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In case you'll be looking for another currently airing funny drama you may try “Mad for each other”. It deals with some depressive stuff as well but manages to be extremely hilarious and heartwarming at the same time.

As I understand it, Woo Yeo already knows the way to get the marble back (his friend ex-gumiho said so). Then why didn't he take it back right away? Why did he offer for them to live together? And finally in the end of the second episode he decided to get the marble back, tried to do it, at that moment the marble turned blue and then what happened? He couldn't get it back or decided not to? And why did he hug her after that? I am so confused. Also why did his friend ex-gumiho tell him that he needs to put Lee Dam on a pedestal and make her happy (I mean since he can just take the marble back)?

I am getting my first second lead syndrome with this drama…
Could someone please clarify something for me? I'll put it under spoiler below.

I think that FL is a good representation of what's dealing with people with mental problems can be. Usually mental disorders in asian romcoms work just as a way to spice and move forward a romance (all those CEOs with OCD etc). But in real life it makes a relationship very difficult, because people are almost hostages of their disorders, their personalities become different even if they don't want it. FL is often unreasonable, kinda violent and makes people around her uncomfortable with her suspicions and paranoid behavior, but that's exactly what her condition is… It is not her real-real personality, but now she has to behave like that because for her all her brain makes her think becomes real. To be honest I wouldn't like this drama this much if they tried to sugar-coat her PTSD, making it just a convenient device for creating more opportunities for ML to protect her. Actually I think it's more realistic and somewhat heartwarming that since they both know what it's like to be a hostage of post-traumatic behavioral changes they can be more accepting of each other.

Ju Hwa Jung is my favourite character in this drama, she can totally keep her cool while talking to Do Hak Sung.
I can understand her decision not to tell Ji Ah the truth about the accident. Yes, probably she should have done it after FL had become completely obsessed with finding out what had happened to the point of risking her life, but when she was a child and had a distorted memory it was obvious that her subconsciousness created it as an act of self-preservation. And seeing how Ji Ah has been feeling extremely guilty all these years for “not stabbing” her mom, one needs to be a sadist to say “oh you know actually you're wrong you DID it, don't you remember all that splattering?..”
But I wonder what's with Ju Hwa Jung “killing the children”, I hope they'll show us what it's all about.

Wow this drama gives me all kind of feelings… I love how it touches upon very difficult/dark themes while balancing it with hilariousness.

I like this drama so much!
Firstly, I love the FL—she is so brave. Kind, but not a pushover. Even though sometimes her first reaction is to avoid something, in the end she always confronts things heads-on. And I like that she has some kind of experience in relationships. She is the person who was hurt before many times but still wants to have love in her life. This is close to real life, where it's normal to have a lot of crushes in one's lifetime. It is okay to develop a little crush over someone who is attractive and treats you well. Usually dramas overuse this “first crush whom I've loved for 15 years” trope, but honestly, this is not how it usually works in life, right? Even though I enjoy those kind of dramas as well, I really love how this drama makes it more realistic and bittersweet, while still making my heart flutter.
And the ML. In description he's kind of like a cliche ML from a Korean or Chinese drama—cold and antisocial genius, who doesn't want anyone in his house, eats only specific high-end food etc. Well… lol. His antisocial behaviour is all about awkwardness and might even come off as creepy or frightening to others, it is definitely not “hot coolness”. He doesn't start falling for FL after accidental skinship or something. This is a really well-done slow burn romance. I need to admit that I thought that FL was the girl on the drawing and in the photo, I thought it would be so romantic that she is actually his first (and only) love. But now I think it is great that it is not her as well. Because then he would belong to that fairytale “first love only” world, while she would belong to “real life” world. He should overcome his hurt to evolve and become a person, not just a mangaka. It is okay to get hurt.

And I like how every potential evil/creepy subplot turns out to be something light or funny (her stalker and a rival mangaka).

