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There's also an introduction in the discussion forum on this page, but you can only see it on the website, not in the app.

Viki is American and Gaga is Taiwanese, so the Chinese ban doesn't affect them.

There's a discussion topic on this page with an introduction to the omegaverse. You need to go to the website (not the app) to see discussion topics though.

Viki is American. It was purchased by Rakuten but it's still based in the US.

If you subscribed just for Desire, you can cancel your subscription and state that the reason was them taking it down. It won't make any difference, but at least it will send a message.

Yes, from what I've heard LGBTQ people aren't persecuted in China, and there's very little hate crime against LGBTQ like there is in supposedly liberal and tolerant western countries. There are strong family values, though, so families (especially older generation or in rural areas) might not be very tolerant. There's a ban on showing LGBTQ in media and on pride events, LGBTQ advocacy groups etc., and there's no legal status for relationships or adoption etc, but I've had people tell me that queer people are safe in China, and especially trans people are not suffering the same kind of persecution as they currently are in the West. This is all hearsay though, I don't know enough Mandarin to be able to corroborate the statements. But from what I've heard (gay people holding hands openly in the street, etc) it seems like the people of China in general are much more accepting of LGBTQ people than, say, in Japan or South Korea.

Also you won't support the actors or creators of the series if you watch it on pirate sites. Only the official sites will support them

Brace yourself

Like his brother said, they got the same nutrition but while it nourished Wang Zhen's body it nourished Wang Shuo's scheming heart 😂

Yes, his surname is Wu (吴), and the version of "Suo Wei" (所畏) he chose is supposed to mean "fearless" in conjunction with how his surname sounds when spoken, but unfortunately it's also pronounced exactly the same as the "wu suo wei" (无所谓) that means "doesn't matter", even if the characters aren't the same 😂

It was even 47 minutes and it felt like a quarter of an hour at the most

Yes, this! It's not directly about the persons involved anymore, it's the situations and the emotional harm they caused that are keeping them from moving on.

Yes, he even says it to WSW a couple of times, that it's the *situation* he cares about, not the person. And I think we have to keep in mind that while CC has had a lot of "lovers", he hasn't really been in many committed relationships. Probably WS was his only one before WSW. And he's the type that keeps things inside. So he's not necessarily all that good at handling relationship issues. And in this case, the problem is made worse by the secrets he keeps from WSW about his mother.

Great analysis! The words 爱 (ài) and 喜欢 (xǐ huān) both have much stronger values than "love" and "like" do in English. English-speaking people would easily use "love" in situations where they may simply fancy someone a lot or have a crush on them, but in Chinese that's not enough to warrant the word 爱. That is reserved for a much stronger depth of feeling. In English, "like" is a pretty lukewarm word with a narrow emotional value, while "love" has a wide range of value from liking a food or your friends to bone-deep romantic love for the ages. In Chinese, it's kind of the other way around, where 喜欢 has a broader range of value from liking a food to being romantically (or physically) attracted to someone, while 爱 is reserved for the strongest feeling, the one where you want to spend the rest of your life with them. It seems to be the same in Japanese, Korean and Thai. (In my language, we also don't use the word for "love" as lightly as English-speakers do, but the word for "like" also is not strong enough for romantic interest, so we use different words for "like", "love" or "being in love" instead, with different levels of value.)

I think WS is stirring up all this trouble because he can *tell* that WSW is already more important to CC than he ever was, that his feelings may already have crossed from 喜欢 to 爱. And that it's not just because there's now a rift between CC and GCY (that he himself caused). But he can also tell that WSW is insecure about it, and that insecurity is a weapon he can use. WS himself caused the end of his relationship with CC but he's still eaten by his jealousy after all these years.

As for the kiss between CC and GCY, it seems they've toned it down a lot from the novel, so the vibe they're going for here is just a stupid dare between close gay friends who are drunk and don't really understand the depth and scope of Wang Shuo's suspicions and jealousy.

As for WSW, I think he still feels very guilty about his initial deception of CC. It's a time bomb, hanging over his head all the time. So he's kind of looking for reasons for ending it, because he still doesn't feel like he fully deserves to be with him and doesn't believe that he could be that important to CC. He's punishing himself by doing it.

Haha, I cheered at that scene, I loved it. Is he a red flag? Yes, yes he is. Would I love a guy like that IRL? Absolutely not, I'd run as far as possible the other direction, haha. But I love him as a character.

I'm so mad at her. Even if she doesn't know about the problems she's causing for their relationship, it's still wrong of her. She's going to cause her actual son more pain in the end than if she'd just told him. If it was something curable I could understand her reasoning, but if your illness is terminal you have to make the most of the time you have left, and she's depriving WSW of that, by spending it with his supposed *colleague* instead...

I mean, they're both gay/bi (and no prudes) so they had no qualms about kissing other guys, and they were very close friends, and they were drunk, and Wang Shuo basically challenged them to do it. I think they just saw it as a joke to tease WS back, with no other thoughts about it, but unfortunately WS took it as proof that his jealousy of their friendship was warranted.

This is standard practice in China, and there are many reasons for it, the chief one being that China is big and has many dialects and languages besides standard Mandarin, and it can often be difficult to keep it noise-free when filming, so almost all productions dub over the voices and add some ambient sound in post production. So if an actor has a voice with the wrong accent for the character, or not the right type of voice, or maybe they are a bit inexperienced as actors and aren't great at delivering their lines, a professional voice actor will do it instead. Sometimes actors who do have good voices (or voices that suit the role) will dub themselves though. It's a profession that needs specialised skill. When they looked for a voice actor for WSW, they couldn't find anyone that sounded as perfect for the role as they felt Zi Yu did, but while Zi Yu has a good standard Mandarin accent, he is a rookie actor and didn't have any experience in dubbing, so they were afraid that he wouldn't be able to do it well. But they let him try, and it turned out that he did the lines even better than during filming. So he's the only one in the cast whose real voice we're hearing.

Only two of the Y Destiny episodes are about Sun and Nuea though

Haha, I wasn't sure if that was you! I'm very well! Ranting into the void on the RL thread on the server lol. I hope you're fine too!