After leaving home in frustration that her step mother and her step-brother have yet again lost a lot of money, meaning they will be homeless, a 26-year old woman takes a job as a live in tutor for a 41 year old widowed CEO with 3 kids. You of course realise we can expect them to fall for each other.
Not as straightforward as that tho – lots of other business which is frankly annoying. His female 'butler' has designs on him for marriage as she is also the mother of his third child who he and his wife adopted. She 'loves' the CEO (perhaps?) but dotes on the kid, while discriminating against the other two. She is very limiting with all the kids and only when the tutor moves in do they feel understood and life improves.
So far, so predictable – you might think "Edelweiss" any minute, but no.
There are a whole raft of other characters – the CEO's father's mistress and her spoiled princess daughter, the butler, her mother and her mother's friend, the tutor's impoverished family. Somehow, in a city the size of Seoul, they all end up meeting, having relationships, and getting under each other's flesh, sometimes innocently and sometimes (naturally, the richer ones) in order to try to protect what they think they deserve.
I found the behaviour of nearly every single female apart from the FL, the CEO's cook and the child, incredibly toxic. Narcissism and greed abound. They behave like toddlers throwing tantrums and punches. Eventually I realised this is meant to be funny. It wasn't.
I speed watched from Ep18 to 25 and when I checked the episode count to find it was less than half way through, I dropped it.
How can I possibly give this crazy lazy plotting a mark? I did my best to be fair. There are some rather lovely characters but the good ones are weak, living in a cloud cuckoo land where they don't realise they are the only ones who are kind, and the rest, horrendous.
I struggle to give it more than 3/10