I was actually meaning to watch a different show from Taiwan instead of this one, but I thought it would be wise to see if the Taiwanese series ended with a happy ending. And…it doesn’t, so I trawled Netflix for something else to watch and this one snagged my attention!
We’re starting off at a shrine, and the show’s main protagonist is praying in front of a statue. The camera focuses on his ring, which I’m sure is going to play a part in the story further along. Then we travel back to 100 years ago in 1924.
Before we get right into the show, can I just say how wild it is that the 1920s were a century ago now? The first thing that used to come to my mind when you said a century ago was like the 1800s or something. I come closer to death more and more each day.
ANYWAYS, we’re in the 1920 and the main character is fighting cops. He also looks exactly the same, which means that he’s actually more than a hundred years old when we first see him in the future. Or maybe he’s just got a healthy diet. He gets shot and tries to escape from the police and almost gets caught if it weren’t for Wad, who’s apparently the daughter of a duke! The main guy is also implied to be a Triad member, or at the very least just a merchant, so it’s going to be a good high society girl falling in love with a bad boy. I mean I can’t blame you girl! There’s a reason why that trope’s popular!
Wad takes the man to the same temple we see him in at the beginning of the show and we find out his name is San. We also get to take his shirt off because he was shot in the arm and that’s what you do when you get shot in the arm. Wad called the guy in the temple a doctor, which I thought would mean at the very least Eastern medicine, but I didn’t think we’d bring out the supernatural stone right away. Nothing wrong with that, it’s clear from the synopsis and the fact that the hero survived for more than a hundred years, I just thought the stone would appear a little later!
They put the stone right between San’s titties and wouldn’t you know it the bullet gets expelled and the wound closes! And we get to see some writhing and groaning as well! A miracle of Eastern medicine! Apparently, the stone came from the goddess who created humans and this is a fragment of the bigger stone that the goddess used to protect humanity from demons.
The next day, San is extremely grateful and tells Wad that he’s at her service and he’ll do anything and of course since I am a depraved creature the first thought in my head is anything? Wad said she did it out of the goodness of her heart which of course gets San going even more. Of course, the two of them fall in love and while watching a performance San discreetly gives Wad the same ring that he’s now wearing 100 years in the future.
Unfortunately, Wad is already expected to marry Prince Trai but rather than push through with that, she decides to elope with San. A decision I agree with because I’ve already seen San shirtless. That decision doesn’t end well for her though, because she ends up getting shot by the prince. Tragic, I know!
After doing the required “standing around doing nothing while the gunshot victim bleeds to death” trope of every drama from every country in the world, San takes Wad to the same doctor that healed him in the hopes of saving her life. Unfortunately, the magic stone only works on the living and Wad is really, most sincerely dead.
So, the doctor can’t bring Wad back to life. BUT, he can do a 100-year destiny ceremony that’s going to tie San and Wad’s souls together. It involves splitting the magic stone in half and making San drink the concoction made from one half of it and I’m like…that’s a precious resource! Why’d you just grind it into dust!
Anyways, the potion will extend San’s life by a hundred years and keep it in its pristine, shirtless condition. However, he’ll spend every night of those years suffering from the stone’s poison until he meets Wad’s reincarnated form and she feeds him the other half of the stone. Did he write all of this down because 100 years is a long wait! Also, if he never meets Wad again, his body will turn into dust. And it’s such a nice body too!
San goes ahead and drinks the potion and he drips a lot of it down his body just saying! The potion works and we get known Thai hottie Daou writhing and groaning shirtless on the floor.
We then jump forward to 1944, and in totally unconvincing old man drag the doctor tells San that the stone will give him a signal when Wad is reincarnated. Then we do another jump to 1974 and now it’s the boy from earlier on in the episode who is the shrine’s caretaker. I didn’t think he’d be important! Also, which one of the actors had the fake mole and the real mole, the child actor or the adult? Or did they look for actors with a mole in the same place? The new caretaker has another young guy with him who I’m guessing is going to succeed him when he dies. There’s another jump to 2004 and a girl is making eyes at San but the new caretaker is like “Not this ho.” He also has a boy with him who’s next in line to be San’s caretaker, I guess.
And now we’re back in the present-ish year of 2024! The whole area where San and Wad’s love story is private property owned by San now. I would have been pissed if he hadn’t bought the property by now because how do you spend 100 years and not get rich in the process? He still hasn’t met Wad’s reincarnated form so I guess he’s just waiting to turn to dust now.
In the present day, San’s got an old man butler who calls him grandfather and I guess the butler’s family lives with him as well? San’s also living with Chu, who I’m guessing is related to the butler, and San’s got some pretty conservative views about how a young woman should act. I definitely want to see how this attitude is going to play out once he discovers Wad’s been reincarnated into a guy.
We get to see what happens to San every night as well. All the wounds that the stone healed reappear and he has to live through all of that pain again and it’s going to keep happening until he reunites with Wad and drinks the other half of the stone. Until then, he gets to writhe around shirtless on the floor!
