[Review: Melting Me Softly]

Romance, Comedy, Fantasy

Dong Chan a very famous director of TV Variety Team. He has a girlfriend named Na Ha Young, who is an anchor for variety show. Mi Ran has a boyfriend, who betrayed her for having affair with another woman. She worked as a part timer for Dong Chan’s variety show. Dong Chan always wanted to try something new that other people won’t do it. Dong Chan persuaded Mi Ran to join the documentary program that frozen human as experiment. They are supposed to be frozen for 24 hours. However, the professor faced a road accident. The assistance professor shuts down and moves the lab into underground. Everyone is looking for them as they just disappear.

20 years has passed, the professor woke up and make a portion that could make Dong Chan and Mi Ran awake. Dong Chan and Mi Ran were shock when they woke up after 20 years later. They realised that everything has changed. Their friends and parents were surprise to see their children who look the same as in their 20s.

Dong Chan surprised that his colleague and girlfriend did not look for him when he was disappeared except for his family members. He frustrated and kept a distance with his girlfriend even though she wants to get back their relationship as previous before.

Mi Ran’s best friend, Young Sun was hesitated to tell her that her husband is Mi Ran’s ex-boyfriend. They have a son who is the classmate of Mi Ran. Mi Ran always talks bad about her ex and Young Sun felt embarrassed to tell her the truth. When Kyung-Ja told Mi Ran about Young Sun’s husband, she was shocked about it. She wondered that why Young Sun marries him. She was in love with him before Mi Ran dated with him.

Dong Chan asked the assistance professor regarding his body temperature. He told him that they have to maintain their body temperature not more than 33 degree Celsius. He quickly informed Mi Ran about it. Dong Chan also looked for the culprit who tries to kill the Professor. The Professor has lost his memory. He was the only one who can fix their body temperature. Dong Chan realised that someone has tailed him while he was on his way to meet the assistance professor. He decided to bring the professor to stay at Mi Ran and his family’s place.

Mi Ran met Dong Chan and those who involved in the program. She asked for compensation from the top management for the 20 years that she had lost.  She also asked Dong Chan to secure her a job as she found that she had difficulty to land a job elsewhere. She has no working experience for the past 20 years.

One day, Mi Ran and Dong Chan have kidnapped by two thugs. They were locked up in the frozen lorry. They did not freeze to death. They found ways to run away. Although they managed to escape from the kidnapper, they were lost. Due to hot weather, Mi Ran’s body temperature increased rapidly. Dong Chan quickly sent her to the hospital for treatment. One of the journalists has spotted that Dong Chan was the director that disappear 20 years ago. The top management requested him to do a live interview to explain about his disappearance. He revealed to the world that he was the only one who has involved in frozen human experiment and also mentioned about the side effect of the experiment. He did not mention about Mi Ran involvement because he wants to protect her from being the public attention.

Dong Chan kept checking Mi Ran body temperature and her whereabouts. He also prepared a watch and a dose that could bring down their body temperature. Mi Ran hit her ex-boyfriend when he wished to get back to her. Dong Chan supported her that he deserved to get punch from her. Young Sun also disappointed with her husband and decided to file a divorce. Mi Ran faced a discipline action for hitting a Professor in the campus. When they were questioning Mi Ran and her ex-boyfriend, her ex-boyfriend explained that he deserved to get punch from Mi Ran. That results really surprised the Professor Association.

Assistance professor managed to escape from death when his car suddenly exploded. He told Dong Chan about it. Dong Chan informed Mi Ran to be careful and also asked Ha Young to release the news in order to protect the safety of the assistance professor. Dong Chan was curious why the murderer tries to kill the professor and also the assistance professor.

Dong Chan brought Mi Ran to work in his department as intern. Mi Ran was happy and she wished to become a PD like Dong Chan do. They planned a new variety show. They went to check the site at outskirt. They cannot find the way back. They were lost. The weather is hot. Mi Ran forget to bring her dose. Dong Chan gave his dose to Mi Ran because her body temperature kept increasing. After giving the dose, Dong Chan passed out as his body temperature increased as well. Luckily, it rained and Dong Chan’s body temperature reduced too.  Mi Ran kissed him as she was relieved that he was still alive.

Dong Chan and Mi Ran were embarrassed. Mi Ran felt sorry for her reckless act and Dong Chan was wondering why she kept apologies to him. Dong Chan started to grow feeling for Mi Ran and so did she too. Ha Young was upset as Dong Chan no longer have feeling for her. Ha Young received a call from an anonymous who witnessed the accident happens to Assistance Professor’s car. She wanted to meet Ha Young and Dong Chan.

The fortune teller once told Mi Ran that she will meet her true love after 20 years later. She even points to Dong Chan that he was the one. Dong Chan met the assistance Professor why they can only take 1 shot of dose a day only. He explained to him that it will become ineffective if they overdose. He hoped that they can maintain their body temperature for the time being before the professor fixes the issue.

Ha Young was jealous when Dong Chan and Mi Ran got closer with one another. She warned Mi Ran to be careful with her secret so that it did not cause burden to Dong Chan. Eventually, the secret was revealed to the world. She was upset at first as people was looking at her differently. Dong Chan spoke to her and consoled her that he will protect her from being hurt. Mi Ran posted a comment on the social media about how other perceived her and her feeling too. Everyone was pity towards her and gave her encouragement words.

