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Have you seen Second Shot at Love? if not, you should check it out

I always think of slow burn referring to the slow growing of feelings, not necessarily tension. Even if it's a slow burn - I usually love slow burns, but this just feels so one-sided that it's losing me. ML seems way more into FL than she is into him (it's understandable, she's in survival mode right now, but it's not really what I want in a romance)

It's not a slow burn if the ML has fallen this hard and fast

That'd be 6 episodes left, not 7

yeah, that's why I rarely watch cdramas. By the end i'm so burned out that I don't care about the couple being together anymore.

She's reaching Hong-jo in Destined with You levels

If you want a more romcom type of show like this one seemed like it was going to be, check out Dynamite Kiss

It's like they see him as funny and bumbling more than creepy, infuriating, and threatening

Pulling a doctor away from performing CPR is LITERALLY the most disruptive thing he could have done.

The secondary couple in No Gain No Love are strangers to lovers, and they get a lot of screentime considering they're secondary

You can, but you won't really know how it ends, since this doesn't go past NGNL ep 6

It's pretty similar to I Can't Wait to Eat You (official English release is called Can't Get Enough of You). Rich chaebol who's a jerk at first, FL who's his employee, childhood connection, terrible and vengeful ex-boyfriend, and a lot of smut. I know it from the manhwa but it started out as a webnovel

Ja-yeon's webnovel isn't real, but you can see scenes from it in Spice Up Our Love.

Yup, that's the second song, and then the first (the one he sings the last line of) is called "Run with me" by Sunwoojunga

I personally would recommend watching it at least afterwards. SUOL takes place in the middle of NGNL (eps 5 and 6), so you won't really know the "ending" without NGNL

What happened?

It works fine as a standalone, but you don't get the actual, real life, ending without NGNL

It's not a spoiler, it's all in the trailer.

Not only that, but she had no real life sexual experience. It would have been weird if she'd had sex in the fantasy world with an imaginary guy before she had sex with a real guy in real life

I'm not over them, either! That's why I keep refreshing for new comments so I can keep discussing them and not annoy everyone else in my life with my obsessiveness, haha.

This is so well thought out! It's interesting how Ha-jun in Ja-yeon's dream had qualities just like Gyu-hyun, which of course she wouldn't know at that point. I do think that his behavior in her dream might have reflected the interaction they had where he helped her up after she fell over, and brought her phone to the police station, which made her realize that he wasn't this evil guy. Or maybe her dream was just the universe trying to tell her something, haha.

Oh man, I loved it. But I also love Gyu-hyun and Ja-yeon. I probably wouldn't recommend this one to people that got sick of them in NGNL. It's not only a silly love story, it's also a glimpse into Ja-yeon's psyche and how she writes as a form of escapism. She creates a world where she will experience the unconditional love that she thinks she lacks. It's so nice to watch it knowing that, in the future, this will no longer be a fantasy for her (obviously, Gyu-hyun, but also she'll come to realize how much Hae-yeong loves her). I also loved how there were so many easter eggs and parallels of scenes or interactions she would have with Gyu-hyun in "reality" in the future. Finally, it was INCREDIBLY fun to see more of her novel. I would definitely read it if it were real!

I'm just trying to figure out if Gyu-hyun became her Ha-jun because she subconsciously had feelings for him early on (maybe when he helped her after she fell and brought her phone to the police station? Or just classic love at first sight?) or if she fell for him because he was her Ha-jun. Either way, it seems like Ja-yeon falls in love pretty quickly (she fell for real Ha-jun pretty after just one interaction too).