No Achieve No Love: Episodes 1-2
by Unit
No Achieve No Love takes us on a journey of marriage — which we shortly study is greater than a lifetime dedication born out of affection. When our main woman realizes the marriage aisle is her pathway to profession development and monetary advantages, she units out to discover a groom that ticks all of the packing containers for her contract wedding ceremony of the century.
EPISODES 1-2
Proper off the bat, we’re launched to our heroine, profession girl SOHN HAE-YOUNG (Shin Mina), who hates struggling losses — from her mom’s love and a focus she feels she misplaced to her foster siblings, to the time and power she invested in her freeloading and sexually unsatisfying ex-boyfriends. Hae-young is a stickler for equity who calculates the whole lot based mostly on features and losses, and each time the scales tip to loss, the offending celebration is proven the door.
However, we now have our hero, KIM JI-WOOK (Kim Younger-dae), a comfort retailer part-timer with a robust sense of justice. Aesthetics sensible, the drama has got down to uglify him with nerd glasses and additional inches in his hair, and profession sensible, the person is in no way curious about getting a company job. Based on Ji-wook, he’s “doing one thing no one is aware of about.” Maybe, he’s a whistleblower dwelling in hiding. Or an undercover detective. Or a secret member of the Avengers. I imply, the probabilities are limitless.
Our hero and heroine have already met earlier than the beginning of our story, so we don’t get a meet-cute. However who wants a meet-cute when the drama informs us that theirs was a hate at first sight. Scrumptious! Based on Hae-young, Ji-wook hates her and not using a cause. However since hating her is his loss, Hae-young claims that her steady patronage of the comfort retailer is to present him a superb cause to hate her. Suuure, Jan, all of us want a superb excuse to execute the enemies to lovers trope.
Talking of tropes, it could appear that our drama has selected the smart method of making two separate love strains as an alternative of a pointless love triangle. How lucky for us. Championing the secondary arc is webnovel author NAM JA-YEON (Han Ji-Hyun) who’s additionally Hae-young’s foster sister and housemate. Ja-yeon doesn’t have a lot expertise in courting. However who wants expertise to jot down smutty romance tales, proper? Her readers would possibly name her out on the unrealistic situations in her novel, however at the very least she’s obtained an avid fan whose constructive feedback outweigh the negatives for her.
Because it seems, Ja-yeon’s greatest fan is the mom of the opposite champion of our secondary love story, BOK GYU-HYUN (Lee Sang-yi). Gyu-hyun’s mother wears the pants at residence, and I cherished her the second I noticed her blushing at spicy chapters within the novel. She’s identical to me for actual. The one distinction is that Mother is a chaebol spouse and I’m not. *Sighs in broke* In direction of the tip of the week, Mother invests within the adaptation of Ja-yeon’s novel into an audio drama, and their first assembly was all shades of cute fangirling. I actually can’t look ahead to extra interactions between these two.
The Bok household owns Ggulbi Training — which is the corporate the place Hae-young works. However being first place in employment desirability and model repute within the trade shouldn’t be vital to Chairman Bok as a result of the corporate is second place revenue-wise. Chairman Bok berates CEO Gyu-hyun as an “incompetent pretender who can by no means be the most effective,” and he provides his son an ultimatum: pull the corporate as much as primary in gross sales inside a 12 months, or get married. You already know, since dialing 1-800-ARRANGED-MARRIAGE is the one-stop answer to uplifting companies, threatening kids, and mainly the whole lot else in dramaland. Tsk.
Again to losses and features, Ggulbi gives extra advantages for married staff than singles — starting from wedding ceremony help, additional trip days, little one help, wage raises, promotion and so forth. *Dusts CV after which remembers that I’m single* Naturally, Hae-young finds this observe unfair, and to pile on her annoyance, her two-timing ex, AHN WOO-JAE (Go Wook) says he’ll solely pay again the congratulatory cash she spent at his wedding ceremony at her personal wedding ceremony. After all, he has to annoyingly add that he doubts she is going to ever get married since she’s so calculating. Tsk.
As a part of Operation Grow to be Quantity One, Gyu-hyun launches an in-house contest at Ggulbi. The winner can be on the road for a fast-track promotion, and be placed on the TF crew — straight supervised by Gyu-hyun — to implement the successful thought. Since this can be a shot at promotion with out the effort of marriage, Hae-young signifies her curiosity within the contest. However she quickly learns that her possibilities at successful are slim as a result of the corporate doesn’t recruit single girls for groups beneath the CEO’s direct supervision. Okay, what within the relationship standing discrimination is even happening on this firm?
Based on the rumors, the anti-single girls rule was established beneath Madam Fangirl’s orders as a result of Chairman Fork (Chairman Bok) cheated on her previously. The rule now applies to mama’s boy, Fork-gyu (Bok Gyu-hyun) — who as well as is simply allowed to have male secretaries. Sigh. Not harmless single women having to undergo for the chairman’s indiscretion. This isn’t very demure of Madam Fangirl.
Hae-young applies for the competition anyway, however her proposal is 90% similar to Woo-jae’s. Prefer it’s not sufficient to plagiarize an thought she shared with him whereas they dated, Woo-jae pleads with Hae-young to withdraw her proposal — since she “gained’t get chosen for being single” — and when pleading doesn’t work, he threatens to color her because the bitter ex who stole “his” thought. The nerve of him! That is the straw that lastly breaks the camel’s again, and Hae-young pronounces that she is getting married in a month. It’s clear that nobody marries for love lately, however is Hae-young’s groom even conscious that he has proposed and they’re getting married? Heck, does he even exist? Lol.
