This drama is fun enough. You get all the kdrama tropes and bad guys get their comeuppance. I enjoy Park Min Young and tend to tune in for her dramas because if nothing else she usually brings her A game when it comes to creating chemistry with her male co-stars. I also like Song Ha Yoon and was interested in seeing her play a baddie, and she definitely delivered!
However I just don’t get the hype overall for this show. Neither the writing nor plot are particularly fresh, the characters aren’t all that interesting, and even the romance is kind of lukewarm.

For a while I felt this show was spinning its wheels and that 12 episodes would have sufficed. I turned to my mom and said, “they’re really taking a while to get to it” and she agreed that not much was happening because so much time was spent on the corporate stuff that wasn’t very interesting. And I felt this even more when they brought in a ridiculous antagonist towards the end that was completely unnecessary except that they wanted more drama.

I also said that they were taking a very long time to give us any real romance if they intended to have that happen. And sure enough when it finally comes it’s just a bit sudden in that it was “oh she’s now imagining she sees him and wants him around”. Before that it really did not feel romantic between them. And that actually made sense given FL’s situation and focus, so I thought they could have skipped the romance in this one.

But I even forgave the tepid romance due to that first kiss, which was fantastic. The problem is that after that they went right to boring kdrama tropes where the FL acts like a nun and is scandalized by skinship. Romance went right back to dry and dull, particularly after a rather silly decision FL makes.

I was happy to see Na In Woo get a lead role, but this character was just ok. He got better as the drama went along, but he’s written like a typical webtoon/ web novel male character, which I’ve expressed before is making romcoms rather boring. Of course progressive/feminist types on Reddit eat this up citing how ML is a forest of green flags, and so on, because there’s no longer room for actually interesting male characters that aren’t just hopelessly devoted and cheerleading girlboss female leads.
While I’m on that subject, one thing this drama gets right is appropriate punishment for the antagonists, including the female one. I read a review here complaining about how dare the FL pass on her abusive ex to another woman and had to laugh. Oh no, not women facing the consequences of their actions! Not in this feminist timeline!
As the drama showed, none of these people were forced to behave as they did. They made their choices. They could have stopped at any point. They brought all their misfortune on themselves, and women don’t get a pass.

Overall, this drama did keep me interested and was a breezy watch, but it’s not some masterpiece by any stretch. I think a lot of hype comes from being a first drama for many (much like the also overrated Crash Landing On You), and because it appeals to all the female viewers who love these bland ML’s and romances (no ~problematic~ aspects) being cranked out one after another of late.