully obvious that it was two actors, and not a couple in love.

This was borderline porn logic at times and other times, there were brief, just could almost taste the reasoning, it was right there at the tips of my fingertips, until Sorn did something to remind me that this is old school yaoi and the Seme never stops being an abusive jerk. Super controlling and possessive that seems to be a thing for some people for some reason.

Sorn only learns to ask before physical intimacy and even then, he struggles because he just eternally lusts for Jun like a starved animal. It gives that feeling of changing the bad boy, without actually changing the bad boy because we don't the bad boy to lose his edge. That's what made him dangerous and sexy.

I dared to say that this could have been translated easily into a BDSM relationship, if the writer knew how. All throughout, I couldn't help but feel that Sorn and Jun's relationship had a Pet or Daddy, or even the controversial 'Little' relationship vibe to it. If the emotional maturity was there, heck, even if they grew into it, it would have worked for these two, because that's how Sorn treats Jun. And that will understandably, run an ice cold finger up some people's spines.

The show is what it is. It's a creative disaster that was completely upheld by BoatOat's chemistry. If it wasn't for them, I think this show would have bombed harder.

One thing they did get right though was the music. I quite enjoyed the backing tracks, and it added to the seediness of a fwb relationship.

Overall, this is a trainwreck, a trashy kind of show that will have it's own audience, and we will all now be hoping that Boat and Oat act together again in a more mature show.

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The Bittersweet Taste of Life and Death

If I spend the next 4-6 months trapped in the ancient korean drama section of asian dramaland, this show will be to blame.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good ghost justice story but I honestly wish I had seen more of the backstory that brings about the Hotel to begin with LOL But that's just me. The point of this one is the redemption and forgiveness more than the ancient tragedy that create all the karma and punishment.

This show was a roller-coaster of emotions for me, right from the opening scene. We see our FL, Man Wol, wandering, injured, followed and insanely bitter and cold. This is where our tale starts as she finds herself confronted by a goddess, and suddenly becomes the owner of a ghost inn as part of her karmic debt to pay for her crimes.
Fast forward to 1998, and we our introduced to our ML, Chan, in his poverty ridden childhood. One thing leads to another and our ML's father makes a deal with our FL, to spare him in exchange for his son's service later in life.
Of course, his father isn't that uncaring. The money Man Wol sends to his father to help raise him, is explained was spent on taking him to america and hoping that he never return to Korea. Of course, Man Wol is an ancient spirit and finds him the moment he steps foot back in the country.

This drama follows two different stories that slowly converge beautifully into one. At first, it seems like a glamourous and quirky idea as we meet the ghosts, both staff and guests, and some of them even receiving justice for their death. If they are particularly noble in life, the reaper drives them off in a limo, instead of a bus towards the bridge of the after life.
It's all a very entertaining concept, until we start to see the effects of death on those left behind. Even a dog isnt spared from his pain, and chooses to join his master in death instead of run free.

This is a theme that runs throughout the show. It's the cold, harsh reality of death. Although a creative take on what happens after, the message is always the same. The pain of separation, things people leave unsaid, unresolved, how the people left behind must continue, while their loved ones fates are unknown. Are they happy? Are they free? Do they even remember us while we continue to suffer over their memory?

And it's theme, of this deep heartfelt human experience that slowly unravels what actually happened to Man Wol in her life, 1300 years prior to the plot. When we do finally learn what happened, honestly, I can't imagine anybody feeling like they wouldn't react the same way. It was a deep, traumatizing betrayal for all involved.
Everything is woven into the ultimate plan of the Goddess, in several different forms, who is genuinely trying to help Man Wol. It's shown over and over, with various characters that a divine plan may be in front of us, but the choice is always ours. We can give in to our anger and hate, and destroy ourselves with it, or we can let go and move on.

