At A Glance:
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
💬 7 🔁 11 ❤️ 6 · Trigger Warning: Revenged Love ep 11 · Attempted suicide/self harm - time stamp 2:23 through 6:19 (Updated w/edits) Basic
💬 3 🔁 6 ❤️ 9 · Trigger Warning: Revenged Love ep 14 · Honestly, this episode is a mess and these warnings are just the worst, there are mo
