Intrigues escalated considerably in episode 10, but in all the wrong directions 🥱. Boring.
Of course, as in every other historical saeguk, it's the cliche, evil and power hungry minister that is the main culprit 🤦♂️. Him and his host of relatives want to kick out the current dynasty and rule themselves. They most likely staged that peasant uprising 10 years ago, so that they could get the titles and prestigious jobs. And the minister got a chance to throw his niece under the king while he's at it. The king, as usual, is politically impotent weakling covertly fighting an uphill battle against his ministry cabinet. And here he's also an idiot for distributing titles to one family members and thus having a power disbalance in the government. I guess the king skipped an old important lesson that it is good practice to give such important jobs to eunuchs, because they can't have families and so they've no selfish stakes in the game. That Song guy was likely just an unfortunate scapegoat to villains' ambitions. Seems like he survived though and the weird "curses" is his way of getting revenge on the king who ordered the evil minister to subjugate the uprising. It didn't seem like these elaborate schemes were the villainous minister's doing, the minister is just making opportunities out of it. That Song guy also is somehow connected to the villain's niece, the current queen. Maybe her son is not the king's, but his. Not sure where her allegiances lie, but it seems not with the villain minister. Looked more like she wants to betray him and rule herself through her son. She also was the one who secretly visited the head shaman.
Anyway, I'd have liked the leads to investigate various crimes in the city than this boring political bs that's been beaten to death already in all the previous saeguks out there.
P.S. I still like the servant girl and detective/minister's son couple way more that the main one.
Clearly you didn't get a lot about ML and/or didn't care to get it. And those supposedly terrible things that…
About fake amnesia: He used the opportunity presented by the hit and run incident to fake his amnesia to figure out who's out there trying to ruin and kill him, as he already knew somebody's after him. He wasn't pretending to be someone else and didn't do it for illegal gains, he was trying to save his life. That FL decided to use this opportunity as well and got herself entangled in fraud is not ML's fault.
About the contract: He was in his right to call the police on her, she did owe him around $700K+ for property damage and fraud. That's pretty serious, she difinitely would have ended up in jail for that. But she begged him herself spare her and that she'd do anything not to go to jail. That private eye/attorney who was working for ML was right - her options were only to either go confess to the police, or negotiate well with the victim. Yea, he made a contract, he needed her silence about him pretending to have amnesia, but isn't that better to have it written down in concrete points anyway than working off the debt with some nebulous terms?
And him getting back at her was pretty mild compared to her pranks. Cooking, housekeeping, driving him to work? It actually looked like he already got used to her and wanted to keep having her around. And it ended after about a week anyway, along with said contract, when he realized he had feelings for her and decided to push her away first before it got serious, since everyone is leaving him anyway all the time. FL even decided to pay him back her debt anyway later, because she felt guilty.
As for his employees, weren't you paying attention to late episodes? Yea, FL showed him how to be a better person, but in late episodes he himself gathered his scattered teachers under his wing again and solved their problems. He even went to Ilpum Edu CEO, his bitter rival, to beg save his company and employees from financial ruin by his delulu chaebol ex. And in the last episode he admitted to FL that he's now ready to embrace his workers. Everybody in his office seemed pretty happy in the end. So I'm pretty sure in the end he continued what FL started concerning his employees.
Clearly you didn't get a lot about ML and/or didn't care to get it. And those supposedly terrible things that…
SK is far from US, don't try measuring them with western morals or work ethics. Working overtime is part of far eastern Asian culture everywhere and not something people consider abnormal there, unfortunately. There's even an unwritten rule that you can't go home if your boss is still working, no matter how late it is. Can't sue him for nagging his employess to always excel and get better results either. As was shown in the drama private eductaion industry is very comptetitive there and you can't let your guard down or you'll get bought out by competitors. It's a stressful industry to work in. And being competitive and trying to excel over others since childhood is also part of their culture. That's why so many kids there go to private cram schools such as was shown in this drama. As for his unjustified bouts of bad temper, again, seems like it was mainly focused on his secretaries and FL made him pay for it by doing all those crazy things in the first half of the drama. Yea, FL's pranks accidentally turned beneficial and got ML out trouble when the villain started his disparaging campaign against him, but if that was all it took to make his employees fervently defend him then there wasn't much mistreatment from his side to begin with. And again, he didn't do anything new since the start of the drama, all his adversaries were already established for his past deeds. So it's strange to see that somebody started disliking him not at the beginning, but at the end of the drama - after he underwent a great character development, realized that he was in the wrong, and started apologizing, not once, but left and right to everybody.
I watched this a long time ago and something that always bugged me was in ep one they showed him going Infront…
Apparently it was not a scene that happened irl, but was sort of a teaser to show that ML knows his life is in danger and he is in someone’s crosshairs. And even if we were to assume it was real, the only person who really wanted to kill him was the stalker woman who I very much doubt would have been able to procure a rifle, as all firearms are illegal in SK.
Those comments are so funny because the female lead is actually faaar away from 30 men.
Yea, because she actually slept with a 100+ guys and then ditched them! And they selectively were all jerks in one way or another, because she gets a kick from kicking bad men to the curb. For justice! 🤦♂️ If I were ML I'd be creeped out by this and most likely would have asked her for a full medical check-up report first before sleeping with her. Doesn't matter that she's magically the only one who for whatever reason doesn't make him feel anxious, let's be real here, you can get way worse ilnesses than anxiety if you're not careful with your sex life. And going out of the way like that to find men to punish to validate an acquired bias, I'd say there's some pathological behavior going with her. That it wasn't addressed in any way in the drama by any person with psychology degree and just shrugged off as a positive funny quirk was rather offputting.
