Hidden Love

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• Zhao Lusi as Sang Zhi
• * Zhang Xi Wei as young Sang Zhi
• * Nicknamed "Zhizhi". Sang Yan's younger sister and Duan Jiaxu's love interest. She likes drawing and eating crispy duck with taro paste. When she was in 8th grade, she mistook Duan Jiaxu for her brother for a moment. She then asked Duan Jiaxu to pose as her brother to go to see the teacher instead of her parents. The difference in age between the two is 5 years. Later, when Sang Zhi was in high school, she gradually fell in love with Duan Jiaxu. She misunderstood that Duan Jiaxu had a girlfriend, so she tried hard to forget him. She later went to Yihe for university and met Duan Jiaxu again, and they eventually became a couple.
• Chen Zheyuan as Duan Jiaxu
• * Sang Yan's college roommate and Sang Zhi's love interest. His dream was to become a video game designer. Because of his father's hospitalization, he started working part-time to earn money when he was a university student in Nanwu, Sang Yan and Sang Zhi's hometown. When Sang Zhi was in high school, he tutored her in physics. After graduating, he returned to Yihe to work and lost contact with Sang Zhi. Two years later, he reunited with Sang Zhi in Yihe, where she was attending university. As he grew closer to Sang Zhi, he slowly developed feelings for Sang Zhi.
• Victor Ma as Sang Yan
• * Sang Zhi's elder brother, with a sharp tongue and a tofu heart. He and Duan Jiaxu were college roommates and are close friends. He is supportive of Sang Zhi, though the two bicker often. He is five years older than Sang Zhi.

  People around Sang Zhi

• Zeng Li as Li Ping
• * Sang Zhi and Sang Yan's mother.
• Qiu Xinzhi as Sang Rong
• * Sang Zhi and Sang Yan's father.
• Wei Xiao as Ning Wei
• *Sang Zhi's college roommate. A vlogger with a lively personality. Chen Qiang's girlfriend.
• Qi Tianqing as Yu Xin
• *Sang Zhi's college roommate. A career oriented girl with gaming passion.
• Wang Yilan as Wang Ruolan
• *Sang Zhi's college roommate. A conservative and not very confident girl who has a crush on Jiang Ming.
• Gu Shuqi as Yin Zhenru
• *Sang Zhi's middle school and high school classmate. Later transferred to another school.
• Zhang Jiongmin as Fu Zhengchu
• *Gao Lin Yu as young Fu Zhenchu
• *Sang Zhi's middle school and high school classmate. He liked Sang Zhi.
• Lu Dongxu as Jiang Ming
• *A student in the Department of Physical Education. He liked Sang Zhi.
• Song Peize as Chen Qiang
• *Jiang Ming's college classmate. Ning Wei's boyfriend.
• Xu Shiyue as Shi Xiaoyu
• *Jiang Ying's friend. Sang Zhi's boss in internship company who mistook her for robbing Jiang Ying's boyfriend and disliked her everywhere.

  People around Duan Jiaxu

• Li Jia Wei as Xu Ruoshu
• * Duan Jiaxu's mother.
• Wang Wei Hua as Duan Zhi Cheng
• *Duan Jiaxu's father. He's in a coma after falling from a terrace. He killed Jiang Ying's father in traffic accident after driving drunk.
• Guan Zijing as Li Xun
• *Duan Jiaxu's colleague. Jiang Siyun's husband.
• Wang Yang as Jiang Si Yun
• *Duan Jiaxu's boss. Li Xun's wife. Sang Zhi mistook her for Duan Jiaxu's girlfriend.
• Zhang Haolun as Chen Junwen
• *Duan Jiaxu and Sang Yan's college roommate.
• Hu Yuxuan as Qian Fei
• *Duan Jiaxu's college roommate. He was the first of the four roommates to get married.
• Xu Shixin as Jiang Ying
• *Duan Jiaxu's high school classmate, whose father was killed in a traffic accident caused by Duan Jiaxu's father. She has an obsession with Duan Jiaxu. Over the years, she has troubled Duan Jiaxu persistently and was later warned and persuaded to stop bothering him. At one point, she even slandered Sang Zhi, falsely claiming she stole Duan Jiaxu from her.

  Others

• Wang Yi Tian as Xiao Taimei
• Chang Hai Bo as Chen Mingxu
• Ji Hao as Jia Yang
• Guo Zi Xin as Zhang Hui
• Zhang Bo as Zhang Sen
• Wang Sheng Yun as Wan Zhe

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