15 May 2024: Yang Yang was announced as the main lead for this drama at the 2024 Youku Spring Conference. Rumour has it that it will begin filming in July 2024.
1 March 2024: Full cast is still had to be officially confirmed.
Victor Ma played Sang Yan in Hidden Love. Zhao Lusi was the original Sang Zhi and Chen Zhe Yuan as Duan Jiaxu.
24 March 2024: Bai Jing Ting and Zhang Ruonan are finally confirmed as leads with new posters released.
27 June 2024: It is a wrap.
Episode 1
It started very emotionally. Sang Yan parted sadly with Wen Yi Fan after he realised that he was only a back up option to her. This was in high school.
Several years later, her best friend, Zhong Si Qiao, dragged Yi Fan to go to a gastropub. As they entered, a singer on guitar was singing Forever Star, an ost to Hidden Love.
Lo and behold, she spotted Sang Yan at the bar which distracted her causing her to bump into a waiter carrying their drinks. The drink toppled over her shirt. The commotion was noticed by Sang Yan. He was waiting outside the loo for Wen Ji but pretended he did not know. He did give her his leather jacket to cover herself up as he felt responsible being the bar owner.
That would have been the end of it but a couple of days later she had to return to the pub to inquire whether she had dropped her bracelet by her table that night. Again, Sang Yan was there and very dismissive of her, making it sound like she was after him.
I have to say, the drama was dissimilar to its ‘sister’ drama Hidden Love which is prodominantly lighter in tone with cuteness overload.
The First Frost is gritty or darker. Yi Fan was living a rather miserable life. She was almost assaulted by an opportunist married guy who lived in a share house with her and other tenants. Her situation was depressing. She felt that everything was on top of her.
But finally there was a glimmer of hope. She was surprised by her co-workers and the police by presenting her a commendation because she managed to make a couple of illegal immigrants give themselves up after she saved them from a car crash. She was then told by Manager Chen Yan Qin that she was just been made a permanent reporter at Nanwu Tv Station.
Nanwu Tv was covering the New Year’s Party in the park celebration when she bumped to Sang Yan again.
This episode also showed a little bit of Sang Zhi and Duan Jia Xu.
