Maybe they went for crisp story telling and edited a lot to fit it all into 8 episodes. Maybe they didn't have the budget. Whatever the reason, although it felt like no cost was spared to show a sophisticated, high class world and a highly emotional drama, it somehow failed to evoke any strong connect to the leads. Even though they gave enough back story for the FL and ML, their interactions and connection didn't feel so genuine

Some thoughts and cribs..
1) There were some scenes where the ML feels attracted to the FL, and his son wishing she could be his mother. But there was no scene where the FL is shown as falling for the ML at any point. She seemed completely distracted by her ruined life and a determination to get revenge by exposing the female villian with zero plans on how. She even tells the MLs mom that she never had plans for remarriage and yet we find her getting married in the last episode.

2) There is not enough explanation on what happened between the Rex owner and SML, how the SML chose to hand the bride over to the CEO at the end, or whether he managed to get his father's assets.

3) Although they managed to expose the adulteress in the party and get her dragged to jail for embezzlement with solid evidence, she got out so easily with no explanation as to how the politician influenced her freedom. It felt like poor rushed story telling and frustrating to watch her show up again and again with no damage whatsoever. There is no explanation why she targets the FL's daughter except that she is evil, and this seems out of character as she doesn't take any risk without some big reward in line.

4) Not enough closure on the creepy lecturer who wanted to sleep with the FL after the first date, or the manipulative professor lady who wanted to marry the CEO and how he replied to her proposal.

5) This show had several make out scenes for the ones having affairs and yet didn't show a single kiss between the main leads until the very end! There was absolutely zero chemistry between the FL and either of the leads. The MLs played their part but the FL just alternated between a gloomy self absorbed look or a bewildered damsel in distress look most of the time. If it was a pure revenge drama they should not have tried to include a romance angle to it without making it believable.

6) The SML had much more back story and history with the FL and would have even been a better fit for her at the end. Just because the CEO also had a kid and it was convenient for them to become a family, did they need to get married? Atleast the CEO is shown to have feelings for the FL, but the FL seems to be only making calculative decisions until the end. She seems vaguely pleased and pleasantly shocked at the end, but there is no genuine love or gratitude in getting married to him.

7) The CEOs mother didn't want her for a DIL until the end, yet we find her smiling at the wedding.

The ending felt flat, rushed, unfair on SML and just sad and bewildering in a way. Happy for the ML but neutral towards the FL and very sad for the SML who was really supportive all through the series. All in all, it felt unsatisfactory and definitely not worth a rewatch. I doubt if i will see season 2 if there is one, as I didn't feel connected enough to these characters until the end.