The music was fabulous as well; especially their singing. The main two have such nice and lovely voices!
I don't personally like how a lot of things were cut from the drama and things got confusing here and there; especially when an episode ended in one place and the next one started in a different place and I'm sitting here watching it like, "What?!?! How did that even happened?? Or how did that even worked?" (I understand that some scenes were deliberately cut due to China's sensory issue, but at least make the continuity understandable.)
Overall, the web series is great and lovely even with a mere 15 episodes that were 20-25 minutes long each. I definitely recommend watching this web series because once you do, you will want more of the characters, lol. I will definitely re-watch this web series when I have nothing else to watch!
(I will be waiting for season 2!)
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Godbless you all guys~!!!! Fighting!!!!
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Wrong Addiction
Welcome to those who want to hear my rant/review again and this time it goes to the one and only, "iconic BL series", Addicted Heroin. Wooo. Honestly, I just don't understand why this BL is so popular especially with the problematic tropes being used there. I'll try to elaborate here.I'll start with Gu Hai, the guy who's twisted and who has a terrible obsession over Bai Luo Yin. I am so disgusted by his behaviour over him. The fact he stalked him was creepy made me want to vomit. Also, him hiring people to kidnap Luo Yin. Did that scream romantic to you? If you were in his position, how would you feel? This was Stockholm syndrome on another level. I felt like I was watching 365 days movie, but in Mandarin and between two Chinese men. Not to mention how the dialogues he used, "You want to have nothing to do with me, don't you? Then I will keep you chained here so that you cannot run away" before attacking him with a forced kiss and ending with a "Baby, you've known long before that I have special feelings for you, don't you? So you are not surprised that if I kiss you" and followed by other cringey dialogues, "I sleep with you on one bed, it's because I want to fuck you. I even dreamt of it" and blaming his obsessive behaviour on Luo Yin with no fucking regrets. This was the worst, "Husband who doesn't have sex with their wives is not a good husband" What kind of bullshit message was Gu Hai trying to say? He treated him like a sex object and not like his partner. Here's a surprise, this whole thing just happened in one damn episode, Episode 11 and there's more, SHOCKING!
Episode 12, the scene of what happened in the bedroom. My gosh, that was gross. Gu Hai couldn't control his dick and hormones towards his favourite "object" so he did it again! You could literally tell by Lin Yuo's facial expressions that he was so uncomfortable with it and poor boy had to play along with it when he already asked him to stop. That word came out right from his mouth. Yikes. Wait, that's not it! It also happened in Episode 13. Amazing BL right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcUiO4lQMr4 (Where I watched it if you guys are wondering) The fact that this loved BL show was romanticizing sexual assault, imagine this show being continued, I'll be counting how many more there will be in after this.
Also, Gu Hai's former girlfriend was so stupid. She's your stereotypical jealous girl who couldn't stand her boyfriend with other women. Of course, there had to be that stupid catfight between other women because of that. I just don't understand why BLs love portraying these type of women? I am tired of seeing it. Stop giving female a bad representation in BL please. I also couldn't understand her shitty behaviour of trying to make Gu Hai jealous by doing a fake affair. It didn't seem fake to me. The only fake I could see was from her fake attitude. Thus, I concluded, birds with the same feather flock together.
In conclusion, this chinese BL is not addictive at all and I am no way going to rewatch this thing again. I feel ashamed because I'm 3/4 Chinese and me seeing this? No. I've lost faith in humanity for those who love this BL. Goodbye!
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The plot has potential, and the actors are good (especially considering they're pretty much beginners), but I honestly have very little tolerance for queer storylines where every intimate interaction is more or less forced. Not forced as in 'the actors are clearly awkward about it', but forced as in 'if this scene happened in real life, it would be sexual harassment'.
I don't want to spoil anything but I think people should know this before they watch the drama, as it is content that may very well be triggering for some people. Some people will undoubtedly think I'm making this too big of a deal, but I have been sexually harassed and I don't take these things lightly. Personally, I was very uncomfortable watching the 'love' scenes of this drama, and also troubled by the fact that so many people find these forced kisses etc cute and romantic. I don't know if the creators thought kissing someone who's barely conscious or restraiting someone so you can kiss them was okay because the characters are both boys, or if it's just their opinion in general. Sadly, I've seen a similar problem with other queer storylines in Asian tv/cinema as well. I find it very concerning. There's nothing cute in forcing yourself on someone. And it's incredibly harmful to portray this kind of 'no means try harder' behaviour as normal and romantic.
If you cut out these disturbing scenes, the drama would be quite nice. The acting is good, and there are some funny moments. As the main couple was disappointing for me (not the actors; the behaviour of the characters), I found myself more invested in Bai Luo Yin's relationship with his father. Song Tao, who played the role of the absent-minded yet incredibly kind father, did a really good job. The dad was my favourite character. I also liked the classmates, Yang Meng and You Qi, though the drama definitely ended on a very confusing note re: those two.
TL;DR: this could've been a great drama, if not for the 'romantic' scenes being mainly sexual harassment.
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One of the best bl's? More like one of the worst bl's.
I still till this day wonder what's wrong with people who romanticize this abusive relationship. I'm all for watching disturbing things, I love horror for example, and I love disturbing stories. But the problem is that normal people know that disturbing things are... well... disturbing. It's only a problem when people start finding abusive relationships hot and they start romanticize such behaviour.And I still wonder why this abusive relationship is mentioned as "one of the best bl's".
