Cheese In The Trap Review
Genres: Unconventional, Quirky, Mind Games, Romance, Friendship and Family

Supporting characters play their parts very well, and they make friendship look great, “I’ve always got your back” cliche. The antagonistic characters also have a slightly sympathetic past, which helps in understanding why they are what they are.
The spotlight is on the FL& ML relationship, pretty obvious plot yet not your pink clouds and rosy path relationship.
ML is all about manipulating situations to his advantage. The mind games would be a treat to you if you like the darker side of things. But it isn’t something out of the blue, it’s what people do everyday, just in smaller proportions and frequency.

As you keep saying watching you will understand why FL chose ML, very weirdly FL finds warmth and solace within this relationship and I get it too (call it twisted?¿). She understands and lives within his insanity as she’s got a little bit of it as well. ML is also one for chivalrous gestures, helps, loves, protects the FL but in his own manipulative way which is also a very interesting dynamic. The second male lead and ML have a complicated relationship, it’s not complete animosity, there’s a hint of friendship and family in there, which is better than you think it will be.

FL has the "I can fix him" mindset, and every time ML does something messed up she first assures him, that she will not leave despite his doings in order to not make him anxious(which actually seems to help(by a tiny bit)), ML begins to bond and care for her more each time, which leads to him realizing his flaws only when FL is in harms way which is at the very end of the show. I would have liked to see his changed self handle situations the right way which will account for his character development, but unfortunately did not get to see any of it.

I think the story could have gone a different way in the last few episodes, the characters of the orphan siblings were not compensated in the best way, there was no real repentance of the ML towards them which was suppose to be major considering their past. ML's father's character should have been given more screen time to tie up his wrongdoings properly. All these unresolved issues made me question why at the end.

What was definitely satisfying was the FL's family, their story was definitely wrapped up nicely.

Overall, I liked it because it was a different point of view compared to most kdramas and the story allows each of us to have our own stance about it, cast was absolutely amazing, ending of each episode got me hoping and a little excited for the next one.

Let me know how your watch went ;)