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But its basically not about positive or negative - its about feedback.
But of course objective feedback - which can be positive or negative.
I rated this drama a 8 - which is still relativly good.
I agree that there are some comments that are unnecessary because not every thought has to be written down - but thats the problem of the internet ;-)

However this drama hat much more potential - the script was just bad.
Its not just about the story that was lacking. Its about the details that were just bad.
There are so much "errors" and "loopholes" in this drama, it's insane.

However the acting was great, which made up for the script to some degree

Why do you leave a positive comment for those wo didnt watch this drama yet? ;-)

Sorry, don't mind me - just trolling for a second because I could not resist =)

Thx for the answer.
I did not watch it so far - waiting on all episodes to come out.
I dislike most of the drama where the mc get (back) together in the last episode.
So I am still hesitating to start this ...

I do not think this drama deserves hate but it did not live up to its potential.

Bo Ah and Rowoon were the heart and soul of this drama. If you switch them out, this drama becomes completely mediocre.

This script was a mess and that is what people did not like.
Na Yeon acting like that with the clothes makes NO SENSE whatsoever.
The historical fantasy part was done very weak. The historical storyline is weak and the implications into the present are weakly build as well.
The character of Jae Kyung was all over the place ...


Simply put: a lot of us are not happy with the script and saw much more potential.
The romance was good in this drama and the chemistry was good.
However the scripting from "forced love to true love" was not executed that well again.

Bo Ah and Rowoon had a lot of great moments together which made this drama overall quite nice to watch.

why are they separating and for such a long time (basically 4th of the drama) ?
Which episodes has the 5 year time jump ?

Okay - when I talked about "Them making it into Sandbox" I was talking about them getting to be a part of the selection process where ultimately they got Dal Mi to come to SamSanTech as the CEO and where able to "STAY" at Sandbox.

Being able to participate at the selection process had everything to do with CODA because before they won that, HJP did not want them be part of the selection process.


Them staying at Sandbox was of course because of Dal Mi and her skills - I agree.

However - when did HJP actually speak to the SamSan-Trio about their shortcomings? Right before Dal Mi's pitch. Why did he tell them that? Because they were arguing about not letting Dal Mi do the pitch.

He was arguing for Dal Mi and not to help the trio.
He even told them:
"If you let Dal Mi do the presentation and she fails, I will your plan B and personally invest"

So yes - he told them, that they would not make it because the pitch is their (one of) shortcomings.
However - he only did that, to make sure Dal Mi gets to do the pitch. He could care less at that point about the trio ...

That does not count as helping them, it was 100% about helping Dal Mi.

Lets be clear on something: the fact that they got into Sandbox was because they won CODA. So thats their own doing.
Before winning CODA, HJP did not give a f*

There is reasonable room to believe that because of that fact alone, they would have made it into Sandbox with or without HJP.

When did HJP ever really help Do San?
He helped Do San to pay his own debt - thats not "for" Do San.
Sansam Tech only got into Sandbox because of CODA and they probably would have gotten in with or without him after winning that competition.
He helped Dal Mi with the first presentation
He did his job Mentoring them after Dal Mi choose him
He tries to cut between Do San and Dal Mi
Even the offer "I am your plan B" was completely for Dal Mi and everybody knew it.

He only ever criticised him at every point.
"You will not make it" "You will not make it"

I don't think there is ever any "kind" and helping moment from HJP to Do San, for Do San until episode 14. Any other moment was not helping Do San, it was helping himself by using Do San.

To say HJP helped them succeed is really laughable if in truth he did not believe once that they would get in. Has he states many times.
He helped Dal Mi and only Dal Mi which he did for the most part because of his debt to his grandmother until they got into Sandbox.
After they enter Sandbox, he becomes their official Mentor and he does his job.

It varies from county to country.
In europe there are multiple countries where underage drinking is legally allowed.
However with most of those countries - like germany or austria - the percentage of alcohol differentiates the legal drinking age.

Germany: beer is allowed at 16 while hard liquor is allowed at 18.

Hidden Love has no positive Puppy Love message (quite the opposite).

Frequently used acronyms on MyDramalist:
ML = Male Lead
FL = Female Lead
MC = Main Couple
SML = Second Main Lead
SFL = Second Female Lead

Also acronyms based on the characters name.
In this drama e.g.:
CKH = Chen Ke Hai

Hope that helps :-)

I believe many interpreted the rich storyline behind HJP completely different. He was first introduced and had much richer backstory.
That's why a ton of people believed he was the main character.

However: his rich storyline was about introducing Do San and the starting point why Do San and Dal Mi would meet in the present.
The setup was through HJP but not for HJP. Many viewers did not get this point or too late.


Dal Mi fell in love with Do San the second he "rescued" her at the networking party. This act of kindness and the fact that even HJP had to admit to her later, that Do San showing up at the networking party was completely voluntary and without any benefits, let Dal Mi not only fall in love with him at first sight but also continue to believe in his love after she found out the truth about HJP & Do San.

The love at first sight theory is very simple if you just watch the interaction between them the second they met - yes, she can't keep her hands off of him. Also the way she hung on his every word.
The "romantic" explanation of machine learning and the fact that she found everything very "fascinating" he told her ;-)


That is why there are two very underrated moments in this drama:
1. The first meeting of HJP and Do San, Do San !rejecting! the money to go to the networking party. But going anyway after he read the letters as an act of kindness
2. The meeting of Dal Mi and HJP at the restaurant after she found out the truth about the letters and HJP / Do San. Here HJP makes it clear, that he does like her, but he also tells the truth about Do San and that he did a lot of things that had nothing to do with HJP trying to pay his debt to her grandma.

