Ikkyvicky

yea that’s why I’m reserving all judgement of the characters until we get more insight into them cause we don’t have the full story just yet.

if I could ban the world queer baiting from this world I would. none of you even know the definition of the word and just how it 24/7.

if the ML left that actress in that room to be sexually abused or whatever they did to her and she ended up killing herself and he did that for his own ambitions I feel like that would make him evil for sure. I can understand doing horrible things for survival I can’t understand it if the motivation is to move up in the world.

pure evil?? Egotistical? pure evil people do not feel remorse. She’s a person that has done bad things to survive which is different from all the other disgusting characters in this show that commit evil acts for power, and their own personal disgusting habits.

the drama has made it clear that neither of them married each other for love and both of them are morally grey characters. As for the ML the problem is that he doesn’t really know what’s she’s been through. Again as multiple people have told him his wife has many secrets. As selfish as he is you can tell that he actually does on some level care about her. Like when he finds out that the scheming lady set her up with the tax allegation that ruined his wife’s career. Also you do realize there’s a million rumors out there about his wife and lots of different allegations. You have a whole guy running a YouTube channel about her being a murder. He is already entering the race with a “problematic wife” so there’s no reason to betray her.

just finished the episode and I can’t wait to find out what actually happened. if she did kill him I say she’s doing the lords work. What a disgusting man. The entertainment industry scares me so much. I wonder if her actress best friend ended up killing herself.

Yes, but episode 1 clearly showed that it wasn’t a story on social justice. We didn’t see any court sessions, the ML wasn’t trying to track down victims. It showed a man determined to get revenge for his father and went as far as marrying up to do so. Even him walking into the room with the camera would be considered unethical in the legal world. This is a melodrama and not a legal drama.

I don’t think that’s the point of this story. Did you read the summary? It’s not one of those stories where a morally up right prosecutor is trying to bring justice to victims of grooming or trafficking. He wants to become powerful enough to take revenge on the ones that harmed his father. Unfortunately for him he has no idea that his wife is also a victim.

did you not watch the previous episode? he didn’t want a divorce. He wanted to stay and work on their marriage but she said it was unfair for her to stay. He said that he wished that she would hold onto him. The way she framed not getting a divorce was in response to him saying that she wasn’t fighting for their marriage.

Most of them were dragged in through the prosecutors office. It was like a trafficking network they set up. They would drop charges or lighten their sentencing and instead would be put into the app and trafficked to powerful men.

The ML and FL just don’t have chemistry, period. Personally, I don’t think he has much chemistry with many of his co-stars in general. The only drama where I felt he really had chemistry with someone was cheer up I think.

In this drama, there wasn’t much of a romance built between them. He randomly revealed that he liked her out of nowhere, and after that, nothing really happened. There was no real development or follow-through.

You mentioned that you hate the FL for not drawing a clear line, but why did she have to? She was single and free to spend time with whoever she wanted.

Honestly, both the FL and ML feel underdeveloped as characters. The ML, in particular, is written as very passive. He mostly just stands around looking depressed, while the SML is much more assertive. The SML actually makes clear plans and takes action, whereas the ML just sits around waiting for her to show up.

The CEO and the girl set up the whole thing of releasing the videos and having the bad guys thinking it was the prosecutor who did it. The girl called him & told him it was her. He asked where she was and she gave him the address for where her mom and the other victims were knowing that he would be angry and violent. She stood on the sidelines and recorded the whole thing. Hence a set up.

They orchestrated everything with the lawyer and gave him the wrong address which was where the FL’s were staying. After that they recorded them. At the end they said we didn’t know we were being set up. They set them up to kill the prosecutor.

oh wow what a great episode. Sin Jae’s mom is so disgusting. so now we know that the CEO is out for revenge. I think it’s related to the case of the actress that the mom covered up. What I’m still struggling to fully understand is why they are setting up the 3 FL’s? Do they see them as allies or enemies. It’s insane that the prosecutor ended up trafficking his own daughter. Can’t wait to see how they conclude this story.