At the end, we are all connected in some way. Such as the side plot of having the Princess and Woo's present incarnations meet, fall in love and mention their plans to get married at the end. Two people who were enemies in Man Wol's life, and the reason for death, falling in love. For me personally, even though it is kind of joked about by the Goddess who connects them, it feels like a karma as well. The two see each other only once in Man Wol's life but they connect instantly. Maybe they knew each other even before that life. Maybe they knew each other at some point in the lives they lived between the past and the present. Maybe they even just past each other. It's this romanticism of reincarnation and living hundreds of times, that really pulled me in, and made me really feel Man Wol's fate because she's holding herself prisoner but we can all understand why. We see what happened to her.
While her enemy and beloved brother, are living different lives and finding happiness there, she's still trapped in Man Wol's life, and her pain. And when we reach our final goal of getting her to release and forgive, we are then faced again, with the pain of the one left behind. In this situation its the ML Chan. You could easily take the script and place it onto a character dying of cancer. They both know that she has to move on, and he needs to let her move on, but will he be ok? Is he really prepared to let her go?

I really appreciate that we wrapped up Man Wol's plot by ep.14, because it means that our side characters were also given the resolve that they deserved, rather than trying to squeeze it in during the last episode. So when they, one by one, cross over, I was also feeling the separation. They weren't just goofy side kicks, they were also fully fleshed out characters, with stories and grudges of their own, that they were finally able to put down and be at peace.

The romantic in me is a little disappointed that Man Wol chose not to go up to Woo's reincarnation because they chose to keep in the scene of him seeing her, and making an impact. Also that he cried after he had the drink towards the end, to let Man Wol see his memories and learn the other side of the story. Once again, in another way, even though Woo, in his life as detective Park, no longer remembers, the pain of that life time, is still there. He really was a side character and perhaps thats why I wanted more of his lifetime because his thoughts and feelings were reduced to snippets, despite the writing hinting that his thoughts and feelings had a lot to say. So I feel unsatisfied there.

Overall, this is a very visually stunning and very heartfelt serious that had really hit a nerve with me, and had me tearing up a few times, which doesn't happen often.

My only complaint is that I didnt feel the passion between the leads. I actually felt the love and sacrifice more from Myung in his small parts, than I did from ML Chan. The leads felt more like flirting school kids. I do like to think though, that the ending scene is a future life of the two being in love again, with other 3 characters running free in the area with lots of good fortune thanks to the good karma they built up during their time in the hotel.

Other than that, this was one hell of a ride, pun intended, and definitely one to remember as I now freefall down the ancient korean drama section LOL

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Adorable WTH? that I Still Enjoyed

This is one of those shows where the message is about the journey, and the plot very much takes that route. I think this could have been stretched out to 12 episodes to give a little bit more of fleshing out because the ending was very rushed, as does it usually is. Ep. 8 is was pretty much all filler just to get to that end scene, the 2nd to last episode curse and then conclusion and end. I can't help but feel like I've missed something.
What happened to Junior's brother Little? Does Junior ever visit after he went to Bangkok?
What happened to Nam? He became a bully and then just fell off the face of the earth.
Did the 'bad guy' die? He was hit on the back of the head. Did he live and get rearrested?
Who was the guy on the phone?
How far away do Jeng and Judd live from the school because they got to Sun reaaaaally quickly LOL
How did Sun turn back into a human? How did he get from the hospital to Junior?
I honestly wtf'd my whole way through the final 2 episodes LOL

The plot focused on Sun and Junior's journey and everything else just danced around them.

I almost feel like we had another director for those final episodes. There was a drastic change of tone for me, so much so that the humour that was littered throughout the show, which I had been enjoying up until then, seemed really out of place.

Having said that, it is what it is, and I still enjoyed it but things did go wonky at the end there.

The CGI stuff didn't bother me honestly. Even that last scene of Junior fulfilling his dream didnt bother me. I get it. CGI is expensive. It's ok, I'm not going to be too harsh about it. Did laugh a little at Sun visibly sweating in his artic clothing with the wind sounds and green screen northern lights LOL

Overall, it's a sweet quirky show, kind of a filler for your afternoon type of show and I thought the ML's as newbie, did well for their first roles.

