Does anyone have his newer drama, "Legitimate Daughter of the General Overturns the World"? FL: Tan YanYan ML: Chen Yunting It came out last week and can't seem to find a decent link for it.
Addicted was produced (2016) before the BL-strict censorship came from China (2020-2021). Yes, it was cut off during airing due to China's censorship, essentially because a legitmate BL-drama became very popular and mainstream which concerned the government. Stay with Me (2023), is a remake of Addicted but done through a "Bromance" lense and it stuck closely to the censorships.
I hope this makes sense and also explains very simply about CBL then and now.
Basically anything BL that's being officially aired on a legitimate platform, not YouTube, is licensed either from Taiwan or Singapore. There are a few loopholes in the Chinese censorship of BL which is basically can film in China, use Chinese actors/production company, but license it from another country and something about majority money used for the production being from outside of China too.
Hope this makes some sense of why we are seeing a lot more CBL than in previous years.
Revenge Love and ABO Desire were licensed in Taiwan for airing, the actors were Chinese. China still has pretty strict censorship against BL or effeminate men being involved with Chinese media in general.
youtube link with English subs
https://youtu.be/4fVHRXaAkqM?si=36kaywLzAhv9AI23
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=W6g-HRyLPqk10nwg&v=4fVHRXaAkqM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.tiktok.com/@caspian.thorne/video/7530784991475813687?_r=1&_t=ZP-90un2Qd84bf
https://youtu.be/4AawFJHKVGI?si=tURxsU_TIP0O_EUC
ML: Chen Yunting
It came out last week and can't seem to find a decent link for it.
FL: Yue Yu Ting
https://youtu.be/diCg-U853XU?si=CBrWYU7mV2_HerGZ
ML: Ma Xiao Yu
https://youtu.be/diCg-U853XU?si=CBrWYU7mV2_HerGZ
I hope this makes sense and also explains very simply about CBL then and now.
Hope this makes some sense of why we are seeing a lot more CBL than in previous years.