LilMeggs
San Jose, CA
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This is the first time I have left a drama feeling this way - were we supposed to root for the main couple, Lun & Mook? Because half the time I could care less about Mook and I hated Lun. I feel like this drama could have been a lot shorter if Mook wasn't completely driven by her heart and what she believes love to be. I feel like giving this a 5 star review is being generous.
I thought Mook was a strong independent woman who followed her dreams while taking care of her family. Once her father dies, she steps up as the breadwinner of the family and does everything in order to support her mother and sister, even if it means entering a contract marriage to the man who broke her heart in high school. After she is reintroduced to Lun, Mook goes down this downward spiral where she feels that she can take revenge on Lun, while supporting her family. Don't get my wrong, I felt terrible for Mook, as she was giving up her happiness in order to support her family, as well as being misunderstood and called a prostitute by everyone, but at the same time, I feel like Mook could have handled and responded differently. For example, instead of just keeping the course and doing what she needs to support her family and knowing that she is doing all that she can, she takes everyone's criticism to heart and starts becoming the person that everyone thinks she is. And in doing so, she said some really rough and mean things. Lun on the other hand.... I just don't understand why the audience should have rooted for him. We are introduced to him as this rebellious son who is looked down upon by his family, but learn that he does want that validation from his parents, but wants to do it in his own way and not working at his father's company. Instead, Lun expresses himself very secretively, where he wants people to think he is this bum of a guy, until the day he can randomly prove everyone wrong with a single act. Then, when he gets reintroduced to Mook, I feel that his childlike nature amplifies to the point where he starts to come up with extremely inappropriate lies to try and get out of his arranged marriage. And many of these lies were on much a huge level, in hopes that he would shatter her heart and want to divorce him. Lun's only plan is to hurt Mook so much that she will never love another human being again. And it hurt. It hurt bad. But at the same time, it is Mook's fault for not realizing her own worth, or understanding what she needs to say and do in order to live somewhat peacefully in her one year marriage. Instead, she loves to rile him up to feel like she is in control of the situation.
Funny enough is that this isn't the plot of the drama. It is a small piece, but the main plot revolves around Lun's family and their business. Lun enters a marriage with Mook, blessed by his family and shaman in order to protect him, as he is being followed by a masked stranger trying to kill him. Throughout the show, we start to get clues and hints that his "assassin" character is trying to get to Lun and his birthright position at his father's company. And that's it. It was a big game of Clue, where we have multiple suspects and we are trying to figure out if it is the ex girlfriend or the marketing manager.
Other than that, I wasn't a huge fan of most of the characters and I just wanted this drama to be over. I felt that Rut & Petch's "relationship" or insinuated relationship was extremely inappropriate. Maybe it was the 7 year age difference and Petch being 17? Maybe it was Rut being "in love" with Mook? Maybe the boss and part time high school student worker relationship? or maybe it was the fact that I truly believe if Petch was recast as a 10 year old girl, nothing about Petch's nature and personality would have been different. If the writer was smart...I think they should have paired Petch and Poom together. A, Poom was always looking out for her when she was getting her heart broken over and over again by Rut as well as supporting her at the company with her video game, type of relationship. I loved Poom...probably the only character.
But I got a lot of "men are never wrong" type of energy from this drama. Lun was literally shattering my heart over and over again, treating Mook like literal dog poop on the street, because he thought that would protect her, but the moment that everything is sorted out, and we have 20 minutes left in the drama, he comes out of no where and is like okay NOW I am ready to tell you I like you after hours and hours of telling you I hate you and to f*** off before. Nah babe...I did that to protect you.
And that is why I disliked him and this drama.
I thought Mook was a strong independent woman who followed her dreams while taking care of her family. Once her father dies, she steps up as the breadwinner of the family and does everything in order to support her mother and sister, even if it means entering a contract marriage to the man who broke her heart in high school. After she is reintroduced to Lun, Mook goes down this downward spiral where she feels that she can take revenge on Lun, while supporting her family. Don't get my wrong, I felt terrible for Mook, as she was giving up her happiness in order to support her family, as well as being misunderstood and called a prostitute by everyone, but at the same time, I feel like Mook could have handled and responded differently. For example, instead of just keeping the course and doing what she needs to support her family and knowing that she is doing all that she can, she takes everyone's criticism to heart and starts becoming the person that everyone thinks she is. And in doing so, she said some really rough and mean things. Lun on the other hand.... I just don't understand why the audience should have rooted for him. We are introduced to him as this rebellious son who is looked down upon by his family, but learn that he does want that validation from his parents, but wants to do it in his own way and not working at his father's company. Instead, Lun expresses himself very secretively, where he wants people to think he is this bum of a guy, until the day he can randomly prove everyone wrong with a single act. Then, when he gets reintroduced to Mook, I feel that his childlike nature amplifies to the point where he starts to come up with extremely inappropriate lies to try and get out of his arranged marriage. And many of these lies were on much a huge level, in hopes that he would shatter her heart and want to divorce him. Lun's only plan is to hurt Mook so much that she will never love another human being again. And it hurt. It hurt bad. But at the same time, it is Mook's fault for not realizing her own worth, or understanding what she needs to say and do in order to live somewhat peacefully in her one year marriage. Instead, she loves to rile him up to feel like she is in control of the situation.
Funny enough is that this isn't the plot of the drama. It is a small piece, but the main plot revolves around Lun's family and their business. Lun enters a marriage with Mook, blessed by his family and shaman in order to protect him, as he is being followed by a masked stranger trying to kill him. Throughout the show, we start to get clues and hints that his "assassin" character is trying to get to Lun and his birthright position at his father's company. And that's it. It was a big game of Clue, where we have multiple suspects and we are trying to figure out if it is the ex girlfriend or the marketing manager.
Other than that, I wasn't a huge fan of most of the characters and I just wanted this drama to be over. I felt that Rut & Petch's "relationship" or insinuated relationship was extremely inappropriate. Maybe it was the 7 year age difference and Petch being 17? Maybe it was Rut being "in love" with Mook? Maybe the boss and part time high school student worker relationship? or maybe it was the fact that I truly believe if Petch was recast as a 10 year old girl, nothing about Petch's nature and personality would have been different. If the writer was smart...I think they should have paired Petch and Poom together. A, Poom was always looking out for her when she was getting her heart broken over and over again by Rut as well as supporting her at the company with her video game, type of relationship. I loved Poom...probably the only character.
But I got a lot of "men are never wrong" type of energy from this drama. Lun was literally shattering my heart over and over again, treating Mook like literal dog poop on the street, because he thought that would protect her, but the moment that everything is sorted out, and we have 20 minutes left in the drama, he comes out of no where and is like okay NOW I am ready to tell you I like you after hours and hours of telling you I hate you and to f*** off before. Nah babe...I did that to protect you.
And that is why I disliked him and this drama.
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