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"Why did you say we're just friends?" "I don't want to cause you trouble." "You don't have to worry about me. When the time is right, I'll make everything public and give everyone an explanation."
"I don't want to cause you trouble... I like you. That's my business."
I love when you get these traditional outfits and this serves so well. And the work Yoki put into getting that costume? Perfect.
"Come back." "Let go..."

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The rurality of Love After Addiction is so important to me. It was such a central feature in Addicted, the impoverished frigid bare-leaved hinterlands of China, steam pouring out of pipes and sighing out the actors mouths. It doubles down on this setting by including scoring from Brokeback Mountain and Friday Night Lights, two rural touchstones from the previous decade. In fact, the commentary on the treatment of those places and the corruption that undergirded was likely a more significant reason for the censorship of the series than the queerness.
What a significant thread for Love After Addiction to hold onto even as it transfers locations. Iāve seen people discuss ITSAY as rural beach setting, but here that element pervades the visuals and story. Small ramshackle houses with trash in the yards, complaints about using precious purchased minutes on phones, winding roads next to hand stacked bricks and extended time on them to travel from one place to the next. Thereās a certain Hallmark movie feel to the plot, but those details give it a raw edge. Hallmark could never.
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Even though Love after Addiction isnāt an official sequel to Addicted, there are undoubtedly many parallels to it and I love every one of it.
Their names are the same, You Qi is an actor like later in the original novel, they did the same joke with Yang Mengās name, they know each other from Highschool and when Yang Meng asks You Qi if he still likes guys cause he knows he used to like one of their male classmates, it is a clear hint at You Qiās crush on Bai Louyin in Addicted.
All in all, I enjoy their new series very much. Everything feels like fanservice but in a very comforting way. Watching Mengqiqi feels kind of like coming home, as if itās giving me closure to the abrupt ending of the production of Addicted.
I remember Chen Wen said once that he would love to come back for Addicted if he gets the opportunity and I am beyond happy and grateful that he and Lin Fengsong reprise their roles. You can really tell how much love they have for these characters and their chemistry on screen is also very nice thanks to their 10 years long friendship.
I canāt wait for this show to continue and see their new story unfold. š
My boys are back!!! I'm so happy.
The show is incredibly silly. I'm loving it.
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A Banned BL Series and A Banned BL Sub-genre
GaoGan (High Cadre, é«å¹²) is a sub-genre of danmei, unique to BL from Mainland China. It involves characters who directly hold high position within the Communist Party (be it the political wing or the Peopleās Liberation Army) or are related to such characters.
Works belonging to this sub-genre was fairly common in the first decade of 2000. Now it's a banned sub-genre and we will get to the specifics of it and how that works.
A little bit about the society in which this sub-genre was created. Back then both Communist party members as well as military members could get away with pretty much anything. Society back then was a little bit more open to such practices and consequences for their actions were very limited. There was very little civilian oversight, so to speak. This meant that not only sons and daughters of high cadre but relatives including extended kin, held positions of power.
Naturally, it became a problem. For the State, I mean.
A lot of leaders now are kids of leaders from the past. They also hold in immense sway in all fields, both business and bureaucracy.
They can bag tenders and participate in those public private partnership projects and reap profits while outsiders would struggle. Laws could be bent and broken and no one could do anything to them. People suffer because of that. But you cannot really go to the police against them. Yeah, pretty messed up.
It is in this context that Addicted (ä½ äø«äøē¾äŗ) by Chai JiDan (ę“éø”č) was first serialized. But it is in no way an extreme or a quintessential gaogan danmei. It's basically campus story in the first half with basic coming of age elements, highschoolers falling in love and lot of it is smut too.
But the threat of what their futures hold because of who they are especially Gu Hai, being the only son of his father who is a General, looms large even in first part. This is underplayed in the series compared to the novel.
Gu Hai grew up in that environment of power and reach. A lot of his rough nature is a product of such unbridled power that followed him from the cradle. His father is domineering. He is similarly domineering but with a holier-than-thou ākindā heart. He rebels against his fatherās nature. He doesn't want to be the kind of person his father is. He is at the risk of becoming the monster he is fighting. He is extreme in his means, just as his father (and his late mother) and a bunch of other people such as Gu Yang and Gu Haiās maternal uncle.
It is contrasted with how gentle and amicable Bai LouYinās father and stepmother are, and how their lives are completely different. They don't really take any extreme steps and always pave path to reconciliation.
While Addicted sort of shows the contrast, it is not the highlight. There are novels which were written in the beginning of the millennium that showed extreme versions ā focused on showing how bad it could get - be it of people getting away with that they should not get away with ideally and all sorts of bad things happening to people who have no control over their lives when it comes to people with power.
Corruption, nepotism and exploitation of power clearly are not good practices. The critique in Addicted is not on the face. It's very subtle. You need to understand what exactly is going on to understand the politics of Addicted. It is not just a random parent being despotic parent. It is because of very specific social setups. Gu Hai can coax, coerce and buy his way into changing public schools in the middle of semester, get Bai LouYinās father a good job, treat officers on lower rungs as his personal servants and get things to work in his favour all because of the power he holds by just being General Guās heir. No one would dare to report his overreach because no one wants to offend General Gu lest he is less favorable to them in their time of need. Bai LouYin can avail benefits of switching schools and such since he is Gu WeiTingās step-son.
