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BLGLFlix editorial view

Four credits in three years and every one of them sits in a category that mainland Chinese broadcast regulation does not permit as such. Danmei adaptations are made anyway, shot in China with Chinese casts, then routed to overseas platforms and to audiences who find them regardless. What that produces is a specialised working actor: someone whose entire professional record consists of productions his own domestic television will not carry in the form they were written.

His role points at the structure of the series. Qin Lang is half of a second couple running parallel to the leads, and the younger version of Cheng Yichen is played by a different actor from the one who plays him grown up. A dual-timeline adaptation needs two performers for the same person, and the supporting pairing exists to carry the timeline the leads are not in. It is a demanding thing to cast and an easy thing to get wrong.

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