Double Helix (2026) official poster featuring Ayden Sng as Lu Feng and Lyu Sitong as Cheng Yichen — Chinese BL drama

Double Helix

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What happens

Lu Feng (Ayden Sng) is the rebellious heir of a wealthy family, used to getting what he wants and equally used to being told what his life is supposed to look like. Cheng Yichen (Lyu Sitong) is careful, hard-working and more or less invisible until Lu Feng decides otherwise. Years earlier the two were together, until a single secretly taken photograph reached their families. The reaction was immediate. Lu Feng was sent abroad to the United States, Yichen changed schools, and neither had the chance to explain himself.

The reunion comes on the worst possible terms. Lu Feng returns as the new executive director of the company where Yichen works in the design department, so the man he lost is now on his payroll. What follows is a love-and-hate spiral of pride, resentment and unfinished feeling, pressed from every side by family expectation and an arranged engagement neither man asked for. Running parallel to the present day is an earlier timeline, where Cheng Yichen (He Jiashu) appears as his younger self and Qin Lang (Fa Xuange) carries a storyline that mirrors the main pair's. Zhuo Lan (Li Keyi), Lu Yu (Yang Kexin) and Zhu Sha (Miao Jingou) complete the circle of family and friends.

The series is adapted from Lan Lin's danmei web-novel series A Round Trip to Love (双程系列), a Chinese and Singaporean production that follows the 2016 two-part film version of the same story. Li Yingyi directed for Here We Go Production Company. It premiered on GagaOOLala on 8 May 2026 and closed on 13 June 2026 after twelve episodes, streaming worldwide outside Japan and South Korea.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
双程
Original Title
Double Helix
Also Known As
双程, Shuang Cheng, Shuāng Chéng, A Round Trip to Love, Double Helix The Series
Adaptation
Adapted from the Chinese danmei (boys' love) web-novel series "A Round Trip to Love" (双程系列 / Shuang Cheng) by author Lan Lin (蓝淋). The story was previously adapted into the 2016 "A Round Trip to Love" live-action film duology; the 2026 Double Helix is a new full-length series remake of the same source novel.
Themes
Key Themes
First LoveForbidden LoveReunionSecond ChancesFamily PressureObsessionLove and HateClass DifferenceWorkplace RomanceAngstMelodramaSeparation
Language
Mandarin
Director
Li Yingyi
Original Author
Lan Lin
Seasons
1
Episodes
12
Duration
44 min
Aired Start
Aired End
Release Year
Content Rating
15+

Where to watch Double Helix

GagaOOLalaYouTube

MAIN CAST & CHARACTERS

SUPPORTING CAST

Before You Watch

  • Double Helix (双程) is a 2026 Chinese and Singaporean BL drama adapted from Lan Lin’s danmei novel series A Round Trip to Love, with 12 episodes released on GagaOOLala from 8 May to 13 June 2026.
  • Lead pairing: Singaporean actor Ayden Sng as wealthy heir Lu Feng and Lyu Sitong as Cheng Yichen.
  • A remake: the same novel was filmed as the 2016 A Round Trip to Love two-part movie, and this is a full-length series version.
  • The plot: a couple separated by a leaked photograph and family pressure meet again years later as company executive director (Lu Feng) and design-department employee (Cheng Yichen).
  • Where to watch: GagaOOLala worldwide except Japan and South Korea, with a YouTube playlist also listed.
  • Soundtrack: insert songs include “Requisite” (必选题) performed by the four leads, “Are You There” (在吗) by Ayden Sng and Lyu Sitong, and “Become an Addiction” (成瘾) by Yang Kexin.

Reviewed by Renkaze

7.5/10

Double Helix is the second screen version of Lan Lin's danmei novel series A Round Trip to Love, after a two-part film in 2016. It keeps the novel's mix of separation, obsession and an unwanted reunion, and it plays that material as angst-forward melodrama: a leaked photograph, a forced separation, an arranged engagement and a boardroom reunion between the boss and the employee he once lost.

Ayden Sng gives Lu Feng a possessive, wounded intensity, and Lyu Sitong plays Cheng Yichen as the quieter anchor. The company reunion, with the boss and the employee he once lost facing each other across a desk, is the series' central set piece.

