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I had to watch this drama again to truly appreciate it. Like before, the standout in the drama is definitely Roy Chiu, Patrick Li and Guo Shu Yao. Alice Ke didn't come off as stiff when I watched it the second time around, however, if you are the type to pay attention to details, her character might be a sore spot for you. It seemed like she wore the same outfit for about 70% of the drama. She also wore the same hairstyle, the same shoes, etc. Her movements and diction was the same, and it makes you think that her character has very little development. But upon second viewing, I see her portrayal a bit better and it isn't that bad. Patrick Li and Shu Yao steal the show a lot of in this drama. They are both so funny and bring some much needed comedy and excitement to the drama. Still worth a watch.

This is one of my favorite Taiwanese dramas. And yes, I agree it is basically the Taiwanese version of Coffee Prince, but instead of coffee it deals in chocolate and the story has a bit more depth. The main couple are the type to root for, you want them to be together. However, in typical drama fashion, we have the outside interference's, triangles and family drama that threaten their happiness. It was during this time that I completely became enthralled with the second couple. At first, you think the little sister is a spoiled brat who doesn't care about anyone else, but as her story unfolds, you realize how much depth there is to her character and how sweet she is. I absolutely loved her wrapping the gangster around her little finger! Definitely worth a watch.

This is a drama I really wanted to finish, because I am a huge fan of Bobby Dou, Nylon Chen and Vivi Lee, but my God, the female lead in this was just awful. I honestly could not understand why they cast her. She came off like a child in a room full of adults. There was nothing womanly or even adult about her, let alone sexy. I felt like I was watching child p*rn on some parts because of her role. To add to the fact that she physically looks like a child, she speaks like a child and acts like one. And with such a promising cast, this was a horrible decision to make her lead. Some of the side couples were cool, but I could not finish this one.

When I first saw Puff in a drama, it was Just You with Aaron Yan, and I did not like her character at all. So much so, that I thought she couldn't act. Then I saw her in Inborn Pair and her character was so mature and badass that I retracted my earlier assessment of her. Taiwanese dramas often have really silly, kinda dumb female leads, but when the female lead is strong and smart and funny, it can be one of the best dramas that you have ever seen. With her, the dreamy Jasper Liu, Nita Xia, Steven Sun and Phoebe Yuan, I knew I had to watch because they are some of my favorite Taiwanese actors. They have not disappointed. All of the characters in this drama are fresh and fun. I like how we see so many different archetypes in one drama.

I know a lot of people feel some type of way about the infidelity element in the drama, but one thing the writers have done is shown us how both of the leads got comfortable in their relationships that they should have let go long ago. Wei Wei and Hao Yi seem like co-workers who have been working on a long-term project that they have to see until the end. There is no fire between them, just goals. Ke Huan and Zi Yuan have fallen into the we've been together so long we should get married trap. Another couple with no real fire between them, just co-existing and I don't know if his job or career is somehow connected to her, but the way she spends up his money without a care in the world is low-key disturbing. She needs a life, a hobby or something. KH had no choice but to fall for WW because from the moment they met up again, she showed him that she had a pulse. She wasn't afraid to speak her mind and I was fascinated that when he was around her a few times he quickly assessed that her life plans she had tucked away in her planner were really her boyfriend's plans, not her own. Here she is forced to penny pinch and deprive herself of any type of luxuries so they can purchase a home and her KH's girlfriend spends just to pass the hours in a day.

Yes, cheating is wrong, but no one is going to pass either one of these people an award for staying with people that they are no longer in love with. That whole "doing the right thing" can be more stressful and complicated than cheating. This drama has a LOT of potential, I really hope the writer doesn't let us down.

Some of the comments on this thread are quite cruel. How do you take pleasure in someone else's misery? Divorce is especially difficult and tragic. We don't know what happened. For people to speculate based on DOTS or some interview they saw them in is just silly really.

Couples grow apart for various reasons. These two highly popular and public actors were trying to make a relationship work under some strenuous circumstances. For some reason the divorce of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston come to mind. People speculated that he cheated with Angelina Jolie, but in the end it really all came down to him wanting a lot of kids and Jennifer not quite being ready for that. Everyone is different, and sometimes people change in relationships. Maybe the people that they were when they were both single and working on DOTS changed and the people they became as lovers and as husband and wife did not agree with either one of them. I wish them both well and hope that sooner than later they can find peace and happiness for themselves.

I am not going to lie, I thought "facial blindness" was a drama illness. Does anyone know anyone who suffers from this? I feel like this drama has really opened the door on this illness for me. In past dramas with this plot, they always made it seem like you could see people's faces, you just couldn't correlate the face to the person. Like you couldn't remember who that person is. But this drama is giving it a different feel, one that is far more clinical and realistic!

So, I watched this drama while it was airing and I remember at the time, in Korea, it struggled in ratings because it was on at the same time as Love in the Moonlight and I guess most Koreans chose that drama as being the saeguk they preferred. However, Moon Lovers was killing internationally and I still feel this is the superior drama. Once again, LJK does not disappoint. He and IU had incredible chemistry. This drama made me so interested in Korean history. I wanted to learn about all of the kings by the end of it. There were some really heart wrenching moments, but there were some sweet and funny moments as well. This is a definite watch in my book.

This is a drama where casting played a major role. Of course, the beginning of the drama we see a lot of LJK with KSE, who in my opinion deserves more lead roles because she is just so good at playing the female lead. Then they switched to LYB and that is when the drama took a turn. I was so not invested in them and was more invested in the war between his character and Gwi. My God, Lee Joon Ki and Lee Soo Hyuk acted their butts off in this one! They were phenomenal! It is definitely worth the watch.

