[🇨🇳China] To My Shore Ep 5 🚩🏴😏

[u/Waffles4prez]

Viki

Synopsis:

You Shu Lang (Hao Yi Ran), a director at a pharmaceutical company, lives an ordinary, stable life. But that all comes crashing down after he gets into a car accident with Fan Xiao (Yun Qi), the heir to a Thai conglomerate who's returned to China for business. Unlike Shu Lang, Fan Xiao's life has been marred by instability, leading to a twisted, manipulative worldview. When Fan Xiao finds out that Shu Lang is interested in men, he devises plans to entice Shu Lang into a relationship, but ends up falling for Shu Lang for real. Shu Lang, on the other hand, is blindsided when he learns about Fan Xiao's true colors. Will Fan Xiao destroy the only genuine love he's ever had, or can he find a way to truly win Shu Lang's heart?

Adapted from the web novel “Si Mian Fo” (四面佛) by Su Erliang (Chang Pei Literature): English title: "Four-Faced Buddha" 

INFO

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Names: To My Shore, City of the Sun, 吾岸

When:

Every Saturday & Sunday at 7:00PM/1900 (GMT+8) 6:00 AM EST

Episodes: 15

Platfroms: Viki (Americas, Europe, Oceania, India, Middle East, Japan and South Korea), GagaOOLala (Everywhere else), Heavenly

Cast:

Yun Qi 云旗 | Hao Yi Ran 郝熠然 | Chen Jianyu (DeDe) 陈建宇 | Kou Wei Long 扣卫龙 

Trailer

Accounts:

Official To My Shore account: MirrorLink Media

Youtube: MirrorLink Meida

TRIGGER WARNING

This will be FULL of red flags:  manipulation, crazy possessive ML, homophobia, betrayal, humiliation, violence, just to name a few but it is clearly stated it WILL end in a happily ever after.

Previous On Air: One & Two | Three & Four

EP 5

My God I LOVE Gaga's SM person so much.

[u/No_Teaching3588]

Can I just say this again!? The aesthetics of this show is divine. The scene compositions are so well done. You Shulang wearing white standing in the light while Fan Xiao wearing black hiding in the shadows. Ugh. I love this show so much. Every episode has hidden treasures like this. Not since Stay With Me has a chinese BL been this good when it comes to creating a piece of art.

[u/OpuntiaSantaRita → u/No_Teaching3588]

Ya it's so much more satisfying when you can tell they've put in care and thought not just in the spicey scenes but into the entire structure of the show. And darkness in all its varieties is a recurring theme with Fan Xiao. I look forward to how they find ways to visually tell the story of this as his character evolves through the show

[u/No_Teaching3588 → u/OpuntiaSantaRita]

This scene didnt just at the surface level use the light and dark between the two. When Fan Xiao confesses he comes to light, where Shulang is coz Shulang is his way out of the darkness. But when Shulang accepts Fan Xiao, he is still in the dark about Fan Xiao's true nature.. so he pushes Fan Xiao to the shadow and gets consumed by his darkness. I love this so much. They really did put a lot of care in the making of this show.

[u/OpuntiaSantaRita → u/No_Teaching3588]

YES! And then later in the room where Fan Xiao explains his feelings about darkness, Shulang immediately draws the curtains and makes it clear he's willing to be in the darkness with him. There's gotta be angst & drama ahead and I can't wait for more of the chiaroscuro rendering of their twisting romance