HIStory4: Close to You (2021)

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 Close to You was a good comedy. On the contrary of many, I liked both couples, with some reserves. Xiao Li Cheng, Teng Mu Ren, and Ye Xing Si are best friends and colleagues, sharing an apartment. They are completely different in character, but a deep friendship, bordering in bromance, links them. But Ye Xing Si has a secret he has never revealed, neither to his friends: he is gay. Despite being the only gay in the group of friends, when Xiao Li Cheng decides to fake a same-sex relationship to attract the attention of a woman colleague with the passion for BL, Teng Mu Ren is the chosen "boyfriend". We can see that the bond between Xiao Li Cheng and Teng Mu Ren is indeed deep, they basically complete each other. From friends to lovers the step is quick and their love story is cute and sexy, funny when necessary but not crass. Actually both of them inspire me to be sweet. Now Ye Xing Si: during the story we discover there is a stalker and this stalker is Ye Xing Si's stepbrother, Fu Yong Jie. There is no blood relation between them, their respective parent married when Ye Xing Si was a college student and Fu Yong Jie a teenager. Fu Yong Jie is introvert, moody, asocial and a lot of other issues. He is obsessed by Ye Xing Si, arriving to force him to have sex while drunk. It's non consensual, so that is where my reserve are. I don't care as many saying this is incest, there is no blood relation between them, but the way Fu Yong Jie forced Ye Xing Si is what I had issue accepting. It was difficult, cause, aside that, I liked this couple, and this episode marred my enjoyment of their story. HEA. You can see it on Viki. Heat Level: 4/6.

Heat Level:

1/6: glances, caress, hugs, no kisses

2/6: kisses, closed mouth or camera angles

3/6: full kisses, clothes on

4/6: full kisses, some clothes off, hands above the waist, pants stay on

5/6: most clothes off, they have sex, but it’s masked, no sexy sounds

6/6: full nudity mostly hidden by camera angles, they have sex, sexy sounds