ShortCircuit

Taiwan doesn't censor them, if you're into the PDA kind of danmei, the Taiwan-made series are going to cover that. For example, "Unknown" is based on Priest's novel Da Ge, The On1y One is based on (half of) Mu Su Li's novel A Certain Someone, then there's also the We Best Love duology, the whole HIStory series, First Note of Love, etc, that aren't based on novels (that I know of) but are still BL.

From mainland China, you're going to get mostly censored danmei adaptations of wuxia//xianxia/xuanhuan, and the best of them in no particular order are: The Untamed (MDZS), Word of Honor (SHL), The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (14th Year of ChengHua), Returned Master, Meet You at the Blossom (Blooming Flowers Silent Sorrow), Wuliang. Then there are the modern era/supernatural danmei (that tends to be a bit more courageous) like (also in no particular order) - The Spirealm (based on the novel The Kaleidoscope of Death), ABO Desire (based on the same-title novel, IIRC), Revenged Love (Counter Attack), Addicted (Addicted Heroin, dropped mid-series), Stay With Me, Advance Bravely, etc.

Then there're the dramas that get foreign-made, but based on danmei, like the Thai-made My Stand-In (the novel is a c-web novel called Professional Body Double, same author as Meet You at the Blossom).

AND THEN come the actual bromances, some of which are un-matched, like (xianxia) Fangs of Fortune, (supernatural) Oh No! Here Comes Trouble!, (police/psychological) Under the Skin, etc.

So for a short best of the best rec' list -

1. The Untamed. THE masterpiece. No other compares (and we won't ever have 2ha to compare it to).
2. Word of Honor (broke the censors LOL. Most PDAs in any censored danmei ever).
3. Fangs of Fortune (because of the beauty. And the chemistry. And the music. And everything.)
4. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble! (because it's so pure).
5. The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (because it's giggly cute. The cutest MC that ever walked the Earth in a wuxia LOL).
6. My Stand-In (because Joe is precious - but dumb - and Ming needs to be hated by more people.)
7. The Spirealm (because it stays with you. Oh - it's also a bit horror. If you're into horror, go watch Goddess Bless You From Death).

For starters.

Give it a try. If danmei (BL) is not your cup of tea, they censored it enough that it might be taken as pure bromance, but if you can read innuendos... it's all there, despite the censorship.

But most of all, this isn't only a love story, it's a story about heroes and villains, redemption and loss, revenge and the power of the human soul. It's one of the best dramas (not even counting the love story) China ever made, IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ldvydu34Is (no spoilers, put subs on).

It's worth it.

There are a lot of power plays, involving lots of politics, but the core of it is a human drama. It's about revenge and justice and friendship and last chances. Don't expect a lot of romance, it's not really the point of the story.

Give it a try.

Like seriously, please stop changing dramas' titles on MDL YEARS after they aired!! I just did a double take at the title since I rated it so high and I didn't even remember the name - which I obviously would not, since I watched JUST BETWEEN LOVERS, not Rain or Shine (a worse title anyway IMHO).

This is the second or third time I've seen these title changes in MDL, please leave off already. It's been almost 8 years already, why be so finicky?!

Coming this year, D+ announced it, it's linked above. Lucky you, we all had to wait for two years for it LOL.

IMHO one of the BEST scenes ever written (and cinematographed, and scored) is the confrontation in ep 23. It's such a good first climax of the drama. You'll know when you get to it. It's perfection.

Both faves, this'll be on the maybe-watch.

There's a time skip between WWX leaving and him playing the flute above the Cloud Recesses cascade (and the reunion with LWJ). So in the drama, they separate for a while, WWX does some world-wandering then comes back and LWJ comes to him when he hears the flute.

It's a reworked ending though. The original version of the ending (it's in the OP sequence LOL) doesn't include a separation. If you watch the ending of the last Special Edition episode you'll see how it was originally planned out - the final scene is the two of them sitting on that rock in the middle of the water, WWX with his bottle and LWJ indulging him in his wants.

For whatever reason, the TU team decided they wanted a separation. (IMHO, I like it BUT I also read the novel so now it doesn't give me a heart attack anymore LOL).

What if the dad was involved with the case since Atikun first escaped 15 years back? He seems way too chill with a serial killing IMHO.

ETA Nah, I'm pretty sure the sgt. is Thursday.

Narin (and Sey apparently) was/were born on Wednesday. Thup and Sing are born on Saturday. They were wondering who was the Thursday victim and then when the sgt went missing Mek told them he was born on a Thursday.

Mon was the girl, Tue was the kid he just killed, Darin is Wed, the sgt. is Thur, I didn't remember who was Fri (thought King was Sun, I don't mind letting him go before Thup LOL), Thup is Sat, and I don't remember if there's a Sun already caught/killed.

