The First Frost

It is all about love, loss and new beginnings

Wise men said accidents change people. It's true.

Accident brings out the worst from you, makes you feel loser and even alters your belief. Yi Fan changed over the years, but her heart still rang loudly when spotted Sang Yan after all these years.
Generated from the universe of Hidden Love, this story delves into the life of senior Sang. Sang Zhi’s brother falls for a girl whom he spots on a random day while going to school. He gains her interests and starts running around her. Maybe our adorable Sang Zhi got her adorable love shot attitude from her brother. Things get complicated as she dumps him one day and decides to join Yihe University.

He waited, cried his heart out till one day she resurfaced in his life again.

Parents are the biggest support system of one’s life. Yi Fan lost herself as she faced the untimely death of her father. And lack of support offered by her mother made her more broken. Her mother not only betrayed her but never offered her support to the little girl who kept on looking for her support.

Yu Ning not only brought a love story alive. He successfully painted the scar people face in their own home. Betrayals when they come tip toed leaves a deeper scar than imagined. He dared to put hostility and sexual threats women face at home alive. They are forced to keep quiet for the sake of the roof steals their sense of belongingness.

The journey of Yi Fan is not about falling in love. It is about finding your true self, getting free from all the darkness that holds you behind and starting to take stand for yourself. It is easier to say fight for yourself, than doing it in real life.

The chemistry between Yi Fan and Sang Yan is smooth like butter. They did not burn the screen but poured warmth as they melted in each other's arms. Story of Qiao and Hao running in parallel drew attention to the importance of staying true to yourself and your partners. Even if you think your words can hurt them, you should not stop yourself from sharing.

The first Frost is about learning how to stay in love even when you both are flawed. Love is not just holding hands or hugging. You need to understand each other in your darkness and light.

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A Perfectly Sweet Romance with the Best Boyfriend Ever

Okay, The First Frost is EVERYTHING. If you loved Hidden Love, you’re in for a treat, because this one follows the lead elder brother from Hidden Love, and let me tell you—he is just as swoon-worthy. This drama is like the perfect mix of cute and intense, with a slow-burn romance that’ll have you smiling like a fool and feeling all sorts of emotions.

First off, let’s talk about the male lead. Honestly, he’s the epitome of the perfect boyfriend—handsome, sweet, caring, and always there when the female lead needs him. Like, if there was a "boyfriend goals" checklist, he would tick every single box. He’s so patient with her shy, quiet nature, and watching him slowly break through her walls is so heart-melting. He’s supportive, understanding, and, let’s be real, every girl’s dream. Seriously, he’s the guy we all wish existed in real life.

And speaking of the female lead—her shy personality is honestly the cutest thing. Her awkwardness and innocence just make her so endearing. The way she blushes or gets flustered around him is adorable and makes the slow development of their relationship feel so authentic.

The chemistry between them is chef’s kiss—the tension is perfect, and the whole story has this light, warm vibe that makes you want to root for them from the start. Yes, the plot can be a little predictable at times, but honestly, it’s the characters that make this drama so special. It’s just one of those feel-good, heartwarming romances you can’t get enough of.

In short, The First Frost is everything you need if you're craving a slow-burn romance with a dreamy guy and an adorable, shy girl. It’s sweet, it’s cute, and it’s got the feels!

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My forever love

Cdramas have always been my refuge, providing solace during my toughest times. However, The First Frost felt like a magical escape, a delightful surprise that transported me to a world filled with rainbows and sunshine. It’s said that an actor must deeply understand their character’s past and develop empathy to truly embody the role. Nannan and Xiaobai’s portrayal of Wen Yifan and Sang Yan showcased their profound understanding and emotional depth, allowing us to connect with the characters on a much deeper level. Thanks to director Qu Youning and the entire crew, who poured their hearts, time, and creativity into this endeavor. With brilliant direction, a cohesive team, and a beautifully crafted storyline, the aesthetic and breathtaking cinematography have left me in awe—truly a masterpiece! Thank you to everyone involved in this project, including the supporting actors, whose contributions are invaluable. Every appearance they make enriches the story. Thank you, Xiaobai and Nannan, for breathing life into Sang Yan and Wen Yifan. No one could have captured the essence of these characters and their journey better than you. My beloved SangYifan will always hold a special place in my heart, forever. Nan hong you'll always be loved.🍃❄️

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the ultimate slowburn...

