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donutsweeper) wrote2025-01-23 03:21 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2025-01-23 03:21 pm
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看見愛 | See Your Love (2024)
See Your Love
The Mydramalist summary is misleading in some ways and outright incorrect in others so here's my (ever so vaguely spoilery but still less spoilery than MDL's) attempt:
Yang Zixiang (aka Sean) is sent from the US to Taiwan by his father to head up an important negotiation for the family business in order to prove he's capable of taking over said business when the time comes for his father to retire. Yang Zixiang, however, has no interest in ever heading the business or this particular negotiation whatsoever. An assistant/body guard/babysitter, Cheng Fengjie (aka Jonathan), is sent along with him and less than thrilled with his role but doesn't have any say about it. They are attacked right after arriving and Yang Zixiang is saved from being killed by deaf mute Jiang Shaoping, who was shown previously interviewing and being turned down for the job of a resident care attendant (a nurse/caregiver type position that he has all the proper qualifications for) due to his disability.
Yang Zixiang was still hurt though and Jiang Shaoping winds up working for him as a care attendant. Since this is a BL after various trials and tribulations they, of course, eventually begin to fall in love. And Yang Zixiang, seeing how hard Jiang Shaoping tries (and how hard everything just *is* for Jiang Shaoping), eventually does take the business deal seriously. There is a whole subplot about that deal where the Taiwanese liaison he works with winds up being Jiang Shaoping's best friend, Song Shuhe and another subplot involving Jonathon being mistaken as the one in charge by a petty thug who wants to impress the local mob boss by killing him (but instead winds up sleeping with him).
Overall, Jiang Shaoping's character is very well written and acted with surprisingly good disability representation. The series neither shies away from the issues disabled people face (like how difficult it can be trying to find a job when disabled and the way certain people look down on/dismiss him) nor the issues/feelings/worry his parents have over it either. His parents, by the way, were also great characters and felt like real people and had some amazing scenes.
Honestly, quite a lot of both the business and attack/mob plots are somewhat contrived and background to the point of being only somewhat explored, but they are delved into enough to not feel tacked on and they do tie in to the theme of becoming and accepting the person you are/were meant to be and standing up against those who won't do the same.
Interested? Here's the official trailer (it's ever so slightly spoilery, but not really much more than my summary):
It's only 13 episodes of 25ish min each. And as a further note, if you like height differences, this show is for you, Yang Zixiang so much shorter than Jiang Shaoping. Here's the best non-spoilery gif I could find:
There is one trigger warning for the series - Highlight to read *there's a flashback to an incident years ago when Song Shuhe was attacked and nearly raped and called for Jiang Shaoping for help and while he does find her and save her in time, in the heat of the moment she blames him for not being able to hear her yelling and getting there sooner. It happens during e8 and the attack begins just past the 4:30 mark and he saves her within a minute and the whole flashback is over by 6:22* It's very brief scene and the whole thing skippable if desired.
See Your Love available for viewing if you have subscriptions on many places like Viki, WeTV, iflix, iQiyi and GagaOOLala, with most offering the first episode for free as long as you have any kind of account, and also entirely free at places like kisskh.
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