In the description they call it a Cinderella story, but from the name Nobuta, and the little cartoon piggies, it should really be a Pygmalion story, raising a girl on the lowest echelon of high school life to the very pentacle.
From what I understand about the music, sometimes they end up with copywrite issues. When that happens they are force to delete the background music from the sound track. It is frustrating, but it seems to happen quite a bit in Asian dramas. I always find it odd when there are several minutes with no sound track. It is quite eerie.
If you are a fan of 2nd leads, you might like this because it had, not one, not two but three 2nd leads on the…
I agree, this was painful to watch. Usually the n'ek's long suffering make it bearable, but she was completely lacking that half way through. I wanted to slap all the characters except her parents and her bff's mother.
The only truly admirable characters are the n'eks parents and her bestfriend's mother. The p'ek is stereotypically obtuse. The n'ek is blindly naive without the stereotypical long suffering. Her perky personality last only until her work idol, his old girlfriend shows up. From then on she only thing she suffers from is lack of faith in the right people. His mother has a serious case of Jocasta Complex. His sister is a nasty piece in love with the gambling addicted brother of the first n'rai. He is also the one of the three p'rais who thinks he is in love but really obsessed with the n'ek. His bff, another p'rai, takes advantage of every opportunity to score points with the n'ek. Her female bff is in love with his bff but she is jealous of the n'ek because he is in love with the n'ek. Her male bff, another p'rai, is also in love with the n'ek. She at least is always putting him in his place, by friendzoning him, unlike the p'ek's bff who she allows to have a little hope. If things aren't bad enough, his old love has to enter the picture, a complete Machiavellian nacissist who manipulates the others like a chess master.
China frequently imports foreign actors for their dramas. Most Chinese dramas are dubbed, even with native speakers, so not being able to speak Mandarin is not an issue.
You would be better off avoiding this lakorn.