You see, there's an always reocurring motive in so many series. Our MLs and FLs usually have their best, loyal friends. Those friends are too ideal, cope up with everything, support everyone and risk their lives to protect the MLs/FLs. Let's ignore a fact that it's pathological - I still always laugh when a big, painful story is revealed by a ML/FL to each other like they've never, ever spoke about it to anyone. How did they get those super-loyal, super understanding friends then? Like no one has ever asked about it. Those best friends theoretically know but they never have asked, never have discussed those, never have made the ML/FL realize what they are able to realize now thanks to what - a romantic love? It's so naive that there always has to be a new, magical, "game-changing" question asked by a new love for the ML/FL to realize basic stuff. Are they idiots, are they aliens? Seriously? Are those friends just walking around them playing comedy role that script-writers gave them for the show? :-P

It's really funny since quite an obvious thing - for instance - a great, close friend of the ML would ask how he felt, how he coped up with everything, was he ok, how it was for him etc. I'm sure they'd drink beer, talk openly, know each other's feelings. Men are really not some crazy beings, we have feelings and when our male friends suffer, we're not insensitive towards that because - huh - a male, not a woman so we won't talk! Men friendships remain different, obviously, but we discuss, share problems, suggest solutions, cheer up each other - even much more openly and without restraints that women do.

In the end, when naive scenarios like that come to that supposedly romantic, magical scene of a single, basic question - and it's presented like no one has ever asked that, the ML/FL were completely ignorant to it, now they magically wake up - it's funny - not romantic, not beautiful. It's cringe.

On a top of that - the mother's secred is stupid, it's not a secret, there're no reasons to hide anything from a daughter, extremely far-fetched, naive and illogical stuff. A policeman had no reason to cover anything up, a mother had no reason to "turn herself in" since she has just killed an attacker in her own defense or rather - in defense of a policeman, so it was a pure self-defense aka no problem, no reason for hiding anything. Majority of people here do not speak up when they should, stop asking after someone answers "it's nothing". The whole show could be solved in around 5 episodes but it's artificially stretched and all those forced secrets make literally no sense.

Basically, a lot of fuss is made about nothing in this drama, it's like a storm in a glass of water...