InspectorMegre

Ok so you never went hungry, never have done any physical labor and/or heavy exercise, never have been outdoors for a long time esp in cold weather.
So your cholte! comes from someone afluent who sits indoors all day.

It's ok but understand that other ppl have different realities :)

Also, if you are ah so sensitive, then you could catch the drift and realize that Dog Man is literally starving, and despite all his misfortunes, he never failed to NOURISH HIMSELF, pun intended, and he kept his body and spirit strong, and he kept his good health and he is in great shape, dancing as he walks, running a lot.

You dont seem to relate to any of that nor did you notice that DM is doing something that you are not used to.

Try dancing and skipping and running fast like DM does, use public transport, and spend a day hauling catering "boxes" inside and outside, closing heavy truck doors, driving a catering truck, and walking around serving,

and then let's talk about your CHOLTE :) It will be gone by then :)

Bon appetit ;)

I am Inspector Megre. I have two tasks: 1. help kdramas get better and grow and prosper and 2. solve these puzzles, these mysteries. So I ask for help from others and I take what others say into account.

My goal is not to shut people up, or to show off, but to solve the mystery together.

Sometimes I complain about what someone said if I think it is taking away from the drama. But I dont want to shut them up. I want them to see another point of view and hopefully change their position.

I want people to post as much as they want bc it helps the drama to grow, and also discussion with many different points of view is a learning experience and is INTERESTING AND FUN.
The worst drama pages have no comments or all comments all the same. The most interesting drama pages have some super cool insightful discussions.

And yeah, if someone doesnt want to nicely discuss and resorts to personally insulting me / cussing me, I tell them to stop - so yeah I try to shut them up - and if they don't, I block them.

yes yes yes you are right, that was King, I was in the process of writingmy post and posted it too early with that mistake, so I had to delete it from here and port the correct version in the main thread. Thank you for your patience

FL kept remembering the Joseaon royal man - but with a hidden face. Sometimes the hidden face is SML, sometimes it is ML. You can tell bc SML was the King and wears the robe with the BIG round gold in the front and back
JOSEON EDITIONS OF FL (runaway slave, royal servant, concubine, royal consort), ML (the masked man) AND SML (the King) WERE DEEPLY ENTANGLED - and the hot pink peonies hint at that.

When FL saw hot pink peonies in currentML's office next to the currentML...
She remembered hot pink peonies she planted in her Joseon garden ... and how King came to visit her and their conversation about peonies.

(1). First of all - WHAT ARE HOT PINK PEONIES DOING IN ML's LIFE, WHEN HIS STYLE IN FASHION, FURNITURE AND DECORUM IS "ONLY BLACK / DARK GRAY URBAN SIMPLE" ??
Those hot pink peonies are SCREAMING COLOR AND EXTRAVAGANT NATURAL EXUBERANCE in his almost empty, dark, very austere, very simple, sleek, modern urban style office.

To have those peonies there, in the austere work environment, indicates that ML has DEEP FEELINGS - over lifetimes - for whatever those hot pink peonies represent to him... It could be anything - including his love for JoseonFL.

Why did Joseon FL plant that exact hot pink color peonies back then? she told her maids she planted them bc they have big visible flowers
Did she like hot pink peonies and JoseaonML liked her, or vice versa, or they liked each other, or they together have hot pink peony memories, ..

(2). The peonies that FL saw in ML's office reminded FL of her peonies she planted in herJoseon garden - - AND THE KING CAME to VISIT HER IN THE PEONY GARDEN...
- The King praised the peonies...
- She joked and said that the peonies are more beautiful than the King..... (wow! that was gutsy..... she was basically telling the King off.... !!! and maybe indirectly saying she liked JoseonML.. ?)
- The King said that he can never have his way with her... (wow! he was seemingly meek but he was telling her she was crossing the line and not kissing his as# enough... )
- AND THEN he said he brought her a gift - a herbal tonic to restore her health bc she was deteriorating in health ... . (wow! that was either a doting, repeatedly rejected man trying to kiss her as@ - tough luck a King would do that... ! OR he politely told her that she was already "spent" and HE WAS ALREADY POISONING HER.)

