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Yep, I think he was in his 40s, he talks several times about the world "20 years from now".

It's his mother. But yeah, Chinese parents trying to control their children's lives

Chinese BL would blow everyone else out of the water, for real

Thank you for letting us know!

I agree, it is not

Okay, I just heard a rumour that China just changed its censorship laws because of Chai Jidan AGAIN. The tea is that from now on dramas have to pass censorship even if they are intended only for overseas audiences.
I'll confirm as soon as I find a source.
EDITED: bianbian1614 kindly clarified in the comments below that this is just an unfounded rumour, so no need to worry!

That's not the same thing as "trying to steal his grandson's love interest"

Watch it officially on the Fresh Drama YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZZLpfFwcBrMgYJiz4k7hC2HurnDxp-T

I'm sorry, it has in fact been answered many, many times already, but there are also a lot of comments posted here, so you might have to scroll back pretty far to find it.

– BL (danmei as well as dangai, i.e. censored adaptations) is banned in China.
– Every movie or TV/web series intended to be aired within mainland China needs to be reviewed by the censorship board. If there are any obvious (explicit or veiled) homosexual elements, it won't pass the review and cannot be aired.
– Movies and series intended ONLY for overseas audiences do not have to pass censorship. The downside is that they cannot air in mainland China and will lack the revenue from the huge mainland audience, so budgets will be much lower, unless the producer can cooperate with an overseas production company.
– Mainland audiences can still watch it through a vpn or illegally, but only overseas audiences can support it by watching it legally from paid official platforms.

The fact that this adaptation has *24 full-length episodes* and a pretty decent production is nothing short of miraculous. Most BL coming out of China are low-budget miniseries with few episodes of short duration. I have no idea how Chai Jidan managed to get the budget for this.

I hope this answered your questions!

I wish I had your fortitude because I want to binge it so bad and waiting almost a whole week for the next episode is excruciating...but I started it and now I can't stop 😭 The only upside is that I look forward to Mondays 😂

Seriously, that belt scene was hotter and sexier than many explicit s3x scenes I've seen in other BL dramas

Especially since it's already been answered a million times already in this comment section 😂

I don't think it's meant to be plausible XD

The scripting, direction and acting isn't really all that good, about what we've come to expect from VBL. But the premise is a bit different from what the synopsis led us to believe. The grandson was a creepy obsessive stalker, the grandpa was kind and gentle but lonely, both had an accident and died, the grandpa's soul was given another chance due to unresolved fate, and was transferred into the grandson's body. At this point nobody is in love with anybody else. I think this might seem odd to western viewers who did not grow up with the concept of reincarnation and the idea that our souls are ancient and bodies are transient, and that souls can be connected by strings of fate that cross the boundaries of life and death.

There's no "old man perving over a young man" vibes at all. There's no "stealing his grandson's boyfriend". The two young guys weren't lovers and weren't going to be. The grandson wanted to be, but the young MC didn't. I think what we're going to see is that the unresolved fate is and always has been between the grandpa and the MC. There's no old-vs-young power imbalance and the only creepy behaviour displayed so far was by the young grandson before he died.

Yeah, both of them must have been declared dead before the funeral! I think what we saw was a supernatural event where Xia Cha's soul never crossed the Naihe Bridge but was given a second chance to fulfill its fate in this life and was transferred into the younger body of his grandson (who *did* pass across the bridge and into the cycle of reincarnation).

I ascribe the incoherence and lack of surprise and shock to bad scripting, direction and acting, lol.

Yep, agreed. I really don't think that will happen, but if it does... Yikes

I don't think it's a true bodyswap trope (even though that's what the synopsis made it sound like). I think it's a soul transfer. One soul passed into the cycle of reincarnation, the other one was given another chance since it had unfinished business in this life, and was transferred into the younger body.

I think Xia Zefang's soul has already gone to the Yellow Springs and won't be coming back until he reincarnates the usual way. I agree, their souls switching back would be an awful plot twist, and the series hasn't really made it super clear, but it didn't seem to me as if Ye Haiyuan even liked Xia Zefang, let alone fancied him. I think that the string of fate is between Ye Haiyuan and Xia Cha (the grandpa), and the creepy grandson was only there to provide the young, handsome body before he died, lol.

To be clear, I'm not calling XZF creepy because he said he wanted to be a girl. But I think he didn't really want that, he was just being a drama queen. He was clearly a selfish, obsessive person with stalker tendencies who couldn't take no for an answer. He hadn't been in touch with his grandpa for ages, but suddenly turned up when he found out that Ye Haiyuan's mother lived in the same building. He was there to stalk Ye Haiyuan. And when he was kicked out, he made a big scene with no care about his old grandpa and basically caused the fall down the stairs. He wasn't a sympathetic character and I would hate to see him come back.

The grandpa is not some kind of perv trying to "steal his grandson's love interest". And Ye Haiyuan was not interested in Xia Cha's grandson at all (in fact, it's the grandson who was the creepy one). They were not lovers. You made assumptions based on the synopsis without watching the episodes. As others have said, this is based on the Eastern philosophy of reincarnation and the idea that we are all old souls constantly reborn into young bodies, and the idea of a string of fate connecting souls beyond life and death. So the soul is always older than the body it currently inhabits. The fact that Xia Cha was previously in an old body but is now in a young one doesn't make him a perv.
The series is not super well scripted, directed or produced, but the premise is actually not as terrible as the synopsis makes it sound.

Reset (although he wasn't quite this old), Century of Love, My Golden Blood, actually every single vampire romance out there including the vastly popular Twilight. The only real difference is that none of the male leads in those were ever shown *looking* old. 😏