I've added you! I really love your post about Novel v. Drama and have been reading through all the comments! I've only read what's been translated various places, but I 100% agree with you about the drama being better!
In addition to the points you made in your post, I was stunned when I realized that the closed-time-loop-of-love is only in the drama, and that's one of my FAVORITE things! Much better than reincarnation IMHO.
You mentioned in the comments to that post that you feel the novel falls into a lot of BL tropes. Can you specify? One of the things I love about the drama is that SW has many characteristics that fandom will use to say "this character must be the bottom" -- including being The Shorter Man -- but he's [novel-]canonically the top, at least in the present day. I loooove subverting cliched top/bottom expectations!
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In addition to the points you made in your post, I was stunned when I realized that the closed-time-loop-of-love is only in the drama, and that's one of my FAVORITE things! Much better than reincarnation IMHO.
You mentioned in the comments to that post that you feel the novel falls into a lot of BL tropes. Can you specify? One of the things I love about the drama is that SW has many characteristics that fandom will use to say "this character must be the bottom" -- including being The Shorter Man -- but he's [novel-]canonically the top, at least in the present day. I loooove subverting cliched top/bottom expectations!