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Oh my God, I’ve had it on nonstop for days now! The last time I was this obsessed with an OST was with Master of Desire 💛

Sitting here with my popcorn, quietly admiring how passionately the world’s self-appointed moral authorities have gathered in the comments. Please, do continue 🍿

I'm translating mostly BLs on viki, and trust me 18 languages is a lot for a BL series! Most of them don’t even get translated into more than 10 languages.
And okay, obviously the 5,000+ reviews are not the total number of views the series got, there are definitely more people who watched it and just never left a review, but still...
I don’t know, I probably just miss them that much, but honestly this might have been the first time I actually felt happy after hearing their statements about season 2. It sounded genuinely pretty hopeful to me 🥹

Honestly, what Yanzhao said sounded way more hopeful to me than the usual vague hints and nodding along. It really felt like they already have something in the works and the company just isn’t allowing them to talk about it openly yet.
And then I saw all those fan videos on Rednote today with the boys dressed in very 90s style outfits walking around Bangkok... Of course it could just be for a photoshoot or a vlog or anything really, but my poor heart wants to believe that since they’re there, and since they actually do go to Thailand in the novel, maybe they’re filming a few scenes for the continuation of the series 🥹

They never confirmed it in the first place. It’s still way too early for any official announcement. They’ll definitely want to see how well they still sell as a CP first. And until contracts are at least signed, there’s no way they’ll be allowed to say much anyway. Like Yanzhao said today, (if the translations I saw were accurate), it all mostly depends on how much support the audience gives them and the series.

There’s nothing wrong with the audio. The series is dubbed in Cantonese by voice actors while the actors themselves originally speak Mandarin. Try to look past it. It bothered all of us at first too, but the show is so good that after a couple of episodes you’ll barely notice it anymore, or at least it’ll stop bothering you.

You’re right, the views on Viki are ridiculously low. It’s really frustrating to see other BL series that are nowhere near as good getting way more views in comparison. And it’s a shame because this one doesn’t just have English subtitles, it has been translated into 18 languages. But like you said, what matters more is fan engagement with the CP and how well they sell.
Even so, I think their appearance in Cannes will really help boost the international promotion of the series.
Anyway, there is not much we can do except wait and keep promoting the series and the boys in every way we can. Also, at today’s promo event in Thailand, when they were asked about a second season they still gave pretty vague answers.

@RisaBliss Girls, the main thing, and what usually takes the most time in cases like this, is securing funding for filming and getting platforms interested in buying the distribution rights. Since all four actors are signed to the same agency, coordination and contracts are likely to be smoother.
The good news is that they’re still being promoted as a CP, which usually suggests the project still has commercial potential in the eyes of the company. If it wasn’t performing at all, they would probably scale that back. That said, this kind of promotion is also often used as a marketing strategy to test and maintain audience interest.
Production timelines for Chinese dramas can be quite fast once everything is in place, especially for web dramas, but the delay is almost always on the financing and distribution side rather than the actual filming.
Right now, it makes sense that they’ll be monitoring audience engagement and whether the fandom keeps growing or stabilizes, and based on that data they’ll decide whether a second season is worth pursuing.
Realistically, they do have a good chance as long as they secure funding. I don’t think platforms will refuse to buy the rights, especially since it ranked number one in views on GagaOOLala for eight consecutive weeks.

If they really are planning to adapt the entire novel, then 3 seasons honestly sound more realistic than 2, considering the first season only covered about a third of the novel, and I’m talking only about the main story, not the extra chapters. As for the second couple, if they want more material, they’ll probably have to draw from the extra chapters too, since that’s where most of their story is shown. Ah, it would be so nice if this rumor turned out to be true 🥹

It seems to me that it’s so underrated, even with all the buzz I’m seeing online. You should come and team up with us 😁😁😁

Exactly 🤣

Ok, we should team up and promote the series and the boys until as many people as possible watch it 🤣

It has an open ending and we patiently waiting for an official announcement for season 2... They end up together, sort of... Nevertheless, it's a great watch, personally, I can't recommend it enough ☺️

Same. There are so many dramas I wanted to watch but never got around to because I was waiting for them to finish airing before starting them. Now I mostly watch ongoing dramas.

An official announcement is what I’m hoping for. Just give me that and I could wait even more than a year. Of course, it wouldn’t be ideal for me either to wait that long, but as long as we get an official confirmation, I’ll be completely over the moon and will patiently wait for our boys 🙏

I get you completely. I can’t really enjoy other series the same way either when I get hooked on something. And right now, even though I’m watching other BLs, and there’s one I’ve been waiting for ages that’s really well made and totally my taste, I still can’t fully enjoy it because I’m stuck on our boys here 🥹

And like you said, I don’t even know if I want to move on from it, at least not yet. So yeah, it’s probably better to watch it later, once some time has passed, and you’ve kind of detached from Sammy’s. Only then will you really be able to enjoy it and appreciate it properly. Either way, I’m really glad I convinced you to watch it, and I’ll be waiting to hear your thoughts 💛

I haven’t watched Ossan’s Love, but I’ll definitely add it to my list. I’ll probably get to it at some point. I’ve heard from a few people that it’s really good.

The novel is a masterpiece, I swear! I'm trying to read other danmeis and can't get into them after Chusan's Liuyi Children's Day.

I have faith too sis 🙏

Honestly, I’d be over the moon if we actually got a second season. I’m willing to wait as long as it takes, I just desperately hope it happens someday 😩

From what I remember in the main story their sons never met