RURU

novel readers, what is the career path like for the leads? it seems he's gonna be a mechanic/best racer/ fighter and she's gonna learn the languange and be his emotional support but no actual input to the stuggles he's facing. she seems to be the type to help her man so if the novel ends on them settling back in china, how are they gonna be financially supported? Her an interpreter and him a mechanic (with the racing winnings as a safety net) ?

I don’t know if this due to a poorly written plot or editor but what’s the point of Percy’s hiding? He seems to be driving a car normally with no bodyguard in season 1 and secretly popping up to check on things. He knows what caused his friends to split up and is secretly in contact with a classmate so why? Why can’t he just talk to Kiefer or let anyone know he’s not dead (main issue of the boys) or even tell his sister clearly about yuri since she’s freaking engaged to him and already deep. Why is he hiding from the boys when the real problem are the adults (they wont put him in danger) Also I need jay’s pick me persona to be gone post being dropped by the boys later in the series cz it’s off putting

ok the doctor is the only normal character in this drama. "take a hint"? firstly, he is obvious about his feelings towards her and she's not rejecting any advance nor is setting boundries. Has he clearly stated he wants to officially date, no . But it is still in the flirting stage and testing the other's feelings as proven when she simply said the ml was a brother without the added context that he was a romantic interest (she didn't want him to feel jealous or act differently with the ml) so it's not his fault in thinking everything is normal and the ml is just acting as a protective brother to test him till the fl's mother told him they're not related. U could see the slightly guilty look on her face when he asked her to tell him about the ml's relation to her and not wanting misunderstandings between them (meaning our relationship deserves that respect). Lastly, yes the ml needs a therapist and not a neurologist. the whole problem is stress related and the fact that his love pushed him away to study abroad (was it not obvious?) she's the one who's acting like she's insignificant in this guy's life and the past is just the past with zero empathy towards the ml and the doc. how is she so out of touch with romance? she's acting like an 80 year old year grandma who thinks romance is too late for her or doesn't exist in her life.

FINALLY SOME ACTION (fl confronting her friend). i swear my blood was boiling for how tame, lame, and chill this drama was in all its confrontations. wtf was that mom reveal with the son? "Is my mom Mrs. Siting?" Yes" he replies calmly while eating like he's talking about homework. And the way he made it seem like she had a hard time choosing her dreams, and in a roundabout way to not make her the villain, but the son will end up thinking she just didn't pick him so IT IS ABNDONMENT just pissed me off. And he tells the fl "oh, btw i forgot, le knows u're his mom " again in a freaking chill manner that i swear needed a slap more than the mother-in-law. AGAIN he believes his mother and of course the fl will look insane when she tells him about her friend who helped the mother cz "no way is my mother this evil to separate us years ago and ruin ur rep this time too". I truly hope she breaks up with him when he tells her about his mother's illness and that he'd need to stay to care for her. She's his mother and she raised him, but respect is both ways. She needs to repent and apologize first then but acting like what she did was not evil and let the past go without confronting it is not mature, not healthy. It's cowardly and weak as hell

this woman needs to rot in a lonely grave with zero visitors! how dare she do this again. she needs therapy T.H.E.R.A.P.Y how did she produce the ml? if ur mother is like that i'd expect the dead uncle's result but the kind ml? nope he must've beeen raised by nannies cz manipulation 101 needs a slap. i swear if they forgive her then this drama is a flop.

i thought this woman needed the space and the sepearation for her to figure out her feelings but this is a hopeless case. she has zero i repeat ZERO EQ as proven in last few eps. Not only did she not realize outing the ml's friend to the teacher would result in disloyalty and bullying (let's say cz she never had friends in high school otherwise she forgot what high school was like) she also has zero boundries with the doctor (previously cz she was single and open to mingle but POST KISS with the ml and she acts normal if not flirty with the doc?) i seriously hate fls with no understanding of the minds of men when they have multitudes of experience to refrence from. the amount of heartbreak she is giving the ml is just sad at this point and the fact that she's really clueless to what's causing his sickness is just detrimental cz it's 100% her and if she doesn't own up to the accidental influence she has on him during his youth, a healthy relationship can never happen. the fact that she doesn't even realize how hurtful it is to watch ur ex/love interest enter her house with another man for a prolonged period of time is such a turn off cz this is the type of person who's shocked when a partner breaks up with them when all the signs were screaming at their face. He freaking kissed you woman and u're acting like siblings? nope no, atleast scold him for forcing himself on u drunk or anything but instead she wonders why he hates her-any human being can tell

