I'll try to summarize the emotions that I've felt throughout this drama.

Firstly, the great parts:

Acting wise this drama is a gem. The happiness of the characters would make you giddy yourself and the sad parts would make you feel their pain. Also, the choices of how some scenes were supposed to be acted out were done very well. The visuals and the costumes of the cast were also very nice to look at.

For a relatively short beginning (considering the length of this drama), we got to experience very sweet, fluffy, somewhat cliche and with a hint of thrilling story. To be fair, I loved everything about it. The story felt real and made you want to be there with the characters yourself. It was a prelude for the main story and I was okay with it being cut short.

The trouble lies later on.

Where you'd expect to be some relief or strong positive emotions to counter the sad ones, they just weren't up to par. From the moment the fluffy beginning ended, throughout the rest of the drama the main feeling that I felt was - helplessness, raw, agonizing helplessness. I always rooted for the heroine and she never felt annoying to me, her choices or behavior never annoyed me either. It's just...her life sucked, I guess? Perhaps that's what we were supposed to get from all that. And the male lead.. well, he could have been a lot more. He had all the requirements to be something more but his storyline just didin't allow him to.

Basically, for a long long time the story was stuck in one place and it was impossible to see any movement. Like picking on a raw wound over and over again without letting it really heal.

Rewatch value: I'd love to rewatch the beginning but no way in hell would I rewatch the later parts.

Either way, if you decide to watch this after all, you have to prepare your heart. It's a very hard watch.