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If you sense you're getting close again, swerve towards Sa Ra, please.

They only announced the extension this weekend.

Perhaps that should be this message of this drama. If your family is awful, you're perfectly entitled to go and create your own family with people who love you.

If she hadn't been the twin, there would have been no dilemma for her at the end of episode 8. She could have simply agreed that when the contract ended, they could date. As it is, there is still enough plot for the remaining 4 episodes.

With the "be careful in front of the kids
in case they find out" vibe of the preview, I'm hoping we end today's ep on Jae Ni finding out. (These two supposedly sensible adults are not good at being subtle! 😂)

Look at YouTube on BigOcean's account. The new song is called Love One Day.

Watch a few older dramas if you like people speaking their thoughts aloud! In dramas like You're Beautiful, I always wondered how people didn't hear and ruin the plot when someone was muttering their thoughts right next to them! 😂

Honestly, I quite liked today's episode. Things are finally being exposed, like Sa Ra's cruel side, and the kids' awareness of YG and DD's relationship. At this point, I think the only way the writer can possibly redeem Sa Ra and let her live is to have her diagnosed with a strange mental condition and admitted into a hospital for long-term care. YG's noble idiocy is getting tiring now, but at least he no longer has the "I'm engaged" excuse, so if DD can convince him that she would be perfectly content as the wife of an "old" man and the stepmother of three children, she may make progress. Is anyone else wondering how long it takes for a purple handkerchief to blow all the way round the globe, and smack into someone's face to help bring back their lost memories?

I suspect that now that the children have spoken to him and explained a few things, he may actually mean it. I hope so, anyway!!

That's true. Dan Dan has never said that her dream is to work with Anna in the US. She planned to go there to get away, because at the time she believed YG was two-timing her. If anyone asked Dan Dan what her dream really was, I suspect it would involve Sa Ra exploding and Dan Dan getting to stay with the children and YG.

He looks so exhausted. Since the accident, people have been throwing dilemmas at him left, right and centre, and confusing a man who already only has half the facts in his brain. Someone needs to make him sit still and rest for a few days without mad relatives, idiot "fiancees" or urgent company business, and he might get back to being himself again. Right now, I think he's overwhelmed and bewildered, which is why he's not being decisive.

That would be a good plan, and I was kind of hoping one of the kids was behind a tree with a phone camera when Sa Ra grabbed DD's hair yesterday. No such luck. Maybe when she slaps DD in the next episode? We do need someone to give YG proof of how horrible and manipulative she really is, because he only sees the version of her with the cutesy baby voice, so he can't imagine that she would be anything but honest.

True.

People need to communicate. As you said, Anna didn't know about YG and Dan Dan. All she knows os that Dan Dan had said previously, while completely miserable, that she was desperate to get away after her contract finished. Anna is offering her that. From her point of view, she's being kind. If Dan Dan had told her about her relationship with YG, her actions might have been different. I'm hoping that Dan Dan sticks to her resolution to be courageous, and says that she won't go. Someone around here needs to be firm and stop wavering.

The problem with DD reporting Sa Ra's actions to YG is that she only has the kids' word for it, and she knows they hate Sa Ra, so they're capable of making it up. Also, if she ran to YG and said, "Sa Ra is abusing your kids", it could sound like DD is making it all up herself out of jealousy. If she had proof, I think she would have gone straight to YG with it. The person who really ought to tell YG about it is Se Chan.

The KBSWorld YouTube channel uploads the episodes a couple of weeks after they are broadcast. The episode broadcast today in South Korea will be episode 30. I'm not sure why episode 26 is in 3 parts. I would have expected them to upload the full episode 26 today. They are definitely uploading all the episodes, but just slower than the paid channels. If you want to view the episodes earlier, Viki and Kocowa upload them on the same day as the Korean broadcast, but you need to pay for a subscription.

Get your pitchforks and fiery pits ready then, because I'm pretty sure the writer will try exactly that. It's one reason why I think the engagement will be broken off fairly soon - the writer will need a lot of episodes to gradually make Sa Ra. a less horrifying character. I just hope she never gets any rights as a parent to Se Jong, and doesn't have any more children, because she's a nightmare as a mother... literally.

If you care enough about the characters to get upset about the situations they are in, the screenwriter has done a good job!

They would have to do an airport scene followed by a "X months later" caption, because this is not a drama with a budget for overseas shooting. Or, there would have to be a "US apartment" set, and she wouldn't ever leave the house!

Happy new year, everyone! And whatever you think of this drama, it has certainly got people talking! How many other weekend dramas have 5000+ comments on here at about the halfway mark? 😊