Lock On You official iQIYI Original poster with a soldier behind targeting goggles

Lock On You

TV Series🇹🇭

What happens

Some families send a spoiled son to boarding school. Bai Xinyu's family sends him to a special forces unit. In Lock On You, the young man who used to fill his days with nothing in particular suddenly owns a drill schedule and a bunk, with very little say in either.

The family plan is simple: discipline, and plenty of it. What nobody planned for is Yu Fengcheng, a cold and strict soldier who takes the rules as seriously as Bai once took his free time. The two rub each other the wrong way from the first day, and the training ground gives that irritation a lot of room to grow.

Sweat changes things. Through brutal drills and missions where both of their lives are on the line, Bai grows into a strong soldier, and somewhere along the way he falls for Yu. Then comes the moment the whole story turns on. In a split second of life or death, Yu chooses to protect someone else. Bai is badly wounded, leaves the service and walks away with his heart in pieces.

Only after losing him does Yu understand what he had. The second half of the story belongs to him: a man who has mastered every kind of discipline now has to work hard for the one thing no training manual covers, which is winning back the person he loves.

CONTENT DETAILS

Original Title
Lock On You
Adaptation
Chinese novel 小白杨 (Xiao Bai Yang) by Shui Qiancheng, part of the 188 series.
Themes
Key Themes
Military LifeDiscipline and GrowthRivals to LoversLoss and RegretWinning Love Back
Country
Language
Thai
Networks

Before You Watch

  • Platform: an iQIYI Original BL from Thailand, with the iQIYI Original badge on the official poster.
  • Reveal: the leads were introduced on stage at iQIYI iJOY Thailand 2027 at ICONSIAM in Bangkok on 5 November 2026.
  • Universe: the story belongs to Shui Qiancheng’s 188 series, a shared world that runs to eleven works.
  • Release: iQIYI has not announced a premiere date or an episode count yet.

Reviewed by Renkaze

Uff, a BL with boots on. Lock On You takes a rich boy who has never set an alarm in his life and drops him into special forces training, and this setup made me grin before I reached the end of the premise.

Boot Camp Does the Matchmaking

Military romance works because the setting does half the work. Two people who cannot stand each other still have to share the same mud and the same awful mornings, so by the time respect shows up they already know each other at their worst. Lock On You leans on that, and it gives Bai a proper arc of his own. The story cares about him becoming a responsible adult as much as it cares about who he falls for.

The Twist That Flips the Couple

Here is the part that made me sit up. Most rivals to lovers stories end when the pride breaks. This one breaks the couple instead. Yu protecting someone else in a deadly moment, and Bai paying the price, turns the power balance upside down. The cold one becomes the one doing the chasing, and the one being chased has every reason to keep walking. That is a second act with teeth.

Bai Xinyu and Yu Fengcheng

Nutthawat Eamchuen and Thirawat Sucharitum carry the pairing. On the iJOY stage, the actor cast as Yu called his character layered and complex, a real test of his acting, and promised to do his homework. The actor cast as Bai said he had stayed with the project through several rounds of casting before he learned the part was his, and he signed off with a line every reader of the novel will understand: he loves Bai Xinyu very much.

Why the 188 Name Matters

Shui Qiancheng built the 188 series as a set of stories that share one world, and the producer on stage singled this entry out for its shape: a carefree son who learns to carry responsibility, and two men who lose each other, struggle, and find their way back. iQIYI has already opened one door into the 188 world for Thai audiences, and Lock On You is the next door down the same corridor.

What I Am Watching For

I want the training scenes to feel earned, because the romance only works if we believe Bai has changed. I also want Yu's chase to cost him something real, since a man that disciplined ought to find an apology harder than any obstacle course.

The score waits until Yu has had a full season to make up for that one split second.

My tip: when the life or death moment arrives, watch Bai's face instead of the action. Everything after that scene is built on what he sees there.

Themes and Messages

Lock On You is a story about growing up under pressure. The army takes away every comfort Bai has ever leaned on and replaces it with routine and duty, plus a partner who never cuts him slack. Love grows out of that shared hardship, which is why the betrayal of the crucial moment hurts so much: it happens in the one place where trust is supposed to be absolute.

The second half turns regret into a theme of its own. Yu has to learn that being right about the rules is worth nothing if it costs him the person he loves.

Did You Know?

  • At iJOY Thailand 2027, the 188 segment opened with Copter and Bank on stage, who then handed over to the two new leads of Lock On You.
  • Part of the Lock On You segment was conducted in Mandarin, with the host summing up each answer in Thai for the audience.
  • The official poster frames a soldier behind targeting goggles, with red marks around the lettering, which is where the title earns its pun.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

When and where can I watch Lock On You?

Lock On You is an iQIYI Original, so it will stream on iQIYI. iQIYI has not announced the premiere date yet.

Who plays Bai Xinyu and Yu Fengcheng in Lock On You?

Nutthawat Eamchuen plays Bai Xinyu, and Thirawat Sucharitum plays Yu Fengcheng.

Is Lock On You based on a novel?

Yes. It adapts the Chinese novel 小白杨 (Xiao Bai Yang) by Shui Qiancheng.

Is there a trailer for Lock On You?

Not yet. The leads were presented on stage in the official iJOY Thailand 2027 livestream on the iQIYI Thailand YouTube channel, from about 5:17:17.

What names did the leads use on stage?

The hosts introduced them as Mai Ek and Bonus.

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