yes! Also no offense to the fl but why is she trying to parent with zero skills? her parents started the sponsorship and it should've continued with them. it's not like he was a kid. he's 19 and that's a gray area for actions to be misinterpreted cz they're not exactly kids anymore. I dislike her parenting actually, it breeds stress and emotional trauma and unfortunately we can see it quite well with the ml cz of his original trauma with his family. she doesn't cz it's a natural thing for a perfectionalist like her. the fact that she believes traveling abroad is what caused his headaches and insomnia shows she's still ignorant to pain (it's not a bad thing but it's why ppl with different life experiences struggle understanding one another and are not compatible) i thought she'd get it after what happenened with her husband but it seems she still needed to see it with the ml to figure that out

this drama perfectly portrays how small favors or help can be twisted over time. it may not be intentional; in the husband's case it was the aid in his carreer that caused anxiety of whether he was good enough which is honestly realistic with many men and not cz they're bad ppl. the bad thing was not addressing that feeling from the start and turning it into cheating on his partner to feel worthy in another relationship and so the rest of his actions went downhill from there. In the ML's case, it was the fact that he feels like a burden and has internal trauma as well so the help is only making him more emotionally in debt and muddying his crush-like feelings so it'll show up badly in the relationship especially for her cz as a sponsor it's normal to help out this way but as a girlfriend it'll be "what if i'm grooming him and are these actual feelings or making a mistake and he won't feel worthy of me like my husband did". Lastly, the doctor not taking a hint cz she allows small acts of kindness that he's giving (why wouldn't she, she's single and emotionally available) which is the only way for a man to know if a woman is interested. so a clean confession and rejection is needed. Honestly i believe the separation with the ML was required (maybe wrong things were said but time off was needed) so that they can both reassess their feelings without one another and how other relationships feel like to them to truly know if this is love or just a major red flag (grooming)

Asian thinking here and i believe the mother needs a reality check maybe not jailed but the amount of shamelessness that she has in the name of grief is not ok. especially cz of the future stuff she does as well. she's just digging a hole for herself at this point and I KNOW the ml won't be able to cut ties nor will the fl get a proper apology for the manipulation she was put through (she manipulated the fl's friend as well to make sure the leads stay apart) cz the mother will end up being sick (honestly this is a cop out by the authors cz they know it's the only way wrap things up peacefully otherwise it'll be a battle and that's just not good for views and disrespectful)

ah yh it was to fake her death but still does so behind his son's back again. i swear communication is an issue regardless of the genre

THIS IS THE ROMCOM I MISS AND LOVE. reminds me of "our beloved summer" and i'm here for it

not young and used to these plots so i was hoping for a twist and the king to not be as he was portrayed cz then there is no excuse to how far the villain took this. how can he rise to power so much and why would the crown prince be able to overthrow him when the king felt powerless? i especially hated that the king was egging the ml on to fight back as if it could actually happen only to let him go (he could've told him from the start so he can plan his revenge while working around that fact and not crush it all when they got the win)

The drama is winning me in a lot of things, but losing me at the same time. 1- i don't like the back and forth for the present and past events (we alredy know what happened so the flashbacks aren't as shocking, it would've been better giving the story in one go so the order of events isn't lost) 2- WHY IS EVERYONE SO CHILL (there's no need for a big drama but the reveal to the 2fl? that was just tame. No reaction to the mother's actions? We don't know the woman, and our blood's boiling. How are ppl acting like it was a normal thing to do? The FL even said the uncle was a rapist, like it was normal news, and the 2fl replied in an "i see" moment. OK, i get the fire in all of them is squashed over time, but the resolution to everything made all their struggle seem pointless. the fl's depression, frantic search for her father, her sadness and loneliness, and it all ends with a " hi let me explain what happened but let me tell u I'm all zen now and had closure" ? If u're healed, what about ur daughter? Her reply was just hearing him out and acting as if nothing happened. AND NOW THE ML'S CONVO WITH HIS FAMILY at dinner this episode was how to be shameless 101. Yes the past will have an effect, but they're acting like the victim's family and not the guilty party. Not only was the uncle a rapist, but the mother was a thief who didn't give a shit if the fl was gonna die while birthing "just save the baby." i expected them to act all entitled cz vile beings are gonna be vile but the ml? "are you gonna visit ur brother's grave this anniversary?" is it so hard to say "no i won't visit a rapist's grave as a courtesy for all the shit my family did to my wife and own up to that guilt for the rest of my life instead of marrying someone else like that will erase the past". UGH I NEED EMOTIONS ON SCREEN and soon cz frankly the mother is the only one doing that job.

