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It's engaging enough but I'd rather u wait to binge... Personally, I regret not waiting (I always wait, but my bls weren't bl-ing and I was impatient for something). Now I have wait till Friday for the cliffhanger. Thankfully, we get 2 eps per week (fri and sat) so I dont need to go crazy with waiting. But it's still hard

Well... now you can 🤷🤷

So glad he is making a comeback to the screen. I have been following him since TOO days and he really got the short end of the stick. Well, no matter, I'm so glas we finally get to see him on screen.

If u watch old timey chinese bls like Like Love, or Uncontrollable Romance, or Counterattack upto the original Addicted, you can see them kiss or have sex etc, but keep in mind that they are rape to love, and extremely toxic relationships. If they dont have any such problems and everything seems fine, one or both will die at the end.

U wont find a consensual happy ending bl from China (at least not that I know of)

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They did the same with Wei Wuxian in Untamed. In the novel, he gets reborn in a new body, whereas in the drama he had the same body and used a mask to hide himself.

Great idea but just dont change the story and destroy it, like they did with My Gangster Oppa

Many times, the reason women want the power for their son's is because they want to succeed by association. Here, the mom is more than capable of taking care of herself and her son as well

It's a language/translation thing. Idk how it is in Korea, but here in India (and in most cdramas atleast) there is no such thing as step and half-siblings. That's a weatern concept. Here, Step-brother and half-brother are used interchangeably because he is "stepmother's son" and not "my father's son by a different woman". A son from stepmom's prior relationship would be referred to as such, not to mention he wouldn't have the mother's husband's surname. He would have his mother's surname or his bio-dad's.

Also, in 95% cases, at least in dramas, no rich asian man would marry a woman who had a child from a previous relationship unless that's specifically the plot of the show (and even then in most cases, the "previous relationship" is just a one night stand she had with the ML but they both forgot or something).

I can understand that. I have been disappointed by a lot of adapted bls. I didn't really think was going to be an exception, but knowing that they changed the manga plot has me wondering if I should even bother lmao

Because he is an affair baby. It's a very very common trope in all asian dramas/novels. Grandfathers usually hate the non-legitimate grandkids because his existence is black mark on the family history. He can't say anything to the stepmom because she is now his daughter in law by legal right, but he can take his anger/frustration etc on the innocent affair baby. This is why they always get a redemption arc in the dramas. Because they "finally learn their place" as grandpa put it so nicely.

I think there is much more to the coloured-eye woman (the matchmaker) story. I think the Past Tae Ha and modern Yeon Woo both had tragic ends (even before the stories started) so for whatever reason, decided to unite past Yeon Woo with modern Tae Ha. Or maybe there is a third time line we havent seen yet.

Time travel dramas sometimes have a third timeline - Orange J-drama (manga and drama both have different endings), another C-drama called Shining For One Thing has a third timeline trope. Even I feel you linger in the air (bl) has a third timeline (which will hopefully be explored in s2)

He already fell for her when she held his hand and treated his wound. He is just throwing a tantrum because he has always been trated as unwated by the grandpa and as a meal ticket by the mom. He kinda reminds me of FL's elder brother in Graceful Family. I just hope this guy has a happier ending than that guy.

That's literally exactly what I said. Oh, nvm, I wrote the first half the comment to another thread. My bad

She was FL's mother's personal maid, like Sa Wol was hers. She didn't really have much to do on screen apart from following the mother around, but I guess FL must have more memories of her since usually they doubled as nanny and head-housekeeper in charge of lower servants.

Because he cant really kick her out if she is (a) legally married and (b) mother of the family's child/son. She is a family member who has legal right to the property no matter what they think. At most he can limit her share, but he cant give her nothing. That's he wants Tae Ha to be the leader so nothing goes to the other two.

Yes, it was painted by/belonged to her dead husband. Dead Husband was actually a childhood friend who always had a one-sided crush on her (she didn't know he existed btw) until their marriage.

If u rewatch ep 1, u can see him trying to hide it when his mother tells him to get married in the intro scene, along with the butterfly pendent (that he bleeded on later).

I have a feeling that it will get better once he steps in his role as SML. For now, he is just some annoying extra.

I always have a case of SML syndrome and this guy is so far from it, I will root for Sec Hong as the SML over him lmfao.

Possibly descendents of dead husband's younger brother (he was mentioned but never shown), but also grandfather did say that Tae Ha's great-great-grandfather (as in Grandpa's grandfather) was an antique collector who started both the collection in the room and the SH empire.

It is also possible that the portrait was collected because it is an antique and the picture happens to look a lot like FL (from grandpa's POV) which actually happens a lot IRL (and is one of the many unproven reasons why people believe in reincarnation and time travel).

Ah...