#HAI YI SAYS I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU JOHNNY

[bl-bam-beyond]

BL- BOYS' LOVE:

Series: HIStory 5: LOVE IN THE FUTURE (2023, TAIWAN)

Hai Yi (LINUS WANG) steps up to the plate, confessing his love for Johnny (SEAN CHANG)

and then the kiss...

[bengiyo]

History5: Love in the Future Ep 2 Stray Thoughts

Last week we kicked off our return to the History franchise for a sci-fi outing. Our poor protagonist has been kicked into the future, and I am unsure if he's living in a fake life, or if he's somehow taken on someone else's life. Either way, I'm already significantly more invested in the side couple.

Viki is saying 10 episodes, and MDL saying 20. Seems like a Viki episode is equivalent to two on MDL.

This man is squatting in a warehouse. Call the people.

This show is making me miss my grandmother.

How does Hai Yi to expect this random dude to somehow make things work with this wealthy woman?

I see it's going to be a competition between Kim Jong Chan (The New Employee) and Liang Wen Hsen for my heart at the beginning of the year. I absolutely love the way both of them look out for their new hires on whom they also have massive crushes.

"I need someone young to try the food," is very smooth.

This hat and jacket combo is doing so much work in this flashback.

I understand Bo Wei using some of his time to catch up on the last 22 years of shows. I can't imagine what queer cinema and BL will look like 22 years from now.

Tony is my new bias. I would also need to know why I was told to hire a hot twink.

My man Liang Wen Hsen has been simping over Lin Wynn for years, and is literally staring at him wistfully while listening to the song Lin Wynn composed years ago. The competition is stiff this year!

Your card getting declined is so embarrassing. Wonder what changed between then and now for Hai Yi financially?

I do like the way they said "Dai Johnny."

Meng Shao Fein would approve of this suit.

Setting aside the terrible pickup lines, it's telling that Hai Yi didn't know Si-Chi is allergic to red wine.

UM, SIR! "Chop the pork into small pieces and feed me"?

Ah, he was trying to teach him a lesson about boundaries.

Why does Bo-wei need to befriend Si-Chi at all?

The warehouse becoming more livable is a quiet set design plot happening in the background. It's clever. They're gonna turn this warehouse into a wareHOME

Lin Wynn best boy. Even if the magic would have worked, I wouldn't have wanted him to jump.

Ah, Hai Yi is gripped by a fear of abandonment, which Bo-wei just triggered.

Did the best boy lose his phone? Was it stolen? I will get my daggers if it was stolen.

Um, how does Mr. Jiang know where Lin Wynn lives? This is not HR-approved.

"Let me put the seatbelt on you," my beloved.

Hai Yi has great tits.

You know, I had forgotten Hai Yi was in quarantine. That means he and Bo-wei were exposing people.

Liang Wen Hsen you have joined the list of faves.

I don't want to see them get struck by lightning next week lol.

The talent from Taiwan is just ridiculously attractive.

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Hello again.

Just finished History5 (I waited to binge it cause I didn't trust it) and I know you weren't a fan. And although I didn't hate it, I also didn't love it. Wanted to share that in the beginning the main couple was giving me some Tang Yi and Shao Fei vibes. Specially Hai Yi. For some reason, as soon as he appeared I couldn't stop thinking about Tang Yi. Since I binged it, I didn't read much of the comments at the time, so I was wondering if I it was just me. Also, they share the Yi name so I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be connected anyway.

I don't know if that affected my enjoyment of the series but probably didn't help. I loved Johnny tho, he's delightful most of the time.

(Also just need to say that after this month and the end of MSP, MC, NLMG and My Beautiful Man, I think they spoiled us and now I have no will to live).

Part 2: I'm so sorry but as soon as I sent the ask I realized I might I've giving the wrong impression when I said it might have affected my enjoyment, the Tang Yi vibe. It's not because I don't like him, it's because everyone would fail in comparison to Tang Yi. That's it. Sorry for clogging your ask box.

