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The Plot theories could be better.

I liked the whole drama and their romantic stories, but the plot of the past was too vague that left a confusing taste.

I liked the main leads a lot, their acting, chemistry and the romance is what made me keep watching the drama. But they could have done a better work with the plot of the past.
I really liked the characters, like how strong the female lead was, how they both depended on each other and strengthened each other. I especially like the dramas where both characters are strong.

But I have a bunch if complain in the plot.
The whole plot seemed like there was 2 different writers wrote the story from 2 different theory and merged it into one which made almost no proper sense.

First theory could be soul swap. If the story was about soul swap between 2 different people with same face from past and present, then the story could make a different sense. The story could be like, Shin Seori had an accident in her childhood and swapped with a soul from past but with same face and then both of them lived their life in different body until Shin Seori in past body died drinking poison and returned to her real body of the present since she is the real owner of the body. Later, when she finally found out that she has no fear of going back they live happily ever after while solving the problems in the present life. And in that case, Se Gye had no reason to have dreams of that prince since it never really held much contribution to the plot.

Second theory could be reincarnation. If the story was about reincarnation, and the whole step up of the past and the future is almost same with similar people, that could make a different sense. The story could be like, Shin Seori for some reason lost the memory of her modern life and got back her past life's memories and mistook herself as a soul coming to a modern world. That could explain how she easily got used to the modern world since deep inside she just lost her memory. Also, while forgetting her trauma of her childhood, she suddenly could act like she used to in her childhood. Then at some point, she finally regained the memories of her modern life and realize that she doesn't need to go back to the past. This could mean that they could not reunite in the past, but they finally did in the present era which would make a lot of sense.

Even if they wanted to bring that ill fate theme into this drama, they could just write a better story. The plot was so messy and made no good sense.

There are more parts that they did not clear in the past life story. Like after the prince's death how did she just ended up as a queen and if she really loved the king or she just couldn't avoid the situation. Since the FL was a proud queen, they should have shown her as queen more than they showed her as a maid.

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I started watching this drama ongoing because I found it funny. And I laughed a lot while watching it.

At the beginning of the drama, the story was simple and funny. Comedy parts were the drama's main strong point.
The casting was really great. I just got crush on Jeon Jae Yeol (Kim Jae Uck) at the first glance. He just had a strong main character aura. Not just him, Park A Jeong also made me doubt how important her character might be. The chemistry between Jeon Jae Yeol and Park A Jeong was really intense. While watching their acting, sometimes I felt that the main couple is the second leads and only there for comedy. Of course, they didn't actually disappoint as main character at all. Shin Hae Sun is such a great actress! She never disappoints me through her acting. Even if the story is a trash, I still could watch her acting. And Gong Myoung is such a cutie pie. The couple looked so cute and soothing.

The drama had such a good writing in the comedy parts. But for some reason I felt that it lacked a strong plot. There wasn't much of character development. The drama showed some of the rash decisions and actions of the characters and realizing it later. But I didn't feel that they actually portrayed the characters' emotion flows properly. I mean I could get why they acted that way but could not empathize them properly. So, in last few episode something felt off to me. I mean even office politics could do better.

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I started watch this drama while searching for Kim Jae Uck's work. I really enjoyed watching this drama.

The story had its own strength. The story was not over complicated, and the characters were simple and very much real.
The character development, healing past traumas were its strong points. I am glad that they did not leave any character with unfinished story. Each character solved their life's problem and became happy at the end which made me happy too.

I especially liked the character Lee Seon Ju. Her support and role made me yearn for a lifetime friend like her too. Even her story of getting hurt from her husband was so reasonable.

I love happy ending, so I really liked their ending where they actually focused on both their career and love life. there are dramas where at the last episode the couple gets separated for a few years for their career which makes me doubt why they could not find a way to be together, why long-distance relationship. That's why I really liked when the couple did not choose to stay long distanced.

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