Watch: Gay Couple's Marriage Deception Goes Hilariously Wrong on Vietnamese Cruise

London-based TikTok influencer Ricky Liu and his partner, Tommy, are coming clean about a "white lie" (or scam) they told on a Christmastime cruise to Vietnam's Hạ Long Bay in order to get a room upgrade.

The couple aren't married, but they said they were and, Liu noted in a TikTok post, they saw a significant improvement in their shipboard lodging. They went from a normal stateroom to a more luxurious one with rose petals strewn across what looked like a larger bed, a balcony, and a bathtub. In the clip, Tommy literally jumps for joy as they check out their new space.

So far, so good... but then things started getting out of hand.

Even before the ship's staff thought the two were a married couple on their honeymoon, Liu noted in his post, they were "treated like royalty." But once that little white lie about being wed was put out there, the ersatz "newlyweds" started feeling overwhelmed by the "intense" level of special attention they were getting, such as place settings decorated with little red hearts and rainbow-colored drinks served to them at their table.

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"Apparently this is an old school trick," Liu, a transplant to London from Australia, explained in voiceover, "but I've only ever traveled with Craig before, and there's no way in hell I'm pretending to be married to Craig."

"But honestly, the view, the balcony, the bathtub, the rose petals, I could get used to this," he added about the ruse with boyfriend Tommy.

The coup de grace was when a ship-wide announcement put them in the spotlight, accompanied by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You."

"Just like, okay, you're on a honeymoon,'" Liu narrated over the images in the video clip. "We're going to tell the whole world. We're going to make sure that if you lied by any chance, you feel the full weight of that guilt. We're going to stop dinner so we can play some Whitney Houston, so that if you actually got married it would be a genuine sweet moment. But if you're fraudsters, you will feel like shit humans."

"The funny thing, there was this other couple on a honeymoon," Liu added, "and I think they actually got married. They kept raising a toast to us, and they were like, 'Oh my god, congratulations!' And we're like, 'Yeah... yeah.'"

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But the perks outweighed the guilt.

"Would I do this again?" Liu asked rhetorically, before providing the obvious answer: "Absofuckinglutely, yes!"