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 ...
Athit (or Manu) is a resort owner, who has been hurt in love and stays by himself closed to the world. He is the owner of a resort which he is undergoing renovation for. Due to a booking mistake, a visitor Pe ends up coming to the resort and insists that he will stay there since he has paid in full. In contrast Athit's personality, Pe is handsome, fun of life, outgoing and gregarious. The two guys slowly start to warm up to each other. Pe is a budding novel writer and has escaped to this rather beautiful paradise for inspiration. Meanwhile, his fantasy and adept writing creates a rather interesting love story that begins to mirror what is happening between the two of them. In essence, their reality becomes the basis for Pe’s own fantasy. When Athit finds this out, he is very disappointed in Pe into portraying someone's life story into a story. When Pe sees his point, he apologizes and as you would expect from a show like this, sparks fly, 180 turn happens and next thing you know is Athit has fallen for him. A love making scene follows with a promise of two boys being together.
Athit would be a hard person not to fall in love with because he displays genuine goodness about him with a strong sense of devotion and sincerity. Pe traverses from a superficial individual to one now needing to stand up for himself. But all this aside, there is really not much that is happening there. We spend a good 40 ish minutes just seeing the banters of this two individuals where Pe has forced himself in the resort and how he tries to get Athit's attention. Despite this the show is full of cliches, very BL tropey and you just fail to connect with any of the characters and could care less whether they end up being together or not. As I mentioned earlier, even two hours for this wafer thin plot was absolutely unnecessary and this should not have been anything more than a short story. Good looks of the two guys can hold an audience's attention only for so long, especially in today's times. (3/10)
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