ashesinthewind

It's not the brother, it's Bai Pengyu.

It's even less than 3 episodes left now. Given that they need more than 2 episodes for the 9 most toxic chapters in the book, I'm even more sceptical now. At least episode 12 ended with the very beginning of Fan Xiao's way to redemption.

There's nothing to do but trust that they will manage to show the redemption acr in a way that will make most people, not just the book readers, trust that Shulang will make the right decision at the end.

I'm a little worried that there will be only three episodes left for the redemption arc if today's episode ends the way I expect it to end. In order to manage, they will have to speed run the last 21 chapters to press them into three episodes. Hopefully the episodes will be a little longer, because IMO there is absolutely nothing that can be skipped at that point.

That's just not who Shulang is. IMO, it's sort of admirable how he never spat on his morals and principles, despite what Fan Xiao did to him, stayed true to himself and still found a way to punish Fan Xiao.

Fan Qinhong was Shulang's almost boyfriend in university. They were attracted to each other, but never got together because Fan Qinhong met Shen Gu Jiu and fell for him.

You hit the nail in the head with everything you said. Shulang literally has no one. No family, no friends, his first lover dropped him for someone more exciting, and the "right" person he thought he'd found turned out to be a liar and a horrible person who'd rather forcefully trap him with his obssessive, destructive love than let him take his time, think about it and eventually forgive him. Even Fan Xiao at least has his faithful bestie Shi Lihua, poor Shulang is not even given that mercy. The people around him are, at best, acquaintances, who like him well enough, but don't care about him, with the notable exception of, ironically, Fan Xiao, who has no idea that this isn't the way to show him his love. It's a truly depressing situation, so it's no wonder Shulang starts to lose his will to keep on living like that.

"One lunatic in my life is plenty. I'm not stupid enough to pick up a second."

"I can't breathe with all these boys hanging around me".

Shulang is learning to recognize them, the hard way. I love him so much.

Fan Xiao really thought he could force Shulang to come back to him by destroying his life and threatning people around him and then it would be the same as before. I don't know whether to call him naive, stupid, delusional or just completely deranged. Maybe it's a little bit of everything, plus the fact that he has no idea that this isn't how you show your love to a person and has to learn the hard way.

I didn't dare to rewatch episode 10 earlier, because it shattered me, but I did today. What a brilliant episode and the acting was so on point, I got goosebumps in every single scene.

Wow, this looks amazing, I can't wait!

I'm not that much on social media so it might be that I'm ignorant, but at least on Facebook, the only social media I use, the show seems to be popular enough, the posts have ten of thousands of likes. Based on that, I was under the impression that it's doing well enough given the lack of promotion, especially on YouTube.

I don't know if I was YunYi, I would've liked what happened to the actors of Revenged Love. Just my personal opinion; of course, it might be completely wrong. A very big part of the hype for Revenged Love was the very heavy and constant promotion on YouTube.

It's normal that if more than one streaming plattforms are supposed to air a show worldwide, that they devide the territories among themselves. In this case, Gaga got only the streaming rights for Southeast Asia and Viki for the rest of the world, except Japan and South Korea, which have their own plattforms.

Personally, I was not happy about it at all, because I don't have Viki and like you, I can't understand why Gaga got the rights for every single Chinese BL that aired this year worldwide, but not for To My Shore. All of the others aired on Gaga worldwide, no exception, only the best one (in my humble opinion) is so restricted. Thankfully, I have VPN and still can watch there.

I have no idea how well it's performing on Viki, maybe someone who watches it there can say. My point was that it's obvious why it's not on Gaga's list if they've excluded North and South America, Europe, all of Asia except Southeast Asia and Australia from watching it there. It's not because the show isn't liked or good. It's also a new show that people who prefer to binge a series haven't even started yet.

The show is very geo-restricted on Gaga, it's available only for Southeast Asia, the rest of the world should watch on Viki. If I didn't have VPN, I wouldn't be able to watch it there. You cannot compare it with shows that are available on Gaga only, worldwide, like the Japanese BLs. Also, it only came out a month ago.

I use Malaysia and it works for me, but I think any country in Southeast Asia should work.

I think it's a little deliberate on their part in order to avoid the craziness of some fans like it happened with Revenged Love and ABO Desire. There was no big promotion. The three YouTube videos on their channel have no subtitles and they never posted anything after the trailer. Also, they have not toned Fan Xiao's character down in order to make him more popular, which might lose some watchers along the way. I'm not on social media that much, but from what I've seen on Facebook, the series is still popular enough. Personally, it's my favourite BL series this year, even if it's not finished yet. Everyone who would give it a chance would see that it's way better than ABO Desire.

The talk about the leads' looks are crazy, because as someone who's read the book, I can see that they've put a lot of effort to cast the right type - the charming, attractive, very impressive Fan Xiao and the elegant, handsome, graceful You Shulang.

He deserves real consequences, like jail time or something equally severe, and he needs to genuinely learn his lesson before I could even BEGIN to see him as redeemable.

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In this case, you should keep watching, you might get your wish. ;)

We've entered the era I barely managed to go through in the book, i.e. Fan Xiao at his worst in the open. Somehow, he was colder, more detached from what he was doing and ever more horrible in the adaptation than I remember.

I've seen all episodes at least three times so far, but I don't think I'll be rewatching episodes 10 and 11 and probably 12, depending on when this will be ending. Today's episode was for me, as someone who adores You Shulang to pieces, simply torturous to watch.

Zhang Chen is still the character whom I hate the most, by far. One of my most proudest times in regards to Shulang was when he finally broke off all bridges with him. BTW, this is the first big change they've made from the book - making Zhang Chen threaten to jump off a bridge instead of a building. Very good analogy here, even if it wasn't deliberate on their part.

I'm afraid they will, there are no enough episodes to cover the extras. I think it will end at chapter 106, where the official book ends.

It was so satisfying to see one of my favourite scenes from the book on screen, I've been waiting for it since the confession scene.

My love for You Shulang has no boundaries, and if you want to know why he's the best, this is the episode to pay attention to. <3

That comes later, this is why I marked my comment as a spoiler.

Yes, it's remarkable how loyal of a friend he was. When he thought Fan Xiao wanted to play with Shulang, he supported him. When he realized Fan Xiao was in love with Shulang, he also supported him. Whatever Fan Xiao wants, Shi Lihua would help.