The series is about a celibate doctor named Cha Woo-hyun (Chun Jung-myung) who gets involved in a scandal with top actress Yoon Yoo-jung (Yoon Eun-hye) for inexplicable reasons. The two sign a contract where they have to pretend to be in love to achieve their mutual goals.
In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings recorded by the series.
Ep.
Original broadcast date
AGB Nielsen (Nationwide)
1
October 31, 2018
2.796%
2
November 1, 2018
1.763%
3
November 7, 2018
2.018%
4
November 8, 2018
2.382%
5
November 14, 2018
1.888%
6
November 15, 2018
1.824%
7
November 21, 2018
1.492%
8
November 22, 2018
1.602%
9
November 28, 2018
1.678%
10
November 29, 2018
1.421%
11
December 5, 2018
1.489%
12
December 6, 2018
1.544%
13
December 12, 2018
1.929%
14
December 13, 2018
1.623%
15
December 19, 2018
1.712%
16
December 20, 2018
1.604%
Average
1.797%
This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).
Production
In January 2019, YG Studioplex, the drama production affiliate of YG Plus, belatedly announced that it has terminated its co-CEO Cho Jung-ho and filed a case against him. According to the company, ex-CEO Cho made an illegal contract to sell the distribution rights of Love Alert in Japan to an unnamed Japanese distribution company through his own firm Barami Bunda Inc., which was a co-owner in YG Studioplex. Cho also stole much money from investors, one of those was the drama's co-producer The Groove Company.[unreliable source?]