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Do you need musical cues to tell you how you’re supposed to react to every line?

Yeah, so his fiancée's father is a retired policeman and his father MAY be one of the top dogs in the Korean police (unless the rumour his boss heard is misdirection and it was another Cha Yeonho who passed the police exam at the same time... but I think it's more likely that our CYH is the son of the commissioner, because his father-in-law mentioned that CYH joined the police force because there was something he had to do; I assume he's on bad terms with his father and his father will turn out to be corrupt).

It's been 10+ years since his pregnant fiancée died, so it's very unlikely he's in his late 20s OR early 30s IMO.

But they're not enemies; he's perfectly decent to her and she treats him the way a bratty teenager treats their parents. That's totally unacceptable in the world of adults (and she's been acting this way since the beginning).

Why is Sooji so damn rude to the only person who's nice to her all the time

I get what you're saying, but I do feel there was enough subtext to leave me satisfied. The contrast between Eun Siyeon's relationship with Prosecutor Gi, who was charming and cool and understood her well thanks to their shared history and values, and her relationship with Seo Minjae, whom she knew and liked less well but who obviously drew her in and resonated with her on a deeper emotional level, suggested the broad outlines of a delicious love triangle (and I don't like love triangles as a rule!). The movie ended with ESY and Prosecutor Gi on good terms and seemingly in a relationship, but ESY sought out SMJ to get his help with a new case (and maybe to recruit him for her new special team)... so we can choose to imagine that she'll end up making a choice between these two, if we want.

The premise sounds SO cool, I love it. Finally a mysterious genius badass female protagonist on a self-destructive quest for honor and revenge… and a rat ML trying to use her for his own advancement? Sign me the fuck up.

You asked, I answered. You don’t have to watch it.

It has four relationships with implied romantic potential (Muqing/the princess, Lucky/Miss Liu, Wang Jialuo/the spy, Zhuo Bufan/Miss Huo), and I can see maybe two of them being relevant to the plot (Muqing's tragic romance and the princess's shitty marriage will sway his loyalties at some point and the spy will probably steal information from WJL and betray his trust... these are also the two relationships I'm most invested in) and maybe two or three of them being consummated/getting a happy ending (I think Muqing or the princess will probably die, which is total bullshit IMO, and I can also see the show maybe fridging Sect Girl toward the end to give Zhuo Bufan character development, which would also suck even though she's an incredibly bland character).

The romance is pretty subtle and light, but I'm enjoying it.

Shovel’s child should be 45 by now. Neither Wang Jialuo nor Lucky looks old enough.

It's hard to believe Zhuo Bufan is a better swordsman than Muqing when MQ looks so much cooler when he fights.

I love Wang Jialuo because he's like a loser version of the Terminator.

You seem weird.

They were clearly asking about the drama; we can all look up the actors’ ages on our own.

Shows are usually categorized into multiple genres.

The Bok family mother is horrible. She deserves to get scammed and worse.

There's obviously going to be a romance between the leads, though?

I mean that sex is messy and things sometimes go wrong, so when a disabled 30-year-old virgin reacts poorly during an attempt to have sex and says something hurtful because she doesn't know how to navigate consent and communication, that's unpleasant, but it doesn't make her a demon. Chen Maidong was understandably upset, but he was able to understand her issues and accept her apology, which was totally reasonable.

It might have been "unforgivable" if Zhuang Jie had called him a rapist in front of other people, but their argument/misunderstanding happened and was resolved entirely in private. Get over it.

Oh please.

Yeah, dude, totally, what this melancholic exploration of loneliness, the fragility of human connection, the transience of life and the power of love really needed was a serial killer subplot, or at the very least 6 episodes of a crazy ex creating stupid misunderstandings between the leads.

lmao

AND ALSO… there was plenty of conflict to drive the plot? Granted, it was between the main leads because of their conflicting views on life and their psychological issues and not between different members of a chaebol family fighting for control over the family corporation, so you may have missed it, but it was there from beginning to end and it was super exciting and beautifully resolved.