December 17, 2025

The Company | Review

The Company
A couple duo collects antiques in different eras
Notable Actors/Actresses
Liang Jing Kang: Su Bei Lu
Director
Chinese Title
啞捨
Silent House
Genres: Contemporary, "BL", Fantasy
Network: Tencent Video
Year: 2025
Episodes: 30

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Cast


Gao Wei Guang:
Bi Zhi

Liang Jing Kang:
Su Bei Lu
Qin Zi Yi
Zhang Miao Yi:
Miao Tong
Wang You Jun:
Chu Qiu
Mao Xiao Hui:
Ye Liang Yin

Gu Zi Cheng:
Li Ting Sheng
Tang Meng Jia:
He Yi Yao
Zhao Yao Ke:
A Nuan
Li Jia Qi:
Chan Er
Dai Xiang Yu:
Lu Feng
He Yu Hong:
Xia Ze Lan
Yvonne Yung:
Grandma
Ding Xiao Ying:
Gu Huai Jin
Peng Chu Yue:
Gu Bing Yu
Ji Xiao Fei:
Pu Jing Tang
Zhang Chen Xiao:
Chun Ge
Dai Ya Qi:
Ren Xiao Min
Song Hao Yu:
Wei Zhuo Ran
Wang Yi Yao:
Wu Yu Yi
Zhang Qi:
Lao Yu
Fei Qi Ming:
Gu Zhi Qian
Yu Jin Wei:
Zhao Wan Li
Liu Meng Meng:
Ran Zhou Er

Drama Overview & Review


[Drama Info] Season 1 – if it does well – is directed by Zhao Qi Chen who gave us New Life Begins, but also, Go East.

Adapted by Wu Zhi Mo (吳沚默) who is also an (HK) actress. (I've definitely seen the HKdramas she's been in, but cannot remember seeing her in them xD). If you can recognize her, she's in Charmaine Sheh's Queen of News 2 as well. As a screenwriter, though, her resume is relatively slim – just three dramas with her last one being almost ten years ago.

Based on the novel 啞捨 (= Silent House), which has a donghua adaptation. The author, Xuan Se (= Black) is also the director of the donghua.

Wrapped on July 15, 2024.

[Ending] Open Happy


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Ep2-3 || Tang Meng Jia & Gu Zi Cheng || A modern girl who uses a wheelchair meets a general with a lack of women.

Ep4-5 & Ep14-15 || Dai Xiang Yu & He Yu Hong || A modern painter and a historical-era chef fall in love across a time slip. There's a continuation (joined by Lv Xiao Yu).



Ep6-7 || Li Jia Qi & Zhao Yao Ke || An orphaned girl finds comfort and protection in a mermaid goddess jiejie.

Ep8-9 || Ding Xiao Ying, Peng Chu Yue & Ji Xiao Fei || Two siblings go, but only one returns. The men are left to mourn the sister they lost and the woman they loved.

Ep10-11 & 25 || Liang Jing Kang & Cui Yi Xin || Can Su Bei Lu rescue his parents from the past?


Ep16-18 || Zhang Chen Xiao & Dai Ya Qi || A timid veterinarian and an outgoing vet nurse lead ordinary modern lives until he begins experiencing vivid wuxia dream to level up his confidence.


Ep19-21 || Wang Yi Yao, Song Hao Yu & Zhang Qi || A Republican Clue night

Ep22-23 || Fei Qi Ming, Yu Jin Wei & Liu Meng Meng || Two pen-painting-pals; a failure inspiring a drunkard. Motivational.

Ep26-30 [Main Story] || Zhang Miao Yi & Wang You Jun & Mao Xiao Hui || Saved by time. Don't think too hard, and it's all good Happy (slightly open) ending.


[Review & Rating] By cynlynn.
This Company is an overwhelming sense of lost potential. On paper, it sounds fascinating: subtle BL, time travel, and a string of side stories about fate, love across eras, and inevitability. In execution, it’s disappointingly hollow. Big ideas, thin emotions. I'm intrigued at the start of every side story and ready for it to end two minutes later.

––––BL & Ending Spoilers––––

As a BL, the romance...doesn’t really romance. Bi Zhi isn’t loving the same person across time. He’s falling for a different man because Su Bei Lu has the same face as his ex friend. Su Bei Lu and Qin Zi Yi are not the same person. It’s basically watching a guy fall for a new girlfriend because she looks like his ex. 

The alternative reading is that the ending (SPOILER) suggests Su Bei Lu was always “the one” when he time-travelled and shook Bi Zhi’s heart hand. But Bi Zhi and Qin Zi Yi shared more meaningful moments beyond that handshake-day. Their connection wasn’t built on one instant.

The alternative alternative reading is that BL was never the intention. They just had two guy friends checking off all the rom-com tropes. That’s all.

Rating: 1/5


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