Kate

Where do the MCs get neutral reaction from "I'll respect whatever decision you make"? For me in the context of this whole conversation it read as: I am sure of you, I want to pick you, I made my choice. But whatever choice you make I will also respect and accept it. It gave me more: I chose you and I won't regret it, and I hope you can make your own choice without pressure from me and you won't regret it.

Mr. Audacity Wood is back 🔥 honestly missed his insecure delulu brain 🤣
No idea what drugs he is on, but must be good ones.

I love how he claims she "forced her way into his life" when all bitch did was confessed ONCE and right away sent a message saying sorry and that she did not know he had something going on with Rong, which he IGNORED when he could have clear the misunderstanding. After that she was keeping a polite distance while still maintaining the friend group THEY WERE BOTH IN. Not once after that she crossed any lines lol

He lost it this episode. Dude went on how he was "fighting it", and by it I assume his feelings towards her, BITCH WHO ASKED YOU TO FIGHT SHIT LOL Take the fucking accountability for your own decisions.

1. You prioritized what you heard from rumors and not what you saw with your own eyes when making judgements about her.
2. You did not clear the misunderstanding about being with Rong.
3. You were rude as fuck more than once coz of your repressed feelings you did not know how to handle.
4. You stayed quiet for years making plans for your future in your fucking head.
5. And now you blame HER for all of that? Bitch stop. Get some help.

At some point, l just accepted that common sense is not part of his skill set. < real 🤣 I still cannot move on from the fact he got more scared the more he interacted with ghost, when technically he should get more desensitized 😅

I mean him having close to zero reaction was for sure fun to watch 🤣

The "supposed redemption" just happens only through vibes. < fucking real 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The redemption only works if you REALLY hard gaslight yourself into believing there is any 🤡

HR would be interested in her fashion choices for sure 🤣

At the end of the day I think they tried too hard, they were scared of losing the audience interest so they just put everything in it, and good half if not more simply did not land

I mean I would agree that back in the days even few yeas ago rom-coms got unnecessary hate for no reason (tho the rating almost never suffered lol), but now viewers are mostly equally critical about all genres 👍🏻

have you seen drama page for Twelve? 🤣

This is 5/10 for me. It's definitely not 10/10 < see how stupid it sounds? It's both 10/10 and 5/10 coz people view things differently, like different thing, have less or more tolerance about certain flaws, like certain strengths more. You're not wrong rating it 10, and no one who rated it 5 is wrong either.

That's why I said even trauma bonding does not really fit since FX was hiding how awful he is, the abuse happened after SL fell in love.

he still acted like himself < he partially acted like himself, but he was hiding A HUGE part of who he is. And he is abusive, manipulative, emotionally unstable, obsessive. It is who he is. But now they will act as if it is not who he is by giving us few months time jump. If you hide all your flaws, no the person does not fall in love with you, but with the fake image of you. The love is not real, because the person they love is not real.

That's what's so frustrating tbh. Not that he was toxic and abusive, but how it;s not... an issue. We moved on coz time jump and we are told he changed. You don't change from being this level of fucked up. FX by all means raped SL countlessly. But now he is this poor puppy with sad eyes and it's all good? And people feel bad for him? If this was presented as him still being manipulative, just changing tactics, and they did not try to whitewash him, I would be far more fine with the story. But whatever "redemption" he apparently had behind the scenes does not match the abuse, trauma, pain, harm he caused. I honestly think I'm more frustrated with the audience reaction than the drama itself tbh 🤡 I am still frustrated with how awfully it progressed and was presented, but the "FX poor baby omg I love him I want him to be happy" I see as reaction is just 🙂

it's over exaggeration obviously. But it is a fact he bonded with his abuser and in healthy state of mind he would never even consider being int he same room with FX. I used it mostly because that's how people understand Stockholm Syndrome - bonding with your abuser. I used it the same way we use "psychopath" to describe toxic behavior, even if it does not get even close to actual diagnostic criteria.

People in comment use the term "trauma bonding" which I would agree, but I am not sure most people use it correctly. IT's not two people bonding because of their similar traumas. When it's forming bond and attachment to your abuser. But even that is not fully fitting, because FX initially was manipulating SL to fall for him and was hiding how fucked up he is.