This was Yi Fan's story, first and foremost. She's such a captivating character. I think that you have to like her and root for her to truly enjoy this. She's quiet, and she takes a while to open up. But I love that over time she learns to stand up for herself and open up. And I loved watching the show just to see that side of her.

So it makes sense that the romance is a super slow burn. It takes time for Yi Fan to open up, but Sang Yan is the most selfless and enduring character. Maybe that's unrealistic, but I don't mind that much. They did a perfect job drawing the line and learning to become friends again before anything romantic happened. I think that watching just 1 or 2 episodes a day really helped in enjoying the character progression.

And while I loved the romance, I do think that the story pacing could've been better. Some episodes and plot lines were dragged out, while the Hong Kong plot felt rushed. And it did feel like only Yi Fan was really fleshed out, I would've loved to see Sang Yan outside of his relationship. All that is to say that I loved the characters. This is a character-driven story, so for all the slowburn yearning lovers out there, this is for us!

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Its an amazing C-drama I would 100% recommend it

IT WAS SO CUTE! I MEAN, WATCHING THIS AFTER HL AND WIFTY WAS SO MUCH FUN. I LOVED THE ACTING AND THE WAY THE ACTORS DREW ME IN, BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD REWATCH IT. I MEAN IT WAS AMAZING, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN ONLY WATCH ONCE CUZ OF HOW LONG IT IS, BUT OVERALL, I ABSOLUTELY ADORED IT

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Thank you very much (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)
This drama is memorable ❤️💐🌸🌟⭐✨🌹🍀

I really like Sang Yan's character ☆⁠☆⁠☆☆⁠☆♡♡♡⁠♡⁠♡🥹😭🥹✨🫶🏻 his behavior is caring and guarding, his heart is cheerful only for people he likes & not friendly to all women, his love is truly sincere ✨ and he is a real man ☆⁠☆⁠☆☆⁠☆♡♡♡⁠♡⁠♡

Sang Yan when he smiles and his act of service is immediatly dar der dor makes you excited 🤩(⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Indonesian :
sukaa banget sama karakter Sang Yan 🥹😭🥹✨🫶🏻 tingkahnya perhatian dan menjaga, hatinya setiaaa cuman buat orang yg dia suka & tidak friendly ke semua wanita, Cintanya sungguh tulus dan dia adalah pria sejati ⭐ ✨

Beuhh Sang Yan kalo udh senyum dan act of service nya itu langsung dar der dor bikin excited 🤩

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A Drama That Hits Where It Hurts and Heals Where It Matters

I don't even know where to begin because this drama didn’t just tell a story—it lived in my head, rent-free, taking over my thoughts, my emotions, and my ability to function like a normal person. Every episode had something that hit me straight in the heart, whether it was making me giggle uncontrollably or cry until I couldn’t see properly.

This isn't just a romance. It’s about them. Two people with wounds, regrets, and history—navigating love not as a fairytale, but as something raw, messy, and painfully real. And yet, in all that, there’s tenderness. There’s patience. There’s Sang Yan, who, for all his teasing and bravado, is so painfully gone for her. And Wen Yifan, who deserves softness after everything life has thrown at her.

The way they look at each other? The way they hold onto each other without saying much? The way he believes in them even when she hesitates? It’s the kind of love that feels like home. The kind that makes you believe in love again.

Even when things got heavy—even when past wounds resurfaced—their relationship wasn’t about dramatic misunderstandings or unnecessary angst. It was about choosing each other, again and again, in the quiet moments, in the loud ones, in the in-betweens.

And now that it’s over? I feel empty. The good kind of empty. The kind that lingers, that makes you want to rewatch, relive, and hold onto every second a little longer.

If you haven’t watched this drama yet, let me warn you: you will be ruined. But in the best way possible.

