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[KR] Cinderella and the Four Knights

Cinderella and the Four Knights

SYNOPSIS

  Park So Dam (Because It's the First Time) and Jung Il Woo (Flower Boy Ramen Shop) star in a steamy spin on a classic fairy tale that is sure to make you believe in love again. Eun Ha Won (Park So Dam) is a bright college student who dreams of becoming a veterinarian. Unfortunately, she loses her mother in a car accident, moves in with a cruel stepmother, and has no money for her education. One day, she helps an old man and as fate would have it, moves into a gorgeous mansion with three equally gorgeous men, who also happen to be billionaire cousins and heirs to the Kang family fortune. Between the rebel-minded loner Kang Ji Woon (Jung Il Woo), playboy money machine Kang Hyun Min (Blood lead Ahn Jae Hyun) and the super-sweet singer Kang Seo Woo (Sword and Flower alum Lee Jung Shin), Eun Ha Won finds herself in the middle of the hottest love quadrangle to ever befall a modern fairy tale princess. Rounding out the mansion's chaebol lifestyle are Lee Yoon Sung (Pasta star Choi Min Sung), who serves as the cousins' handsome bodyguard, and Park Hye Ji (Apink member andTwenty Again actress Son Na Eun), a gorgeous girl who has her own interests in the Kang family and isn't above manipulating one cousin to get closer to another.  

LENGTH

16 episodes, all around a length of an hour +

Cast Members

Jung Il Woo as Kang Ji Woon

Park So Dam as Eun Ha Won

Ahn Jae Hyun as Kang Hyun Min

Lee Jung Shin as Kang Seo Woo

Choi Min Sung as Lee Yoon Sung

Son Na Eun as Park Hye Ji

Kim Yong Gun as CEO Kang.  

Review

5 out of 5, Updated 3/28/18

I really enjoyed this drama despite already 'knowing' the ending; the 'the prince falls in love with Cinderella and they live happily ever after'.

But it made a HUGE difference having FOUR prince charmings, one being a member of CNBLUE - who I love - and also Jung Il Woo! (from  Flower Boy Ramen Shop). Ok but oh my gOD I LOVE JUNGSHIN AHAHAHAHA..... But what really got me was the back story, at the very end (episodes 15 and 16) there's a major 'oh fuCKING SHIT' moment. In the end, relationships fall into the puzzle and the director executes the back stories very well! It is definitely a good watch if you're into the great cliches, but also change a bit due to these well-characterized men. 

A thing that I also enjoyed was the backstories of the boys. The plot takes its time telling you it, instead of bombarding you with their sad pasts at once. It allows for more character development that allows the watcher to fall in love deeply. But! There should have been more characterization with Yoon Sung. He was more of a background character instead of the 'fourth knight'.