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Enemies at First Touch, Lovers Before First Sight: Sometimes the Heart Sees What the Eyes Cannot
Ten years after Addicted, the same director is back with a new Chinese BL, Till I See You, and that alone was enough to get my attention.The concept immediately reminded me of the Thai BL Last Twilight starring JimmySea, with a caretaker looking after a visually impaired lead and a relationship that starts with constant clashing before slowly developing into something more. I am always a fan of enemies to lovers, especially when two characters have completely opposite personalities, and that is exactly what we get here.
This is my third time watching Wang Ruichen after The Summer You Kissed Me and Awakening the Steppe, and once again, he is absolutely stunning. His muscular physique is definitely one of his biggest visual strengths. However, I have to say I am not a fan of the blonde orange hair in this series. I definitely preferred his darker hair in his previous dramas.
What makes me laugh is that his character almost feels like he has followed him across all three series. This time he plays Song Yi, a fun, confident and wealthy young man who has run away from home and needs somewhere to stay. Just like his previous characters, he is naturally flirty, confident and always seems ready to make the first move. Wang Ruichen really knows how to play this type of character, and honestly, I am not complaining.
Opposite him is Sun Xiaoxiao as Xu Feiyu, who is visually impaired and recovering from eye surgery. Feiyu could not be more different from Song Yi. He is cold, distant and extremely guarded. He hates having strangers around him and especially dislikes being touched, so you can already imagine what happens when someone as playful and persistent as Song Yi suddenly enters his life.
The story itself is quite simple. Song Yi needs somewhere to stay and ends up becoming Feiyu's temporary caretaker. Their personalities immediately clash, resulting in nonstop bickering and frustration between them. But underneath all that fighting, Feiyu slowly begins lowering the walls he has built around himself and developing feelings for the person he initially could not stand.
I think Song Yi is going to be the light that slowly breaks through Feiyu's darkness.
Feiyu clearly carries emotional scars beyond his visual impairment, and there seems to be much more behind his cold personality than we currently know. Song Yi is exactly the type of person who could slowly warm his heart. He is patient, caring and funny. He cooks for him, looks after him and even takes care of an injured wombat. How can your heart not slowly melt for this man?
What makes the romance more interesting is that Feiyu cannot truly see Song Yi yet. Their connection begins through personality, touch, conversations and everyday moments rather than physical appearance. By the time Feiyu starts letting Song Yi into his heart, their relationship has already become something much deeper.
But this is clearly not going to remain a simple caretaker romance.
Song Yi originally travelled to Northern China because he wanted answers about his father's past, and there appears to be a hidden truth connecting everything together. Just as Feiyu is getting closer to regaining his sight, that secret threatens their relationship and leads to Song Yi suddenly disappearing from his life. The story will then take us five years into the future, where fate brings them together again and forces them to confront the love they never truly left behind.
So while the beginning gives us a fun enemies to lovers dynamic filled with bickering, flirting and caregiving, there is clearly heartbreak waiting for us later.
So far, I really like the chemistry between the two lead. Their contrasting personalities work perfectly together. Song Yi brings warmth and chaos while Feiyu brings coldness and resistance, which makes every little moment where Feiyu lowers his guard feel more meaningful.
The acting is strong, the chemistry is already there, the plot is easy to follow and the OST is beautiful. Sometimes you do not need an overly complicated story when the characters and chemistry can carry the romance.
You can watch Till I See You on GagaOOLala, with one episode released each week until November 19.
My only complaint is that waiting an entire week for a 20 minute episode should be illegal. Give me at least two episodes a week!
If you enjoy enemies to lovers, nonstop bickering, opposite personalities, caretaker romance, emotional healing, great chemistry, strong acting and a story that looks like it is going to become much more painful later, definitely add Till I See You to your watchlist.
8.5/10 so far. A simple beginning with great chemistry, but I have a feeling this one is going to hurt later.
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Good story, good looking leads, and ok acting...but the script is ruining it
I started this majorly because the director is the one who also directed the OG Addicted, and NGL, also to drool at Wang Chen Rui....after watching the first 3 episodes, I am divided - the story is good, the actors are also reasonably good, but the script has too many loopholesBL-Needle Score: 7.5 Reasonably high BL-ness
The leads are really gorgeous and the guy who plays Xu Feiyu, (Sun Xiaoxiao?), seems like a better actor than Wang Chen Rui so far...but the script is a turn-off with too many loopholes
1. Why on earth would Xu Feiyu go around with a bandage on his eyes like that..his family seems reasonably well off with the kind of house he lives in....why would he not have the doctor prescribe him a dark glass or something similar to wear? And then who ties the bandage to him..there is no one around - was it the last caregiver who he drove away?
2. Who cleans that big house and why are they never around? Even though Xu Feiyu has haphephobia, house helps can very well manage around it.
3. His mother is off to a work trip without a househelp even when she knows how sensitive/tantrum-ey he is and the caregiver is likely to be driven away?
4. If Song Yi is so hell bent on finding his half-brother that he actually traveleled to another country to do that, and then he immediately spots him conveniently at his senior's place where he goes seeking shelter, he is expected to be a little more serious about it and not joke around all the time, immaterial to how prankster-ey he is otherwise
In a nut shell, the message so far seems if you want to enjoy this, don't go looking for too much logic and details.
Verdict: Maybe watch to see where this goes because story is good, and the leads are good?
