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Not upset, and not playing your intergenerational game. You've assumed a lot, including my age, and shown your biases. My brief remark on your boomer-like, "kids these days" comment was mild feedback. But hey, you do you. I can block you to avoid minor annoyances.

When you make generalized statements ("It's a generation that wants") and get super defensive like you have, it's tiresome. Please stop.

Yes, I know who you were talking about. The model ex-boyfriend character is a narcissist and some people think mistakenly that narcissists can't express emotions. I'm just giving the actor the benefit of the doubt, but it's bad acting whether he had intention or not.

Is the guy playing the ex a bad actor? Probably. Maybe the lack of expressiveness was just his (wrong) idea of how narcissists behave (i.e., devoid of emotions).

ok boomer, lol

This show gives a lot of time to the villains telling their stories. That would be fine if they weren't so pathetic, nonsensical, and boring.

IKR. At this point, I'm watching only to see how much more toxic these two can get.

Definitely a spoiler. I wish I hadn't read that.

Yikes! ...Where to start?

"A friend is someone where you can turn up in the middle of the night, covered in blood and they will still trust you enough not to ask any questions." No, that is NOT what friendship is. What you are describing is blind loyalty and codependency. (Very bad!) Also, LF is a police officer and his character is defined by an unwavering pursuit of truth and justice, as well as professionalism. A friend (and any decent human being) would honor that and never try to put LF in a compromised position. Vengeance is not justice.

"LF has never trusted LFP from the beginning," Yes, that is normal behavior especially for a police officer. Anyway, trust must be earned. LF was wise not to trust LFP because LFP has been lying to LF and trying to manipulate him from the beginning. (This is what "I should never have counted on you" was about — using LF was just a means to an end for LFP and any feelings LFP developed remained secondary.) That was fine since LF and his boss decided they could use LFP too. However, we can see that LF cares for LFP and doesn't want him to take the wrong path.

If LFP was disappointed as you suggest, it was because he didn't have patience in the investigation and decided that working with a villainous murderer was somehow worthwhile. I expect the big bad villain he's working for will disappoint more.

You are misremembering what LFP said at his mother's grave. He said he'd made a decision that me might regret and he'd have to explain himself later.

"Jumping to conclusions"? — LFP said repeatedly that he wasn't involved with the missing woman. Based on his observation, LF knew LFP was lying and behaving unethically. His job and purpose in life is to collect evidence and discover the truth. (BTW we don't know the search was illegal since the police had already launched a formal investigation of LFP.)

LFP has "abandonment issues"? Maybe. But that's something LFP needs to fix and not a mindset a friend or lover should facilitate. (Again, that would be codependency.) LFP is vengeful and he needs to find a different reason for living. How can he look at Tu Xiao Mao, who murdered people, and think that he'd have done the same? That's insane.

Ying must have been in charge of the YouTube translation. That's why the first segment was screwed up. lol

They left together and went to an event. Pat was daydreaming about it the next day at the office. Remember Pat telling Chot about how it felt like a different world to him?

In episodes 15 and 16, we learned that LF knows that LFP has been lying to everyone, sabotaging the investigation, and doing the bidding of the main villain. Is that what you meant by "trust issues"? LFP's near crying was not about any "deep disappointment with LF's behavior." He knows he's undermined his relationship with LF by making a deal with the devil. "Not liking LF very much right now"— what? That makes no sense.

Whether intimacy and bonding happen through kickboxing, sex, shared trauma, or whatever, the people in the relationship still have to be compatible and do the work of building a healthy foundation together. That's the only way they can withstand outside interference. I'm on ep 14, so for me the jury is still out.

The ability of both MLs to develop trust in and intimacy with one another is central to the plot. I wouldn't call this romantic love, but the writers seem to have followed a pattern of romance dramas to develop intimacy in this relationship. For example, emotional intimacy is often quickly achieved through physical intimacy. In this case, it's kickboxing rather than sexual contact that allows the characters to start openly acknowledging their feelings for one another. After that, they're pretty much joined at the hip for a while and the writers show the work family and parents accepting their new, special relationship. But it only goes so far. Just winks, nods, and jokes, which is fine. Nothing surprising about what the writers and actors are doing here.

Someone said here a while ago that their interactions change significantly in episode 6. I can confirm.

"You two play together. I'll go home and spend time with my wife" ( Exiting, he looks at them with a sly grin — wink, wink.)

Let the playtime begin! Oh my, so physical and aggressive. Both are willing to take it as much as they are dishing it out. Releasing that tension and pent-up frustration and thoroughly exhausting one another. Apparently, this is what they both needed and wanted.

Afterward, the intimacy. They're lying next to one another, head-to-head. Both completely spent and panting. How adorable.

And then, suddenly, back to the case, lol

You seriously think she was being softhearted? Because she admitted that she lost? Even when she conceded defeat, she was still bitchy, prideful, and condescending toward Ji Hyun.

But the villains did not become 'good' at the end. There was redemption or anything like that. They remained bad people and no one thought that they'd changed. I honestly don't know what you are talking about.

Huh? That's what happened. Jae Won has moved on from them.

Did you want those two to get hit by a bus like Regina in Mean Girls? This show was going for realism and consistency. Jae Won at the end is focused only on the people he cares about. So those two lost and their obsession over him ends in failure.