This had all the ingredients to be a good show but somehow for me failed to land.

The premise is good, the arrogant boss who doesn’t realise how much he needs his secretary until it’s too late is a great trope. But in this he never does actually do without her or learn to live without her. She is with him not only all the way till the end she decides to stay being his secretary. I was really rooting for her to do the thing she said she wanted to do and find herself. She clearly had skills to be a proper manager and do things herself not just be his secretary.

There wasn’t enough change or journey for them, for me. He’s still narcissistic and arrogant at the end, making statements about how amazing he is which she STILL weakly smiles at and doesn’t pull him up on or tells him how she really feels about it even when they’re about to be married. She is still calling him Vice Chairman even when they’re not at work and being formal (I get the titles thing is odd from my viewpoint but her manner doesn’t change either).

This also another drama that didn’t need the full 16 episodes because it dragged. I liked kidnapping back story but also feel like his earlier very selfish behaviour didn’t really make much sense if he cared for her that much.

The actors are both great in other dramas so I don’t know why they are so “b-movie” and stiff in this. Park Min-Young especially is really not giving her character life, her smiles seem forced and other emotions are faked. I loved her in Healer so she’s a great actress. They do have decent chemistry but I found myself not really caring very deeply about them.

The side stories were cute with the other office romances and I actually really enjoyed the relationship between Vice Chairman and President and they gave me quite a lot of laugh out loud moments.

The author brother felt very 2D and there to serve a plot point but not very flashed out. Again not sure if it’s the script or the actor.

Overall, especially given how liked this is, this was a major disappointment for me!