This drama has no storyline. I have no problem with fast-paced romance, (even though I prefer the slow-burn one because you can feel connected with the characters as indivuals and feel the sexual tension, intensity slowly) but it has to be well executed for me, as a viewer to feel it. I watched this drama to the end to find a storyline which was non-existent in Coffee and Vanilla.

The characters had nothing special about them that would make me feel something about them, except that they are supposed to be attractive. A character having a pretty face doesn't mean anything if they are not well-written. The female lead always have the same "surprised pikachu face" expression throughout if not all, then most of the drama.

However I was worried about the female lead as I thought that this drama had a thriller or psychology trope. But when I was surprised to know that it wasn't, I thought that this was a healing romance because I had a strong feeling that the male lead was abused by his mother which he was, but it was kind of normalised(?).

Nevertheless, in the start, I sincerely believed that the male lead had something wrong with him like there was something off with him. (Well, there was. He was a manipulating, possesive jerk who is a big red flag) but I thought it was something related to the non-existence plot of Coffee and Vanilla. But there wasn't. They treated his character as if he is the perfect guy or something.

Coffee and Vanilla's characters had zero personality, zero chemistry and zero development. And their reactions to a very extreme situation or to an awful incident like sexual assualt was too light that I wasn't able to feel the connection with the characters and their feelings felt like nothing to me as they were too unrealistic to a point where I couldn't empathasize with them.

The supporting characters had no life apart from harming the fl and ml's already harmed relationship, praising the fl or the ml and falling in love with the fl or the ml only to fall out of love in like less than one week.

Won't be talking about the love triangle. It's pretty much only there to make the ml jealous or something and to give the ml and fl a reason to make out:')

A lot of reviewers here are either praising the so-called intimate moments or calling those moments robotic and not intense at all. Honestly, I never noticed their expressions when they were making-out. Maybe, I was used to the male lead's "i am so hot, so lemme give y'all an eye-smile" expression and the fl's "lemme pretend i am a surprised pikachu" expression that I could never notice it:')
However, when the 2nd ml and the 2nd fl made out, i was like, "what the hell, gal?" Why would someone make out with their longtime best friend's sexual assaulter knowing that they sexually assualted their friend?