estersi

I was expecting a pure, slow-burn romance, but there is absolutely nothing slow about this series. First, the FL is desperately searching for his brother, then she sees him and suddenly she wants him? What? It feels less like love and more like lust, and I hate it.

All that crying, the overly cute and innocent act… and then, out of nowhere, she’s a fierce, confident driver? It just doesn’t add up. The storyline itself has potential, and the filming is actually well done, but everything else feels weak and awkward.

I’m just not feeling that deep, undivided, true love that I usually get from other C-dramas, and without that, it completely falls flat for me.

I am dropping this drama.

This was the perfect opportunity to prove that Esther Yu isn’t limited to cute roles, and they completely wasted it. For a moment, it really looked promising. She pushed a guy in a fight scene. She used taekwondo. I honestly thought, okay, are we finally getting a strong and capable female lead? And then it stopped. Suddenly she’s acting childish. What a waste.

We get a grown woman acting like a little sister. The constant childish behavior, the picky eating, the helpless energy… it honestly gives me the ick. Being innocent is fine. Acting childish is not. And Esther Yu didn’t need this kind of role at all. I truly believe she could have pulled off a strong character—but maybe I’m wrong.

It really feels like the production didn’t know what they wanted. They tried to make her cute and sexy and innocent and childish and strong all at once, and instead of balance, it just turned into a mess.
And the romantic scenes… I don’t even know what to say. Why are they constantly making out in places that look uncomfortable and unsanitary? A bathroom, next to a toilet that probably doesn’t even have running water?

And why is the male lead always sweating? Yes, he works hard, I get it, but it feels like in every scene they spray water on his face to make him look “hotter.” It feels forced to me.

I think they have completely missed the point. A die-hard C-drama fan doesn’t want to lust over the male lead. We want to ship the couple. We want that tension where a simple hand touch makes you stop breathing, where you’re giggling and kicking your feet when they first kiss and replaying scenes late at night. That’s the magic. That’s why I’m not interested in Hollywood-type dramas with weak stories, awkward conversations, and meaningless make-out scenes.

This drama completely missed that point.

Now it’s just the same thing over and over again: making out, car races or car repairs, fighting, the FL worrying about the ML, making out again, the ML worrying about the FL, car races. No depth. No development. No emotional payoff.

I’m dropping it. So much potential, but such a disappointment.