China pretends we're not queer
Including bad shows, commercials pretending to be shows, things that are questionably queer
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1. 9 Hao Hui Suo De Mi Mi
Chinese Drama - 2025, 6 episodes
A 15 minute sheetmask commercial where the two men are definitely not gay and making googly eyes at each other, and cross dressing is a totally normal thing to do.
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2. A Sketchy Job!
Chinese Drama - 2025, 5 episodes
Boring
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3. A Tale of Yearning
Chinese Special - 2022, 1 episode
The gayest shampoo commercial you'll ever watch and there is two versions.
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4. ABO Desire
Chinese Drama - 2025, 16 episodes
Never heard of omega-verse before this...Toxic love and abusive manipulation at it's finest. An official ship! The book is always better.
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5. Addicted
Chinese Drama - 2016, 15 episodes
The OG, for me. Got canceled during airing. Got a more censored remake, then a Thai remake, all 3 of them bad.
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6. Advance Bravely
Chinese Drama - 2017, 30 episodes
Gong Jun is still a skinny little man here. Barely a bromance, they're obviously in a relationship. They basically live together, they sleep in the same bed constantly, etc.
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7. Blue Canvas of Youthful Days
Chinese Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
Terrible
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8. Falling in Love with a Rival
Chinese Drama - 2015, 8 episodes
Pre-censorship version of Revenged Love.
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9. Feng Yue Shi
Chinese Drama - 2023, 3 episodes
超不可爱小友(唐斯昊) is a beautiful man! He's in a bunch more BL short dramas directed by 珍子JaneX . It's only 7 minutes and the plot just slaps you in the face.
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10. In Your Heart
Chinese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
Terrible
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11. Irresistible Love: Secret of the Valet
Chinese Movie - 2016
Terrible
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12. Jian Hun
Chinese Drama - 2025, 25 episodes
An hour and a half of low budget mess. Two beautiful men form an instant bond and, after a little death, betrayal, and time travel, live happily ever after, probably? That's a happy ending in the world of Cdramas. Put this in the so bad it's good category, with Star Trek TOS level set design.
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13. Kill to Love
Singaporean Drama - 2025, 12 episodes
My heart! Singapore co-produced this one. The most sensual hand washing sceen ever. The book ending is better. Wish the actors were a little older. Wish the show was longer. Wish they used the Chinese title of the book or show, "The Eternal Silence of Mountains and Rivers" or "The Vibrant but Fleeting World of Mortals"
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14. Led Astray by Love
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
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15. Legend of Yun Qian
Chinese Drama - 2020, 15 episodes
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16. Legend of Yunze
Chinese Drama - 2021, 12 episodes
These people has 100 yuan and a dream. They did the best they could, and they did it three times!
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17. Legend of Yunze Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 15 episodes
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18. Legend of Yunze Special
Chinese Special - 2021, 14 episodes
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19. Love Is More Than a Word
Chinese Drama - 2016, 12 episodes
They took a book about two dudes getting married and turned it into a lighthearted romp about "friendship"
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20. Meet You at the Blossom
Thai Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
co-produced with Taiwan and Thailand, the book is better but only auto-translated so far so it's difficult to read. Velvet Reverie is working on a translation. Title is better in Chinese, "Blooming Flowers, Silent Sorrow"
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21. Moon and Dust
Chinese Drama - 2025, 6 episodes
Disappointing
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22. PlutoCharon
Chinese Drama - 2025, 8 episodes
This is a xianxia set in modern times. Reincarnation, a mysterious immortal, physics that have no basis in reality, and a talking cat. I think the bad ratings are because people are trying to understand it as a time travel story with a drop of fantasy, but it's an alternate reality, high fantasy Möbius strip about eternal love that requires suspension of disbelief to comprehend. Is he also time-traveling as he's jumping from one parallel world to the next or uno card reversing the jump each time? Why can he only change one decision each time? How does the immortal accidentally made the guy's wish into a curse? Who cares?
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23. Realm's Night Rain Dreamlike
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
Word of Honor but gayer and short form. Title is terrible, MangoTV always uses very literal machine translations. Here's some better ones: "Rain-Soaked Nights of Wandering Fade Like a Dream" or "The Wandering World Melts Into a Dream With Night Rain, "
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24. Revenged Love
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
This is a collection of all of the problematic tropes that BL loves to pretend is romantic. <3
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25. Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island
Chinese Drama - 2025, 7 episodes
Feels like going on vacation
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26. Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island Extra
Chinese Special - 2025, 14 episodes
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27. Soul Sisters
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes
Cross-dressed lady forced to marry a lady. Tried to be hetero in the last episode but look at that promo poster. Gurls, you gay.
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28. Stay with Me
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
The even more censored version of Addicted.
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29. The Cross-Dressed Union
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
Both mains live as the other sex for political reasons so it's technically hetero. I'm not sure this really counts but but they have to crossdress for like 20 years. The ML could have done what the 10 other guys did and just went to live somewhere else but this dude was like, nah, I'm gonna be a tough general's tiger daughter 75% of the time for an unknown amount of decades. FL lead hides the crossdressing from some family members so she lives as a fraile scholarly gentleman like 95% of the time.
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30. The Fairy Fox
Chinese Drama - 2017, 23 episodes
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31. The Imprisoned Canary
Chinese Special - 2023, 1 episode
Shampoo commercial with a gay agenda
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32. The Romance with You
Chinese Drama - 2023, 30 episodes
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33. The Second Female Lead Changes Their Fate
Chinese Special - 2023, 1 episode
Shampoo commercial with a gay agenda
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34. The Untamed
Chinese Drama - 2019, 50 episodes
Masterpiece. Xiao Zhan needs more characters where he gets to do insane crying face. Go read the book, the comic, watch the anime, find the audio drama, and the 20 episode re-edit of the show. The book was the only version allowed to be explicitly gay though the comic lets them kiss. Terrible title, should have used “Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.” or “The Founder of Diabolism .”
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35. The Untamed Special Edition
Chinese Special - 2019, 20 episodes
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36. The Vampires
Chinese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
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37. To My Shore
Chinese Drama - 2025, 15 episodes
Co-produced with Thailand so it's very spicy. Chrysanthemum Garden translated the book and the redemption arc for the psychotic boyfriend is a really rough road.
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38. Witnessing Her Last Fall
Chinese Movie - 2024
This one is sad, but it says so much with so little. Heartwarming tale of one woman's melancholic closure about a past lover's tragedy .
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39. Word of Honor
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
This is probably the only censored BL where they are still obviously flirting with each other. Also, they did a lot of very zoomed in face shots of the lines they new would be censored and people who can lip read have made videos of everything that was changed.






































