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I actually enjoy seeing her interactions with the ML. While a lot of people though their relationship was going nowhere for some time, I did not though the same. She may still say no with her mouth, but there were hints where she was progressively stoping seeing him as an enemy.
Lol I loved how she started running away from the proposal scene in ep31, when she realized he was making her ridiculous wishes come true. She was like: nope, I see what s coming next, better dash away frome here.

Let's not forget there was a real relationship between them. The uncle is evil, and is using him to stay close to power, but genuinely cares about him. It's not like we don't have complicated relationships with people in Real life. Sometimes it's more about wanting them to be Better, than wanting them to die for what they did.

I actually could have had more respect for this way of thinking if not his actions. Like raising a child to be a ruthless emperor so the court can't eat him whole is quite understandable. But being a corrupted official embezzling founds that should have serve the population of your potential emperor while hoping for him to forever cover you. Sir you are not that noble.

She was not putting an emphasis on her parents dying, but the next scene in EP 29 when the parents of SYM are bound to die. She is always expecting the key scenes, and since raiding the song manor is one, she dropped this details to explain why she can't just watch them die. She sais she could not save her parents, but YM s. The fire thing is just some details added to explain how her original parents died

And it's funny to see how she held so much prejudices on ML, while she loves LSL unconditionally, even when she doen't know his face, or though he was gay lol. The director s take is beautifully made, and it is sad he had to come out to defend SYM s character while we should have been able to pick it up ourselves. But I am very stressing for the end. It's a good thing we will know they will at least have an HE

You forgot the man get interested in his fiancee too, and snatched the engagement away from him. And let s not forget he think he is a good guy, while NH, who is clearly infamous, is still getting away with everything.

On Neverus😂

Agree. She is aware this is a story she already know, and want to change the script. And whether she recognizes things has changed, especially the ML, will occur on how smart she is. And let s not kid ourselves, the girl is quite silly lol. And I personally love her for that, the same way I love the ML of my journey to you, who was a breath of fresh air in a rather dark drama full of scheming characters.
And the fact that she is an actress who had played must of the cliché scènes make it difficult for her to connect in a spiritual level to the people here. She consider only herself as a real human being, and even if she started to understand the ML, she still chose to save herself over him.
And even if some choices the production team made were not 100% my liking, I truly respect their work and trust their direction, because asides of the story itself, you can see their put a lot of effort in the drama. There is so much things to appreciate in it that I can't get why people chose to concentrate on one thing and pour out hatred as if the whole show was garbage.

Let's not forget that she herself is an actress too , and a lot of scenes that could have feel heartfelt for a clueless person, turn flat to her who have played them a lot of times ( even if her acting is terrible lol). Remember the scene when ML mother shut them in a room together so they could spend the night together bonding? A normal person could have felt embarrassed, but the girl just went with it and did not dig further in the set in lol. She was so casual about it.

You are right. It is as complicated the writers choose to make their relationship. And honestly z it's quite realistic in my opinion. It is frustrating to see how slowly the relationship is going, but it's not because the characters are not well written, or because the writers themselves don't know what they are doing. Let's wait to see how this unfold before we grow more unnecessary grey hairs about it.

I think the problem lays here. We forget we have informations on both sides that neither have one each other. SYM does not see NH the way us viewers do, and NH can't understand why she has so much prejudice over him.
Yes he did fell for her and would want her to see him in a new light, but even if she now believes he is no longer the monster he was from the previous script , she still can't afford to trust him because how the story still gravitate around the original plot. She has been wrong in her calculations, yes, but the results still prove her how trapped she is, and she certainly had no desire to die in the story of a man she dislikes.
But I guess their dynamics will shift now, since some truths has came to life, and I loved how she wanted to warn him the army was in his den, and how she defended him when his men lost faith in him. She now can reconcile the 2 characters, but I wonder if she will now risk to let the script ties their fate together, since she obviously still loves him, how she will try to run away again from him and the script.

