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She moved there one year before the drama started filming to further learn and adapt…..

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-entertainment/2025/09/15/TLNOCWVDMJCA5PUCVRYDCUO5LY/

It was kinda both? Or more of the first thing happened, then the 2nd incident happened by accident….. or more of “the heat of the moment”….

This is probably one of the most touching Cdramas I’ve watched…. And the scariest thing is that it shows how ‘evil’ people can be because of blood relationship…. Especially so in Asian families because of Confucianism values…..

It’s also super thought provoking and educational…. Really loved it…

This is an 8.2 in Douban, which is more in-line with my own scoring…. I’m super surprised at the low score on MDL…

Damns…… this is actually a horror genre TV series…. lol, it’s a scary drama that stems from having siblings, twisted parents and emotional blackmail…..

Why is this rated so low here? It’s a 7.5 on Douban….

It’s probably the best banking drama I’ve ever watched…. It’s definitely one of the best corporate dramas I’ve watched…. I was tempted to give it a 10 at some point but after the last arc, the last 2 episodes…. It felt more of a 9…..

Super realistic, detailed yet written as such that it is very dramatic…. It’s just so unique….

But her chemistry in The Berlin File with Ha Jung Woo was super intense man. Like… lol… I don’t know how serious Ha Jung Woo is, but he joked in an interview that he actually loves Jun Ji Hyun… well at least I’m sure there is some form of natural adoration off-screen, hence why their chemistry is also very natural….

lol, I rewatched The Thieves, recently. But she is also quite eccentric and crazy there. Hahaha. Ah, I didn’t know that was her first on-screen kiss… but look, all her PDAs so far are the very goofy and comedic kind. lol. Hence why I was very surprised with this one. I thought it would have been another Jirisan again…

For me, my least favourite is KSH… to me he really looks too much like her little assistant or PA…. I find it so weird.

But I actually think she still looks ridiculously young though…. She is basically like Song Seung Heon…. I mean SSH has hardly aged a day man… he looks like he’s in his mid-late 30s?

Oh yea, I am a fan of her. There was a kiss in Assasination?? Really?? I must have misremembered. Shitz, I got it mixed up. It was The Berlin File…. That one ended up with a long hug right? I remember thinking shitz, the way she looks at him is so sweet, and equally so sad…. I thought The Berlin File was really good. That was the one they were husband and wife right? But I remembered she had quite a few works also like that. Like it was basically melodrama… wasn’t Daisy and Il Mare also like that? Basically there was no PDA, but super romance heavy. I wouldn’t say I watched all her works. Uhhh… would say I watched most of them I spse… Honestly I thought she looked really good with MinHo coz they both basically looked like they just are featuring in an advert.. like perfect in all angles, in all scenes, even when when they are lying down… and have perfect physiques to go with…

I actually felt she looked really good with Ju Ji Hoon, coz he is also ultra tall… but the plot of that one wasn’t romance at all…. So Ju Ji Hoon also has a natural gaze which is very mysterious….

This one is different…. Honestly I don’t think she’s ever been in these kinda romance roles before…. Which she did mention in the Disney press conference…. She said it’s the first time for both her and KDW to attempt a mature romance, one with nuances and depth…. Coz if you think about it, those roles and dramas/movies that launched her to stardom, she’s kinda crazy in it. lol. Like eccentric, super dramatic and bubbly kinda characters, with over the top romantics gestures… more than anything I find myself bursting out in laughter rather than going all swoony and gaga…

I had the exact same thought at the end of Ep.4…. I’m like lol. TWofM all over again…. Why is he always in these kinda roles…. But then again, when I looked back at his works, it’s funny how it isn’t really the case…. lol. I don’t know. I think it’s also because of his relatively unique face? Like viewers would remember him easily, just like some older Korean supporting actors….

I just came across this…. lol. I think quite a lot of people resonate with us…. I think he has a super versatile face, but then at the same time also stuck in some sort of typecast….

https://kbizoom.com/park-hae-joon-cursed-roles-loyal-husband-cheating-villain-violent-criminal/

I think it went both ways… I don’t think he truly loved her either, I think it was a marriage of convenience for him from the get go…. Maybe not intentionally but definitely at least on a subconscious level…. Or maybe it was intentional and he hid it too well…. But it was kinda probably the same for her, she wanted to relocate back to Korea and it would be easier to do so with a chaebol Korean family… so not so much money for her I spse, but more of power…. Coz she’s naturally ambitious….

Yea, a NYTimes critique noted it too, I think it’s the first, probably something Disney wants to try out, and likely why the budget/cost was so high…. I do think it makes the whole viewing experience more immersive and enjoyable…. esp with a plot like this….

I totally didn’t like her with KSH at all, he was too short for her and he has a high school kid look. Yea, the chemistry on that one was average at best.

But in Jirisan, there was basically no romantic plot…. I do think they both also look super amazing on screen, also visually really compatible… but for some reason Jirisan’s plot was more of uh…. I think the guy quietly admired her…. There was also no direct physical intimacy… a lot of things were like undertone, ah right… like Blood Free basically….

