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49 Days

A young woman named Jihyun was enjoying absolute bliss as she was about to be married with her fiancé, but her perfect life is shattered in a car accident that left her in a coma. She is given a second chance at life by a reaper, but it comes with a condition: she has to find three people outside of her family who would cry genuine tears for her. In order to do this, she borrows the body of Yikyung, a part-time employee at a convenience store.

This drama was quite unpredictable. This is good and bad, but I’m putting it in the bad section because the most surprising and shocking part of this drama was very disappointing to me. We go through the entire drama watching Jihyun struggle and try to get 3 tears so that she can regain her life, and once she does manage to collect all 3 tears, we rejoice at her success. We’re glad and happy that she can live and not die. But then in the last episode, we find out that she’s actually going to return to death. She has been scheduled to die in a matter of days right after she comes back to life from her coma. How sad is that?! We reach the climax and we are made to believe that the resolution will be a joyful one, but in the end, Jihyun dies. That’s just great. We expect good things to come but we get the opposite.