I find this is one of those rare cases where a drama is actually a little too highly rated here on MDL. Usually, (imho) dramas are rated lower than what they deserve, but not so in this case.
First thing. What I liked. I love the actors. Fabulous acting. Great Chemistry. Real kisses sprinkled throughout. A good story base... everything needed for a great story/lakorn, right? Well....

Things went south rather quickly for me. First. This show did NOT have the story/plot structure to carry TWENTY looooong episodes. Honestly, I was well over the redundant plot by episode TEN. Ouch.

Besides the overdone plot that truly went no where and just pittered along but could have been wrapped up in 10 episodes easily... the villains. There were a LOT of them. & They were ridiculous and had superficial "reasons" for going to the dark side. Everyone was a villain. A handful of people were "too good". The stark contrast between characters was overwhelming.
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Next... & I really hate hate hate that this is the case, BUT... the ML. He was awesome for about 1/3 of the show. The next 3/4 he was kind of an ass. He lied. He manipulated. He hurt the FL emotionally over and over and over again pushing her towards the SML all for his selfish desire to "help his country". Even knowing what kind of a guy the SML was. What was worse... if that by the VERY last 20 minutes of the show he is STILL putting his "duty" to the country over the FL's feelings even though they had been married for several years. He is still disregarding her, her feelings, and their relationship in favor of "his work", basically staying true to what the FL believes (and she has a valid reason for doing so) that he still sees her as kind of in the way and troublesome if he shares everything with her. Even their intimacy. is taking a hit because he nearly falls asleep instantly due to exhaustion. He's also still lying to the FL in the last 10 minutes of the show because he "knows how she'll act" and is sure she'd cause him trouble if she was aware of his job issues. UGH. Not something a great relationship is built on, huh?

To add insult to injury... all that time the FL keeps helping him, loving him, forgiving him nearly instantly. To be honest, I wish that final scene did not play out that way. There's NO way he learned anything important that easily. He needed to feel the sting of possible loss to make him wake up to what he was doing wrong. He didn't. & their relationship would still have major issues.
By the end of the lakorn... I disliked the ML. My first time EVER disliking a "good" guy in a lakorn. No raping. No abuse. No slap-kiss... and yet, I somehow found him a wee bit more dislikable than an antihero who at least learns a hard lesson by the end of their journey. BOTH leads in this show did NOT go through any kind of self-journey. ONLY the SML did. UGH.

I guess that's my main gripe with this lakorn... ALL that they went through in those ridiculous amount of episodes, and the leads never had any REAL self development. The ML never had a "ah crap, I did wrong" moment. No moment of fear of what he may stand to LOSE. Not once.
Everything that happened to him and he never changed even a little bit? Really? MEH.