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Revenged Love

China - Romance

Staring: Zi Yu & Tian Xu Ning

Dumped by his girlfriend for being poor, Wu Suo Wei decides to get revenge by stealing her new wealthy boy friend. As a "straight" guy just pretending to be interested in the snake loving playboy Chi Cheng, Wu Suo Wei panics when he starts to develop actual feelings for a man and things get complicated.

This series is a mess of red flags with deliciously flawed, grey characters that all scheme and manipulate, and we loved it!!! Seriously, we got weirdly obsessed with these characters. And we weren't alone. We weren't alone in getting up early just to watch as soon as the newest episode dropped! Sleep was sacrificed for this series! Watching these messy people fall hopelessly in love with each other and then go through great lengths for that love was worth it! If you are good at doing mental gymnastics to ignore the stuff you don't like, there was a lot to love about this story and it delivered more than we expected. Just be prepared to be a little (or a lot) uncomfortable at times. And it will hurt too. But we loved it so much and it's definitely going to be a rewatch because apparently we like to torture ourselves and the bitter makes the sweet taste so much better!

Ending: Happy 😍🥰

Tears: So many feels. It hurt... a lot... and often.

Main Couple: Queer

Side Couple: Queer

Romance Scenes: What we got were brief but spicy little snippets. Way spicier than what you would expect from a Chinese BL, but a lot seems to have be left on the cutting room floor.

Flavor of Scenes: Lots of flavor, mostly suggested. Chi Cheng is kinky and experienced and Wu Suo Wei gets dragged along for the ride.

Heads up: SOOOOOO MANY! And multiple major trigger warnings. Below are the ones we managed to keep track of, but we surely missed some. Proceed with caution and do some research if you have any significant triggers.

animal fighting/death, "gift" of human, fat shaming, violence, implied/off screen gang rape, gender/queer stereotypes, homophobia, teacher/student/abuse of power, suicide/self harm, infidelity, cancer, death, kidnapping

I was hoping to write it up tonight, but I crashed pretty hard, so I’m gonna do my best to sit down with it tomorrow after I get some serious schoolwork in so you guys aren’t left hanging with this for very long. (I genuinely don’t want to make that promise to you and then leave you for another week when homework swallows me up.)

Yes. It’s going to be bad. It was the first thing that came to mind when I decided to write a next generation story and I honestly hesitated because I had a really bad feeling people would turn on me for it. But you guys have been doing so well thus far. If you could handle the Adansey fight, you’ll be fine… 

I’ve been really careful about making sure you guys know it’s coming pretty much for months now, even though I’ve made sure to keep well under wraps as to exactly what’s going to happen. One of you clever anons has it all figured out, I know that, despite the fact that they may not want to put it to words any more than I do. (I’m pretty darn sure we both know what’s up though, just saying…) 

I recommend you imagine the absolute worst thing you can possibly think of, barring death and rape, because I won’t be going there. Chances are, whatever you’re thinking of will either prepare you for when it comes, or will be actually worse than what I have planned.

But also, talk to me if it bothers you, because it’s going to be hard and I wouldn’t be surprised if I trigger some of you. I will be arming it with warnings, which I’m sure will soften the shock a little bit. If I do trigger you though, I am genuinely sorry and I want to do whatever needs to be done to pacify the situation, whether it’s posting more kitten videos or writing more fluffy drabbles or just talking it out… If I could see a way around it, I wouldn’t be writing it, but I can’t and I am, so it’s coming whether we like it or not. I’m hoping when 26 is over though, it’ll be the worst of it done with and the plot will do its thing from there.