It was such a fresh and cute story, mixed with OUTSTANDING acting by the female lead, and also by all of the background characters. The FL was just SO brilliant. Love this show.
The show drew me in from the very fist episode. It was a series of repetitions at first, to make the audience understand the jarring feeling of being in the same place in your life again and again and experiencing the boredom of everyday life helplessly, as told by a manga writer who has to go through countless drafts to get the final right story-line.
The girl realises her predicament when she breaks out of her 'character' and realises that she has practically no control over her own story, she ends up at different places at random points while she's in the middle of doing something else (like looking for her mystery man), but because she has become 'sentient' so to speak, she breaks out of that pattern to create her own reality, away from the toxic male lead that was 'meant' for her, and also makes the 'true female lead' realise that she has a choice in choosing her love life too.
The parallels they showed between the ' true leads' story and that of most old kdramas was hilarious to watch.
Overall, a great watch.