Wang Yang on a farm!

[mumblemumble]

Not like this is becoming a Wang Yang blog or anything, but OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. There's a reality show called Become a Farmer, which FOR SOME REASON Wang Yang joined as a guest for a day or two, and the all-boys cast was completely OBSESSED with him.

Xiaohongshu gave me a clip from the show a few days ago, and once I clicked on it, the algorithm kept giving me more, including? some shippy?? fan edits??? I understand zero Chinese, so I have no idea what's going on in most of these (except for the visually obvious), but here's some clips:

» these boys are so loud
» demanding goodbye hugs from daddy Yang-ge
» making up a cp on the spot
» panda hat cp
» more besotted boy in panda hat

Wang Yang chose that last clip to post about the show on his Weibo and all the top comments appear to be farm boys B E G G I N G him to come back. One literally just went "Come! Often!" with 19 exclamation points. Another started his comment with "I miss you", and Wang Yang replied "I miss you too," giving that lucky boy some major heart palpitations, I'm sure.

It sounds like he's either supposed to come back for the harvest, or they're just really, really hoping he will, and he's politely humoring them.

Either way, I'm in love with this whole situation. Give Wang Yang a gaggle of besotted boys, it's what he DESERVES.

Comments

[grayswandir]

Not like this is becoming a Wang Yang blog or anything

:DDD

These clips are ADORABLE, thank you for sharing! The kid with the panda hat really does seem pretty obsessed. XD Damn, I never watch reality shows but I might have to make an exception for whatever episodes of this he's in, if I can find them...

I can't tell from the clips whether or not he expects to actually go back -- in the first one he says he hopes he'll have the chance to come back, and talks about how "if" he (does? can? were to?) meet them all again at the arranged time and share in eating [a list of vegetables that I assume he helped plant], he'll feel very lucky/happy, but I can't tell whether this is a far-fetched imaginary "if" or whether it's something he actually expects to happen. Ditto for the comments on his Weibo (omg he actually posts replies on Weibo???), it sounds like there's a chance he'll go back but it's all very "if" and "I hope" so maybe it'll depend on his schedule at harvest time or something...

Oh, and in the first video he also gets kind of poetic about the sunset, saying something like "when the sun is setting and I stand behind [the farm boys], seeing them in front of me in this light, I feel a bit moved; although the sun is going down, I feel that they're growing up." Someone on his Weibo commented on liking this part and omg, his reply: "The setting sun and I are on the same trajectory, but it's the opposite for them." Wang Yang, you are forty-six what is this nonsense! But he also says that being around them made him feel young, so there's that at least...

(Also the comment on Weibo that says "miss you" also calls Wang Yang 猛男, which is a word I had not heard before but apparently it translates to "strong, masculine man; hunk; beefcake." XDDD Like literally the comment is "Wang Yang, miss you, beefcake when are you coming home?" "阳哥 想你了 猛男什么时候回家")

[sakana17]

All I have to say is HELLLLLLPPPPP! I was not prepared for this level of adorableness! O_O This man.

[sakana17]

I watched it (with some fast-forwarding because it's nearly 2 hours long...) and can report:

Wang Yang shows up around 17:53. After they take temperatures and his is 39.1°C, they take him back to where they're staying, and I think he doesn't show up again until ~45:30. From there is the longest stretch of seeing him. He says something in English at ~55:34. (There is random English from the young guys throughout, so this isn't out of place.) And then around ~1:16:00 he shows up again for their dinner and stays until around ~1:32:00.

Panda hat is Li Hao.

P.S./ iQiyi has "AI-generated" subtitles in English and other languages. I turned the English ones off because I found them distracting.