Most insufferable Male Lead!

I think this is the first drama I've watched where I hated the Male lead and was actually fine if they didn't end up together with FL. After a while I just started forwarding the parts with the ML so that I could just get done with the show. I found myself enjoying Peter's parts even more, even though I didn't see him ending up together with Alice, and that was fine. I think I just started disliking him from the start when he mistook Alice for his twin sister and kept bullying her, and all the time he had that stupid confident look on his face, and even when he found out he was mistaken, he didn't seem remorseful at all.
Another issue with ML, after they had reconnected after 13 years, he was always grabbing her hand and at some point it just became annoying, and he acted like nothing had happened and kept forcing himself onto her. And when her memory was reset back to 17, he suddenly had an issue with her grabbing his hands, yet he had been doing it all along. He also started gatekeeping her from Peter when she lost her memory, the only friend she had for the 13 years they weren't in contact, I found that quite infuriating and just stupid. And to top it all off, him and her friends were still making her apologise for the misunderstanding they had had in highschool when she lost her memory, even without knowing the full story, and all the time the ML had that look on his face of confidence.
If i had only found the ML likeable, it could have probably been a better show for me, otherwise the story was not bad. Maybe someone else might enjoy it.

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Yoon Shi Yoon Typecast

I think this is the third drama of Yoon Shi Yoon I've seen where he is typecast as the guy who gets inserted into some people's lives, falls in love with the girl, resists at first, then eventually gives in and takes the girl. This drama is even more similar to FLower Boy Next Door (FBND), in both he somehow gets involved with two people, one with Unrequited Love, tries to help them out, falls for the girl instead, takes him sometime to realize it, finally accepts it and takes the girl. For FBND, it made sense but for this drama it felt kinda forced to me and just wrong. I thought he would eventually get over his feelings and leave the girl for his son, which is the right thing to do, but when I saw the direction they were heading with the story, I felt like I could not watch it anymore. And reading the review pretty much confirms what I suspected. And where I had reached, the story seems to have stalled somehow, some characters have been pushed aside and some plot points have been pushed to the side. I liked Mal Sook's parts, especially with the grandfather and the whole time travel aspect seemed interesting but the whole show stopped being interesting when they tried to ship Hyun Jae and Woo Seung. She clearly implied she liked Ji Hoon too but was only afraid of messing up their friendship since he was all she had as a friend. So I didn't get why he was pushed to the side.

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