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Minwoo, a medical student, feels pure love for Dahye, whom he bumped into while riding his bicycle on campus. With Hyun-tae's help, they meet again and begin to understand and love each other. Around this time, Min-woo's father is hospitalized due to a stroke caused by a business failure, and her half-brother, who was recognized as her father's successor, flees to the United States and reveals the secret of Min-woo's birth. When creditors gather to harass his sick father, Min-woo tries to dissuade them, but then hits and injures an old man and runs away. Da-hye visits Min-woo's refuge and persuades him to surrender. After serving his time in prison, Min-woo hears from Hyeon-tae and Da-hye about his father's death. After that, he leaves Da-hye and sets out to find her biological aunt.

It wouldn't have been an old drama if they didn't give us the ending as an introduction at the very beginning. The even took it a step further to narrate to us that this is how it ended exactly. It kinda took away from the show when the ending is spelled out to you this blatantly. Anyway, this is a less than average love story between the trio leads without anything interesting going on. I had a few ideas at different points were the story could've taken a better direction but none of that happened. The male lead Son Chang Min didn't do a good job playing this shy and innocent kid at the beginning. It was too weird and awkward. They wanted to show a big contrast to his transition later on but they could've done it in better ways. On the other hand, Jung Sung Mo did pretty well for his character, I even think it's better than most of his modern roles. Anyway, the drama as a whole felt super limited and they didn't do much with what they had.