I knew even before watching it that it was filled cliche but since I enjoyed Boys over Flowers I thought I’ll enjoy this too. How wrong I was about that! It honestly was a terrible execution of romance and melodrama. The leads seemed way out of place and mature to play high schoolers. There was too many characters and side plots which I didn’t care less about. It seemed like the director wanted to cater for every demographic by serving every dish on one plate. The scenes featuring the family seemed to cater for the older demographic whilst the high school scenes were for the young.

The play on coincidence did not look cute to me but it could’ve been because I sensed no chemistry between the leads. It was never clear why the male lead liked the female lead, it was somewhat like he was forced by the director and he was full on stalker mode in many different scenes. Their first kiss scene was far from romantic and could be classed as sexual abuse.

The show featured pretty much every Korean drama trope one can think off. A few examples; rich boy and poor girl, awkward kisses, boy has a big family secret, the mean rich girl has unrequited love for rich boy, the second lead falls in love with lead girl and changes but of course we know that doesn’t go well at all, both leads live in the same house, family against the relationship, elite school contained of arrogant rich kids, the female lead is the only poor girl, and I could go on but I think I’ve said too much already.

I don’t know why this drama had such high ratings. I can say for sure that I will never finish this drama. But let’s end on a positive note. The OST was good and it may have helped me to watched up to the point I stopped. I recommend this for research purposes only, to study a drama featuring every trope.