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Lessons from Cheng Yi

Mysterious Lotus Casebook is my unbeaten Cdrama favourite and Cheng Yi my cdrama King. So my interest in this was a little selfish as I wanted to see more of Shunxi. Watching this, within the first 3 episodes, I was already in love with his acting. He's the type of character that speaks with his eyes, something that Cheng Yi does really well, for me at least.

Xianxia and I have a bit of a yin and yang relationship ourselves, and I know these sorts of stoic, never speak their feelings ML's are abundant, but within the first episode, I was hooked on Bai's character.

It was like an immediate, "ohhhhhhhh, oh noooo," he's going to hurt my feelings. And I was right, he did. It was the classic, seems like an asshole character, but is in fact, baring all the pain and trouble. Simping, I believe some might call it.
But he had me. Just like Cheng Yi with every show I have watched him. Tortured prince lazer gaze and I couldn't look away.
He went up my 'must watch' list very quick.

By the ending of episode two, I knew I was going to binge this.

With that said.

What really took me out throughout this whole damn show, was how everything was preplanned. Literally every arc but the last, was just one plan after enough and after a while, I kind of rolled my eyes. It felt like one giant troll for the audience.
The illusion arc, ok, that one makes sense.
But the first one, didn't really sit well with me, because why would everyone act like they're on stage for each other. That to me, genuinely did not make sense. Bai wasn't there so why? I would have preferred an 'awakening' style approach but maybe the writer just didn't want something that is so common with Xianxia.
The character switch just didn't make sense to me if it was all such a pretend. I did feel some scenes were too long too. It's like they gave some scenes some extra minutes to stretch the episode but minor criticism.

I did genuinely enjoy the show. The saving of the first Meng did make me a little queasy and on two separate occasions, my eyes filled with tears. So far, only Cheng Yi has managed to do that for.

Bai Lu has been around for a while, I have watched and enjoyed her before. Her voice actress knocked it out of the park with 'that' scene. You will know when you watch it because damn, between the voice actress cries and Bai Lu's devasted face, it's an emotional scene to watch.

Bai Lu and Zeng Shunxi, did well together. Their chemistry seemed a lot more subtle but I think that went with deep yearning that the character of Bai felt. Not knowing what he done to deserve the love of his life's wrath. It was meant to be a deep will I or won't I kind of feeling, rather than a passionate blaze. The confliction between the characters was the main point.
I did feel like the show slowed a little after the reveal, which it takes to episode 23 to happen. Odd, since that's the final arc lol But I may have felt that way because we see a lot more of the side characters afterwards, to develop them in order to have their ending.

It's a bit of a roller coaster ride of guess what, and who's who, with glorious sets and hairstyles, but it has a classic xianxia style ending. Thankfully they at least save time to wrap up everyone's story, instead of rushing to a finish. That's something that really annoys me so I appreciated that.

Overall, it is a classic Xianxia style plot but with obvious twists in an effort to make it different and considering the genre's ending standards, it was a fairly happy ending.

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If someone bullies you, it's because they like you

Rated= 5~ 24/50 ~ 4.8
RPG Scene // Zombies shambling and falling off Mountain Pass. Dont even need my sword. They walked off themselves.

I tried to like this, I really did but I just couldn't do it. I initially loved it with Wuxin and Xiao but then he left and it started to get really boring with lots of very irritating characters, very fast. And at least by ep 16, they're trying to force a romance with Xiao and the female character trope I absolutely loathe. Pouty princess with a big weapon. She beats you up because she loves you. Just no. That's not a couple destined to be. I don't do tsunderes and I can't imagine a man like Xiao liking it either. I just wanted Wuxin to come back so I googled and was disappointed so I've decided to drop.

Visually, there's a lot of special effects here. Gives me a final fantasy kind of vibe with a headache inducing amount of characters and back stories.