What would give Gu Hai more power than being Generalās son? Being a high cadre member himself. But doesnāt want that. From the beginning of the novel, Gu Hai rejects the military environment he grew up in. He doesnāt want to pursue his fatherās footsteps.
Bai LouYin learns this when he pries into what Gu Hai wants to do with his life. Gu Hai makes it clear that he wants to pursue business. Bai LouYin dedicates his life to make that possible for Gu Hai. He does so by means joining PLA and thereby becoming his step-fatherās protĆ©gĆ©. In exchange, Gu Hai is free to live a free life. When he sets up his own manufacturing business, it is directly linked to supplying to the military and thus the exploitation of his connections that gives him a definite edge over his competitors from less privileged backgrounds continue ā now as Bai LouYinās brother too. So, he actually gets to become a rich man at a young age in his own right. It's not just Gu Hai whose business flourishes thanks at least in part to influence. Gu Yang and Gu Haiās uncle (who seems to be powerful in his own right) too benefits from their connections.
It's something that Chai JiDan explores in a lot of her other works too, even though Counterattack and Advanced Bravely live action adaptations removed gaogan elements from turning characters into civilians.
That brings us to the de facto ban on gaogan. State doesn't want to encourage such kind of practices. It totally doesn't want it to be an aesthetic or a glorified romantic trope, especially in danmei.
Danmei actually have a mixed history with the State. Chinese government is notorious for crackdowns, jailing authors, shutting down websites, forcing self-censorship and purges that throttled danmei production and distribution. (More on this here.)
Lesser known is the part where State benefited from it. There was the shipping of real-life high cadre politicians.
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao and former Premier Wen Jiabao were shipped by fans. (source)
There were also the Little Pinks - groups of presumably (some critics argue that it is just a presumption) young women who are nationalistic verging on jingoism, who would endorse Chinese government and its policies on various platforms. They are called so because their brand of rhetoric first started in the danmei forum of JJWXC, a popular web-publishing platform. Little Pinks started out on this platform, scolding authors and readers who wrote what they didnāt agree with. They have pervaded other social media sites and are compared to the Little Reds of Cultural Revolution. Little Pinks captured public attention. They became quite an eyesore for the general public and other BL fans. But State machinery, especially its media, have showered them with praise on occasions.
State of things have changed over the years and there have been understandable public anger against the sort of behaviors high cadre politicians and their kin engaged in as well as the unfair advantage they enjoyed. The State had to curb nepotism and accumulation of power in the hands of those from political families. Exploitation of power couldn't explicitly depict or endorsed on media. Ā
The new rules are imposed through censors, self-censorship and editorial overreach and what not. Compared to earlier days of danmei, todayās BL production space looks very difference since sites have disappear. There used to be revolutionary potential, not just in terms of furthering the rights of the queer community but also in many other aspects of society. It has disappeared over the years through purging and authors growing tired. Popularization and commercialization of danmei actually did not benefit the way one would imagine. As BL fansā grip over what they could say disappeared, a lot of new authors came in who from the very beginning were willing to adjust to these demands from the State and were writing to accommodate, if not outright support, what the State willed.
So, before the ban on gaogan, there was period where fics were written praising the high cadre and highlighting their goodness, generosity and patriotism while being perfect gentlemen, paragons of virtue, upright citizen who valiantly fought enemies of the State, both internal and external.
When it aired, Addicted was fairly popular. By his own admission, Andy Lau was watching it. While exact reason for the ban is not known, there is a lot of speculation. One of the most cited reasons is simply its popularity and how that attracting attention to queer people (through the pairing of a very masculine men who were unlike the stereotypical āsissiesā) and queer rights.
Another was the substance abuse related words in title and ship name such as shangyin and hailouyin which is another topic that State scrutinizes. But then A Round Trip to Love had multiple criminal elements including spiking, confinement and sexual abuse that aired.
It's not like gaogan genre just died. Authors went interstellar on their stories. So now when you open Addicted in LCRead you will be greeted by an intro page which claims that the story is not set on Earth and is set in another galaxy blah blah blah. Lot of later authors actually decided to pursue the safe, sci-fi route and decided to stick to lanes that would let them tell these stories without actually irritating the State.
This work around method will last while it can.
Quite frankly, Addicted couldn't have been made in other countries with its very specific political setting. Its essence lies in Bai LouYin joining PLA to help Gu Hai forsake the path laid out for him and Gu Hai repaying with devotion while alternatively sinking and floating in high cadre life as son, brother and husband. This wonāt work in countries with mandatory military service or where military and politics interweave in a dangerous manner.
Honestly, I am not knowledgeable about Thailand to interpret what it means for Hero to walk out of ror dor (army cadet) exam (thank you @pharawee for the explanation). Also, Thai government is fully dedicated to their plan of using BL as a soft power tool. I am not sure how to feel about the Thai adaptation, Heroin the series, given the production chose to situate the beginning of the story in 2018* (four years after 2014 coup d'Ʃtat). Addicted becoming a propaganda tool in favor of military at the hands of any State is a disturbing scenario to say the least.
*There is a eight year break in the relationship between the main couple in the original novel.
Seems like second season isn't happening. Makes me wonder...
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Link to novel translations.
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