I personally enjoyed this show until around episodes 6–7. The MLs' chemistry was great, the premise was interesting, and the actors' interactions were fun. But then the original plot disappeared, and the story sadly became increasingly insubstantial and ridiculous. Disappointing.
I truly enjoyed reading your very interesting review 💖 but some parts of your analysis seem to cross into spoiler territory. ⚠️ It doesn't reveal any major twists, but it does disclose a lot about the characters' psychological journey, relationship dynamics, and even the implications of the ending: the ML's behavioral patterns, the FL's motivations, the role of the 2ML, specific turning points in the story, and even hints at the overall direction of the ending. A lot of viewers would rather go into a drama without knowing those things in advance. Would you mind using the Spoiler Tag, please? Thank you for your understanding 🙏🏻
Sounds like you missed the entire fact that she was lied to and thought he was the one that cut things off with…
Well, I promised to keep you posted...
So yes, the part about “the FL believing the ML cut things off with her” does indeed come around episode 14, when the ML reappears in the FL’s life. She quickly learns that he suffered amnesia after his surgery 6 years ago (and doesn’t remember her at all), but she’s still quite cold and rather unfriendly toward him — as she wants to protect her son and herself — yet never cruel. Of course, he’s clearly surprised by her reaction, but she slowly changes her attitude toward him.
Btw, I dropped the show at episode 17 (out of 34). I understand this drama is considered a classic, and I would most likely have loved it when it first came out in 2009–2010, but I personally find that its storyline hasn’t aged well. Watching each episode became a struggle, so I decided to stop there. So I won’t be able to tell whether the FL becomes needlessly cruel again later on. 😉
Ah yeah... Totally forgot the little kid never calls his mom "Mom" but "Mu Cheng"...😑 Annoyed…
Same! I'm currently on episode 13 (out of 34 in total on Netflix) and I don't know why this young child calls his mother by her first name. I find this very odd. Especially as they seem to have a very loving bond.
Sounds like you missed the entire fact that she was lied to and thought he was the one that cut things off with…
I’m currently watching this show (episode 13 out of 34 on Netflix), and I think Ananta’s comment above isn’t completely wrong. But I can’t help wondering if maybe we’re all talking about different moments in this long drama.
The FL was indeed manipulated by the ML’s mother, but around episodes 11–12 (after he accidentally wakes up from his first anesthesia and runs away from the hospital), what the FL tells the ML to stop him from following her as she’s trying to leave the city is genuinely cruel. Needlessly? That’s another debate. She does "have to" push him away (because of what she promised his mother), but her words are extremely harsh. Personally, I didn’t think the FL needed to be that cruel by telling him those very hurtful lies, but… it IS a melodrama, right?
I’m not done with the show yet, so what you’re referring to — the FL believing the ML cut things off with her — probably comes a bit later in the story. I’ll keep you posted! 😉
looks like this is going to be on iqiyi??? Are you late or what?Since filming started and submit for filming on…
Let’s keep things friendly, Tom 🙏🏻 Updates are always welcome, but tone matters too. People here are just sharing excitement, hopes, platforms... not competing on who's 'late' or not.
Ridiculous? Disgusting? Shameless? Adulterous?... Oh my, all these big words from just watching the trailer? We…
Calling a show ‘ridiculous’ because its theme doesn’t resonate with you or match your personal sense of realism is valid, but that doesn’t make it objectively nonsensical to everyone else. Different viewers connect with different premises. Fiction isn’t required to fit everyone’s personal sense of realism. And a lot of viewers enjoy dramas that explore dynamics outside their own experience.
And if K-dramas were only allowed to show what makes actual 'sense' to every single viewer, we’d have about three dramas left. Thankfully, fiction — like many human minds — is allowed to be broader than that.
Btw, most people wait for more than a trailer or short synopsis before announcing the fall of an entire industry.
How ridiculous and disgusting the trailer is! How Kdrama industry release such drama casting Nam Ji Hiyun and…
Ridiculous? Disgusting? Shameless? Adulterous?... Oh my, all these big words from just watching the trailer? We apparently didn’t watch the same one.
To me it looked like a rom‑com setup with two single grown people navigating their beliefs and comfort zones — nothing remotely close to the moral catastrophe you’re describing.
It’s perfectly fine not to like a premise involving adult‑themed elements, of course. To each their own. But calling the actors ‘shameless’ for playing consenting adults in a comedic story about personal growth and challenging each other's intimate norms (conservative or not) feels… dramatically disproportionate, to say the least.
Anyway, I hope you’ll find dramas that align better with your moral expectations. This one clearly isn’t for you.
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It doesn't reveal any major twists, but it does disclose a lot about the characters' psychological journey, relationship dynamics, and even the implications of the ending: the ML's behavioral patterns, the FL's motivations, the role of the 2ML, specific turning points in the story, and even hints at the overall direction of the ending.
A lot of viewers would rather go into a drama without knowing those things in advance.
Would you mind using the Spoiler Tag, please? Thank you for your understanding 🙏🏻
I liked your review and reading your point of view. Thx for sharing! 🙏🏻
So yes, the part about “the FL believing the ML cut things off with her” does indeed come around episode 14, when the ML reappears in the FL’s life. She quickly learns that he suffered amnesia after his surgery 6 years ago (and doesn’t remember her at all), but she’s still quite cold and rather unfriendly toward him — as she wants to protect her son and herself — yet never cruel. Of course, he’s clearly surprised by her reaction, but she slowly changes her attitude toward him.
Btw, I dropped the show at episode 17 (out of 34).
I understand this drama is considered a classic, and I would most likely have loved it when it first came out in 2009–2010, but I personally find that its storyline hasn’t aged well. Watching each episode became a struggle, so I decided to stop there.
So I won’t be able to tell whether the FL becomes needlessly cruel again later on. 😉
I'm currently on episode 13 (out of 34 in total on Netflix) and I don't know why this young child calls his mother by her first name. I find this very odd. Especially as they seem to have a very loving bond.
The FL was indeed manipulated by the ML’s mother, but around episodes 11–12 (after he accidentally wakes up from his first anesthesia and runs away from the hospital), what the FL tells the ML to stop him from following her as she’s trying to leave the city is genuinely cruel.
Needlessly? That’s another debate. She does "have to" push him away (because of what she promised his mother), but her words are extremely harsh. Personally, I didn’t think the FL needed to be that cruel by telling him those very hurtful lies, but… it IS a melodrama, right?
I’m not done with the show yet, so what you’re referring to — the FL believing the ML cut things off with her — probably comes a bit later in the story.
I’ll keep you posted! 😉
Updates are always welcome, but tone matters too.
People here are just sharing excitement, hopes, platforms... not competing on who's 'late' or not.
Different viewers connect with different premises. Fiction isn’t required to fit everyone’s personal sense of realism. And a lot of viewers enjoy dramas that explore dynamics outside their own experience.
And if K-dramas were only allowed to show what makes actual 'sense' to every single viewer, we’d have about three dramas left.
Thankfully, fiction — like many human minds — is allowed to be broader than that.
Btw, most people wait for more than a trailer or short synopsis before announcing the fall of an entire industry.
To me it looked like a rom‑com setup with two single grown people navigating their beliefs and comfort zones — nothing remotely close to the moral catastrophe you’re describing.
It’s perfectly fine not to like a premise involving adult‑themed elements, of course. To each their own.
But calling the actors ‘shameless’ for playing consenting adults in a comedic story about personal growth and challenging each other's intimate norms (conservative or not) feels… dramatically disproportionate, to say the least.
Anyway, I hope you’ll find dramas that align better with your moral expectations. This one clearly isn’t for you.