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Somehow this predictable series seems to work, for the most part, despite a complete lack of creativity from the writer. There isn't anything we haven't seen before. In fact, within the first ten minutes of the very first episode, I already knew several things were going to happen.

Baek Ho Rang's life would be at risk when he would nearly die from not being recharged by Na Bo Bae. That was a given.

Something, likely a feeling of being a danger to Baek Ho Rang, would drive Na Bo Bae away from him. These happen all of the time in K-dramas where someone runs away.

You would have the stuffy rich family member (in this case, the grandmother) who sits back and watches everything play out, pitting family member against family member. This also happens all of the time in K-dramas. Here, you have an old woman who is as much of a failure as a Chairwoman as she is as a grandmother.

At some point, Baek Ho Rang will lose his position, likely due to his condition, that will make the inept, thug family member take over the company. The thug, of course, is a spoiled brat who believes he's entitled to everything. Very typical and boring.

The jealous girl, who is in love with Baek Ho Rang, will do underhanded things to try and force things to work out between them. Another typical K-drama plot point.

And, of course, you have the initially disapproving family members and friends, because even being a 30-year-old woman, Na Bo Bae is incapable of making her own decisions. She's more like a 16-year-old girl.

The writer must have taken the template from so many other dramas and decided to simply add some rough changes here and there, rather than use any shred of creativity to try and make the story unique and interesting. Predictability isn't always a bad thing when it works. And it's largely the performances of Kim Young Kwang (Ho Rang) and Chae Soo Bin (Na Bo Bae) that keeps things barely afloat.

I liked that fact that Baek Ho Rang doesn't just change who he is overnight. He pretty much stays the same throughout. He's driven, bossy, and controlling, despite having an artificial heart with a battery that needs to be recharged.

Na Bo Bae is your typical K-drama girl. She's an outcast, a loner, and agrees to a contract with Baek Ho Rang when her electrical powers are pretty much the only thing that keeps him alive.

Of course, we have the typical friction between the two, and the contrivances that force Na Bo Bae to move with Baek Ho Rang so that she can always be there when he needs her. Heaven forbid if two unmarried people move into a mansion together, even if they're adults.

Once again, we get the rich man swooping in to save the poor girl. I did like the fact that there were a few times where the characters poke fun at this. Baek Ho Rang points out that there aren't nearly as many rich Korean men as dramas would like you to think.

Still, we get the typical bought out amusement parks, restaurants, and so forth. Things that nobody could possibly be able to do in the real world. It's all fantasy that we've seen countless times in romantic comedies and dramas. They're so overused that they've become tiresome and there's no surprises left.

If not for the chemistry between the two leads, this series would have been another failure due to a lack of any creativity by the writer who largely failed the story.