Xiao's face though. I will be watching out for that actor later because damn. I don't mind looking at him a little longer lol currently watching In Blossom with Wuxin's actor and he's pretty fine too with hair LOL honestly, if they do a spin off with just Xiao and Wuxin, I'd be all in but this is just too much for me to sit through 40 hours of my life.

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Xianxia and I aren't going to be friends

Rated= 4 ~ 15/50 ~ 3
RPG Scene // Trolls wading through the Murky Swamp. My club is splitting.

I promised myself that if I can't make it through to the end, I'm crossing off Xianxia's in the future, unless Cheng Yi is involved. I only made it to the end of L&R through bias alone 😂 It's a genre I feel the culture clash in, really hard, and when you already have a belief system in place and notions of what a 'deity/immortal/God' is, it can be very difficult to watch a very human, politically motivated soap opera happen with divinities as the characters. And that's just the concept standing by it's self.

This follows the trend of every Xianxia, I've tried to watch before it. Visually, gorgeous. Everyone is fantastically dolled up in plastic head gear and fabulous costuming and I usually enjoy the lore. This time round there was a lot of emphasis on the elements and how that creates the true form of the Immortal and the elemental power they can wield. That's a fun idea. It also ties back to the title and the 'water and fire dont mix' mantra. Jinme is a frost flower, water, Xu Feng is a Phoenix, fire, and Run yu is a Water dragon. She is engaged to Run yu, water with water, but is supposed to fall in love with Xu Feng. The fire will burn her.

Likewise, her mother also shared a similar fate. She was a Lotus, in love with Jin Me's father, the Water deity, and had a tragic affair with the Heavenly Emperor, who is fire.

The costuming and the lore. That's what I love about the Xianxia genre. It's incredibility creative and I enjoy that. But that's where the love ends. Just like the characters, the Xianxia genre and I are different elements. I don't know which one, but we clash a lot.

This is not a case of 'go watch disney' kind of mentally. Without drama, there wouldn't be a story. That's the point of fiction, to be entertained, to be inspired, to find something within the story to hold dear to your heart as you travel through your own trials in life. But when the drama doesn't make sense or is clashing with your own outlook in life, you're not going to like the story for it has nothing to offer you.

One of my favourite characters, is the anti-hero. I like watching the underdog win. In this story, it's very clear from the start who the underdog is, so I'm going to adopt him very quickly and cheer for him, and that is our second ML, Runyu, played by the very elegant Luo Yun Xi, who I must say, I've only seen him in Till the End of the Moon, which I also dropped, and I've already got a little soft spot for him.

(I really hope he's not getting the Cheng Yi treatment and just forced to play the abused Prince all the time)

So when the plot eventually arrives around episode 8, I know that things are going to get really messy.

Our FL is our standard, so innocent but is really just the usual village idiot that these genres seem to like having. Massive LOL to her guardians, who are told she is to have a love trial and protect her from pain and they basically bubble wrap her so she has no emotional intelligence to protect her from foretold pain. The seal is meant to stop her from feeling romantic love not stop her from using her brain. She clearly has one, as she's bargaining for spiritual energy to help her friend, who sacrificed herself to save her. Understandable. She's not unfeeling, just blinded to romantic love. And she has to stay in the flower realm for 10 thousand years so that she doesn't experience her love trial. So of course that's not happening.
As the plot unravels, we see that Jinme is going to have a similar situation to her mother, only this time, has not one clue how to navigate it because she's been emotionally and spiritually suppressed by magically seals and her Guardians. Ahh, yes, the Immortal's Wisdom at play here.....huh?

Our ML is our typical self righteous, golden child who is pretty aloof at first but somehow falls in love with Jin me like he's never seen another woman before. Was it her talking about putting on weight on her chest? The feeding you kiss? Trying to eat his testicles when they first met? Was he seduced as opposed to love? A lot of sexual build up with these two, but no emotional. We as the viewer know that he's feeling something very intense. Jin me is completely oblivious but I was going with it. Let it unravel.

