The drama is about a woman who is determined to become a "professional housewife," a woman dedicated to being a perfect stay at home wife. She has a "perfect" boyfriend (rich, with a well-paying job, handsome) but is a player. When she finds herself too stressed from playing the pure innocent cutey, she buys a boyfriend who essentially becomes her punching bag (literally) to relieve her stress. The drama touches interesting points on gender roles but instead of giving new insight, it instead gives excuses for why we should accept and maintain traditional views (the man works an brings home the food and the woman takes care of the children). While I have the complete opposite of the heroine, I don't necessarily mind the idea of a stay-at-home-wife/mom. However, this drama increasingly infuriated me as it went on. The guy she wanted to marry repeatedly cheated on her, got caught by her (FOUR times), made flimsy lies, and rationalized his behavior by saying that he wanted to be sure before marriage. Neither of them seemed to actually like each other much less love each other. This wasn't helped by the fact that they barely interacted or had a long honest conversation.

This ended up feeling like a government-sponsored drama (since Japan's marriage and birth rate are decreasing while the divorce rate is increasing) to convince the ladies to get married, stay at home, turn a blind eye to infidelity, and suck it up, with a smile plastered on their face. And maybe if the woman is too stressed, she can fool around to destress, as long as her husband doesn't know (or at least that's what I got from the ending). None of the characters were remotely genuine, interesting, or likable (except maybe the secondary woman's loan boyfriend). I didn't mind the premises itself or the characters' believes, the problem was in the writing and execution.

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