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Differkinds of love

The infidelity of both main leads is only the cause of the storyline of this mature, stylish romcom. The short drama's main aim, in my opinion, is to contrast the love generated by the affairs to that of the marriage. In brief the romance from the affairs are hot, sweet and exciting, but it has a time limit. And in this drama both leads are not at all compatible with their young lovers. The ml never wanted to leave his wife causing the affair to end. While the fl and her young lover both need to try very hard to adjust themselves to suit one another. In the process the fl eventually lost her own character, identity, and the love generated by the afair died as well. In contrast the married for 8 years husband and wife are shown to be totally compatible (it is honestly rare in real life), always feel at ease with one another, no boundary no secret. It is not exciting just natural and comfortable to watch.
At the end one kind of love died and one kind of love survived to bring an unlikely happy ending to the drama.
It is a easy watch enjoyable romcom.

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A drama with a complete storyline

For those who cared to read the synopsis of the drama before started watching, should aware there are 2 key interlinked storylines in this drama, the murder mysteries, and the story of the 2 first loves the main leads.
Like every murder mystery, the drama gave very little hints (or just a little) on what actually happened, nor the detailed background stories of them. As usual, answers were only reviewed near the very end, so successfully keeping everyone guessing throughout in the series. The short series not giving too much spaces for relax, so never boring.
For the other first loves storyline, if one watched this drama carefully, based on what it told us, there are consistent setups and hints throughout giving indications the most likey outcome. Right in 1st episode the fl is setup as a single mother, so making her available. And the ml always playing mahjong in mahjong house in his spare time outside works, rather than returning home to his girl friend, writing is in the wall in their relationship right at the start. And this is a rare mixed genres Japanese drama that actually had a fitting ending totally consistent to all the hints given in the story throughout.
The characters in this drama all had flaws. But they were only 12 when the first murder took place, and the fl a single mother at 35 had a son to look after. So there are circumstances that caused them covering the truths. And if they are perfect matured characters there won't be any story to tell.
With perfect casts, it is a rare Japanese drama I enjoyed thoroughly.

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