This show was truly infuriating! It started out with promise and I was enjoying it but my gosh, like others have said, the showing made a 180 in the plot (btw, sorry for the long review. I don't have anyone else to discuss with, lol).
By the end, I felt so bad for Monghee. Though she became successful as a designer, she still seems pitiful and very lonely. I must say though that I actually like that they didn't put her with Hyun Soo and allowed him to reconcile with his wife. It made me angry though that she kept being a doormat for everyone!
Monghee's mother was among the most disgusting characters for me. To say she started out so humble but became a total monster toward the end was unbelievable. Her attitude toward Monghee was mind-blowing. To try and brush off the contribution that she willingly made to that family was hurtful to me. It was okay for Monghee to sell on the street but too good for her son? Wowwwwoowowowow! But yet she says she loves her like she was her own daughter? Absolutely not true. Then she had the nerve to judge Mong Kyu's girlfriend off the bat like she doesn't remember that she too married against her mother in law's wishes and had a trash background. How cruel of her to judge that girl because she was raised in an orphanage! Especially when you see how kind and eager to please she was. To be so openly disapproving of her like she was in a position to judge! She must have totally forgotten the mess she got her family into when she married her daughter off to a rich family, then she turned right back around and tried to marry above her means for the son as well! And what made me the angriest is that no one really gave her a major check about her behavior. Did she ever really realize the err of her ways?
The stepmother is another one who infuriated me. She is just a home-wrecking wh#(@ who stuck around for years but has the nastiest attitude and somehow thinks her son deserves the world over all his other kids. How could the father have not put his foot down regarding her when he saw how sneaky she was? I wanted to like him but then, ugh. Her scheming and conniving ways should have had a bigger consequence for her. I also didn't think the Sung Eun deserved a happy ending either.
I hated that they allowed the nastiest characters to have a happy ending. They all deserved to suffer in unimaginable ways. The little taste of anguish that they got was not enough.
I would not watch this show again. To have to sit through 50 episodes of this to be left with this horrible ending was almost cruel.