Hiedi

Your comment just made me laugh. And yes.. GTY is on my ideal husband list too! ;)

Gosh. Fukuko is such a great wife & so kind-hearted lady! There were quite a few times I wanna slap Manpei on the face real hard whenever he started being overly obsessed in creating things & pursuing his dreams. He himself knew that he was selfish. Especially when he begged Fukuko to put their house as collateral for other people's projects. If he didn't have kids, I could accept it but he still did it anyway. Poor Fukuko & the kids. I know Manpei is a good man & great inventor but selfishness is his one bad point. One thing I can surely say, that without his wife, he couldn't be what he wanted to be.

If I'm not mistaken, I read somewhere that in the novel, this will changed after she & husband have a heart to heart talk after certain incident (maybe the fire accident). They both admit that didn't fully love each other wholeheartedly due to circumstances in their life before & they both need to break the wall & completely trust & love each other. I dunno the full details though. I also read in recent interview, Zhao Li Ying herself didn't quite understand Ming Lan's stance & personality at first & she felt confused how to play her character. But she said Feng Shao Feng adviced her something & told her why Ming Lan is so and so. Only after that, she understood more about Ming Lan & try to act from Ming Lan's perspective. She said she used to play brainy, heroic & outspoken characters before. So she wants to try playing plain & reserved character like this for once as a challenge even though some people may not like it. That way she can improve her acting skills & put more versatility on her acting resume.

Elegant. That's the word. The story is pretty slow in the beginning. Even though some people may not like it & don't have the patience to wait for the story to unfold. Like you said it's very different & full wisdom of life. The story is not ostentatious & grandeur as other historical but I find it's refreshing too in a way. I guess to each his own.

The costume, the setup & the tone of the drama is not as colourful & grandeur as most historical dramas but yet so alive right? If I'm not mistaken the production only use candles as a lighting source in this one & nothing else. This drama is unique on its own. What I appreciate the most is the character development of the leads. Totally gonna rewatch this again soon after it ends!

Can you share the YT channel link pls? The one with 73 eps

Thank you. Now I can watch in peace.. Not that I don't know there'll be heaps of hurdles waiting in remaining episodes. But still.. as long as they're together in the end, all is well for me. Haha..

I'm on Ep45 now. I really really hope that this will have a happy ending. Anyone knows the ending in the novel, just please tell me about it in a spoiler tag.

The drama airs at a quite late hour in Korea. Around 11pm there. Hence, the late RAW , I think.

I watch it on local tv here in my country.

This drama has more mature approach in terms of tackling the 'contract marriage' theme that has been overly-used these days. Both party didn't easily agree to step into contract marriage until they really felt that they had nowhere out, which I found is refreshing. The woman has difficult personality; mysophobia & fussy while the man has divorced twice. It's pretty interesting to see how their relationship developed slowly and how they both handle their supposedly fake marriage when 2 of his ex-wives & the man that she had a crush with, got entangled with their married life.

I dunno why but I think the guy in black hunts the wrong person to avenge his wife's death. I feel that it wasn't Seung Joo but her senior Hong In Pyo was the one who actually had to do something with it. He seems suspicious to me..

He and the granny trio make the drama much fun and lighter to watch. :)

Has this drama got subbed yet?

I think dramacool uploaded the longer version with 40+ min per episode. Hence, the episodes amount to 45 eps. While kissasian uploaded the shorter version with 30+ per episode. The total amount of eps would be 59.

Nope, don't worry.

Her new drama is currently airing. It just started this week. Before this, she had been working in a movie 'Uhm Bok Dong'. It is produced by actor Lee Bum Soo in which her co-star is Rain. She's working just fine.. Don't worry ;)

Yup.. you should watch him in Rebel. After it ended I'm pretty much having a Kyun Sang-itis now ;)

I love this drama to bits. I know it's not perfect but I still gave this one 10/10 because of all the feels that it gave me while watching. The first drama this year that I had so much attachment to.

'Dasan Jung Yak Yong' got cancelled pretty rudely by KBS long ago. They just let him know about the cancellation by phone. Pfft KBS! And about the movie 'Romancing Game' aka 'Sweet Speeding'. That one was out of the window too. It didn't manage to go pass planning stage. Yeon Jung Hoon really has no luck in movieland these days. Hope admin will correct this info though.