😭😭😭😭😭😭 The hair is gone. The glasses too!
I am going to miss their convenient store banter

I love this show even in the full trope mode. It’s just so much fun. The actors and writing just works for me.

Hae-young Is such an interesting character and I love her. Even if her words are prickly at times she is someone who genuinely cares and is thoughtful.

The chemistry is fire!! The hotel room scene was so awesome I don’t know if I can handle the future!!

So Ji wook is one of the foster kids and I am glad the show didn’t try to build the suspense to the last minute. We audience know it already. We also have some idea that he might be a chaebol son. lol.

Our other couple. I really liked how the show handled the trolling. He did bad and hope he realizes how terrible his behavior was and makes amends wholeheartedly. We know he is a good guy so I have hope.
His scenes with Secretary are a hoot!! I can I just ship these two please 😜

I love this show a little too much and it’s ruined all romcoms currently airing and had to drop them all.

I liked these episodes better than the last and I'll keep watching, but only because I have nothing on Mon-Tues. It is still just okay for me. Idk if I am going to like the show for our 2Ls though. Hmmmm

The balance is kinda weird, I have the feelings to get 90% of Shin Min-Ah and 10% of Kim Young-Dae. I hope the story will be more balanced between the FL and the ML in the future.

JW is very mysterious. He knew her mother and he accepted the wedding because of the mother. But if HY seemed angry with all these kids, it looks like she cared about them. She helped our spicy writer. So shouldn't she remember him? I'm not so a big fan of this trope, but we will see.

The Grandmother was wrong for everything... Let him show his eyes and handsome face! There is nothing wrong with them. Separating a kid from his mother didn't help any of them...

Heo Jeong-Min made "awful boyfriend" his trademark in KDramas. HS needs to learn herself and to see she deserves better!

I wonder if Kwon Yi-Lin really never knew about her boyfriend and HY.

The cigarettes makes me chuckle because it's like they're combining the fact that cigarettes seem to be shown in dramas more often nowadays with the fact that THEY ARE BAD FOR YOU!!! Like do you actively want to increase your chances of cancer and/or stroke? No judgement but some judgement but just know what choice you're making. Also when she's shown smoking, I don't *think* it's acting shown (but I don't remember) but I think she's shown from behind and there might be billows of smoke.

That's gotta be weird and an ego boost at the same time to have an actual montage of you just being fangirled over due looking good in a suit/tux haha

But I do kinda love how excited the shop attendant and Yi Lin were haha. Like "THIS is the reason I work here/dreamed of weddings" haha

I knew or suspected that Ji Uk was one of the foster kids shown during the first episode. I think there was a boy shown. (Then again, maybe he wasn't that particular boy). I found it a bit more surprising that the mom remembered him. But maybe he's been visiting her since she's been in the hospital and keeping in touch with her while everyone didn't know?
The use of the waiting room so ALL the foster kids could come, take pictures, and speak to the mom was really sweet.

I actually liked his version of a proposal. I get that for a high powered office worker (or probably any real mature woman) it is immature or as she said "wouldn't cut it" but it was just sweet and cute to me. I just liked the effort to be considerate and fairly original/unique to their dynamic.

I like their dynamic in general! The hotel scenes had me like☺️😊😁🙈 haha

I don't really get the grandmother telling him not to visit his mother cause it would ruin her new life yet the mother had been reaching out to him. Ah, familial relations are weird and hard because to me, he has reasons to be quite resentful and yet he seemed quite caring to the grandmother to the point he's still respecting her wishes.

So I just started watching this show after reading the raves here, and you all were so right! I LOVE it. It's been a long time since I felt this way about a drama. This is also the first drama in an even longer time where I love and care about the entire cast, even secondary characters (uh, minus the ex, but his wife is precious so at least there's that).