San also still has the line of temple caretakers looking for Wad’s reincarnated form for him as well as taking care of the stone, which has now been tucked away and its healing powers forgotten. The stone hasn’t sent out a signal for a hundred years now, but that’s about two change two months before the deadline as it starts to glow, signaling that Wad’s made a comeback. And now she’s got a dick!
Now, I know the last Thai series I watched was My Love Mix-Up and I had issues with the background music and honestly some of the comedy, but I gotta applaud Century of Love for not only toning down the background music but also having comedy that I feel is more my taste? Maybe because the characters are older and not teens? Have I reached that point of being old already?
We get faked out by the show when San saves a woman whose nickname is also Wad but it still isn’t her. Now I know from the synopsis that it’s going to be a guy but I’d also like to know what the parameters are. How do the temple caretakers know if the person is Wad’s reincarnation? That would be good to know.
And maybe I should wait for the show to answer my question because the current caretaker says the person has to come from the right direction and the right time and the woman just didn’t. He — I’m sorry I know the show mentioned his name but I don’t want to rewind — recalibrates their position and counts down Wad’s appearance and an accident happens that throws Wad’s reincarnation literally into San’s arms and even drapes them with a red cloth like at a Chinese wedding. The cackle I let out.
I wish I could screencap Netflix because the looks the two are giving under the cloth made me cackle again. And then Ton — I googled it! — declares that this guy — Wee — is Wad’s reincarnated form. CACKLING AGAIN. Oh I really feel like I’m going to enjoy this show!
San is not happy. But if you don’t want to turn into dust it’s time to like cock, bitch! I am still CACKLING. Oh this is enjoyable. The show gives us a flashback where San says he’ll do anything to share a destiny with Wad again and now that anything is definitely coming to play. Did I already say I was cackling? I mean, just like Chu said, it could be worse! So the reincarnated Wad is a cute guy! You just have to get used to cock! Nothing to it!
The next day, San is praying at the shrine and who should appear right beside him also praying but Wee. Bitch, it’s destiny. There’s even a whole red string of fate thing that is absolutely contrived but I LOVE IT. I AM CACKLING. TIME TO LUBE UP SAN.
While San is having a hard *wink wink nudge nudge* time accepting the fact that Wad reincarnated as Wee, Wee is having no trouble with it. Well, at least he was game to wear San’s ring that through contrivance ended up with him. He really likes the look of that ring on his finger!
The next day, San watches Wee work the cash register at a convenience store and finds him playing with some kind of citrus. Looks like a dalandan but I don’t know if they have that in Thailand! Anyways, it reminds him of a time when Wad would feed him that particular citrus and if that’s not a sign, San. Eat Wee’s citrus!
When Wee tries to talk to him though, San can’t quite make himself accept it just yet. He asks for his ring back from Wee, but Wee says that if San wants his ring back he has to get it from his apartment. I know what you are, Wee. I know what you’re planning.
The two of them head to Wee’s aparment after Wee’s shift and I gotta say, for someone who’s only a part-time convenience store cashier, that’s a pretty big apartment! Contrivance once again has them searching for San’s ring under the television stand and wouldn’t you know it, their hands touched. San chickens out but Wee’s got that look in his eye. He know this man is coming back for more.
Back at the temple, San is complaining to the goddess about the whole Wad is a guy now situation but Ton points out that you’re already lucky you got to live long enough to meet your soulmate again. Fair! Ton also says that San doesn’t even have to be with the guy, just make him feed you the stone so the poison is reversed.
But San, deep down, wants that dick because why bring up to Ton that he promised the goddess he would love and cherish and never part with Wad once she’s reincarnated? I know what you are. Ton says he mustn’t break that promise because the goddess will destroy him when she’s angered. That goddess reads M/M fanfic on Archive of our Own. Since San is still apprehensive about Wad being a guy now, Ton tells him to ask Wee if he has a twin sister, because maybe it’s just a twin thing and who San is meant to be with is Wee’s twin.
Over at his huge apartment, Wee is already thinking about San in the shower. Fair!
San can’t sleep thinking about Wee either. You know what, I thought this show would be serious all throughout but I am liking the balance it’s striking with the drama and the comedy.
San visits Wee the next day and when he’s told that Wee doesn’t have a twin sister he attempts to leave. However, Wee stops him from leaving and tells him that he hasn’t stopped thinking about him ever since they met. Wee’s a little desperate in the scene and I gotta admit I feel like it’s a little early in the series to be pulling this out but let’s wait and see.
AND THEN THEY KISS BECAUSE APPARENTLY THAT LINE WORKS? AND THEN THEY KISS AGAIN AND SAN’S TAKING WEE’S CLOTHES OFF? AND THEN HE’S TAKING HIS CLOTHES OFF? AND HE’S PUSHING WEE ONTO THE DINNER TABLE?
AND THEN IT TURNS OUT IT WAS JUST SAN HAVING A DREAM. A WET DREAM AND THEY MAKE SURE TO SHOW SAN LOOKING AT HIS CROTCH. I AM CACKLING AGAIN.
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