It's a classic idea: no matter how I look, my inner self with shine. What a beautiful message. We can also applaud this show's valiant attempts to subvert (however unsuccessfully) the "pretty people good, ugly people bad," trope which is pretty much standard across television. If only the show was... good. This may be more of a controversial take than I was expecting based on other reviews of this drama, but I absolutely couldn't stand watching this. It's a miracle I got to the end. A mix of questionable acting with terrible directing and a messy plot ends up creating this hot garbage of a show, with my only motivation for watching to see how bad it could get.

Unfortunately, this is not the kind of bad you can laugh at; it falls just short, in the unhappy middle ground of boredom and frustration. To get straight to the point, the acting and dialogue delivery in this show are pretty much copy paste of every other Jdrama (which unfortunately isn't a good thing). This is compounded by simply awful directing to the point where everything feels terribly unrealistic and overdramatized. I won't dive too much into the plot because it was so confused I could only really tell you the start and the end. It was bad. Let's leave it at that. Possibly the worst of it, though, was the romance. As always, we have our first male lead, our second male lead, and our love rival. Now I don't want to spoil anything, but let's just surmise to say I was not satisfied by the romantic progression between the two in the final couple. It wasn't helped any by the terribly contrived twists which just served to be confusing and muddle up the romance. The ending did not at all line up with what you'd expect from the rest of the show. There was quite an abrupt shift which was entirely unnatural. That's all I'll say about that. I do not recommend this drama.