I felt so bad for Luo Yin the entire time. I do wonder what's wrong with people who find this relationship sexy/couple goals. It's laughable to me that some people say that this series is a masterpiece. Watching this I felt sad. I could say that it's an amazing series if Luo Yin realized that he deserves better and there would be another love interest who's treating him with respect. But this doesn't happens. And even if the show got canceled I'm pretty sure that this wouldn't happen anyways. As someone who already had an abusive parent I find it disturbing when people romanticize abusive relationships. There is absolutely nothing worse than being around abusive people.
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Like...in what world is this romantic??
And all the people talking about how “it’s fake, it’s fiction, get over it” really need to check their morality. Like, be 100% honest with yourself: if a guy was doing this to a girl, there is no way this show would even have half these good reviews. People will literally watch anything so long as they are seeing two men kissing or having sex smh. If that’s what you want, go watch a freakin porno.
And “get over it”?? Try telling that to a rape victim or a sexual assault survivor.
The storyline of how the two main characters came to know each other had potential but overall this show is not good. This is not romance and I’m so taken aback at the amount of good reviews and loving comments.
What if this were you and you were telling your aggressor “no” then he forces himself on you? What if this was your sister or brother and they were constantly telling their aggressor “no” so then the person kidnaps them? Would you still think it’s cute? Would you still think it’s romantic?
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The low budget, simple settings and slightly eccentric pacing give this show the feeling of real life. The characterizations are top-notch. Much of the tension comes from just how stubborn both of the main characters are. That they're able to rely on each other anyway is sweet, and makes them an interesting and memorable BL pairing. But the writer also portrayed a great father-son relationship and gave a humorous insight into the differences between China's poor and nouveau riche. The music is also good, and I often don't notice music. (The "It's Okay That's Love" shout-out in one of the musical selections made me very happy.)
The greatest flaw in this series is also the thing that makes it most interesting: the censorship of many scenes and the fact that China banned gay content before the series could be finished. The romance never feels fully developed because censors eliminated not only sex but kissing. The end result is a show where the guys talk about sex frankly (okay, Guo Bai talks about it, gotta love that cheeky bugger), but we never even see an affectionate kiss between them. And the story ends abruptly with a cliffhanger and a ton of emotional issues unresolved between the guys.
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This was my first EVER BL that I came across while I was randomly surfing around youtube. And I REGRET ever clicking on this because I will NEVER recover from this. Let me tell you its been THREE YEARS since i first watched this and I still haven’t recovered.
The show is named ADDICTED for a reason. No BL has topped this yet for me personally. I watch this once every year and occasionally rewatch some of their clips together lol. If you want your life to be ruined, watch this.
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I'm so disappointed in this drama, to me, it was a waste of time. It was hyped so much but let me down so hard.The thing that annoyed me the most and repulsed me of it was the abusive nature of their relationship. Gu Hai was pretty much forcing himself on Luo Yin, there's nothing cute about that. And that was included in sooo many scenes, if stuff like that happened to me irl, I'll sue for sexual harassement.
The acting of the male leads was good (nothing astonishing either) but the secondary characters were awkward.
The production style was sloppy, especially in the first episodes, and some of the music didn't fit in into the scenes.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend watching it. There are better shows depicting LGBTQ+ relationships than this.
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Its about high school student Gu Hai (the pursuer) and bai Luo Yin (silent type) who dislike each other since the first day they met at high school . Along the way they become best friends and love happened between them.
Why it so good?
1. The writer of this drama managed to adapted very well from his own web novel ( his web novel is more violence, dramatic and sometimes dragging) into a tight fast pace drama with few comedic scenes in between.
2. Both male lead amazing chemistry that make this drama work so well. Its hard to believe that Xu Wei Zhou (BLY) and Huang Ji Yu (GH) are newcomer actors. Bravo for them. Excellent acting. Their love story flow very natural and could really happen in real life. You can feel the bond between them are so strong and they truly care for each other although they bickered all the time.
3. The story of highschool students with all their problem, pranks, jokes and love relatiionship had been told very well here. Sad that couple of censored part (the kiss scene) really make the story hanging at few scenes.
4. The music in the darma is quite good and not overpowering. After the drama end, they release official MV that was so great, you need to watch it on Youtube. It called Walk Slowly. (better with English sub) and sing by Xu Wei Zhou. The MV had 2 versions. First is the version with BLY and GH mini story. They are 18 now at the MV. (they are 17 at the series) Second version MV is about their friends You Qi and Yang Meng. The meaning of the song is very touching.
5. Rewatch value is very good. Cause its only 15 episode with 25 minutes each episode.
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as the name says this drama got me ADDICTED. after watching this drama I got so obsessed over it and read the entire novel. though I found few chapters of first book not morally right, I still enjoyed it and the second book is bae.
I can not find a BL couple as good as Zhouzhou and Jingyu. even though they were rookies at the time of the drama, they made their character come to life
I mean they had bloody awesome chemistry, my number one passionate couple in my entire drama history. and the chemistry was not from the passionate kisses or sex like people expect it to be. it's just the presence of GU HAI and Bai Lu Yin puts my screen on fire
I am so obsessed over this drama that I was unable to watch any other drama after watching this and reading the novel for a month. I watched it and read it repeatedly. I still hate hate the fact that this drama has got no second season.
but it's okay I am satisfied with whatever I got till now. read the books peeps. you can watch uncut episodes somewhere on youtube
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