Joo Da-Young plays a college age-ish girl who works at a cafe. She's never dated, having attended an all girls school growing up + having loads of brothers. She's got a crush on a handsome guy who comes to the cafe a lot...but the other girl working there also has a crush on him and is more successful at flirting than Da-Young's character.
One rather drunk night, in a fit of depression after yet another unsuccessful attempt at getting herself noticed, she carts away a life-size cut out of Cha Eun Woo (i.e. Kpop Idol boy from Astro, which he is indeed). She cries a magical tear on it. Why? Who knows. Let's just call it magical realism and roll with it.
The next morning, she wakes up to find him cooking breakfast, though seemingly a bit confused as to why he's there. She at first thinks he's an intruder but soon realises only she can see him. And, since it's Cha Eun Woo, she doesn't dwell on it much and takes it at face value. To be fair, I would too. Why not? When he discovers that she's got a crush on a dude, he vows to help her win him over. It seems to be working, but then their first "date" is disastrous when it turns out the cute dude also invited the other girl along as well and seems more into her. But, meanwhile, Eun Woo has been growing more attached to her...
Just when it seems like things are going well for them (er, other than the whole, no one else can see him thing??), her landlady thinks the now-empty cutout is rubbish and snaps it in half and throws it out. Eun Woo disappears. She's devastated but has to move on because what else is she gonna do? But at least she's got self confidence now and when cute dude tries to switch to her after sort of dumping the other girl, she's, like, no thanks. And shares a moment with the other girl and you can see they're becoming friends. And also starts taking better care of herself via post-it note written prompts from Eun Woo -- she's keeping her house clean and making actual meals instead of living off of instant ramyun.
While walking to work about two months later, she comes across Astro being mobbed by a bunch of teenage girls. She stops to watch, captivated for a moment with Eun Woo, who turns to look at her. But then he turns away and she thinks, oh, yeah, why would he know me? And turns to walk away. But then the ever-present Kdrama wrist grab and Eun Woo's there asking her if she knows him. So, it turns out that, for his part, she's the girl he was dreaming about two months before every night and giggling over getting his first kiss. They share a long look and BOOM that's it, fade to black.
So, it was ridiculously adorable and cute. Left you wanting WAY more but that's the way of these super short web dramas. Sure, there's plot holes and nothing is explained, but I didn't care because it was like a sweet cupcake of a drama. Like, you could get a cavity from watching this. And for what it was, it was well done with a decent amount of character development. I wish they'd drawn out the reveal at the end a little more with at least a hug or something, but I'll take it. It was a nice diversion. Totally adorkable. How many times have I said adorable in this write up? I don't even care.
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