Effie_Joon

Girl, you keep writing dissertations about “media literacy” while proving in real time that you have none 😭
Nobody is confusing fiction with reality here except YOU. You’re the one acting like people enjoying a fictional toxic relationship means they’re out here endorsing crimes IRL. That’s actually insane.
And the “murder has narrative logic but SA doesn’t” take might genuinely be one of the dumbest things I’ve read today 💀
So murder is acceptable storytelling because YOU personally approve the motive? Revenge and survival suddenly make it classy? Spare me.
You also keep saying “I’m focusing on the story” while completely ignoring the actual genre conventions of dark BL and toxic fiction in general. These stories are literally built around obsession, control, possessiveness and morally fucked-up dynamics. That’s the point. People watch for the intensity and drama, not because they’re taking relationship advice from fictional psychos.

Exactly! At this point they’re more obsessed with these stories than the actual fans 🤣Like damn, if something makes you that miserable, just stop consuming it and move on.
Meanwhile I’ll just sit back and watch the chaos unfold when LF kidnaps Xiao Chen 😂

Save it, sis. I've read all your comments under this post already. Keep rumbling though. Your explanations and examples still suck.

I've seriously turned into one of those Chinese fans in the comments who analyze every single movement and glance in actors' interviews 🤣
I blame XiZhao and their insane chemistry/aura for this!
Full delulu mode on: hear me out. Go watch that statement again and pay attention to the way Yanzhao looks at Changxi when he says we're getting a second season. Doesn't it feel like he's warning him with his eyes? And then he immediately corrects himself and starts speaking more vaguely.
At this point I'm convinced it's already a done deal, they're just not allowed to say anything yet 😭

Yes honey, we need Thai characters for the continuation 🥹
I'm freaking out myself here, so go ahead, just so that I won't feel alone 😭

Who’s actually dumb here? You came under a post where someone was literally calling toxic BLs homophobic instead of going after the person who made the actual insane take you’re whining about. Maybe read what people are actually saying before throwing a tantrum in the comments.
And spare me the “normal people” bullshit. People consume dark fiction all the time without supporting any of it in real life. People watch movies about serial killers, manipulators, abusers, cannibals, psychopaths... That doesn’t suddenly mean they want to go outside and start murdering people. Fiction is not a moral purity test, no matter how badly you want it to be.
You keep acting like people enjoying a fictional character automatically means they condone every single thing that character does. That’s such an embarrassingly childish way to consume fiction. “I still root for him” does not magically translate to “I support SA in real life,” and the fact you genuinely can’t separate those two things says more about your media literacy than anyone else’s morals.
And honestly, the most pretentious part is you acting like your personal moral line is some universal standard every “normal person” has to follow. It’s fiction. Dark fiction at that. If you don’t have the stomach for it, stop consuming it instead of trying to psychoanalyze everyone who does.
Nobody said SA is not serious in real life. What people ARE saying is that fictional content does not equal endorsement, and rational adults are capable of understanding that distinction. Clearly not everyone is.

Because it’s FICTION! Did you see a single comment saying he was right to rape him or praising him for it? I’m not going to waste my time explaining why it’s wrong to lecture people about morality just because they like toxic shows with morally gray characters.
Besides, if you were actually capable of understanding that, you wouldn’t have left a comment like this under this discussion in the first place. So many people in the comments of this post have already explained and analyzed it.

That what you get from all the comments you've read? That we are ok with SA? What’s alarming is that some people like you can’t see beyond the tip of their own nose...

Chinese BL OSTs are always giving. Other than those, I was obsessed with the TMS OSTs and I’m still obsessed with Sammy’s Children’s Day OSTs.

Oh my God, I’ve had it on nonstop for days now! The last time I was this obsessed with an OST was with Master of Desire 💛

Sitting here with my popcorn, quietly admiring how passionately the world’s self-appointed moral authorities have gathered in the comments. Please, do continue 🍿

I'm translating mostly BLs on viki, and trust me 18 languages is a lot for a BL series! Most of them don’t even get translated into more than 10 languages.
And okay, obviously the 5,000+ reviews are not the total number of views the series got, there are definitely more people who watched it and just never left a review, but still...
I don’t know, I probably just miss them that much, but honestly this might have been the first time I actually felt happy after hearing their statements about season 2. It sounded genuinely pretty hopeful to me 🥹

Honestly, what Yanzhao said sounded way more hopeful to me than the usual vague hints and nodding along. It really felt like they already have something in the works and the company just isn’t allowing them to talk about it openly yet.
And then I saw all those fan videos on Rednote today with the boys dressed in very 90s style outfits walking around Bangkok... Of course it could just be for a photoshoot or a vlog or anything really, but my poor heart wants to believe that since they’re there, and since they actually do go to Thailand in the novel, maybe they’re filming a few scenes for the continuation of the series 🥹

They never confirmed it in the first place. It’s still way too early for any official announcement. They’ll definitely want to see how well they still sell as a CP first. And until contracts are at least signed, there’s no way they’ll be allowed to say much anyway. Like Yanzhao said today, (if the translations I saw were accurate), it all mostly depends on how much support the audience gives them and the series.

There’s nothing wrong with the audio. The series is dubbed in Cantonese by voice actors while the actors themselves originally speak Mandarin. Try to look past it. It bothered all of us at first too, but the show is so good that after a couple of episodes you’ll barely notice it anymore, or at least it’ll stop bothering you.

You’re right, the views on Viki are ridiculously low. It’s really frustrating to see other BL series that are nowhere near as good getting way more views in comparison. And it’s a shame because this one doesn’t just have English subtitles, it has been translated into 18 languages. But like you said, what matters more is fan engagement with the CP and how well they sell.
Even so, I think their appearance in Cannes will really help boost the international promotion of the series.
Anyway, there is not much we can do except wait and keep promoting the series and the boys in every way we can. Also, at today’s promo event in Thailand, when they were asked about a second season they still gave pretty vague answers.

@RisaBliss Girls, the main thing, and what usually takes the most time in cases like this, is securing funding for filming and getting platforms interested in buying the distribution rights. Since all four actors are signed to the same agency, coordination and contracts are likely to be smoother.
The good news is that they’re still being promoted as a CP, which usually suggests the project still has commercial potential in the eyes of the company. If it wasn’t performing at all, they would probably scale that back. That said, this kind of promotion is also often used as a marketing strategy to test and maintain audience interest.
Production timelines for Chinese dramas can be quite fast once everything is in place, especially for web dramas, but the delay is almost always on the financing and distribution side rather than the actual filming.
Right now, it makes sense that they’ll be monitoring audience engagement and whether the fandom keeps growing or stabilizes, and based on that data they’ll decide whether a second season is worth pursuing.
Realistically, they do have a good chance as long as they secure funding. I don’t think platforms will refuse to buy the rights, especially since it ranked number one in views on GagaOOLala for eight consecutive weeks.

If they really are planning to adapt the entire novel, then 3 seasons honestly sound more realistic than 2, considering the first season only covered about a third of the novel, and I’m talking only about the main story, not the extra chapters. As for the second couple, if they want more material, they’ll probably have to draw from the extra chapters too, since that’s where most of their story is shown. Ah, it would be so nice if this rumor turned out to be true 🥹

It seems to me that it’s so underrated, even with all the buzz I’m seeing online. You should come and team up with us 😁😁😁

Exactly 🤣