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| "Hidden Love For You" Ends Abruptly Amid Controversy — Fans Left Confused |
Hidden Love For You (偷偷藏不住之许你) — the 2025 Chinese short romance drama — has ended in an absolute whirlwind, leaving viewers properly baffled and a bit fuming. Originally planned for 24 episodes, the mini-series was yanked off platforms before it even finished airing, thanks to a messy copyright row between its producers and the original novel’s rights holders.
The cast, led by Tian Hongjie as Duan Jiaxu, Huang Panpan as Sang Zhi, Ma Zhe as Sang Yan, and Li PoXu as Jiang Ming, had just started building a following when the whole show got shut down. The sudden disappearance of the series left a lot of fans wondering: what happened to the ending, then?
Basically, the story went like this. The drama was adapted (kinda unofficially) from Hidden Love, the 2023 hit series based on Zhu Yi’s popular web novel. But this new 2025 short drama version — titled Hidden Love For You — popped up out of nowhere, raising eyebrows and legal alarms.
According to statements from Jinjiang Literature City and Zhu Yi herself, they never approved a short drama remake, only a proper full-length web drama under their contract with production house Wajijiwa. So, when Hidden Love For You turned up, Jinjiang and Zhu Yi called it a straight-up contract violation and copyright infringement.
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Wajijiwa fired back saying, nah, the contract says we can adapt any web series, including mini-dramas, so they reckoned they were in the clear. The whole mess revolved around whether “web series” meant a long drama or any online serial.
After a wave of statements, public spats, and fans calling them out, all parties agreed on 3 July 2025 to permanently pull Hidden Love For You from streaming. Wajijiwa even issued a formal apology, promising they’d stick to their licensing deals properly in future and keep the author’s creative rights intact.
So in a nutshell, the mini-drama is gone, leaving a big question mark over its ending. Viewers never got closure on the storyline, especially since the plot was moving quite differently from the original 2023 series. If you’re wondering how it all should have wrapped up — tough luck, because there’s no finale.
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If you’re desperate for more, the discussion boards are on fire with theories, fan rewrites, and debate about what really happened to the characters. You can check out the full drama controversy breakdown on Weibo if you want to deep-dive the legal drama behind the drama.
Honestly, if people keep complaining “They ruined it!” — maybe remember, it was a mini spin-off, a slightly offbeat adaptation, not the same beast as the 2023 juggernaut. Love it or hate it, the show did give Hidden Love even more buzz, for better or worse.
At the end of the day, Wajijiwa has promised to do better, Jinjiang has defended its copyrights, and fans? Well, they’ll still be fighting it out on comment sections for weeks to come. That’s C-drama for you — messy, dramatic, and never boring.