I feel Uncle Unknown is what you expect from a short series and a BL from China where their is censorship laws. I won’t say this is the best series that I’ve seen, but I will say that they tried to work with what they were allowed to do and what they were given. I will say that this show made me have second couple syndrome again. There may be spoilers so be aware.
The plot literally jumped right into the storyline without any warnings. It started with Shi Ran was at a bar partying with his friend group and evening trying to pull some ladies, but while he was going to leave he saw someone he thinks he might know so he stumbles and tries to catch up to him and guess what it’s his ex Qi Yi. Then they ended up in Qi Yi’s home and Shi Ran was saying that he doesn’t want to be with him anymore since he just randomly disappeared from his life and Qi Yi explained which was that he was in a comma and once he got to use his phone Shi Ran had already blocked him and he couldn’t message him anymore. Then overtime they start hanging out with each other and they both develop their feelings again for each other and they start to date, but what they didn’t know was that they were related. One day Shi Ran was going to meet his little uncle and then Qi Yi showed up out of no where and started to tease him. Then I guess the public knew that they were related since they are a wealthy family and Shi Rans friend gave picks of them together at the bar to his mom and once she found out about it she was upset and said they can’t be together and even begged them to break up, but they still didn’t want to until they said they would for the sake of Shi Ran’s mother and she believed it until she found out about them. I’m so happy that Shi Ran’s mother did accept their relationship in the end and they got engaged and are know living together.
I have second couple syndrome because I personally feel the second couple had a lot of chemistry and they were so cute together even though they weren’t technically a couple. By the way Im not a hundred percent on what their names are but they are the friends of both of the main leads. I’m not sure what Shi Ran’s friend’s name is and Qi Yi’s friends name is Cheng Xi. One scene where I literally fell in love with them was when Cheng Xi lost his necklace at the beach and Shi Ran’s friend went to help him find it and wasn’t going to stop until he found it and once he found it they hugged and they were so cute. Another scene was when they had their little movie date and Shi Ran’s friend jumped on Cheng Xi and he was comforting him and they even held hands and were shy. I also loved their last scene where Shi Ran’s friend got drunk and jealous and kept telling Cheng Xi that he can’t date anyone other than him and he was so happy to go to his home. Like I need more screen time of them. Overall, I feel I need a season two only because I want to see what the couples are gonna do now because it ended to quickly and the ending was kinda bad of how they cut it off with both couples “kissing”. I do recommend this drama, but it’s gonna be hard to watch it because the one on YouTube is now membership only.