I'm just going to dive right in and say this drama was a hot mess from start to finish.

None of the characters' choices were consistent nor was there much character development for any of the characters except for On Dal and Ga Jin. Everyone kept making supposedly "cunning" choices but in the end, they were all so stupid. The pacing of the story was awful and they shoved so many different plots into this drama that made it hard to follow or hard to care about any one of them.

To be quite frank, the only thing that saved this drama from being worse is the cast. Everyone performed their parts extraordinarily well and they made a mediocre story somewhat watchable. And the truth is On Dal and Ga Jin's love story was beautiful and I did love/enjoy watching their relationship unfold, face trials and tribulations, and develop over the course of the drama. They were the only silver lining in an abysmally set up story.

I don't know if I'd recommend it though. Maybe if you skim everything else and just watch only On Dal and Ga Jin's scenes. Will you be confused? Sure. But I watched every episode and I was confused for most of it, so it wouldn't be much of a difference.