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flourishing descendants. damn, your choice of words is so funny🤣🤣🤣

naa, he won’t cause much trouble. he’s trying to test her, and he also has his own dilemma. But he sorts both the things, at least as of now he is sorted. who knows abt the future episodes

oh that’s so true. I also love how she always has such clarity about what’s happening, why it’s happening and who could be behind it. She isn’t simply reacting out of emotional impulse.

Yep, that’s true. I felt similar appreciation for the alpaca episode as well. Who would have thought we’ll get so much insight into a character in such a round about way, while being that humorous.

Exactly! The funeral scene is such a good example of that. I was laughing like crazy at their fake crying and then enter TQ, truly sad and mourning. It’s so unpredictable.

shy doctor and rude assistant. oh my goddd🤣🤣🤣
and here I thought the show already peaked at the bronze statue😂😂

1. The only things we know abt LZZ's intentions so far, implied and otherwise, his first priority is the royal concubine & he didn’t want XL to be a part of hunt. Other than this, none of his motives/ plans have been revealed so far(I’ve also only watched till ep 10). Yes, it does seem like he is the leader of his clan, since at one point the king says that XL now has the support of 2 clans. I also don’t think he had anything to do with XL’s parent’s death.


2. Nothing has been made clear, but in ep10 they are discussing how XL’s parents were investigating weapon smuggling before they died. Weapon smuggling is releated to Xi clan. So, they are the obvious suspect but we don’t know for sure.


3. From what I gathered they were helping transporting goods for the Xi clan, decades ago. But they weren’t aware that the goods were actually weapons. So, they sort of became witness to Xi clan’s crime. Hence they are living in hiding.

a. But a person with that tattoo was also sent by Xi clan as an assassin, so maybe some are still working for Xi clan while other are in hiding ?

b. I don’t think so, but we really don’t know much abt what LZZ is plotting at this point.

ahh, I wasn’t defending the cringe. More like, I found the language context of it interesting.

haha, while I did cringe at that, it suddenly struck me that that was only because she used English. In Korean it’s normal(as far as I’ve noticed) to address someone as abonim. she calls the 2ML that the first time she assumes he’s a father. Never thought abt that much until she used the same honorific in English 😂

😂and that after calling his father petty hours before

The mental health part is so true, and I really like how consistent it has been.
After the mother’s first visit during their high school time, I really liked that they actually acknowledged ML’s sister’s death. Him crying in front of his family, visiting his sister with his dad, his dad telling him it wasn’t his fault.
Even the conversation he has with his dad as to why he needs to go and take care of his mother.
I’m really curious to see how they’ll sort his mom’s character at the end.

Till episode 12 I was quite neutral about this adaptation’s take on LJJ character as ju won. But after eps 13, I’ve to say I really like how they shaped JW. In GA, I really disliked how in making LJJ “mature” they made her someone who just put up with LX’s mother’s toxic behaviour.
This is exactly why it was so satisfying when JW took a stand for SH and protected him.

So true, I appreciate the storytelling & characterisation even more considering how organically certain changes have been integrated to fit the story in 16 ep format. Hoping this momentum carries in second half as well

Right! At this point I’m actually afraid of jinxing it considering we still have 28 episodes to go😂

he was totally caught off guard finding YZJ using his linguistic skills(or the lack of😂) to impress Duanwu😂😂

After the long ballad trauma, I aways start with the assumption that we’ll go down the same path while hoping I’ll be proved wrong by the writers🥲

hmm, it's like for her mother her perfect daughter is just temporarily rebelling. At first she thought she'll give her an earful and she'll be back to being her perfect daughter. Their fight derails that idea, at that point instead of trying to talk to her & understand why she is rebelling, she just changes her approach. At the end she still believes she'll get her perfect daughter back and whatever is up with her is not big deal.

From Seok Ryu's perspective she's clearly not ready to talk about her life in USA. She hasn't told the complete story to even a single person yet. So talking to her mom is extra difficult since all her life she has tried to be the "perfect" daughter, the baggage of expectations is heavy.

At the end both are stubborn, but the person who needs to be understanding is the mother. Seok Ryuk needs that love & care rn.

haha, this got longer than I was going to write, I got too invested with my psychoanalysis.

The way I interpreted it was: the whole “religion” was based on the foundation that you have done something wrong, so you’ll go to hell. The fact that child got the death prophecy challenged that very foundation. This meant the “rules” were different then what the religion taught or worse the people preaching the religion themselves weren’t aware of the what and how.
And since people witness this, that a child got prophecy, that instead of him the parents died, we end on a hopeful note, that at least some people might stop blindly believing.

I agree about the mothers. Last episode when Seok Ryu’s mother does a 180 after a single fight I was kinda surprised, because a person doesn’t change so easily. But then in ep3 through the conversation b/w her parents, we see that the mother hasn’t actually changed much, only her “approach” has changed.

I completely agree, I was rather curious how they would handle the breakup part, considering they matured JX’s character so much in the drama and HT’s character is not as distant here.
Novel JX was indeed a spoiled brat and that was exactly what made them getting back together so satisfying. The conversation they have in hospital was peak character development for her. But in the drama, even if they have the same conversation few episodes down the line it won’t be as impactful as in the novel.