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This isn't the least bit about a gay romance.
Paradise of Thorns is as gay as this thing is a censored bromance.

I only cried for what this could have been.

Had to drop in to compliment your screen name. lol

How is this a "feel good" series?

Are you crying because of all the ways in which it's a censored, homophobic POS?
Just asking.

I don't much care what the makers of a show or film "want" to do but can't, because what they want to do is not on the screen, so why bother?

I have seen all the classic BLs.
Which of the newer Cbls do you recommend.

I 100% disagree with you about a media not being less gay (please don't use "queer" when addressing me. It's like using n****r to a Black person) if it's a romance without kissing. That's bullshit.

Your last paragraph sounds as if you're cosplaying as a professor lecturing, so I'll pass on it.

lol wtf?

Complete BS.

There are a lot of gay stories that don't fit this description, but I don't begrudge you the point.

What makes you think the hockey player is gay?

I'm sure.
Are you not a native?

Yikes.
Yep, pretty damn homophobic.
Oh well, at least you don't have a fat-ass Orange douche bag for a president.

That's why I don't watch Chinese bromances, or much of anything else Chinese.
They take gay romances and strip all the gay out, which is annoying.
Where do you live?

Well, nothing at all, if you like cheesy Chinese censored bromances starring dudes flying around in silk pajamas, who never do anything the least bit gay...well, except flying around in silk pajamas, that is.

But, then, I'm gay and I've never flown around in silk pajamas.
I've never even worn silk pajamas.

One gay supporting character actually does/says something significantly gay, but then promptly jumps off a bridge (or something, we never really learn what he jumped off of).

The half of the MC who we're supposed to believe is definitely gay but who never does anything the least bit gay, comes down with a terminal disease late in the show. lol

Are you getting the drift...?

I can give you a hundred other examples of how fucked up this is, but like I wrote above, I'm holding off for now to calm down. :D

It is a Chinese-style censored bromance.
The gay romance and LGBTQ+ tags are complete BS left by delusional MDLers who like crap like The Untamed.
Actually, it's worse than that, because in SM the two leads never even get to the exchanging deep, meaningful glances stage, and yet one character is supposedly gay. Not that he ever actually does or says anything gay. lol

It's pathetic.

I'll give two examples of how pathetic in the spoiler below.

Episode 4:
Well, 4 was kind of a wash-out, but 5 looks to be spicy again.

Why would they kiss? The hockey player's not even gay.

What did you like about it?

Episodes 6,7,8:

Absolutely, 100% NOT recommended.
I just finished and am so pissed/annoyed that I'm going to put off a full response until tomorrow, so I can compose myself.

If you like bait-and-switch, censored bromances that begin by presenting themselves as one thing, then do a U-turn halfway into something else, and in the clumsiest ways possible, this show is for you. Had I known going in what the second half was going to be like, I never would have started.

What a waste of talented, appealing actors.
The writer and director should be imprisoned for life.

I can't believe Netflix financed this homophobic, Chinese-style, gay-but-not-gay POS.
I downvoted the mess there, and I rarely downvote on NF.

Soul Mate starts out strong, feels like it's headed somewhere powerful, and promises dramatic, gripping things to come about interesting, richly drawn gay male characters...then devolves, beginning halfway, into a ridiculously overwrought, melodramatic, cowardly, messy K-drama about two aromantic, asexual males living adorably with a woman and her kid.

Uh-oh, I feel a rant coming on, so I'm quitting for now.

If you have standards and are sick to death of gay-bait, homophobic trash, don't watch this, but go ahead and give it the 1/10 MDL rating it deserves.

Episode 5:
NGL...I'm watching this alone, and I yelled out loud. :(