I started watching this drama from tiktok, loving the old korean cliched aesthetics and I was even looking for a typical romatic drama. And here it is!
The first 2 episodes are worth watching, the entire child cast did an awesome job too glue me to the chair, there were many funny cheesy lines and I loved some! It was wierd watching a childhood romance but it was not bad. I'd say it is indeed quite SLOW once the actors age up so you might have to speed it up and skip many dialogues which I had to. Some scenes were very redundant and not one episode went by without the actors crying and bursting. I used to wonder how much tear practice the actors had to take up. The twists this drama brought up made me scream and laugh out of frustration, because everytime one problem another one sprung up quite beautifully. And yes this is the drama where you'd find the fml almost facing every possible trouble in the world and tries to make it more complicated by trying to keep it to herself when she absolutely cannot do anything about it.
One thing that irked me or made me hysterically go crazy was how the fml finds every possible way to traumatize the poor second lead with the lamest excuses, keep him by her straw into emotional blackmail when that guy was possibly trying to move on. Now there are many flaws in the story line, which obviously were there to drag the show but I felt one time watch to this one legend of a drama for that era if you feel like going back to old kdrama eras then this is one of a gold show.
I would suggest at the end to go ahead and watch this series atleast till the time fml gets diagnosed a condition (till 13 ig) because from then on its just too sluggish and overdone. But the first 2 episodes were gripping. So it was fun watching these legendary actors!