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Under what log have you been sleeping? It was known even before part 1 finished airing.

Yea, I think it could have been perfect with 20 episodes total, not 20+10.
I hope those extra 10 part 2 episodes will be on the level of the first half, not the second half, and with nothing rushed in the last episode like it frequently is in kdramas.

I'm rewatching AoS with a friend right now and damn, first half is so tight and gripping. Every episode is more than an hour long but we just don't notice it. It's also very bingable as it turns out.
Too bad that second half, starting from fake Bu-Yeon plot introduction, becomes meandering, starts going around in circles. But still, I'm looking forward to finishing it again to be fresh for part 2.

As if 🤭 But good luck trying 👋

Optimist 😏

Why do you think she's adopted? So far nothing points to that. ML daughter's mother shacked with another guy and moved to US and it's over between them (watch episode 1 where ML's male friend from the convenience store says so). She likely just ditched their daughter onto ML and his mother. And ML had to take care of her alone, especially after his mother died. He left his lawyer job and started doing jobs closer to the hospital to be together with his daughter as much as possible.

Sometimes shit like that just happens and it's not pretty, it's life. Props to ML for being such a responsible dad. Good news though is that leukemia in children is curable, so his daughter has a chance to survive this. But he sure sacrificed A LOT for her.

Grandma just confirmed it. But it was ML's friend who works at the convenience store with him who mentioned it in detail in episode 1. He accused ML of trying too hard for his daughter as if he commited a crime, but in his opinion it's that woman who's evil for moving to US and shacking with some other guy. And ML replied that it's over between them, but she's still his daughter's mom. So she's not dead, she's definitely not FL, she's just some woman who ditched them. Maybe we'll even see her returning as "annoying ex" trope.

No, it was mentioned it was some woman who ditched ML and her daughter and ran away with another man to US.
ML's daughter got obsessed with FL because somebody said she resembles her mother or something like that. And since she can't reach her mother she started writing letters to FL.

It may be a problem, if true. If he still does feel that way and will take advantage of FL's amnesia, it's just gonna make people hate his third wheeling even more.
I'm hoping he'll just be there as a friend though, but as you say - he's SML and it's Hong sisters.

Well, I'm sure they'll still have unexpected twists in part 2, part 1 had many of those. So you'll still get your expectation subversion shot.
But I don't think they'll shoot themselves in the foot and do something out of the left field concerning how it's gonna end. And by that I mean a happy ending.

What's the worse that can happen? We already got the lowest part of the plot at the end of part 1, per classical plot structure it should only get better from there. And I doubt they'd repeat themselves by trying to kill off the leads again. Though they may sacrifice SML (Yul), because that's many a SML's fate in kdramas.

I really don't like the amnesia trope, but I hope they'll get over that soon due to part 2's short format and the rest of the time will be spent on finally getting revenge on the villain, mending relationships and closing many loose ends left from part 1.

The only thing to worry about here, I think, is that they may rush the ending and that some characters may not be getting a satisfying resolution (Bu-Yeon, for example).

Looks fine so far, but why the heck FL's manager tells her to read her mail herself? There are lots of crazy people out there who are after celebrities. So who knows what's in that mail - from death threats to anthrax. That's management's job to browse through it first and give it to a celebrity only if it's safe.

Why? Uk can’t change his clothes or something?

Aside from the biggest mystery of how she'll be rezzed and why such a long time skip, I wonder how long are they gonna make Naksu incognito?
Many people know her face - Park Jin and his retinue of mages, Jin Mu and his cronies, Yul, Heo Yeom, etc. As soon as she shows her face around it's inevitable somebody's bound to recognize her. And since she's still a criminal I wonder how that goes for her.

I just wish Yul will move on already and find himself another girl to love.

She certainly will, love polygons will continue for sure.

Yea, yea, it's uncanny. I'm still wondering if it's intentional or not.

No doubt Yul's gonna start third wheeling again now that Naksu's is in her og body and can't remember shit 🙄🤦‍♂️ That would be very low of him though, like betraying his friends, he knows they love each other 🤔 I hope he'd stay just as concerned friend, personally, but it's Hong sisters, they can't help themselves...

Translated 2nd teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiKGCOaJVDw

That's all good and fine but doesn't answer my question about her weird behaviour. If she needed him that much like she looks to be, she wouldn't have been able to stay away from him for so long. And he wasn't hiding or anything, she easily could have found him through his relatives and visited him.
What's more, ML clearly still needs time and space to recover from his past. Since he didn't contact her yet, why'd she think it's ok to force him to come back together? He clearly looks like he doesn't want to. ML broke up with her, but it was even mentioned in the last episode that she doesn't get why.
I think they're simply making her look like your typicial toxic ex, who's like "He's doing fine without me and meeting another woman to boot? Not on my watch!". Your typical third wheeler insert for annoyance sake, that sort of thing.