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Who are the second leads? If you mean the writer and the secretary they've clearly met before, that's why the writer girl suddenly ducked to hide herself at a fan meeting (that the fand was that chaebol wife was also funny). Writer's fans also complained about her using the same first name (secretary's) for her male heroes.
They also have funny surnames - writer's surname is Nam (namja - man), secretary's is Yeo (yeoja - woman). Secretary's boss even made fun of it - he wasn't allowed to hire a female secretary because of his father's dalliances and mother's subsequent orders, but at least he hired a secretary with a feminine surname.
There's also gonna be a spinoff drama about these characters, talking about milking to the latest drop, lol:
https://kisskh.at/771001-the-boss-s-menu-table

So let me get this right, since SK is very small in kdramas and everybody knows everybody, and writers gotta squeeze in such staple tropes as childhood connection and dysfunctional chaebol family:
-ML is a secret illegitimate kid of the chaebol family that runs the company where FL works, but here's more:
-ML was one of the foster kids FL's mother brought home over the years, but here's more:
-FL's two girl friends are also foster kids that her mom took in, but here's more:
-one of the girl friends knows the secretary of chaebol family's legitimate son and his mother is her number one fan.

Did I miss anybody else being related to somebody somehow, if it wasn't enough as it is?

I also find it funny how FL is a magnet for all sorts of trashy guys, her last ex being the trashiest, reminds me a lot about that nuclear waste in Marry My Husband. For someone so discerning and calculating she's not very good at reading men.

Wasn't expecting much, but it's pretty good so far. More enjoyable than Love Next Door at least.

Not good? Is FL still as stiff and samey faced as in her other works?

Why even today some people are such prudes they are unable to segregate acting from real life? She's an actress, not a hooker, nor does she belong to her audience, ffs.
But just for you and jealous ML they've extrapolated about it in one of the late episodes - it's all fake and camera shots are hiding there's no actual kissing in kissing scenes. But she does kiss for real with ML.

What's up with new dramas and big age gaps lately?
Anyway, is it any good, the first episode?

Yea, they've mentioned building a store building, so it's most likely Apple.

Which company do you think the allude to? Google or Apple?

I dunno, the leads know so much about each other (especially all sorts of embarassing dirt, lol) since early childhood it's hard to imagine them becoming a couple now, because they're always acting like bickering siblings. They've put an obligatory trope of ML secretly loving FL all these years, but like in basically all the other such childhood connection dramas by not confessing he missed his chance, the moment is gone and he wasted everybody's time. Could have been married for 10+ years and continued bickering like an old married couple, lol. Could FL start seeing a man in him after all these years? In a natural, not drama forced way? I dunno, just feels not very realistic. Imho, all these childhood connection plots are dumb fanfics that that office lady at ML's work likes to read.

I haven't seen much of her work, but she was very good in Alchemy of Souls.

I think the problem is FL's acting feels forced, overacted. Perhaps it's supposed to be part of her character, but just looks all roung fake. ML is more or less ok.

FL's mom is a bully. She bullied FL to a point she can't even tell her the truth because of fear of being beaten, that's why FL is lying and acting all the time, it became a habit. Also, almost breaking her leg? Da hell? Like many Asian parents, it seems her mom looks at her daughter not as a person but as a property she invested in and is angry that return was a dud. She's way more brutally incensitive than in Doctor Slump, however similar these dramas are. Empathy is not in her dictionary, it seems, nor is burnout. Also, the vicarious living through relatives' successes and cringey bragging to people that don't really care is just the worst, I hate people like that.

The ratings are high because of the cast.

I'm not feeling it so far. The cast is there, but everything feels forced and not very interesting.

This is why nobody likes Asian parenting in the West.
-Immense pressure on the kids since early childhood to overachieve and be competitive;
-Living vicariously through kids sucesses and pathetic bragging;
-Having unrealistic expectations and not caring about kids feelings or their inability to cope with pressure and driving them to staggering suicide rates.

It'd be so annoying if it wasn't so sad. Anyway, I hate leads parents.

Actors taking roles once in several years always remind of Touch Your Heart where FL wanted to turn down a role for a drama even after struggling to find one for two years and her clever producer did a reverse logic and told her she'd have to wait two more for another chance. It'd be like Olympics, she can work every four years, lol.

Anyway, this sound promising, though FL's occupation at school is not clear. A teacher?

Doctor Slump was disappointing in the end. I'll give this one a try for a couple of episodes.

Is this any good? How similar is it to Doctor Slump (similar poster, similar synopsis)? Is it one of those boring healing dramas?

Probably not, she's rather dumb 🤣

Yea, I was thinking they gonna shove the beaten to death LDR here until the last moment.