Final Score: 7.5/10

Double Helix gave a novel that had only reached the screen as a two-part film the room of twelve episodes.

The episodes were released in pairs, with both opening episodes arriving on 8 May 2026 and the rest following on consecutive Fridays and Saturdays until the finale on 13 June 2026. That is more than one episode a week, so the run closed within 36 days.

The lead role is a double first for Ayden Sng, who makes his BL drama debut here and takes his first leading role in the Chinese market. He signed with the Chinese agency Mejoy Entertainment in an announcement made in April 2026, a month before the premiere.

This one is built on intensity. The male lead is dominant and unmistakably so, and from the moment he falls for a student every part of his life is arranged around that one person. The devotion is total and the series never scales it back down.

Family pressure is the opposing force. The separation, the years abroad, and still nothing is forgotten. Some of what he does in response is extreme enough to reach his own family, and the show follows that through instead of looking away. It comes from the A Round Trip to Love novels and the melodrama register is inherited honestly: twelve episodes of angst, reunion and second chances played at full volume. This one belongs near the top of a watchlist.

Themes

Almost nothing that separates or reunites these two men is something either of them does. The first break arrives as a photograph taken by somebody else. The relationship is not confessed, it is documented, and the document travels without them. Neither gets the chance to explain, because an image needs no explanation to the people who receive it.

The reunion works the same way. Lu Feng does not find Cheng Yichen again, he is installed above him. The private authority of a wealthy family has been converted into an organisational chart, and the imbalance the parents enforced is now enforced by a payroll. An arranged engagement adds a third instrument on top of that.

Read this way the series is less about two people who cannot stay apart than about how many forms authority will take while producing the same result. School, family, company and engagement say one thing in four vocabularies. What the two men want for themselves has to be argued against paperwork every time, and paperwork is the one opponent that cannot be talked round.

Interesting facts

  • A double first for its lead. Double Helix is Ayden Sng's debut in a BL drama and his first leading role in the Chinese market.

How it was made

Ayden Sng's casting as Lu Feng was followed by an announcement in April 2026 that he had signed with the Chinese agency Mejoy Entertainment. Double Helix is a China and Singapore co-production, and its lead took representation in the mainland market as well as at home.

Promotion ran on the same cross-border footing. In May 2026, shortly before the premiere, Sng hosted his co-star Lyu Sitong in Singapore, and the two went sightseeing together.

Alongside Fa Xuange, He Jiashu, Li Keyi, Yang Kexin and Miao Jing'ou, Qiu Ziyi and Long Jiayu are credited in supporting roles.

OFFICIAL TRAILER

OFFICIAL OST

Episode guide: Double Helix

12 / 12 episodes aired · Completed
EP 1
08 May 2026
Aired
EP 2
08 May 2026
Aired
EP 3
15 May 2026
Aired
EP 4
16 May 2026
Aired
EP 5
22 May 2026
Aired
EP 6
23 May 2026
Aired
EP 7
29 May 2026
Aired
EP 8
30 May 2026
Aired
EP 9
05 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 10
06 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 11
12 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 12
13 Jun 2026
Aired

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why do two characters appear to share a name?

They romanise identically but are written differently. Lyu Sitong plays Cheng Yichen (程亦辰) and He Jiashu plays Cheng Yichen (程亦晨). The final character differs, 辰 against 晨, so the Chinese distinguishes two people that the romanisation collapses into one.

Has this novel been filmed before?

Yes, as a two-part film. Lan Lin's 双程 series was adapted into the 2016 A Round Trip to Love live-action duology, and this 2026 production is a new full-length series remake of the same source.

How were the twelve episodes scheduled?

In pairs. Both opening episodes arrived on 8 May 2026, and the series then ran two at a time on consecutive Friday and Saturday releases through to 13 June.

Who directed and who stars?

Li Yingyi directed for Here We Go Production Company. Ayden Sng plays Lu Feng (陆风) opposite Lyu Sitong as Cheng Yichen, and Fa Xuange appears as Qin Lang (秦朗).

Where can it be watched?

On GagaOOLala worldwide except Japan and South Korea. A YouTube playlist is also listed, and the series carries a 15+ classification.

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