mywanderingmind

Yeah.
I watched Moon Indigo and the Novelist. Started to watch my Personal Weatherman.
Wasn't my cup of tea.
I stored it away as smtg I couldn't relate to.

Honestly, I don't know. Till today, there isn’t a proper translation of the novel. I read it on some Chinese site at the time while had to click on English transformation after every chapter.

Yes, I think so too. Maybe they should watch KBl and JB series, with men in their late 20-30 acting like virgins.

We don’t know, because there isn’t that much explanation in the novel why he did it.
But honestly, if I was in his shoes I would have done it.

It was obsession from the very first sight Lu Feng's eyes landed on Xie Cheng. Honestly, I can’t really remember in which novel it is mentioned, that he told Xie Cheng when they were in their early fiftieth; that Xie Cheng should be thankful he waited four years to hunt him down, because Xie Cheng was smtg like 10 or 11 when he first noticed him and became obsessed for a Life time.

The same. I've read the novels of Revenged Love, Addicted, To my shore and almost all of Lan Lin's and the 188 series by Shui Qian Cheng years ago, and then recently discovered and watched the movie or series adaptations of some of them. (I actually did love the adaptation of Uncontrolled-Iressistible love.) And realized how much they HAD TO alter the original story in order to make it feasible to their audience ten years ago.

Yes, it is watered down. And I actually didn’t expect a literally true version to the novel, because imagine the outrage and 'witch-hunt' for the directors and producers, if they actually did try to stay true to the novel.

Same here. Though while reading the books, I couldn't find in myself any kind or warm feelings nor much sympathy towards Xie Cheng's mother or brother. His mother did continually emotionally blackmailed him, and his brother was a hypocritical piece of shit, who hid Lu Feng's letters , not to mention his own not quite brotherly feelings and so on and on...

Please, please, I'm begging the vigilant, moral squad to read the warnings and tags, because they are there for a reason. And if you have an issue with a fictional story that contains rape, assault, abusive, toxic etc... leads. Simply, DON’T WATCH IT!!! Nobody forces you to do so. But if you do, DON’T COME HERE whining about how toxic, dark, abusive the ML is.

The same with me. I don't like horror movies, genre like Idk... "The Texas chainsaw massacre" or smtg like that, so I don't watch them. But if I did, surely, I wouldn’t go and complain about the extreme, bloody violence, gore, and terror, the graphic depictions of slaughter, dismemberment, torture, and what kind of severe, intense psychological dread, and anxiety it caused me.
Nor do I judge people, or suppose and accuse my acquaintances of being sick, pervert or a seriel killer, just because they like horror movies. To each his own.

And also, I don't get it, why is everyone so outraged about Lu Feng cheating on Xie Cheng.
Oh, wait... he didn't!
Firstly, because he did nothing! (Actually, in the book he did, but we're talking about the series here. )
Secondly, even if he did, he couldn’t cheat on Xie Cheng because they weren't f-ing together.
Since the moment they met again, Xie Cheng lied about having a girlfriend, and kept refusing Lu Feng and thwarted Lu Feng's every attempt and pleads to beign together. So, in my opinion, Lu Feng would have had every right to seek pleasure elsewhere.

I might be in the very, tiny minority who actually doesn't hate Lu Feng and neither did, while I read the books. Because in my opinion, he was the one, who always suffered and endured more in, their relationship, due to Xie Cheng's indeciviness, his behavior that consistently prioritizied the approval and needs of others over Lu Feng, while for Lu Feng only ever Xie Cheng existed.

And if you hated Lu Feng, in episode 4, honestly stop watching. It gets worse and darker and more abusive etc... And the actor playing Lu Feng does a terrific job showing us Lu Feng controversial character.

I read the novels smtg like 5 years ago. And it’s one of my favorite novel of all time. Then discovered there was a LA version, which I honestly didn’t like that much, and it wasn’t due to the actors performance, but to the way how much they changed the original story.

And since then, I kept wishing for somebody to have the guts to try remain true to the source and make a series or movies or whatever. And, Voilá it happened.

Actually, I find myself more disturbed by the fact, how terribly, painfully, heart wretchedly thin and famished looking these poor actors are.

I first noticed it in Revenged Love, how heartbreakingly thin the actor playing Chi Cheng was. And then I realized, it’s a pattern with Chinese actors.
Is it some requritment in Chinese entertainment industry now, for the male actors to look half starved?

But, he did do so much more despicable things

As a hard cored Hannigram shipper, I honestly don’t get it how could you wrote down this sentence?
Hannigram was so -so much seriously more f-ed up then this. I don’t want to dwell into the canibalism, or how Hannibal stabbed, framed Will for the very crimes he committed etc... So, pls tell me, why the guy in these series doesn't deserve redemption, but Hannibal did?

Maybe you should watch Hannibal, the series ( not the movie with Anthony Hopkins) with Mad Mikkelsen, because Hannigram is my favorite ship, or Interview with a vampire, ( not the movie with Tom Cruise, but the 2022 series with Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson)

Yes, I know, both of those are tagged as horror series, ( and I actually, do hate horror movies) but I gave them a chance for Hannigram and Loustat.) And in regard to BL romance, none of them disappointed me... rather on the opposite.

For the reasons mentioned in my comment, I really can’t whole heartedly recommend you any other tv series, and even Round Trip to love and Irresistible Love were an absolute sterilized version of the novels.

As a total sucker for Shui Qiang Cheng's Scum Gongs Group and ( Sissy, Alpha predator and Years of Intoxication being my favorite) Lan Lin' s Round Trip to love and Uncontrolled Love, and love : both the tv series and novels to the moon and back, this series is a piece of cake for me.
I take my hat off to the directors for having the guts to remain true to the novel. Because I'm just so fed up how today everything is red flag and how directors and producers are forced to alternate and water down on the original source's toxic, messed up, obsessive -possessive, crazy characters just to suit the expectation’s of all the faint hearted, prudish, hypocritical white lilies of the moral commando.
Don’t like really-really f-up, crazy, obsessive scum bag ML-es? Don't read it, dont watch it! But if you did, don't come here to complain and generate hate about how despicable and messed up those characters, novel or tv series are. Obviously, there are so many ridiculous trigger warnings today, you should read them, because they are there for a reason.

As so many else, I was a total sucker for this 2016 series adaptation series.

Then I read the novels. Honestly the author had ( maybe still has, serious self accepting issues .)

But, whatever, today there are so many triggers, pls don’t come here to complain after you read them.

I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. Originally this supposed to be an answer to a platform regarding the novel. I really don’t have a clue, how it landed here nor how I could delete it.

Honestly, Am I the only one, who read the novel and actually thought, the author must have been in a very confusing, very deranged state of mind when she wrote this?
On one hand Chi Cheng supposed to be totally devoted to WSW, then he went and jerked off with GCY. And it was ok, because he just saw him as his bother, and brushed it off as smtg not important. But if WSW would’ve done it with JXS, as JXS vpointed it out, he would’ve ripped both WSW and JXS apart. He punished WSW more severaly for less.
I really wonder how is it that nobody mentions it, that Chi Cheng kicked a pregnant women between her legs while she was unconscious, so hard that she lost her child.

Or how he tortured JXS' ex, or how at the beginning of the novel, a Virgin girl was "examined" and then sent to a hospital because because one of his snake made a virginity check.

I read a tons of novels, watched tons of series, c'mon Hannigram is my favorite ship, and yet I found myself on many occasions utterly confused, outraged or simply wondering what the fuck was wrong with the author?!