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The most consistently good subs are on Viki. Gaga subs weren't very good at the beginning but got much better after a few episodes. The YT subs are the worst...

There won't be another season of the series because there's only that one novel about them and they adapted the whole thing. And Tian Xuning and Zi Yu will probably never act together in anything else, ever again. That's the reality of doing BL in China. Heartbreaking, but we have to live on anyway...

Chi Cheng absolutely has some anger management issues in the beginning of the series, haha. He's a cold-blooded, vicious bastard who is a very dangerous man to cross. Now imagine how you can turn out that way with kind, caring, supportive parents? Not so much. They aren't really that kind of parents. They only care about appearances and duty. You're going to see Chi Cheng acting very differently with someone else in the same generation as his parents later on, and the contrast is very striking.

Knowing about your child's sexuality and holding the only thing they love in life hostage in order to force them to go against their own nature and marry someone they don't love (and never will) is "wanting the best for him"??? Sorry, but I really don't understand your reasoning. The father didn't steal his snakes and hide them because they thought he was in danger from the snakes. It's because he knows they are the only thing Chi Cheng cares about. And the mother was totally complicit in that scheme and helped distract Chi Cheng so he wouldn't be at home when his father raided his home and stole his snakes.

THIS. This is especially important for shows that are being made in brave defiance of the ban issued by the government in their country! We need to show them all the support we can!

Hey, please use spoiler tags when you post spoilers!

The Danes are different to us when it comes to smoking though... 🫤

Miscommunication is one of my most hated tropes as well, but I have to admit that in RL, they made it *work*. The misunderstandings and lies/omissions were believable in the context, and couldn't easily be resolved by a simple "hey, you know what?" The fact that someone was deliberately fuelling those misunderstandings and insecurities, even though it was infuriating, also helped.
I would have liked them to sit down (or lie down, I'm not picky lol) and clear everything up, but in a way they both made the decision that they didn't care, they loved the other person and were in it for the long haul, warts and all. Most of the time, this trope makes me severely doubt the validity of the romance and the strength of the relationship, but somehow that didn't happen here.

I posted a reply but deleted it because I realised you were only on ep 18 so it was a bit spoilery. I'll repost it below in spoiler tags.

I'm Swedish, so I'm right there with you :)

That's good! (A lot of people didn't get that and thought it was romanticising those actions)

I'm still watching other BLs but nothing compares, sigh

Pretty wild start, yeah! But it's mostly just to establish Chi Cheng's character as a cold, vicious bastard who is very dangerous to cross. And then enter cluelessly scheming Wu Suowei, planning to cross that very guy, hahaha

It's not Tian Xuning's real voice, no, you can find the voice actors in the cast list above. His own voice is much lighter, as you can hear in the BTS clips. The only one whose voice is his own is in fact Zi Yu (Wu Suowei), he did his own dubbing.

I think the smoking is realistic though. I hate smoking IRL so I'm not defending it, but I'm told people smoke a lot in China, so it kind of makes sense that people like CC and GCY would do it. They're not exactly written to be model citizens or paragons of virtue, haha

I thought the first scene was the camping trip? But I may have misunderstood that

Exactly, it was fine as long as it was just the standard plotlines about college boys flirting and hooking up, because the stakes are low and there's not a lot you can mess up. But using r'pe as a plot device to cause drama and tension is such lazy and infuriating writing, especially when your writing is too mediocre. I wouldn't bet on the novel being better, TBH. Mostly the drama adaptations of Thai BL novels are toned down to be less toxic... but I haven't read this novel so I can't say one way or another. It's just what I've heard about other drama adaptations.

If someone has read the novel and can disprove this, I'm happy to be corrected.

It's not the Chinese people, people in China in general are in fact probably less homophobic than people in general in the West. It's the government.

Some Chinese people say it's fake, but others say it's unofficial policy only circulated in internal memos. I guess we'll see what happens in the future whether it will have any bearing on Chinese BL or not.

As far as I understood it, it was about overseas versions of Chinese platforms, like Youku, iQiyi and WeTV. Which is strange because at least those latter two have a lot of non-Chinese BL dramas on their platforms and have even been involved in co-producing them.
They can't do anything about foreign-based platforms like GagaOoLala or Viki. The ban on BL actors is going to be the big stumbling block for Chinese BL dramas going forward, since no up-and-coming actors will dare take a BL role in the future unless they are fine with only acting in BL dramas for the overseas audiences going forward.