5.5 / 10

There's some actually really good Cinderella & Cheese in the Trap mashup in the early episodes. Thankfully Les Liaisons Dangereuses isn't adapted all that strictly (I watched three movies as preparation for the show!), and ML very soon stops being anything like the 'full-on psycho' character you'd find in aforementioned Cheese in the Trap.

From others' comments, I expected more outlandish recurrent breakups than there were, though the ones the writers came up with were usually very hard to agree with as a viewer.

By the last two hours, as is tradition with K-dramas, the story takes odd turns, and the ending is unfulfilling.
The last episode in particular wastes tons of time on utter crap instead of using it for something useful.

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ep29 (15.1): [spoiler]Se Joo & the FL Tae Hee are completely out of character to facilitate dramatic plot development. Se Joo as the one cleaning up after his friends would never use the nuclear option, and Tae Hee as a previously very smart Cinderella character would never follow someone far away for indoctrination after she already found out that she was lured out of the house under false pretenses (& knowing if she stayed she would get a big explanation).[/spoiler]

ep30 (15.2): [spoiler]Makjang murder spree, with nobody calling the police or anything like that for the sake of later wasting screen time on the classic coma episode. Even more absurd than the lack of police or private security intervention is that nobody unties Se Joo at any point, even though several people could and have ample opportunity.[/spoiler]


Many lost plot strands, [spoiler]even or especially with the weird 5 years time skip at the end:
- What happened with Park Hye Jung's boyfriend Joo An? He was hit in the head with a golf club and bleeding all over the place, but that's the last we hear of him? Is he not human because he's not rich?
- We never see Lee Ki Yeong (or his hired chaebol heir / part time assassin) punished. Just saying that his family's law firm is doing poorly now doesn't cut it.
- What happened to the wedding plans of Myung Mi Ri and Kwon Suk Woo?
- We don't even find out if FL ultimately moved to Germany with her dad or not.
- We can only guess that ML might have gone for formal painting / art education rather than enter the family business – but he's still on good enough terms with his family to spend outlandish money on a ridiculous prank.
- The drama is missing any scene of the "adults" (besides FL's stunned mother) reacting to who exactly ML has feelings for.
- We never find out the details of ML's mother's death. When the hospital director arrives she's still alive, after all - and why is her car door locked anyway? I've never driven with a locked door before, and even if it's common for KR chaebols, you would NOT do that with a heart condition. Plus her window is down when she talks to FL, but then up again later on.
- The whole hinted at sub plot of ML's father possibly conspiring with his later fiancee Myung Mi Ri to have his wife killed was so silly if the only goal of them lying was covering up his well-known feelings for FL's mother. Even his own mother knew everything about it.
- The subplot of ML kissing or perhaps even sleeping with the mother of Go Kyung Ju completely disappears to never be mentioned again. Go Kyung Ju talks to ML like a generic friend-of-gf side character later, like the writers forgot about earlier episodes.
- Go Kyung Ju's adoption is mentioned once, but also never pursued or detailed.[/spoiler]