When does the week start in Thailand? We always start on Monday, but I've seen it Sunday in some other places.

Was Sey also a Wed candidate? Or was he a Thur? Sing can't be a second for Sat, since they got Thup... Maybe Bom is Sun himself LOL.

People don't mind it so much in Singsalatai because the guys are all a lot more handsome LOL - I'm being subjective here, but they do look more handsome to me than the other crew, and Pavel takes top place :D - AND it's a tried-and-true trope that once main leads get in love (and usually precisely after they have some sexual relationships) they tend to lose brain cells and all logic leaves the story... for reasons.

TBH I look the other way when they do start behaving like unruly kids because 1. I grew used to it in Thai dramas (they have cops SO young and looking SO unexperienced being presented as vets in the force, LOL, ALL THE TIME), 2. Did I mention they're really cute? :D, 3. If they get too smart, the villains never get a chance to kidnap the kidnapee of the day. Let's give villains a chance! (After all, they now have King. Let's not rush it. On the other hand... they now have Darin. GET THERE AT ONCE!!! :D)

This is actual bromance (not romantical). The Spirealm is based on danmei (censored) so that got through anyway. ONHCT is not based on a danmei story, they're just friends.

But it's a beautiful friendship and that's not even the best part of the story. Try it, you'll love it.

They're kind of doing an illegal investigation though, right now. The case was officially closed, if they come out with what they've been doing, they'd be the first restrained and/or arrested, and then there'd be a lot of wasted time, ensuring the victims all die before being eventually found, if ever.

Anyway, IIRC, the sgt. is Thursday. I don't remember if King is Sunday or another day, but the sgt. is Thursday.

Nobody likes him LOL. So they just wait - after all he's just Sunday, right? He can wait to be found.

Because Darin wasn't there - he's Wednesday. They went in the regular days' order. The missing sgt isn't necessarily dead - neither were Monday and Tuesday until their day came.

Like, don't freaking leave the Saturday victim alone dammit!!

Also, you just got the signal from a missing person, go there at once, don't go have a romantic moment at home!

Also, two cops are missing, freaking sound a five-alarm at once!!

Also, one of them went missing from the freaking monastery or whatever that's called, freaking COMB IT WITH A FLEA COMB FOR CLUES!!

What do you mean, Wednesday's victim - who's scared out of his mind, for good reason - gets to stupidly choose to go to the restroom alone, then what's the point of an armed guard?! (ISTG if they let Darin's mouth be sewed or otherwise anything damages that frail beautiful kid, I'm booking a ticket to Thailand to have words with the team.)

Also, OMG the scare jumps are back. I approve. But I did look away, hair in the mouth is so gross eeeck.

What the actual F!, did they all become orange tomcats and simultaneously lost their one braincell?!

"As long as I'm alive, I won't allow my BF to be hurt" - those sound like famous last words right now LOL. And they made sure to repeat them twice in the BTS, just so we know how full of it Sing is, LOL.

He wants to die because he's living in agony - he's a living vessel for all the malice in the world and every year it breaks free in the Blood Moon, making him lose control and go on a killing spree. He's not a cold-blooded killer and can't deal with that so he decided he'd end it forever, including all chances of reincarnation as a vessel for himself.

Li Lun thinks Zhu Yan betrayed him AND it also happens that ZY did burn Li Lun by accident with the Ever Burning Fire, that never heals. And Li Lun is a Ghost Pagoda, fire is what hurts him the most. So after being betrayed by Zhu Yan for the sake of the people who bound, tortured and killed smaller demons, he got burned by the Ever Burning Fire and then he got locked away forever in his Birthing Place (that cave he spent the last 8 years in, before finding a way to break the Baize Token and the lock).

And it's also a bit of jealousy and envy - while Zhu Yan was Li Lun's one and only best friend, Zhu Yan went and got himself a lot more friends so he's not "the most lonely person in the world" - as YiChen calls Li Lun.

He's part god, that's why. His mother is a half-goddess Divine Wood element. When SHE died / became unanimated, she didn't dissolve into air either, she became a dead tree. He's a quarter-god or so, maybe his body wouldn't turn into a tree, but it also wouldn't disappear.

After all, all we can see of him is his hand, the rest is covered. The dissolving parts were his ashes, since the phoenix fire could burn him (and Li Lun's Ghost Pagoda Tree form, too), but he was stronger than Li Lun anyway and didn't have a core to be destroyed.

As for Ying Lei - he too was part divine, but also part demon. He is a Mountain God, but his form isn't Divine Wood, and his demon nature makes him dissolve like all demons.

ASfK2 is my pick (LISTEN UP everbody who didn't watch Season 1 - remedy this AT ONCE. Thank me later.)

Maybe The Remarried Empress and Perfect Crown (because BWS is pretty and I'm shallow).

The Husband sounds like Kairos and When The Phone Rings rolled into one.