Definitely not your usual Rom Com! I would have rename this "Secrets and Lies", there were so many right up to the very end! One incident and death on a stormy night impacts like a spider web entangling and changing the lives of the four families. And one person suffers the most deeply.
The character development of the two men in this series is the key. The twist of what seems like a "nice decent" ambitious middle class man (Bae Soo Bin) either hiding a dark personality behind his abmitious climb to prosecutor level and possibly a chaebol marriage, or maybe it was circumstances that cause him the descend into the nasty power hungry deceitful person he eventually becomes. With the contrasting ML (Ji Sung) who is originally an unpleasant arrogant nasty chaebol heir that slowly changes into a thoughtful caring loving man who the viewer eventually empathises with instead of hating on.
The FL (Lee Da Hee) is simply a young foolish girl blinded by her love for the prosecutor she takes the rap for his actions and goes to prison where the brutality is not faked. Some of the scenes in women's prison are shocking and unpleasant but necessary, although the way they all become friends on the outside takes some getting used to, but is somewhat understandable as they can only be honest and trust each other (the ex-prisoners).
The slow realisation by the FL that she was never really loved in return after she had suffered so deeply for her ex boyfriend. That he now only saw her as a millstone hanging on her ankle is deeply heartbreaking. The viewer really feels the grief (she cries constantly!) and can empathise with her lost love, lost time, lost child, lost family and lost life and mostly lost innocence. Only when she looses all that does she actually come out of her la la foggy land to reality about people and grow up.
But this is countered by the support and eventual love she receives from her former tormentor, the chaebol heir.
Well written it was a surprise series and would recommend it.
