I am going to own the fact that I watched this drama. And that every single star is for Fighter and Tutor. The rest of the series is pretty much a complete waste of space, including Zon and Saifah, sorry guys. But Zee and Saint, wow, yes and thank you. It must be my crazy desire to have someone look at me the way Fighter looks at Tutor that made me fall in love with them so completely. Zee and Saint OWNED their characters and that relationship. So much brilliance. So their roughly 3 hours of the story (if you watch on Viki with a few extended scenes) are totally worth every second.

I've been trying to figure out exactly why Fighter and Tutor are the only relationship in this series that works for me, and I finally got it. Zon and Saifah started because of Zon's sister's BL novel. That's really it, in a nutshell. If the thought that they were destined for a relationship because of this web novel hadn't been planted in Zon's head, nothing would have happened, because the sparks weren't there. But because he freaked, and because he was acting all weird and having such strange thoughts, wham, the glorious power of suggestion worked its magic.

Contrast them with Fighter and Tutor. Fighter knew, the instant he met Tutor, that something was different, that something was special, that he was feeling something outside of the ordinary for him. This was long before that novel pairing them together even got started. The seeds had already begun growing without any sort of outside influence being placed on either Fighter or Tutor. The spark was there the moment they locked eyes, and every moment after that was simply a promise and anticipation of what was to come. That kind of relationship, the kind that begins organically from the first moment two people meet, I can support. Not the kind that gets started because a fujoshi gets her claws into someone and starts planting ideas.

Zon and Saifah truly were characters in a BL novel because it's the only thing that explains their 180 of emotions. Fighter and Tutor were writing their own story long before Zon's sister opened her laptop to start her fanfiction.

So there you go. I was finally able to verbalize why Fighter and Tutor are it for me, and Zon and Saifah, just, no. I don't like BL dramas where fujoshi girls are the ones who make normally straight guys suddenly doubt their straightness. It's why I don't like Mu Ren and Li Cheng in HIStory 4, because they were forced into romance by a fujoshi manipulating their emotions and it felt fake. At least Xing Si was already definitely gay. While I get the anger from some fans with the "drunken rape" scene, at least Xing Si and Yong Jie were clearly in that LGBTQ+ camp ALREADY. They were not influenced by a fujoshi into having feelings for each other; the feelings were already there and had been for years and just needed one specific catalytic moment to get things moving.

I'll get off my minor soapbox now, but since I actually took the time to reason out why I LOVE Fighter and Tutor and that they're the only thing worth watching in this entire drama, I figured that I'd better write it out while it was still fresh.