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Stay With Me (哥哥你别跑)

Stay With Me (哥哥你别跑, also romanized Ge Ge Ni Bie Pao; also known as 三小无猜, San Xiao Wu Cai, or Innocent Playmates) is a 2023 Chinese youth romance drama directed by Su You Chen (苏莜晨), starring Xu Bin (徐滨) and Zhang Jiong Min (张炯敏), and adapted from the screen story Addicted (上瘾), itself based on Chai Ji Dan's (柴鸡蛋) danmei (Chinese boys' love fiction genre, from which the drama is adapted) novel Are You Addicted? (你丫上瘾了)¹^•². It premiered on 7 July 2023 in Taiwan and ran for 24 episodes of about 35 minutes each, finishing on 12 August 2023².

Key fact	Detail
Original title	哥哥你别跑 (Ge Ge Ni Bie Pao); English title Stay With Me²
Source material	Remake of the drama Addicted; adapted from the novel 你丫上瘾了 (Are You Addicted?) by Chai Ji Dan²
Broadcast	First aired 7 July 2023 (Taiwan); finale 12 August 2023; 24 episodes × 35 min²
Main cast	Xu Bin as Wu Bi; Zhang Jiong Min as Su Yu; with Yang Shuo, Gao Zi Qi, Wu Cheng Ze, and Boerjite in supporting roles¹^•³
Production	Director Su You Chen; screenwriter Zan A; companies Feibao Media and Ri Yue Wei Ming Media³
Release route	Filmed in 2021 for a mainland platform; released overseas on YouTube and Rakuten Viki in July 2023 under an "around the mainland" distribution model⁴
Reception	IMDb rating 8.5/10 from about 1,200 votes⁵

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Premise and characters

The story is set in 2006 Beijing. Su Yu (Zhang Jiong Min) is a guarded, academically brilliant high school student who lives a frugal but warm life with his single father, Su Zhigang (Yang Shuo). When his long-divorced mother remarries a wealthy man, Wu Zhenghao (Gao Zi Qi), Su Yu gains a stepbrother his own age, Wu Bi (Xu Bin), a rich, unruly underachiever, and the two also end up in the same class at school¹^•⁶.

The two begin as antagonists. Wu Bi harasses his new classmate, tampering with his test paper and gluing his shoe, while Su Yu answers with pranks of his own; a series of accidents, including Wu Bi hiring Su Yu's father as a mover without realizing it, gradually softens the rivalry⁶. As the bond deepens, the drama introduces outside pressures: a girl from Su Yu's past, Ye Wanying, family complications, and the exposure of secrets that tests both the household and the relationship¹^•⁶. Supporting characters include Mo Yi (Boerjite), Wu Bi's cousin, and Li Duo (Sun Yi Chen), a neighborhood child³.

Relationship to Addicted

The series is a remake of Addicted (上瘾), the web drama based on the same novel, and was framed by its makers as a way to complete a story the original never finished¹. Character names were all changed from the source material, and the family storyline was expanded⁴. Viewer commentary on Douban noted that the romance between Su Yu and Wu Bi is handled more subtly than the direct portrayal of Bai Luoyin and Gu Hai in Addicted, and reviews were mixed, with some critics finding the production style dated and others praising the leads' chemistry and the warmth of the Beijing setting⁷.

Production and release

Filming began in 2021, before the tightening of restrictions on the genre in 2022⁴. The production was arranged as a mainland–Taiwan co-production intended for a mainland platform, but the across-the-board suspension of the danmei-adaptation genre ended that plan⁴. The completed series was instead released abroad, on YouTube (through the Huace TV channel) and Rakuten Viki among other platforms, in July 2023, a distribution pattern described in Chinese industry coverage as an "around the mainland" release⁴^•⁸. TVmaze lists GagaOOLala as the web channel, with new episodes on Fridays and Saturdays⁹.

The original soundtrack album, 哥哥你别跑 Stay With Me, was released on 8 July 2023 with 10 songs corresponding to episodes 1 through 10, all sung by 天天·回声; a solo piano version of the insert song 《守候》 performed by KDH followed on 7 September 2023¹.

Aftermath and related adaptations

The overseas release drew criticism from parts of the Chinese fanbase, who objected to the heavily trimmed plot, the veiled handling of the leads' relationship, and an open ending fixed on a car crash; industry coverage described the result as an awkward compromise and noted that the series' fan community turned hostile and the author's promotional activity stopped⁴.

A full-season radio drama adaptation of 哥哥你别跑, based on Chai Ji Dan's original work and produced by Guansheng Culture (冠声文化), was released exclusively on the Manbo (漫播) app with weekly Thursday updates¹⁰.

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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