A strange drama from start to finish. I can understand why it might get bad reviews because if you skip any of it you will definitely get lost. It feels like someone had a book of parables and wrote a script from it. Overall it wasn’t so bad although it had plenty of holes in the plot. There wasn’t a good ending which I don’t like. In fact, I didn’t understand the ending even after watching it twice. It was just horrible. The romance was morose and unrewarding. Needless parental control and abuse was front and center. However, above all that the acting was good, keeping in mind they don’t write the script.

The concept that breaking up is a necessity of life is ridiculous. Breaking up is a choice you make and live with the consequences or somebody else makes and you live with the aftermath. In this drama she did the breaking up and could care less about the consequences. He lived with the aftermath because he had no choice.

Most of the drama was spent talking about breaking up.

In the story she meets him at the airport and he looks hopeful, but she doesn’t go with him to Paris even though he asked her many times. They are officially broken up. She professes her love for him and thanks him for all his wasted effort. Then leaves to do her thing. When she gets home she comes up with this thought (parable): “Sadness comes by for a short while and loneliness brushes by like the wind in your life.” (Who comes up with this stuff?) I guess breaking up didn’t make her feel too bad.

She goes back and completes her resignation from The One. As she leaves she has these final thoughts: “I met someone, I loved someone, but we just can’t be together. That love has made a path and I walk down that path with love. The love that will come true. The love that will last forever. This is what those are.”
Omg, Really? That’s the way you feel after breaking up with someone you love?

I truly believe in the choices we make in life and the path that faces us because of those choices. However, you have to be smart enough to realize that each choice you make may lead you down a path that you really didn’t have to take to begin with.

The parental control issue, which by nature manifests itself into parental abuse was a little over the top. Young Eun is a 38 year old professional with a career and a good income. Her mother is a controlling, psychotic person that could care less about her daughter’s happiness and hates her husband. What right does she have to tell her daughter anything. Giving birth doesn’t give ownership. I realize the Korean society is different than what I’m used to, but it is 2021 in this drama. Young Eun was able to help everyone in the drama with her great insight on life but she can’t help herself by telling her mother to mind her own business? Jae Gook’s mother was every bit as bad. She’s not even Jae Gook’s biological mother but that doesn’t stop her from being a hateful controlling woman. Forgive me, but parental control/abuse has always been one of my least favorite aspects of KDramas, although I’m doing my best to get used to it.

The romance was awkward most of the time. The facial expressions were there but something was missing from the one on one chemistry. Maybe it was because she couldn’t think about anything other than breaking up. It’s really not their fault, the script was as strange as it gets. For example you love someone you have to leave them? What kind of creativity is that? The last time I heard that was in Record of Youth which was another strange drama.

In closing, I followed every word in this drama. If I misunderstood anything forgive me. My opinions are just that, mine and mine alone. I want to say that I liked the story concept which is the reason I didn’t rate it lower. Why couldn’t they come up with a better ending? Who even starts a script that has that kind of closure? Did they think it was thought provoking and insightful? Who knows, give it a try and tell me what you think.