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I mean, obviously he's going to "move on" in the sense of falling for 'Buyeon,' who is Naksu without her memories. He married her with an ulterior motive in mind and has no interest in her at the moment, but she's a charming woman and he's already starting to worry about her and get involved in her business.

No doubt once his feelings grow he'll feel conflicted about it because of the memory of Naksu, whom he still loves. But yes, clearly he'll develop feelings for 'Buyeon.'

lol yep, he’s well on his way. He was already looking for an excuse to help her when he realised she’d snuffed out the lamp.

I think Uk falling in love with the same person twice even when he doesn’t know who she is is way more romantic than him treating her with indifference the second time around, learning she’s Naksu/Mudeok (even though she has no memory of their relationship) and suddenly being all over her like a switch got flipped.

If he can only care about her after he learns she’s Mudeok, then he’s in love with the idea of Mudeok, not with the real person in front of him.

That’s why I’m really liking this dynamic they seem to be setting up where Uk wants to use Buyeon (as an instrument of his suicide even) and keep her at arm’s length but can’t help getting involved in her business and is starting to worry about her. The angst is gonna be delicious.

Ugh, next episode is going to be another emotional rollercoaster. Taehee deserves a break from all this grief, but the hits keep coming. And I feel really bad for Hae-an too. His crush on Dongjoo was annoying earlier in the drama, but now I've grown to feel sympathy for him. I hope he can have a hopeful ending.

I knowwww, it drives me crazy how obtuse people are being about this. Oh no, how dare he break up with his demanding, emotionally draining girlfriend and not humour her tantrums two years later just because his kid brother died! His reason for dumping her wasn’t good enough, so he’s the bad guy!

HELLO, do people realise how earth-shattering and soul-destroying losing a family member can be? Especially when it’s a child, and when you’re indirectly the reason for it, and when they die right in front of you. That’s enough to ruin your life for years, like it did to TH.

And deep in the throes of grief, when you’re struggling to care about anything, there’s someone who keeps asking you to pay attention to her, who keeps arguing with you about whose fault it was, essentially telling you it didn’t matter that much and to get over it, criticising your feelings of grief instead of inviting you to open up about them, someone who needs you to get your shit together and go back to work ASAP because she wants her boyfriend to be the perfect little doctor she’s always pictured herself with, etc. etc. etc.

I’m speculating to some extent here, sure, but it’s so obvious that CH was a burden to TH at that time instead of a source of comfort. Even if that wasn’t her intention and she didn’t do anything wrong and it was unfair to dump her… when someone is going through the worst moments of their life and their girlfriend is only making it worse, the relationship should end. It’s so fucking obvious.

And if she had an ounce of emotional maturity, she would have accepted it in TWO YEARS.

They’ve been broken up for TWO YEARS, that’s as clean as it gets! He doesn’t owe her anything at this point! Jeez.

Also he didn’t owe her a “good reason” for breaking up with her after his brother died and he decided to leave his life behind. He was in a terrible place mentally, couldn’t deal with her on top of everything else and found out he didn’t want to have her by his side in that vulnerable state because she wasn’t a good person for him to face difficulties with. Sure, CH would have been justified in being angry at him and/or the situation at that point, but a. he was reacting to a traumatic loss, b. she has no claim on him two years later and c. their breakup made sense at the time. Sometimes people aren’t right for each other and going through hard times just makes it obvious.

He would have stayed with Dongjoo if she'd been his GF at the time instead of Cheongha because DJ understands him better and would have supported him through his grief instead of making him feel additional pressure the way CH did. Basically, TH and DJ are better suited to each other and can be there for one another in tough times instead of amplifying each other's misery through miscommunication and pressure to perform certain roles in their relationship. It's really not that hard to understand, especially after seeing how selfish CH is and how little she cares about TH's feelings and desires. She is constantly projecting her own needs on him and asking him to be, do and feel things he isn't, doesn't want to do and doesn't feel. It's likely this dynamic was already present to some extent when they were together, so when TH's brother died TH needed to get some space and mourn on his own instead of in whatever way CH found appropriate.

"I don't deserve to be happy with you" is just a nice way of saying that when his brother died, TH's relationship with CH lost importance compared to his feelings of loss and guilt and he couldn't bring himself to go through the motions of being a devoted boyfriend, proposing marriage and acting like everything was fine. In reality, he *couldn't* be happy with CH because he needed to grieve first and she wasn't the kind of person who would let him do that, but with DJ he feels he could have got through it.

Also CH and TH knew each other for 10 years, but it doesn't seem like they actually dated for that long (not that it's that important IMO).

1. Yeah, it was the queen dowager (then a concubine) who killed Crown Prince Taein and the scarred physician guy didn't know about it.

2. I *think* that's right and the older physician didn't realise he was helping the current crown prince when he gave Grand Prince Seongnam a prescription.

3. The older physician was loyal to Crown Prince Taein and his mother, and doesn't want a concubine's son who murdered his brother to sit on the throne. Physician Kwon is Crown Prince Taein's younger brother, so it's natural they're on the same side.

They get two scenes per episode and the whole drama is about the extended royal family, so obviously it's going to have at least one couple, GET OVER IT.

I'm guessing she'll ask her to let him go when all is said and done, so the queen may help to fake his death and get him out of jail or something like that. (Because there's no way in hell he can avoid execution.)

Where are people watching the new episodes?

You’re right; it’s quite icky. But BL fans tend to be quite delulu, so they don’t like paying attention to the actors’ real identities and ages.

She's been an awful parent since ep. 1. Picking ZY's course for her, forcing her to do extracurricular activities she hated, emotionally manipulating her into quitting extracurricular activities she loved, etc. etc. etc. When ZY went through a traumatic breakup and fell into severe depression, her mother's big solution was to imprison her in her room, steal her phone, forbid her from doing the only thing she had the energy to do (try to get closure), shame her for expressing her feelings, and eventually exile her to a foreign country where ZY knew nobody and had no support network except for the clingy guy her mother has been, by the way, trying to force her to marry (because her mother thinks he’s easy to control)... Again, I canNOT wait for her to finally get what's coming to her (a rage-induced heart attack, hopefully).

CanNOT wait for Zhu Yun's mother to get wrecked, jeez, what an annoying woman.

I'm guessing ZY will move out of the place her mother got for her after she gets back together with LX and ZY's parents find out because there is no way her mother won't try to use the apartment as leverage to pressure ZY to leave him.

Most countries around the world air popular sporting events like the World Cup on regular TV channels. And obviously they delayed the drama because the World Cup has more viewers.

XYN and GJ are 2 years older than RZZ, I think.

I don’t think he knew actually. He seemed shocked when he saw her during the wedding ceremony and it would make no sense to do that to throw the QD off the scent because acting surprised would only make it obvious that Seongnam already knew Chungha. Same with the wedding night overreaction.

I think he’ll be stupid about his wife for a while. Hopefully the queen talks some sense into him because he should know YCH is ride or die for him and doesn’t deserve to be mistreated.

You’re not. The fact RZZ gets angry in episode 29 is not a spoiler of anything. You don’t have to spoiler everything people tell you to!

Dramas sometimes don't bill actors whose roles may spoil the plot, at least not until they've finished airing. Not sure if that's also true in China, but it's true for western and Korean dramas.