If anyone's been reading my fanwall they will know that I am especially in love with the second leads. They haven't even technically met yet (well, not officially) and I am rooting for them. I think it's because they have such strong and interesting characters. I'm going to be honest, I feel like up until now Lee Sang-yi has played pretty bland 2MLs. It's SO FUN getting to see him have a personality and act kind of goofy. And Ja-yeon definitely has my heart. They're hitting tropes I adore, like enemies to lovers, one of the two being in love with someone else at the start, person who doesn't believe in love falling in love, and romance writer who has no actual romance experience. I also can't wait to see the dynamic between Ja-yeon and Gyu-hun's mom. I am assuming that he will apologize for his comments and it does seem he already feels bad about it, so I'm not really worried about this being a toxic relationship. I am SUPER curious about what he wrote that triggered Ja-yeon's (I'm assuming) PTSD. I'm also curious about Ja-yeon's history that the drama was alluding to is really terrible. Anyway, I want the spinoff, like, yesterday, lol.

I'm gonna be honest, I love the main leads but they interest me less! I love how this drama deals with female sexuality. No blushing and stammering women here. And the whole "Gyu-hun learns his mother is a sexual being" thing was great. It reminded me of Big Mouth where all of the girls read a historical romance novel and the boys are just baffled that, wow, girls have sex drives, too!

I'm assuming that the ML is the CEO's illegitimate son and, at some point, ML was a foster child with FL's mom - so, when he said they met as kids, he wasn't lying (and I knew he wasn't lying even before that, because this is a Kdrama).

I love Secretary Yeo and his relationship with Gu-hyun. Not gonna lie, I don't really find that actor sexy (cute, yes, sexy no) so he SHOCKED me in that scene from the romance novel. Talk about smoldering. I wonder how he's going to feel when he learns who wrote the character that shares his name. Speaking of, why didn't Ja-yeon just say that she writes romance novels? Is that too close to the truth, too?

I like the complex characterization of Hae-yeong's relationship with her foster sisters. It's not a black and white thing, she isn't perfect and she does let her bitterness show, but she also cares about them and in many ways seems to try her best.

I'm also INCREDIBLY intrigued about what's going on with Hui-seong's boyfriend. Are they in an open relationship? Did they break up and won't tell...

It’s a fun watch and proves again Shin Min-na is the romcom queen.

I can’t wait to see more interactions of the second couple and Lee Sang-yi is brilliant here. He’s such a prof if you check out the BTS for his reaction acting. No wonder there’s a spinoff of the second couple - but does it mean this current drama has no room for their relationship to blossom?

The scenes with the web novelist and the ceo made me wonder if that's really how malicious commenters are handled. Do they really make the commenter read their comments?

The whole situation also made me feel like it's a bit of commentary on people being critical of content just because they don't like it or are scandalized by it. Like just because they aren't into it, then the content shouldn't exist at all. Even though people *choose* to watch and/or pay for it. Maybe I'm just interpreting it that way haha.

I did wonder what the ceo could've written that was so bad that it darkened her whole room but geez, he wrote over 100 comments and over half of them were malicious?! Why? For what reason did he feel the need to read EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER just to comment on how he was outraged by the content, I ask even though I know people literally do this everyday haha. But to even become sickened over your own behavior to end up bedridden? That's crazy.

After learning that these characters are supposedly going to have a spinoff, I wondered how that could possibly work especially since they hadn't had any scenes together. I was not expecting this to be how they came together. Plus there's also the secretary so I wouldn't think the web novelist and the ceo are meant to end up the couple here. I wonder how their relationship is gonna develop. Seems like it will get worse before it changes for the better.

I know it's probably wrong but I did laugh/chuckle when the secretary was like "is this a new form of sexual harrassment?" Haha
It's just such a ridiculous situation and he is just funny to me. He weirdly seems to hold alot of power in his dynamic with the ceo yet not enough to get the transfer he wants haha.

Speaking of the secretary, why does he think she writes children's books?

The whole '' What about our baby '' scene was hilarious, I replayed it so many times, love the bickering between these two.

I wish Ji Wook would have gone full Makjang Drama ML and said '' I am sterile '' or something similar just to add to the drama and to embarrass Hae Young.

