Oh man. Ji-hye makes me want to throw things at the screen. Everyone keep your phones close to you!! I don’t get her. What kind of woman likes a man when you see the man obsessed with this one woman all his life. How are you not put off by this and actually want that said man!?? For what??

The hurt of Seok Ji Won is so deep that he thinks dumping her will give him the closure. I wasn’t expecting him to say that he wants to date and dump her.

When the show is wacky it’s so funny. It was so embarrassingly funny to see the tracksuit being pulled down scene. It’s ridiculous but somehow makes me laugh.

The show could have been titled ‘When the lilacs bloom’.

Yeah, I too think the teacher is the father of the class rep or something like that. And the secretary is very suspicious ( a man with a whiskey glass starting at a window gotta be a scheming villain right?)

I actually like Seok Ji eon’s family dynamics. Especially the way his mother teases her husband. He is petty and the family knows it and teases him but still cares for him. So I do feel he will come around when the time is right.

Wow, can you really just buy a Kelly like that in SK? He is going to get a sticker shock seeing the price :)

I am so excited for the dating era. Bring it on show!!

I was getting tired of adult Ji-wons’ incessant bickering, and it’s nice to have their dating era to look forward to next week. I mean, they have to abide by the bet, right?

@unit, yessss, but isn't their dating also going to consist of just more bickering, only this time like in an angry contract marriage or something?

I hope they get through that fast (like less than one more episode of sneering) and start with the adorable falling back in love part. I guess the mountain's gonna bring them together. Love Mountain.

PS: I almost wrote in week one that I was glad that Lee Seung-joon was finally gonna get to play a nice guy, but I didn't because, well, I didn't want to sound like an ass...and here we are. Gah, to that too.

I agree, @unit I think the student has to be a relation of his. I was really worried they were going to make that relationship creepy, and it could still go that way, but I hope not.

I am low-key enjoying how hilariously evil Ji-hye is hahaha! Just me? That’s fine, sometimes there is just something nice to me about a ridiculous comic book-style villain. I still feel some kind of way about this drama as a whole, but I was extremely entertained this week (despite the lack of teens) so I’m sticking with it. Ju Ji-hoon looks like he’s having a blast, and that’s enough to make up for my annoyance with Jung Yu-mi’s overused lip curl any day. I laughed so hard when I saw the lilac blooming and I’m glad the bet is turning out the opposite way this time. I’m also glad that we got some indications that Yoon-ji still likes Seok-ji as well - it was looking a little one-sided there for a minute.

And finally, I was absolutely taken in by Seok-ji looking completely tragic right before the kiss. Please can we resolve some of this misunderstanding soon?!

I really liked the scene of the supermarket because the leads found their natural relationship back. He knew what she liked and took a lot of them for her.

But sadly it didn't last. And they became way more childish...

I think it's sad because the FL is just this bitter and angry woman. They didn't really give her anything else that doesn't imply the ML.

I have the feeling that Ji Kyung Hoon is playing both grandfather and father, I don't trust him.

I liked the comment of the nurse to Soo-A about never taking things seriously. Now, what is his relationship with the student... I really hope they're from the same family.

Ji-Hye won the price of the most pathetic woman in the world...

Ji-Hye is the sort of frenemy that needs to get BIG CONSEQUENCES for her actions. I have zero time and sympathy for two-faced folks like her. They are the absolute worst!

Let's just get this romance rolling along. ML needs to stop behaving like a petulant teen and start courting FL... and both ML and FL need to really starting communicating and putting the pieces together so that...

... Ji-Hye will be faced with CONSEQUENCES.

And on another note: it looks like Ji-Hoon Oppa doesn't skip leg day at the gym ROFL!

The last two episodes were quite frustrating. You'd think the script had been in the drawer for several years, so many tropes I didn't want to see again, e.g. the jealous and scheming SFL or miscommunication that dragged on for years.
I could still overlook it if the issues were at least quickly wrapped up, but as it stands, it will take several more episodes for ML and FL to talk openly with each other and realise it was all just a big misunderstanding.

As this show keeps pointing out to us, there's a thin line between love and hate, and I've now officially crossed the line, and am hate watching this show. To me, this show exemplifies what's wrong with kdrama rom-coms this year--that is, exaggerating one aspect of the comedy, often male immaturity--in this one, couple immaturity, in directions that undermine the romance.

Like most of the shows, it has the germ of a good idea, and a couple of okay first episodes, and decent, in this one, excellent, actors playing the leads--both young and old. (well, except for the 2ml, but he's supposed to be playing this simpleminded innocently lovable young man, which he's doing fine.)

