A Humble Disagreement With Some Reviews

First I want to say that I respect the opinions of all reviewers here but, as an adult mature individual, I feel that I need to bring my point of view and respectfully disagree with some of the reviews. The acting and storyline may have not been perfection, but it was not bad at all.

For Me, this story is about watching the episodes to get the full story - Sort of like "Don't judge a book by its cover," in this case a couple of episodes. The point I'm making is that by watching one or two episodes we cannot come to a final decision on how the story really develops. Furthermore, if we don't keep an open mind and read between the lines, as the story develops, we don't get to be able to tie up those connections. The problem with any series is that we don't get to know the whole story until the end.

For me, the first thing is that this series took us out of the comfort zone of the "...still in high school or college..." typical storylines. Yes, the basis of Nine and Dao's storyline begins in college, but we don't get to know that until later in the series when we come to realize that the main storyline is about dealing with feelings of loss, betrayal, and of course love.

First, let's remember that neither Daonuea nor Nine knows who they really are, until the very end. This is one thing I really wished been figured out before the end, because it would have given so many options for additional development of the story.

Daonuea is dealing with the frustration of a failed three-year (more or less) relationship because of his ex-boyfriend cheating and how will he be able to return back to work in the company that they both founded and invested in.

Nine is also dealing with still being "in the closet" and fighting the feelings that he was already experiencing before he even met Daonuea. The sudden loss of his mother probably pushes him back into the closet and into a relationship that he really did not know how to handle and probably felt trapped into continuing because of Praew threatening suicide if he was to leave her. BTW, if I understood correctly, Praew was cheating on Nine and left him too; this is where the opportunity to go away and meet Daonuea comes from.

As the story goes, basically fate brings Daonuea and Nine together when they meet at the resort (camping place, or whatever you want to call it) and fall in love, as in a "meant to be" situation.

From there, everything unravels into the, sometimes funny and out-of-whack story about Nine and Daonuea's relationship and why they lost contact after coming back from the resort. We learn that Nine goes back into a relationship with Praew, and this is why he stops contacting Dao, even though he still has feelings for Dao and is following him around in secret. That's why Nine goes to the company.

Now we get to meet Tee; Dao's ex-boyfriend who is trying to get back together with Dao while he only wants to stay friends and continue working in the company. As it turns out, Tee happens to be one of Nine's best friends in college, probably his best friend, and the one that gets him into the "school buddy" assignment. Later we learn that Daonuea is Nine's secret "school buddy" from college.

Tee knew that Nine had developed feelings for the school buddy, but upon meeting the school buddy, let's say he unintentionally falls for Daonuea, as Nine was called away because of his mother and cannot meet and deliver a present to the school buddy himself. If memory serves, when Nine comes back to the gym--after his mother passed and he'd been away for some time--he asks Tee about the buddy, and he just responds by saying that he met the buddy, gave him the present, and nothing else. Leaving Nine to understand that "the buddy" was not interested.

Furthermore, upon the three of them meeting at the office he does notice the interactions between Nine and Dao, and clearly freaks out because of the school buddy; to the point that he asks Boat to keep an eye on them. Even after Dao makes his decision on staying with Nine, Tee still chooses not to come clean and tell the truth, until the very end when Nine finds the present (pendant/chain) at Dao's apartment and confronts him.

Of course, we get the happy ending we all wanted, and while I do agree that there were opportunities to really dive further into the story, I must humbly disagree with some reviews that are ranking it below 5 stars. I must confess that I watched it in its entirety after it had already aired, but this allowed me to understand the storyline.

Wish you all the best, and keep watching our beloved BL dramas!

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