rationalbeings

Agreed, Felt the drama just kind of stop exploring anything after they get together. He just naturally wants a relationship and she just....has the relationship. They stop growing once they got together.

Very cute short-ish drama that has all the warm fuzzies you may be looking for in a cozy romance drama. The characters are cute and the story is simple but keeps you engaged. The main leads also had pretty good chemistry, which I didn't think would be the case when I was at episode 3, but they go bam! and light a fire.

The drawbacks of this drama are that the script is not strong enough to push it into a favourite or re-watchable show. The acting was also a little lukewarm from both the leads. Although they had chemistry there were times I found myself not believing what they were saying because it seemed forced. This was especially true from the ML who needs to add more depth in his acting (esp his eyes).

The second half of the drama also kind of lost itself. It stopped exploring and just became stagnant, which was a shame because that's what made it fun.

Overall I still recommend if you was something sweet and romantic.

thanks that’s so good to know! ❤️
hope there is focus on the main leads too with the story still continuing on their growth.

if there is a sequel that focuses on her growth that would really make me reevaluate the series, esp her transactional pov of their relationship. Do you know when it is out or being currently filmed?

Even in the end did she accept him? they basically just slept together again without any real discussion and he proposed to her. She called their relationship disgusting and broke up because she didn’t get the promotion she felt stew deserved and it was somehow his fault. You say it perfectly, from her pov the relationship is purely transactional and somehow the characters in the show keep trying to convince us he is the problem.

Yes ML had a pretty decent character arc, does he still have toxic traits in the end? maybe a few but he’s completely a different person from the beginning. It was nice to watch his growth and inner softness grow outward.

Same I kept the last few on hold for ages because I got tired of their breakups and getting back together but never once communicating or addressing their issues.

"The ML will be the one keeping the relationship together" - totally. After they get together he is constantly the one apologising or chasing her or trying to get some kind of reaction out of her. He isn't always the most mature or healthy one but at least he keeps trying. She is just the coldest person to him. I don't think at any point she even likes him, she even uses him to take care of her dog and when he basically has raised him for years she just comes and takes the dog away. No conversation, no discussion, even the dog doesn't want to go with her!

Agreed!

100% agree. I don't understand where the romance was except for the one episode of their road trip. Let's not forget she was the one who set the rule of no one should know about them. He actually went and introduced her proudly to all his friends, but not once do they show she does the same. She always kept him separate from her personal life, and no wonder everyone keeps asking her if she even sees him as a boyfriend. She really didn't and honestly when she said "I can go tell my parents I tried to sleep my way to the top" I was like, welllll you did break up with him over a promotion so yeah maybe that's all this relationship was to her.

I got so annoyed by their final break up. I was so annoyed I invested this much time into this drama. Really she breaks up with him because she didn't get the promotion? Basically admitting to him she was only with him to move up the ladder, whereas he seemingly has given his heart to her, keeps silently supporting and cleaning up for her. She came off as so incredibly entitled for breaking up with him for not getting a promotion. Has the writer ever worked in a corporate setting? No one is guaranteed a promotion no matter how hard you work. I could get quitting Limi over being ignored for a promotion, but what did that have to do with their relationship?

I have no idea why the writer took a pretty decent FL and decided to remove any logic from her brain. The longer she stayed with the ML the more entitled and selfish she became. It's like she started taking on his worst traits.

Honestly she never even treated him as her boyfriend. She never once told him anything important or significant about her life to him. She would tell her flatmates and had a closer relationship with them rather than him, even after he proved to her that he really wanted to be with her. Her flatmates suicide was so random and weird and added nothing to the plot except shock value. And even then she didn't tell him anything. She even goes and meets her ex without telling him (probably because they are half broken up like they are in every 30 seconds of this drama). ML was rightly pissed at her, anyone would be upset about that!

And there were all these subplots that were added but never addressed (not everything needs to be resolved but all of them??). ML relationship with his parents, the two 2nd FLs story lines (only mentioned in passing). Sun Yu and the landlord aren't even in the last episode really despite them being so important for her (more important than ML in every episode).

Normally after the break up and separation of a few years I can't wait for the leads to get back together. Here I was like just leave each other, you both absolutely won't have a happy future, mostly because of how cold the FL is. Such an exhausting drama that left me feeling frustrated despite the happy ending.

Honestly, this became a like the drama full house. The main leads keep breaking up getting back together, breaking up get back together all for seemingly no reason at all. The first half of the drama is actually really promising but omg does this drama become increasingly exhausting.

You can see the ML grow and really fall for the FL (where he was scared of relationships prior) but the FL actually seems to go backwards in terms of growth as the show continues. Yes their chemistry is fire, but the script and plot is on permanent vacation. I don't know if this drama would have gotten the high rating it has if it wasn't for the amazing chemistry between the leads.

The editing and pacing of the show is also weird. Sometimes you get whiplash from what is happening or trying to figure out how did so much time pass by already? Overall watch for the chemistry but be ready to be exhausted, frustrated and annoyed.

Pretty decent drama with a good story and cast. It does drag a bit in the middle despite only being 14 episodes and there were times I did think the FL was miscast because her action scenes were lacking, however the ML really made up for it.
I wish they had spent more time with team in action since the "when will he find out" was dragged out a bit.

This is yet another Cdrama that starts off great, gets lost in it's own plot and has an ending that can't match it's start. The best thing about this drama was the cinematography, it was shot beautifully. However after the initial picturesque views fade, the story is a mess, especially when they reach the capital. The focus shifts to nonsensical political plots and pointless sacrifices (didn't think much of the emperor because of them in the end).

The romance is lukewarm at best, although the actors did a decent job and you can feel their closeness but they didn't have any spark. The villains although acted well, didn't have a strong enough script for the "exchange of wits" with the MLs and so those scenes also come up short.

It could have been a splendid journey if they had stuck to what the start was but it followed the normal cdrama trope of trying to fill in the episodes by dragging the viewers through it.

I just can't continue with this one. The acting is so good but the story just drags and goes in circles. Dropped at ep 9. Has so much potential.

If you reach the end....you still won't understand why it got at as much screentime as it did. They ran out of things to do once the ML get together so they show us in real life speed how long auditing takes to complete.

It will be really boring thanks to the slowest auditing process ever.

Sames.....i think around ep 18 i started to go, what's happening to the writing...

Wanted to love this but couldn't. The first half was so good and really the tension between the leads was amazing. Then...the second half happened and I kept hoping the magic of the first half would come back. But it didn't, instead we had the most mind boggling slow show about auditing and finances. Even the interesting parts were not shown for the most repetitive lines regarding....auditing. It was just so much potential lost.

Given the many similarities between L&P and this you can't help but compare the two. Where L&P got even stronger in its second half LFY just dwindled slowly. I don't know what happened if they changed writers, or got auditors to write the second half, the tone and story seemed to have changed.

7.5 for me. Recommend to watch if you are into accounting.

Echoing others, was super excited to start this but I have to say half of the episodes were write offs. The issue was I didn't see too much "evil" in the main villain. Whilst the actor was good I found myself mostly agreeing with re: Chen Dou and instead found the usual "good guys" to be the one wrong. Even in the end I still thought he was more right than wrong. It easily became disengaging and I couldn't even remember what this had to with the original story line. It's like a side quest that failed to deliver.