I enjoyed the beginning of the drama a lot, it was really hilarious, but in the second half ML is slowly but steadily making me hate him. I am on episode 19 rn and thinking about dropping it, because ML is soo frustrating. And they made him a PSYCHOTHERAPIST. Are you kidding me… any other doctor would be fine, but not this. He behaves as a middle schooler in love and by that I mean he is rude to FL, not honest with his feelings, afraid to show any kind of sympathy to her, has problems with emphathy and instead of saying SORRY he's googling “ways to win a person's heart”?! Like, really?! Psychotherapist?!
And I don't even want to start on him making a deal with his “friend” and “patient”, who is supposedly in love with him, to fake date him!!!
Aaand what really made me want to drop it was the fact that he pretended to have a wild night with his ”girlfriend” right in front of his fiancee, he keeps pretending that he and his girlfriend are in love and at the same time he is angry that his fiancee dares to think that he wants to marry her for her money? Like… dude… that's not how you court someone…

AND I really hoped that ML's friend will become a couple with ML's cousin. Finally there's a “normal” looking girl in Chinese drama (sorry for the “normal”). I mean, usually in C-dramas they promote a specific type of female beauty even though in real life most people are not like that (and here I am talking about the skinny body type mostly). And when I saw ML's cousin I thought: wow finally they show us someone who is beautiful but is at the same time close to real life as well. Nah, of course the campus playboy will fall for “the beauty of the fashion school”. Just because.

I've just watched 8 episodes and I must say that the FL is too cute… in a good way. You know how Chinese dramas too often have “cute female leads” but it's actually a disaster, but here she's really cute. Maybe, maybe—a bit over a top sometimes. But still, she is much better than a lot of other female leads in Chinese dramas. ML is kinda average, he is petty when he's jealous, but when it's about him and FL only he thinks about her and not himself.
But yeah indeed the overall plot of “my sister is in a coma but her dream was to be an exchange student at an Ivy League school so I'll just pretend to be her so she doesn't miss out on her dream“ is super ridiculous.

I think I might continue watching then : ) I have put it on hold for a few episodes before, was worried that they'll go with EJ-SH reunion!

Seeing how 8 episodes are out right now after a week of airing it will indeed end in 2 weeks after another 16 episodes and 24 of them in total on May 5. But the subs is another story, out of 8 aired episodes only 4 are subbed by today, so subbing might take another 3 weeks. I am not sure about the subbing schedule though, maybe there won't be such a big delay after the show ends.

Thank you!

I hope you are right, but we shouldn't forget that dailies' plots are often influenced by netizens' thoughts… so if many viewers root for SH he might as well become the endgame. To be honest I hate it when dramas are not clear on their leads from the beginning >_<

wow thank you

I haven't watched the last 10 episodes or so but read comments instead, because I've started getting anxious about all that GH-SH-HJ situation and how writers would deal with it in the long run. Usually in these kind of dramas “past lover” is either very kind and good and just suffered without FL but never married/had children or chose/had to get married and slowly became evil/greedy. Here SH is still good, kind and all that, but he has been married for a long time, has a child and he indeed lived as a couple with HR, he tried to make it work and treated her well as if what she did to him had not been rape. So it really doesn't sit well with me if he and EJ end up together. But when he learns about EJ soon and she will learn about him suffering after her “death”—what kind of unexpected mess might happen? With crazy HR in sight. Since we are already around the middle of the drama, I wonder if writers will choose to kill off SH (while saving EJ or something) and make GH team up HJ. HJ can also get a custody of Hoon. I just can't imagine having both guys helping GH till the end of the show without one becoming evil or dead.

So much emotional abuse for such a short drama T_T
Glad it’s a happy ending

I don't speak Korean, so I might be wrong, but I am sure I've seen a lot of scenes like this in asian heterosexual romantic dramas (in scenes where a girl openly admires man's body, for example—usually they don't do it the opposite way, because it would totally turn female viewers off). In that kind of setting a guy usually asks “are you a pervert?”. So I don't think it is intended to be homophobic, more like used to defensively put down someone who's openly admiring someone else's body?.. Basically a rude way to say “stop staring at me when I'm half-naked”.

"I'm not a bomb. I'm a rocket!"

lolol

Even though EJ uses Hoon for her revenge, I don’t see it as something bad (for now). He also “uses” her to learn what a warm relationship between an adult and a child feels like. She doesn’t try to gaslight him or to act as his mother. She acts as an adult who loves children. And not the least important thing is that she treats him sincerely.
Yes, in perspective, she can disappear on him suddenly, but I am sure she will never hurt him just to hurt HR. More like HR will hurt him as a result of her hurt. That EJ treats him well is all that matters, because it’s normal for children to grow through separation anxiety—like kind aunts and nice family frienads who visit and go away at some point.