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I love this series--can't wait for next week 😆

But let me get this straight: So our ML had a car accident where he was somersaulted 2m into the air, after which his heart temporarily stopped and he had to be reanimated. Ah, and he also has a history of heart transplant surgery. Yet, somehow he managed to get up shortly after, don his regular clothes and walk around to meet Yeori outside the hospital?!? I'm glad they at least had him go back afterwards and stay another night!
But seriously, plot armor was no joke there...! 🤣

As far as I know, we don't fully know that yet. From the hints dropped, I suspect she earns good money though. She seems to own the building of her MIL's restaurant and the daycare moms were pitying her for being poor. Clearly, it's going to be revealed later on that she is not poor at all.

All that equipment the team uses isn't cheap either.

So, someone is funding them. We just don't know yet, who.

I don't see them taking on jobs like paid assassins do though. Their targets are the villains and their victims don't seem like they have the means to hire them.

My current guess is that their company's boss somehow decided to dedicate his company's profits into this endeavour. Maybe him and the Bong Team leader go way back and this team started from something the two of them experienced. Maybe they have been going after a big big boss all this time or something...

Well, those are just my speculations. Well just have to wait and see 😁

The way I see it, it's not that she's waiting for something. Rather he's slowly healing her wounded heart.

If I remember correctly, her exhusband basically forced her family to marry her to him only to later execute them all for his power game. All while calling his emotions and actions towards her "love".

I in her position would also take a while to believe it again when someone says they love me. And to open my heart and allow myself to love and trust someone in return. Plus, there's also his looming death that guarantees heartbreak, if she lets herself fall for him.

Right now she's in the stage that she cautiously believes his actions and love to be genuine. She herself is falling for him too and she likely even knows that. But she's still too scared to let all walls down.

I think this part is actually very well paced and realistic. Trauma takes time and patience to heal. Especially for people like her who overthink everything.

That said, I also want them to finally kiss already! lool

My blood pressure at the end of ep 28: 📈

This drama has made one thing very clear to me: the reason I watch my dramas is neither intricate costumes, fancy CGI, splendid sets, nor breathtaking sceneries. I love those too, dont get me wrong, but they're more like the cherry on top.

It's also not the plot. After having read and watched hundreds of stories, there rarely is someting mindblowingly new. Though of course, a well-written script definitely enables this: the character portrayal.

The one thing that makes me sit through a drama rather than just skip to the resolution (i need to know how things end) is the way actors bring a character to life, their facial expressions, body language and interaction with others.

And it will be a long way, if ever, until AI will be able to achieve this with the authenticity, subtlety, and creativity that an excellent human actor can.

so true! I ADORE their dynamic!! I laughed tears today!!!

The rest I skip. So the two episodes become just one every day lol

Liao Shiyu got jealous (again) after seeing Qian Fei at the hospital with Wang Ruohai. So she went bawling to her dad again, who directly went to Qian Fei's boss''s boss asking for Qian Fei to be removed from the project.🙄 Qian Fei's boss apparently had been told by her boss to remove Qian Fei before the meeting and she wanted to try talking to Liao Shiyu again and try to convince her otherwise. But with Liao Shiyu openly stating her removal during the meeting, Qian Fei's boss could not not stand up for Qian Fei anymore. Whether this now means Qian Fei is also losing her job or whether she just gets reassigned to another project, I also don't know. In either case, Liao Shiyu is a whiny brat. And that Fulashida boss better run faaaaar away from the Liao family. They're best avoided like the pest they are.

Totally! The only reason they can play it off (barely) is because he has a handsome face. Like, imagine a jobless guy with a less favourable face and figure whose sole interest is gaming (non-professionally) and starts grabbing a unfamiliar girl's wrists (take at least the hands, fhs!) because she is his "idol"? Gives me the creeps! (With either face, just to be clear about that )

(If I got something wrong due to my skipping his scenes, please correct me.)

Stalking as a comedy act? What a lovely idea! 😑
Honestly i hit the skip button the moment he appears on my screen now, so I don't even know 😅

I love the characterisation of the ML in this! Chatty, energetic, and a bit quirky but still somwhat in the domineering-CEO or MLs-to-look-up-to cateogry.
More of this, please, dramaland!

