For starters I should let you know that I finished this drama in 5 days, which to me means that it was enticing enough to want to see through until completion.
The Story itself started off a little chaotic because as the summary states the FL uses her powers to reset the universe which happens REALLY early on in the 56 episode drama because of this everything felt rushed and I didn't really believe in their chemistry. In Universe 2 though you get to see a more gradual buildup of mutual feelings between the ML and FL. The Story is filled up of Political intrigue, War, Magic, and Romance. But unfortunately around episode 30+ the drama starts stalling and I started watching it on a speed of 1.30x just so I can finish the drama that I've already given 30+ hours of my life to complete. The ending left me with mixed feelings because some questions/character endings were left unfinished.
As for actings the cast did an AMAZING job, the only reason I gave this a 9.5 rather than a 10 is because one of the main villains in this Drama, Yuan Ming wasn't a believable villain, there were scenes were he'd be glaring and it never felt truly menacing to me. He just annoyed me every time I saw him on my screen.
The music was fine, personally I didn't pay much attention to the music.
And as for the Rewatch Value is a no from me, because a drama really has to WOW me for me to want to watch that again when there's so many new one's coming out, this was by no means an awful drama, but I wouldn't describe it as a favorite either, it's just good.

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This Drama is most definitely in my top 3 CDramas (alongside Love 020 and 10 miles of Peach Blossoms). Shan Shan and Feng Teng have really great chemistry, although I feel that Feng Teng could've been a bit more expressive after a while you just get used to the smallest of details when it comes to his emotions, I have just recently finished rewatching this for the 2nd time and then decided to write this review, the show is rather fluffy in terms of their love story, although I felt that if communications was a bit better between the characters less misunderstanding would occur, having said that no ongoing issue were carried out for more than like 3 episodes which I liked. The music was okay, nothing extraordinary, I didn't have them stuck in my head after listening. All in all 9/10 :)

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I waited until I completed watching What's Wrong with Secretary Kim before giving my final thoughts in this review.
First and foremost I should mention that I overall enjoyed watching this drama and never once considered dropping it. The story itself is nothing new, but that's okay! I personally love a lot of the cliche genre's used in this drama including rich man "poor" woman, office romance, male lead falls in love first, arrogant male lead, and etc. The biggest reason from the story that really stopped me from considering this as one of "the greatest" rom-coms was how useless the character of the big brother (AKA the 2nd ML?) was, and I blame that entirely on the writing. He was for sure the most confusing nonsensical character period! Having said that though the saving grace of this entire drama for me was Mr. Yang and Ms. Bong's romance it was not only funny beyond words, but it was also incredibly cute to watch go down, this is one pairing I would not have minded getting more screen time.
The acting was incredible both Park Seo Joon and Park Min Young delivered in making me root for this final pairing. As well as all of the supporting cast, not a single actor comes to mind as the "weak link" everyone's performance truly made the cheesy lines (thanks again writers!) appealing and interesting to watch!
Music was always perfectly timed and the song "It's You" was perfect for romantic scenes.
Now as for the rewatch value personally a drama would have to completely blow me away for me to ever consider rewatching it, which this one didn't. I might look up specific clips that made me smile when I saw them, but no this drama is not one that I'd rewatch.

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I should start by saying this is actually the 2nd time I'm watching this drama, and although it's now among only a handful of other dramas I've loved enough to Re-Watch, my first watch wasn't all that enjoyable for me, and after completing it my final rating was a mere 5.5/10. Truthfully I don't think I was mature enough several years ago when I first checked out this drama, since it deals with a rather heavy subject matter (Cancer) and I was only a teenager at the time. Now as an adult I can safely say that although it's been slightly less than a decade since this drama came out it's truly one of the most beautiful and touching stories I've watched from Korea.
The story had amazing flow throughout. I tend to watch dramas on increased speed if it starts to feel slow, but not once did I speed it up at all! The love-story between the ML and FL made sense, you could feel the fact that these characters were falling for each other. Outside of the main leads all other characters didn't magically change to fit the story, everything felt right and natural.
The acting was spot on Lee Dong Wook is a KDrama actor that I truly admire, and his work in this drama was no different, my first time watching this I felt that the FL was too whiny, but now I felt that EVERY SINGLE TIME she got emotional it was heartfelt she TRULY transformed into her character. All other actors did phenomenal in their roles as well, there wasn't a single weak link in the cast!
I typically don't pay attention to music in dramas, but once again this drama blew me away with it's perfect ballads and songs that were meaningful, yet also pleasant to listen to.
Rewatch Value is a 10/10 for me, because I literally just Re-Watched it, coming from someone that has over 100 dramas/movies in her "Plan to Watch" list that's pretty darn special!
All in all this drama was a delight to watch, just keep in mind that it's pretty heavy so go into it prepared to shed some tears. :)

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