Dolly Lateo – Google

No wonder South Korea has the highest divorce rate in the world, even way higher than the US or any Western country. For all of the first 8 episodes, Hong Hae-in constantly torments her husband Baek Hyun-woo, day-in & day-out. - She doesn't look him in the eyes when she talks to him. - She gives him orders as if he's a heartless and mindless robot on auto-pilot. - She doesn't like to be touched by him. - They eat far away from each other daily, opposite of each other on a 12-seater dining table. - She doesn't respect his opinions. - She rudely interrupts him every time he speaks. - She doesn't let him complete his sentences, even moreso she doesn't let him speak. - She constantly disregards his feelings by accommodating a former lover into their home. - She doesn't thank him amidst all the lovable things he's done for her. - She disregards him by repeatedly doing things that hurt him, throughout the entire series. Then suddenly she goes all the more cold-blooded in Episode 7 when she finds out he was really meaning to divorce her. She even had the gall to tell him he 'let go of her hand when she was at her most helpless'. And yet, he was always lovingly there for her through and through, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer. I'd like to ask the writers, producers, and everyone who worked behind the scenes --- Are you all willing to go through such mental tortures everyday, like Baek Hyun-woo did in this pathetic series? Do you treat your spouses the way Hong Hae-in remorsely treats her husband? Or do you ever get treated the way Baek Hyun-woo endures everyday of his waking days? Will you all stay in a sad marriage like that? Instead of feeling sorry for Hong Hae-in because of her illness, I didn't care if she gets well and lives long. As the series progresses episode after episode, I really wanted to root her but the writers have made her so unlovable that I didn't care anymore if she dies. I'm trying to understand, there won't be a story if the lead character wife Hong Hae-in was kind, compassionate, and lovable. I get it, you needed her to be heartless and apathetic throughout all 16 episodes so that you could elevate the sensitive leading man Baek Hyun-woo to heroic archetype and romantic heights. But really now? Why romanticize mental tortures and cruel spousal treatments like these?