Sunday 9 February 2020

Kissed by the Baddest Bidder: Eisuke Ichinomiya S5 Hidden Secrets Review



Story Basis:
Eisuke has done it again and expanded his hotel to New York. Just as you get ready to leave for New York, you receive a mysterious text from someone claiming to know your fiancΓ©'s secret. You don't have time to think about it before you're jetted off to a new country. 

At the opening party for the hotel, you meet a mysterious man in a Cheshire Cat mask who sent you the text back in London. Before you could find out what the secret is, the man disappears. You're worried about the masked man and Eisuke promise to protect you from him. 

In the midst of your worries, you try to carry on your days as usual. You're about to become Mrs Ichinomiya but you don't know the first thing about business. You want to be a bit as useful to Eisuke so you challenge yourself to learn about business and he gives you the chance to work on a project to help promote the hotel. You're excited to be a part of this project and come up with an event inspired by your encounter with a guest at the hotel.

Just when you're getting used to life in New York, you run into the man with the mask again. He warns you not to trust your man who's full of secrets. You want to believe in your fiancΓ© but when the secret involves Eisuke's biological father and his whereabouts you can't ignore it any longer. 

What secrets is Eisuke hiding? Can you still trust him after everything?

His Personality:
Still the same as always, Eisuke seems sweeter this season and more considerate of your feelings than previously ~ not that he's never been aware of your feelings. He takes you on a date despite his busy schedule with his business expansion to make time for you. 



He's still very awkward with expressing himself and only expressing them through actions. His go-to move is obviously sex to express his feelings for you 😚. Other times when you get into a disagreement, he buys you cookies from the bakery shop you like as his roundabout way of apologising. 

As sweet as he can be, he still strict as ever as your boss now that you're in charge of planning an event for the hotel. Noticing how serious you want to learn about business, Eisuke lets you be a part of his management strategy meetings. 

While he's being generous and attentive to you, he's still calculating and tactful as always. His choice to let you be a part of his business project is for two reasons. One; because he was being considerate when you said you wanted to learn about business. And two; he did it so you would be distracted and too busy to think about the masked man.



This season, Eisuke's calm and collected composure is slowly chipping because the stakes are higher this time. He's still keeping secrets from you and he firmly believes that not telling you will protect you from the crimes he's about to commit (Well, it's sort of a crime but for the right reasons). 

He's getting closer to finding out what really happened to his father all those years ago, and the closer he gets to the truth, the more danger he puts you in. He makes the conscious decision on whether or not to tell you the truth about his father and, in the end, he chooses to keep you in the dark. How stubborn! 😠

When you question him about his father, his go-to move is sex to cover up his anxieties or to conceal the truth. Even with Kishi's advice to tell you, he doesn't. 



Kishi took the words right out of my mouth ~ It's not until something worst befalls you did he realise it was a mistake to hide things from you. 😞



*** Be warned for any spoilers ***


Overall Opinion:
For the sake of this review, I'm going to pretend that last season never existed because of the random plot and his dramatic personality doesn't flow with his entire route. Actually, I've already disregard it because it was just horrible 😀. Just the way the MC was treated and how the story was handled. Just horrible 😑.

Anyway, the pacing of this plot was really good and I'm so glad we finally got an explanation of Eisuke's father's disappearance. It's been a tease his entire route. The last we've heard anything about related to his father's case was since Season 2 and here I thought it's never going to be solved. πŸ™Thank god for that. 

In saying that, the ending is just beginning, and knowing how intense Eisuke's route has been, it's just going to get tougher from here on. πŸ˜” Haa. When can they catch a break? πŸ˜–

The foundation of their relationship (or any relationship) is built on trust and the MC always puts her faith in Eisuke without fail. So when the masked man appears to her ~ in a creepy stalker way, I may add ~ with new information about Eisuke every time, she gets uneasy and starts to doubt their relationship. 



I still don't like how he keeps secrets from the MC because it just shows, that after five seasons, he hasn't changed 😞 that aspect of himself. His refusal to tell her anything or the truth makes it worse and she starts to doubt their relationship. But she comes around and still trusts him. 

In the end, she learns he never lied to her from the beginning. He only recently found out the truth about his father not long before she did and worked behind the scenes to clear his father's name. His mistake is (as always) keeping everything from her because it led to consequences she had to bear πŸ˜‘. 

However, it's debatable on how he handled it. Had he told her everything from the beginning, she wouldn't be able to do what he got Kishi to do because it's not something she'd have access to. But he's still wrong for not telling her anything. 

This season seems more dramatic and intense than any previous seasons and I have to say, I quite enjoyed it. The stakes are higher this season and more dangerous. I actually think the plotting had a purpose because of what happened to the MC, Eisuke finally learns not to keep secrets from her before it's too late. ~ Took you five seasons but glad you're finally catching on. 


From this incident, he finally knows what it feels like to lose something special to him. And he learns his lesson about keeping secrets from the MC. It's baffling how he didn't learn his lesson from all the other times she's been in trouble. This time was a life-and-death situation that really scared him and he makes a promise to change himself.


Hopefully, he keeps this promise from here on. The start of it is when he says he's already making plans for their wedding. And honestly telling the MC how his mother was never foolish as she is when his father said she reminded him of his wife. πŸ˜†

And that's not all... Eisuke looks so much like his father. πŸ˜‚


It's so funny when he started talking about kid Eisuke. So not the Eisuke we know. πŸ˜‚

I really recommend this story if you want to get some closure on his whole father disappearance mystery. It's not exactly a closer. Yes, he does reunite with his father but it's still not the end of that. The ending is just about to begin is all I can say. Happy playing!

Overall score: 7/10

You are welcome to read my review on his overall personality and his character development from my general opinion post. 

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