Are your bosses’ “vigorous crotch” and “insecure ass” standing in the best way of your promotion? Or is your ex threatening to trigger a scandal after stealing your thought? You might be entitled to
compensationa contract marriage. Contact our drama’s male lead right now to e-book a groom.
Sadly, Mr. Male Lead shouldn’t be conscious the drama has pimped him out, so when Hae-young asks him to be her groom, she will get a convincing no! I imply, what was she anticipating? Lol.
As to why Hae-young selected Ji-wook as a possible groom, he suits into her choice for an “common wanting and forgettable face.” *Snorts in Kim Younger-dae* He additionally doesn’t have a correct job, so nobody in her company world is aware of him sufficient to poke holes into their love story and marriage. And as to why Ji-wook turned down the supply, within the six (!) years since he has been a part-timer on the retailer, he has been witness to Hae-young’s pissed off outbursts at her exes, and he finds her off-putting.
Nonetheless groomless, Hae-young forges forward together with her pretend wedding ceremony plans. Getting congratulatory cash and a promotion apart, Hae-young desires to get married earlier than her mother — who’s at present in a nursing residence — fully provides in to dementia. Ji-wook overhears this dialog — as a result of the male lead all the time must be within the neighborhood to overhear coincidental conversations. Subsequent factor you realize, he’s pulling a swoon-worthy transfer beneath an umbrella and asking if Hae-young’s coronary heart is racing. Sure No, it isn’t.
Because the week involves an finish, Ji-wook agrees to be Hae-young’s pretend groom. Cue: their gown becoming and his transformation from a nerdy part-timer to a stud in a tux. Oh my! Someone name 911, there was a violation of the contract. What a part of “common wanting and forgettable” does this groom not perceive?! Okay, the bride and groom haven’t signed a contract but, however that’s not the purpose. The purpose is, this pretend wedding ceremony has veered off its course already, they usually haven’t even walked down the aisle! Hehe.
No Achieve No Love is perhaps a trope fest, however it’s off to a superb begin. The drama appears a bit self conscious of its nature, and I chuckled each time Ja-yeon introduced up the continued romance clichés and tropes. At first look, Hae-young comes off as chilly and calculating, however the drama provides loads of room for us to see that there’s extra to her. As an example, she broke up with Woo-jae after he drunkenly introduced up the topic of getting another person to take care of her mother. Nevertheless it wasn’t essentially as a result of she was pissed off at his thoughtlessness, she simply didn’t need to burden him.
Hae-young would relatively choose a hideous wedding ceremony gown and have everybody’s eyes on her — as a result of the extra the marriage company concentrate on her, the much less they concentrate on the groom and what he seems like. That manner, her very single groom can keep away from the “married man” tag in public. Alas, Hae-young’s plan is lifeless on arrival as a result of Mr. Groom is a stunner. However it’s the thought that counts, and her thoughtfulness makes Ji-wook to see her in a brand new gentle.
It’s not on a regular basis we see foster household illustration in dramas, so I discovered this angle attention-grabbing. Hae-young’s resentment for her foster siblings has waned over time, nevertheless it nonetheless manages to slide out in dialog. This will or might not trigger a rift between them as we go on, however the drama factors out that regardless of what Hae-young says, she does think about them as household. She might need stored Mother’s situation away from her different sister, CHA HEE-SUNG (Joo Min-kyung), however she put Hee-sung down as a second emergency contact on the nursing residence as a result of “You’re additionally mother’s daughter.” It’s motion over phrases with regards to Hae-young and her sisters, and I believe her sisters can be key to serving to her reconnect and mend her relationship with Mother.
As for Ji-wook, I’m a bit uninterested in the latest pattern of male leads with secret backstories and mysterious motivations, so I don’t actually care about why he’s dwelling in goshiwon or why he has remained as a part-timer for six years. However from the little we all know of his backstory, it is sensible as to why he’s empathetic in direction of Hae-young. He can relate to having a mum or dad in a nursing residence as a result of his terminally ailing grandmother additionally handed away in a nursing residence. It’s alluded that Grandma’s well being problem was attributable to smoking, as such Ji-wook shouldn’t be a fan of cigarettes — neither does he need to marry a woman who smokes. However after overhearing Woo-jae carry up her mother’s caretaking, he supplied Hae-young a stick as a result of he is aware of she smokes. And he sat beside her within the silence though he doesn’t just like the odor of cigarettes. Life is filled with ironies, proper?
Ji-wook’s one situation to be a pretend groom is for Hae-young to foster his beloved stray cat for every week. The foster system Hae-young by no means appreciated rising up has come to chunk her within the ass. However issues we do for love, proper? Okay, she doesn’t love Ji-wook but. However look how flustered she was on the wedding ceremony gown store and beneath the umbrella! By the best way, the umbrella thingy was Ji-wook’s take a look at to see if Hae-young was allergic to cat hair as a result of he’s all the time round cats. I imply, the man might simply have requested, however how else will we all know we’re watching a Okay-drama? Pfft.
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