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Liar Love
Meri was done super wrong by her cheating no good ex-husband and pushed to desperation, but her forcing an innocent man to commit fraud with her when he did nothing but be nice to her despite her drunkenly assaulting him is awful too. Though there was a some quid pro quo for him with his company needing her design company otherwise they lose out on the mass amount of money already spent on the designs, it still benefits her more. He seemed to enjoy going along with it, it would have been more interesting to see how far he would go along with her schemes and see him fall for her without him figuring out who she was from seeing the family photo so soon. It would have ameliorated the oh so convenient childhood connection trope at least if he would fall for her as she is as an adult. It was too convenient for him to instantly overlook all her weird behavior in an instant and agree to take fake wedding photos with her and go deeper and deeper into the lie. These particular actors can handle more nuance thrown at them to portray and the relationship of the characters would be stronger and the story overall would have been more memorable for it. Otherwise, Meri and WooJoo are a cute adult couple to watch. It's nice that they are in love, and sweet but not childish. It's refreshing that WooJoo's grandma is not remotely interested in being messy controlling in laws like Meri's former ones and just trusts WooJoo knows how to pick his person.
I liked how the show always hinted that WooJoo's cousin Eung Soo isn't that bad of a person, just not ambitious. He's the one who noticed the design rights expiration that led to Meri's company getting contacted to work with them again. He's the only one that remembers WooJoo's birthday, what he likes to eat, and that he had a favorite little toy when he was little. In the end he helped to take down his truly villainous father who he already knew was cheating on his mother.
Sang Hyeon's storyline is very interesting as a pleasant subversion of a usual villain goon. He totally looks like one, but slowly his suppressed soul starts to light up more and more with his interactions with Dr. Yun and she in turns gets over her one sided obsession with WooJoo. She also deserves a mutual loving relationship with someone who is attentive to her as she is devoted to them.
I liked how the show always hinted that WooJoo's cousin Eung Soo isn't that bad of a person, just not ambitious. He's the one who noticed the design rights expiration that led to Meri's company getting contacted to work with them again. He's the only one that remembers WooJoo's birthday, what he likes to eat, and that he had a favorite little toy when he was little. In the end he helped to take down his truly villainous father who he already knew was cheating on his mother.
Sang Hyeon's storyline is very interesting as a pleasant subversion of a usual villain goon. He totally looks like one, but slowly his suppressed soul starts to light up more and more with his interactions with Dr. Yun and she in turns gets over her one sided obsession with WooJoo. She also deserves a mutual loving relationship with someone who is attentive to her as she is devoted to them.
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