"I came from the future. This series will soon be a major hit."
Kim Hyang-gi's brazen double life worked from the first reveal. "The Absolute Value of Romance" completed wooing viewers with its cheeky worldbuilding and the chemistry of its lively characters.
Coupang Play's "The Absolute Value of Romance" is a high‑teen series about a high school girl who wrote BL novels starring handsome teachers and, in reality, encounters unexpected moments with them and becomes the protagonist of a tumultuous school life.
The work centers on Kim Hyang-gi as Ye Eui-ju, a high school girl who enjoys a cheeky and cute double life, and features characters with different charms — Cha Hak-yeon as math teacher Ga Woo-soo, Kim Jae-hyun as foreign language teacher No Da-ju, Son Jeong-hyeok as physical education teacher Jeong Ki-jeon, and Kim Dong-gyu as Korean language teacher Yun Dong-ju — in a story that crosses reality and imagination.
In "The Absolute Value of Romance," which premiered on the 17th, the process of Eui-ju (Kim Hyang-gi) becoming entangled with visually perfect teachers was depicted, announcing the birth of a delightful high‑teen narrative.
In the episode, Eui-ju launched into her cheeky double life, writing the BL novel "We were friends" with the four handsome teachers, including homeroom teacher Woo-soo (Cha Hak-yeon), the "math fanatic," as models, burning with creative desire. Eui-ju's eccentric creative method of taking revenge on Woo-soo, who hands out demerits to her in reality, by giving him fatal lines and settings in her novel offered fresh amusement.
The eyeglass‑breaking incident in episode 4 maximized the high‑teen sensibility. After pigeon droppings led Woo‑soo to bemoan the eyeglass cost of "10 million won" to Eui‑ju and force her into extra lessons, the development that turned this into the novel's fatal line, "My lip tore and the value of 10 million won was destroyed," reached the peak of what viewers call "infuriatingly funny."
Viewers reacted, "The actors' performances fit perfectly and the material is so unique that I was immediately hooked," "Reliable actor Kim Hyang-gi delivers the genuine high‑school girl sensibility and the prickly Ga Woo‑soo teacher relationship is interesting," and "episode 4 flew by."
The producers of "The Absolute Value of Romance" said, "It delivers an extreme addictiveness that elevates cringe‑worthy lines into refined wit and fired a powerful signal that makes people fall for it," announcing the birth of a major work.
[OSEN]