I was intrigued by so many raved about this korean drama on some K-pop News website and it made me curious about the story and what makes it so famous!
Turns out, this series is fun, fresh and entertaining with their comedic character. Perfect blend of comedy and drama. The story itself is somewhat a relatable topic in this generation - about an affair and how it impacts on every relationship, either as a couple, parents, children, family, friendship and also at the workplace. But on top of that topic, we also see how someone despite of their age, is trying to achieve their dream. I love this kind of storyline and it reminds me truly with Twenty Five Twenty One - story about a young athlete
and how she achieved her dreams and becomes a National Athlete figures. Surprisingly, these kind of story tells us about when we believe we can achieve something, the universe will help you path the way.
I would really love to tell you the storyline in each episode, but let's save it, as it turns out better for you to watch it directly and feel the entertaining sensation after a hectic day at work!
The story revolves around the female lead, Cha Jeong-Suk (played by Uhm Jung-Hwa). She is married to Seo In-Ho (played by Kim Byung-Chul), who works as a chief surgeon at a university hospital. He has a strict, sensitive and thoroughgoing personality. Cha Jeong-Suk has been a full time housewife for the past 20 years, after giving up her career as a doctor during her medical resident years. After all those years, she decides to restart her medical resident course after going through almost-death liver transplant surgery. During her marriage, even though they were blessed with 2 children, but they sleep in separate bedroom. Her husband never touch her hand nor care one bit for her. He always makes complaint and cold towards her , which turns out, her husband no longer loves her and cheated on her with his first love since university life, Choi Seung-Hi (played by Myung Se Bin).
What makes it even frustrating is that, one day when Jeong-Suk was fainted and went to Emergency Room, he was on the airport waiting to board his flight to Europe trip for holiday with his mistress, Choi Seung-Hi. Jeong-Suk told him that she was at the hospital and her blood test came out pretty bad on her liver. He asked Jeong-Suk, whether her should cancel his "conference" and came to her or not. But stupid Jeong-Suk, he believes in her husband that he's truly going for medical conference and do not want to ruin his schedule. It hurst my heart when I saw how can someone lie and not even worried when your partner, your wife is sick and in the hospital alone and yet you're still going to have some fun with your mistress.
When Jeong-Suk starts her residency at the same hospital as her husband and Jung Min (her first-born son), In-Ho and Seung-Hi starts to do everything they can to make her quit her job at the hospital so that their affair would still be kept under the roof. However, because of her good nature, Jeong-Suk got support from the President who wishes her not to quit from the hospital, otherwise the KRW 10 billion investment on new technology for the hospital would not be injected.
With so many effort to keep the affair under the radar, truth always wins. The shocking part is that, the affairs has already happened for many years, even maybe around 18 years. Why? Because Choi Seung-Hi had a daughter born out of wedlock and she even attends the same class with Jeong-Suk daughter. What's even more epic is that, Seung-Hi's daughter purposely approached Jeong-Suk's daughter at the academy because she is jealous and wants to have her Dad for her.
In-Ho claimed that the affair happened when he had his residency in the U.S. and when he came back, he just learnt that Seung-Hi was pregnant and never thought she would keep the baby. Yet, they continued the communication three years ago when Seung-Hi opted to move to Korea. And that doesn't even make sense. It sucks to know that the affairs have been for so long, resulting in something unethical and yet, he kept maintaining two families. How hurtful. I even want to vomit.
When Jeong-Suk confronted Seung-Hi and In-Ho about the affair and how she's the home-wrecker, Seung-Hi did not even feel guilty, instead she said she's the first whom In-Ho loves when they are in the college and it was Jeong-Suk who stole In-Ho from her, for being suddenly pregnant with In-Ho's child. Well, the fault is actually in In-Ho for being a jerk. How could he made her got pregnant in the first place? Seung-Hi said, this is the retribution and the price Jeong-Suk had to pay for stealing his man. But what she did not realize is that, by doing this action, it leads to her own daughter unhappiness - because she grows up without a Dad figures and Seung-Hi action could not be compared to Jeong-Suk because In-Ho was already married and why snatched someone who's already married? That's purposely unethical and her action cannot be justified.
With the truth finally came out, let's see what's gonna happen with Cha Jeong-Suk relationship and what choice she made for her own happiness. Can she divorced him for the lied or will she forgive him for what he did?
Let's see what's gonna happen next :D See ya!
