This review may contain spoilers
To everyone who is here for a hidden love 2.0 I’m sorry to tell you this is not it.
First Frost is a complex story that deals with several darker themes like, SA hurt/comfort, verbal and physical assault and a feeling of abandonment from family.
Hidden Love was told from the eyes of Sang Zhi, who was a literal child when the drama started and was still a well protected child even as she grew up, hence the themes in the drama are lighter, more softened and overall a brighter landscape.
Here however, Wen Yifan grew up in a completely different household. Her family is a mess and she had to suffer being SA’d by her uncle, and even after that he came back to harass her, asking for money and other things from both Wen Yifan and Sang Yan was really a light at the end of the tunnel for yifan. A safe space for her to let her guard down in.
I’ll tell you exactly why Sang Yan I green-forest coded:
The reason I love Sang Yan is because his love language is literally acts of service. He knows she doesn’t eat much and that’s why she’s so baka-piece (thin) and so he always buys or makes extra food so he can *act nonchalant* and give it to her. When he finds out about her sleepwalking, instead of being frightened he’s more concerned about her hurting herself in his absence so he babyproofs the entire room and puts lights around just so that she would be safer.
[ NOVEL SPOILERS AHEAD ]
One of my favourite thing from the novel was in the last chapter where Sang Yan and Yifan were at the police station and Sang Yan goes “Remember, I am your pillar of support” like he is always there for her to lean on when she needs him.
[ SAFE ]
another thing I really like about the Zhu yi-verse (we might as well call it that now) is that now we can think of it as points of view, ykwim? Like in Hidden Love with CZY playing DJX we can imagine that is what DJX looks like from SZ point of view and Victor Ma is what Sang Yan looks like from SZ’s point of view, and in First Frost, in Wen Yifan’s view, BJT is what Sang Yan looks like and that cutie who played DJX is what DJX looks like to Sang Yan. It’s a funny little thing.
Hidden Love was told from the eyes of Sang Zhi, who was a literal child when the drama started and was still a well protected child even as she grew up, hence the themes in the drama are lighter, more softened and overall a brighter landscape.
Here however, Wen Yifan grew up in a completely different household. Her family is a mess and she had to suffer being SA’d by her uncle, and even after that he came back to harass her, asking for money and other things from both Wen Yifan and Sang Yan was really a light at the end of the tunnel for yifan. A safe space for her to let her guard down in.
I’ll tell you exactly why Sang Yan I green-forest coded:
The reason I love Sang Yan is because his love language is literally acts of service. He knows she doesn’t eat much and that’s why she’s so baka-piece (thin) and so he always buys or makes extra food so he can *act nonchalant* and give it to her. When he finds out about her sleepwalking, instead of being frightened he’s more concerned about her hurting herself in his absence so he babyproofs the entire room and puts lights around just so that she would be safer.
[ NOVEL SPOILERS AHEAD ]
One of my favourite thing from the novel was in the last chapter where Sang Yan and Yifan were at the police station and Sang Yan goes “Remember, I am your pillar of support” like he is always there for her to lean on when she needs him.
[ SAFE ]
another thing I really like about the Zhu yi-verse (we might as well call it that now) is that now we can think of it as points of view, ykwim? Like in Hidden Love with CZY playing DJX we can imagine that is what DJX looks like from SZ point of view and Victor Ma is what Sang Yan looks like from SZ’s point of view, and in First Frost, in Wen Yifan’s view, BJT is what Sang Yan looks like and that cutie who played DJX is what DJX looks like to Sang Yan. It’s a funny little thing.
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