People keep asking me why i love this drama (and the first season). here's why: (and i'm sorry, english is not my first language so...) - ariel lin and joe have the most amazing chemistry i've ever seen onscreen. ever. at least on a drama. - the story is complete. you can see them together, him finally realizing he loves her, then they marrying, working, living, having fun, fighting and trying to deal with struggles. it's almost like it's really happening in front of our eyes (in real life), it's the same feeling. - you can go from laughing to crying in just one episode and it doesn't seems wrong, beucause they have great development - the back stories are amazing! you can see the WHOLE drama going forward, you can see AH Jin starting to forget xian qin and start to fall for christine; everything is so real. - It's not like other dramas that some characters go missing and we never see them again in the story... no. even if there's new ones, they knew how to bring the old friends, the old cast back and all of them had their moment. - when rewatching it i realized that there is storylines that they had been building since It Started with a kiss, and they went and used it in the end of this season, for example. amazing continuity. - it doesn't matter that she (Xian Qin) makes me want to hide my face and die from shame sometimes, because she's so real, so sincere that there's no way you could find her crazy (not if you watch the drama and understand her story). And you can see that's why zhi shu loves her, too. - it has a way of capturing your attention and when you see it's already the last episode and you really feel like you've lived their lives with them. you saw every single moment, even if it was so trivial as they having coffee together. - and it's not like some dramas that they try SO HARD to make a fairytale out of the story that seems like 'oh so beautiful' but not real. no. it's real, there's no ONE MAGIC KISS in the series, because they're married, and they kiss everytime, because there's no reason to make them just kiss each other one time in the whole season. They kiss because they're a couple, they cuddle for the same reason. they fight. they cry. they dont know how to approach each other some times... and that, my friends, that's a real love history. I LOVE the magical fairytale style too (most of the K-DRAMAS are like that, one or two kisses in the whole story, just about them, the whole OH I'M SO IN LOVE story), i REALLY DO, but it's refreshing to watch this drama right here, sometimes, and remember what a REAL love history is about. (and that's why i'm rewatching it for the 3rd time hahaha)