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cliché story, bad lip-syncing, bad sound-effects, no happy end
I thought, that could be nice, but it isn't. Even indoors they do not record the original audio, they lip-sync everything which ruins the flow and on top of it, they add foot-steps and other effects as well. The story is quite easily told. The older "boy" "adopted" the younger one - but of course a child can not adopt anyone... it's not really explained. But for arguments sake we asume the younger one was adopted and the older one took care of the younger one and they grew up together. And because they are so close the younger one falls in love with his brother, but is refused, even when it's obvious he is also in love.That is quite similar to the series "Unknown" but with a big difference. The story was way way better and made sense, the older brother confronts his own feelings even after he refused him also. Also a difference, the older one was not styled as metrosexual or gay... at least for me he had more gay vibes compared to the younger one. So to run away from his brother and ask for a date with a girl was weird to me.
Overall this is not a series to recommand and the weird audio made it even worse and imho ruins the acting, which was not bad. If you can cope with a "bad" ending, you can watch it, but it would be better if you watch something else.
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The story was bland and there was no story and there are so many stepbrother tropes that is better. It was just based off an obsession the younger stepbrother had with his older brother.
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A Beautiful, Mature Chinese BL with Stunning Cinematography
I just finished Moon and Dust and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. Even though each episode was only around 15 minutes long, I was never bored—every moment felt engaging. The cast is absolutely stunning, and the music and cinematography were on point. 🎶📸 The acting was impressive, and Chinese BL really hits differently; there’s a level of maturity and subtlety to it that I appreciate. No cringey sound effects, just genuine emotion.I’m a big fan of the stepbrother trope, and this series nails it! The chemistry between the leads is electric, and I loved the dynamic between them. 🔥 It's also refreshing to see a Chinese BL that isn't censored.
It's a shame that BL is still restricted in China, because if it were fully legalized, I truly believe the genre could explode in popularity, especially with past hits like Addicted and The Untamed. I’m hoping that one day China will embrace the potential of this genre fully. 🤞
My only downside is the length—if the episodes were longer, this would be a perfect score. Plus, the ending felt a bit like a cliffhanger, so I’m hoping for a special episode or a continuation. Fingers crossed! 🤞
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zero payoff
Overall: I was into the obsessed brother but the progression wasn't good and the ending was awful. 6 episodes under 15 minutes each. Aired on PPeachStory YouTube channel https://youtu.be/81-EFRHQbXE?si=XlJ0V6IjmBTRA0no This production also made Uncle Unknown.Content Warnings: arson, (past: child abuse, beaten up, murder/death, blood), violence, coercion, sexual assault, non con kissing, manhandling, non biological brothers raised as siblings from elementary age
What I Liked
- visuals
- tension
- how the younger guy was the unhinged one
- enjoyed how they were watching other BL/queer series in episode 3
- good dream in episode 3
Room For Improvement
- sexual assault in episode 6
- the first "kiss" was terrible, not sure their lips even touched and also the circumstances of how it happened
- terrible ending
- the adopted brother thing didn't bother me a ton but he kept saying 'brother' every single sentence which was cringey
- sound effects like the hits or footsteps were cheesy/unrealistic/too loud
- nonsense stuff, they didn't call for help for the dad???
- dubbing
- annoying how free episodes only stay free for 1 week
Note: the two were not biological brothers as the older guy said he adopted the younger guy in episode 2, but it did show that they were raised together (the younger one seemed to be in elementary school). That aspect of their relationship didn't bother me, but I can see how it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
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Not a bad drama.
This was not a bad drama, but not great either.The acting was good. The story was good but i think it had a lot more potential. The execution was not great, but that was not the fault of the actors, but of the film makers. In my opinion the editing was messy.
The great star of this drama was Liu Xuan Cheng, he shows to be a great actor.
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hi there the drama was very good
the story was good, and the acting was good but they need more practice and I like the actors too they were fine🔥 I liked the music too and headline "moon and dust" was the best Chinese black drama so far I like everything the actors, the story, the music, and the acting😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Was this review helpful to you?

Low budget BL with unhinged Didi obsessed by his adoptive Gege : poorly produced & written
Let's start with the few positives : I enjoyed a lot Liu Xuan Cheng playing the role of an adopted little brother, madly in love with his big brother....He is super charismatic and I'm looking forward to see him in more roles. The series was very short and despite its numerous flaws, I was never bored. Its bite-sized format made it a very easy weekly watch. That's about it.The production is really bad : the budget is seemingly inexisting so I cannot fully blame the production crew. However, there are some huge issues : the dubbing is just atrocious and worsen over time, the whole sound layering is really not well made, you truly feel the sound is not connected to the scenes played on screen. There are some fight scenes or others where characters are being hurt that are just school drama play level and laughable... The acting is difficult to judge : it is really a mixed bag, with the bad dubbing and script not helping at all.
I would definitely not recommend it unless you are a huge fan of toxic obsessive relationship between brothers and don't mind chopped editing and very low production value. Its ending also kind of left the viewer hanging, with no resolution brought to anything, in a pretty frustrating way. It is super short, so you might want to give it a shot to see the train wreck. Having said that, if there is a season 2 (which I truly doubt), I will likely watch it to get to the bottom of the story. If you want to watch series that handled thousand times better a similar premise, you can definitely give a shot to "Unknown" and "Stay With Me".
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Volatile, forbidden, twisted story leaves me waiting the special episode
If ep 6 was the real and final ending my review would be differentIt's not. SO, EP 6 IS LIKE EP 11, storyline come to dramatic emotional confrontational ( akwardness is mostly intentional).
