Tencent is going craaaaazy with promoting and supporting Lost You Forever. There weren’t much promos prior to the close to premiere date confirmation of the airing on July 24th then the platform went into overdrive. The official drama weibo has been on fire since premiere with so many posts, goodies, BTS, and leaning into every buzzy response to the drama, including fan love for gone too soon adorably useless Fei Fei and the asshole white bird that is Furball, namely when he turns into a round but still asshole-y fluff munchkin form. Tencent has used these two to commemorate LYF breaking 31,000 on the platform officially making it the hottest drama of the year 2023 so far. That its done so despite the first part of the story being in the comparatively idyllic Qing Shui Town portion of the story even more impressive, goes to show audiences love and appreciate the care it takes to set the stage properly before the action really takes off. For your enjoyment, check out the cute as beans GIFs of bossy Furball and clueless Fei Fei.
Fei Fei – NOOOO 🙁 Furball is also so cute. The CGI is honestly horrid in the drama so far (4 episodes in) but they’re just so darn adorable.
Tencent’s 罚站楼 promotion is so funny, you should cover it. They even added the bird.
It’s fun now when she is a man and I will miss Qingshui Town once they leave but the book plot gets cliched after she turns back into a woman with still 60 epidodes to go. I can’t imagine why Tencent thinks taking a 5 day break is a good idea when there are so many episodes and they need to keep momentum or it will be like Immortal Samsara when people get tired of the melodrama halfway since the book’s plot is known
oh then you will be upset to know that they split the drama into part 1 and part 2, to be aired 3 months apart due to some new broadcasting rules in China. So we won’t be getting the ending until Nov/Dec if all goes well… kind of a deterrent to watch this drama whilst it airs tbh…
Really? Didn’t LLTG air back to back? China’s government is really dumb, it’s like they want to prevent their own dramas from airing well and bore everyone to death. Hundreds of millions sunk into BL dramas and they can’t air just because. The economy isn’t doing well why are they trying to waste all the investors’ money like this jesus
@anon – yes LLTG aired back to back. They implemented this 3 month rule soon after. The initial rule was limiting dramas to x episodes, but then dramas just made “seasons” that aired one after another. So now, to address the loophole, they’re saying “seasons” must be aired at least 3 months apart. I’m not sure the rationale, maybe to make sure people don’t get too obsessive or out of hand? As a drama viewer that is super impatient, I hate this new rule. I’m trying my best to just wait until the second season starts before diving in.
Also, LLTG got seriously edited to abide by the new rules,this is why its last episodes were so weirdly edited. To be honest, I think I will wait for this one to be over and then decide whether to watch it or not, just to be sure I won’t be throwing my time away.
Drama is not as good as the novel.. not knowing the identity of the different main character is what make the story compelling. All the hints and how the drama start take away the suspense.
TBH all the Chinese readers knew the characters identities or could guess in the first three chapters so there was little to no suspense in that.
Lost You Forever is the direct sequel to Once Promised and Tong Hua said LYF is the story of the two kids. And in the book blurb for LYF it gives away that Xiao Yao is Xiao Liu and you can guess Xuan is Zhuan Xu/Cang Xuan right off the bat as he’s not getting tortured to an inch of his life and he’s also not a demon and also the story points out that he loves his little sister Ah Nian very much and spoils her rotten i.e. he’s a sister slave.
I do love the book’s more subtle builds but just wanted to point out the writer didn’t keep anything in suspense to the readers by revealing the characters in the book blurb already. I read LYF as having no suspense as to the characters and background situations, but rather the beauty in watching the story slowly unfold.
I am happy for Deng Wei, after the ridiculous work he was given in Till the End of the Moon (which I obsessively watched and enjoyed to some extent inspite all of the nonsense, but DW’s character in it was a useless idiot – all of his characters, really).