Smi:)e started out well, but the plot gradually diminished as the show progressed.

Starting out, we get a lot of smiles as the title promises. There is the cute FL who has some mystery to her, but enough gumption and drive for her career to make her likeable. Then we have the ML who is handsome and sweet, also with some mystery linked to a childhood trauma. Hint, hint, they're connected. Both of the leads have ptsd from said childhood trauma and I wish we would have gotten more of a focus on them overcoming the trauma. Since I have no problems with well-used clichés, I accepted the CT trope and moved on to follow the romance in search of more of the happiness the first half of the drama gave me. We get a bunch of side characters which were interesting enough, but there's a lot of them, so it got a little tedious following all of their drama. We also get an age-gap second ML, which, again, not an issue, but he got more scenes than the ML thus taking away from the romance plot.

I wish this had stayed mostly focused on the main couple because their chemistry and past history was enough to make the story watchable with just enough angst to keep things going. However, it fell victim the second half of the drama curse and took a sharp turn into angst-ville with a giant helping of evil characters and no smiles. The acting isn't bad at all, but the plotline became messy and canceled out any enjoyment from the first half for me. The ending felt too rushed and I would have liked to delve more into the progression of certain relationships rather than the drama. It wasn't all bad, but definitely fell short on the mark for me.

All in all, not a necessarily bad drama, but it did not deliver on its title for me.