The Secret of Us Novel by Mee Nam: Thai GL Book and Ebook

Before You Read

What it is: the Thai GL novel by Mee Nam that Channel 3’s 2024 series The Secret of Us adapts.
Thai title: ใจซ่อนรัก, roughly a heart that hides love, which is the book’s method as much as its subject.
Official English edition: 657 pages, about 98,000 words, released as an e-book on 16 May 2024 through MEB and translated by the meb translation team.
There is a separate Special Chapters volume in English, sold as its own e-book rather than bundled into the main edition.
The premise is a reunion, not a meeting. The two leads have a history that ended before the book opens, and work puts them back in the same place.
The adaptation starred Lingling Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat and aired on Channel 3 in 2024.

Reviewed by Renkaze

A second-chance romance that gives the first ending its full weight.

Second-chance romance lives or dies on whether the first ending was earned, and the novel spends real time on that. The series has eight episodes and has to keep momentum; the book can afford to let the reader sit in the version of events each woman has been carrying, which is where the gap between them actually is.

The medical setting is used for structure rather than spectacle. It is what forces proximity, and the novel is more interested in the forced proximity than in the hospital.

What to expect: a long read at 657 pages in English, heavy on interiority, with the special chapters functioning as an epilogue rather than an extra.

Eight episodes of roughly an hour add up to about eight hours of television. The English text of around 98,000 words takes a little over six hours at an ordinary reading pace, so the book is the shorter sit.

Read it if the series left you wanting the years between the breakup and the reunion. Watch first if you would rather have Lingling Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat carry the restraint on screen.

It suits readers who like reunion stories, who enjoy restraint and unspoken feeling, and who prefer a romance where the question is whether two people can finally say what was left unsaid.

The English edition and the series reached audiences in the same year.

The official English translation appeared on 16 May 2024, prepared by the meb translation team and published under T&M. Channel 3's adaptation, The Secret of Us, began on 24 June 2024, about five weeks later, with the television screenplay credited to Piyaporn Wayuparp, Nitinun Supappong and Tinna Simapaisal.

The Thai original is nine years older than both, so a reader arriving in English meets the book and the series almost at once, and deciding where to start is a real choice.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How much older is the novel than the series that made it known?

Nine years. The Thai e-book dates from 27 May 2015 and runs 387 pages, while the Channel 3 adaptation aired in 2024. The English translation also arrived in 2024.

What are the Special Chapters?

A separate volume published alongside the English edition through MEB, distinct from the main 657 page book and sold as its own file.

How long is the English edition?

657 pages, roughly 98,000 words, released on 16 May 2024. It was translated by the meb translation team and published under the T and M imprint, with illustration credited to the artist who signs as OrangeCatArtis.

What situation brings the two women back together?

Work. They were once together and the relationship ended badly enough that neither expected to have to be professional about the other, and one of them is a doctor.

How long was the television adaptation?

Eight episodes of roughly an hour, running from 24 June to 12 August 2024 across Channel 3, YouTube and Netflix. It was the first Girls' Love series the broadcaster produced, and it starred Lingling Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat.

Who adapted the book for television?

Piyaporn Wayuparp, Nitinun Supappong and Tinna Simapaisal wrote the television screenplay from Mee Nam's novel.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 3 October 2026

Where a title can be read, and who is credited on it, may have changed since publication, as our disclaimer explains.

Themes

The Thai text dates from 2015, and that changes how the book reads. It was written nine years before the series that made it widely known, and before Thai Girls' Love had anything like the production pipeline it has now. Nothing about the novel's shape suggests a book positioned for adaptation. There is no ensemble arranged for a cast list, and the reunion premise puts nearly all its weight on two people in rooms together, which is the hardest thing to open out for television and among the easiest to sustain in prose.

The title's grammar matches that inwardness. ใจซ่อนรัก sets a heart as the subject and hiding as the thing it does, so concealment becomes an activity somebody performs rather than a circumstance imposed from outside. The phrase describes work rather than a state, and it names what a reader actually spends the book watching: not the secret itself, but the labour of holding it in place.

Interesting facts

The eight episodes of the 2024 adaptation ran from 24 June to 12 August 2024 across Channel 3, YouTube and Netflix, at roughly an hour each, and it was the first Girls' Love series the broadcaster produced.

How it was made

The Thai e-book dates from 27 May 2015 and runs 387 pages, listed under T&M, the same imprint that later carried the English text. That makes the 2024 translation a version arriving nine years after original publication rather than a simultaneous release. Illustration on the English edition is credited to the artist who signs as @OrangeCatArtis. The English file is priced at 375 baht against a 500 baht cover, and the Thai one at 275 against 380, both sold as PDF and EPUB downloads with a table of contents rather than as printed stock.

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