Hi 😊

I must admit I didn't get the Tang Yi and Shao Fei vibes, but you are absolutely correct, Tang Yi plays in a whole different league! At the beginning I too thought Johnny was delightfully joyful, but after a while his character became annoying to me (the only character I kind of liked in the end was Hai Yi). I don't know. The series had a plan, but on the way they just lost it and couldn't find a way back. I understand where Johnny was coming from with his worries about Hai Yi and what the latter will do after he goes back to his timeline, but the execution though...no! 😅 And I am happy I couldn't get the the Tang Yi and Shao Fei vibes! This would have made the whole thing a lot worse 😅

I am still in total shock...MSP and MC were my absolute favorites and they left a big hole in my heart. NLMG was a fine watch and I am sad letting them go. Now I am waiting for something to fill this hole. I don't think Chains of Heart or Bed Friend can fill it. The Promise is promising. I really enjoyed the first two episodes. I have some hope for the korean bls airing this month: Our Dating Sim, A Shoulder To Cry On, The Eighth Sense or Unintentional Love Story. They look all really promising. But I guess the hole will still be there. MSP and MC were just too good 😭 How can anything compare to this again? Guess I am waiting silently here for Our Skyy 2. My TikTok fy page was full of TinnGun, HeartLiming and GeminiFourth in general the last few days 😅 I miss them 😭

I hope you find something that will give you back your will to live again! If so, let me now 😅

[bengiyo]

HIStory5: Love in the Future Ep 3 Stray Thoughts

Last week we once again succumbed to side couple supremacy with Lin Wynn and Liang Vincent. Lin Wynn saved Bo-wei from jumping to his death, but commentary from the summoner implies that Bo-wei would have gone home. I'm absolutely obsessed with Tony and want to study him. Bo-wei is turning the warehouse into a domicile, and we learned a little bit more about how much of sad Hai Yi is. We ended on Bo-wei running into the rain to get electrocuted.

I feel like I say this every week, but why are the Taiwan actors always the prettiest.

Hai Yi just pulled what looked like a practiced restraint maneuver on Bo-wei.

Curious if there will be any supernatural consequences for revealing that he's a time traveler.

Interesting: Hai Yi is afraid of the dark.

Oh my. Looks like Once Again isn't alone now in playing with time travel, romance, and age.

Tony's current suit is sending me into orbit!!!

Would you look at that Wynn Lin stood up for himself and we got to hear our favorite simp's internal cheering.

I like the way everyone says "Dai Johnny." Wynn Lin is probably my favorite character. I like how he keeps trying to do nice things for Bo-wei.

This is a new evolution of the pratfall kiss: Let me lean in too close to brush his hair, and then fall onto his mouth when he wakes up suddenly and instinctively pushes my hand away.

This man is going to have a heart attack from all the excitement.

I'm kind of enjoying this inversion of fake dating. Bonding over your failed attempts to seduce a woman is classic mlm behavior.

Si-Chi knows how to handle swagless men who won't back off.

Lin Wynn's confusion is understandable. He accidentally crossed a boundary with his superior and doesn't know where he stands.

Damn, Bo-wei is getting his ass beat!

I was hoping Hai Yi might show up as Bo-wei's hero instead. Any time people start talking about being someone's hero, I am always taken back to my Make It Right era.

The instinctive intimacy between Lin Wynn and Liang Vincent is making me feral. However, this doesn't seem to be much of a massage?

I like that no one interrupted that moment of intimacy.

Meanwhile, back at the warehouse, Dai Johnny begins to recover from his injuries. Hopefully we get some wound tending.

At least Hai Yi appreciates the physical danger he inflicted upon Bo-wei.

Si-Chi definitely trying to get with Vincent. I don't know about this, and I'm glad Bo-wei happened by.

Liang is rather impressive if he skipped school and is now upper management of this department store.

I also want to study Hai Yi. Clearly he's self-sufficient, so is he pretending he's not to entertain Bo-wei?

Oh no, it's my greatest fear: Bo-wei has actually taken over someone else's life, and now I have to think about what happened to Johnny.