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A drama wrapped in meancholy

This was an angsty drama from start to finish. For me personally Wen yifan was like that one tragic xianxia character that suffers all her life with no way out. Name any abuse she has suffered it and yet bravely faced the reality and went for the so called life. She was an experience. The whole story is presented so brilliantly that I'm afraid this is the new standard. From story to acting to casting you can really feel the dedication of this team. The count of days at the beggining of each episodes to how they wrapped each and every single details of the drama makes it untouchable.

I need to write a whole paragraph on sang yan. One fact that sets him apart from any other ML is that he never intruded on yifan's past. No matter how much he loved he respected her private matters, this she didn't wanted to say. That doesn't happen a lot even in drama let alone real life. He was there for her in silent. He never crossed some lines which made my respect for this character go higher than mount everest. Yifan needed to make peace with her own past and sang yan was the pillar she could rely on whenever she needed. Someone like sang yan can only be in real life when one grows up in a family of love and understanding.

Be the Sang Yan of your own life till you find one. With this I'm wrapping my humble opinion

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Best C-Drama I've ever watched

Honestly, I’m not a big fan of C-Dramas and have only watched a few. Even when I started watching this drama, I had no expectations. All I knew was that it shared the same universe as Hidden Love, which I had already watched. I didn’t know much about the lead actors either, as I initially started watching this out of curiosity after seeing a circulating teaser.

But who would’ve thought that this drama would be so amazing! It even surpassed my expectations. To be honest, it has become one of my all-time favorite dramas, even though I usually only watch K-dramas. The first thing that impressed me was the chemistry between the two lead actors. Their chemistry was so strong that even just by looking at each other, you could feel it. Additionally, their chemistry when they hugged made me, as a viewer, feel the warmth and sincerity between them. In short, their chemistry was extraordinary! In all the dramas I’ve watched, I’ve rarely seen a couple with such strong chemistry.

Secondly, the storyline. For those who don’t like slow-paced plots, they might get bored, but in my opinion, this pace was just right. It helped me understand the characters of Wen Yifan and Sang Yan even better. I could see how Yifan dealt with the trauma he experienced, and how Sang Yan stayed by his side, understanding his character, and eventually helping Yifan overcome his trauma.

Maybe some novel readers were annoyed with the plot changes, especially when Yifan ran away for the second time. But for me, that was the most realistic and best plot decision. Yifan left with the intention of protecting Sang Yan and wanting to become a better person, someone more worthy of Sang Yan. It’s not easy for someone with trauma to share their burdens with others because they fear that the people around them will suffer because of them.

Thirdly, the acting of the main leads. In my opinion, the casting of Zhang Rounan and Bai Jingting was perfect. They did an excellent job portraying their characters and truly understood them. Their acting felt so natural and real. I really want to appreciate them because their tears were so heartfelt and truly expressed their emotions, whether they were sad or happy.

One of the best scenes in this drama was the proposal scene. It felt so real that I even doubted whether they were really acting, because every gesture seemed so genuine. This proposal scene, in my opinion, is the best I’ve ever seen. I haven’t found a better proposal scene in any other drama.

In short, this drama is extraordinary. I don’t usually cry while watching romance dramas, but in this one, I cried a lot, especially during their proposal scene, which was truly legendary.

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I wanna hug Yi Fan and completely shower her with gift!!!!!!

Okay so watching this because of the Hidden Love series made me think it was going to be a light hearted romance drama but I was definitely wrong...

WARNING I TALK ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT + ABUSE

Female Lead:
Never in my life have I cried this much literally every episode and all my tears were for Yi Fan . We are first introduced to her as a character that is a victim of sexual assault and it affects her daily life, her life seems boring and tasteless. You can tell that Yi Fan is currently carrying a lot of unhealed trauma from her living conditions to her reaction to certain behaviours. One thing that I was very grateful for this show was that Yi Fan's trauma was meticulously written as her trauma wasn't glossed over or written with the intend of romance. This show clearly depicted how Yi Fan's actions are impacted from this, for example her zero tolerance for any type of harassment despite the 'mildness' of it or any unconsented and unpredictable physical touch from the opposite gender. From this she's seen as having an hard exterior for her willingness to fight justice and knowing who to cut off and set strict boundaries for herself. Her healing of trauma was centred around her meeting her high school classmate Sang Yan, who she had known before her incident, when she was an innocent child and stopped contact after the incident. This truly made her relook into the past with someone from her past and relook at the wholesome memories that were overshadowed by the trauma she faced. She also managed to find a special someone to care for her and reassure her that she should never doubt the intense things she had to face.

