My Secretary Who Once Was My Wife
A woman signs a paper marriage to cover her grandmother's medical bills, then meets the cold CEO who was the husband she'd been mistakenly matched with.
Vigloo
What it is
Ha-eun signs a paper marriage to clear a medical debt for her grandmother, never realizing a mix-up has seated a wealthy heir on the far side of the contract. Years later that same man turns up as her chilly CEO, and neither of them ties the present back to what happened before. This Vigloo romance runs on that mistaken identity and the slow-motion reunion it creates. The charge is dramatic irony: viewers hold the connection the two leads keep missing, which thaws a cold-boss premise into something warmer. Jin Ju-hyung and Kim So-eun take the leads. At eighty episodes it asks for a real time commitment. Vigloo opens the first ten at no cost, and coins keep it going past that point.
Verdict
A cold-boss romance whose engine is a secret the leads can't see and the audience can. The mistaken-swap backstory does a lot of the lifting, and the slow thaw is the main event once the reunion lands. There isn't much plot beyond the central pairing, so viewers wanting more than will-they-realize may feel the long runtime.
