Haha,

"Ahn Hyo-seop’s character, (fill-in any rich, male kdrama character < 40!), is a third generation chaebol CEO who has been blessed with intelligence, charisma, business acumen — and of course, a handsome face. But, he’s prickly and cold to others, perhaps due to a trauma in his past that has prevented him from loving. He absolutely hates lying and is a workaholic."

That’s not generic at all so sir.

OK, so let us pull out every single K-drama rom-com trope ever used- starting with the Tsundere Chaebol, and see what happens if we throw them into the blender.......

It could still be fun, even if not very original.

And of course the FL will be caught in an little white lie that spun out of control.

I will watch this, I like the leads, sometimes I like a good tropey tropey mess. Hopefully, it is good tropey and not bad tropey.

I've been pleasantly surprised by some dramas with generic descriptions so we'll see. It's the employee-boss relationship that is hard to get past for me.

How refreshing! 👀

Seeing how it's so painfully obvious where the plot will go, I hope the leads have good enough chemistry to handle this. The audience have long gotten tired of these typical K-drama characterisations.

Ooo. I liked this webtoon. It’s actually pretty funny. It’s the female-lead-goes-on-blind-date-instead-of-friend trope.

These CEOs in their early - mid 20s.... I feel so unaccomplished and resentful. *thinks back to my own early-mid 20s...grad school and working 2 part-time jobs...of average intelligence, charisma, and no business acumen because I didn't think to invest in the company-matching retirement plan when I started my first permanent professional job..*

Otherwise, sounds cute and generic!

It's a very typical trope. I mean, when are they going to stop using the even more typical rich, intelligent, charisma and handsome but cold guy as male leads???!!!😒😒😒😒😒😒

They really need to stop trying to make fetch happen with these nasty-ass boss-employee 'romances'

Have finished the manhwa; and guys, its indeed a cookie cutter story. Whatever plot youre are thinking of office romance are present. As much as i still think that theyre (AHS and Sejong) are too youthful looking; this genre are too trivial for older actors. Even idol actors who are bit older than them. A clear minded adult would drive away from this kind of fiascos, thus younger face would be more suitable.

My only question is: will Ahn Nae-sang be in this one too?

But seriously, I find this quite weird. Romance seems to have become a pretty unpopular genre in K-drama, and I don't think I've seen the cold chaebol / warm ordinary girl pairing in ages. But hey, it's SBS, who found a huge audience for Penthouse. Maybe they will also spearhead a retro-romance revival.

I liked the manhwa. Good old guilty pleasure. However, I don't know whether this manhwa works as a drama. There wasn't a lot of meat in the plot, to be honest. Not to mention, isn't there a drama that similar to this already? I'm thinking of the Secret Life of My Secretary. And I guess when I was reading it I didn't have Ahn Hyo Seop or Kim Se-jung in mind... They are a bit soft.

This sounds extremely generic on paper. But, if there’s one thing I learned from all my years of watching kdramas, it’s that sometimes the most basic-sounding plots can weave that cracky kdrama magic and be really fun. So, who knows? Maybe this will be the unexpected gem everyone’s talking about come 2022. I’m trying my best to be optimistic.

That being said, I do have some issues with the employer-employee romance angle and how that could lead to some icky power dynamics.