I’ll break up my commentary in two parts. I’ll post the link here to part 2 when I’m done writing it. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 To recap, here’s the list of titles and featured objects. First Chapter. (I’ve been) Waiting. A secret kept Featured Object: Notebook Chapter 2. Closer. What made me meet someone like you Featured Object: […]
Hidden Love: OST “Having You”
I’m working on Episode 7 and I noticed that a new song was dropped in this episode. “To Have You” (or “Having You” or “I Have You”) Sung by Zhao Lei To come up with this translation, I compared the subs from different youtube videos, google-translated the Chinese words, and inferred the connection between the […]
Hidden Love: On “Hidden Love” and “Love O2O”
I’ll respond to @agdr03, @Fern and @Stacey out here so it’ll be easier for me to find my answers. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 To @agdr03, I’ll be protesting if you stop posting for HL. 😭 I’ll be SZ flopping myself on the bed crying because my tutor will stop tutoring me. 😂 Funny, very funny. We’ll just give […]
Hidden Love: Ep 6 On Long Distance Relationships
I tried to make this short because your eyes must be tired from reading my long posts. But I failed. Tell me when you want me to stop with these write-ups. I think I found another drama to write about. Chapter 6. Distance. When you are in another city Featured Object: The New Year decoration […]
Hidden Love: Ep 5 On Engraving Names, part 2
This is my theory for this cdrama, and I stand by it. The levels of understanding “Hidden Love” can be twofold. On the surface level, we’re obviously watching Sang Zhi hide her feelings for her Gege. Her “hidden” love isn’t hidden at all. We can see her and relate to her emotional roller coaster. Her […]
Hidden Love: Ep 5 On the Name Engraved in One’s Heart
Sometimes when I write these reviews, I wonder if mothers felt this way when they read fairy tales to their daughters. source: today.com Chapter 5. Secretly. The name engraved in my heart The featured object is the flowerpot in the Science Museum. Not to be nitpicky, but Duan JiaXu (DJ) told Sang Zhi to put […]
Hidden Love: Ep 4 My Random Thoughts
Heads-up: I took a lot of screenshots in this post because pictures do a better job of explaining than my words. This cdrama is unique in that the title pages show a different object each time that becomes central to the episode. In case you missed them, I’ll go over them. For the sake of […]
Hidden Love: OST “I Have Someone I Like”
This is another melody that I liked but I couldn’t make sense of the words. Since I’m neither a Chinese lyricist nor a poet, I looked through a few versions to make it intelligible to me. This is the composite version based on the youku sub, and several music videos on YT. No need to […]
Hidden Love: Ep 3 My Highlights
First, a note on the writers of this cdrama. The original source is a web novel called, “Secretly, Secretly. But Unable to Hide It.” The web novel is written by Zhu Yi. Google is your friend if you want to supplement the cdrama by reading the source material. There’s an English translation out there. When […]
Hidden Love: OST “Forever Star”
“Forever Star” Sung by Zhang Weihao Lyrics by Li Zhizhi Composed by Zhang Weihao I like this song and when I sit down to write my reviews, this is playing on my iphone to get me in the mood. It reminds me of the V’s “Christmas Tree” from the kdrama “Our Beloved Summer.” But I […]
Hidden Love: Ep 2 My Takes
First, a note on grooming v. befriending It will be incontrovertibly difficult for viewers, especially those with hyper-sensitivities and/or Western mindset, to watch these early episodes of this Cdrama when they’re on the lookout for signs of grooming. Why? For the simple reason that the timing of the main characters’ meet-cute (she’s in middle school […]
Hidden Love: Ep 1 First Impressions
It will add to our enjoyment of this cdrama if we look at the ideas put forward in each episode. Note to the newbies: Hi! You’re free to have your own opinion and post them. Just don’t be tiresome by wasting my time whining about my meanness, lecturing me on my “biases” or not paying […]
Hidden Love: Open Thread
Here you go, @agdr03. The thread is open. 🙂 I too am partial to Zhao Rosie/Zhao Lu Si so will download the episodes on Netflix. It just began yesterday on Netflix so I don’t know how many episodes were released. Will try to join you when I can. Cast: Zhao LuSi, Chen Zhe Yuan (never […]