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A mother-daughter centered story first, romance is secondary.
This is very much a story exploring the relationship and role of a mother and her daughter, everything else (including romance) is just set dressing to elevate the central plot. If you're here just for the romance, this might not be for you. As for a drama about family, I would highly recommend it.
The main message being how motherhood can take over a woman's life, her goals, dreams, identity, routine are all sacrificed in the pursuit of the family's happiness. Instead, she pushes all those hopes and dreams onto her own daughter, to a suffocating degree. She's supposed to be annoying, stubborn, loud, clueless, authoritative and the actress and writers conveyed that almost too well. There's a chance people will drop this drama too early without getting to see the mother learn and change for the better.
The term "a mother knows best" is taken to its absolute extreme, where the mother wants to dictate and control her daughter's life, like a puppet with no free will. The final episodes were handled quite well; we get to see the mother's past, her hometown, past living conditions, and old dream. We finally get to understand why she's so obsessed with money, to the point of pushing her daughter to marry into a rich family, despite that same family looking down on them. Her mother never got to realise her dream before, because she was too poor to continue, even after getting an incredible opportunity handed to her. That why she pressures her daughter so to get rich quick, not knowing her daughter has her own life, aspirations and pride. After all the arguments, conflicts, miscommunications, secrets, heartbreak, we finally see the daughter tell her mom her wish. She wants to be independent, and she wants her mom to be independent too. Cast away the role and responsibilities of motherhood and just be yourself, a woman with a dream, living for yourself once more.
BUT of course even at the end, the mother still insists her daughter get married and have kids, continuing the cycle of self-sacrifice at the peak of her daughter's career... Oh well, that's just life, I guess...
The main message being how motherhood can take over a woman's life, her goals, dreams, identity, routine are all sacrificed in the pursuit of the family's happiness. Instead, she pushes all those hopes and dreams onto her own daughter, to a suffocating degree. She's supposed to be annoying, stubborn, loud, clueless, authoritative and the actress and writers conveyed that almost too well. There's a chance people will drop this drama too early without getting to see the mother learn and change for the better.
The term "a mother knows best" is taken to its absolute extreme, where the mother wants to dictate and control her daughter's life, like a puppet with no free will. The final episodes were handled quite well; we get to see the mother's past, her hometown, past living conditions, and old dream. We finally get to understand why she's so obsessed with money, to the point of pushing her daughter to marry into a rich family, despite that same family looking down on them. Her mother never got to realise her dream before, because she was too poor to continue, even after getting an incredible opportunity handed to her. That why she pressures her daughter so to get rich quick, not knowing her daughter has her own life, aspirations and pride. After all the arguments, conflicts, miscommunications, secrets, heartbreak, we finally see the daughter tell her mom her wish. She wants to be independent, and she wants her mom to be independent too. Cast away the role and responsibilities of motherhood and just be yourself, a woman with a dream, living for yourself once more.
BUT of course even at the end, the mother still insists her daughter get married and have kids, continuing the cycle of self-sacrifice at the peak of her daughter's career... Oh well, that's just life, I guess...
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