1️⃣ Park Seong Ah is a high school student who is working as Heaven and Earth Fairy shaman as her part-time job. When working her part-time job, she always covers half of her face with a mask to keep her secret working as a shaman from being known by her high school classmates. Seong Ah is raised by her spirit mother who is also a shaman, called the General Dongcheon shaman.
2️⃣ One day during Seong Ah's part-time work, Gyeon U and his grandma come to ask for a consultation from her. When looking at Gyeon U's handsome face, Seong Ah can't help but fall for him at first sight. However, Gyeon U's image appears to be upside down in her eyesight as a shaman.
Anyone whose image appears upside down in a shaman's eyesight means that the person only has 21 days more to live. Seong Ah passionately makes a promise that she will help to free Gyeon U from his streak of misfortune after she receives a satisfying answer from Gyeon U to her important question. However, Gyeon U quickly turns down her offer and says he is only there for the consultation because his grandma begged him to.
3️⃣ Gyeon U is someone who was born with energy that attracts all kind of ghosts to be mean to him. Hence, Gyeon U has been pestered by misfortune all his life ever since he was still a kid, and his grandma has been raising him alone after he was abandoned by his own parents. Gyeon U's grandma is determined to find a way to save him from the stubborn streaks of misfortune. Meanwhile, Gyeon U hates shamans because it always felt like he and his grandma were only being scammed when those shamans took their money but their solutions never worked.
4️⃣ The next day at school, Gyeon U is introduced as a new transfer student by Seong Ah's homeroom teacher and he is assigned to their class.
With her face mask off, Gyeon U doesn't recognize that Seong Ah was the shaman he and his grandma visited last night. As Seong Ah has fallen for Gyeon U head over heels and now that they are in the same class, Seong Ah tries her best to be friends with Gyeon U. That way it will be easier for her to protect him from any dangerous ghosts without him knowing that her part-time job is working as a shaman.
5️⃣ Before Gyeon U's critical 21 days are up and only 2 days are left, Seong Ah has protected Gyeon U from a water ghost, fire ghost, baby ghost, and suicide ghost. In the process, Seong Ah even becomes a human amulet in her attempt to keep the suicide ghost away from Gyeon U.
6️⃣ When running a lap as a welcoming ceremony for entering their school's archery club, Gyeon U runs into Seong Ah working as a shaman without her covering her face, dancing the flower lantern dance with Yeom Hwa at the haunted abandoned house.
Seong Ah's secret of working as a shaman is exposed to Gyeon U right on the spot. Gyeon U also misunderstands that Seong Ah is an ally of Yeom Hwa when Seong Ah only dances with Yeom Hwa thinking that Yeom Hwa is one of the shamans called by her spirit mom to do a shamanic ritual to cleanse the haunted abandoned house.
7️⃣ Yeom Hwa is the shaman of Gyeon U's family who has long caused Gyeon U with emotional torture by blatantly painting him as source of misfortune, and she never intends to stop misfortune from keeps happening to him. Yeom Hwa only becomes the family's shaman for money and for her own interest.
Yeom Hwa is the main antagonist in this story. She is in the process of making the ghost in the abandoned house an evil deity for her to worship by causing people to lose their lives whenever there are unexpected visitors who are unknown of the matter go inside the house. It looks like she does all the bad things in order to rebel against her spirit mom's way of teaching. Yeom Hwa and Seong Ah have the same spirit mom, but they don't know each other because Yeom Hwa left before Seong Ah was taken in.
8️⃣ Jiho steps up to be Gyeon U's human amulet instead of Seong Ah when her effectiveness as Gyeon U's human amulet is no longer working to protect him from any ghosts after he started to hate her. Jiho is Seong Ah's best friend and he has a crush on Seong Ah. Jiho is someone who has a big heart that he sincerely wants to befriend Gyeon U although Gyeon U is Seong Ah's crush.
9️⃣ Gyeon U lets Seong Ah into his house to take shelter from the rain when he sees her crying in the rain. In his house, only then is Seong Ah able to tell Gyeon U that she and Yeom Hwa really are strangers to each other and that she saw Yeom Hwa for the first time at the abandoned house. Seong Ah leaves Gyeon U's house with him looking like he just realized he did Seong Ah wrong for not giving her any chance to explain herself and listen to her side of story before proceeding to accuse her with his own assumption.
1️⃣0️⃣ Later, after that day, Jin Ung's dog Bok Hee goes to find Seong Ah in the classroom to seek help for Jin Ung who is struggling for his life when the ghost in the abandoned house tries to possess him. Seeing Bok Hee barking desperately for her attention, Seong Ah immediately asks for an excuse from the teacher on duty and runs out of the classroom to look for Jin Ung. Gyeon U rushes out too, followed by Jiho. Once inside the abandoned house, Gyeon U is possessed by the ghost instead of Jin Ung. Possessed Gyeon U tries to kiss Seong Ah.
Brief Commentary:
It feels like the drama shows less focus on the appeal of Gyeon U's personality. Actor Choo Young Woo's acting is good, but Seong Ah falls for Gyeon U's visual. Maybe that's the reason there is no need to charm viewers with Gyeon U's personality? The drama opening's narration depicts more about how misfortune streaks affected Gyeon U's life and how ghosts keep being drawn to pester him until his life is in constant danger.
Seong Ah's encounters with ghosts in her effort to protect Gyeon U from being harmed are what really intriguing some people to tune in to watch the drama. Besides that, people can't help but adore Seong Ah while looking at her cheerful smile that feels so warm and healing to watch.
In this drama, we also can see Jiho's gentle one-sided love toward Seong Ah. He has a crush on Seong Ah, but he does not pressure Seong Ah with his feelings for her.
Even with his one-sided feelings, he is someone one would still feel comfortable having around because that is how he is. It moves viewers' hearts when Jiho is being obvious about his feelings for Seong Ah only for her to be oblivious about them. Sad, but it's okay—2nd male lead is always for us the viewers.
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