Kiseki: Dear To Me

Overview:

A top student and an injured gangster form an unlikely bond, but fate, crime, and memory loss tear them apart—until destiny brings them back together.

Created by:

Lin Pei Yu

Status:

Ended

Language:

Mandarin

First air date:

8/22/2023

Last air date:

11/7/2023

Key words:

based on novel or book
blackmail
trauma
gangster
investigation
gang leader
high school
secret love
revenge
unrequited love
organized crime
gang
heartbreak
first love
undercover operation
living alone
older man younger man relationship
hidden identity
young adult
manslaughter
cohabitation
gay romance
unconditional love
abandonment issues
gay relationship
age-gap relationship
secret crush
lovers separated
boys' love (bl)
part-time worker
meet again
family pressure
lovers reunited
closeted
strangers to lovers
dramatic
witty
romantic
second chance romance
height difference
poor man rich man
multiple couples
fake amnesia
supportive sibling
cold man/warm man
half-brothers
high school to working life

Seasons

Specials

1 Episodes

Season 1

13 Episodes

Cast

Kai Hsu

~ as ~

Fan Ze Rui

Yu-Tung Lin

~ as ~

Bai Zong Yi

Nat Chen

~ as ~

Chen Yi

Louis Chiang

~ as ~

Ai Di

Wayne Song

~ as ~

Zhang Teng

Liang-Che Chen

~ as ~

Chen Dong Yang

Angus Hsieh

~ as ~

Zhou Ming Lei

Chun-Chih Huang

~ as ~

Juan

Chiu Yi-Feng

~ as ~

Bai Wen Yan

Doris Yang

~ as ~

Bai Jing Yu

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Reviews (1)

Dominic Kebre
Written 6 month(s) ago
10
As ”Kiseki: Dear to me” was written by Pei Yu-Lin, who also wrote the scripts of series like ”History2: Crossing the Line”, ”History 3: Trapped”, both ”We Best Love” series, and many more, it was clear from the start that this series would be good, and in my opinion it is by far the best Taiwanese series of 2023.

Bai Zong Yi (Taro Lin), a 17-year-old student, finds himself drawn into the world of Fan Ze Rui (Hsu Kai), a gangster who is about 5 years older than him. After Ze Rui has been injured, Zong Yi takes care of him and allows him to stay in his flat. Of course the two young men fall in live, but tragedy looms around every corner which makes Zong Yi end up in prison. There's a lot of drama, fighting, betrayal, and of course love, and the story is so exciting that waiting a whole week for the next episode was torture. The series is very well written and directed, and the cast is simply gorgeous.

Like in many series before, I caught a serious ”second couple syndrome”, because Nat Chen as Chen Yi and Louis Chiang as Ai Di/Eddy are not only extremely handsome, but in contrast to other second couples in BL series, their characters are meticulously drawn and developed.

This series could also be entitled ”The Taiwanese BL All-Stars Series”, because many stars of the genre have support or guest roles or cameos, among them Wilson Liu, Wayne Song and Huang Chun Chih (Make Our Days Count), Aaron Lai and Hank Wang (Be Loved In Housae, I Do), and many more.