I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

5-7-5: Summary in a haiku
Pretty boy pays chick
To pose as long lost cousin
Ending in romance

Drama level
More laughs than sobs.

Eye candy

• Lee Dong Wook (as Seol Gong Chan)
• Lee Jung Gi (as Seo Jung Woong)
• Lee Da Hae (as Joo Yoo Rin)
• Park Si Yeon (as Kim Seo Hyun)

Love shape
Square (two guys in love with the same girl, another girl in love with one of the guys)

The variables
Rich hotel scion, tour guide, scheming tennis pro, playboy who looks like he just walked out of a manga, winter scenes, patriach with a guilt-ridden conscience.

The hiccups
Crazed tennis pro ex-girlfriend who stops at nothing to win the ace back.
Guilt ridden granddad gets pissed that he’s been lied to.
Deadbeat dad.
Missing cousin.

The quirks
Manga boy! He looked like God assigned His plastic used the extra fine scalpel and just made two quick slits and carved out a really fine nose while he was at it. He got a little antsy and gave the poor boy really large satellite ears, which Manga boy now has to hide behind elfin hair.

Lots of snow, and really pretty winter clothes.

Bad names. The heroine’s name, Joo Yoo Rin, just doesn’t lend itself well for intimate scenes. Yoo Rin ah…

The plot
Rich Hotel Scion boy (Seol Gong Chan) is sent by his ailing grandfather to find his long lost cousin, who lost her parents (ailing grandfather’s estranged daughter and husband) in an earthquake 15 years before. He is unsuccessful, but hires Joo Yoo Rin to pose as his cousin since she’s such an eloquent liar. She agrees, since she’s up to her ears in debt her father got into.

Predictably, they fall in love, but things are complicated by his ex-girlfriend, the psycho tennis pro who practices with hoops the size of golfballs (who does that??). Manga boy also predictably falls head over heels in love with Yoo Rin and makes a heroic bid for her affections.

They also threw in the obligatory liability father, and stoic status conscious family, and that’s a wrap.

For a change though, there is no crazy tragedy ending.

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Final rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Watch it. It’s funny, winter scenes are spectacular, and lead actors are scumptuous.