This week's episodes said thanks to 5 people (I think it was 5) for their cameos but I only recognized 3.
- The seemingly rich pair who Hae Young rants to about Ji Uk being a hidden lottery ticket (actors from Strong Girl Namsoon)
- The replacement part timer at the store (actor from Lovely Runner)

Does anyone know who the other cameos were?
I was thinking maybe it was the employees giving out samples but I don't recognize them.

I believe it was @oldawyer who noted the similarity of this one to a classic U.S. screwball romantic comedy, with its somewhat hardbitten, cynical FL(s), dialogue that is often pretty witty, a surface cynicism about romance and sex, and absurd situations in which you know what is going to happen, but regardless, still cause laughter, at least for me. I had no idea that Shin Min Ah was such a good comic actress and I think that so far, all the actors are really excellent in their roles including—I have to give him credit here, because I’ve joked about him in the past—Kim Young Dae.

The highlights for me:

1. The FL filming herself doing pretend Aegyo. Including falling down dizzy when pretending to be spun around by her fiance.

2. The post wedding where at every point they ran into each other, the wife of the ex-boyfriend called out to the FLand waved, giggling, all the way up to their next door rooms.

3. The mother reading the Spice of Love and the phrase “girthy instrument." (That was the translation I had—I don’t know what the literal Korean was—if it wasn’t that, I give the translator kudos for capturing the ridiculous euphemisms that appear in this kind of racy fiction. The hilarious beauty of the ridiculous phrase “girthy instrument” is that if you weren't reading a sex scene, no one would have any idea of what you were talking about unless you gestured toward a nearby tuba player. (Whereas if I referred to a book’s “tumid” or “tumescent” prose, there would be some suspicion that I was using a double entendre, and that suspicion would be correct. )

The hyper reaction of the son-president to reading his mothers book, including hospitalization and typing comments on how Sejong, the creator of hangul, was “turning in his grave.” Something about the image of Sejong (at least how he has been pictured in a couple of sajeuks) rolling around in sexual tumult because of a racy scene made me laugh.
The interactions between the assistant and the president—both of them are really funny, even though the roles they are playing are totally cliched. The popcorn the assistant pulled out during the was clever.

One final thing, of course, this is not a U.S. screwball comedy, so there has to be mother trauma (on both sides!) something I’m not too happy about, BUT I thought the scene on the bus, where Nam Ja Leon talked about how scary it was that ordinary people could be that vicious on the Internet, really hit home for me. (Fortunately, there is none of that on Dramabeans!)

FL looked great in her youthful rebel look, the style suits her.

As funny as I found SML's reaction to the erotic romance novel, I still have reservations and concerns about his future romance with the author. Because he has clearly bullied her. Together with the extreme uptightness instilled in him by his mother, in another genre he would be a potential serial killer who targets women. But who knows, maybe that's how the writers will write the obligatory murder into this rom-com. 😀
In any case, his development has to be convincing for me to fully support his future relationship with the author. Even if he felt sorry for his actions, they caused her to have a panic attack.

No matter what happens, I hope the next episodes continue to be as cheeky and entertaining as the first four. We can finally look forward to Mondays again.

There's so much to like about this drama. I like the leads, ofc, but the other characters are fun too! CEO Fu-- I mean, Bok-gyu and his interactions with Secretary Yeo are so funny to me. Lee Sangyi's comedic abilities and puppy dog vibes in this drama make an otherwise despicable character fun to watch? I love how his secretary uses every opportunity get back at Gyu-hun, in the pettiest of ways. I just enjoy their bromance, or whatever it is they've got going on.

I came here for Shin Min-ah and the contract marriage trope, but I'm staying for Han Ji-hyun. She's absolutely adorable in this role. Gyu-hun has a lot of growing up to do and reparations to do, but I look forward to her loveline with him.

Yi-lin seems like a genuinely good person so far? Woo-jae... I would like to see his reaction when it turns out his ex married a secret chaebol heir.