It’s not bogus if you are familiar with Korean laws. There is a famous case where a south Korean woman was convicted ​of inflicting bodily harm on a man after she bit a half inch off his tongue during an attempted rape. He received a suspended sentence but she was sentenced to 10 months in jail because they deemed the biting of the the man’s tongue to exceed the reasonable bounds of self defense.

I think you may be overstaying the time frame. That storyline was woven into the broader narrative of understanding the FL’s job. It helped introduce her coworkers and close friend, while also giving us more insight into her background and personality. If you isolate all the scenes with the lawyer, they probably wouldn’t even total 20 minutes. It’s not as though the show focused exclusively on him and nothing else. The storyline served its purpose within the overall plot, regardless of how anyone might personally feel about it.

I think you are overlooking some important parts of the plot if you say his role was almost irrelevant. He was not just a random character. He was there to teach the female lead a hard but necessary lesson.

She assumed that just because he liked her in the past, he would still have feelings for her years later when they met again. She never stopped to think that people move on. Through that rejection, she finally understood that no one is going to wait around forever.

The flashbacks also mattered. They showed that she spent her whole life avoiding romance and focusing only on school and her career. She has no dating experience. She does not even know what kind of man she likes or what she really wants in a relationship.

Getting rejected was the turning point for her. It pushed her out of her comfort zone. It forced her to rethink her priorities and actually try when it comes to love. That is why she starts going on blind dates. That is what opens the door for the male lead and the second male lead to enter the story.

You could not create the same impact using the male lead or the second male lead. The rejection had to come from someone outside of those two. She needed a clean emotional break to start her journey. Without that moment, there would be no reason for her to change or to actively search for love.

It honestly feels like you’re rejecting the basic meaning of words. Cheating is morally wrong, I’m not defending it, but it isn’t a crime. A crime is something defined by law as punishable by the state, whether through fines, imprisonment, or even, in extreme cases, death.

I’m not trying to minimize cheating; it’s already low behavior. But it’s not in the same category as serious criminal acts like human trafficking or crimes against children. Calling it “emotional murder” just makes the conversation hard to take seriously.

Even if cheating were made illegal tomorrow, it still wouldn’t be in the same universe as crimes that exploit or harm children. And when there are real, horrific crimes happening, including powerful people trafficking children, focusing this intensely on cheating feels misplaced. That contrast says more than you might realize.

You obviously don’t seem to understand what a crime actually is. Is cheating punishable by the state? No. It’s a betrayal, yes, but it’s not the same as rape or trafficking, which are violent crimes.

Calling the difference in how people react to those things “selective preferences” makes no sense. Are you honestly suggesting someone should feel the same level of disgust toward a cheater as they do toward a rapist or a pedophile? That’s not about preference—that’s about recognizing harm and criminal behavior.

And implying that being more disturbed by crimes against children than by infidelity is somehow wrong is deeply concerning. I genuinely worry about anyone who can’t see that distinction.

Under normal circumstances, sure, but her situation really is not normal. The FL’s world basically shrank overnight, and the ML went from being this persistent, slightly annoying presence to becoming her main source of comfort and stability. In a lot of ways, he is the only person who consistently shows up for her. So when she finally lets her guard down and fully accepts him as part of her everyday life, and then he suddenly confesses, of course that is going to shake her.I also do not really get the whole “the ML deserves better” argument. She has not mistreated him. She has not led him on or made promises she could not keep. He chose to confess knowing full well there was history with the SML. Having feelings for someone does not entitle you to a relationship with them, and it definitely does not mean the other person is obligated to immediately reciprocate.And the SML is not just some random obstacle thrown in for drama. He is someone who mattered to her before, someone she had real feelings for, and their story did not have proper closure. It makes sense that there would still be lingering emotions there. Add to that everything else happening in her life, the chaos, the grief, the pressure of trying to secure a full time position, and when exactly has she had the space to sit down and sort out her heart?At the end of the day, the love triangle is clearly intentional. It is a classic drama trope for a reason. Writers use it to build tension and emotional conflict. We can either accept that it is part of the story being told, or decide it is not for us and move on. But expecting her to have instant clarity just because the ML confessed feels a bit unfair.