Over the top, exaggerated

Not sure if this story even touches the reality of the fashion world, but the whole thing was so clichéd and looked like parts were borrowed from many other fashion movies.
Not sure if it was meant to be a romcom or a slice of life - it didn't fit either genre.

It could have been classified as a light hearted sweet drama - but no!
I'm sorry it is not sweet. The over acting of all the characters makes you grit your teeth and bang your head for watching it.

Except for three , EVERY other character acts atrociously over the top. It could very well be the director or writer's imagination of the behavior of people who work in the fashion industry, but those poor fashion folks should validate this overbearing nonsense.

The only one who did a great job is the supermodel. Not only was she stunning, but she flowed through her role as a supermodel and kept her emotions beautifully underplayed. She was really a superb actor.
The other two actors who stood out were the ex- boyfriend and the editor of the magazine - who had really small roles.

The ML was so lost, the FL was all over the place trying to be the eternal goddess of goodness.
And everyone else - seriously- behaved like they were in some exaggerated street mime show.

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Slow burn, simple, charming

This was a no frill romance, yet perfectly executed.
So charming, simple, pure and just transports you into a world of warmth and everlasting love.
Perfect prescription for a rainy day, feel good moment.

The ML and FL are excellent with sizzling chemistry and intimacy is heart fluttering.
The brother is excellent. Never once drops his relationship with the sister.
That little girl who comes in the first few episodes is absolutely cute. There is so much mischief in her eyes and she pulls off the perfect brat scene well.

My only gripe with most c- dramas is the use of the squeaky baby voice....why why why is that so popular when it is irritating to most global viewers?

And the other irritating part are the tiny skirts and shorts that the girls have to wear.
Do the regional local girls actually wear such tiny skirts and shorts that almost reveal their groin areas?
If they do then I guess it's fair for cdramas to portray them otherwise it's sexist and actually turning-off.

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too little content in too long of a drama.............

I'm a romance junkie, so this drama should have been a 10 within that genre, but sadly, here's what happened:

All Actors = 10
ML = 20 - for hotness
FL = 10 - for keeping the fire going
Visuals, Cinematography, Scenery, knowledge about Chinese landscapes = 20
Details about SWAT team = 10
Sizzling chemistry = 10
Steamy intimacy = 10

So what happened????
1). the story was nothing special. Even that is forgivable in a romance, however stretching it to 30 episodes is a mortal sin. Tooooo loooooonnnnngggg. Maybe they should have 2 versions of all C dramas - one for the global audience, which is about 12-16 episodes, gets to the point and keeps the drama interesting. Another version just for the local/regional audience who may enjoy this kind of length or it brings in advertising revenue.

2). the chemistry was sizzling, but rehashing scenes over and over again?? why ???
3). the second couple could have lent a breath of fresh air - but their story was poorly developed
4). that poor boy - he was mostly used as a prop, but he could have had such a nice role to play instead
5). all the parents - their roles were vague, not given proper direction, just hanging around to fill in some vacuum

So although C dramas are definitely improving with smart, independent females and sizzling chemistry, maybe tightening the story and reducing the length could increase global appeal.

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This drama needed a soul......it was so lifeless and cringey

The minute you label the genre as romantic comedy, then a thousand expectations are dropped but yet only a handful remain.
And if you can't even met those then the drama needs to be trashed.

ML : basically the only person/object/character worth watching. He is the only reason I endured 16 hours of cringey material.
FL : goddess of goodness. I wish more girls like this existed - but they don't because her character was fake and so was her smile. Outrageously created do-gooder, star winner......just nauseating.

Main Couple : I couldn't find the chemistry within 16 hours of torture. Romance is tepid, no sizzle, no heart fluttering scenes. Please don't call it a romance if you cannot make our hearts flutter. It's the only request we have for you.

The friendship between 3 females : they should really edit out all the scenes with the 3 friends because it is an embarrassment to young women. Who behaves so idiotically? Are these stolen clips from a 70's drama?

Bad coworkers : Yea,right
Trip to Thailand: ridiculous joke
Arab Prince: The comment and review sections are filled with this so go figure.

This drama had a hope, some good bones. Unfortunately they wanted a quick fix so the whole thing came crumbling down.

