The Only You (2021)

The best jewel in life is love, family & friendship.

At first, I didn't have high expectation looking at the actors in this drama. But it's a very short episode, you can finish it in 1 day.. I try to watch and surprisingly I love the story and the acting.

Both ML & FL are charming. I love how FL seems arrogant and domineering from the outside, but the more you see her, the more you know that she is so lonely and soft.

After knowing what she's been through I can understand why she become that way.

I love the ML the most. He looks cute, but actually very mature and dependable.
The way ML & FL gradually fall in love to each other is very natural... and I feel it's so romantic and adorable. Both ML & FL's profession are totally different yet can be connected. Jewelry and Flower.. what an interesting combination.

I love the office story side as well.. it's not too heavy, but we learn about friendship and loyalty through all the FL's subordinates.

This drama also bring another story about love-hate relationship between brother and sister.. but it's totally make sense.

I'm a bit confuse with the extra ending.
But here I share my assumption.

Since the ML's background is a very kind and warmhearted guy, I feel he is being chosen as an experiment subject by certain party to go to parralel universe or another dimension and meet the FL. That's why he become the main character that has some power to make "changes" in everyone's life, especially FL through his kindness and flowers.

Without realizing it, they have a mission to make the FL heart beat become "zero", that later on we know it can be happen when FL can solve all the misunderstanding with her brother and her father, also at the sametime to find her true love.
The higher or faster heart beat here means the bigger problem that stimulate FL mind to lose control and at some point the more harder for her to come back and wake up in reality.
That way.. the ML has been sent to meet her there so she can dealing with her issues. No wonder only ML has such power to make FL calm and heartbeat can be slowing down.

I just can say the extra ending was made the whole fantasy story to be more realistic. Since we finally know why the FL can has a unique power to see her heartbeat rate.

Well, it's a parallel universe... every impossible can possibly happen. No wonder she is not a normal human there. However, the whole experiment are using both ML & FL's background and memory, that's why they can still remember each other after when they wake up from the "dream". The heartbeat rate become "zero" is like a sign for "mission completed", and the end of the story for both of them in the parallel universe (dream), to make the story over and going back to reality. I guess it's an experiment about "finding love" or "matchmaking project". We will see if there is second season of the story that probably will explain it to all of us.

After all... the drama title conclude the whole story. "The Only You in My World", means the main characters (both FL & ML) that actually still remain to love each other no matter is just happening in a dream or reality.

I don't think the extra ending is not necessary thou since the genre of this drama is fantasy.
But well.. overall I like the story. It successfully teach us about the meaning of love, friendship and family. It was sweet and funny as well!

P.S. Because of this drama, I will be more appreciate flowers and plants starting from now :D

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Very Beautiful Short Drama

"The Only You is a beautifully crafted and thought-provoking drama that tells the story of an unlikely romance between an older woman and a younger man. The drama explores the complexities of age-gap relationships with sensitivity and nuance, and the performances by the lead actors are outstanding. The chemistry between the lead actress, who plays a successful CEO, and the lead actor, who plays a flower shop owner, is electric, and their relationship is both tender and genuine. The drama is a must-watch for anyone interested in exploring themes of love, age, and societal expectations. The Only You is a powerful and emotionally resonant film that will leave you thinking long after the credits roll."

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Straightforward Romance no dull moment just good vibes!

I would say the only disappointing thing about this series is that they did not make this a mainstream series. The series is short, and straightforward, with no BS side characters that take the limelight from the main leads, and no long discussions/scripting. This should have been a noona genre because the main leads have 10 years age gap in real life but the plot was of a dominant rich FL who falls for a poor warm-hearted guy. It also has this sleeping beauty vibe that was incorporated into the story as fantasy, but yes it made the plot cute. What is amazing about this series is that even though this is a fantasy romance the scripting, the pacing, and the acting were all so realistic. It will make you smile because there are scenes that happen in real life. Scenes that are: when the FL and her friend were talking about how she could initiate sex with the ML and made those hand signs that she did it the following morning. How the FL and ML were watching 50 shades of gray to initiate intimacy. How the FL and his brother have a love-hate relationship, having a narcissistic brother that you fight with but at the end of the day protects his sister. How every moment the FL and ML share time together cooking, and lying on the sofa, is as simple as just the eye connection. The actors have amazing chemistry, again they have 10 years age gap but how they acted in their roles was so real and had no awkwardness. How the FL took the ML's face to kiss intimately several times when both of them were lying in bed and how they both looked at each other's eyes. The FL has her charm in acting and the ML has this genuine freshness in him. Hope all C-Dramas can adapt to this, with no BS side characters, and no awkwardness when kissing and doing bed scenes for actors who have an age gap. In most noona themes there are no bed scenes or even intimate kissing but this series was so straightforward with the plot and acting. Also, even the supporting characters and plot were so good that it all just provided good vibes throughout.

I hoped there would be season 2 and the actors here would be given mainstream roles in the future.

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