Aramintai

Her servant with the clubs.

Lol, what genuine feelings? It's the same as with The Forbidden Marriage - got genuine feelings from a drawn portrait and some letters? Give me a break, it's all superficial and not real love. FL and SML don't even know each other as adults, they've seen each other last time as kids, and even then FL didn't leave a good impression.
And CP can get jealous all he wants, he can't help his feelings after all. I think he's the only one so far out of the three of them who has genuine feelings, even though he's in denial. He can, but I don't think he will force his hand here though, he'll wait for FL to ditch SML on her own.

Anyway, this is not AoS, but a typical saeguk, there's no mystery to how it will end since there's a romance tag - FL will end up with ML. SML, as they always are, will be rejected.

Yea, that guy thinks of his family and his public status first, instead of being Crown Prince's loyal servant first and foremost. I'm thinking a similar dilemma will surface later with that guy, but it won't be just a turtle compass situation. And maybe FL will continue undermining his competence as an investigator until he snaps.
Anyway, I never suffer from SML syndrome, thankfully. And it's even more pointless to do so in saeguks - SMLs there are frequently sacrificed for FL's sake. Best case scenario for that guy is that he will just step away.
There's no real love triangle here anyway, he'd never even seen his bride as an adult and is in love with the idea of having a wife, not the woman itself. And he's beside himself, because she hurt his pride as man and threw a shade on his reputation by allegedly having a lover and being a wanted murderer. But he still has obligations to take care of her unless their marriage contract is torn (which was kinda foreshadowed in the last episode).

Were there lawyers in modern sense of the word in Joseon era at all? Like, public defenders of crime suspects in court? Were there even public courts there? I thought if you were a suspect at those times, especially if of lowly social status, your confession was just beaten out of you in jail.

This is probably going to be some fantastical made up fiction in Joseon setting, where you gotta turn your brain off.

Afaik this drama differs a lot from the novel. Crown prince there wasn't even the main character and there was no romance between him and FL.

I don't trust you! Fine, I trust you for now. You f*cking liar, I don't trust you! Ok, I trust you again now 🙄.
Is this why this drama has 20 episodes? To go round in circles? I ain't down for that.

It does.

It's not too bad so far, not sure why this drama warrants 20 episodes though. The plot is rather intriguing so far. Not the mystery itself, mind (I bet like in every other saeguk an evil minister is the main culprit 🙄), but how FL navigates the world of men with her smarts while in disguise and her relationship with ML. Btw, ML has very pretty, kind eyes, I dunno why she thinks he's not as good looking as her fiancee. Her fiancee, imho, always has a samey blank facial expression and very angular facial features. But I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

But anyway, is it weird that I find the real highlight of this drama not the leads, but FL's servant and detective/minister's son couple? They're such a funny dynamic duo.

Very overrated, 6.5 overall from me.
1. Too much bashing on men. It feels like Western feminist agenda creeped into this kdrama.
2. Unlikable, unrelatable "She-Hulk" of an FL. Her acting in romantic scenes also wasn't very convincing. Or maybe it's because a hard-headed, jaded, misandric character like hers made me question her feelings towards ML until the very end.
3. Cliche, brooding ML with tropey mental trauma, which of course only FL was able to "cure" 🙄. And since she's so special somehow out of the blue, of course he immediately falls in love with her. A bit better acting than FL, but still pretty meh overall, wasn't getting top star vibes from him.
4. Additional baggage from their family experiences also was offputting - every other family has issues like that, it's nothing special, and children don't become an exaggerated mess like these two. The way they tried so hard to shoehorn all of their problematic behaviour to bad, but rather trivial experiences of the past still makes me wish that they would just go see a therapist or something.
5. The plot itself also was nothing to write home about. A typical rom-com, if a bit outlandish (mostly because of FL) and cringey (ML's delulu ex contribution).

I agree. I'm beginning to think they wanted to make a Korean version of She-Hulk: Misandry At Law here. I'm at episode 7 now and this nasty vibe is not going anywhere yet.

😬This is not going to end well for FL, I just know it. But I hope those bully monsters will get what they deserve and that she'll accomplish her revenge.

🤦‍♂️I'm at episode 7 and can this get any less cringe, plz, with ML's ex? She's just like that delulu ex from Crazy Love - more than a decade (!) has passed and she suddenly thinks ML'd get together with her like nothing happened, like she didn't ditch him herself. And where was she all these years? Unlike the situation in Crazy Love, there wasn't even anything here to stop that biatch from at least apologizing to ML. No, she was perfectly fine, living high life, with rich chaebol bf to boot, and then she saw his poster one day and decided to barge in into his life again with dumb aegyo and fake crocodile tears. Ffs, I'm getting really tired of every single drama out there inserting these kinds of toxic love triangles and these sorts of dumbass characters, they're nothing but an annoyance.

Keep watching, it’s deliberately slow with exposition, but gets very interesting after around episode 4 when everything is established.

Yea, but these people start with serious mental issues and not even deign to see the shrink. ML is even on some kind of drugs, so traumatized he was about his ex ditching him more than a decade ago that even acting with female actresses is nauseating to him. FL simply gets high from beating up men and since she sees only the worst in them she’s never serious about relationships. I’m already half way through and so far I’m not seeing much progress other than ML for plot reasons somehow not feeling physical aversion towards FL, because she’s gonna “fix” him of course 🙄 FL is still not progressing. Her being shown as perfect in everything, with incompetent men in the background doesn’t help either - what is she, a Korean She—Hulk? Add to that ML’s ex that suddenly decided she wants to be together with ML and latest in a row of FL’s lovers still running after her and you get a drama full of toxic relationships that so far I’m not seeing as becoming believably healthy.

I'm at episode 4 and don't like the leads so far at all. Very jaded, have serious trust issues and both look like they need to go see a therapist. FL is self righteous, collects men archetypes, sees the worst in them all the time and is borderline misandric, she likes to beat up men literally and metaphorically as a hobby. ML sees every woman as a gold digger and frankly gives a latent gay vibe.
Those who completed this drama, tell me they gonna explain their hate towards the other sex later and put a band aid on it or something. I don't like watching media where people hate on the other gender/sex for no good reason other than just being mental.

It's pretty annoying.
There's SFL who is bitchy to FL and who was ML's girlfriend when he was human. After he died and Kokdu possessed him she's still understandably clingy, even though he rudely told her to f*ck off, because he only needs FL to break his curse and doesn't even remember that chick.

Then there's FL's golfer ex-boyfriend from college times who cheated on her with another girl. Now he got entangled with her again because of the main villain and seemingly wants to get together again, even though she told him to f*ck off numerious times because he's an arrogant d*ck.
That's about it.

Something is lacking in this drama, maybe comedy isn't funny or FL's acting is killing the mood, but it's really boring somehow. Also, an annoying love square doesn't help whatsoever. Why they think every romance drama has to have this trope?

Finally got around to watch this drama and it was a gigantic disappointment. Yet another one of those grossly overrated dramas with draggy plot, dumbassery and eyeroll worthy villains. And a waste of KSJ's talents as well, she can do much better than doing cheesy fighting and making a tired face all the time. The rest of the cast was very meh, the actor who played amnesiac cop seems to have been typecasted into Alchemy of Souls for his slowpoke role here.
My recommendation would be - drop this snorefest and watch Tomorrow.

Well, that was as boring as the first part if not more. Not much more to say...

There are and they are very nasty.