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Should be called King of Tears and Ice Maiden

This is a single layer story about a greedy woman who abandoned her son and coiled herself around a rich ceo to inherit all hus wealth by destroying his family. And she is truly wicked - doesn't shy from murder, sending her own child away to America etc etc.

In this straight layer you then have multiple players who are entangled. Then there are subsets to these people.
Simple, boring, clichéd, seen that before, yawn.

What then races these dramas to the top are the players and their nuances - both of which are absent here.

Let's start with the players.
Stand out performances by Grace (the spy), the FL wimpy brother, the FL secretary, the ML attorney friend and the bad villain (abandoned son)..

And now the leads:
One would think that if the premise is love/marriage /divorce/remarriage to same person, then there has to be an iota of chemistry.. Should they not test this in the audition? Maybe the stars are so big they discarded the auditions.
So Alas Alas - here we have to use our wildest imagination and fantasy to assume the two are madly in love.- because frankly they behave like they are allergic to each other.

There is not one heart fluttering moment between them, no sizzle, no intimacy, no intensity.
We have miss ice maiden who is mean to the ML through ep.15 and then agrees to hold his hand in16.
We have the king of tears who spends 80% of his screen time with wet eyes.

What a pitiful drama.

I think k dramas need to stop focusing on these so called big regional stars and get back to making their old classic story line with real actors.

Think about it - we've had 3 dumps already in 2024 with hot shot actors :
Doctor Slump, Welcome to Samdalri, and now this Queen of tears........all dramas that totally missed the point.

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There is no romance.....but a lot of comedy

For those who are critizing people giving low ratings - let me explain why.
When you classify a drama genre as romance, then we expect romance. Viewers like me only watch Asian dramas for the beautiful romance so we feel cheated and irritated when there is none. Otherwise just classify it as comedy with mild Melo.

Using the same childhood trope of 2 children who have unhappy families and remember their childhood love into their 30s and 40s is like beating a dead horse. Bury the poor animal and this poor trope please!!!@#

Secondly - do you not audition these actors for chemistry if it is a romance? They are so allergic to touching and being close to each other.......you wish they would break up and move on with their lives.

Third - do you specifically make these FLs look so pathetic so we can like them out of pity?
This one has bangs that went out of fashion in 1930 and she's got hair that covers the entire periphery of her face.
Just make her wear a mask instead for God's sake.
And those outdated bangs look like she cut them herself - the issue here is that her best friend is a hair dresser who has gorgeously styled hair herself. Even the braids on the friend are beautiful.

It was so so annoying to see this goddess of goodness with outdated hair, grandma sweaters, ill fitting clothes have two sauve, stylish and classy men swoon over. Yuck! Get out of this desperate trope too pleeease.

Now for the best parts - the reason this drama got a 5 instead of 1.
Each and every actor (except FL) is a treat to watch. Their performances are phenomenal!
The comedy is laugh out loud! The poker faces, blank expressions, silent looks are all hilarious.

The bromances are fun.
The second couple also has a nicer and more interesting story.

The men are so stylishly well dressed it looks like they stepped out of GQ magazine.

So yea go ahead and watch it for everything minus the romance.

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Cheesy, thoughtless, incomplete details

I'm sorry my dear friends - I truly tried to be fair and complete the episodes. But from ep.10 itself it started dragging so badly that I barely managed to torture myself till ep.12.
It had so much promise so I waited for all episodes to be released then decided to binge watch. But alas!

Maybe the story/ screen play writer went back in time and forgot to come back??
Or they flew into the future and left the balance script for amateurs to fill in the gaps??
Whatever.....it's an irresponsible story with vague events, one sided chemistry from the ML, worthless romance etc etc.

Is someone beating you guys up that you have to produce such high quantity at the risk of poor low quality dramas?

I have not seen one decent romance k drama to date in 2024.

Your country, culture and wonderful entertainment has taken the world by storm - hope you can go back to making high quality dramas with some time, effort and love ?

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What the hell.......

Great story......much needed in this day and time, however the comedy was cringey, slapstick and poorly done.

2024 has so far lousy k dramas ( in the romance genre) with poorly written scripts or cold romance, cringey chemistry and just down right disrespect for the audience.

