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English speakers and their dialogue in Kdramas are always cringey.

totally agree with you on OCN dramas.

All this hype is interesting to observe! I perhaps watched too much Korean content over the last 15 years the show hardly had a personal impact.

wow, the script is really lacking in the dialogue department and nothing much happens as plot. this is a frustrating watch. dropped.

started this on an avenuex recommend and then came here midway the 1st episode to see the trailer because my reaction was "this is so weird, wtf, this is so weird." i started looking through the comments section and everyone is writing that this drama is weird. hahaha.

excuse you with your blanket statement and stereotyping. i grew up without good family relationships and little support network and i definitely
don't exhibit sociopathic behaviours.

Hey Little Red! Why are we walking in the woods late at night?

Well said.

To me, ep 4 was utterly ridiculous.

Oh, and yes, Woong is super sexy.

OMG, if this is not the cutest thing ever! It's been so long since I genuinely laughed while watching a kdrama. Bravo!

plus labelling issues as toxic as an umbrella term seems to me a form of othering and doesn't speak to the specific issues going on.

i would say the only really toxic (barely) people in the series are the competing profs. no toxic "relationships" to speak of.

I am on ep 5 and still wondering why any of the relationships in this drama is described as toxic in the earlier comments.

I personally am okay with Hongmei's relationship with the president. It's not intrinsically a negative thing. I would love to see both of them grow and transform together as people. Same as I would love to see XM grow and transform with Su Xiao. This just made me reflect on how the guys don't really have character growth in this story and I would love to see that.

The proposal is a just and humane regardless of ideology. It's a great drama!

I thought it was about "walking a tight rope". His price for success was to let Su Xiao walk a tight rope (restrict her) or something like that. Meaning his success will have a long term negative impact on Su Xiao in the company or he is hurting her?

If translators pass by this page...why the use of "satan"? Satan is not a spiritual construct of Korean origin.

Well, I'll be damned. If this wasn't a great feel good drama... even though I wasn't strongly attached to the characters. Loved it and love the title as a metaphor!

Good review of the show. I have to disagree with your last sentiments tough. Life is hard for everyone in someway but it is unjustly harder for some (many) than it is for others (few). I also think that the word victimhood (essentially stigmatizing the victim) is a cop out many of us. This is why I appreciate Su Xiao's character so much - particularly how she dealt with the situation at TH. She had the means and capacity to help make a difference and to assist those with less capital/power and she did. Ultimately, she (really Xia Ming) used her power to empower others and not to have power over them.