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that trash bin scene in the ep 8 trailer 🧸💔😢

the cheating wife scene was so great, it hit him like a boomerang.

I have seen that from ep 1 - totally in character (2ML). Eg. the way they interacted/he looked at her in the board room

it is? 😳I didn't notice! Wow!

I think he is the reason for the ripped shirt/blazer slipped from her shoulder. She made him stop by crushing the glass because she didn't want to fight back using her voice (so others stepping in could interpret it as him blowing up at her/them fighting) She does not want to reveal their relationship (yet) because it would destroy her professional image/armor she built.

"capitalism in China and its effects" sounds very interesting - which dramas/movies do you recommend?

Can you please elaborate?

That's probably due to the source material being from who knows when and them trying to be faithful to the character design of it

I bet many signed it in the fine print

thank you :)

The video doesn't exist anymore

from the title I'd infer its not at the ending.

I'm sure some docs wear bedazzled crocs

@Tom I agree with you. However, the way she herself explained the painting doesn't fit a siren.

That doesn't fit a siren, imho

Through the trailer I discovered the song "I like U" by The Wildcards - thank you

why is it misleading?

oh barely! I took a beginner's course. But I watched dramas for years and can see inaccuracies in the subtitles (In my head I translate more word-for-word, using the subs to "fill in the blank") and differentiate the level of politeness in speech, the way of address etc. Nobility has also been a special interest of mine. I research many (k/j/c) historical dramas I have watched. In Japan, for example, the royal family is that special, you cannot even air a scene where an actor is portraying the emperor. The princesses are never adressed/interacted with normally. This drama, for me, is an interesting look into what Korea has been grieving, yearning for, an alternate reality, artistic mixing of nostalgia and satire.

I presume "normal" would have been a more reserved/distant/hierarchical interaction. Him using hoobae could have been "playboyish" behavior (a prince can have access to any woman, akin to the olden days), but him kind of pushing her to that makes me think he wants her to recall something, establish a "closer" relationship than what would be normal (when I think of the historical dramas the difference between noble and common folk seemed insurmountable, the royal family being that much higher/unreachable. In PC it doesn't seem that stark but still there), emphasizing "for YOU I would be lenient.../YOU (and not the others I rejected) have my attention" Others meaning other people who seemed important and wanted an audience in ep 1 and "you" in your other roles (with which you otherwise gain attention/are important/puff your self esteem)... Hoobae seems strangely intimate to me.

I think he fell for her before the time of the drama starting. He was too happy to see her in the restricted area of the palace (did you also see a faint smile?), why would he make such a point of addressing her as hoobae flirtatiously and granting her an audience when she uses that moniker?