Male Lead:
So San Yang was someone I did not really like at all in the majority beginning of the show. This was mainly because of his lack of awareness of what potentially Yi Fan must have gone through. Especially throughout high school, he literally witnessed her being abused and neglected by her family. His ego was to big and when they reunited he was to focused of the fact that Yi Fan left him. However, it was so satisfying when throughout the show it actually presented why San Yang actually thought like this. One of the main reasons was because he grew up in a very loving family that made him oblivious to how much Yi Fan's family impacted her. His ego grew each time he helped Yi Fan out, for example when he overheard her family say she doesn't deserve food her provides her food and thought that was enough to make sure she's the happiest, which is all good intentions but he thought she wouldn't be impacted from the absence of love from her family because of the love he showed her. Therefore when she breaks their promise of going to the same uni San Yang is truly heart broken since he has done all of this for his love for Yi Fan however she replied with going to a different uni. This point is thoroughly explained when San Yang took accountability and apologised for holding such a big ego and had not considered her feeling at all (this scene literally made me sooooo happy cause I was still a little stingy about his character). Falling in love with Yi Fan 'again' was the main route of his character development since it made him question why she choice to leave and cut off contact and genially improved him as a person.

Yi Fan's relationship with her family:
Okay so one of my biggest pet peeve that is apparent in many shows is how despite all the terrible and sometimes criminal act a family does, at the end of the show it's all happy happy and all is forgiven. But in First Frost, it is finally handled realistically and how it should always be handled. Yi Fan and her mother possess a very difficult and strained relationship since after Yi Fan's dad died, her mother needed time alone and made Yi Fan lack a mother figure and made her stay with her neglectful Aunt and that despicable being of a person. Despite all of Yi Fan's plead to be taken back and even opening about how that that despicable being of a person has been sexually assaulting her, her mother brushed it off and was too centred around her life, she neglected Yi Fan. Now Yi Fan's older and her mother has 'settled down' the mother finally wants to start to rebuild the relationship. However, Yi Fan decides to cut off her whole family, including her mother at the end of the show, to symbolise has she's moved from the past and has people she loves now and cares for her. This ending was really satisfying because she clearly states to the mother that when she needed her to most, she wasn't there. Yi Fan says that her mother's daughter has been killed and saying that made a weight leave from Yi Fan's chest.

Yi Fan's dream was to be in ballet, however after that incident that injured her ankles, she is physically unable to reach that dream. In the later episodes when she ran away to Hongkong, she becomes a temporary ballet teacher. This is when us as viewers sees a woman who is so close yet so far from their dreams. This truly made me ugly cry from how much one person can impact ones life. How many people in the world have gone through such intense traumas and still haven't received justice or even allowed to call themselves a victim.

Disadvantage:
I found myself skipping all the scenes with the side couple because it was just so basic, boring and predictable it actually annoyed me how much screen time they took. Also that whole grandpa thingy literally took nearly a whole episode. It was just a really random topic to focus in and did NOTHING to the main plot. Also I genially felt like Yi Fan's and Si Qiao's friendship should have been covered a lot more since this show mainly only focused on romantic relationships and kind of only bought up their friendship when it was convenient. Like when Yi Fan was opening Si Qiao, it was literally cut out and jumped straight into Si Qiao telling Yi Fan she went through a lot and that was it. Also San Yang as a character had literal to no personality or hobbies and kind of just existed for Yi Fan, but this bever bothered me as much because this show was all about Yi Fan and her journey.

Ending:
Okay so despite this being a 'happy ending' I think it is more of a bitter sweet ending. Because yes Yi Fan's perpetrator got arrested, she established her relationship with her family and got with San Yang and even opened up to him. However, this still makes me highly emotionally because despite all her efforts this trauma is still with in her. She still lived through all of this.

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