One way or another, FX never loved SL, he was obsessed with him. SL loved whatever persona was presented to him, not the real FX. One way or another this love was not quite real.

At least some people want to see this story as a bad guy turn good for the man he loves. But it's not. It's a bad fucked up man staying fucked up, ending up with his victim who is too broken to move on.

it seems common to forgive a person without that person really doing anything to earn forgiveness. < especially prevalent with parents. The number of abusive parents that were forgiven "because they are parents and they did all the abuse out of love" is crazy.

Oh I get why he will forgive him. Shulang is so mentally and emotionally fucked up by FX there is literally no coming back from it, especially since like in ay other BL - mental health is literally not a topic of discussion 🤣

But I remember back in the earlier episodes when FX started to piss me off people kept telling me how I will change my mind later, and here we are and I still want that psychotic bitch dead 🤡 It's more the comment on that.

I have no issue with the "they are both fucked up, it is what it is, they will end up together", but the pity party for FX as if he became a saint and he deserve any love from anyone is just laughable for me. There is a difference between enjoying twisted romance and pretending the romance ain't that twisted and acting like the psychopath is just a confused hurt puppy 🤣

He got Shulang out of the rut where he was thinking of self harm by creating a scenario where Shulang has to go work for his dream job and get paid a good salary instead of peanuts if he started working himself in the same field. < he was self harming because of him in the first place. He started to live again mostly coz FX was staying away from him so he felt like he can breath again. He said it himself. The work was just a way to distract himself. Just leaving FX would have the same effect, because it was his presence not the lack of work that made him self-harm in the first place. This is not a redemption arc, this is the bare minimum he should do.

It’s a debt that Shulang owed which Fan Xiao paid without letting him know < oh you mean he yet again acted behind SLs back and acted on his won without discussing anything and then told SL she is in fact dead. Such a angel really.

he also sent himself to jail in the process in order to atone for his sins. < ah yes, he just had to last time assault him in the process 🤡 "in order to atone for his sins" no, he was being legally punished for his illegal crimes. Nothing to do with SL. He made this whole ass theatre last moment playing victim "sending himself to jail for SL". He is not a victim.

because Fan Xiao has obviously been helping her with him all this time < this has NOTHING to do with his treatment and abuse towards SL.

if you mean taking care of him without disturbing him or getting in his line of sight then yes.. < that's literally stalking,., If someone makes it clear they want to hace nothig to do with you and to leave you alon,e but they don't they just do it in secret, that's stalking,. ILLEGAL. So that would be it for him "atoning for his sins" while keep doing that shit 👍🏻

You failed to see what was the most abusive about FX - his complete control. The way he was planning SL's life behind his back and making sure SL ends where he wants him to end. And after it make to light... what does he do? The same shit. In this context his intentions now do not matter, because the action is what broke SL and he keeps doing the same action.

or the protagonist which is Shulang < you are right, coz I don;t have Stockholm Syndrome going on.

You writing it as if my comment was directly impacting real people 🤣 He does not need my forgiveness, true. Why? Coz HE DOES NOT EXIST 🤡

Don't know what happened in the novel, but in the drama while he technically stayed away from him, he still stalked him so it's hardly a redemption. Like... what exactly did he do? The standard for redemption must be really low is this is the best ever 🙂

Jokes on me for still watching.
Jokes on people who were trying to convince me I will for sure forgive and love FX back after the "redemption"... All this dude got was a make over 🤣
Gosh I actually wish he was toxic and abusive till the end, it was make me feel less gross than this new development 😭

I believe no one could do better in the FL role, because the writing was just that bad. There is no saving it no matter the acting skills. Ahn Eun Jin is an amazing actress but you cannot save poorly written character with just acting alone.

I forgot about her, because the writers and characters also forgot about her lol She was so insignificant to the plot it was not even worth writing about her in the review hahah

Such a beautiful message and executed in a very simple and concise manner. < this. It could have turn preachy so fast if the writing was not good. But they managed to deliver nice message in a more uplifting manner,

I guess I was surprised they actually included one < oh I was shocked lol I did not expect it especially with how tiny little of the first kiss they had 🤣