Lol that s quite terrifying. Specially when you thought he was a trump card that could help you escape your fate

So far it s not sure the story had been re-written, or if it is the original story, but she made so many changes it went along with her and kept the major points. What concerns me the most is they could be actually in the first script. Everything changed, except for EP 17 where she was still forced to confess her feelings to her father. The scene went exactly the way it was in the script she read, and it was so random and forced, contrary to the changements she had unconsciously made for the other scene. My take is the story has to follow the key scenes, but if other events don't shape the scenes for her, it will just be delivered the original way it was supposed to be.

That's remind me of the books of Harry Potter. I and most friends spent 6 and half book hating on Snape, the hatred getting it s pick when he killed Dumbledore and took over Hogwarts. I so wanted to see the man s demise because i wanted him dead more than Voldemort himself. Then we were hit with the revelation that he has always been on the good side. I even read some parts of the books again for him, searching for any clue the author have left, and was so disappointed he could not have any other glorious moments. Well, he still was a shitty teacher who bullied little kids, but his redemption arc made him upto my 10 fav characters in the books.
I think something similar happened with the show, but this time, with us knowing, and seeing how the characters really is . But most people are not able w or just refuse to balance each part and try to understand both parties. I get why people are frustrated since the 2 can't make peace already, but I don't get the hate, the choice to make her a 2 dimensional character who should just fall for a toxic man just because he is hot. And hot the man is!

Agree. And at the end of the story, he will take the take the throne, kill his enemies, and win it all. While the FL character will die in the end

Then do yourself a favor, drop it, and go watch something that is more in your taste. There is too much tv drama out there to hold on on something you don't enjoy watching

It was the beginning, but yet the story still seems to progress where it should go. With her jumping to her death and her sister being implicated in this mess, whether she was saint or villain. And she still had hope changes were made in the story, but after the forced scene in EP 17, the girl have every reasons to do what she thinks is right to change the course of the story. It s like not being able to look away at a slow car crash. She clearly know the prince is not that treacherous villain she thought he was in the begining, but as he said to mr Li, she will choose her life over his. And that's totally fair

Is it because they are not together by the half of the series you think there is no development in their relationship? There is clearly a shift from both their sides, with male lead s shift being more radical, but there is development. The script and SYM s logic is keeping the progression from growing faster, but they are not in the first point they were from the first 9 episodes where they were both deceiving each other, even planning to kill the other if discovered.
Her treatment is justified. How many time in real life we only relied on rumors or news on someone to forge an opinion about them? Now double that with first experiencing very painful moments with that person, and knowing even if you were both given a second chance in a new life, you still will have to be forced to suffer with said person .
The actress fell into a script. Normally, she does not need to care too deeply about anybody there, since they are paper person with no depth characters that only exist to move on the plot. While she is slowly getting to understand them better, there is still a barrage between them, as we saw it when she and her sister were talking about people they love. The only reason she liked LSL was because she considered him as a special character who is new in the script and that could help her break from it. Well spending time together deepened their bonds and she started to catch feelings.
Let's not forget that she agreed to work with him only after reading his heartbreaking story. Which imply she could soften to NH if she knew better what he went on a daily basis.
BUT. She knows the suffering her character went because of him and have no desire to follow her footsteps. Besides, their first encounter was terrible, and him repeatedly trying to kill her did not help. ( I don't know for you, but understanding someone who tries to kill me just to get on someone else is where I draw my lines) . Besides, she did try to give him a chance. First, when they captured his officer when he was trying to impeach CGH, second, before the unskipable scene from 17. Even when she was trying to get him more, the script kept on messing with them. She is not very smart and bright, but she is certainly not that dumb girl with unjustified judgment people want her to be.
And honestly, in real life, with the kind of data she had , and surrounded with rumors, people would have made worse decisions than the ones she did.

I completely forgot about that. The man is misunderstood and his whole life is built on bad rumors, I give him that. But he is no saint and can take blows very well. At the end of the OG strory, does he not triumph and vanquish all his foes? Meanwhile , in the OG story, she get used, cheated on, abused, then nobody even help out when she kills herself.

The man tried to kill her and ceased only when he understood harming her is harming himself, and she is alive only because the script allows her too. She had no reason to side with him in the beginning