Both dramas deal with illnesses and how to cope with the repercutions thereof in the ideal bl world. The directors also manage to avoid usual irritating sound effects, comic relief effeminate characters, evil females. They are definitely what bls should be like nowdays: quality production with a thought out story!
After a volunteer teacher Torfun dies in a tragic accident, her heart is transplanted into Tian. Tian learns about his donor’s life through a series of diary entries that reveal her secrets and interests. Included is her promise to count a thousand stars with Chief Forest Officer Phupha.
Tian decides to follow in Torfun's footsteps and fulfill her promise. Now a new volunteer teacher himself, Tian attempts to befriend Phupha who initially gives him the cold shoulder. As the two grow steadily closer, Tian notices his new heart beats quickly whenever he's near the officer. Much like the heart’s previous owner, Tian cannot help but fall for Phupha. Treading on dangerous ground, can he still go through with the thousand-star promise?
Tian decides to follow in Torfun's footsteps and fulfill her promise. Now a new volunteer teacher himself, Tian attempts to befriend Phupha who initially gives him the cold shoulder. As the two grow steadily closer, Tian notices his new heart beats quickly whenever he's near the officer. Much like the heart’s previous owner, Tian cannot help but fall for Phupha. Treading on dangerous ground, can he still go through with the thousand-star promise?
Except from being a BL, everything else is similar:
- city person moves to small village/town
- adjusting to country life
- village beau/chief that's respected by everyone as the love interest
- self discovery
- interacting with locals and children, and integrating into community
- goes back to city/original home
- slow burn romance
- masculine ML
- grand return at the end, and happy ever after
- death as inciting incident to leave former life behind for a change of scenery
the parallels go on forever! just that ATTS is BL and Meet Yourself is het.
- city person moves to small village/town
- adjusting to country life
- village beau/chief that's respected by everyone as the love interest
- self discovery
- interacting with locals and children, and integrating into community
- goes back to city/original home
- slow burn romance
- masculine ML
- grand return at the end, and happy ever after
- death as inciting incident to leave former life behind for a change of scenery
the parallels go on forever! just that ATTS is BL and Meet Yourself is het.
This isnt similar to Fighter and Tutor but like Saifah and Zon. Zon doubted if his feelings for Sai were real or if they were in his sisters Y novel about them. In A Tale of Thousand Stars Tian has a heart disease and he passes-out one night out with his friends. That same night he made a bet that he could win a car race, but he couldn't do it bc of his condition and so his friend did and he hit a girl, Torfun. Tian got Torfun heart and late Tian asks whose heart he got but his parents wouldn't tell him bc of that accident. He finds out that Torfun died and that his car killed her. He goes to see a family member to get to now her but then finds a diary that says she was a volunteer teacher a Pun Pao village. Torfun had a wish written in her diary so Tian leaves home to go fulfill Torfuns wish at Pun Pao village. Late he meets a guy, a guy Torfun liked, and he starts to catch feelings but then he wonders if its just Torfuns heart that makes him feel like that then realizes that its not just her heart its his own feelings.