I swear the left state councilor is not the mastermind! first evidence should've been him convincing the ml to not kill himself and get stronger for revenge, why? second was the fact that the king is acting way too weak and as if he's being controlled by the villain when he's a king! asking his son to fight for him, hello u have that power too! also the left state has a revenge in mind meaning the king had power before to kill so what's stopping him from acting like victim infront of his son now? last evidence, the fl just agrees to kill herself as ordered by the king? why not fight for her innocence? why was the king in shock to see her again and ready to kill her without waiting for his son? i think princess knew something in regards to the king's hand in the ml's mother's death and opted for death so he doesn't find out his dad had a hand in a chain of tragedy. that's why the king wants her dead now too. the left state is gonna turn out to be the hidden ally at the end and not the villain (though with blood on his hands but not the mastermind)

i knew it that so called best friend was the final nail in the coffin in the past. she helped the mother in law in covering her tracks in the past out of jealousy and is now drinking and wallowing in guilt cz she could see her friend's suffering now. trying to justify herself by asking "don't u think it was better for him to stay with his dad's side". it wasn't enough that she told the ml about the pregnancy when the fl clearly told her not to but she stood by as the mother took her child away. the reveal is gonna be heartbreaking and lots of crying but i really hope the fl can drop her right after; no amount of guilt should absolve her. Considering how slow-paced the drama currently is, the reveals are gonna happen one after the other like a thread unraveling

wow you can clearly see why the misunderstandings keep increasing and widening in the worst way. they think being passive-aggressive or tiptoeing around is a sign of maturity rather than confronting head on and getting it all out in the open. the 2ml thinks he's insulting the ml by saying "you made all the right choices in career and life" as a dig for stealing her child while the lead is thinking he meant "ur loss is my gain cz now i get the girl" they keep reading behind the lines while being WAY OFF. just one direct insult or honesty will fix this mess they created but everyone is scared of losing this fragile peace built on lies. even the 2nd fl is tense around the leads cz she could clearly see the connection but doesn't want to poke the bear cz she knows it'll end this peaceful relationship going on (even if no love but it's stable and not too bad yet). from the trailers it's obvious it all falls apart the moment the fl tells the 2fl about her child being stolen (she found out she abandoned them too and confronts her about it-finally!) and the moment the ml is told the truth and he ends up confronting his mother but WHY SO LATE. it's 13 eps in and NOTHING YET. if it's still this way by 18, i'll drop it cz then the revenge and actual second chance romance will be rushed and kinda wrong (i already feel sorry for the 2fl cz she's falling and she might be better off with sml but not enough time to form a relationship so it'd be weird too)

hmm the vibe between the leads was more romantic in season 2 so we were hoping for a bit of development here (not the focus but bits and pieces of moments) but the vibe is more familial and sibling energy which is disappointing considering the previous flirting fit them more. either stick to the romantic route or friendship but the switch up makes it look wishy washy, otherwise everything else is great!

he's been helping her fight against the executive's husband (he's the assaulter) and the exec knows it too so she let the rumours spread that it was him cheating to cover her husband's tracks. now the victim couldn't take it the pushback so she's apologising for involving him. he's trying to take the heat so his wife doesn't get fired as well so he's letting himself be misunderstood (also why he didn't want her trying for his spot back cz of the backlash of his whistleblowing) . he obviously still loves his wife, i hope he doesn't let the misunderstanding fester for long so she can help him

pride is humanity's worst sin. she can't even confront feng rui cz the idea that he wasn't in on it with her mother is not worth entertaining. Again, she asks the mother whether feng rui knew, and again she misunderstood. the same with the ml, he only takes info from his mother and doesn't dare to ask the fl or even insult her to her face cz his pride is wounded and believes his mother fully (although she never hid her manipulative/controlling personality, so never being doubtful is on him). normally someone abandons you, u'd insult them or speak harshly and not this weird indifferent vibe that causes misunderstandings on both sides. just say the words so she can say "what the hell are you talking about" so u can communicate!! ugh i hate how it has to be her who says "liar" for him to start questioning things- so freaking vague and too late! 12 years? does it make sense for someone so infatuated and clearly not over it to only start uncovering the truth now? for the fl to say he never called it means she didnt change her number and considering this is the 21st century, there is no way he never found her for so long (the mother is not all powerful to control all that). her friend totally had a hand in this (most probably thinking he'll just hurt her when she needs time to heal her kid's death) she looked like she was hiding something-especially when she said the kid might've been better off with the ml's family (it was to alleviate her guilt and not the fl).

in the trailer it seems the friend also plays a part in hurting her in the future whether it was for her brother or herself cz the mother approaches her and blackmails her or something (there was lots of crying) (she might've even played a part in keeping the leads apart whether on purpose or unknowingly manipulated by the mother) honestly she seems to be not a bad person just not the best for the fl so i hope she slowly cuts ties with her (it'll be hard to completely let go cz the friend's family kinda raised her)