Addicted, also known as Heroin, is a 2016 web series based on the boys' love novel Are You Addicted? by Chai Jidan. The series premiered on 29 January 2016, and aired for three episodes weekly until 23 February 2016 when it was banned by Chinese authorities.
Ever since he was young, Bai Luo Yin has been living with his careless but loving father, Bai Han Qi, and his sick grandmother. When he turned 16 years old, his biological mother Jiang Yuan remarried. Her new husband is a high-ranking military official, Gu Wei Ting. Because of his mother's death, Gu Wei Ting's son, Gu Hai, has been harboring a deep grudge towards his father. By the random hand of fate, the two step-brothers with wildly conflicting emotional backgrounds were placed in the same class at a Beijing high school, without knowing each other's background at first. With time, they slowly developed a special feeling toward one another. Their classmates, You Qi and Yang Meng, had been instrumental in the relationship. At times, over the course of the series some friends mention that an abbreviated combination of the boys names Hai and Luo Yin sound like “Heroin”.
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Reception
The show garnered about 10 million views the day after its initial online release, making it the second most-watched show on iQiyi However, just three episodes before the season finale, all episodes of the drama were removed from all Chinese video streaming websites by the order of SAPPRFT, and are no longer accessible to Chinese viewers. A few days later, these last three episodes of the first season were uploaded to the official YouTube channel of Huace Film & TV, accessible to viewers outside of mainland China. On April 17, 2016, it was revealed that its planned second season was permanently shelved, and China has banned the two actors from appearing on screen together. The last time they were seen together in public was during a fan meeting in Thailand. In a brief moment when they did come together, they were quickly pulled apart by security guards. On June 21, 2019, the author of the original novel posted pictures on Weibo and responded to user's questions by saying that filming for season two has started in Taiwan. It is rumored that the cast has been changed.
