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Not only that, but it was written plain weird in the manga.

Watch episode 1 again when she's back in the past, not the future. It's around the middle - ML drove her home in a taxi, gave her his jacket and put some money in it because she left her wallet at work. She checked that money the same evening and there was a heart doodled on it, just like the money she got from the taxi driver/her dad in the future. The money came from ML, she didn't have any on her that day.

ML gave her the money with the heart doodle in the drama. Where did he get it if he didn't ride in that taxi?

They've done ML's return to the past completely differently. No wishing to return to the past in exchange for his life, no taxi driver (aka. FL's father from the afterlife) driving him to the beach where he ended his life with a suicide.
I'm glad they've done away with the suicide part in the drama. But his sincere wish what I thought was the catalyst for both of them returning to the past, not just FL wishing for revenge.

The ship seems to have sailed with the taxi driver and ML in the drama. And they've spilled all the beans what he was doing just prior her death already. The drama version kinda lacking here. One question remains though - how did he get that heart tatoo on his body and money with the heart doodle in the drama? Not explained so far.

I wonder how they gonna address the wish giving taxi driver in the drama, if at all.

Watch it with fresh eyes, don't try comparing.

I'm actually excited to see the differences, because it be something new, not just copying the manga. So far they've been doing them well in the drama.

FL, for example, wishes the evil bish to get cancer in her stead in plain text. I mean, yea, she's an irredeemable evil bish, but I wouldn't wish cancer even on the trash of humanity. Just wish her dead, at least it sounds better on paper, I dunno, just my opinion.
Anyway, Min Hwan's bish of a mother gets a stroke after learning her only son is sterile.
The evil bish brings her the son's sterility analysis results to troll her and neglects her when she gets a stroke. Then she follows that up by killing her while she's in the hospital, so that she won't recover and tell everybody about neglect. Runs away from the police, hits ML with a car while trying to run over FL, gets sentenced to life time in prison.
Min Hwan gets wind of evil bish's deeds behind his back and takes out 500 million won insurance on her (just like he did with FL) to kill her in a car accident. But he gets news his mother has died and rushes to the hospital on the same brakeless car he sabotaged just yesterday. Dies like total lame idiot in a car crash followed by drowning.
They f*cking deserved each other. 🤣

And that's not to mention some of the more fantastical lying from the evil bish, which FL brilliantly rebuked with ML's help. The manga seems just the right amount of short for the drama format.

Some of the things in the manga got pretty dark at the end.

From suicide. Which just makes him look mentally unstable, considering his non-existent relationship with FL in the past life.
I prefer the drama version, way less problematic.

But at least it's more believable that he still doesn't have a gf. I'm sick of those silly dramas where a good looking/rich/straight middle aged man is still a virgin when he meets FL. And they make him act awkward in front of her, but in other situations he's confident and assertive. Just out of some fantasy world.

In the manga he was your typical perfect guy, no awkwardness, no nuanced personality.

Just gotta make sure you won't turn into a slime there or somesuch.

Some characters are originally from Busan.

Not his first role as a nice lawyer. Still remember him in Extraordinary Attorney Woo.

If you see a white truck in East Asia, you run for your life or prepare to reincarnate. That's what kdramas, manga and anime have been teaching us for years 😂

I'm thinking we're missing the taxi driver scene with ML, or something similar. Otherwise where did he get the money with a heart?

I dunno why they've decided to change this in the drama, but in the manga ML didn't go looking for FL's first crush. He just came to the reunion by himself.
But I guess with how they've staged ML's event leading to him returning to the past that was one of the last things he had heard at FL's funeral. My guess is in the drama he returned to the past a bit earlier than FL, but still not so early as to think it through thoroughly. That search for FL's first love looked like a spontaneous thing, he just wanted to do something to make her feel better and to get her away from her future husband by finding her a better guy. Perhaps he didn't realize at the time he can compete for her heart himself. But after he realized that, he got jelly and now we have love triangle.

In the manga he actually was very calculating and 5 steps ahead of FL at planning how to help her. It just wasn't looking as stalker-ish as in the drama, more like a competent guy appearing at the right time at the right place.

For the most part I like the drama's turn of events, especially how they've dealt with ML's event leading to him returning to the past. The manga's one was...problematic.

Though I'm still missing an apology from the reunion bishes, I hope it will come later.
And some scenes are absent altogether, some about Yoo characters, some about cute moments between the leads.

Can we please stop comparing this to Perfect Marriage Revenge? Yes, it has the same premise, we get it. Yes, it came just before this drama, just like mangas these two dramas are based on. No, nobody's copycating, it's just a popular trope. If you like this trope just watch it with fresh eyes.

You've such a dumb narrow view on this there's no point arguing.