BEST ROMANCE - Perfect! Except...

I have a hard time suspending disbelief with rom-coms, and the CEO character is now boring for me as a 21 year old. There were so many overused tropes, and the work had such a predictable story-line. It was amazing. What an amazing watch. Exhilarating. I believe this work encapsulated the love I wanted to see.

If this was simply "a masterpiece", like how viewers on IMDB rate The Dark Knight, Casablanca, and The Godfather, I might have just added it onto my list, "completed", 5 stars. Maybe a comment. This work goes beyond it. It deserves a "proper" review.

If I had dropped this series, say, episode 10, or 11 (I wouldn't, though, the story is just too charming), I wouldn't see the most important piece of the puzzle, episode 18. Our hero, Ego (E do), stands at the end of a pier, looking over the lake where he grew up and almost drowned in. He's thinking about the past, he's thinking about his love, and he looks up, and our heroine, in her original, natural form is there, looking back at him. He reprimands her for pushing him away, he says he wished to be with her, at any point in the journey. He would be with her. She doesn't remember him. He lets her go. He walks back to the house, and continues his romantic journey with our heroine's "red shoes" appearance.

He is so fickle and vain, how can he love her, even as she was old, and obese? obese in a way that is usually always played for laughs, for a joke? so fat she isn't human? How can he still love her as she is married?

Usually this stupid "i met you when you were five, and i fell in love" trope kind of pisses me off, like, we could do without it right? I remember in Skip Beat (many other issues...), I thought "oh here we go, so annoying", and then the author just kept bringing it up and up and up again and eventually its been beaten into you so hard you just have to accept it...

Here, I don't think I could imagine the story being half as good as it is if it didn't include that previous first love trope. And look, this scene, maybe it would be boring, cliche, uhh, other synonym for drab and stupid or something, but before it, he sees her. Natural her. Like, not some drama hallucination of her, he really bumps into her as she is FIGHTING her NO GOOD shit EATING BITCHASS EX-husband (nearly ex...) for HITTING HER DAUGHTER. The punk pushes her off him, she trips backwards, ego catches her, "are you okay?", the whole schebang, and when she leaves he goes outside, and he smiles softly. I think "huh, whats the matter with that? does he know the "red shoes" version is magic? does the natural version remind him of her, and he just loves her that much that hell smile over a random stranger? wtf?", and the episode continues as usual.

He recognized her, he saw her living strongly, fighting, and later on, on the pier, he released himself to go (right back to her EEEE :)).

It's the pacing. The pacing creates a real feeling to the story, it makes the happenings seem true, it's not forced, it's not rushed, and even though it's not a 12 episode drama where everything happens in the span of the pilot and you just have to watch the rest to figure out how all the tropes laid out for the viewers will be tackled. I never found myself bored watching for 32 episodes.

That is,,, except...... uh. The secretary. The brother. Aiaiaiaiiiii god.... fuck me... that shit. I can't. I can't. It's so unnecessary. It's SOOOOO UNNECESSARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. I wish they handled it more like "Touch Your Heart", where the ex is not so PAINFULLY controlling, where the brother is not... god. that part. that part is so bad. The brother has no reason to act like this. Let them be, please just stop. You're the side couple, stick to your side of the story. fucking, oh my god, so ANNOYINGGGGGG. THIS. THIS IS THE REASON YOU DON'T GET 10/10. FUCK. FUCK. just erase itttttt fuck me that shit had me nearly yelling at the screen (it did make me yell multiple times, but im lying for the sake of appearance) SO unnecessary.

And the music, was not bad... it was music, it fit the drama. It didn't get in the way, it wasn't distracting. I dont claim to be a music expert. Tell me, though, why, before that beautiful episode, the release, the acknowledgement that our psycho CEO is human, more human than most the cast, his love is realistic, even with how unrealistic this story is, and especially given how unrealistic his standards are, he is the most human.

Tell me why before that incredible moment, you had him doing some shitty russian jig to the fucking PAPYRUS THEME MUSIC??? i fell out of my chair with that. LITERALLY, i moved in a sigh of "wtf" and fell out my chair.

Anyways this is the best love you can find in a drama, that I remember... right next to "Touch Your Heart", "Padam Padam", and "I am Not A Robot". But maybe that just shows my taste :')

Maybe I'm too young, maybe I haven't seen enough soap operas, but all those overused tropes seemed fine to me, the predictable story was enough to keep it going, and the CEO male lead wasn't as aggressive and overbearing as they usually are (completely contradictory statement to Ego's character on paper).

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