Love is More Than a Word 识汝不识丁 (2016) (Chinese BL Period Piece Web Series)

[GingerCake]

It's a BL story in the field of officialdom.

 

 

Title: Love is More Than a Word 识汝不识丁

Genre: Period Drama, Historical Fiction

Release Date: August 2016

Starring (New actors):

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[Main cast first photo shooting]

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[Actors' costumes display]

 

[Film location scouting]

 

Director:

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(Director of Like Love 1 & 2)

Original Novel Author:

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Official Weibo:

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[Strawberries_Senpai]

Any summary?

[GingerCake]

Any summary?

 

My translation of the synopsis:

 

"Tao Mo is a playful guy with a good family background. He had spent 5000 bucks to buys a county magistrate position in Tanyang. Tanyang is a well known place for barristers because both of the top barristers, Lin ZhengYong and Yi Chui are staying at there.

 

Tao Mo is illiterate and uneducated, but he is truly repentant and hopes to become a dedicated magistrate for the sake of his father that already passed away. Not long after he took up the official post, he met Gu She, a student of the top barrister, Yi Chui, and having some feelings with him. Gu She is narcissistic and indulge in self admiration, however the way of how honest is Tao Mo in judging and handling cases in his own way has caught Gu She's attention towards Tao Mo.

 

It looks like just an ordinary story of how determined is Tao Mo to becomes a good magistrate for his father, but there are many mysteries that lying at behind.

 

What's the reason behind of the death of Tao Mo's father?

What's happening on Tao's family actually?

What's the real identity of Gu She?

Why did Yi Yu, the betrayer keep pestering Tao Mo?

 

Every single mystery will leads to a truth, and it will be reveals one by one."

 

 

*Correct me if there are any mistakes.

*Tao Mo is uke, while Gu She is seme.

[GingerCake]

The main leads' individual posters are out:

 

Jiang ZiLe 蒋梓乐 as Tao Mo 陶墨

 

Yan ZiDong 晏紫东 as Gu She 顾射

[Aoko321]

I cant wait for this!!

[314]

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could you share the novel link?

[GingerCake]

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could you share the novel link?

 

I'm not sure if there is any translated version.

If you are looking for the raw novel in Mandarin, here it is:

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[GingerCake]

All of the supporting characters:

 

 

Kong ChuiNan 孔垂楠 as Chen WenDi 陈文帝

(Looks familiar? He is one of the main lead from Like Love! He is also the producer of this series!)

 

Li TianZhu 李天柱 as Lao Tao 老陶

(A veteran actor from Taiwan, best leading actor in 2006)

 

Lu Zhuo 卢卓 as Hao GuoZi 郝果子

 

Jiang Long 蒋龙 as Cai FengYuan 蔡丰源

 

Zhang HaoRan 张皓然 as Cui Jiong 崔炯

 

Wang XuDong 王旭东 as Ling Yang Wang 凌阳王

 

Liao JingFeng 廖劲锋 as Duan Mu Hui Chun 端木回春

 

Liu YiChen 刘亦宸 as Gu XiaoJia 顾小甲

 

[GingerCake]

Some new pics of Gu She:

 

 

 

[314]

aww thank you

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. haha i'll just read the raw using google translate

[Zeh]

Oh wow, someone dare to make a Chinese BL historical film?! I'm still too deep into the Addicted pit, even more so since the decoupling on 4.17. How are there so many BL films coming out with all the restrictions and ban placed on Addicted and the actors?

[GingerCake]

Oh wow, someone dare to make a Chinese BL historical film?! I'm still too deep into the Addicted pit, even more so since the decoupling on 4.17. How are there so many BL films coming out with all the restrictions and ban placed on Addicted and the actors?

 

Not sure about the regulation, but most of it has started filming, finished filming, or already under preparation before the tightening of the censorship. So, in my opinion, they've put so much effort on it, thus, they will still find a way to release it no matter how. However, you still can see the impact on it. For instances, Revive web series has been manipulated into BG, Queer Beauty movie and Yandaixie Street web series, which are targeted to be released in April has been postponed until further notice, and also the cancellation of Counterattack 2 and Like Love 3 web series. Anyhow, during this hard time, glad that they are not giving up easily in producing BL movies/series.

[Strawberries_Senpai]

I absolutely can not wait to see this series! Does anyone know the release date?

[veroniica]

they are very cute!!

[GingerCake]

They have filmed the marriage scene. :cuteonion55:

 

Some random pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[unlove]

Neat pics, this is gonna be hot. >.

 

What is it gonna be about anyway? Can somebody please summarize the plot?

[Strawberries_Senpai]

Any more news about this breath taking drama?

[GingerCake]

Any more news about this breath taking drama?

 

They've finished filming this, just wait for the release. =)

[naruto401]

Yay. Excited to see them. I just wish hope that Kong ChuiNan doesnt have similar roles as in his previous movies...it gets boring the way he appears as if he were dominant ..without any slight feelings of compromise...

 

also I like this historical idea.. they look so cool in those outfits and I really hope there is some sort of depth to the story as well.

[shibahi]

i just saw the director chen peng's filming schedule on his weibo and love is more than a word is only the first of FOUR planned bl adaptations, and the others seem to be historical as well (?). i'm rather impressed, but it makes his decision to discontinue like love even more sad everytime i see a new bl from chen peng

[shibahi]

they are going for an august release. this is the official poster and its beautiful

 

the 4 male leads have gone on to film the next project with the same director. i'm even more excited about this now, knowing the that producers are really invested in these guys

[Panda01]

Looks interesting :Dancing:

[Zeh]

I saw an article from China Daily that this series is banned?!

 

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If so, this is unfortunately, it seems like they spent a good budget on the set

[ovi]

Cannot read Chinese so I have Google to translate it for me. TT__TT I'm crying. Hopefully, it's not true. Why oh why. I was anticipating this since last May. I think I've watched all BTS vids in YouTube, and now it's cancelled?! Please no

[Boboya]

From what was written in the weibo entry picture, the series was already banned by Central even before they started filming because of the storyline but the production team changed it into Ancient theme and went through with the filming thinking it was ok. Which resulted in squat since the storyline was already banned before it even started filming.

 

Of course that's just a partial of the article.