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You read it as San Ha Ryeong

My Korean is bad but I would guess it is just the Korean version of Shan He Ling. Like you know when they write english words in hangul and it sounds a little different? Lol I am not good at explaining but my point is, it doesn't make sense in Korean.

All your points are valid and you have every right to share your honest opinion about any drama. Some people take a slightly negative opinion personal and flip it in such a crazy way, it blows my mind. I don't know you but you sound reasonable and I actually prefer people who speak their mind. I just wanted to tell you this. You are real and a critical thinker.

It doesn't deserve a 1 rating, but I also don't care about how others rate dramas. I am not gonna participate in fandom wars, I think fandom wars are amongst the stupidest things you can waste your time on. Where there is people, there is toxicity for sure. I think we should celebrate great BLs and not figh about meaningless reviews. Who cares? Does it feed you or me? No. I am not sure who, how or why compared WoH to TU but both are big hits with beautiful OTPs and story, it is natural. It happened to TU and Guardian and it is gonna happen with WoH and Immortality.

Stop your passive aggressiveness towards The Untamed. You keep harping about TU fans (when a lot of us adore both but some of you can’t chill and have fun) but you seem to be salty towards TU too. I was trying to be quite but I won't ever back down when it comes to slandering TU.

Both leads are so handsome and the way Chang Geng gives Guyun his coat (like in the book) makes me hope for another beautiful BL.

That bilibili compilation is so fascinating and proves they've had chemistry from day 1.

Rofl the best is when fans troll their favourites and vice versa. Wish things could always be this way. Thanks for sharing.

Didn't you know? Until two people sleep together, we are not calling it romance. That leaves asexual people in the dust but who cares?

But really, romance is not just about kissing and papapa. I think what these two have is peak romance and calling them anything less than lovers is a crime.

ZZH laoshi is always incredibly handsome but I swear they went over and beyond in that unmasking scene to make him look ethereal (And for a reason. Kexing sees his real face for the first time, I guess they wanted to emphasize how beautiful Kexing sees him) . Especially when they are sitting over the fire, there is something about him that takes one's breath away. No wonder Lao Wen couldn't take his eyes off of him lol

I just re-watched the last scene at 1am. I really thought it wouldn't make me a mess. I am a clown. Don't go around watching WangXian at 1 am, people.

I think you categorizing it as queerbaiting is not an attack (I never said that) but is small minded, especially if you come from the west where you can do anything. If you never lived in communism, you don't know what it is like. My parents and grandparents did. So putting western standards on a communist country is not fair. I have nothing more to add to this conversation. We both agree to disagree.

When the credits started rolling, I remember I screamed "WHAT?" with tears in my eyes and was about to square up. I was so angry because my friend kept assuring me that relax, it doesn't have a bad ending (I had no idea about the special episode, I thought she played a trick on me) and it just ended with Chengling's story, Kexing dead. I really, in that moment started having Guardian flashbacks.

I will definitely never forget them, they are part of the Chinese BL history and oh my god, what a part they are. I, from the bottom of my heart like the cast and I barely do that. I don't like to get attached but without knowing, I did. I hope we will get to see ZZH and GJ in a drama together one day and I don't care if it is not a BL. I just love them together on screen.

I am curious if we can collect what scenes were improvized. I really love this type of stuff and would like to know more about them.
I know:
- episode 12, off the shoulder robe thing was ZZH's idea
- episode 27 alternate version with Zishu's head on Kexing's houlder was also improvized
- episode 3 Is it pretty? It's perfect.

If you know more guys, please share with me.

Also, the off the shoulder robe was actually ZZH's idea, though he said he now forgot why he originally had that idea. But he had a specific feeling during shooting that scene, it's just been a while and he can't recall what it was.

In my opinion, it is not queerbaiting. It would be queerbaiting, if the censorship would not exist. The cast went out of their way to show support to WenZhou as much as they could. Queerbaiting is a really nasty thing in my eyes and comes with a negative connotation that the WoH crew, the whole staff, everyone who worked on this project don't deserve. I respect your opinion, though, I am just sharing mine.

That scene, when it ended, I actually started to bawl my eyes out. The emotional building of it, starting out from a point where the viewers think that everything is gonna be okay, Kexing got this. Then the big reveal comes that nope, he actually lied and is about to give his life up for his A-Xu. That whole monologue Kexing gives to deaf A-Xu, like the viewer is screaming at A-Xu to hear, to open his eyes..the close ups on Kexing's face, you know it is breaking him, he doesn't want to leave A-Xu but he is kinda selfish because he would rather die than lose A-Xu AND he knows it is gonna hurt the one staying alive but he is just too scared to be the one left behind (beautifully delivered by Gong Jun and was a genuinely amazing work from the director).

Then A-Xu opens his eyes and they show Kexing's hands sliding down and A-Xu desperately holding onto him. I love when they show them from afar. Kexing zzzzz-ing and Zishu all crushed. And the viewer is crushed too because wtf, the drama just ended like that?? I am thankful for the mercy they showed us with the special episode. I genuinely think I would be a mourning zombie for like a month if not for knowing they made it, they survived somehow.

Sorry for the long comment, I am still an emotional mess. Can function now, though! lol

Episode 12 and 14 are great. To me, it became most fun from episode 18.

Which episode are you at? I wasn't vibing with it at first, I loved the book and it was fun to find easter eggs, I also found the chemistry between the leads really good. I thought it would be a fun time but nothing special, yet here I am, bewitched this bad first time since The Untamed. To me, the best thing about this drama is our lead couple. You can feel the honesty and care they put into their characters through your screen. The OST is superb and the dialogues are something else. They are deep but not pretentious. I love how "trust" comes up throughout the drama. So don't force yourself too much to like it, but if you are as sappy as me, finding the whole concept of soulmates and new beginnings the most romantic things ever, you are gonna love it anyway.

I think pulling the plug on the April airing date because of WoH is a reasonable theory and I would have done the same too. No one expected a low budget BL to do this well, Immortality having to be rivals with it would have been embarrassing for Tencent. Whatever happened, it is for the best it got pushed back. Everyone is still high on WoH.