That scene did not show any love between her and the King.
>>Did the King love her at some point and then gave up, OR he never loved her and was just playing games, e.g. snagged her to hurt JoseaonML?

>>Possibly, JoseonML liked her at some point... and also his mask indicates some issues .... and maybe she liked him too... and somehow the King snatched her.
But a different story is possible too... Maybe peonies remind JoseonML of revenge against stealing his throne... and JoseonFL was on his side.... ? WE WILL FIND OUT :)

and this is probably related to the reason why the King decided to remove her... and she knew it before she was poisoned, she saw the kill list

So that's why currentFL is very afraid of currentSML - he has that face - and that ... personalityvibe of a great "politician", liar, slimey calculated backstabber thief. SML IS A HARD CORE SOCIOPATH / PSYCHOPATH the perfect material for a King or a politician.
SML is unsuitable to be a CEO, Chairman, and/or a capitalist monster, bc those require some merit , some very solid business skillZ, and proven ability to DO things rather then to just politick around - and ML got those busoness skillZ. he should inherit the company.

CurrentML is a very much masked man and also a bitter spiteful man, and things were taken from him in this life too. CurrentML seems to be some Robin Hood and enjoys torturing the guilty.

THE HOT PINK PEONIES!!! they are a significant detail and a key to unraveling many mysteries. See the first spoiler below

THE HOT PINK PEONIES!!! I am posting about them now. THE HOT PINK PEONIES are a significant detail and a key to many things.

What we know for sure:
1. SH said that HY stole the hairpin from her. SH does not lie lmao So for now, we can assume that SH told the truth. We do not know HOW and WHEN HY stole that hairpin. Seems like HY knew Chairman's son DS for years bc he funded the movies.

2. Earlier, we saw VERY POOR AND UNKNOWN HY WITH BABY JH GIVING HIM FOR ADOPTION bc she had no money, not even for baby formula and hungry JH was crying in hunger.
3. Lapdog is the dad of JH. Bc we saw his memory of him and unknown actress HY cozying up on a bed.

You said: "HY didn't miscarried ( the DOCTOR told her so hinself and she blamed SH ) She went and stole MSR for DNA purposes!? ( but she dropped the baby boy at an orphanage herself cuz he was the lapdog's son? )"

Oh yeah you are right!!!! I forgot about that!!! wow YES!!!!
I also forgot about scenes with baby JH, .... HY was definitely very poor and unknown actress then.

so my theory was 100% incorrect. it is NOT possible that JH was the miscarried baby.

I am gonna redo my post right now with the updated info. THANK YOU!

This CAN be done in MDL software:
allow episode rating only after the EPISODE is finished airing (ideallly require that the user provide 100 character review) AND DISPLAY USER NAMES WHO RATED IT.

But I think that might require too much storage space ffor MLD where 50,000 watchers can comment on 12 episodes...
I wonder how Facebook gets away with it, since every single post lists users who clicked on likes and dislikes..
Or Amazon reviews...

MDL is owned by Daebak Media LLC so it is US based

Also, allow rating only when the drama finished airing and the user has it clicked on "completed" and provided some justification for their rating - BUt MDL WILL NOT DO THIS bc early partial reviews provide the hype and advertise the drama

I gotta go to sleep now :) Nice talking with you, this was very productive, and I hope we solve this and someone from MDL actually puts this into their software. Someone should inform MDL to do this. See you later!

Since FL was a royal consort, that means she was King's chick - and the King has the ace of the current time villain - and the King back then decided to kill her.

BUT FL first met the royal who had the face of ML

SO IT SEEMS THAT THE KING SOMEHOW TOOK FL FROM THE MASKED ROYAL ... and then decided to frame her and poison her.

