Tofu Meow

it's been a year since i finished it but she thinks he goes back to being evil demon lord to wipe out everything, but he doesn't, it was just a ruse to trick others. He sacrifices himself to bring peace and harmony to all the lands basically (because he loves her and knows that is what she wants). She settles down and has his child in the normal mortal word to live a peaceful existence and he shows back up after some random townsman is harassing her to marry him and they live happily ever after.

I think they are just having a good year / season? There is three main big web streaming platforms that the high production shows come out on - Tencent (WeTV), Iqiyi and Youku. ( will not count Mango TV because.... we all know)

Tencent has the longest promise to look forward to (and Immortality if it ever is allowed to air) and iqiyi consistently releases dramas all the time.

I don't know much about chinese tv, so maybe someone else knows more.

is someone going to eventually get rid of the part 1 / part 2 nonsense? it's not split anymore, right?

i always thought it was really dumb that it was split in mydramalist to begin with, as shows were just labeled that to get around the restrictions. It's way more organized when it is lumped as one page. (It's way harder to keep track of what episode you are on)

This is really good, and unexpected - I dropped two other historical dramas to make room for this instead.

Leon Zhang's character is becoming one of my all time favorites, he is such a lying thief but so charming...

yeah it isn't "modern girl travel back in time" - she is a cultivator where her clan got wiped out by a super powerful demon lord...so she is sent back to kill him

the first half is more of a mortal world politics genre, where the second half is much more immortal xianxia focused

i've never seen Scarlet Heart Ryeo but this sounds nothing like it at all

and while it is angsty, the book does have a HE

oh nice - it's a great currently airing lineup right now!

i want to watch them all as well, but I'm trying to balance reading at the same time...maybe sleep less hahaha

yeah i'm watching and enjoying both. Royal rumors has amazing costumes but this seems to be going towards a more wacky humor / squabbling route (which is kinda disappointing having read the book - her character is completely different? so far). But ROTF is not boring at all and now that I started I don't want to stop...

Watch both if you have time! You don't have to finish every drama you start is my motto hahah

I’m honestly confused at this part since the novel is a transmigration/ dream where nie sangyu is already dead and ji man winds up with Ningxuyuan in the end

No clue what’s going on with the twin thing

This is worth it to watch Lihongyi parade around in all his wonderful suits.

I'm not at the very end end yet - but they have a child halfway ? through the novel at least - it becomes a pawn in the political games.

It seems like it is heading towards a happy ending - novel is good though! I encourage people to read it!

They do it all the time - it just gets switched to “it was all a dream / screenplay” in the last episode

More like “I can’t believe I have to deal with this” - the female lead is very mature and smart and doesn’t give her heart away for a long time, but winds up emotionally merging with the previous inhabitant of the body so kinda?

Yeah there is a divorce and separation and lots of fighting - it’s not a fluffy romance by any stretch of the imagination- like he has an actual harem

He is kinda a man hoe (impregnates several women while also married to her) and she has to grapple with that - I’m curious how much they will change to appeal to TV audiences

Omg this is finally airing - I am like 95% through the novel as well - it’s so good and I hope this is just as good!

That basically means that the censorship wins.

I'd rather see a production company try to squeeze in as much as they can get away with than not make any BL shows or dramas at all. It also can have the effect of "normalizing" bromance and the boundary of what's acceptable can increase slowly over time. I know for example, they supposedly banned time travel, cleavage, effeminate men awhile ago etc etc but I see all those things constantly now in dramas.

And you don't know that they will never see the light of day - there is a huge audience for them, and god knows the entertainment industry loves money, so they'll probably continue to drip out and push boundaries as much as they can. They won't run out of danmei books to adapt, they can always remake them later if the ban completely disappears. Plus there is a nice feedback loop where upcoming actors know a way to get popularity / fame is by starring in a BL production, and that's a good thing for the genre!

And dramas, aired or not, will increase the audience of a beloved book - I had no idea about danmei before I watch the Untamed randomly, and then I found out about all the wonderful books out there.

And what else are we going to watch? Japanese BLs rarely kiss anyway, and I don't see another country making long, epic, intelligent (especially historical) "bromance" dramas.

I love how to score goes up every time i check this page

it's so freaking good

please please be a good ending, it's all i ask...

i had put this show on hold for a bit to catch up on other shows but couldn't stop thinking about it

now that i'm back - god it's really entertaining and good - enjoying it way more than Ashes of Love

Exactly how I feel - he is really great at acting a very complex character.

It’s not a short story - it’s almost like 1500 pages long - link to the translation in the discussion sections

I’m not sure what part you are referring to - but a good trick is to watch shows in chrome and use google lens to search the image - it is pretty good at capturing Chinese and will translate it