It's 1 am and I cant sleep yet. Since I'm new to blogging, it's natural to be hyped about it, darou? So I promised I'll blab about SBS [Alone in Love] aka Yeonae Shidae. Here I go :). The drama just completed it's series during 3rd week of May. Alone in Love boasts talented and big names on silver screen: Son Ye Jin [April Snow, The Art of Seduction] and Gam Woo Sung [The King and the Clown, Marriage is a Crazy Thing]. The supporting casts are also wonderful, but forgive my laziness to search their names *shy shy* . The theme of the drama is love and regrets. Eun Ho [Ye Jin] and Dong Jin [Woo Sung] were married for 3 years and divorced for 3 years. Their current state: Good friends. They meet up regularly, celebrate their 'wedding anniversary' at hotel and evry after work they drink beers at this one shop, along with Eun Ho's younger sister, Ji Ho [Lee Ha Na] and Dong Jin's best bud, Joon Pyo. Both divorcees are in love and missing each other, but situations and events always misled their interpretation and fails them to say 'Let's start again'

Eun Ho

Things go haywire when Dong Jin introduce a young man [Hyun Joong] to his ex-wife. Apparently the guy has been secretly in love with Eun Ho for some time. To get back at Dong Jin, Eun Ho asked her friend Mi Yeon to 'seduce' Dong Jin and trick him. But it turns out our Dong Jin is a gentleman, and Mi Yeon fall in love with him. To make it even more complicated, the young yet 'mature'& sulky daughter of Mi Yeon, Eun Sol also becomes very attached to Dong Jin. In the [Eun Ho] X [Hyun Joong] case, it didnt go well since 1) He's younger than her, 2) He's 'using' Eun Ho to get back at his father & 3) Eun Ho never really loved him. [Dong Jin] X [Mi Yeon & Eun Sol] didnt work out as well, since Dong Jin also didnt have any feelings for Mi Yeon. The one that he cares and cherish is the daughter that he never had, Eun Sol. It's a pity the PD made Hyun Joong & Mi Yeon 'disappear' after 8th/10th episode... Eun Sol have super goodie chemistry with 'daddy' Dong Jin. A lot of cute moments....

Joon Pyo & Ji Ho

After both 'recuperate' from their losses, Eun Ho wants to move on and registered at a dating agency. All the men she met sucks. Dong Jin also wanna try his hand on that, but at the same time he received an invitation for reunion party. Guess who he met?? His chut sarang aka first love, Yoo Kyung. He instantly fell in love with his old memories, IMO, not with the lady. However, the lady is beautiful and graceful :). Eun Ho also trapped with a new 'love', a separated professor who cant get divorce from his wife. As usual Eun Ho's heart never waver from her love for Dong Jin, thus she returned the professor to the wife. In addition she understands the wife's feeling [suicide, abortion] she felt guilty being with somebody else's man. Dong Jin in the other hand, made a big decision when he announced he wants to marry Yoo Kyung.

Dong Jin

The PD/scriptwriter are sure cruel. Eun Ho has to sit through Dong Jin wedding, and even sang a song for them. During the ceremony, a big secret is also revealed. The reason of their divorce is because of the death of their stillborn son, Dong Yi. Dong Jin left Eun Ho right after she borne the baby, causing her to feel devastated and alone. Unknown to her is that Dong Jin spent the whole night with deceased Dong Yi, crying and saying 'I'm sorry'. The one who knows is Joon Pyo, who is also their doctor during the birth operation [thus making him very insistent on uniting Dong Jin & Eun Ho again]. Eun Ho, on knowing the truth, felt the sorrow crept throughout her heart, mind and soul as she realized that it is too late to have Dong Jin in her arms again...

Professor

Episode 15 made my tears rolling down nonstop and my heart ache. Eun Ho feeling the greatest regret in her life starts to plummet into depression. One night, out of drunk and frustation on a jar of pickle, she cried herself out saying 'Why me? Why every little thing I do is never right? Why did God do this to me? He took away mother and Dong Yi! Now I cant turn back the time anymore~It's too late!' IMO the last sentence was referring to th newly married Dong Jin. Ji Ho, looking at her sad sister decides to take matters into her hands. The consequence is fatally hurtful, but for all of us, it's the greatest ending ever! Telling Dong Jin that Eun Ho being suicidal, she puts both of them into a night trip, a trip that reveals Dong Jin and Eun Ho's real feeling. Initially Eun Ho declined, but amazingly his priest father told her to follow her heart. 'I will pray together with you to redeem your sin'. Yoo Kyung on knowing the night trip incident, decides to leave Dong Jin, as she also know all along that Dong Jin's love has always been Eun Ho.

Mi Yeon

Then the drama zooms forward to 1 year later. Yoo Kyung is a successful chef at Australia, Hyun Joong still the swinging bachelor, and Eun Sol choosing her new father. 5 years later, Joon Pyo and Ji Ho are together, and Ji Ho undergoes a breast cancer surgery. Finally our main characters come into view: Dong Jin playing with a little girl while pregnant Eun Ho doing needlework at a park. In the end, both of them received the happiness they deserved, although it came in a very winding and hurtful way.... Such a beautiful, realistic story. Very beautiful scripts too, especially when Dong Jin/Eun Ho defines different ways that love could begin and end. Out of 10, I'll give 10++++ :). My fave couple is actually Ji Ho & Joon Pyo; Joon Pyo resembles Hye Sung so much! Their cuteness made me feel giddy all the time :D. Ji Ho's carefree attitude is what I always wanted to be... The drama itself is very precisely done. Locations are all beautiful [I love Dong Jin's house & it's srrounding]. The camera captures all scenes beautifully, it feels like watching each episode is like watching a new movie. Very surely 100%ly recommended!!

Eun Sol