Kevin C. Wong

Hidden Love (2023 TV series) [+]

Hidden Love is a Chinese romance drama that ran 25 40-minute episodes.

At 14 Sang Zhi (Zhao Lusi) fell in love with her big brother's friend Duan Jiaxu (Chen Zheyuan). Over the years she keeps bumping into him keeping her love secret. When Jiaxu moves back to his home city she even studies hard and gets into that city's university. It's only in her second year at university that Jiaxu finally starts to see Zhi in a new light but the new problem is their age difference (7 years) which is not going to make her family happy...

It's a slow moving story with lots of endearing moments. One time 17-year old Zhi runs away from home and flies to see Jiaxu and when she sees him with a girlfriend her heart breaks. Meanwhile Jiaxu is always protective of Zhi and treats her like a little sister and misses all the signs. The final episode is kind of quick to resolve the plots but it does end in a romantically satisfying way.

Overall I love this series.