But its totally squandered those things by pounding away at the "comical" premise (in this case, a pair of 40 year olds acting like 13 year olds -- less mature than their younger selves) until I just get sick of it, and start actually hoping that the show ends in Heartbeat fashion: in a bittersweet way, with a stupid, meaningless "lesson" such as "there are some relationships just not meant to be and therefore one person must die."

The last episode, which should, after the infectious kiss, have been a set of progressively less hostile encounters between the leads--perhaps based on the gag of love being like the flu-- instead spent all its time building up how great the 2ml was, and the chemistry between the FL and the 2ml. This episode proved they are meant for each other, with that exciting basketball game between them, which had great symbolic import, so much so that I had no idea why they even included it, except to show that both were terrible at basketball. Of course, he's 15 years younger than she is, but that could be an advantage, and lead to a more satisfying physical relationship for the FL, especially as they age, as long as they don't play basketball in bed.

But I guess we are supposed to take her rejection of his confession as final. (And why did he love her anyway--because of one encounter in the hospital 10 years ago?)

So, now we have the main relationship to look forward to, based on sparkling, witty dialogue--a set of repeated "I hate yous"--and a simple failure to say--"what happened 12 years ago? I waited for you" which EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN REAL LIFE WOULD HAVE SAID BY NOW.

I totally understand that we are supposed to accept and find amusing the fantasy that they both were so in love with each other and so devastated by their miscommunication breakup that they never had a satisfactory relationship with any other person in the last 10 years and remain obsessed with each other.

But what ruins this show for me is that that I could imagine several alternative ways they could have done a comic, modern day "what if Romeo and Juliet had not killed themselves, but instead mistakenly separated" theme, while taking advantage of these two charismatic actors--without making them both so irritating to watch.

I am really enjoying this drama. I love the mix of romance, angst, pettiness, and laugh-out-loud funny moments. (The pants!) My husband (not generally a fan of kdramas) was watching over my shoulder and got hooked. I could do without Ji-Hye, but I suppose we need something keeping them apart.

I think she is his daughter or niece too.

There are more denied attraction and mixed signals from the two. SFL still up to her old tricks and I honestly want her transferred somewhere far away.
I enjoyed the cohabitation hijinks with ML and SML trying to one-up the other. Thay embarrasing pants scene with poor Seok Jiwon. I wouldve preferred Ji Hye not to have witnessee that.
Honestly i don't understand Ji Hye. We all know our FL only has her eye on a certain someone. She knows it too and also know that the same is true for Seok Ji won. Why is she still pursuing him?

Besides her, I hope the two Jiwons be more honest with each other. They are not really fooling anyone.

Thank you for the recap. 💘🤸‍♀️🌁

Tbh I liked this week better because of the limited time given to the younger version of the leads. However cute Hong Min-gi is the extended cameos are definitely hurting this story. Hopefully we can stay in the present for more extended periods and get to see the Ji-won x 2 dating era 2.0.

How does Ji-hye sleep at night knowing that her one act of jealousy has caused this much damage?

Huh, apparently by doing more of the same. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ I do hope this time she gets caught and preferably thrown out of the school. She is like a mini version of the 2FL in Marry My Husband and that is not a compliment. 🤪 The other sus character Ji Kyung-hoon also deserves his comeuppance but apparently we will have to wait for a few more weeks to unveil and kick out the evil brigade.

There must be more to the 2ndFL sabotaging her bff. I mean I hope there is. She seemed clearly shaken with guilt of what she’d just done to her friend yet again. The funny thing is though, the two people she’s trying to tear apart are at this moment living under the same roof, they will meet at the house anyway, so her phone thievery was really for nothing. This couple also thrives on bickering and she’s giving them more excuses to fight over haha. If she never meddled back in the past they might have even separated on their own in time, but thanks to her they're as obsessed with each other as ever.

It is ridiculously entertaining to see that the chairman of a school is in a dating bet with one of his teachers and the whole student body is in on it watching gleefully from the sidelines. How insane that would be in real life. This is why I love kdramas though. I’m also closing my eyes to the fact that the adult Ji-wons basically know nothing about each other other than their HS memories. Who are these people after 18 years? Who cares, right?

The pettiness without a progress bored me down. At the end of last two episodes I did not care about anyone in this show.

This week was very watchable. I am glad I stuck with the show. The problem with the first two weeks was that there was very little action. It was mostly setting up the main characters and their backstory with a lot of bickering. This week they fixed the balance of the show with a lot more side characters getting screen time and a lot of interwoven storylines about friendship and unspoken feelings.

I also don't mind the fact that we started the week with a cliched fight between the two male leads. Maybe it was because it was comforting and familiar. But, I think it was because I was so bored the last few weeks that I was finally getting some entertainment.