Watch this for MDL 2024 Watch Challenge. But quite a meaningful drama…

Story about Maejima Satsuki, a woman who lost her way in life. Satsuki doesn’t know what she’s good at nor her purpose in life. She went to Tokyo to be a voice talent, but at the moment she is on the verge of giving up because she thinks she lacks talent. To fill her days and also to support herself, she works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. But that’s also making her question herself, cause one day Morishita Riku criticized herself that she’s just only working at the garden centre cause she needs to fill her time, not cause she takes the job seriously. And with that question, MS started to question herself & want to find her purpose.

The more Satsuki thinks about plants, the more intrigued she is with it. So starting with the terrarium that Satsuki made, Satsuki ends up helping out with a garden project Riku has undertaken. And before long, Riku & Satsuki relationship bloomed into something more.

But one day, Hiraishi Yuma, a plant expert, came as the gardener for their project. From then on Riku & Satsuki relationship began to experience trials. ‘Cause later we learn that Riku & Yuma's past relationship is not as simple as they show.

The trouble comes not only in the form of their love triangle, but also their company. Their company went through a hard time, because of a lack of finance. And when Riku tried to get help from his father, his father give a condition that’s not easy to fulfill. So, how do Riku and Satsuki go through all the hardship in their life…?
Overall this is a good drama to quite get the portrayal of the harsh reality of not what people consider as normal life. Satsuki always question is it normal, what is considered normal…? Well I’ll spill what she means down below, cause it’s quite a spoiler. So… SPOILER ALERT!!! Read it at ur own risk.












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SPOILER ALERT!!!
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* Satsuki doesn’t want to get married, not only because she had trauma regarding her parents' marriage, but she just thinks marriage is not for her.

* Riku & Yuma are a couple that are still so much in love with each other. But the rejection from society and especially from Riku’s father made them separated and this also made Yuma afraid to move forward with their relationship. And when Riku & Yuma meet again, all the tension in the air between them, made Satsuki really question their feelings for each other and in the end made herself insecure about her relationship with Riku.

* The crazy Riku’s father (Morishita Sakuji). The condition Sakuji gave to Riku is for Riku to settle down and get married. Because Sakuji is afraid that Riku really a gay, especially since Yuma also came back to his life. So, at first Satsuki offered to just fake their marriage & get the divorce after the financial problem was solved. But overtime, Riku wants to take their marriage seriously & Satsuki, who never intended to be married, thinks it as a problem. In the end Satsuki & Riku indeed separated, but what best is Satsuki can make Sakuji understand that normal life is not for everyone & to just accept Riku as not only his son that can be controlled, but also as an independent human that has his own opinion.

* Satsuki’s dad is gay & that puts a scar into Satsuki’s heart. But in the drama we can see how Riku helps Satsuki to make peace with her dad’s relationship. How in the end Satsuki successfully mends her relationship with her dad & accepts her dad’s partner.