Back to Runyu, it is shown that he is also feeling something but the big thing for me here is that he's distant despite his affection. And it's a gentle affection, like a crush almost but he has an emotional wall up because he's engaged. I understand by ep 19 that he's clearly been neglected and abused and the Heavenly Empress is trying to find a reason to execute him because he's a threat to the throne. And I'm guessing 'her' throne, not the ML.
Why are we using the word 'deity' for a very, very human situation? I clash with this narrative.

My interpretation here is that, this promise of a wife, has been what he's held onto and has been embarrassed repeatedly that this promised wife wasn't even born yet. So when he discovers that it's the girl he's been crushing on, he is naturally over the moon that he finally won't be alone. It was a cold move the way he made sure to secure that promise but I understood it. That's not drama for dramas sake. That was a clever move. I applauded. Not even a few episodes later, in comes the ML with his manipulation because he's 'in love' and it's meant to be justified.

I know where this is going and the other low rated reviews just confirm it.

I'm going to be on Run yu's side no matter how far he falls later because I understand him. When he finally breaks, it will be him I will be crying for and not the so called 'good guys' who pushed him to that point. And this is where I realise that me and Xianxia aren't going to be friends, because here we are again. The relationship between the audience and the characters is what creates the support for a show and the emotional drive of the audience. I can't support an eternally dense FL who is that way because it's supposed to be cute and it drives the narrative. Or a ML who so far, is just determined to get what he wants. I have no other reason to feel empathic for him. I haven't been shown any, other than he's randomly obsessed with the FL for some reason. Much like his father.
Nor an Uncle who is also determined to get the ML the girl he wants. While ignoring the feelings of his other nephew simply because he said so. That's also very painful favouritism to the golden child that everyone loves. To hell with Run yu right?

I'm going to cheer for the character trying to keep his or her head above the water and for some reason, in Xianxia's that's always the so called 'Villain'. I've danced this dance before, I can already sense how the writing is going to go and I know I'm going to hate it because that's not what I'm looking for in a story.

I don't even want to say this is for a 'younger audience' even though it's a knee jerk reaction to do so because it 'feels' immature, and that's not fair to the younger generation. Life makes the person regardless of age.
The narrative is to support the main couple but all I see is sexual tension and that's not love.
I see the potential for an emotional bond with Run yu because that's where my emotional connection is. I don't care about the leads because I have no reason to and at episode 20, that's a bad sign. To know that the writing is just going to make a villain out of him, then I'm going to be a villain too and hate everyone with him, and be left disappointed with him.

Jin me's father, mother and the Wind deity is what you are looking for. That is real love, loyalty and friendship. Unless it changes later lol

Damn, this is long 😂

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The Kiss and Everything Else

Rated = 6 ~ 25/50 ~ 5
RPG Scene // A flurry of fairies surrounding me on mountain pass and dazzling me with their twinkling lights, that I drop my battle axe down the ravine. Damn.

If there is one thing I can praise this show on is the kiss scene. They took the time to build up the feels and then let it explode into a really passionate kiss. I appreciate that and I actually rewatched it a few times. So points.

This is unfortunately one of those shows for me where it starts off fine, then gets super tense for that kiss scene, and then just kind of trails off eventually to basically being back to where they started from.
I found, for the most part, one half of the pair annoying. I don't like the 'jock, always in your face' type characters because he's basically just annoying his crush until he relents. I dont find that endearing.
The friends were the usual, barely thinking characters we usually get unless there's drama to be created.
I can understand the parents at war with each other but the Uni as well, I felt like were always pitting the two faculties together which, honestly for me, felt a little dumb. Why would a social setting do that and then complain when fights break out? Wha?
By ep 9 I was skipping because I just wanted it to end.
The ending, I can deal with. I guess it's somewhat realistic but at the same time, also feels a bit stupid. Perhaps it was more just simply how it was written that feels a bit of silly.

Ultimately, the Kiss was great, 10/10, I gave a whole extra point for it but I'm unlikely to rewatch the show.

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