The show by tech giant Tencent’s WeTV,

It invites five men and five women around the age of 50 to travel together from Dali in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, a city known for romantic encounters, to Thailand and observes the chemistry between them.

Like other reality shows, the show also features “ordinary people”, although all the participants are middle class with successful careers.

They include a former fashion director of a prestigious Shanghai media outlet, a former business director of an internet firm, an architect, a head of a university department and a company director from the United Kingdom.

The show specially marked their age in its promotional materials, but the spectators remarked that they all look much younger than their age.

The show was an instant hit.