thegreengrym

I think the way the two lead characters were written may make sense for people going through loss, but it just feels uncomfortable to watch. I think they were going for a bickering enemies to lovers vibe but I'm not a fan of the way they did it. The way the ML came back in to her life and planned it out felt a bit too calculated and manipulative. If he had just showed up and been around her and said he wanted to work through things then that's one thing. But he deliberately sabotages the house sale at the last minute instead of just saying he didn't want her to sell it. And then there's a city project she's been trying to do that he thinks is flawed and instead of telling her what he thinks is wrong, he goes to all the citizens and convinces them it's a bad idea. And he also sues her for rights to the house with no intention of winning, but rather just drawing it out so she has to interact with him. And then he pitches a project to the mayor that he's prepared for a year and then says he won't do it unless she works with him. So she gets transferred by the mayor and there's nothing she can do. I'm sure that all this interaction forced her to confront the feelings she's been avoiding for years, but the way he went about it felt so controlling and hard to watch. I think the final straw for me was that after all that, she has a playful water fight with him at the end of episode 4 and decides to stay with him until the end of the summer. The backstory they had wasn't bad and there's plenty of ways they could have had emotional and intense confrontations that force their feelings out, but the way they went about it was too manipulative for me to care what happens next. With this story, I genuinely don't want the leads to end up together and I'm pretty sure they will. So even though I usually force myself to finish dramas I've started, I've decided that I have free will and don't need to watch this