This drama was adapted from a danmei novel, and it has a huge following among fans of the book.
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Borrowed from Japanese tanbi, "indulging in beauty", first the name of an aestheticist literary school. Japanese fans applied it to manga about love between men, and Chinese fans took the word over in the 1990s; readers of the genre call themselves 腐女, from Japanese fujoshi.
culture
The genre's main home is 女频 sites such as 晋江. Chinese TV may not show romance between men, so screen adaptations such as 陈情令 (2019) turn the couple into sworn friends.