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First Impression: Till I See You
Overall: the third episode was my favorite of the 3 so hopefully it continues on that trajectory. 13 episodes about 20 minutes each. Airing on GagaOOLala https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/9047/till-i-see-you-2026-e01 and Secret of Us YouTube channel (1st episode is free to watch) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGwjxkA7VLec&si=8GW80kpPewZA1UdfContent Warnings: mental health struggles, slap
What I Liked
- that neither is a pushover
- visuals
Room For Improvement
- the flash forward start and hopefully something was subtitled wrong or I misunderstood regarding time
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He is Looking for the Other Half; Right Now More Questions Than Answers
Three episodes in, Till I See You has an interesting enough premise to keep me watching, but so far I’m sitting at a solid “meh+.”The story opens with Song Yi explaining that while he was growing up, his stepfather would sometimes call him by the wrong name. Song Yi began to think of himself as only half a person, and imagined that if he could find the person who actually belonged to that other name, the two of them together might somehow make a whole.
That is what brings him from Singapore to the Mainland.
He arrives at a restaurant run by his senior sister, who previously worked for Song Yi’s family at their Japanese restaurant. He asks her to give him room and board in exchange for working there. She essentially tells him that he is a good young master who needs to go home to Singapore, but Song Yi insists that he cannot leave until he finds the person he came looking for.
This is already a little questionable because Song Yi is nearly finished with university and still needs to sit for his finals. Whatever drove him to leave Singapore was apparently important enough for him to skip classes at the very end of his degree and potentially jeopardize years of work, but after three episodes we still don’t really know why the timing was so urgent. At the moment, the answer feels mostly like: because the script needed him there.
His senior sister tells him to find the person and get himself back to Singapore before his family decides to blame her for keeping him there.
And then, naturally, Xu Feiyu walks into the restaurant.
Blindfolded.
Using a cane to navigate because he is temporarily unable to see after eye surgery.
He walks directly into Song Yi.
Senior sister settles Feiyu into a booth, then tells Song Yi to walk him home after he eats. Once Song Yi gets him there, he realizes that Feiyu lives in the house shown in the photograph he has of the person he came to find.
So after traveling all the way from Singapore on this mysterious search: presto chango, there he is.
Feiyu, unfortunately, is not exactly pleasant company. He has already driven away all of his previous caregivers. His mother is apparently abroad somewhere doing something, which is an interesting choice immediately after her son has undergone major eye surgery, but again: script.
Senior sister says she will find him another caregiver, and this time Song Yi basically says, “Challenge accepted.”
Song Yi also has a practical reason to stay. His father has cut off his credit cards in an attempt to force him back to Singapore, so taking care of Feiyu gives him somewhere to live. Why he still cannot go home even after finding the person he came to find is another question the drama has not answered yet.
Feiyu is stubborn, childish, combative, and very loud when he throws tantrums. The performance does not always sell those scenes particularly well, although in fairness, Feiyu is clearly supposed to be a traumatized young man rather than simply an obnoxious one.
When he becomes extremely upset, he hears rats inside his head. He also has haphephobia and normally cannot tolerate being touched, yet he quickly notices that Song Yi’s touch does not trigger the same reaction.
He also seems to fall an impressive number of times whenever Song Yi is nearby, which does make me wonder how he was surviving before Song Yi arrived, especially since he keeps chasing away everyone assigned to look after him.
And I still have questions about the blindfold itself. If Feiyu drives every caregiver away, who exactly keeps tying that elaborate thing onto his head?
Song Yi tries to be a responsible caregiver, partly because he needs somewhere to stay and partly because Feiyu is the person he came all this way to find. Their relationship so far consists largely of bickering, Feiyu resisting everything Song Yi tries to do for him, and Song Yi attempting to placate him.
There are some more interesting moments underneath that.
One night, while Feiyu is asleep, Song Yi mentally asks his stepfather how he could have left Feiyu, because “he is still a child.” That suggests there is considerably more behind Song Yi’s search — and behind the connection between Feiyu and his stepfather — than we currently know.
Song Yi also becomes intrigued enough by Feiyu’s psychological issues that he starts wondering whether he could help him overcome them. When he brings that idea to his senior sister, she gives him what is probably the most sensible advice anyone has offered so far: finish school and mind your business. Good intentions do not always lead to good outcomes.
Acting-wise, neither male lead is particularly strong for me yet.
The actor playing Song Yi is so handsome, and I think he is the better of the two performers so far, but even he frequently feels like someone acting rather than someone fully inhabiting the character.
Feiyu is harder to judge because he has the more demanding role. He has to portray trauma, anger, fear, childishness, blindness, haphephobia, and whatever is happening psychologically when he hears the rats. That is a lot. Unfortunately, some of his bigger emotional scenes feel performed rather than lived in, especially the shouting and tantrums.
Also, I can barely tell what Feiyu actually looks like because of that ridiculous blindfold, although he definitely has excellent cheekbones.
Right now, both actors are okay-ish rather than genuinely compelling. Neither is skilled enough yet to completely pull me into the story and make me forget that I’m watching performances.
Still, I do like the premise. There are enough unanswered questions surrounding Song Yi’s stepfather, Feiyu’s identity, Song Yi’s determination to find him, Feiyu’s trauma, and the unusual fact that Song Yi can touch him without triggering his haphephobia that I’m interested enough to continue.
So for now: interesting premise, very handsome lead, some potentially good psychological material, questionable plotting conveniences, uneven acting, and a lot still unexplained.
Meh+.
But I’m still watching.
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Synopsis: "Song Yi, a wealthy young man raised in Japan, travels to Northern China in search of answers about his father’s past and unexpectedly becomes Xu Fei Yu’s temporary caregiver. Recovering from eye surgery with his eyes still covered in bandages, Fei Yu slowly lowers his guard under Song Yi’s domineering yet tender care. Before they can truly “see” each other, they have already fallen in love. But just as Fei Yu is about to regain his sight, a devastating secret comes to light, forcing Song Yi to disappear without a word. Five years later, fate brings them together again. Can their unforgettable love finally be made whole?"Was this review helpful to you?
