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Wushenzhidi buxiayu (无神之地不下雨)

Wushenzhidi buxiayu (无神之地不下雨; English title Rainless Love in a Godless Land) is a 2021 Taiwanese fantasy romance television series produced by Sanfeng Production, the team behind the hit time-travel drama Someday or One Day (想见你). Directed by Hung Tzu-peng and created by Golden Bell Award-winning screenwriter Chien Chi-feng, it builds an original fantasy world from the animist (belief that spirits dwell in nature, objects, and ancestors) mythology of the Amis (Pangcah) people and tells a love story between a rain god and the human woman he protects as the gods abandon the world.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title / English title	无神之地不下雨 / Rainless Love in a Godless Land³
Production	Sanfeng Production with iQiyi; director Hung Tzu-peng; lead writer Chien Chi-feng with Cheng Yun-chia and Su Kuan-chen¹^•⁴
Main cast	Joanne Tseng (曾之乔), Fu Meng-po (傅孟柏), Yen Yu-lin (颜毓麟); Joe Cheng (郑元畅) and Alice Ko (柯佳嬿) in guest roles⁵
Premise	The creator Kakarayan withdraws all blessings; the gods (Kawas) depart after the last rain, but the rain god 'Orad stays to protect the human girl Hsieh Tien-ti²
Budget	Over NT$80 million for 13 episodes, roughly three times the cost of an ordinary drama per episode, with animation and more than 70 rain scenes¹^•⁵
First broadcast	October 17, 2021 on CTS and iQiyi International (191 countries and regions); GTV from October 23, 2021⁶
Recognition	Nominated at the 57th Golden Bell Awards for Best Theme Song and Drama Series Visual Effects⁷

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Premise and world-building

The series constructs its own cosmology from Amis animist belief. At the world's beginning, the omnipotent creator Kakarayan (Kakarayan, 造物主) blessed the land, so mountains, rivers, plants, birds, beasts, fish, and insects became kin to humans and are revered as spirits called Kawas. As people forgot the blessings and protection of the Kawas, Kakarayan decided to withdraw every blessing, and the human world would become a godless land. At the end of days, the spirits are to leave the human world and return to the homeland of the gods.²

The rain god 'Orad, played by Fu Meng-po, is the creator's deputy responsible for arranging the spirits' return. He has guarded the human girl Hsieh Tien-ti, played by Joanne Tseng, all her life, and he can control rain and teleport. In the arranged future he will watch her die in the world's last rain, and she will never know he exists; for her sake he dares to probe a future not even the gods have seen.²^•⁸ The cast nicknamed the five leads "four gods and one human," after the Taiwanese four-herb soup.³

The gods around her. Joe Cheng guest-stars as the wind god Fali, who leads the gods' evacuation, can teleport and alter memories, and heads the Bureau of Cause-and-Effect Correction to keep everything on the creator's plan. Alice Ko plays the cloud god Toem, who can move through people's hearts and read their memories and desires; punished by the creator for defying a time reflection, she was stripped of her cloud identity and given the red eyes all fear. Yen Yu-lin plays the wisdom god Li Pu-hui, born from human wisdom, who lives as a popular university philosophy professor and is the rain god's old friend; Kuo Shu-yao plays the combing goddess Malusakadat, his wife, and Chung Hsin-ling plays the coral god Raka, who has adopted two abandoned human sisters and refuses to leave them behind.² Greg Hsu (许光汉) later guest-starred as the creator Kakarayan himself, a demanding shoot that took the cast into the mountains and to the sea at sunrise.⁹

Production

Producer Ma Yi-ting and Chien Chi-feng began looking for a new subject before Someday or One Day aired. Ma had asked for a drama that made people cry without noticing, which produced Someday or One Day; the next brief was harder, "a drama about non-humans," a legendary love beyond the human. The two had worked together for seven years since the idol drama Ex-Wife Stop!. Chien said he wanted a genre Taiwan had not attempted, and that fieldwork on indigenous belief, centered on coexistence with the environment, combined with the sense of apocalypse from modern environmental change, shaped the concept.¹^•¹⁰

The environmental theme earned NT$21 million from the Ministry of Culture's 2019 television program production subsidy and attracted investment from iQiyi International, which co-produced with Sanfeng. The 13-episode run cost more than NT$80 million, and the production combined animation with more than 70 romantic rain scenes to build its poetic fantasy atmosphere; filming took place largely in Taitung.¹¹^•¹ The shoot ran 113 days before wrapping, with the wrap party on March 16, 2021.¹²

The series was announced at a cast press conference on December 8, 2020, where Alice Ko, a guest but with substantial and pivotal scenes, predicted it would be even more intricate than Someday or One Day.⁵ Episode-count sources differ: Mirror Media describes a 13-episode production,¹ while iQiyi's platform page lists the series as 26 episodes complete.¹³

Broadcast and reception

The series premiered on October 17, 2021, at 9 p.m. on CTS (华视) and at 10 p.m. on iQiyi International, which streamed it exclusively online in 191 countries and regions with subtitles in more than ten languages. The cable channel GTV (八大戏剧台) joined from October 23, airing Saturdays at 8 p.m.⁶^•³

Ratings opened strongly. CTS's terrestrial premiere drew a 0.67 rating, above the 0.54 of Someday or One Day, and reached 1.32 among women aged 25 to 39. GTV's cable premiere opened at 0.64, peaking at 0.87, with the mature-female demographic at 1.41; the scene in which a drunken Tien-ti sings a summoning song and the rain god appears was singled out as a favorite of female viewers.¹^•¹⁴^•⁶

The first episode gathered guest appearances from established actors including Chung Hsin-ling, Kuo Shu-yao, Chen Hao-sen, Yako Chan, Huang Chia-chien, and Yan Cheng-lan, and each episode's animated prologue was voiced by the actor Uming Buya (徐诣帆).⁶ Reviewers noted the opening scene in which the coral god kneels and begs the rain god not to make her withdraw, and praised Alice Ko's performance as a charming antagonist.¹⁵

Music and awards

Sanfeng worked with Rock Records from early production, commissioning the duo Atom Boyz (原子邦妮) to write one of the theme songs, "Become Your Everything" (成为你的所有), before the script was finished; Shi Shi (孙盛希) performed the ending song "Rain Won't Stop. Flow" (雨不停。流).⁷^•¹⁶ At the 57th Golden Bell Awards the series was nominated for Best Theme Song and for Drama Series Visual Effects, nominations the production company read as recognition of investment in the less visible parts of drama-making.⁷

Themes

The series frames its fantasy plot around the relationship between people, gods, and nature: environmental degradation is the reason the gods stop blessing the land, and the production team described the drama as an invitation to reflect on how the environment has silently protected humanity. Director Hung Tzu-peng, previously known for the thriller works The Tag-Along spin-off film Lin Tou Ji and Neon Genesis (灵异街11号), took on fantasy romance for the first time and prepared with extensive research into comparable films and shot-by-shot storyboards of the script.¹¹^•¹⁷ The official materials note that the content draws partly on Amis language, legends, and mythology but is entirely fictional and does not represent any community's position.¹⁸

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026