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Frozen Flower, World of the Married, Secretary Kim, A man and a woman, Goblin (only a few kissing scenes, a cut scene which we can see on youtube, but they kept the overall feeling of the scene), Business proposal, Legend of Blue sea, Heirs, Tale of the 9 tailed, and numerous other dramas who portray lovers passion very successfully, even after cutting essential passionate scenes or french kiss kind of. Yes censorchip exists in the whole asian drama world (except Thai), you cant easily find taboo elements like homosexuality (again, thai as an exception), or infidelity, or nudity. BUT, to kiss like a piece of wood looking like a fish in shock, is not a matter of censhorship, but likely a matter of bad directing, and/or revisioning cliches. As for the actors/actresses, i respect their choice of denying to perform nudity/kissing etc but they can choose another drama gender to act. When you perform as a lover you should behave as one. A love story between adults, needs passion expressed by bodies. Simple as that.

If it was for censorship's sake, then they would all be wooden and stiff-which is not the case here-cause ML surely looks better in kissing scenes. Plus, other dramas of the same period, are way too steamier. Last but not least, even under censorship passion, even lust, can be depicted in many ways, this is called acting and good directing. Even in chinese dramas where censorship is more strict, you can watch some really hot skinship scenes very well directed and choreographed.

I just saved myself about 8-10 hours of watching. I dropped halfway with a lots i mean LOT of skipping. I dont get anything from this drama. Acting is mediocre-or else the script depicts the characters as 2D-except the FL who is just 1D-a damsel in distress-getting caught for every possible crime that happens on earth just because....she was there! I also didnt get any chemistry between the main leads. There's no comparison to Innocent Man in all aspects. Acting, plot twists, storyline, filler scenes etc. Total waste esp for the main leades which are both good actors. I wouldnt rate it even with a 2

Gosh i can imagine your frustration! Sadly, you dancers, or any kind of professionals or artists, when they re watching their profession/art being depicted in dramas, they lose the whole entertainment of it, i mean its inevitable. But with today's technology and production teams level, i think we as watchers deserve better shows. Its ok if they cant portray something in a good quality level, they should just drop the idea and show something else, something easier to present. They do the same with doctors -and there are A LOT of hospital dramas when you want to watch it facepalming yourself each and ever moment! hahahahahahahhaha the beauty and beastie dramaworld!

100%agree. Still on ep8 and im thrilled with it! Dropping kdrama one after one, i wonder why i dont find such dramas nowadays (even if this one is a bit soapy but its soooooo damn good). As for the ending, i always spoil myself a bit cause im a good ending sucker (not necessarily happy but good overall for the sake of the story), yes it makes sense and gives a kind of redemption for a new start. Overall I LOVE it

All hypocrisy of the human kind is shown at the comment section below:
people get offended by the "infidelity" but the dont get offended when lives are destroyed because of others conspiracies, lies, deception. I guess this world still has more priests than shrinks .Wow just wow!

Of course they are! Age differences count twice as much when it comes to kids, even when there's 2 years difference. But its about emotions. They wont have to get married or take serious life decisions so why do the have to be at the same phase?

Children's books content includes talking vegetables, monstrous animals, evil stepmoms and other pervert things (and thats how people grow up and go preech about morals in MDL :)))))))

Movies/dramas/art products are not entitled or obliged to present "beautiful love stories with righteous characters". Some indeed do, while others present reality (which is the case here) or others present elves, goblins, kitsune, gods, animals who talk and rule the world etc. Art is about creativity and imagination. For pure reality there's national geographic.

Well most people do. But if you didnt thats ok too. The fact that you didnt, doesnt mean that emotions of any kind at early ages, are illegal/immoral/whatever bad.

Whats wrong with a 17 with a 13yo feeling so many positive emotions for each other? Whats wrong with you people? You never felt anything until you reached adulthood???

Sure, because we all know that if it werent for movies/dramas/art in general, people would never cheat, lie, kill, abuse, use violence! We are born as white pure angels and arts corrupt us

Flowers may cheat too! lol

Nowadays trend: neo-puritanism. Welcome to the purgatory hehe!
In about 10 years from now Bulgakov and Bukowski will be forbidden, Goblin (and its beautiful OST will be gone forever) and we sinners will burn to hell! Enjoy! (i even read comments here, from people being annoyed with the 2 kids in the beginning being friends, showing affection and original compassion to each other. Its a bit scary....i dont know.

The girl looks like she s in elementary school-later classes- and the boy at later classes of high school (about 16-17 yo). But its fine, they are both kids and their relationship is very appropriate according to their age: affectionate friendship and the pure love&compassion bonding of 2 kids who feel close to each other. It was my favourite part. I think we shouldnt be so judgemental when it comes to positive emotions such as love, affection, kindness, even when we see it among kids of similar age. Its just beautiful and its the only beautiful part that we still keep as a feeling when growing up, transforming it later with adult's needs and new emotions and desires.

What kind of idiot wrote that preview and spoiled 3/4 of the drama!

I ve postponed to watch it for a few months now and i gave it a shot thanks to your review, not because i trust other people's taste (taste is completely personal and subjective matter) but because i share the same criteria with you, when it comes to "good drama/bad drama-expectations from a drama". Ive watched about a half up to now and i m really enjoying it. Of course not because of the story line (actually there's hardly any storyline worth mentioned), but because of the beautiful performances of all the cast-esp the main couple's. I always admire actors who give such good character portraying and great chemistry (not necessarily erotic chemistry but in general) even though they're dealing with boring-cliche-repetitive scripts as this one. Overall its just for fun! Thanks for your review, it helped a lot!

She had the same trope in Healer too!

Ok let me ask a very serious question:
are they virgin???
At their 30's and still virgin?????

oh dear lord yeaaah!