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The story was inconsistent. There so many things that make you wonder "why?!" that the pleasure of watching is lost.
The main couple's relationship is a mess. First it's fake, then it's nonexistent and before the relationship is established, they are separated. Later everyone changes their behaviour anf life choices (without solid reasons).
The worst thing: it's not balanced by cute scenes or hot kisses. We hardly see them being a couple.
Secondary couple isn't even worth mentioning.

They even made him loose the leg?!
Goes in pair with ML suddenly becoming the CEO's son🤦‍♂️

I've seen her in Love between fairy and demon.
She presented this silly face, voice and movements there. But it was ok because at the same time she was able to give off the villainous or mature vibes when she was portraying other characters (the plot included body swapping). So I think she's a good actress and all the things you talk about was made by choice.
Still cringy sometimes.

I skipped most of their scenes but the little I've watched gave me an impression that their relationship was nicely written and their communication was good enough. IF you take the disability act out of the picture.
But for most people the act is too much and nothing after this is believable or romantic.

The guy kind of pulls the same act as the creepy CEO of the cosmetics brand did toward FL. Only the CEO was a villain so him using his position of power to pursue a woman he fancied was bad. And Jin is a "good guy" so his manipulation is supposed to be romantic.

WTF is the secondary couple love story?
The guy lies to her from the start, about everything that matters. And why? She's the best friend of his good friend. It would be really easy to pursue her in a normal way.

The drama starts really slow. Nothing much happens apart from longing looks of ML and akward falling in love. But it's ok as you expect the slow burn. The amount of billiard is watchable. Seems nice. There's only one WTF factor: why all other people, who are not Chinese, are so ugly? And why everyone in Finland speaks English?

Then comes the part when the main couple gets together. The seemingly poor ML suddenly has money to spare, privite billiard rooms and even billiard club. He knows everyone in Hel.
Seriously, they made him go in the "CEO on the spending rampage" mode and it was annoyingly illogical. But the chemistry is good so you bear with it.

Then (in all 2 or 3 episodes) ML is a top billiard player. Has even more spare money. Is all brilliant and what not. Everyone loves him. A specially his billiard opponents. I guess they don't realise they are in the same ranking and he's going to make them loose their ranks. They are professional player that are happy to loose.
I guess I wouldn't mind it so much if there wasn't so much "angst" pushed on the viewers in the second half. The family opposition, the trainer's death, the "am I pregnant?" part. It's all there to add some story to the plot as all these events don;t really affect the main couple's relationship.
All this drowned in billard scenes. Honestly, half of the time there's someone striking billiard balls. If it's not ML, then it's FL, other players or some random people at billiard club.
You may think it's normal in the drama about billiard players. But it REALLY does nothing to the plot. They hit ball after ball for five minutes, then say that drinks are on them for the whole night and leave to eat out. The only point of billiard scenes is to show off how brilliant the ML is. But it's firmly established around episode 10 so there's really no need for that in episodes 20-30.

In the end even fluffy scenes felt flat as they grew repetitive and boring.

That said, I still enjoyed the first 20 episodes. It's the first Cdrama I've seen in which ML is showed to be physically attracted and ACT on the attraction. Although I think the intensivity started to early in the show and that's why it lost its sparks toward the end.

I liked the romance part but didn't like anything else. Actually, I'm here to rant about it.

The step brother is supposed to always care about ML. His behaviour was supposed to help ML overcome his emotional problems (shock terapy). So the stepbrother is mean and is asking other people to be mean to ML. But in the end they all become one happy family.
This said, I found the plot twist a too big suprise and it wasn't convincing for me so the end of the drama felt off because of this. In 5 minutes they go from archenemies to best friends and it's just too much.

It's a major spoiler...

Finished rewatching and changed my rating again😂
It lost too much sparks in second half to get 8 score. But still, I think it was cute. Even with the ridiculous back story and terribly stupid ML's family.

I remember watching it straight after "Her private life" and not liking it very much. I've decided to rewatch it (as I've seen it mention often in comments and began to wonder if I missed something). Now, it's much funnier to watch.

Don't remember. But I think it's around 2/3 of the drama length.

I'm rewatching it and it's so much better this time (changed my rating from 5 to 8).
Maybe I didn't like it on the first watch because I was focusing too much on the plot and less on the comedy. Or maybe I watched too many PMY's dramas at once and her smiley office worker persona grew boring?
Any way, it's great this time. I love the ML. And knowing the "hidden" story of all the characters gives a new perspective.
Actually, maybe that's the reason I like it better the second time: that I know ML's back story so I know he's not such a jerk as he seems for most of the drama.

They are acquainted (and somewhat friendly) before they realise they're after the same man. So SFL is annoying only for a short period of time and doesn't reach the crazy mode of most Chinese second leads. She's quite likeable in the end.

A specially considering she lived abroad for so many years. Either of them could confess during that time and bear the consequences as it didn't involved facing each other every day.

I don't know why people hope that the FL also had feelings for the ML before now. That would be ridiculous: two people know each other almost whole their live and they weren't avle to communicate their feelings for years?! To the point that she almost married another guy?
If that is the case, their relationship wouldn't be romantic but dysfunctional.

They don't divorce.

Although, I've watched a drama in which not much more than eating happens so let's hope for the best here.

Exact opposite for me. Don't know what I expected her "dream" to be but now I am dissapointed. I don't care about the food and I'm afraid that the drama will be dragging for me if there's a lot of cooking. And being fascinated by cooking.

The problem for some is that even when you want to give it a chance it's simply hard to watch.
I was interrupted yesterday while watching ep 5. And I don't really feel like coming back to watch them messing around with all the onggis. And the ex, to top it all.
One is a boring trope (the ex) and the other I don't care much about.

Honestly, I think I'd rather get more screen time for the other people in the drama than watch the main couple.