He tells her about the fact, that Do San went to the networking party without any benefits attached.

If either of those moments go differently, there is a very big chance the love story would not be able to unfold. (The second point could have been delivered different but it hat to be delivered)
That confirmed for Dal Mi that the moment and reason she fell in love with him, was not a lie,
I believe that this is also the reason why she never could move on from him.

Because it is not just his backstory - it is also the backstory of Dal Mi and her pen friend "Do San".

Maybe thats what people are confusing. The rich backstory of the SML is not for the SML, but to explain the starting point of the main couple and become a trial of their love during the story.

It would've also worked if there were two kids: HJP and HJP2.0
One helps Dal Mi's grandma in the past to write those letters
The other helps Dal Mi's grandma in the present to find the actual Nam Do San

But they merged both into one character and gave him a one sided love in the middle of the series.

You are very welcome :-)
I was just rewatching the show and was at episode 15 when I went back to this page and scrolled through the comments.

Memory was still fresh on all the episodes ;-)

I don't think there was a single "love tension" moment between Dal Mi and HJP in the entire show.

Dal Mi always saw him as a mentor (and Do Sans Friend).
She did consider for a short time at the early episodes that he may like her, but that was denied.


You could say that the most intimate moment these two had, was at episode 13 when he told her: "If you are in trouble, I wished I would be the first one you remember and call"

Then she gets in trouble and literally after she tried dozen of other people and called them for help, she remembered that sentence and before she could call him, Do San called.

That was basically the most "romantic" interaction they had and I would not call that romantic.
Everything else was completely one sided by HJP and Dal Mi never knew any of it.

I believe they get together at episode 7.

However they do breakup because of a business mistake they made and Do San had to leave the country for three years - otherwise they would have been suit and probably lost.
Thats episode 12 -> Timeskip three years and the boys are back in town at episode 13.
Episode 15 the leads are back together.


You cannot really say that it is a Love Triangle. HJP starts developing feeling around episode 4/5? and tells Dal Mi at episode 10.
But Dal Mi never showed any real interest in him.

He did like try minutes before the male lead came back, to tell Dal Mi about his feelings again, but once Do San was back, Dal Mi never thought about him twice.

He does give up his love at episode 15.

Well he was quite good in Reset - modern drama ;-)
Most of his upcoming drama seem to be modern

Glad you liked both.
On the one hand both drama are completely different.
Their vibe is different, their story setting is completely different.

But the main couple has amazing chemistry in either drama.
I'd say the chemistry is a little better in OYGM because WZQ got it down to act cute and be smoldering angry :-D
He did not have much of a chance to show this with TLYGM

In a weird way sometimes it feels like the family of these three in TLYGM is the logical sequel to OYGM =)
The family dynamic is exactly how I would have imagined SC and GX would be like with a kid. Spoiling dad and the little strict mom who tries to get her spoiling husband under controle :-D

I do hope we can see them in another drama together in the future (5 years or so), however that kind of script would have to be amazing to be on par with their work that they created together so far.

I like the first drama slightly more - however there is a love triangle, so it depends wether or not this would be your cup of tea.
Most of the time I am very annoyed with the love triangles in dramaland, however this was not too bad.
Once You Get Married has probably more romance in it.
But there are a tone of cliches (domineering president e.g.)

I did not expect much and I am glad I did not.

The young leads were adorable and very well played.
This is supposed to be a comedy romance?
I did not feel much chemistry between the leads, the kids had more on that end.
Also: the drama felt at times to try to be more mistery/thriller than comedy/romance.

However these parts lacked depth. Too much storylines did not create enough details.

Overall I don't get the high rating

Thinking from censorship perspective it makes sense.

Song Yan smoked - we were told - he apparently got even Xu Qin to smoke.
However we only really see Xu Qin tell Song Yan to never smoke again.
Song Yan is supposed to be in a lot of fights, Xu Qin is supposedly inticing fights.

We do not really see the bad guy Song Yan was supposed to be.
We are being told.

This could be a censorship thing depending on what they actually
To be honest: given Xu Qin's character I did not really expect much "romance" in high school.
Given both their personalities it would have made sense if Song Yan is just nice to her, makes her laugh and happy. A free life where she can "see the world" outside of her cage.
On the other side Xu Qin showing complete loyalty + trust in Song Yan and being happy with him.

Showing these kind of moments might be enough to understand how the story of these too started.
If the director really made "romantic" scenes in high school while fully aware about the censorship: this would just not be very smart to try this for this kind of drama.

I liked the drama more than I thought I would.
Its a little bit too slow burn, but this makes sense given their history.

The mother is bad, makes mistakes - however she is not evil.
She has a screw lose and does not reflect on herself - probably because of her own upbringing.

FLs brother - while it felt a little creepy at times - just lives in a dark place where "a ray of sunlight came in" in form of his sister. He does not want to be alone in this darkness and he has no idea how to break out of it. It is a rather fascinating portrayal of a family.
There have been similar dramas to this end, however this one makes it feel realistic.


The supporting cast with hinted romance could be more on-screen to give this drama a little more room.
At least Jiang Yu would have been a nice on-screen development.



The only downside this drama created: the lack of backstory and how long it takes for the insufficient backstory to be revealed.
It's not enough explained how ML and FL fell in love and how deep their love grew in high school.
We do not really understand why these two lovebirds could not move on after 10 years.
Why did Song Yan fall in love with Xu Qin? How deep was his affection? What small and big things did Song Yan do for Xu Qin that she created this deep connection?

Working with flashbacks was a nice setting, however it was not enough to showcase this deep bond.

All in all I liked the drama. The acting was great from everybody involved.