"Royal Consort" means a chick of the KING - cannot be a chick of some other male from the royal family - is that correct? Which then makes a twist in the drama.... Who are the Joseon royals? see the first spoiler below and then the other spoiler in reply to this, with HOT PINK PEONIOES as a key to unraveling the mystery

As another user astutely said, it must be that ML and FL are not 100% innocent regarding their "villain" reputation... , some of the gossip must be true even for her. For chaebol ML definitely, he is cruel arrogant and rash

Omg you are right, those 5.8/10 stars are for ep 7-12!!!! *** BY 13 USERS!!!!!! **** this is an organized gang!!!!! Wow.... This is clearly intentionally malicious.

Sometimes reviews based on a few episodes say they are for all episodes. There, typos are possible. But in rating individual episodes, it is very specific and mistakes are not possible.

These organized groups seem to want to kill kdramas in general.

I AM NOT SURE HOW TO SEE WHiCH USERS GAVE THAT RATING? I think that is the loophole they are eploiting. Also, it is not necessary to write a short review

It is impossible to rate based on if a user watched it, esp since the watching platform is separate from MDL.

The only thing that can be done is open the rating only after the drama is finished airing, and the user has it clicked on "completed" and provided some justification for their rating. But - ppl cheat and say generic things like "it is boring". WHY?? where specifically?

We as the audience can expose fake accounts and call them individually in Comments. Also, we need to rate individual episodes

Of course she was stupid and should have not proposed to him. She proposed, a business contract that she did not plan to uphold, and now she openly says she does not plan to uphold it, and so she got a "consumer complaint" - he wants to enforce the contract as agreed ....

She was honest and said it is a business deal and she wants to use him - but then she swindled him and promised SHE WILL TRY to love him... that was ... a very stupid, dirty lie to bait him.

So yeah you are right, she promised, so we cannot say he will be raping her.
HOWEVER, recently she said she doesnt want it, she is breaking the deal. But he still wants to proceed. That's why I call it rape

Bc this is not a business contract but a personal relationship. As soon as one person wants out, the other one has to honor it...

Yeah that stupid Chloe opened a Pandora's box and will suffer for starting this stupid dangerous hassle .....

Wow ep 5 imo was the best episode so far, bc it was the deepest, we finally got to know ML and FL and ther lives better, FL stopped being just 1-d Cruella Makjang Boss , and we got to see more interesting, richer acting
There were deeper and more truly intimate scenes with deep meaningful - and trying to be honest - conversations, deep sharing of their inner life, between ML and FL, .... so the script was better, deeper, more meaningful and COMPLEX, and so the actor could act more - and they did. This is the first episode with the real acting, not makjang, by FL actress. ML actor was always acting in complex ways from the start, but in this ep it got even more complex and deep. Nice work! And in terms of the plot, that ship is sailing :) this is a mature adult pair in deep love. She is not there as much as he is, so it will take more episodes :)

Teenage FL actress is phenomenal.

And now we get into the thriller part of the drama lmao

please tell us, which ep and min was it shared with the audience about FL-SML? Thanks

Actually the latest episides are rated 6 - please check the graph

Yes there are organized troll groups on MDL that try to kill kdramas in general . Their accounts are empty fake accounts.

thank you, makes sense

She wants out :) and asked him :) but he wont let her. The scary part is that he is planning to proceed as if the marriage were real, .... which boils down to rape

you CAN do something. Rate individual episodes, write a great review, and write comments praising the drama. And when you see someone downrating it, check their profile. If it is empty, CALL THEM OUT - mention all those names in Comments

Ep 2 was amazing :)
FL actress was phenomenally funny. (For some reason, she gets more ... off footing in scenes with ML)
ML actor - Jae Pil from 100 Memories - is amazing in this role, and it is fascinating to see what was behind the poker face of "nice" Jae Pil - i knew that Jae Pil was an arogant cruel dude - it was just reeking of it - and it is so fascinating to see it now :) I feel that 100 Memories finally completed for me :)