The novel that inspired the hit Chinese Drama--streaming on Netflix! A sweet story about a high school crush turned real chance at romance. When Sang Zhi was thirteen, she fell in love with an older boy named Duan Jiaxu. He was a typical teen, careless and easygoing, and came over every afternoon to play video games with her older brother. She said nothing, keeping her feelings secret, but couldn’t help the blush that appeared every time they crossed paths. Sang Zhi was content just watching him from the background, accepting that her crush would never turn into something more. But years later, Sang Zhi and Duan Jiaxu are reunited. Could this high school crush become a true romance?

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Zhu Yi is a writer in China. Hidden Love is their first work to be translated and published in English. It has also been adapted into a popular Netflix series by the same name.

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The novel that inspired the hit Chinese drama—streaming on Netflix! A sweet story about a high school crush that might just become a real chance at romance.

Sang Zhi is thirteen, top of her class, endlessly feisty, and completely uninterested in romance. In fact, her biggest talent seems to be driving her older brother crazy. Then she meets Duan Jiaxu, her brother’s college roommate.

Warm, teasing, and impossibly kind, Duan Jiaxu treats her like the little sister she insists she isn't. For the first time, she finds herself lingering in doorways, plotting ridiculous schemes, and guarding a secret crush she knows she shouldn’t have. Time passes. Life pulls them apart.

Years later, in college, a chance reunion brings them face-to-face again. Yet Sang Zhi is no longer the awkward girl he remembers. As old feelings resurface, she begins to wonder whether the boy who once saw her as a child might finally see her differently…or if some distances can never truly be crossed.