Somehow, I have kept my very STRONG feelings about this drama to myself despite the fact that I was cursing the writer for weeks after watching this. Throughout the drama, I found myself disliking Na Jung more and more. She was too wishy washy with her feelings. She got close to both guys and when it was clear who she should've chosen, she went in the other direction. Chilbong deserved so much better. Trash wasn't even interested in her outside of their brother/sister relationship. He was disgusting. At times, she was disgusting. Their sibling-like connection was even more believable. However. her choosing him AND still leaning and needing Chilbong until the very end was complete TRASH!!! Finally, I had to convince myself that Chilbong deserved so much more. I did not watch another reply series after this. 1997 was way better.

Falling for Innocence was incredibly good, very underrated drama, but excellent cast and excellent plot! I also enjoyed Angry Mom and Beautiful Mind! I highly recommend those three. I am currently watching Come Back Mister, which is pretty good. I plan on watching The Village and Cross!

He is the reason I watched I Need Romance 2. This series is a lot like the Reply series. Girl has a boyfriend and is in toxic relationship with said boyfriend, so they break up. Girl meets another guy who is awesome to her [insert his character here] and before she fully commits to said great guy, she decides to go back to toxic boyfriend. The only one worth watching is the third one. But back to this thread, I loved him in Another Miss Oh, he was so cute and funny in that drama. Great actor!

I really think Sung Mo maybe knows or is somehow connected to the killer, which is why he is investigating all of these arson cases so hard. Also, why does everyone want LA to touch JI? Shouldn't he be touching her father?

One thing to remember, City Hunter is a revenge drama. Do not go into this thinking it is a romantic comedy or melodrama. If you can accept that, then this drama will kick all the @ss for you. The attention the drama got due to the fact that the stars (LMH and PMY) ended up dating in real life, left some people wanting to watch this for them.

This drama is deeper than that. From an action standpoint, this may be LMH's best drama. A lot of the action scenes and stunts will have you on the edge of your seat, begging for more. A must-watch.

YS starts falling towards JR and he leans down and catches her. Then he looks at her lovingly and says, "I didn't move out of the way. I caught you this time."
So simple, and yet my heart is still fluttering!

This is a great review. It has been a while since I saw this drama, but now I would like to revisit it. I think the main reason this drama did not do as well is because it came out pretty much at the same time as Kill Me, Heal Me, which tackled the same multi-personality issue. Two different dramas, one with leads who had already had success in another drama and everyone naturally leaned towards KMHM, which in my opinion had a better plot and just overall better writing. However, I did enjoy this drama as well. If people could go back and watch and not compare it to KMHM, I think, like you, they will find they like it as well.

I think people are fascinated with this couple, not only because of Goblin, but because both of them are just so ridiculously good looking. But, I am a fan of both of them as actors. I feel they have the range to make this drama great, I just hope the writers do their part. I feel like a lot of dramas that have a lot of hype over the past six months have fallen short simply because the writing was bad. Come on writer, you've done well in the past, please do right by this great cast!

We knew it was going to happen. We saw it coming when HR was consistently lead to believe that IJ was the one who did that to her sister. We saw the lengths to which daddy's wife would go for her loser son. But somehow episodes 30-32 just played out like the Phantom of the Opera. IJ was so reluctant to listen to anybody. Even if he was in love, it was so unneccessary for him to give ALL of his shares to his brother. He ended up in jail because he was just way too passive aggressive. HR was frustrating, not because she was being lied to and believed it, but because she never caught on even when she had no reason to believe people. She had no reason to believe the mother, who sat back and admitted that she knew about her sister and didn't say anything. Her downfall was not being thorough. How cruel was it that her and that guy didn't find out the truth until it was too late. As persistent as SH had been the whole drama, she chose to leave a stupid voicemail when it mattered the most. To me, outside of TJ, the biggest villain is JH. I never trusted him and I felt like him approaching HR and then trying to get his ex to give her kidney to his daughter was all a ruse to get her back. He was ALWAYS silent when he should be speaking up and he often found out things and left HR in the dark when had he been more honest, none of this would've happened.

I want TJ to go down. He and his mother are the absolute worst. I really hate that her friend wasn't smarter. She found out all of that information and she was just so careless with how she handled it. She should've put the recorder in her pocket. She could've lied and said she got turned around or was waiting on the daughter-in-law, but not, she got caught, acted really guilty, then ran for it and ended up dying. She never even uttered the truth to her friend when she had her on the phone. And I am convinced that TJ's wife is the most useless character on the show. She has been spying on them for four years and has done nothing. Seriously? And as much as I want to feel bad for the uncle/secretary, he was horrible too. He was always covering dirt up which is why he ended up dead as well. This show has finally gotten it's wheels back. It will be good to see how it ends.

I find it so funny how Yu Ra is scheming to find out CWB's secret and here no one knows that WS's dongsaeng is her son! Not to mention, she was just in the mental hospital with the baby's daddy. She is going to have a heart attack when she finds out the truth. Also, I need them to reveal the truth behind that island the ED wants so badly. The part when Ari was impersonating the ED was laugh out loud funny. She is such a great little actress!

When YS started having a nervous breakdown in front of her mother, I was like now will she choose to do the right thing? Now that her daughter can't sleep at night and is losing her mind. I cheered when WJ asked YJ and her husband why he should forgive them. I felt the same way. The actress that plays Coach Kim and the actress that played Kay...wow! Give them all of the awards, they were fantastic!

So this is the thing about Secret. This is a great drama, well written, well acted and the plot moves along, even if it doesn't move as fast as we want at times. But this drama is reminiscent of one of those makjang family dramas where some of the plots are outrageous and you have to have a strong heart and mind. This is a drama where if you can't handle the protagonists suffering, don't watch it. If you can't deal with the antagonists getting away with a lot, don't watch it. If you can handle all of that, then you're good.