I watched this drama quite late in 2021 and enjoyed it. Main Lead / Supporting actors and actresses did great performance throughout the show. OST were also so emotional. I rewatched this drama again from the start to better understand and sympathize the cheating wife SY ... but it was quite hard to agree upon the (opened) happy ending story of this remade K-drama version although this was a good story in presenting how difficulty to be both career mom and housewife which any husband might not notice and realize. The Writer seemed to make SY looked like a Victim whom had reason(s) to cheat her husband and deserved forgiveness at the end. However, the story showed so many CONFLICTING scenes leading some Viewers to think differently for the happy ending story direction.
The cheating wife SY was a beautiful career mom who tried her best to be a perfect mom and housewife. As written, the cheating wife SY's character was a thoughtful woman and kept things to herself. She wanted to please anyone although she was exhausted. Her husband HW was a good husband who "unintentionally" overlooked her burdens / stresses because he always thought that SY was a perfect wife. She had ONCE slept with her lover SW and secretly kept it under her smiling face to her family since the affair started about 6 months ago.
It seemed that SY might still love her husband BUT she also missed her lover. SY and her lover worked together as companies' project partners. They always met at their offices and in any cafeteria outside the office. The story showed that she and her lover SW did not want to divorce their own families during their affair relationship. They seemed to create their weird imagination that having an affair without divorcing in mind was the excuse to NOT destroy their own families. They are SELFISH without any thinking that while they enjoyed their happiness moment, they were hurting other people's feelings.
When her lover wanted to sleep her, SY did NOT deny and was willing to serve his desire. She intentionally lied to her husband about the ending time of her office meeting and also thought that she was able to pick up her son at a Nursery school after sleeping with her lover. How could she go to face her son just right after she had slept with another man who was not her son's father? However, the physical affair did not happen because it got caught red-handed by her husband at the hotel.
The scene did not clearly show that she felt guilty after the affair was caught up red-handed at a Hotel. At home, she said to her husband that she would stop seeing her ex-lover SW "for now". The husband was upset after heard her wordings BUT why she did NOT clarify that she meant "from now on". It might be interpreted that she did NOT really want to end the relationship with her lover b/c they still met and were working on a project together. She might hope to refresh and continue their love again.
When she and her husband agreed to talk at home in the following night, she acted so "calmly" when she said to HW that she was sorry for what she had done and added that she did not have an affair to divorce the husband. She was PRETENDING like there was NO any physical affair happening between her and her lover b/c the husband had found it out before it happened. But her husband did not trust and pushed her the question if she had slept with SW before. She could not deny BUT expressed her upset feeling when replying to the husband that she had slept with her lover before. How could she encounter her husband that she missed her lover all the times if she really felt guilty?
Although there was no obvious scene showing that SY said to anyone that she loved and cared her lover SW, the written story seemed to show that she might feel passionately in love with that man. There was a short scene after the affair was caught-up and SY, her husband, and her lover were all in a Hotel room. When the husband noticed that his wife did not wear her wedding ring and asked if she actually loved SW. SY felt reluctant to answer and SW quickly jumped-in saying that they were "playing with fire". Her reluctance meant that she could not tell the truth that she loved SW. SY was not a flirtatious women type, so if she dared to repeat the same mistake by allowing another man to physically touch her body, it meant that she loved that man. Her expressions as seen in the drama also showed that she was in love with SW such as wearing beautiful dresses when seeing SW; kissing her hand given to SW; planning and intentional lying to her husband for adultery; thinking to temporarily stop seeing SW after the affair was found out; later admitting that she forgot her family, guilty, etc when being with SW; and sharing her feeling like a kid chasing after a balloon which implied that she would continue her affair during her marriage. So, it seemed that SY truly loved SW and had him in her heart during the affair and might be ready to leave her family whenever SW decided to divorce his wife.
While she might want to temporarily stop her relationship with her ex-lover SW, it was SW (clearly NOT Her) who ended their relationship and dumped her by requesting her boss to take her out from the project. The affair relationship between SY and her lover also confused me a bit. During the three-confrontation in a Hotel room, her lover said in front of her husband that he loved SY. SY herself admitted that she was so happy when being with her lover and did not want to break up the affair if her husband did not find out. She even dared to lie in front of her husband's face to sleep with her lover when he desired. When her ex-lover abandoned her completely, she did not feel sad or express her disappointing feeling when she met him to report her job-handover progressing. She just normally complained her ex-lover that he should early inform her. But when her ex-lover said back to SY that it was not appropriate to contact her personally and they should not see each other again, SY just easily accepted it. HOW did their love affair end up so easy? Anyway, it seemed that SY started to realize that she was loosing her ex-lover and felt guilty to her husband. She seemed to feel remorseful and kept saying SORRY endlessly in the show.
There was another scene that I did not quite understand if the Writer wanted to make the cheating wife looked more cruel when the cheating wife encountered her husband if he had ever had an affair before. Then there was no later scene clearly saying that the husband had an affair with any woman during their marriage. He might only have a fantasy thinking with another girl. So, he was a good husband and honest to his wife while she betrayed him.
SY told her husband that she was exhausted due to over-works. Her excuse was that she did not have time to be herself (even to fix her worn-out shoes) and when her lover approached her, she felt happy when being with him. Her excuse did NOT make any sense ... If she really did NOT have enough time, how could she manage her (not-enough) times to meet him at any cafeteria or even planned to sleep with him?
The cheating wife's intentional affair mistake was MUCH WORSE than her husband's unintentional overlooking her stresses. The story tried to show that SY felt remorseful and kept crying BUT NOT dared to ask forgiveness. There was not much scene showing her improvement to gain her husband's trust or showing how much she loved her husband. I understand that this drama was the story of the husband HW to grow maturely and improve himself. So, it did not show much story about SY while her mistake was much worse. It was hard for me to be sympathetic from the given story that SY would deserve the happiness ending.
I really liked this K-drama's concept that Forgiving can be done BUT Forgetting is harder. The story presented that HW's character was an indecisive person and he always thought so many times before making any decision. He felt pain and was struggled b/c he could not get rid of the image of his wife when being with another man which was the "key" reason that led to the divorcing decision. It did NOT make any sense at all that the divorce erased the husband's painful memory in such a SHORT PERIOD and he walked back to restart husband/wife relationship again !! Forget such kind of hurt emotional feeling takes times even years or forever. If they returned back, they would divorce again.
Anyway, this is a DRAMA story. Drama is still Drama !!
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