Chinese BL(ish) Microdramas

Surprisingly decent production values for a microdrama!  The main leads have pretty decent chemistry too, and it's a happy ending :)

This is basically someone's fanfic rewrite of Nirvana in Fire, but honestly...I don't mind.   Pretty decent production, plus some actually convincing acting, and the gay love the author of NiF pretended wasn't there to begin with.  Also was pretty impressed with how they handled the female characters!

75% typical entertainment industry BL, 25% pleasantly surprising, 100% cute and fluffy fun.  The show has a knack for making the leads actually pretty charming.  

Also Huang Jingzhou has been in 2 BLish shows and he's very good??

FYI: the subbed versions on youtube have weird audio.  The real audio could sometimes be mixed better (some of the music is too loud) but is way better than whatever happened in the YT versions.

This is based on the same source material as Reach for the Stars.

This show has a budget of like $10 and half the time they seem to all be sharing one mic, but it's SO MUCH FUN???  Like I was laughing almost the entire time.  It uses a bunch of the most ancient and overused tropes (e.g. accidentally taking an aphrodisiac) but somehow always takes them in hilarious and/or just weird directions.  

Also the two main actors are both super handsome.

This one also has the messed up audio in the subbed versions, but the original audio actually adds to the humor.  I didn't know I needed a pennywhistle cover of the Imperial March until now.