针锋对决|决对争锋|Beloved Enemy

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I thought I'd put my most recent obsession here. It's a Chinese BL called 针锋对决 by 水千丞. The English name is Beloved Enemy.

Here's a summary from mydramalist.com "Right on elite businessman Gu Qing Pei’s first day of work at his new workplace, the chairman throws his vigorous and arrogant son Yuan Yang at him. Yuan Yang sees through Qing Pei’s hypocrite mask, but due to his father pressuring him, he can’t hit him. Therefore, Yuan Yang learns for the first time that there are things that can’t be taken care of by money or fists. He continuously tries to get Qing Pei into trouble, but Qing Pei sees it lightly and calmy resolves every issue. However, things are about to change when Yuan Yang asks his friends to do a background check on Qing Pei and finally finds his achilles heel."

There's a webshow adapted from the novel, it's called 决对争锋 because to get past Chinese censorship laws they had to strip out all of the BL and change the relationship between Gu Qing Pei and Yuan Yang's relationship to bromance.

A List of Resources:

The original novel in Chinese. (There are translations of the novel available on Wattpad)
The webshow is on youtube with English subtitles.
The radio play adapted from the novel with English translations.
The stage play with scenes from the novel put on by the original cast of the webshow with English subs.
The behind the scene footage of the webshow.
The funny extras from the studio behind the webshow.

I might try my hand at translating my favourite moments from the novel and maybe a character analysis of Yuan Yang? Who knows.

Also I feel like I need to put up a massive rape warning for those wanting to read the novel.