I wanted to like this series, but overall I just couldn't get invested in the story. I do think that the lead actresses are talented. It's just that the story itself didn't grab me like I expected it to.

Despite that, I thought that the series started out strong. When Ai meets May for the first time, it pulled me in immediately. Ai is amazed, but also confused by May since her existence was kept a secret by her sister Oom. How can Oom be so cruel and cheat on May? How could May love Oom this much? So many emotions passed through Ai just through expression alone with her trying to understand her sister's secret double life and stepping into that role pretending to be her.

I expected the drama to follow this narrative path with Ai discovering more about her sister through her things, her writing, and her history and trying to piece together Oom's perspective to learn to understand her side. I wanted to explore this complicated relationship between both sisters and their grandmother.

But what happened isnt what i expected. It takes a side step to all that, then remembers to sprinkle in some relevant flashbacks of her sister and grandma here and there which felt like an after thought. Eventually the show comes back to it in episode 11, which culminates to a showdown between both sisters. I think ep. 11 was well performed by the lead actresses. But, despite the performance, I still couldnt connected with the emotions to the story because I think the lead up to it was weak.

So what did the show do instead leading up to the episode 11 performance? The show sidelined this compelling and complicated family drama. They threw in a fluffy honeymoon phase of Ai falling in love with May despite Ai still pretending to be Oom. I have my issues with both Ai and May, but I recognize that they arent without flaws. No one is so I won't harp on it here. And the lead up to ep. 11 becames more about a court case drama involving Ai and her motorbike group of friends. These are friends Ai would stop at nothing to fight for as the show implies in flashbacks. But, not enough time was established to give emotional weight to these friends. Ultimately this whole court case drama was simply thrown in to use her friends as a device to add further challenges to Ai and May's love story. Her friends arent given enough time to become real characters. Yet the show wants you to care when I think they failed to do that (at least for me).

I eventually got bored watching the show. There are filler scenes that I didn't think were necessary. Like the whole jealousy sequences with Ploy (just to name one example). There was nearly a 20 minute back and forth tension of who gets to buy takeout for May. Ai scrubbing dishes to pay for the takeout to compete with Ploy and the standoff between the two vying for her affection at the dinner table. Filler can be fine. Fillers that run too long is what I had a problem with. There were many instances like these where I switched to 2x speed to get through it.

The show also relies heavily on flashback sequences to tell May and Ai's backstory. Present day romantic moments, at times, turned into a music video complilation of romantic moments between May and Ai which for me I didn't find compelling. I wanted to see more moments between them that they could claim as their own in the present day and in real time. Those romantic moments either end up being flashbacks to their past or start out cute and end up with the "ghost" of Oom's presence constantly invading Ai's mind. It includes long pillow talk moments with metaphoric storybook tales that replace truths they cant reveal yet. It also includes the obligatory garnier commerical which I know cant be helped. Or to drop in some GMMTV merch theyll probably sell later on their website which is typical and I can overlook. I was just not invested in their romance. I would've dropped it earlier, but I saw enthusiastic reviews and wanted to give it a chance. I will be sticking with it till the end since Im almost done. I doubt my opinion will change. Will edit if the last episode will significantly change my mind about the show.