This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
An athletic student Zach, is ordered by the school board to become an altar server as a punishment for an offense he committed so that he can stay away from mischievous activities. As part of this program he is put under Christian as part of the buddy program, who is a senior altar boy. Soon love starts developing between the two boys and Christian even tells the church about it. Just when things were going well, Christians' Best friend Wolf confesses his love for him. Zach always thought that Wolf has feeling for Christian and to prove to him that Wolf is also gay, he kissed him which Christian sees. The misunderstanding between the two boys keeps growing and they make peace eventually citing the rushed circumstances of them getting into a relationship. The ending was a bit weird where Zach also joins the church now and maybe they will have a future together.
As I said before, there was a hint of a decent story but instead we are left with some amateurish acting, bad direction and horrible sound quality. I found myself not really caring about any of the characters or their motivations. It feels the makers were trying to make a bold statement about church being accepting of all sexualities and God loves all, but by keeping all the gay stereotypes in the series, it ended up looking like a student project. This stereotyping is not helping anyone's cause. The screenplay just randomly kept moving from one point to the other. It was very shabby and corny. The awkward dialogues intended as jokes weren't really funny at all. And gosh! why so many scenes of people stuffing food in their mouths? Thats not funny by any means. The lead actors had potential but total lack of chemistry and conviction laced with such a bad direction made them look bad on screen.
There are so many Asian BL stories out there these days, that it is hard to keep up. I wish someone had told me to avoid this one or watch only if you have nothing else better to do. (2.5/10)
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