This is a great drama with a great initial and unique plot line but it kinda falls apart at some parts. The story idea is quite unique to me. Dan Oh finds out that she is just an extra in someone else's story that is used as a pillar for the leads' relationship, but her own character has a cruel fate that she wants to change and live independently from the writer and the story. However, it falls apart halfway as there isn't much progress in their goal, and she shifts her priorities from changing her fate and protecting herself to protecting Haru. I read some reviews that were annoyed by her change of passion, but it made sense to me since she realized the risks of her plans.
The development of the leading characters was very unbalanced, mostly because of Haru. Dan Oh and Baek Kyung both have their own spotlight, stories, and independence, but there wasn't much depth to Haru's character. He was like the disney prince that shows up at the end to give the princess her happily ever after, but he was present for the majority of the drama. It seemed like his character's sole purpose was to help Dan Oh and become her love interest, and he wasn't independent from her. He did have a back story in trumpet creeper, which was great and gave him a little bit more development, but it wasn't enough. All he thought about was Dan Oh and he didn't have his own spotlight or his own purposes like a kdrama male lead should. I understand that the point of his character was to be the mysterious guy that can move independently from the writer but I think he should have gradually developed himself. I did really like Rowoon's acting especially in trumpet creeper. Baek Kyung's character had more potential as he had his own story, reasons, and he was flawed and had realistic emotions, but he was a very unlikeable character. He only dropped his rude personality towards the end. He was supposed to be rude and unlikeable in the beginning but I wish that he gradually became nicer and more likable so that I could sympathize with him more. I also really love Lee Jae Wook as an actor and I'm really amazed at the duality of the different characters in the two shows I watched him in (dodosolsollalasol being the other one) Dan Oh was a great character and I don't have much to say about her. She was the true main character of the series.
I did like the side characters Lee Do Hwa and Yeo Ju Da a lot. Lee Do Hwa was probably the most likable character of the series and I really liked his friendship with Haru. Yeo Ju Da was a very cliche, helpless, dependent "Cinderella" type character that couldn't do anything for herself other than wait for her Prince Charming to come save her, but then she became self aware halfway through and started taking control of her own life. She stood up to her bullies, Oh Nam Ju's mother, and became less dependent of Oh Nam Ju, even if it was just in the shadow. She grew out of her helpless disney princess character and showed a better, more independent side of her. I was really rooting for her and Do Hwa because it seemed like she actually liked him a lot more and Do Hwa's feelings for Ju Da were much more genuine than Nam Ju's. Since Oh Nam Ju never became self aware, he never got any depth to his character, as all he did was make "official announcements" that he liked Ju Da, gave her expensive gifts, saved her from bullies, and admired her from afar. He was a really boring character, but I think that was the point. Regardless, I wished Ju Da picked Do Hwa, even just in the shadow.
I didn't like the ending because it seemed like a filler in order to have a happily ever after. I was expecting to see Dan Oh die but instead Haru disappeared and the whole world closed up and then in another world they met up again. The last ten minutes was quite unfulfilling and kinda boring. Idk what else to say bat it other than I didn't like it.
There were also a lot of unanswered questions about this drama, but this review is getting long so I don't want to get into it too much.

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This is a really cute and entertaining drama which was a breath of fresh air for me after watching a bunch of dark dramatic dramas. Piano is one of my passions, so when I heard that this drama would be about a pianist, I was very excited. The two main leads had a good balance of development and personality with Ra Ra being a cheerful, joyful, weird but lovable girl that lost everything and had her world fall apart and Jun being a guy that appears cold but has a very warm heart and is a hopeless romantic that harbors the secret that he is a runaway high school student that is rebelling from his parents. I was worried in the beginning that Jun would just be Ra Ra's superhero and his only purpose would to be there for Ra Ra and nothing more, but he got his own individual spotlight, personality, and backstory. I really enjoyed the actors and they really had a lot of chemistry together. I had just watched Lee Jae Wook in Extraordinary You and I hated his character (not the actor) quite a lot as he managed to make him very unlikeable, so I wasn't sure if he would have a likeable character, but omg I was wrong. I loved his character and his smile just made my heart melt. His character is SO ROMANTIC and sweet even though he tries to appear like he hates everything. When it was revealed how they really first met, how he liked her from their first encounter, and how he was do do sol sol la la sol, everything made sense as to why he was helping her so much. I kind of wish that his reason to run away was more sympathetic or sad rather than his friend died and his parents are being insensitive about it. Maybe I'm just a terrible person, but that doesn't seem like a powerful reason to rebel. Go Ara was also a very great actress and pulled off her character very well. I was almost dying of secondhand embarrassment from the way she was shamelessly seeking Jun's help in the first few episodes, but Jun seemed happy with it and she is a very lovable character that it quickly went away. The supporting actors were also really great and I loved the little squad that grew very close within the drama.

I love everything except for the ending. WHAT KIND OF JERK ACTS DEAD FOR FIVE YEARS AND THEN SUDDENLY COMES BACK TO THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE LIKE "SURPRISE! I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DIE!"????!!!!?!?!?! I love Jun so much but OMG if the writers didn't want him to die then they shouldn't have staged his death in the first place. Leave the resurrections of the dead to the dramatic dramas like Penthouse, and leave the cute and lighthearted ones alone please. If you're dead then you're dead. The "oh I'm actually terminally ill so I'm going to cruelly break up with you so you don't suffer with me" plot line was not the best, very reused, and really just a filler for the rest of the episodes, but it was acceptable. However the last 3 minutes really made me mad and it was really predictable. I wasn't sad when they all though he died bc I knew that he wasn't actually dead. It's a lot like the endings of Abyss and Hotel Del Luna where the main characters, Cha Min and Man Wol both die or fade away and then magically come back for unexplainable reasons just so they can have the Happily Ever After. They couldn't have come up with anything better? Ra Ra can live by herself or marry Cha Eun Seok or start a family or smth. Please make the ending make sense even if that means sacrificing the happily ever after. This is exactly why I think that the last episode of most dramas is quite boring or much worse than the rest of the drama since it's usually just fluff or happily ever afters or cliche unwanted plot twists to help the drama meet the 16 episode mark.

So to sum it up: I love the actors, characters, chemistry between the leads, story and plot line up until the last few episodes where everything falls apart.

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