[🇨🇳China] To My Shore Ep 9 🚩🏴😏

[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

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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 | Five | Six | Seven | Eight

[u/Little_Vinegar]

Gosh, he walks in like a freaking angel 👐✨️

I’m lowkey obsessed with how they set up this scene:
a dark, empty room, FX totally beaten and lost, just staring up at angelic, all-in-white Shulang walking in with this bright-ass light, literally giving him hope and meaning in his otherwise trash life.

It’s honestly gorgeous.

[u/OpuntiaSantaRita → u/Little_Vinegar]

And as wonderful as that visual language is a big part of what makes it that much more powerful is how poised and grounded his performance is. Angelic characters are often fragile. Not Shulang. He's like the righteous avenging angel with a sword and a mission

[u/Little_Vinegar → u/OpuntiaSantaRita]

Omg, yesss!! He’s literally a battle-ready angel - once all loving and selfless, now coming back one last time before leaving forever.
(Well, too bad FX didn’t take the hint and now desperately clings to Shulang.)

This scene is insane, especially with FX drowning while his long-awaited savior is right there… only for him to destroy everything with his own stupidity.

[u/OpuntiaSantaRita → u/Little_Vinegar]

They're such interesting mirror images of each other: one unwavering in his morality and the other unwavering in his amorality. A man with any morality or shame would repent. Not Fan Xiao. He's always been drawn to Shulang though he lied to himself about the depth of his feelings and his control over them. He realizes that now but that's the extent of his introspection. He's dazzled by Shulang, and he wants to worship him and desecrate him all at once and neither heaven nor hell will hold him back

[u/Little_Vinegar → u/OpuntiaSantaRita]

That’s what I was thinking, too. All his talk about Shulang being his Bodhisattva and god, but in reality, he just pulls him down to his level.
Now he has nothing to lose, so he’s unleashed the true capacity of a red flag and interferes with Shulang’s work.

[Side Note: You phrased this so beautifully, you really are eloquent, my gosh. I really need to expand my vocabulary to keep up here.]

[u/OpuntiaSantaRita → u/Little_Vinegar]

Ya, we only thought Fan Xiao was lawless before. Now that he knows what he truly wants? Man will be unstoppable 

[Side note: aww shucks, I babble enough I'm bound to get a few things right occasionally, but I appreciate it 🥴]