What I want to tell everyone when considering this title :)

Hey :)
Normally I don't write reviews so please bear with me for this one. When I considered this title I read a lot of comments and reviews for it, and then watched it. If u are wondering whether or not to watch it, the answer for me personally would be YES!, but in the following, I will mention some things to help u decide on your own.

The "Bad" Stuff a.ka. the things I disliked or others mentioned and I noticed, too:
THE BEGINNING
For me, this drama started fairly cute with their first meet and then just did not catch me in the romance department at first. Maybe because I am one hell of an introvert and I felt like I would never (be able to) act the way the FL did (not that that is a bad thing, she is just rather extroverted). Still, I continued watching because during the beginning what catched me really though was the flashbacks. And yes, I know, flashbacks can be sooo annoying. But these were really nice. They told the story of the original e-sport team solo, while parallely showing us the members in the current time. During those flashbacks we learned how they are connected but we still do not learn, why their relationships went sour. For this part I must applaud the writers: I really didn't feel the instant connection to the romance at first, but the background was really really nicely set and I was hooked on their story!
-> if u want to see an amazingly sweet lovestory don't give up in the first 1/4 of the drama (maybe just skip a few scenes now an then if u don't want to wait toooo long)

THE FEMALE LEAD'S JOB
The summary tells us what she does professionally and that she is a smart bee. The drama does not focus on this much. Many reviews mentioned that she is just not put in focus on her dreams much. And too SOME extend I agree. We get to see her in her school a lot, and we get to see her talk about it. It is mentioned and sometimes shown a little (f.e. signing event). It is just not the main focus of the drama. Do I dislike this? NO, because I see it that way: This drama is about the e-sports team and their leader GUN, who falls in love with the female lead. Of course, other dramas have shown us how nicely both storylines can be included but I don't mind that this one did not. They still mention her songs, and her job as a "future scientist", and we even get really cute romantic interactions out of it.
-> if u want to watch a drama about a successful women focusing on her job, that might not be ur drama -sorry :)

and that's it for the bad stuff for me

The "Good" Stuff a.k.a the reason why I want to watch this title again and why I wanted to write this review.
THE ACTORS/ACTING
Oh boy, I just can say. I loved it. The main cast were so perfect in their storytelling. The ML was just chef's kisses. I really bought the cold/resevered trainer turned sweetly smiling lover, and to be honest, I fell in love with him, too. And the FL, sweet and innocent but really mature in the relationship. Smart and independent on her job(s) but really sweet and lovely when with him. The other cast members were also really really nice.

THE LOVESTORY
It starts from a short meeting in a internet cafe and it end just as sweet as sugar. Did I hate the ml at some points for being so cold? Ah, maybe. But that was also his charm. And what I have to add: Oh boy, what a really really nice and relatebly done "cold-turned-to-loving-and-devoted". It was not a change like day/night just because he fell in love with her. While writing this reaaaallllly long review I thought about the changes the people went through at certain stages of the drama. The ML has the biggest. And it is so well done. It's relateable, sweet and fun to see him grow out of his past terrors and opening up, first to only her and then to the whole team and his (old) friends.
Is there a lovers drama? Yes, and I hated it, but it fit right in. To be honest I skipped a few scenes during that time because I just did not want to see them separated long, but it was not painfully made. They found together pretty quickly and they stayed together from that point on.


I know I am taking too much of ur time, so I will stop here. Many things are unsaid about this drama and I could talk about it for a very long time. I don't want to praise it to much. It is certainly not the best drama I have ever seen, but it certainly also is not the worst. It's a really fun drama, with a really good cast and acting, a nice story, a funny match-making grandpa, an interesting background story, one of the sweetest age-gap-romances I know, some e-sports background with a funny group of young boys calling the FL "sister-in-law" right from the beginning (I love that! O2O vibes honestly), and a rewatch value (at least for me:))

If u still here, and consider watching that drama, my 2 seconds of advice:
Stick to it, and get over the first quarter of the drama to see a really sweet romance unfold in front of u! Don't give up, only because the first 8-10 ep. don't really catch ur romantic heart just yet!

have fun watching and I hope I could help u, if not, sorry ^^

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