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You can watch it here on youtube [WARNING: Episode 21 on youtube has no English subs] or follow this watch list to Dailymotion. Once you get to Dailymotion it's pretty easy to move from one to another. They are making a second season. If you watch this show, be sure to sit through the credits. Apart from outtakes there are also cut scenes I wish they hadn't edited out, like bed wrestling. :D

Ah, where to begin? In my head, I call this show Fashion Model Solves Crimes with assistance from his (alleged platonic) life partner.

Gao Hanyu who plays Bai Yutong, actually was a member of the Cpop group, HIT-5. I think 'fashion model' because the obviously practical clothing of choice for a detective is white, light grey or silver from head to toe no matter what he's doing. ( Even when he attends a party he's wearing a white tailcoat ). I wondered if Ginger Rogers was about to show up?This is of course after he's interrupted a lecture to drag Zhan Yao to the cocktail party with him. Did I mention he drives a white sports car? With a SCI number plate on it? This is obviously the absolute best choice when discreetly tailing people.

Ji Xiaobing plays Zhan Yao who's his oldest friend/rival and a psychologist. Together, they're adorable they fight crime... and stuff!



It's based on a BL crime novel, SCI Mystery Collection where Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao are a couple but of course it being China it got turned into a bromance... yeah. They seem to have forgotten this decision somewhere along the line as neither one of them has a girlfriend or apparently any interest – both look very confused when it's suggested the other one has one – and they spend most of their time manhandling each other and running around together when they're not basically living together -- Everyone knows to look for them at each other's house when in doubt and why wouldn't they be found with one of them stripped down to his underwear working out while the other one meditates? -- or bitching at each other in an 'old couple' way. In case I'm not communicating this drift well enough, the obvious place to discuss crimes is in urinals while using them side-by-side, ( showering in side-by-side stalls ) where they keep stepping around the end of said stalls to make a point *ahem* or hanging out in the sauna together, like you do... Did I mention bed, ( clothing ) and pyjama sharing and even doing your friend's laundry for him because the weather looks nice? ( Did I mention posing for three hours in your underwear so your friend can sketch you? ) I didn't? Well, now I have. :D

Also, also, in the BL novel they call each other Cat (Zhan Yao) and Mouse (Bai Yutong). A drinking game might be spotting all the cat and mouse references in the series including slippers, pyjamas and a sweater.

Fan fiction tropes a go-go! ( Sharing one bed ), accidental child acquisition, wearing each other's clothes, PARTNER WORRY, living together (there's another pairing also living together)... I could go on but I think you should get your own chance to sit there with your mouth hanging open.


There is a plot... of sorts... something, something... serial killer... something, something magic... And there's even an excellent and interesting villain although we don't get to spend very much time with him. Who needs either one when you're basically just watching these two lads running around together, almost dying and declaring their undying affection for each other.

Apart from Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, there's also ( Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen ) and a little ( Ma Han/Chen Jiayi ).

Actually, in general, play spot the het romance. It's quite a hard game and it would leave you sober. The only on-screen one is an absolute train wreck.

Vids: Popped under cuts cos of potential spoilers:

( Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao fanvids )

( Bai Yutong making himself at home at Zhan Yao's place )

( Bai Chi/Zhao Zhen fanvid )

( Ma Han/Chen Jiayi's second meeting )
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