I usually don't follow up on actors' news, so I didn't know about this until now. But the ex's scenes have been unusually unbearable to watch. I thought it was because he was a hypocrite (said Qian Fei providing the apartment made him feel pressured but being with a heiress is fine?) and just SUCH a doormat.
But now I'm wondering whether part of that was due to the use of AI... 😅

Yep, it's too close to stalking for me to watch it comfortably...

or, maybe, rather than being sent back, she fled back to Lishan after finding her mother killed, hoping to find a safe haven, only to find it being an even more lifethreatening place...

I'm absolutely with you on this. PTSD and DID seem way more plausible to me than some preexisting condition.

From what I understand, her father's family killed her mom, her mom's maid Yunluo, and her own maid Qingsheng over that edict. Her father not just stood by and watched, he even supported it. With no time to process or mourn, Ye Li was sent back to Lishan mountain alone, where god knows what awaited her. I remember a memory fragment where she was trying to flee but was caught again. And also several where she's alone in a dark rundown hut, battling monkeys just to get some water or food. In that scene, Qingsheng was also "there".

So, I'm guessing there were still some people alive when she returned to Lishan mountain, but something (someone) had them eradicated soon after. Ye Li survived, all alone on that mountain, where all her loved ones had died a potentially horrible death, and unable to leave because Lishan was "closed off". For eight years!! Anyone would be traumatised. She must have "created" Qingsheng during those years to cope. To battle the loneliness, but also to dissociate her emotions. I noticed, in those emotional moments, it is always Qingsheng who is scared, sad, etc. while Ye Li is the "strong and rational one" who consoles her. That's a classic trauma response.

What I still cannot reconcile is that Ye Li seems to have studied how to treat leg injuries after the elder brother asked her to heal his brother's legs. But if all of Lishan was dead shortly after her arrival, where would she have learnt that?

I'm sorry for the rant that will follow, but this steam has to go somewhere!

Those insufferable Li family members!! My Ghaad!! (ofc, excluding the few sensible ones). She saves them time and time again, shows that she has an incredible talent for the craft and for management, and yet they doubt her again, as soon as the tiniest thing comes up! Every. Single. Time!!! Like, can you grow some brain cells please?!? Or, if not, just shut up?!?
And what? "This needs a man to negotiate, so please give me the family seal"? And after what he'd done?!? The sheer audacity!!

I'm so glad, Li Zhen blew her top, at least a bit! I'm fuming just from watching!

Ok, rant's over. Now I can happily continue watching this amazing show. I always love these craft-tropes.

I assume, you're talking about the Grand Prince, Ian? However, in my original post, my theorising was actually actually about the PM. My theory was that the PM wanted Ian dead.
But I guess, after today's episode, I guess we got our answer in both regards. Not that I find the PM's motive very convincing though...

"It is your fault that I turned out this way"?!?! The lion the witch and the audacity of this b!tch!!!

Also, this was a good show with so much potential. But what is with this lukewarm resolution and where are all the answers to the open questions? Like, what happened to the PM? Who sent Truckkun after the former queen mother and why? So the PM's motive was just jealousy? Really, that's it? How did that prosecution get resolved?

I'm still in denial that it was all Lord Inpyeong's doing all by himself. Please don't let it end with such a cliché and anticlimactic resolution! 🙏
I think it would be much cooler if the PM or his father had some leverage on him and he was just their lapdog all along. I still can't think of reason why Lord Inpyeong would call Truckkun upon the former queen mother... But maybe the former PM, the current PM's fater, who was supposedly the best PM ever, had a reason? Or maybe I just wish Jo Jaeyun wouldn't be the villain for once XD

Also, I need to know why the hell the PM wanted Ian dead! If it was just because he wanted Huiju, I'm throwing my laptop! Before today's ep I was also suspecting some crap like "I wanted to abolish the monarchy/class system for you, Huiju". Not like I think the abolishment is a bad thing, but not by unnecessarily sacrificing lives...!

Ok, all these mysterious snippets that created speculations but didn't really prove anything were a fun rethorical device at the beginning. It raised the tension and got the conspiration theories going. But if they don't start giving us the missing pieces in between and start resolving the mystery in today's episode, this is not going to end well... Either we'll get an anticlimatic, clichéed resolution or a rushed ending. Which would be a shame because the initial premise had a lot of potential.

That is what I was wondering too! Like, how did that piece of paper make it out relatively unharmed, while the king died? There was definitively more going on than what we've been shown so far!