The show’s production schedule is in full swing with shooting now, and we eagerly await more updates and exclusive photos from the sets. Gu Yun takes Changgeng back to the capital on an imperial decree, and the two must now defend their kingdom from enemies within and outside the kingdom. When nomadic tribes invade the kingdom, Changgeng discovers his true identity to be the fourth prince and that Shen Shiliu is, in fact, Commander Gu Yun. Set in an era of political upheaval, border town youth Changgeng is saved from a pack of wolves by Shen Shiliu, who takes him in as a godson. The show named “Winner is King” started shooting on July 2nd, 2020, and is scheduled to premiere in 2021, with 45 episodes. The show’s popularity can be presumed from the fact that Faraway Wanderers has already had a fan meet where the main leads Zhang Zhe Han and Gong Jun had an active interaction with their ardent fans on July 18th, 2020 at Hengdian World Studios.Ī month after Youku announced “Tian Ya Ke (天涯客),” Tencent Video stepped up to the plate and officially adapted another Priest novel, “Sha Po Lang (殺破狼).” “Handsome Siblings” star Chang Geng and Winter Begonia fame Tan Gian Ji star as main leads in this period drama. Youku has released promotion posters who look promising enough. But unfortunately, he meets our other lead Wen Ke Xing (Gong Jun), and gets embroiled in Jianghu’s chaotic existence. He leaves the organization and roams the mountains of Jianghu in search of a calm life.
Three years of bloodshed and remorse make our hero yearn for peace. It’s hard to be recruited as a part of this organization and even more difficult to get out. Zhou Zi Shu is the leader of “Tian Chuang / Skylight,” an elite organization of gatherers and assassins who serve the Emperor. One of them is Zhou Zi Shu, to be played by Zhang Zhe Han. The story essentially revolves around our main leads. Faraway WanderersĪuthor Priest’s BL novels are a huge rage in China, and following the success of “Guardian,” Youku is helming the adaptation of “Faraway Wanderers / Tian Ya Ke (天涯客).” Meanwhile, the shooting is progressing at a steady speed and will probably wrap up by September. The show’s producers had to release an official apology for that incident. Being a paparazzo isn’t without its hazards. The release of unwanted spoilers resulted in an unfortunate event of one of the photographers getting beaten up by one of the production team members. This show faced major problems when fans and photographers hindered the shooting by taking pictures of the cast and crew with their hidden cameras. However, in the present, certain unfortunate events force him to see Chu Wanning in a new light, and both work together with the rest of the cultivating heroes to stop the villains’ conspiracy and protect the world. He commits suicide and is reborn as his old self “MoRan.” Despite the reincarnation, MoRan has all the old memories of Taxian Jun intact and harbors a deep hatred for his master, Chu Wanning (Luo Yunxi). Starring two eminent names from the Chinese Television Industry, the show focuses on Taxian Jun (Arthur Chen), the tyrannical Emperor of the Cultivation World. Immortality (Chinese: 皓衣行) is based on the popular LGBTQ+ Xianxia novel “The Husky and His White Cat Shizun” (Chinese: 哈和他的白猫 师 尊 ) by Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat (Chinese: 肉包不吃肉 ). Here’s a list of upcoming Chinese Bromances with “Brotherhood” or “Platonic Friendship” between their main leads. The BL elements are neutered from the original content, and you end up with a “Bromance.” Winter Begonia, however, set a precedent by depicting their main character’s homoerotic relationship in a realistic manner, which left no doubts about their feelings for each other.
The only glitch remains that the dictatorial and hypocritical censorship by the Government of Mainland China, which bans any kind of sexual or explicit homosexual content. Now we have mass production of Chinese Bromance dramas that are being adapted from popular Gay Web Novels. However, it wasn’t until The Untamed (2019) became a global phenomenon that Chinese production houses took the Boys Love business seriously. Falling in Love with a Rival (2015), Love is More than a Word and Men with Sword (2016), Beloved Enemy Advance Bravely Till Death Tear Us Apart (2017) and Guardian (2018) were a popular few to name.
Even before Addicted Heroin exploded on the social circuit and took the Chinese Mainland by storm in 2016, there were numerous Chinese BL dramas that were consistently challenging the inner core of the strict Chinese Government censorship.