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Alrighty, sent, enjoy!

I would recommend the novel, as it's so enjoyable. I've recently re-read an uncensored epub, all the available fan translations are censored. If you're interested I'd need to personally email it to you.

I think i've read a few, though they're usually paired with a black flag gong. Hope we get more in series hehe

That's the half-brother talking. He and Yok are classmates. He shows up for a second in the teaser.

Most likely they asked Chatgpt which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence lol

Ooh that's gonna boil down to preferences because i did not find the Deep In actors to be that attractive. I do find Ing's actor to be handsome on account of a) he's in his 30's, looks young but not too young, and he looks like he eats and works out (not too thin which is nice), b) his character is supposed to be charming and charismatic and he plays him that way, c) could be the style of makeup but i like that it's more 'natural', chinese makeup is a bit too pale for my tastes, they look a bit sickly.

Genuinely happy ending, i just finished rereading the novel.

The writing's pretty on point too. Characters are interesting, romance is being well set up, plot is plotting. This is definitely not a case of style over substance.

Of course you're free to not like it, and that you think it feels off. I just wanted to point out that it's not a "mistake" that the production crew made, it was a creative choice that decided immersing the audience in the Hong Kong setting with Cantonese dubbing would be worth it. You can disagree, i know chinese audiences can also be anal about dialects and accents, like i once saw a complaint about an American show that had the actors all speak Mandarin but with different accents and they found that distracting.

Idk when the decision to dub in Cantonese happened but it is normal for Chinese actors who come from different regions to be dubbed. HONESTLY, the idea that lip synching have to be perfect in dubs seems like a Western concept. Just watch Asian media where dubbing would be the norm. heck, watch anime, the Japanese dubs do not 100% match the lip synch.

Oh how the turns tabled. Because Mainland Chinese film and TV industry was growing lots of actors from other regions like HK or Taiwan would find opportunities there and so would have to be dubbed. And it's often really obvious. I can't totally fault the production team, because it seemed like the casting call did seem to include "can speak Cantonese", but considering how fast production was, maybe they just didn't have time.

The drama takes place in Hong Kong and Cantonese is spoken there, so I guess they wanted it to feel more immersive.

That's because it's dubbed in a completely different language (Cantonese). So the mouths aren't gonna be synced. The reason for the dubbing is because it takes place in Hong Kong and Cantonese is spoken there.

I'm not an expert by any means but Mandarin as a language is apparently more recent in the Sinitic language family tree (Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.) so kind of makes sense the latter languages sound more similar.

From the mouth movements it's pretty clear most of the cast are speaking Mandarin. I don't think there's a Mandarin version at this time.

There's a pretty popular danmei novel where the love interest does call the main character "Uncle", and the main character likes it. It's not that significant, novels can make their couples do whatever.

Yep, it's pretty popular in the Chinese BL audio drama community with many positive reviews. The producer wanted to have the show made after listening to the audio drama, and the show is clearly influenced by it (even using similar background music) while doing its own thing.

No, i meant in the audio drama, another adaptation.

The only ones i recognise are Shi Lihua, who is voiced by Gu Jiangshan, and Xue Baotian, who voices himself because he's already a veteran voice actor. In fact his actor, yuan mingzhe directed the audio drama and voices you shulang.

Yeah it's not just about dialects (which can take a viewer out of the experience) but also enunciation. Depending on the show british and american actors might opt to speak in a standard accent as well.