Hot Brother Next Door

This is the second series from Vietnamese production company Moi Studio, and their first series, “My Sweet Brother-in-Law“, which was praised by viewers and critics alike, set the bar quite high. “Hot Brother Next Door“ (Hà Nội, Anh yêu "Anh". lit. ""Hanoi, I Love You), however, does not disappoint at all – it is high quality despite limited budget. Cong and Phuc lived in the same house in their childhood, but they lost their close connection when Phuc’s family moved from Hanoi to Saigon. After the death of Cong’s mother, the violent father leaves Cong and his younger sister Han, who suffers from a heart disease. Cong takes care of Han, and therefore doesn’t graduate from middle school to earn money for Han’s treatment and education. As ordinary jobs aren’t paid well enough, he works as a debt collector. The story starts when Phuc (Truong Cao Khoa) returns to Hanoi, where his girlfriend Tam (Luong Ngoc Diu) works at a real estate company, to open a pub. On his surprise return he catches Tam in the act with another guy and breaks up with her. He then visits his childhood friends Cong (Vo Van Thanh) and Han (Vu Minh Ngan). Whereas Han welcomes him with open arms, Cong is grumpy. He hasn’t forgotten that his parents used to scold him for not being as smart as Phuc. As this is a BL series, it doesn’t take long until Cong falls for Phuc, who reluctantly opens up to him and to himself being bisexual. Phuc’s pub, however, faces serious problems as the place is designated to be demolished to make place for new buildings. Cong is offered 10,000 USD to sabotage the pub with his friends An (Pham Quang Anh) and Ha (Mai Thanh Xuan), but he refuses to harm Phuc’s pub and protects his friend’s business. He cannot prevent the pub from being sabotaged by other members of his boss’ gang of debt collectors so badly that it is about to go bankrupt. In the end it turns out to be Phuc’s ex-girlfriend Tam, who is behind the attacks on the pub. Phuc and Cong are beaten up by Tam’s thug...