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From their body language, with each other, I don't feel they're secret lovers, as they don't give off the feeling of two people who love to touch each other but they have to refrain. I'm sensing close childhood friends. Maybe they had to go in different directions because of class differences. Jeong Ha lost his parents and ended up having to live with his grandmother, who clearly wasn't financially well-off, which likely dropped him out of the financial class of Seong Won's parents. When his grandmother got sick, his situation went from bad to worse. They've retained the friendship, but for Seong Won to remain untainted by Jeong Ha's fall from grace, they have to pretend to no longer be close.

South Korean society can exercise brutal classism. It's almost caste system-like in its rigidity.

If a woman wrote, "I'm more comfortable with women," would that automatically make that person a lesbian?

A lot of heterosexuals feel more comfortable with same sex friends. It's very careless and borderline mentally lazy to automatically assume homosexual preferences based solely on that criteria.

The teacher cared for his wife, but he wasn't passionate about her. That's more an indication that something within him has been lying dormant. He went through his whole life being emotionally muted, likely due to the trauma of having an avoidant alcoholic as a mother-- who knows where his father is/went. Having never encountered the spark that ignited his flame, he believes there's something wrong, within himself; but, maybe he just hadn't met that particular person yet (regardless of gender).

Oh, you know.... He's been muted his entire life-- very shallow passions. Maybe he needed the right thing/person to spark his flame.

Oh, noooooooooooooooooooo!!! No, no, no. This cannot end well. Also, I get the feeling that the loan shark is related to Lee Hyeon Jae-- either an older brother/cousin. Maybe he's related through the mother's line? The father is definitely not the clean cut guy he tries to pass himself off as, so Lee Hyeon Jae having a relative who's a loan shark makes sense. Now, this dangerous relative Is checking on the teacher... Han Gi U, run, man! They're all nuts!!

Lee Hyeon Jae surprised the poor teacher with that move at the end, but the teacher didn't dislike it. It's clear that the teacher had a bit of an awakening at the end.

Thank you for the info. It appears that this campaign was the real purpose of episode 2, and since I have zero interest in that rubbish I will skip episode 3.

Soooo.... what was the purpose of leaving a comment?

Was the 2nd extra episode about the characters or an advertisement for a line of prettily packaged skin care products? 🤔 I understand product placement, but the level of blatant messaging in this was egregious.

I'm deciding whether or not I'm willing to let my avoidance of ending something I've invested time in dictate whether or not I drop this series before it concludes. The sunk cost fallacy is in full effect-- I'm continuing a failing path because I've already invested hours watching 9 episodes; but, at this point, why bother?

I don't care if Suzuki figures out that Serizawa likes him. I know the point of this type of series is that the characters end up together, but I'm now so annoyed and bored with how the characters' journeyed to arrive at that inevitable ending that I find myself not caring that they'll end up together. That moment will likely land with a dull thud.

Suzuki's denseness is bordering on emotional edging, and the drawn out/forced for the plot cluelessness of the character is causing me to rapidly lose interest in this series. The cuteness of Suzuki wore thin around episode 7.

You must lack reading comprehension, because I already wrote that I don't care about the inclusion of AI.

Your thinking is nonsensical and attempting to communicate with you is a waste of time.

Well, you'd know if you're full of nonsense more than anyone, so.... Sure. I'll take your word for it.

You didn't have to take the opportunity to insert book spoilers into your comment. The first paragraph was sufficient.

The actor delivered that retelling well inline with his character's personality. The Shawn character is afflicted by anti-social personality disorder-- those people can relay slaughtering thousands and the expression on their faces wouldn't change nor would their voices reveal any emotional disturbance. It'll be like them talking about brushing a piece of lint off their sleeve.

Editing a show during its initial airing is very common. Simply omitting scenes and, instead, leaving only voice overs is easy. Also, regarding viewers voicing their displeasure with the inclusion of AI imagery, this hasn't only been occurring on the MDL platform-- it's on every single platform. I'm not one of the viewers who took to the sites to complain, but to claim the voices of thousands hasn't had an impact would be inane, as it clearly has; since midway through the run of the series, those AI scenes were cut back drastically and the ones that remained were only external scenes, which most viewers wouldn't notice were entirely AI generated.

You didn't spoil anything for me, personally. I already read the entire novel.

You've made your point-of-view clear. As you're prone to spoiling, to ensure I don't run into any future comments of yours on future series, I can take care of the issue on my end.

Have a good day.

Great comment, but for those who haven't watched the recent episode, you've dropped a lot of spoilers; so, please place a SPOILER tag.

SPOILER Tag your comment, please.

I preferred the younger version and ended up dropping the series, midway through episode 7, because I couldn't tolerate the adult leads.

@gnabnahc was referring specifically to the music and songs being used in the series. They're good enough to pass as real works, but they've been generated by computer programs.

Um... he first appeared in episode 3, during the conference, as the CEO of Feros Group, which is a rival corporation to Vincent's corporation. He then appeared again in episode 4, in Fei Foon's favorite restaurant. He introduced himself as Shawn, because Fei Foon hadn't recognized him--the last time Fei Foon saw him, he was a little boy who Fei Foon had rescued when his father was severely beating him. Shawn considers Fei Foon the person who saved his life, and in that scene, it was evident that Shawn had deeper feelings for Fei Foon.