Till Death Tear Us Apart

China, 1944. The country is divided by a long civil war between the Communist Party and the Nationalist Party (also called the Kuomintang ). Liu Yu-sheng ( Jiang Zi-le ) is a young man from a wealthy family who, after returning from studying abroad, discovers that his inheritance has been stolen by other members of his family. To earn a living, he gets a job as a teacher in a small rural school. Courteous and idealistic, Liu Yu-sheng appears to be the perfect person; what nobody knows is that he is a communist who works secretly from the shadows. One day, he meets an old schoolmate, Zhou Yao-hua ( Yan Zi-dong), and love soon begins to emerge between the two young people. However, Zhou Yao-hua is a nationalist and like most people in the country, he hates communists. Thus begins Yu-sheng's difficult decision-making, whose loyalty will be divided between his job as an informant and his love for Zhou Yao-hua.[4][5]

The series launch was announced on November 8, 2016.[6] On November 10, a promotional trailer was released.[7] Although the story is based on a novel, the series itself was created as a continuation of Love is More Than a Word, which was canceled in September 2016 by the Chinese authorities, leaving unfinished, unresolved plots. The main cast of the series is headed by the same actors from Love is More Than a Word,[8] thus hinting at the idea of reincarnation of the characters.

The series, like its predecessor, suffered from censorship by the authorities, which resulted in many of the episodes being shortened or romantic scenes between the characters being removed. Love is More Than a Word and Till Death Tear Us Apart were not the first gay-themed series to suffer censorship from the authorities; the popular series Addicted suffered the same fate, prompting several campaigns and complaints about the decision.[9]