Lizzy

Seeing the “emperor male lead” tag 🤩!!! 💃🎉

Here’s to hoping the drama follows the novel in that respect 🙏

I hope you’re right! I would absolutely love it to go the way you said the novel went. The trailer looked incredible 😍

I actually thought the opposite - while I am enjoying HL, I felt the magnetism of the leads in TFF more. I think it’s probably because over half of the show the FL was very childish (it was the point of the show, I get), whereas Yifan was less so as she was traumatized. Both shows are very different, but HL was much more youthful. I LOVE LOVE Jiaxu though. Gosh CZY is incredibly talented. I would love to see him in a show with BTJ.

I had a hard time really getting into the high school parts of the story, but I completely get the necessity of it, and they did a good job portraying an unreciprocated high school crush. I don’t know if I would be appreciating the college years as much if they didn’t take time developing their history. I’m on episode 13 now and things are certainly developing - they’re circling around each other at this point, and that circle is getting smaller. It’s cute. I don’t think I like it as much as TFF, as it’s a little hard for me to watch the ongoing non-communication, miscommunications and deflections, even if it makes sense for the leads. It just isn’t my style of story, but it’s cute. I know that communication was slow in TFF as well, but the entire story didn’t center around it and highlight it like it does with HL. I think I gravitate a bit more to TFF, but that isn’t to say that I’m not enjoying this one. And it’s GREAT seeing CZY in a different role. His character is wonderful in this one- I really really love the ML.

I’m five episodes into Hidden Love and struggling a little bit. They’re super cute, but I’m ready for her to be a grown up now lol. I get that they need to set the foundation for their romance, but yeeeaaahhh I’m ready for the adult stuff.

I’m hoping it won’t be like LitC where they lie and keep secrets until the last third of the show.

The writers were CRUEL for the end of 15 🤣

This makes a LOT of sense. I appreciate the insight because I’ve been wondering about this for a long time.

Thank you so much for helping me understand!

Oooooooooooooooooooo 😁😁😁I liiiike it

Yes, I really struggled with this FL.

I really really really disliked parts of the FL, and dropped my rating a couple points only because of her. I hated how she blamed the ML after pushing him to become the Crown Prince and punished him for her army getting disbanded. There were a couple times I really struggled with her.

1) Yeah a bit of one
2) Yes

1) Sort of, but not really. Obsessive ML for the beginning part, but the FL makes it clear it’s never gonna happen
2) Yep

🥰 I loved While You Were Sleeping. I’m glad you warmed up to this show.

Yeah a lot of people, myself included, saw the HK arc as terrible character regression. I just pretend that it didn’t happen 🤦🏼‍♀️

The Prisoner of Beauty is my favorite, but the intimacy is a slow burn. ❤️‍🔥I am about due for a rewatch. You might like Fated Hearts if you like the ML of WDBtD. It’s an enemies to lovers trope, but the main leads are up there with TPoB for my favorite couples. If what you’re prioritizing the most is the skinship - Wonderland of Love, General’s Lady and Love by Hypnotic have a lot of it. 😊

WDBtD? yah

With this being the romance, we will probably have to deal with concubines and a palace harem lol