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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.

The grandpa is not some kind of perv trying to "steal his grandson's love interest". And Ye Haiyuan was not interested in Xia Cha's grandson at all (in fact, it's the grandson who was the creepy one). They were not lovers. You made assumptions based on the synopsis without watching the episodes. As others have said, this is based on the Eastern philosophy of reincarnation and the idea that we are all old souls constantly reborn into young bodies, and the idea of a string of fate connecting souls beyond life and death. So the soul is always older than the body it currently inhabits. The fact that Xia Cha was previously in an old body but is now in a young one doesn't make him a perv.
The series is not super well scripted, directed or produced, but the premise is actually not as terrible as the synopsis makes it sound.

Reset (although he wasn't quite this old), Century of Love, My Golden Blood, actually every single vampire romance out there including the vastly popular Twilight. The only real difference is that none of the male leads in those were ever shown *looking* old. 😏

It's because people saw his face with wrinkles. They don't have any problems with an age gaps of several centuries as long as no wrinkles were ever sighted 😂

Yes, it would be super weird if they fell in love and then the selfish, creepy grandson somehow came back! It's clear that the string of fate is between Xia Cha and Ye Haiyuan, and that Ye Haiyuan never saw Xia Zefang as a love interest. He was clearly not into him at all and wasn't even very sad about his death.

Exactly. The right one came back.

People are fine with romance where one party is young and the other is centuries old as long as they never *looked* old, lmao (like every single vampire romance). But here we see the character looking old in the beginning and suddenly it's "creepy" and "disgusting" lol.

Yeah, it's not very well made. It's incoherent, the pacing is off, and the acting and characterisation are less than stellar, which makes it a bit unconvincing. Props to you for complaining about what is *actually* wrong with this drama unlike 99% of the commenters lol

Ye Haiyuan does NOT like Xia Xefang, it's clearly one-sided, and Xia Zefang comes across as selfish, obsessive, stalkery, and with no respect for Ye Haiyuan's wishes or his boundaries. The fact that he tried to force himself on Ye Haiyuan makes him a creep. And yet people are shouting about the kind, gentle grandpa being a creep simply because he is old and ended up in his dead grandson's body, even if he himself had nothing to do with it and clearly thinks he is the one who should have died...

Istg, people here in the comments are just disgusted by old people as if they are some kind of different species. Funny how nobody complained about the old people in Century of Love or My Golden Blood or every other vampire romance... Oh, wait, it's because they never *looked* old even when being older than any living human being...

That is not what is happening at all. You haven't even watched it but are judging it based on your interpretation of a synopsis?

Both Xia Cha and Xia Zefang died, but Xia Cha's soul came back in Xia Zefang's body. So it's Xia Zefang who is dead, not Xia Cha.

Haha me too 😂

I agree. Xia Zefang (the grandson) behaved in a very inappropriate and toxic way, but Xia Cha (the grandpa) seems very kind and gentle and considerate of others. And there's no power imbalance involved. If anything, Xia Cha is at a disadvantage now.

I don't judge people who like toxic or predatory romance dynamics, or people who dislike them. But this isn't either, so far!