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I actually enjoyed the second couple (the managers) more than the main couple, and wished we could have had more of them.

Ah, right, I might have misunderstood the purpose then 😅 So it's a "He's hot, but there's a big BUT" kind of thing, and you're supposed to choose the biggest "but"?

My runner-up was Thame, because dating an idol would be like a nightmare irl 😂

It's a shame that it's not possible to replay the game...

I agree. Chi Cheng is a very closed off character but with lots of coiled-up tension simmering under the surface, and it's very difficult to portray the emotional fluctuations of such a character onscreen. Tian Xuning is doing a great job of portraying CC's shifts in moods and thoughts through microexpressions in the beginning, to increasingly expressive acting as the story progresses and he opens up his heart to WSW. People who don't pay attention tend to describe this kind of acting as "stiff". Another good example is Wang Yibo's portrayal of Lan Wangji in The Untamed—he too was initially accused of "stiff acting" by people who didn't understand the character and didn't notice the subtle expressions.
I've seen other actors try to portray such "stone faced" characters and fail utterly because they couldn't convey subtle microexpressions, rendering the character flat and one-dimensional and totally unengaging.

In contrast, a chaotic, energetic and highly expressive character like Wu Suowei is easier to play, especially if you have some amount of comedic timing. Considering his relative inexperience in acting, Zi Yu is doing great. WSW is *supposed* to look fake sometimes, because he *is* faking it (at least in the beginning) in front of Chi Cheng. So Zi Yu is playing a role who is (not that convincingly) playing a role, lol. And the character himself is supposed to be kind of ridiculous and over the top, but still somehow endearing. I think all of them are doing bang up jobs.

I'm joking! Of course I got Chi Cheng 😂 lots of great characters though!

Hear, hear! Where are people's sense of proportion!

People spreading rumours about the actors' private life and personal business as if they were criminals

This is rigged, right 😂 I mean I'm currently obsessed with Chi Cheng, but... 😂

I'm the same (though I watched this from the start) and it's hard to give a good reason, but I'm totally obsessed! This show just hits differently!

Chinese fans can still find ways to watch it, but they can't do so legally. (Which makes it all the more ridiculous when they start complaining about the leads in the drama, because they're not even paying to watch it.)

It's NOT a domestic China release. This is only airing outside of mainland China on non-Chinese platforms. That is why they can air it in the first place.

Great points, I just want to say that the source is a novel, not a fanfiction (unless you mean that it has the same *feel* as fanfiction does, in which case I also see your point!)

I came here to squee and gush about the drama and now I'm going to go away again because this ain't it. Seriously, people. Stop hashing these rumours over and over as if they even mattered. If you saw actors as real, fallible human beings with a real life in the first place, and didn't build them up into some kind of fantasy creature out of a fairy tale, you wouldn't care either. All I care about is the series and the characters they play. If anyone wants to talk about that, please go ahead.

Welcome to the club! Chinese BL is in a league of it's own, even when it's not perfect. I have a hard time focussing on anything else 😂 it's ridiculous. RL ate my brain 😂

Hey, we want people to discover the joys of Chinese BL, it's not necessarily by evil design that someone happened to discover Thai BL first!

People are just feeling protective of Dabao, it's the "mom fan" effect lol. They forget that his intentions weren't exactly pure from the start either.
Personally I dread the angst era but I also think it's necessary to bring clarity and depth to the relationship, and I think it will be worth it in the end (even if I might cry before then hahaha)

Today I realised that the actor who plays Thiwtit also played the MC in "I Will Knock You", which I actually watched and liked???! He's so different here! (Still with the exaggerated acting, but somehow the scenery-chewing villain role works for him, lol)

Zi Yu dubbed himself, so that's his real voice, but the others were all done by voice actors.

Wang Shuo was Chi Cheng's boyfriend for three years and the one who gave him his first snakes (Little Jealousy and Yellow Dragon). Then he cheated on CC with his best friend Guo Chengyu, which caused the rift between them (which was probably his real intention).

Haha true 😆 Although GCY has also sometimes been messing with them all just for the sake of it... 😅