Our Secret (2021) User Reviews

The story is good but a lil bit slow.

[shihabqp · 7/10 · 9 May 2023]

I enjoyed all the caracters and their building of relationship especially the lead couple's. The drama is great all over. Though was felling like the story telling is a little bit slow and a tiny boring compared to k drama when I was going through the middle episodes. But believe me the ending just touched my ♥. It has made me recall my high school life and my friends. And another point is in this drama i noticed that the speaking and acting style was so much culm and peaceful unlike the normal chinese. So it is a short of must wach c drama. Recommendable. The drama will surely leave a trace in your mind.

Amazing love story!! Sweet and fun. Super enjoyable!

[hanalisss · 10/10 · 30 March 2023]

This was such a great drama!

Absolutely loved the characters, the story and subplots.

It was an amazing and sweet relationship from the beginning until the end and the main leads had a lot of chemistry. The evolution of them as a couple through the years was my favorite thing and I enjoyed a lot watching them growing and evolving together.

Funny, sweet and lighthearted but filled with emotions!

There's something special about these kind of school romance slice of life chinese dramas, you will literally love every minute of it and they will leave you such a warm feeling after you have watched it.

Watch it! You won't regret it!!

I wonder why the scriptwriters wanted to sabotage their own show

[Hlebka · 5/10 · 19 June 2023]

Finished it. It is.... a pitty. I wonder why the scriptwriters wanted to sabotage their own show.

First half is very good. Third quarter is terrible. Last quarter is decent.

Anybody saying "it is realistic because it is not a fairy tale" should stop. Yes, real life has problems, but absolutly ridiculous coincidences and behaviours just for the sake of creating problems, is not realistic. For the first 14 episodes they create an amazing love story, that then is destroyed by absolutly stupid things.

If you want a very similar show but 3 times better, watch Meeting you. The only thing Our Secret has better is MLs acting, which is amazing.

Details and romance recap below.

• They start bickering a bit
• Soon they become friends
• Soon again they like eachother
• This evolves into a relationship where while not beeing officially together, its obviously for everybody that they are(will be) together. Theres absolutly nothing more important for each of them than the other one. This part of the show is amazing.

• Episode 14: ML gets into a college in another city, since FL doesnt have enough score to enter (and she doesnt care about anything else besides ML) she decides to study one more year to be able to go to his college. This isnt the bad part, they separate on good terms, they agree to join one year later and keep texting and talking often. All good for now.

• Now the ridiculous crap begins:
• They constantly think of eachother, but one time he goes visit her to her city without telling her, and omg what a coincidence, when he appears another guy is precisely comforting her patting her back. He goes back without seeing her and stops texting and speaking with her. Then she goes visit him to his city without saying anything, and... omg what a coincidence, right when she appears a girl is leaning on ML because her leg hurts. FL sees it, and goes back without saying anything. Wow, such a realistic show because it isnt a fairy tale.... Both of them are never with somebody of the opposite sex, but the 2 minutes the other one appears from another city, they precisely are and with physical contact...
• Next problem. MLs father gets sick. So ML has to start working while he studies. So, because of this stupid problem, ML decides that he now has so many troubles that he is not able to protect FL.... from what? Well ask him, because this isnt an action or thriller show, but he literally does it because he "cant protect her anymore". WTF So he decides to cut all ties with her. They have been in love for 3 years, not caring about anything else than the other one, she is studying like crazy just to be with him, and he decides to cut ties because his father is sick, he needs to work and "cant protect" her.... Again, very realistic. Im talking to all you praising it for being realistic because "bad things happen"

Even worse, when he visited her and saw that guy pating her, he heard her say how hard it was being to study to enter his college and be at his level. So this is also a reason he wants to cut ties.... Which doesnt make sense at all because she is already studying and he cuts ties without saying a word so she keeps studying like crazy so what the hell are you helping her with???

• So a year passes without him texting her back and she enters his college. She goes right to him, yells his name at his dorm, they go speak, she confesses her love (they never did in high school).... and now the crappiest episodes begin. Hfe rejects her coldly, and then when he is alone cries because he loves her. She cries too. Then she confesses again, he rejects again, both cry again. And so on for about 4 episodes. RIDICULOUS
• Now its turn for the opposite! FL gets tired and angry and decides to stop pursuing him... and now ML wants to get back with her! At the same moment! Realistic again. So now we get 2 episodes of ML pursuing FL and saying sorry but she rejecting him because she is still mad.

• Oh, almost forgot. There was a very mild love triangle in highschool. ML and FL were so madly in love with the other one that it wasnt a problem at all. But they decide to bring it back on steroids during this episodes. Now it is very annoying.

• So in episode 21 they get together. Are the last 3 episodes of being together worht all this crap? Nope. These episodes are cute, but not amazing either. Maybe mosstly because of the previous episodes having destroyed both characters for me.

• Also, theres some very annoying timeskips. Not annoying because they are bad, they are just... weird. Theres several timejumps where you didnt almost realize it happened. For example you hear a support couple is getting engaged. You continue watching scenes without any notice of tiemskip, and suddenly you hear they have been married for 2 years. And things like this happene several tiems along the show.

All in all, the show isnt as bad as I make it sound, but the dissappointment after the great first half is so big, that the feeling it leaves is very bad.