A BL thriller about the love story of a killer and a cop The current huge wave of series from China and Thailand makes it hard for BL fans to keep track, and series that are not hyped on social media sometimes remain almost unnoticed. “The Lie We Lived In“ (TLWLI) faced this problem, although it aired on viki, and it would deserve a lot more attention than it actually did. The series is a BL thriller, a sub-genre in which some productions failed gloriously as writers either focused on the thriller and forgot to develop the protagonists’ characters and thus their love story, or they focused on the latter so that the thriller plot was weak, if not boring. TLWLI is a rare example of both subplots working. As many BL fans missed this series, I won’t spoil too much of the plot, or the enormous suspense of the story would be wasted. Contract killer Seo I-do (Kim Seung-beom) is sent to a secluded house outside the city to kill Heo Dong-hwa (Lee Jeong-ho), who lives there on his own. He attacks Dong-hwa, but just before he is about to kill him, his boss calls him and orders him to keep Dong-hwa captive in the basement, because the mayor of the city, who is the person behind the criminal mission, wants him to find a cellphone Dong-hwa is believed to be hiding. So I-do locks Dong-hwa up in a cage in the basement, but before he can start searching the house for the cellphone, Dong-hw…

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