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Finished watching. Felt absolutely no emotional connection with the drama. Acting was top notch. Background music did remind me of Signal. Want to write 2 parting thoughts about this.

Everything happens in this drama because people want to feign ignorance, so that they can carry on with their lives as if everything is normal.

Second, happiness is a state of mind. Else how can you explain the absolute joy and happiness on the father's face?

Drama is very realistic for the most parts. Rating it 7/10

This drama involves cheating right?

Loved it from start to end. Liked the 2FL and her arc including the proposal scene (kind of). The teacher's story arc pleasantly surprised me. In 15th episode seemed like they ran out of material. So, ending seems little dull.

The thing I liked most was that they never discussed breakup even when everything went sideways

Rating it 9/10

Nothing got resolved by the end. That ending works for a 2 hour movie and not for a 16-episode drama unfortunately. Disappointing as I really liked the first half

I am gaslighting myself and going to pretend that this is a good short 9-episode drama that ends, when ML and FL meets the single father who raised the FL :D

But if you actually end up seeing the second half, you are going to hate all the characters. So gaslight yourself and pretend it was a short drama :D

Rating it 6/10.

Better to pretend that the drama ended at episode-9 while everyone was atleast somewhat likable :D

I disagree with many comments about the breakup. Breakup made sense story wise but was not done at the right time nor the right way. The way breakup was reached made the characters unlikable, silly and nonsensical. You had two characters as an upcoming actress and a painter who is seeing success for the first time. There is no better setup required than 2 people who are achieving success, have irregular work timings with little control over their schedules. This setup can be used in many different ways to create conflicts from baseless gossip news articles to missing important events, etc and used it to create distance between 2 people. The end result is again no communication between 2 people but this ensure that the characters are still liked and relatable.

The return of the Ex served no purpose other than to eat screentime that could have been used to break the main couple early, gave the time to reflect back on their relationship, yearn for each other, resolve the issues that lead to their breakup and finally get back together. The Ex's return did nothing to move the story forward or help the character arc of your main characters. It made them more unlikable as the end result of the dragged-out sequence which lasted till the end. The Ex could have been handled entirely differently. One example of this would be how Serendipity's embrace did it. The Ex's return helped the lead to overcome her lifelong trauma whereas it does the opposite in this drama. If they had resolved the Ex's character arc early, they could very well have explored the pairing of her and the other painter.

I liked the other painter. Dude hated people but hated them on their face. Did not go behind anyone's back and did stuff. He also had the best character arc resolution in the entire drama. Really liked the MLs friend. I also liked the students. They could have given them more screentime. FLs friend and brother were forgotten and were basically written out of the drama after a point. Not sure what was the reason as I liked the FLs friend's character. FLs other friend was a poor bastard who got nothing but suffering till the end. Did few songs at the end of it were his reward?

Rating it 7.5/10

I started skipping their scenes as I could not stand them. So, I did not realize they got together at the end. Makes sense for 2 psychopaths to end up together :D

More than half of the drama is fillers. The story seems to be written during 1800s. I bully you because I love you kind. I started skipping scenes of second couple right after first 3 episodes. Middle portion of the drama was decent. Just watched main couple scenes and everything else I fast forwarded.

Do not waste your time watching this. Watch a YouTube edit of the couple instead.

Rating it 3.5/10

I forgot about it. This couple were support characters but they had too much screentime.

Dont think there was a cheating couple

Two couples. No love triangle.

Confused and conflicted on how to rate this. It has all the elements that I like and also has all elements that I dislike. I like slowburn drama and this does remind you of When the weather is fine.

2ML is a psychopath who causes the death of mother, goes after his girl and makes the girl kick him out of her life, His actions cause the girl to get killed and suspects the entire relationship. Finally carries on playing Piano in a booked gallery hall as if nothing has happened :D

2FL is batshit crazy. Loves the psychopath. Says to the Uncle/friend that the person who is responsible for accidental death of 2 people has 'overcame it and leave him alone for his gallery performance', Proceeds to clap after the performance is done.

The girl who died also seems to make peace with the act that the psychopath not only caused the death of the mother but also made her kick the dude out of her life? At any point did she think that she married as psychopath?

One or two side characters were interesting but most had no part in the main story or had any story of their own. An example would be the girl who stays in the homestay, leaves after few episodes and comes back in last. What was the point of that character? The music director dude is a good actor. Why would you hire him and do nothing but have drinks few times? What was the point of casting him? I can't call ML as a stalker but calling his behaviour as obsession also seems not right. Most of the characters just straight up talk rude for some reason and every opposing character just goes with it.

Only few characters were saving grace which includes FL. The main couple's moment and the progression of their relationship was the best part. But again, the last episode breakup was meaningless. What was the point of doing it in last episode? Finally, OST is good.

Rating it 7/10

So, I finished this drama today. For a drama which became so popular, I am surprised to see the top rated reviews of it as 7.5 and 6. I do understand those ratings as they might have watched the drama when it was airing while waiting for each episodes every week. You start to build your theories and start having expectations over it. Those people would surely feel that the ending was anti climatic and the payoff was not that great.

But a binge watcher like me was exhausted after going through all kinds of emotions over 2 days. So, I am glad it ended and glad that I watched it now. Queen was delulu. Queen's brother was delulu. Aunt and grandfather were also delulu. Delulu is embedded in Queen's genetical code.

I liked the drama for what it was. It sure was fun and moving and you felt their happiness and sadness. It took you through the journey of falling in and out of love multiple times. It is mark of a good script and acting if you despise a character at start but like that character by the end of it.

Would I cut down the villain's role and written the last portion of the drama differently? Yes.
Did I still like the drama regardless of that choice? Yes.

Rating this 9.5/10

Yes, beach scene. So, I guess that scene is up to our interpretation.

I fast forwarded the last episode but didn't they imply that they be together again at the end?

I rated this 3/10
I gave 1 point for that couple alone else would have been 2/10

Let's end this that we both viewed his actions differently. We both are going to hold our own views about this drama. You can't retroactively convince me about this drama. Neither can I.

pursue or approach stealthily and obsessive attention is stalking. Not just putting room full of photos of someone as usually shown dramas :D

You are my stalker, I mean You are my secret is a giant waste of time.

It's just moving images. You watch this while scrolling phone and don't care when you realise you didn't even pause the episode half hour back. Literal nothingness. 3rd couple which is 2nd as per credits was mildly interesting. And because of their antics, I am giving this drama 1 more point.

If you are stalker who somehow end up with your victim, just say 'You are my secret' and bury it in your heart. It's not romantic to confess being a stalker because as the FL says in the drama - 'You are creep' if you do that.

Rating it 3/10. This is my lowest rated drama after 201 dramas.