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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
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 ...
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Mermaid's Jade (Mandarin)

By Golu
This film was so confusing. There were a lot of scenarios and scenes put together without much of an explanation in between and the interactions and connections didn't make much sense at many places. I think I understood the basic plot but I am very sure there was a lot somewhere in between that just went above my head. Thankfully the whole Chinese fantasy genre is usually a delight to watch.

We are told that there are two kingdoms: one with prince and all whatever and the other ones with mermaids (or merman's.. whatever). The regular kingdom keeps mermaids as slaves to make silk from their body among which Jade (the color of their blood) is most popular. The people, ethically, are not allowed to keep mermaids. When Yuanshan, the chief military guy of the kingdom and friend of crown prince encounters the mermaid Yixia, things change. Ideally he should have killed him but he decides to save him since Yixia saved the military guys life. Before you know the two are having a roaring affair, thereby pissing the wife of military guy, who takes help of her brother, the prince. Some fights happen and I am not really sure what happens but then Yuanshan abandons Yixia for his own safety. A few years pass, things are getting better between the two kingdoms and the two men reunite for. Meeting. Yixia says he can never forget Yuanshan and decides to be his guard for life. He enters as soul inside Yuanshan's body which gives him almost an eternal life.

As I mentioned before, this film was very confusing. And I really don't think it has anything to do with cultural references or anything. The story and the characters were just not fleshed out properly. The film was just over an hour long. Unless this story is a common fable tale in Chinese culture that many people are aware of, this film is not easy to make sense of based on whatever you see getting unfolded on screen. On a plus side, we get to see some steamy hot sex scene and kissing scenes between the two men, which is not a common thing at all in Chinese gay movies (whatever little I have seen so far). The ending of the film was pretty random. Somehow it all turns out to be a film shoot and the two men meet again in modern life and be together, maybe. I was like WTF! The plot could hav been interesting but it was way too confusing to even try to make sense out of random events that were shot and just put together. (2.5/10)
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