Did you watch any of her movies? She has amazing chemistry with Ha Jung Woo…. Like really intense and also natural but the entire movie they have 0 kiss scenes, lol, almost 0 intimate scenes either. lol, if I remember correctly it was a long hug at the end?? She did do a romance heavy one called Daisy which I watched, it was ultra romantic but again…. lol, the entire plot involved no physical contact. lol. I think same with Il Mare… lol, she did mention during Assasination’s promotion interview that she finds it quite bizarre on how she isn’t trying to intentionally avoid physical displays of affection on-screen, but somehow most of the scripts she pick just end up being that way….

I do think KDW is good looking but then…. lol… I was genuinely surprised when JJH was so explicit about it during the Disney press interview… so she literally said she has always been a fan of how he looks… but after this drama even more so his acting capabilities. Coz honestly a lot of Korean actors are really charming and physically attractive…. Instead, I find KDW charming and having perfect proportions, not like drop dead gorgeous…. For example, I find Won Bin drop dead gorgeous… 🤣🤣🤣

But I think this is also coz KDW is like very gentle with her in the drama…. Which makes it more relatable/acceptable in real life. lol… but KDW hardly does any romance genres. He only did some at the start of his career…. But then again, I truly think it’s coz of the bodyguard trope… lol, I for one am a sucker for it ever since watching The Bodyguard…

I know right…… sighs, for the proper closure bit I’m not so sure we will get it given there are only 4 episodes left…. Don’t know, it’s a 50-50 chance… I sure hope they do…. Coz Blood Free ended weirdly… and the feeling sucked when the drama ended…. I felt like I got conned big time… 🤣🤣🤣

I’m totally a victim….. I mean, I went into this not expecting much…. Coz honestly Jun Ji Hyun and Lee Min Ho also looked super compatible on screen, basically both perfect looking people esp in that drama, but shitz. The chemistry was average and the plot wasn’t that great….

So I had no expectations…. But damns, I’ve watched certain parts of Ep 5 on repeat like a million times already….. 🤣🤣🤣 my jaw actually dropped when they kissed. lol. Her dramas + movies hardly have kiss scenes….. same goes for KDW…. Shitz…. Super duper sweeet though…. 🤣🤣🤣 I was like…. “Awwwwwwwww……”

Haha, so I have high hopes on the romantic side for the last 4 episodes….

But I watched their interviews, and apparently JJH has been waiting for years to work with KDW…. She said she accepted this drama primarily coz she is a fan of his, so hence I do think there is genuine admiration for him off screen…. Which makes the chemistry very natural…

I mean, seriously I actually realised there are a lot of guys like that in real life….. like they have so many secrets, and what you see is basically just a facade…… they keep their “true-self” hidden….

I mean with the whole mistress and illegitimate child thing I do question if he ever loved her….. or more of he just liked the idea of her standing beside him portraying some form of image as the perfect wife…. From her looks, to her career, to how poised she is when she speaks publicly etc…. Which the other girl is basically not right, she is just an average Jane….

Yeap, that inheritance thing is also damn weird…. Like if you add all these points up, as a normal person, wouldn’t you wonder like if you even know this person at all? That cross thing is uber weird man, esp when the mistress said she designed it…. So I totally agree with her when she went to her mother in law and said I would want to dig him up from his grave so that I could divorce him seriously……

I think they added it to further illustrate that she basically has no idea who he is….. and to make her question everything including the very beginning of the relationship…. Because she was initially super confident that he could never be a spy…. And she told her husband’s brother that he is fundamentally good.

But then I think she started to have doubts when her other security dude told her that he thinks her husband could be a spy after all before he was wheeled into surgery….

I mean, if I’m summarising things at it is now, I would even wonder if he ever loved the FL... Coz it pretty much looks like he lives a double life, and could also be living a double life as a spy…. I mean it could be anything coz until now I still don’t really understand why he gifted her that cross, and then forcefully removed it just before he died….

My heart and my entire being totally melted, especially with the uber hot speed boat escape scene prior…….. the way he hugs her so that his body envelopes hers….. then the close up intense staring during the hair wash was just…… omg…..

and actually it’s not only that, they look really compatible on screen. Like they are very visually compatible, like perfect physical proportions… for one Jun Ji Hyun is pretty tall…. And Gang Dong Won not only is tall, but he actually has a really small face….. and damns, they have very good chemistry!!!

My gosh, their chemistry, and they both look so good in the drama……. Like they are just visually very compatible…. Damns, both Jun Ji Hyun and Gang Dong Won hardly do romance genres, and there are even kiss scenes here!!! I totally melted in Episode 5….

But honestly, even those blood related to her didn’t treat her any better…. They never sided with her, neither did they offer assistance…. They only did the bare minimum of not intentionally/explicitly trying to harm her….

Episode 13 was uber intense…. WTH man…..

Me too…