Taz-mania

I do enjoy a crazy in love ML. He took everything that the FL dished out for episodes on end and never gave up.

Amazing how many times this novel have been made into a drama. I watched several of the other versions but this one by far has the best ML.

This was a decent "vertical" version of this drama (ML isn't as great as the one in Love In The Edge of Divorce, but the storyline wasn't quite as over the top - that is if you discount the FL getting kidnapped several times). The subs are extremely bad (probably machine translated) but you can at least follow the storyline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIU1AjnaE4&list=PL5qm1IzIN4QR9BiMo620lEtsRhzmQMgmz&index=6

I enjoy weekend dramas and have watched some really good ones over the years. Unfortunately, I've also watched some really bad, frustrating weekenders. After A Hundred Year's Inheritance, I vowed to never watch another drama by Goo Hyun Soo with her weak, doormat female leads.

Unfortunately I was never able to find the entire drama with just subs.

Translated novel. Novel name is Ex-Wife Strategy: Mr Fu insists on Pampering Me.
https://www.fanmtl.com/novel/ex-wife-strategy-mr-fu-insists-on-pampering-me.html

The novel is extremely long - over 2,000 chapters. So I guess there is a lot of source material for the various versions of the drama to pull from...

Another version of "Penny" that is somewhat similar to this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHJZE_QamM

All of the short dramas by director Zeng Qing Jie are really good. Shows he directed include, A Familiar Stranger, Provoke, Destined to Meet You, The Killer is Also Romantic, Butterflied Lover.

I also liked Night of Love with You (the leads are the “villain”)

I also enjoyed all of the short dramas that included actor Yang Ze (who I consider one of the kings of short dramas). Richard Li also another king of short dramas but beware as a lot of his dramas seem to have a bad ending (either sad or open ended). My favorite drama of Richard Li's is The Deliberation of Love.

As of Episode 13, ML is still clueless that FL is his wife

I agree - he’s been an inconsistent character. Hard to understand his actions.

I’m hoping that the writers decide against pairing up Bong Hui and Seung Don. Not sure how that would work given Gang Ju’s mother has moved back in with Seung Don in the house that was formerly her fathers. Will he move Bong Hui in there. And he would go from being Gang Ju’s stepfather to stepfather in-law. Hopefully they will just put him back with Gang Ju’s mother…

And I’m pretty sure at the end Cha Rim and Tae Woong will be together no matter how they tease us otherwise…The writer was able to redeem Cha Rim, hopefully they can redeem Tae Woong (ordering Cha Rim out of the car and rejecting her request for money without asking why she needs it) as I think he may love her but doesn’t respect her (although in the past she probably didn’t give him lots of reasons to respect her). A complex couple.

i do continue to really like Gang Ju and Da Rim.

Don’t think he should have hugged her, but putting handcuffs on her was too extreme. I was expecting it to be a fake out dream similar to other instances. Disappointed that he actually went there.

So what decent son puts his mother in handcuffs? While Cha Rim has become more likable, Mu Rim hasn't improved at all. His confrontation with his mom was all about him - he was all "me, me, me" "did you think about me", "what about me". Mu Rim's character comes across as joyless, always grim and dismal. Can't recall him smiling even once...

Early on I didn't want Cha Rim to end up with Tae Woong because I thought he deserved better, now I don't want them to end up together because I think she deserves better than him. Tae Woong whole storyline has been unbelievable (I'm hoping he fails as the Director at his dad's company). I like his character less and less as the drama goes on and he should stop with the matchmaking...

I'm also hating the potential romance between Bong Hui and Ji Seung...

It's been a long time since I've watched a weekend drama where I disliked so many of the characters. At this point I'm only rooting for Gang Ju and Da Rim (they seemed to be the only ones exposed to the money and not corrupted by it). I am finding nothing likable in Gang Ju's stepfather, Tae Woong, Da Rim's mother, Da Rim's aunt and most of the others. And I certainly hope one of the future storylines isn't a romance between Gang Ju's stepfather and Da Rim's mother (although early on the drama gave vibes that Da Rim's mother might have had a crush in the past on Gang Ju's stepfather).

The Director is fabulous. His short dramas are all real gems, including A Familiar Stranger, Provoke, Destined To Meet You, The Killer is Also Romantic...

VIKI has good subtitles for this drama. Also, this drama doesn't require a VIKI VIP Pass to watch (but if you don't have a VIP Pass you will have to watch a few commercials during the drama). Viki has combined the 22 episodes down to 11, so each episode is about 30 minutes long instead of 15.

Having a hard time getting into the father/son bonding between Ji Seung Don/Cha Tae Ung, especially given Ji Seung Don's horrible treatment of Gang Ju. Also, still dislike Cha Rim and am not enjoying her "romance" with Cha Tae Ung.

where can this be watched with English subs?

Isn't Tong Hua know for her novel's having unhappy endings?

A light, breezy easy to watch drama with engaging storylines and characters.

Actually not liking the secondary romance with Tae Woong and Cha Rim. He deserves better than her. Unfortunately, I know that they are end game but not liking Cha Rim at all.
The primary romance with Gang Ju and Da Rim is getting better.

ML's hairstyle seems to be channeling Captain Jack Sparrow...