This drama had so much going for it in the silly story, fun characters and feel good ending that creates so much hope.
However it was executed so poorly.
The comedy was not funny, the bad running away mothers was a desperate fall back to sad childhood for both leads, the thugs were cringey, the female villains were like banshees.......ohhhhh h.

Could you have asked the producers and directors of "A Business Proposal" to make this drama into a fun, exciting romcom and created a hit??

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Want-to-be-romance that got lost

What a mess of a story. If this was the planned ending, then there was no need for 16 episodes - could have been cut by half.

The poor actors all did their best, but the energy level of the story was low, dull, and prooooolllllloooonnngged. It dragged on and on. Then having watched 14 episodes you finally hope the ending will forgive the wasted 14 hours, but no!

There is the most awkward, strange and ludicrous kissing scene in 15.
Who goes for a smoke right after only a kiss? A kiss that we didn't know was supposed to intensify or just cut short - but the ML goes for a smoke right after that. Gosh.
Does the FL go back home that night?
Aaargh! So incomplete.

Is this supposed to be for a prudish regional audience? And it's okay for a married mother of two grown kids to have an affair but not okay for a 30 something single woman to spend a night out?

And my favorite ML - Yoo Yoon Seok- agreed to work in this drama and bring his rating down?

Why why why did you do that? I absolutely fell in love with you in Mood of the Day - and to watch you in this pathetic role was heartbreaking.

Would you like me to be your agent and pick better acting gigs???

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Annoying, clichéd, waste of time

This drama started out with such great expectations. Especially the nice looking lead pair.
But every episode went downhill after that.

Seriously - they couldn't decide who would be the evil villain - the step mother or grand father.
The evil stepmother's heart of stone voila turns to gold somewhere in some random episode for some irrational reason.
The grandfather couldn't decide if he wanted to be evil or greedy or a smart ceo. Thankfully he loses his memory along the way and spares us his confusion.

The time transfer between Joseon to Seoul is like traveling on a rattling bullock cart - you don't know which part of your intestine got twisted and jostled on the rough journey.

And the most cringey part was this plastic branch with a few flowers that the FL keeps carrying around waiting for the flowers to wilt and the ML to die.

Messy, shabby, poorly scripted.

The positives:
Beautiful outfits created for the fashion house. The runway outfits were fabulous.
Beautiful embroidery.

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Pathetic romance Depressing story

Didn't know what to make of this. Beginning was interesting. Middle was selfish. End was pathetic.
Definitely not a comedy.
A selfish FL made it very hard to appreciate the sensitive ML who ended up looking like a loser for not being able to love without pity.

As much as I was hoping he would dump her, the open ending was dissatisfactory.
Just hope he never gets back with her the FL - the first time in k drama romance history that I'm wishing this.

For such a feisty female who had extra fine morals, to end up dumping her boyfriend for a rich doctor and then coming back to call the boyfriend whenin need......yikes. And destroying the relationship of that poor cop lady......

I only watch the romance genre and have a lot of tolerance for fluff, but this was not digestable.

Sorry to the full team......your hard work showed through but the story didn't cut it.

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Waste of talent

You get a star like the ML and then waste it on a story that just drags on and on.
Seriously there was nothing happening.
The FL is cute but nothing more.

No chemistry, tiring romance,no exciting legal case..........
Just a humdrum of a drama created for some specific audience that has been giving it this high rating.

It feels terrible to give such poor rating when you know there's a whole bunch of people who have worked so hard toward filming this. However if the story/acting/romance is not appealing then unfortunately everybody's work gets a disappointing review.

Sorry about that ?

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The most overrated and wasted show

Absolute waste of time, energy, efforts by everyone who contributed to this drama. The FL destroys it for everyone else because unfortunately the whole show rests on her and her severely lacking acting chops. Please do not try comedy - it reveals your poor talent. She was plain annoying here.
Looks much older than the ML yet acts cutie pie.
They have no chemistry. The ML behaves like he's a 900 year old rock - with no expression or romance.
Regionally these two may be hot stars but for the global audience this had zero appeal.
It struggled to be funny and romantic. How they managed to drag it through sixteen episodes is a miracle.........

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