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I started the drama to complete a challenge and this may have biased my perception. I'll never know but I wasn't carried away by their love story, even though I'm the kind of viewer who enjoys impossible love. In this drama, I didn't feel the chemistry between the couple.

This historical drama based on a true story tells us about the passionate and forbidden relationship born of love at first sight during the Japanese occupation of Korea between the literature student Kim Wu Jin and Yun Sim Deok, student opera.
Two solitaires who lived, or perhaps survived, in the face of social pressure and the oppressive presence of those around them thanks to their passion.

The plot is very slow and almost boring at times. The dialogues and situations suggest a gloomy climate, sadness and a form of self-effacement. There are very few moments when the characters are happy. The end isn't so suprising, it's a conscious decision, in their perspectives, their love kept them from freely life.

These words from Kim Wu Jin ran through my head for quite some time.
"Do you really live? No, I'm waiting for death to live. "
"I listened to the curses I was cursed with, they're my only refuge in this world tormented by the devil. "