If you missed the micro exoressions, non verbal actions, watch to fully grasp what is being told in this story.
We know guilt, shame, confusion, cultural expectations, will be present, and both characters have to find what they are going to do after ep6.
The special episode needs to give answers as to what "Ge" and "Didi" will decide... we know Didi is obsessive, it's all consuming and ep 6 events pushed his buttons and "Ge" buttons.
What will happen next?
The fact i want to know tells me depsite it not being A+ for a mini series, it certainly gave me enough story to watch weekly and wait for the conclusion in the special episode. Well done to PPeach Story, with limited time and budgets, we have learned about these characters in a gradual way that led me to keep watching.
If you want prediciatable, this is not.
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Song Li is shy, gentle, and passive, but definitely not innocent. Song Qi, on the other hand, is possessive and paranoid, determined to protect Song Li at all costs. Their bond slowly evolves into something far more complex and layered.
Song Qi is clear about how he feels. Song Li, though, is torn—trapped in guilt over emotions he doesn’t know how to face.
The ending was bittersweet. If there's a season two, I'm watching it.
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Could Have Been Better Scripted!
Just plain weird. Honestly, there are not many instances that give me the ‘willies’, but watching this series frankly did. Everything about this story left me disquiet. And the way the narrative was fashioned felt like what the two protagonists were somehow involved in, between the two of them, was ‘dirty’. Therefore, the whole drama felt – unclean. Sadly, it did not need to go down that road.Very little of this story made sense. It is a story of two ‘brothers’, loosely defined. The older brother, Song Li (Zhang Yong Bo) ‘adopts’ a boy from the streets as his brother. His name becomes Song Qi (Liu Xuan Cheng) and both have a stepfather unrelated to either who is abusive towards the two of them. Song Li felt sorry for Song Qi who was existing on the streets and brought him into the family. The two of them, even though they were not related or connected in any way, created their own family and decided to adopt each other and call one another brother. The stepfather is essentially a drunkard and turns his intoxicated rage onto the boys, with Song Li usually taking the brunt of the beatings for both. Because of their abusive upbringing, they learned to rely on each other and indeed grew closer to one another. And clung onto each other for physical and emotional support. Perhaps with the younger one being so susceptible and malleable, only learned what love is by loving his older brother.
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https://the-bl-xpress.com/2025/07/15/moon-and-dust-series-review-ep-1-to-6/
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Reinforcing New Ways for this Show !
Hello, first off this show is terrible, and do not waste your time on some riggory and some bs storyline. I have seen many bls in different forms and in different cultures and other types of genres. This one in particular or this show in particular has been a whole messed up show that should have never been released but here we go. Why did I watched it ! I was bored and I didn't realize how this show was going to start and when I noticed this show was on my TikTok fyp page. I decided to watch this show. Coming from this point, I have seen all episodes and this show has made me struggle with both characters. There is so much to be reinforced in this show and so much more context in this show that is missing and unfortunately there is no happy ending in this show. Might bad to be the person to say this but this is true. The riggory and the tom-fullery is crazy, I would have enjoyed if at least they have some good ending at least. But this ending was just not worth it. The ending they dont get back together, and his person get abondkanded from the end of the episode. He right then and there confesses to his loved one about him trying to have feelings for this person and yet het get disapproved, unaccepted from his actions, and choices, he was getting rejection from the other character, and he was left outside to deal with this issue and left with discouragement and the other person who is much more older. well he isn't not that much older, ,maybe like 6 years apart or 5 years apart. His ignorance and delusionssssss is what send me here to put this review. He is soooo delusional and full of hypocrisies that he is not willing to accept or bring this topic and ignoring this topic of his man confessions and why he is into him. He doesn't realize that the person right to you, is confessing to you and have feelings towards you but you pushing him away and rejecting his emotions and his form of being there for you. What's even worst he doesn't even try to tell hims a yes or a no response and he can't even let him know if he isn't interested in being in loved with this person or if he is interested in being in loved with this person .You simply. need to communicate and let him know what you feel at the end of the day. You rejecting him and making him feel bad of himself is what is awful about this character. To me, he doesn't seem to understand the knowledge of the queer culture or the LGBTQIA+ community. and Also I'm not talking about the actor, I'm specifically talking about the character of the show not the actor. And maybe the actor isn't aware or is aware of the certain concepts or definitions of certain parts of queer history and queer culture. However, in his bubble of being delusions and him being the victim and being delusional, he is living the heteronormative lifestyle, acting like that is normal which brings me to understand that maybe he has very little knowledge about the queer community or the LGBTQIA+ community and how he perceives life as the gender-binary ideologies or their perception about the black and white model. Which people think that only female and male identities should only exist. Which let's be clear, that gender-binary is just fake analogy and fallacious attempt to believing the black and white theory is unsuccessful and not correct. there are many gender identities and many of sexual identities out there in the world. I'm literally going off topic but this is for the dumb people in the back to understand and to realize that we don't live in a heteronormative society. We as individuals need to evolve and the people who will not evolve will has much more issues in the future and that will be an issue for real. But overall this show, is a waste of time. I have seem any bls that I'm like why the hell did I watch this and it was one those bls that I would not recommend to watch at all for real. This time go. watch some other good shows like ABO desire and Revenged Love that has much more context and far more success than this show.Was this review helpful to you?
I wouldn't have been satisfied with the ending without the special episode who explains the older brother's pov. We understand both of the main characters feelings and decisions.
I would rewatch this one even though it is not a happy ending. The actor playing the younger brother made me love this drama even more thanks to how he acted with his yearning. I love the skinship it wasn't awkward and i enjoyed it a bit too much because of how wrong it is from society and for the older brother.
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