It’s an okay family drama if you have a lot of time on your hands (49 episodes) and nothing better to watch. I liked ‘Seo Young, My Daughter’ and ‘Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life’ better. The plot isn’t complicated, but there’s a mystery as to why adoptive mom ‘stole’ FL as a baby as well as the backstory of all the parents, which takes a long time to develop. The romance between ML/FL also is a slow burn, and ML is one of those annoying guys who’s too nice to flat out tell the obsessed chick and her mother that ‘we’re not dating, I’m not her boyfriend’. Yeah, he tells Seo-Ah, her coworkers and FL that he’s not her boyfriend, but he apparently isn’t firm enough because nobody believes him. This wishy-washiness on his part delays his romance with FL because she keeps hearing conflicting information. He tells her one thing, but everyone else is telling her something else. As a result of this aggravating ‘nice guy’ persona, I would have preferred Hwang Na Ro, the resident black hat (guy up to no good) to be ML. At least, he has a redemption story going on as his ill intentions get up-ended by the love/acceptance he finds at the villa. He actually shows character development while Jae Hee (ML) starts out as a nice guy and ends as a nice guy. Really, there’s no character development of either lead; we just see them dealing with obstacles in their family/work lives. The biggest opposition to their romance is the dog poop stuck to Jae Hee’s foot called Seo-Ah, but that’s his fault for not being firmer. That’s always the problem with these childhood friend relationships – MLs can’t seem to bring themselves to be mean or rude to these obsessed brats. And Seo-Ah is a first class brat - she throws multiple tantrums. She's an embarrassment to womankind everywhere.

The two things I didn’t like about this drama:

1) I would have preferred Jae Hee’s parents to remain separated. I would have liked to see the first love between his dad (Woo Hong) and FL’s adoptive mom (Jung Soon) to finally be realized after so many years apart. I think it sends a bad message to these obsessed chicks for Jae Hee’s parents to get back together. Why? Because it’s saying if an obsessed chick hangs in there and somehow forces/pressures the guy to marry her, then he’ll eventually realize her worth and love her in return. That doesn’t usually happen in real life. Most of these relationships end in divorce as portrayed in this drama. I understand that the Asian culture admires persistence but persistence can easily become obsession as we see in so many Asian dramas in the form of a resident psycho chick who has no self-respect and can’t let go of a man who doesn’t love or want her. I would have preferred to see Jae Hee’s mom become independent and stay independent without a man in her life.

2) I really disliked Hwang Na Ro ending up with Seo-Ah. Despite his ill intentions, he didn't deserve to be matched up with that brat . I couldn’t stand Seo-Ah’s character, even when she finally apologized to FL, and I didn’t want her getting the guy I felt should have been ML. After professing themselves in love with different people, they suddenly fall in love with each other? Ah, why? What did either of them see in each other? Their romance seemed forced as though the screenwriter felt the need to have everyone matched up with somebody at the end. I think it would have been better to see Seo-Ah focusing on her career and maybe going on blind dates (a testament that she's over Jae-Hee) and see Na Ro coming back to the villa after his time to prison, ready to start a new life (that's what he really needed - family love and acceptance - not some bratty cupcake). It just was unbelievable to me that Na Ro and Seo-Ah would genuinely fall in love so soon after being in love with other people.