Lily Blossoms

When I first saw the trailer, I thought the show would be a sweet, nature-filled story set in the countryside. However, it turned out to be something quite different from what I expected. The plot revolves around a young man, Yo, who is about to turn 20 and finds himself caught in a messy situation involving his secret girlfriend and her boyfriend. After a fight with the boyfriend, Yo’s parents send him to live in the countryside. They arrange for Yo to stay with Jom, the village chief, who becomes his guardian and is tasked with protecting him from his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend while Yo completes his high school education. Yo had never finished high school because he got into a fight with a teacher while trying to protect his friends. In the village, Jom is responsible for taking care of the community and fulfilling his duties as the village chief. He also looks after three other students. While taking care of the well-being of the entire village, Jom ensures Yo is kept safe from any threats, especially if Yo's ex-girlfriend's boyfriend ever tracks him down.

Jom also has unresolved issues with his family, and Yo ends up helping him work through some of those struggles. However, the plot starts to lose its direction after the seventh episode. The ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend finally tracks down Yo and shows up in the village, eager to make sure Yo knows who’s the boss. In a dramatic K-drama moment, Jom swoops in just in time to save Yo. That moment feels like the climax, and it’s all built up to this showdown. But after that, the story fizzles out. With the main conflict resolved, there’s no clear direction for the plot to go. The tension disappears, and the show loses momentum. It’s like the entire point of the series was to get to this moment, but once it happened, the narrative kind of drifts off.

There are also way too many unnecessary characters and subplots. The school subplot, for example, was pretty annoying. The whole thing with the "school belle" and Yo getting into a fight with a bully because the belle likes Yo instead of the bully just felt pointless. By the end, they all resolve their issues and become friends, with Yo even helping the bully pursue the belle. It didn’t add anything meaningful to the main story. Another subplot involves Yo helping one of the three students living with him to stop dealing drugs. Jom finds out about it and mistakenly thinks that Yo is involved with drugs. While this misunderstanding gets cleared up, it still feels like an unnecessary and silly side story that doesn’t really contribute to the plot. The village politics were okay at first, but they eventually became too much. It became so annoying and boring.

I didn’t finish this series, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s really boring. Jom and Yo have no chemistry, in my opinion. While they both seem to like each other, it feels like a drag, and every episode feels like filler. Every time you think they’re going to get together, confess, or even kiss, it just doesn’t happen.