Anyway, it's alright, the person above has the right to not like such character and drop it. I didn't like her either and found this drama very overrated overall.
I honestly don't know how to feel about the ML being jealous for the FL's attentions and possessive as it is not…
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.
Am i the only one who actually ships ML and FL? I really don't like SML, i think like the letter says-- he will…
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.
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'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.
But that was what this drama was about.. they both had gender prejudices that they woke up from. If every drama…
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.
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Of course, as in every other historical saeguk, it's the cliche, evil and power hungry minister that is the main culprit 🤦♂️. Him and his host of relatives want to kick out the current dynasty and rule themselves. They most likely staged that peasant uprising 10 years ago, so that they could get the titles and prestigious jobs. And the minister got a chance to throw his niece under the king while he's at it.
The king, as usual, is politically impotent weakling covertly fighting an uphill battle against his ministry cabinet. And here he's also an idiot for distributing titles to one family members and thus having a power disbalance in the government. I guess the king skipped an old important lesson that it is good practice to give such important jobs to eunuchs, because they can't have families and so they've no selfish stakes in the game.
That Song guy was likely just an unfortunate scapegoat to villains' ambitions. Seems like he survived though and the weird "curses" is his way of getting revenge on the king who ordered the evil minister to subjugate the uprising. It didn't seem like these elaborate schemes were the villainous minister's doing, the minister is just making opportunities out of it. That Song guy also is somehow connected to the villain's niece, the current queen. Maybe her son is not the king's, but his. Not sure where her allegiances lie, but it seems not with the villain minister. Looked more like she wants to betray him and rule herself through her son. She also was the one who secretly visited the head shaman.
Anyway, I'd have liked the leads to investigate various crimes in the city than this boring political bs that's been beaten to death already in all the previous saeguks out there.
P.S. I still like the servant girl and detective/minister's son couple way more that the main one.
About the contract:
He was in his right to call the police on her, she did owe him around $700K+ for property damage and fraud. That's pretty serious, she difinitely would have ended up in jail for that. But she begged him herself spare her and that she'd do anything not to go to jail. That private eye/attorney who was working for ML was right - her options were only to either go confess to the police, or negotiate well with the victim.
Yea, he made a contract, he needed her silence about him pretending to have amnesia, but isn't that better to have it written down in concrete points anyway than working off the debt with some nebulous terms?
And him getting back at her was pretty mild compared to her pranks. Cooking, housekeeping, driving him to work? It actually looked like he already got used to her and wanted to keep having her around. And it ended after about a week anyway, along with said contract, when he realized he had feelings for her and decided to push her away first before it got serious, since everyone is leaving him anyway all the time. FL even decided to pay him back her debt anyway later, because she felt guilty.
As for his employees, weren't you paying attention to late episodes? Yea, FL showed him how to be a better person, but in late episodes he himself gathered his scattered teachers under his wing again and solved their problems. He even went to Ilpum Edu CEO, his bitter rival, to beg save his company and employees from financial ruin by his delulu chaebol ex. And in the last episode he admitted to FL that he's now ready to embrace his workers. Everybody in his office seemed pretty happy in the end. So I'm pretty sure in the end he continued what FL started concerning his employees.
Working overtime is part of far eastern Asian culture everywhere and not something people consider abnormal there, unfortunately. There's even an unwritten rule that you can't go home if your boss is still working, no matter how late it is.
Can't sue him for nagging his employess to always excel and get better results either. As was shown in the drama private eductaion industry is very comptetitive there and you can't let your guard down or you'll get bought out by competitors. It's a stressful industry to work in.
And being competitive and trying to excel over others since childhood is also part of their culture. That's why so many kids there go to private cram schools such as was shown in this drama.
As for his unjustified bouts of bad temper, again, seems like it was mainly focused on his secretaries and FL made him pay for it by doing all those crazy things in the first half of the drama.
Yea, FL's pranks accidentally turned beneficial and got ML out trouble when the villain started his disparaging campaign against him, but if that was all it took to make his employees fervently defend him then there wasn't much mistreatment from his side to begin with.
And again, he didn't do anything new since the start of the drama, all his adversaries were already established for his past deeds. So it's strange to see that somebody started disliking him not at the beginning, but at the end of the drama - after he underwent a great character development, realized that he was in the wrong, and started apologizing, not once, but left and right to everybody.
And even if we were to assume it was real, the only person who really wanted to kill him was the stalker woman who I very much doubt would have been able to procure a rifle, as all firearms are illegal in SK.
If I were ML I'd be creeped out by this and most likely would have asked her for a full medical check-up report first before sleeping with her. Doesn't matter that she's magically the only one who for whatever reason doesn't make him feel anxious, let's be real here, you can get way worse ilnesses than anxiety if you're not careful with your sex life.
And going out of the way like that to find men to punish to validate an acquired bias, I'd say there's some pathological behavior going with her. That it wasn't addressed in any way in the drama by any person with psychology degree and just shrugged off as a positive funny quirk was rather offputting.
Anyway, it's alright, the person above has the right to not like such character and drop it. I didn't like her either and found this drama very overrated overall.
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.
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).
This is probably going to be some fantastical made up fiction in Joseon setting, where you gotta turn your brain off.
Is this why this drama has 20 episodes? To go round in circles? I ain't down for that.
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.
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).