It was so promising. I love the chemistry but then the domineering rich guy thing got dragged out a little too long and at times uncomfortable. They could have easily established personalities and backgrounds with one arc of the rich asshole vs naive girl instead of the 3 plus rounds they had in the story. Fine, I get it. It’s fluff.

What really did it for me was the atrocious, toxic, selfish trash of a woman who does not deserve to be called a mother. I could I have tried to reason with it if there was a valid reason, but there was NONE. She was horrible even before the incident that supposedly caused her to be such a hateful mother to ML. When she finally does the reveal, I instantly regretted the time I wasted on this drama. Then the last three episodes barrel roll to wrap lose ends up and it’s a hasty retreat to finally get to a semi-sweet cliched confession with a random we actually met way in the past crap that I saw coming from a mile away because of the repeated flashbacks to her past. They don’t get screen time as an actual, official couple.

I do have to end with - those were some damn good kiss scenes. Makes my feels about this drama so much sadder. Ugh. I shipped the couple so much.