#Ye Guang

[gabrielokun]

[queer-media-recs]

[theweebwithgoldenhands]

A cute romance to go through the cold winter ヾ(•ω•`)o

 

ABOUT YOUTH (Romance/High School/Slice of life) 2022 – 8 episodes

Taïwanese BL

Rating: 10/10

You’re sulking because of the Autumn rain and the days getting cooler and cooler? Or do you feel like your life is plain and as tasteless as the rain you’re seeing outside every time you go out? Times like this call for a sweet high school romance, and About youth is THE drama that will enlighten your day! Enjoy the innocence of a beautiful love between two teenagers and their friends who try to find their place in this world for a beautiful journey that will lighten your mood!  

Ye Guang and Xu Qi Zhang have nothing in common apart from the fact that they go to the same high school. Qi Zhang has his eyes on Ye Guang but the latter only knew about his existence way later. Starting with a very caring friendship, the two boys will go through what life brings as hardship at this period of time with the most supportive attitude. Discovering love at the same time, the sweetness of their relationship contrasts well with the maturity and the depth of the one their two friends will experience together.

Exploring feelings of love through the eyes of inexperienced yet thoughtful young men, this drama gives a flowery touch through a story that has darker shades subtly hiding behind the bubble light of the plot. Very soft in appearance, it goes at the bottom of subjects as being a high schooler with expectations on their shoulders, with dreams, weaknesses, and a soft point for thrills that makes them do mistakes before they think. If the drama gives you mainly the softness and cuteness you are looking for in a high school romance, it also delivers just the right amount of spice and heaviness you need to make it interesting and well-balanced.

Adding to the extremely well-written script, the excellence of the acting and the execution makes it a top-tier drama that shouldn’t be missed out! Never giving you too much or too little, you will be yearning for that delicate yet simple sweetness the relationship between those two couples of four boys makes you feel during those way-too-short eight episodes.

Lovers of non-complicated romances that are more oriented on the feelings the couple will develop than the external difficulties they will go through, make yourself a big cup of hot chocolate and get that warm blanket you use for movie nights because you will need it: you won’t be able to stop once you’ve started!

[brysbeddixt]

Okay I just binged About Youth and I loved it, but I have a Problem. Why didn’t Ye Guang ever find out that Qizhang was his black tea angel?? Especially since Qizhang used the EXACT SAME KIND OF TAG for the soup that he kept putting on the tea?? And then eventually the tea just…isn’t a thing anymore?? It could have been super cute to have Ye Guang find out that Qizhang was the person leaving him tea the whole time!!

[7-starboi]

About youths ending was the gayest thing ever and I’m here for it 😂🌈

[asexualannoyance]

i want Ye Guang's parents - but especially his father - to drop dead immediately

[doublxpresso]

throwing flowers to a beautiful man 🌹

[aeon-uriel]

[hyxsn]

fuck the person who

1) made the headcanon that lu guang and cheng xiaoshi were dating in the first timeline and

2) made the headcanon that lu guang is easily flustered by cheng xiaoshi's antics in the first timeline

because you ruined my life,

now i cant stop thinking about how innocent and tender their love was. i cant stop thinking about them meeting each other at the basketball court for the first time. i cant stop thinking about them anticipating the next time they meet at the court. their eyes meeting as they pass each other in the school hallways. their declarations of love and their first kiss.

i cant stop thinking about cheng xiaoshi giving lu guang gifts regularly, and lu guang giving gifts back. i cant stop thinking about the days they spent just coexisting in silence, their comfort space expanding to the two of them. i cant stop thinking about the endless conversations that fall out of cheng xiaoshi, and how lu guang would listen and remember every single word and detail from him. i cant stop thinking about every time they saw either one hurt, theyd drop everything to make sure the other is okay.

i cant stop thinking about cheng xiaoshi holding lu guang, and how lu guang would initially get flustered before slowly getting used to it. how lu guangs cold skin would be warmed by the skin of cheng xiaoshi's. how his body would feel unfamiliar without cheng xiaoshi touching him. how they look at each other as they share their first times together.

i cant stop thinking about cheng xiaoshi convincing lu guang to move in with him. i cant stop thinking about the dates, the shared meals, the boba teas, the sunsets and sunrises they watched together. i cant stop thinking about how happy they were, how clueless they were, how much lu guang had smiled the moment cheng xiaoshi entered his life.

i cant stop thinking about lu guangs reaction when it dawns on him that cheng xiaoshi, the first and final love of his life, was dying in his arms so suddenly, the promises cheng xiaoshi made to spend his future with him by his side shattering as he watches the life from cheng xiaoshi's eyes fade.

oh, to have love like that.

[daily-linkclick]

daily link click: 9/7/23

link click is a comedy if you look away enough

[gabrielokun]

[queer-media-recs]

[falling-star-cygnus]

i love that Lu Guang is this super put together looking character, very cool-faced, and broody... -> and then you see his 'no idea what's goin on' eyes and the fact that he's genuinely ready to cut a bitch at any given moment, despite:

A: he's not a particularly good fighter and B: he's literally the sweetest character in the franchise unless you could possibly be a threat to Cheng Xiaoshi or Qiao Ling

[ao3dorian-gay]

chase you to the end of the world — just to say your name once more // orpheus & eurydice — lu guang & cheng xiaoshi

hozier, “talk” | hadestown, "wait for me" | michael gibson, orpheus and eurydice | euripides, orestes

[curestaarlight]

ok i have many a link click thoughts but they are hardly coherent,, I've just been thinking about lu guang and his love languages and i feel like acts of service? perhaps?

two moments of this is buying cxs boba (which could technically count as gift giving but to me going out of ur way to get an extra drink for a loved one IS also an act of service), and then in the manhua he makes cxs dumplings just cos cxs offhandedly says he's craving them during a dive.

acts of service being the way he expresses love makes sense to me; lu guang is more reserved and strikes me as someone who goes about showing their devotion to others in quiet but meaningful ways <3

[movielosophy]

A Journey To Love | I just love seeing LTG being scolded