The anonymous called again and wanted to meet Ha Young and Dong Chan at the media station. When she was on her way to the station, she has been blocked and killed by her brother-in-law, Lee Hyeong-Du. Before she was killed, she did mention about the frozen human and also her husband. Lee Seok-Du has the same face as his brother because he underwent surgery. He replaced his brother position and enjoyed all the glorious. He was afraid that his brother might awake from being frozen, therefore, he threatened the professor to close down his laboratory or else he will kill Dong Chan and Mi Ran.

Mi Ran’s ex-boyfriend, Hwang Byeong-Sim moved out from his house and stayed at the rooftop of her house. Mi Ran did not know that until her parent mentioned about the professor at her campus. She told Young Sun about it. Young Sun was very angry towards her husband. She decided not to divorce. Young Sun found out that her son, Hwang Ji-Hoon was in love with Mi Ran. Ji Hoon was surprised when his mother asked him about Mi Ran. Mi Ran was shocked when Ji Hoon told her about his parents. Young Sun told her son that Mi Ran was his father first lover. Ji Hoon application to become an intern at TBO was successful. He was in the same department as Mi Ran. Dong Chan was jealous when Mi Ran was so close to Ji Hoon.

The professor was worried about Dong Chan and Mi Ran safety. When he was about to close down, Dong Chan stopped him. He asked the professor to find ways to bring back their normal life. Lee Hyeong Du found the professor’s lab. He abducted him. Assistance Professor was looking for the professor in order to find out ways to create antidote that prevent Mi Ran and Dong Chan’s cell active in low temperature.

Mi Ran informed Hwang Byeong-Sim that his son has been working at TBO as an intern. After finished shooting, Hwang Byeong-Sim met his son. They have a talk at a café. He realised that his son was in love with Mi Ran. After all, he decided to leave Mi Ran’s house for the sake of his son.

Ha Young joined hand with Lee Hyeong Du that she will cover the news for his sister-in-law case. In return, she wanted Dong Chan and let Mi Ran in frozen capsule. Dong Chan’s ex-brother in law found out that Ha Young met Lee Hyeong Du. He informed Dong Chan about it. Dong Chan questioned Ha Young why did she met him and warned her not to do anything silly. Assistant Professor removed Lee Seok Du from the capsule in order to wake him up from frozen. Lee Hyeong Du tried to stop them but he failed. Dong Chan’s ex-assistance director and his colleagues found out their relationship in the office.

‘Go Go 99’ programme was a successful. It was the first programme that Mi Ran and Dong Chan did it together. They were excited to wait for it to on air. During the programme on air, Dong Chan edited the video. The real Lee Seok Du revealed to the world about his existence. After the incident, he decided to quit. He tendered his resignation letter. Lee Hyeong Du has been arrested by the police. Dong Chan persuaded Mi Ran to leave with him. However, she refused. Young Sun and Byung Sim have divorced with one another. Kyung-Ja questioned Young Sun why did she reveal Mi Ran’s secret. Young Sun denied that.

Dong Chan was jobless at home. He has nothing to do. He went to the station almost every day and everyone was curious about it. They wondered why did he come to the station since he already quited. One day, Dong Chan’s house was under construction. He has no other place to live. Mi Ran offered him to stay at her rooftop.

One of his ex-colleagues came to see Dong Chan. He told him that Ha Young asked him to accompany her to go to the police station to make a report to investigate his disappearance. Dong Chan felt sorry for her and decided to meet her up. He asked her why she didn’t tell him that she has looked for him at the first place. Ha Young was ashamed of herself that she gave up looking for him after so many years has passed.

Mi Ran was jealous when she saw Dong Chan with Ha Young together at the rooftop. Dong Chan tried to talk to her in order to clear their misunderstanding. Hyeong Du had instructed his killer to kill Dong Chan and Mi Ran. The killer has not been caught by the police. Ha Young also tried to trace down his footage. She shouted at Mi Ran when the motorbike tried to hit her. A few days ago, Mi Ran and Dong Chan felt that someone was following them. Dong Chan’s mom was against her son to marry with Mi Ran as she felt that her son deserved a better woman.

The Professor finally found an antidote that could bring their body temperature back to normal. Dong Chan insisted that he wanted to be the first person to try the antidote. The professor gave him a shot. Mi Ran and his brother-in-law were on their way to the professor’s laboratory. While they were on their way, there was a police car followed them. He was the killer that pretended to be the policeman.  Luckily, Mi Ran managed to escape from the killer.

Dong Chan’s body temperature came to normal level. He was so excited about it. Mi Ran was also happy for Dong Chan. Dong Chan attended an event that Mi Ran in-charge of. She saved Dong Chan from being attacked by the killer. She collapsed and sent to the hospital for treatment. Due to her low body temperature, she was not suitable to receive anaesthetics. The professor suggested to put her back into the capsule to frozen until they managed to find the suitable antidote for her to do her surgery.

Dong Chan and her family were really upset about her condition. He stayed and accompanied with her family. They endured it for the past 3 years. Dong Chan at first worried that she might take longer period for her to awake. He kept a diary and wrote about his life and feeling throughout the past 3 years.  The professor and assistance professor were working out to find the antidote. After they had tremendous research about it, they finally found a suitable antidote for her. They removed her from the capsule and inserted the antidote for her.

After she had done her surgery, they finally managed to see each other again. Dong Chan was working at the media station and he was busy with his work. When Mi Ran told Dong Chan and his family that she did not plan to get marry and wanted to further study in oversea, Dong Chan was furious about it as he did not want to separate with her again.

After considering all the factor, Dong Chan decided to follow Mi Ran to oversea and began his Youtube channel. They were then live happily ever after.