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This drama definitely earned its hype. The pacing is nearly perfect (which never happens with cdramas), the chemistry great, the story compelling, and the directing on-point. It focuses on the leads almost exclusively without all the stupid side character stuff you normally see in cdramas. The ending isn't rushed (another thing that never happens in cdramas). So glad I watched this one!

Zhao Lu Si was fantastic as always, but man Chen Zhe Yuan matched her perfectly. If anything, his acting stood out to me more than hers did. The way he looked at her in some scenes... I'm gonna have to start a support group because Jiaxu might've finally done what cdrama MLs have been threatening to do for years: ruined real-life men for me.

I really don't know how this drama could be any better than it was. It was nearly perfect in what it was trying to do.

Wow I could tell the director was the same as the woman who directed Mr. Bad. She's really good at these light-hearted romances. I'm nearly finished and I love what I've seen! Hidden Love may not add anything new to the type of drama it is (light-hearted modern rom-com/school romance), but it fits its niche perfectly.

Your review helped me figure out why I enjoyed this one so much: it's some really great garbage XD I have a history of enjoying trashy, so-bad-it's-good drama

Sure the wedding scene is a trip, but at least the last episode gives you a montage of them being couple-y together. So many dramas just end without giving you that payoff at all

People say a lot of things they don't mean. It's kind of the whole point that she said she wanted love, but didn't show it in her actions. I think even the ML pointed that out. The FL said she valued love over suitability, but when she was given the choice, she chose suitability over love.

It's been four months since I first watched this show. I've already re-watched it twice. It's just so easy to watch and so fluffy; no unnecessary drama, the characters feel like real people, the pacing is literally *perfect* (the first cdrama I've seen with perfect pacing), and the story is very sweet. I also love the feel of the drama-- the OST, the set design, everything contribute to the ambience of the drama and it's 100% consistent throughout.
The "Wifey, from now on you're my real wife" line in the finale brings me to tears every dang time I watch it. I know this show isn't for everyone, but it's become one of my favorite cdramas and my current favorite comfort watch.

Hope she's doing better. Although I did not like Ji Heng as a character nor her portrayal of her, Liu Yuxin did not deserve all the cyberbullying she experienced. ELOD only could've happened with Dilraba and Gao Weiguang, but in the end she made a very smart business decision by buying the rights to the show. She should not have been forced to endure everything she did just because of her smart business decision. Some people are very cruel and I hope she finds personal success and happiness in all her future endeavors.

Those dimples should be illegal... loved him as Chalat in Padiwaradda

I was also disappointed by the amount of romance, but I went into it realizing that the drama is a slice-of-life that has some romance. That is a more accurate way to describe the drama.

You're right, the plot isn't anything like Twilight-- which is for the best. I mostly call it that because it's a romance between a vampire and a human

This should be renamed "Chinese Twilight"

Finally finished. The only reason I don't regret watching this one is because Yu Shuxin and Zhang Bin Bin have amazing chemistry-- and I liked the OST a lot. Pretty much everything else is a mess: the misunderstanding in the middle, the second couple, the numerous cliches (like the one girl who was jealous of Meiren so she tried to wreck her career), the filler mini-plots (like catching the poachers), and the pacing. The actual story that was worth watching could've been done in about half the episodes this drama was. And while I typically love a good slow burn, it took wayyyy too long for the leads to get together. They should have gotten together officially by episode 28 or so. I got so frustrated wondering when on earth they were going to make it official, because there was literally nothing holding them back at that point-- they even both knew they liked each other! What were they waiting for???
And then they made us wait until EPISODE 34, the PENULTIMATE EPISODE, before they kissed (yes I know about the cut kiss scene in episode 20, but that's still 14 episodes of nothing for no good reason). They kept us waiting FOREVER with very little payoff at the end. If they were going to make us wait that long for the couple to get together, I say we deserved a wedding and a snippet of married life or something.
Rant aside, the couple and the romance itself is really cute. The drama itself is just too flawed in too many ways for me to have been able to fully enjoy it.

ok I think I've finally found the *dumbest* reason for a separation in a Cdrama. All of a sudden he goes abroad? And he didn't bring a charger with him? And Yu Meiren expected him to make an appointment he didn't agree to (again)? And then she deletes his contact instead of thinking that maybe he had a reason for leaving so soon?? That whole part was embarrassinglt clumsy. They'd better make up for it later, because the beginning was so good!

Like everyone else says, the second couple is awful. Nothing likable or even forgivable about the second ML. The leads were treated like the second couple and not the main with how little screentime they got and how their story was handled.

yes

Unfortunately, the overlooking bad behavior thing is really really common in Thai dramas. Lakorn characters have seemingly no concept of setting healthy boundaries

There's no point to a season 2 if the leads don't come back. They're what made the drama.

I do agree with what everybody else said here: the ending sucks. I'm not anti-sad endings, quite the contrary-- I just finished One and Only before I watched this one, and I thought that one had a great sad ending. This one just came off as lazy. They were trying to invoke some type of emotion in viewers at the end, and randomly decided to kill off the ML to do it. This drama had plenty of emotion already, what it needed was brains. The ML's death made no sense narratively and came off as tacky to me.

This drama brought me back to my lakorn-watching days XD Sure the plot is melodramatic and pretty out-there, but there's a reason soap operas have been around forever. I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Clips from this drama were shown as a "movie" in Mr. Bad. I had to come here and find when Ryan Ding and Yu Shu Xin paired up XD

Not that I'm justifying all of the problematic parts of the plotline in this drama (quite the contrary), but I will point out that he didn't divorce his wife because she was infertile-- it was because she lied to him that she was pregnant and that's why they got married in the first place. Turns out she was a gold-digger all along, since she'd had her hysterectomy years before they even met. So he really divorced her because she was a liar and a gold-digger.