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Do you have difficulty understanding the story?

I'm glad that we're on the same page regarding SJ's bad response to SY's persistent concern. However, I have a hunch that other commenters felt that SY was the annoying one who provoked SJ to such a strong reaction.

Although SY was indeed persistently annoying with her food offers and over-the-top concern of her tenant, I still felt that SJ should be the one to give in to SY's annoying concern. Reason being SJ ought to have a heart of gratitude and contentment because she is in a sad and helpless situation right now. SY need not help her by renting her spare room to her but she graciously stepped in. But she shouted at SY and glared at her. SJ should simply told SY politely her wanting to be alone.

Seriously, when a tenant slept for more than 25 hours and didn't eat at all, the landlady would start to worry. Other landlady would have told her to leave when SJ shouted angrily.

Anyway, it is good that SY and WR are now aware of a little of her background story.

Several commenters praised this drama.
I really want to watch the great Kang Song Ho but I cannot follow the story. I re-watched episode 1 but OMG am I dense or what?
I still can't understand! 😩

Good for those who can follow the story.👍

Agree with you about not dragging it too long as it is
tiresome.

My earlier comments were sympathetic of SJ. I feel her stress and distress. Like you said, I was thinking if SJ's problems were real life, she might have killed herself as I have read how a young female well-known singer killed herself a few years ago due to a torrent of criticism from netizens etc.

Nevertheless, when a person shows compassion to her, even if she felt uncomfortable, she should reciprocate with just a "Thank you". Or make her stand very firmly but politely that she would like to be left alone.

She forgot that SY graciously rented her spare room to her for a mere $300 and without deposit. Where could she go if SY did not do so?
As I have written earlier, depression must have clouded her judgement and her withdrawal from social interaction. Still, it did not go down well with me to watch her arguing with her benefactor.

Thank you for your reply. 😊

But it is hard to watch SJ talk like that to SY even if she were not her biological mother.

My guess is that NY is just playing mind games with HS for now. The last preview was HS apologising to NY if he has done something wrong to her. Her reply was "You didn't do anything wrong...".
But she will strike when the iron is hot.
Right now, the iron is cool. Scary and malicious woman!

Ep 40 - Now I take issue with SJ arguing with SY, her landlady. SJ has crossed the line now because she was very rude, unappreciative and uncompromising. Just accept the food prepared with love from SY with a "Thank you". It doesn't cost her arm or a leg to say that. 😬😑
Where...where could she rent a room for $300 without any deposit?

As for HS, he was already drunk yet let a female neighbour, whom he ran into only twice, into his house and continue drinking with her...😧

"Enemies to Lovers" is the tag in MDL. They are certainly not enemies in the true sense of the word. They are not pally and SJ has, at times, displayed impatience and annoyance with WR. I guess the Writer is showing us how their relationship will evolve from colleagues to friends to more than friends to a couple eventually.

WR will be the one to discover first that he has developed romantic feelings for SJ. SJ will gradually discover her feelings for him.

This is drama and oftentimes situations are exaggerated so much so that it becomes unrealistic.

I might not be able to explain clearly enough but I did my best. 😁

Yup! PTSD and depression.

I often watch drama at a free site called asianc.to previously known as dramacool.

There is a comment section. Someone scolded Seon Young for making excuses for not looking for SJ much earlier. That she should never have left SJ with the ungrateful friend who had an affair with SJ's dad.

Others argued it would be hard to look for a job and accommodation with a young child.

Actually it did also cross my mind that it might be hard but safer to have one's child with you rather than with the stepmother.

But then again, who would know SY would meet with an accident.
A burning question which I have is SJ was about 6 or 7 yo when SY did not return for her. How could SJ not be able to recognise her mother? What's your take on these 2 matters?

I tried putting myself in her shoes now because some commenters were critisizing SJ for being rude to SY and the family. I think SJ is on the verge of a mental breakdown and needs treatment asap. She is unable to think clearly now. Her 25-hour sleep is a bad sign. Living with strangers and her years of hard work has gone down the drain. The public is judging and badmouthing her that she had to use sunglasses when she steps out of the house. Oh...I do pity and feel for her.

I do enjoy this drama because Ham Eun Jung and Baek Sung Hyun have good chemistry. 💘

PS - Sorry I was long-winded. 🤭

Given that Ma Ri (HS's mum) harbours so much hatred for her husband, Jin Tae, he must have used underhanded methods to get her late father, who was the founder of Haedeul hospital, to allow him to marry her and thereby securing his position as the Director or was it CEO. Maybe he got Ma Ri drunk and pregnant?
This family has a couple of skeletons in the cupboard. 🙄

The tag for this drama is "Enemies to Lovers" so it is the usual trope which writers like to to use for the lead couple.
Could be embarrassment too that she was WR's senior at the hospital and was such a popular psychiatrist with her own show too. But she has now fallen flat and even renting a room at WR's house. Actually I do feel for her.

SJ is right now not in touch with her family and I think...that by the time she is feeling better mentally, NY might have already wormed her way into the Han's family with a pregnancy lie.
🤢

Oh the extreme stress which I was referring to was the time when videos of her scolding and hitting NY was out for all to see. The netizens were cursing and scolding her and her years of hard work went down the drain. She then lost her job and might never be able to find a psychiatrist job again. The stress was so severe that she passed out at the CourtYard Restaurant.

Yes, SJ needs to learn the truth that her mother did not abandon her. Make peace with her mother and unload her pain of abandonment. Then learn to trust and believe that there are genuinely kind people in this world.

Unfortunately, I don't think it will happen anytime soon. We will see how it pans out.

Hi!
It is indeed hard to watch SJ's ungracious interaction with WR's family.

Despite being a well-known and well-loved psychiatrist, it seems that she is totally oblivious that her own mental health is very weak atp and she needs treatment asap. I think extreme stress has clouded her judgement coupled with decades of verbal abuse and even physical abuse from that stepmother. Hence, now she is uncomfortable when strangers show genuine concern for her.

WR will be the one to slowly help SJ onto the road to recovery. 🥰

Preview of episode 40
Whoa! NY is very swift in her entrapment of HS. Just as @HJHofT17 has mentioned about a fake pregnancy, HS is a Goner now that NY will soon claim that she is pregnant and coerce HS and his parents that she must join the Han family. His dream of SJ returning to him has burst into smithereens!
I reeeally feel sorry for HS now. 🤭😆🤣

👍❤️😊

Naebyeol, I do hope you have recovered from depression. ❤️

The stepmother would disallow her to leave if she did not promise to send money. She is the money tree...the cash cow. 😆

I am trying to understand why SJ is so unaware and so insensitive to what is happening to her own mental well-being. Could it be she is in a complete meltdown and sleeping will not need her to deal with her sad situation. When she is interacting with Seon Young and WR, it is as if she does not care about others' feelings anymore. She is like living in a world of her
own.

WR will be the one who will get her out of this rut. He is already displaying so much concern for SJ. It is actually love masked as concern. 😍

I think when HS and NY join forces as a couple, life for SJ will become very hard as that Crazy Couple will build obstacle after obstacle for SJ. Right now, WR is spared as he has not shown any interest in SJ in front of HS and NY. But later...he will also be attacked.

I am pondering if SJ has deep depression. Do depressed people sleep for 25 hours? 🤔

Yes...in real life, SJ would have, not only, left her toxic family but left to work in another country. She can send some money home regularly.

Are you enjoying this drama as much as I am? 😊