Wow! What a ride this turned out to be! It was funny, interesting, nail biting, suspenseful, charming, well it was everything a drama should be! And still I had to put in an enormous effort to continue watching it after taking a break (for sleeping, eating and such!) which I do not understand! There is something escaping me here!

The story is not new: the FL is suddenly transposed from the real world into a romance book where she falls in love with the overbearing CEO of the ML. She takes the time to undermine and play with every romance cliché there is to the hilarious effect.

So here are my notes, a few thing I jotted down as I watched it!

Why is the beginning giving me such Dynasty vibes? It looks like your prime time US soap opera, with unbelievably beautiful and scornful rich people walking around as if they own the World? Such cartoonish, OTT characters!
Fortunately, things seem to be moving in the right direction in ep2. Like in Extraordinary You, the FL realizes she is not the main character of the novel she landed in and her reactions are hilarious!
After a terrible first episode when I almost dropped this, now and enjoying the ride immensely! I am loving the way they are making fun of all those "cold CEO & sweet and innocent damsel-in-distress" stories. Moreover, I hope I am wrong, but I am getting those SLS symptoms and that is not a good sigh. The CEO is hot but the girl lost in the novel has such sparkling chemistry with the CSO, CEO's friend!
The FL is funny and quirky and they are so mocking the usual drama tropes. In ep. 6 the book the white lotus damsel in distress broke a mirror and cut her finger: the injury is about the size of a needle top but the whole first aid kit is being used while she winces as she's being treated. So funny! I really hope this is going to stay like this! Even the book CEO is starting to show cracks in his armor from FL's constant mocking attacks! SLS I was afraid of seems to have petered out when FL and the book's SML become partners in crime!
Now I'm about to start ep 10 and I like book characters more than the cartoonish real life ones! Aren't book characters supposed to be clichés and unrealistic (well, they do have funny names....)? The FL has great chemistry with the CSO while the CEO is starting to realize that the damsel in distress is clumsy and boring. I just hope they do not intensify the SLS again unless they want them to end up together!
So at the end of ep 10: CEO fell for FL and sealed it with a dead fish kiss...promising? Maybe! But why make it smooth sailing? Now we add a jealous brother to the mix and the hidden side of damsel in distress white lotus: she is not goody too shoes after all and can show her claws when her plans are disturbed. And the FL completely ruined her plans. Unwittingly though! And why leave the SML behind! Ep.13 and that SLS is kicking in hard!
This drama is mocking the usual drama/novel tropes only to end up using them to further the plot for the FL! It is a shame they did not go all the way denouncing tropes and going against them!
In the real world, the sister is losing her marbles after being poisoned by her brother! Actually, I am starting to feel sorry for her: she needed to be ruthless to make it in the male dominated business world. Another life cliché: when men are tough and ruthless, they are praised! but when women are the same, they are deemed crazy, hysterical, evil and ugly! We need to change so many things in our societies.
On to ep 14 and they are in love, sharing stories. Situ Aoran's childhood memories are at the best confusing, the reasons he gives for him being punished and therefore developing fear of darkness are illogical: he was always a good and kind son, his brother was the one always getting in trouble so for all his efforts Aoran is locked in a dark cupboard while his brother and parents go to live in the USA in order to keep him away from trouble! Strange !
Tha ML's life story is also full of illogical events: his mother died when he was young kid but he had to hide from his mother that he failed an exam and had to work! Do they make 10yr olds work part time jobs in Taiwan?!? I wish the writers thought about how the construct the characters backstories and not say whatever is convenient and contradict themselves!
Now they are finally awake but ML's brother and uncle want him dead. But two bodyguards save the day! When I saw them fighting the bad guys, my first thought was: I can see them both in a nice BL! Frankly, they have crackling chemistry just standing next to each other!
The FL in the real world(ep.15 they finally woke up!) seems to have lost all her brain cells: she is suffering being apart from ML so she braves the guards to arrive in front of the ML's room and... wait?!? For what? The guards to come and kick her out?
Luckily, after the initial shock of him not recognizing her, had passed she became her old funny, direct and irreverent self and it has been great watching them trading quips and fall in love all over again! But I so miss the SML lost in the book world!
BTW, who goes to office wearing a tuxedo? What a strange wardrobe choice!
Is Snuggle a real brand? It is featured heavily in the drama including being part of the plot! They must have paid a fortune for it!

As you see, it has been an eventful ride. It reminded me a lot of Extraordinary You but the execution was so much better. The characters were nicer, the chemistry was perfect and even the second lead syndrome was manageable and it did not take over the plot!
The actors were perfect, the story was well written (with the exception of ML's two(book & real life) back stories which were illogical.
I loved all the female characters, they were all strong women. I wish I could see such characters more often! Luckily here not one single female character lost her brain and capacity to think when they fell in love! So refreshing!The male lead character had such a charming smile once he stopped being overbearing
The friendships portrayed were amazing: isn't it great to have such steadfast friends, people who are going to be with you through thick and thin?
There was too much music. Marcus Chang sings the main theme and it featured so many times in every episode! Tiring! The rest of the background score sounded familiar, so it must be some kind of generic score!

In conclusion, I love the female lead character: funny and smart and optimistic and I wish I could find more dramas with characters this one. I don't think I'll rewatch this because it is long and rewatching is a momentary pick me up session but, that said, it is rewatchable since I probably missed plenty of important clues so watching it again could be fun!

I enjoyed this so very much! When twilight breaks dawn, two worlds meet and magic happens!