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That's not what cheating is. Being faithful is choosing your partner even if other people affect you or look attractive to you. Cheating is the opposite, doing what you want even if it hurts the people you love. Just because you love one person doesn't necessarily mean that you become blind to the attractions of anyone else, for most people. It's the way you act that defines if you're faithful or not.

ALL OF THIS. Seriously, the snakes aren't just there for shock value, they are essential to the character portrayals and their emotional development.
I've been thinking that maybe Chi Cheng might be fixating on WSW as a substitute for the snakes now that they are gone, but it's not the same. WSW says it himself in episode 8, the snakes are his children, and CC definitely doesn't look at WSW like that ;)
The fact that WSW manages to successfully feed Little Jealousy is significant on several levels. To CC, it means that WSW is trusted/approved by his most beloved "child". (Imagine a single parent meeting a potential partner and the person doesn't get along with your kid...or, conversely, does get along with your kid, surprisingly well at that.) And this also proves that WSW, in the process of learning about snakes, has become a Snake Person, which is the same as a Chi Cheng person (and might be symbolic of his actual feelings for CC, something he did carelessly as a means to an end, but ended up becoming real). And third... Yue Yue, so idiotic, doesn't even understand the most important fact about Chi Cheng and even does something that will make him hate her guts. She hates snakes and thinks that the snake is what stands between her and Chi Cheng, while WSW recognises that the snakes are the key to Chi Cheng's heart. Clueless little schemer that he is, he's still got the right end of the stick.

Yep, I think he was in his 40s, he talks several times about the world "20 years from now".

It's his mother. But yeah, Chinese parents trying to control their children's lives

Chinese BL would blow everyone else out of the water, for real

Thank you for letting us know!

I agree, it is not

Okay, I just heard a rumour that China just changed its censorship laws because of Chai Jidan AGAIN. The tea is that from now on dramas have to pass censorship even if they are intended only for overseas audiences.
I'll confirm as soon as I find a source.
EDITED: bianbian1614 kindly clarified in the comments below that this is just an unfounded rumour, so no need to worry!

That's not the same thing as "trying to steal his grandson's love interest"

Watch it officially on the Fresh Drama YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZZLpfFwcBrMgYJiz4k7hC2HurnDxp-T

I'm sorry, it has in fact been answered many, many times already, but there are also a lot of comments posted here, so you might have to scroll back pretty far to find it.

– BL (danmei as well as dangai, i.e. censored adaptations) is banned in China.
– Every movie or TV/web series intended to be aired within mainland China needs to be reviewed by the censorship board. If there are any obvious (explicit or veiled) homosexual elements, it won't pass the review and cannot be aired.
– Movies and series intended ONLY for overseas audiences do not have to pass censorship. The downside is that they cannot air in mainland China and will lack the revenue from the huge mainland audience, so budgets will be much lower, unless the producer can cooperate with an overseas production company.
– Mainland audiences can still watch it through a vpn or illegally, but only overseas audiences can support it by watching it legally from paid official platforms.

The fact that this adaptation has *24 full-length episodes* and a pretty decent production is nothing short of miraculous. Most BL coming out of China are low-budget miniseries with few episodes of short duration. I have no idea how Chai Jidan managed to get the budget for this.

I hope this answered your questions!

I wish I had your fortitude because I want to binge it so bad and waiting almost a whole week for the next episode is excruciating...but I started it and now I can't stop 😭 The only upside is that I look forward to Mondays 😂

Seriously, that belt scene was hotter and sexier than many explicit s3x scenes I've seen in other BL dramas

Especially since it's already been answered a million times already in this comment section 😂

I don't think it's meant to be plausible XD

The scripting, direction and acting isn't really all that good, about what we've come to expect from VBL. But the premise is a bit different from what the synopsis led us to believe. The grandson was a creepy obsessive stalker, the grandpa was kind and gentle but lonely, both had an accident and died, the grandpa's soul was given another chance due to unresolved fate, and was transferred into the grandson's body. At this point nobody is in love with anybody else. I think this might seem odd to western viewers who did not grow up with the concept of reincarnation and the idea that our souls are ancient and bodies are transient, and that souls can be connected by strings of fate that cross the boundaries of life and death.

There's no "old man perving over a young man" vibes at all. There's no "stealing his grandson's boyfriend". The two young guys weren't lovers and weren't going to be. The grandson wanted to be, but the young MC didn't. I think what we're going to see is that the unresolved fate is and always has been between the grandpa and the MC. There's no old-vs-young power imbalance and the only creepy behaviour displayed so far was by the young grandson before he died.

Yeah, both of them must have been declared dead before the funeral! I think what we saw was a supernatural event where Xia Cha's soul never crossed the Naihe Bridge but was given a second chance to fulfill its fate in this life and was transferred into the younger body of his grandson (who *did* pass across the bridge and into the cycle of reincarnation).

I ascribe the incoherence and lack of surprise and shock to bad scripting, direction and acting, lol.

Yep, agreed. I really don't think that will happen, but if it does... Yikes

I don't think it's a true bodyswap trope (even though that's what the synopsis made it sound like). I think it's a soul transfer. One soul passed into the cycle of reincarnation, the other one was given another chance since it had unfinished business in this life, and was transferred into the younger body.

I think Xia Zefang's soul has already gone to the Yellow Springs and won't be coming back until he reincarnates the usual way. I agree, their souls switching back would be an awful plot twist, and the series hasn't really made it super clear, but it didn't seem to me as if Ye Haiyuan even liked Xia Zefang, let alone fancied him. I think that the string of fate is between Ye Haiyuan and Xia Cha (the grandpa), and the creepy grandson was only there to provide the young, handsome body before he died, lol.

To be clear, I'm not calling XZF creepy because he said he wanted to be a girl. But I think he didn't really want that, he was just being a drama queen. He was clearly a selfish, obsessive person with stalker tendencies who couldn't take no for an answer. He hadn't been in touch with his grandpa for ages, but suddenly turned up when he found out that Ye Haiyuan's mother lived in the same building. He was there to stalk Ye Haiyuan. And when he was kicked out, he made a big scene with no care about his old grandpa and basically caused the fall down the stairs. He wasn't a sympathetic character and I would hate to see him come back.