They pandered to the lowest false beliefs held by a repressive straight populace!

Up until the final episode the series was fairly well done. Good acting, fairly engaging storyline, good choices in casting and a decent pace in the story keep you coming back for more. But, I cannot recommend this series.

Not because of an age difference in the secondary couple that some people gripe about, that's actually kind of realistic to life, at least it is in my own life (I was 32 he was 19 and we had almost the exact same argument about getting together. We've been together 21 years now.). Not because Yu Xe Gu died, let's be real here relationships end one way or another and it could have just as easily been a breakup. And let's knock on the door of reality a little bit, how many broken hearts are left crying in the middle of the road while finding the one "right" one?

No, my problem is the actual ending. See people, a lot of them, seem to be confused. They come to the belated conclusion at some point in the last episode that Yu Xe Gu died SIX YEARS EARLIER, the tears start, and their brains shut down. They start moaning poor Yu he died, they aren't really paying attention to the dialogue that the screenwriter put into the mouths of these actors.

So clarification.

In first scene dialogue Hao is discussing sleeping arrangements and trip with mother (We know Xe Gu is dead so there is someone else). In scene and dialogue with Xe Gu doppelgänger it is mentioned and Hao confirms a girlfriend. In scene and dialogue with parents at dinner table parents are trying to push Hao into actually formalizing engagement with girlfriend. In scene and dialogue with Sun in apartment Hao states he has been trying to get over Xe Gu but hasn't been fully successful. In closing scene and dialogue with Sun, Hao confirms he is not gay, that he is going to take the opportunity of travel to go the Himalyas (get over Xe Gu), that no other could take the place of Xe Gu (referring to a man especially the doppelgänger ).

All the dialogue leads inescapably where the screenwriter wants us to go. Hao was not gay and it was just an immature phase that he was going through. If we get rid of the cause of his gayness, allow him to mature and get closure, and add the right woman he will become "normal" and "straight" again. This is a falsehood and a lie. There is simply no way that Hao could have gotten so emotionally and physically invested in Xe Gu without being gay.

They have betrayed us as viewers and pandered to the lowest of the false belief systems of the straight populace that gays are both disposable and can be easily changed to straight. It sickens me that this would actually be coming from modern Taiwan. I have heard rumors that the franchise is either taking a hiatus or closing down from new production. Good thing following this. If it were up to me neither the screenwriter nor the producer would get work again on even a toilet paper commercial.

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