End, you are not worth the journey...

I actually go back and forth from liking and hating this drama. I feel so bipolar. This is such a guilty pleasure that I want to forget yet once in a while pops in my head to call me for a rewatch.
But watching this again now, I definitely unsatisfied with the ending.

First off, the good things:
As many reviews has mentioned has similarity with Autumn Concerto (a drama which is dear to my heart), and in which case yes, the plot narrative is definitely the same.
From the secret pregnancy, then the cute toddler kid, with struggling and loving single mom, and a rich jerk baby daddy who has a pretty sophisticated GF. It is like a carbon copy of plot device from Autumn Concerto. I always liked those secret pregnancy dramas with cutie toddlers. I keep rooting for the babies to experience having a full family and their happy ever after.

Sadly for this drama, the bad things:
The happy-ever-after here feels like a bad case of Stockholm syndrome or abused woman who just cant get away from the abuser.
I mean, the ML is one big BIG jerk, who is characterized as smart yet get easily manipulated. For all his brains and heart, he can easily forgive other people who manipulated him, berated him and used him; but then he turns to bite and distrust the FL pretty fast and deep. I get mad at my screen. The worst part is how he conscientiously separated the mother from her kid. That is just wrong.

I keep waiting and hoping for an alternate universe dramaland, where the FL ends up with a kind man not the ML.
But sadly the SML in this drama is the same type of cruel or way worse than the ML. SML is way into the competition with the ML, he uses, hurts and assaults the FL for his own selfish agenda. He should have spent some time in jail. In the end, all were forgiven.
Then there was the mother-in-law who was horrible as a mother and worse as a grandma and just wrong as a human being. Then there father-in-law, who was as horrible as everyone in his family. they were one big lump questionable and cruel people.

I feel bad for the kid on How he will be raised by these people. He grew up with a kind mom for 5 years but after that he will be raised by these tr*sh people. This family doesn't deserve the FL or her kid. But sadly she doesn't realized it, cause she is a doormat of a character. I mean i get that she has some mental issues and easy to be manipulated, but to have a female lead who is weak just makes me so angry.

i wish there was an alternate ending, with her having enough backbone to Kidnapped her kid and goes somewhere away. Or just file for divorce and use ML's brothers manipulation, ML's mom bitchy attitude, and ML distrust in her as the cause her ultimate distress and demand to get a big fat alimony with sole custody of her kids.

Or this totally needs to be a transmigrating drama. She dies giving birth and she goes back to the time before she gets pregnant with her child and makes a conscious choice not to meet the ML and the SML. They are the bane of her sad experiences.

I could not get over the the narrative which was wrong in so many ways. and the acting isn't even to mention. everyone was all kinds of shallow portrayal.

The journey was one roller-coaster, and the ending still feels like a horror train crash with the zombies eating away the mangled disarray of a plot in this drama...

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This drama started pitiful, then it moved to being disturbing, then went to aggravating and I ended up feeling like a waste of every single second, even though I skipped and fast-forwarded most of the scenes. Other than to revel at what fountain youth Kim Heeson drank for her to look the same since 18 years ago, There is not much to like in this drama.

The Story itself seems cookie cutter melodrama, with rich guy falling for poor girl and having a disapproving parent. But I have always been curious of classic, thus even though this plot has been spun countless times, I choose to dive in.

BIg mistake.

This drama is literally depressing. It was without real upside or positivity. its one pitiable state after another, with main characters being the case of "the stupid, the martyr and the a**hole".

"The Stupid" is the FL. Other than being stupid, she is also without a backbone and the unluckiest girl in the world. She is an orphan who gets harassed by two different guys. She was forced into a relationship against her will, and gets pregnant by force. And she continued to go back to the guy, time and time again, while also going between the other guy for whatever stupid reason. She was like a yoyo, because she had questionable decision making skills throughout the drama.
"The Martyr" is the ML. He loves FL as much as any ML in all Kdramaland, and will do everything for her, but alas he is without any means, power and strategy. He is especially powerless against lacking of common sense & spine of the FL. Bad luck came to him for falling for the FL. The case of the powerless falling for the spineless
"The A**hole" is the SML. he is without a doubt unreconcilable and aggravating coward. His selfishness, cruelty, and love is reprehensible. He should be jailed. Period. Or worse, truck-sama should have come and drove through this guy into brain injury locked in state. I just can't handle his type of character. He is like the usual ML in Lakorn Slap-Kiss. his death carried no satisfaction. He was selfish til the end. His death was an easy way out....

urgh. I cant stress enough just what a bad and aggravating narrative this drama is. there was only one character to root for. The timid girl who was socially awkward but her common sense and the way she stood her ground even in front of all things that may terrify her just was refreshing. she is the 1% in the drama that I give rating to. everything else in the dramas was just so bad.

And so this drama will go down as one of the worst there is.

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