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I'm going to watch this one. Hope it won't disappoint much...🫰🏻😆

This is an episodic drama so yes, there are about 6 stories told.

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He didn't have those flashbacks, they did. They were seeing shots of his life. He was an Imjin war general whose corpse was used to put on a curse during Japanese Occupation of Korea.

For all its hype it's a mediocre and, in some parts, boring story. I was surprised to see its success in the box office but it has some big movie stars so it's understandable.

I don't know whether it was inspired by it but the dismemberment case, how the first pack was found and its tie to the Steel Factory reminded me of Nanjing University 1.19 dismemberment case. A very interesting yet tragic unsloved mystery.

Bad Subs ruins this great story for the viewer but still it's quite good.

He isn't half sibling with Tae Ra. IIRC she is Madam Shin's daughter by her first husband so they're step siblings. The younger (Jung So Min's character) is his half sister.

No it's not.

I liked FL's acting, her blank face and dead eyes showed how meaningless her life had been and also her ruthlessness.

It starts good with unreliable narrative, misdirection and confusing the viewer as what's really happened but then it kind of slags. I guess if it was a 12 ep. format instead of 16, it would be much better. Also I don't like the murder patterns, that guy was stabbed more than a dozen times, moved while bleeding out and yet he was quite conscious, recognizing and taunting the person he saw in the dark. Very unbelievable...

I was going through 36 Stratagems the other day and I could recognize several of them being used in the story but I didn't read deep enough to see all 24. Someone said in Weibo they're writing them down as drama went on. Wish we did it here too now we're rapidly forgetting the details.

Yeah. Truly a brilliant plot but I was very angry by its early time, his absence affected the plot and he turned out to be alive but still that first death was done very tastefully.

Since I watch the episodes on the next day I try to avoid comment sections when I mind being spoiled. Some people get excited and rapidly comment spoilers, ruining the surprise... And once or twice I've seen in express releases some people fast forward through the last episode and get everything wrong.😆😆

Better be busy and efficient than wasting one's life imo.

Thank you. Actually I celebrate Persian Solar Calendar and our new year is 3 months away but one can always use new year good wishe! 😅

I watched it out of boredom but it had a lot of disappointments for me and spoilery comments made me lose interest in finishing it so I haven't watched the last quarter yet. You did well dropping.

I don't think I'm familiar with the director but I thought he left the granary before that explosion and what we saw wasn't real. Still they have to explian it clearly. 😆

First was Bai Wan, I didn't care for her but killing her by usuing XHA's own plot was a nasty yet brilliant move.


Second one was YFS's first death. Another brilliant plot played in layers. XHA used psychology to make a formidable enemy vulnerable so he could hit him. I really liked how it was done yet it was too early but he returned alive.

Between all the deaths in the drama 2 were sad for me...

Happy your new year, I hope it will be better than 2025 for you... I missed reading your deep and detailed reviews so it was a nice surprise to see one when I came to rate.

This year I watched 2 similar revenge dramas, Zang Hai and Vendetta of An, and between them I think the later is better and I like it more. Zang Hai was too luck driven but XHA had his miscalculations and failures so it was more interesting. Still they went too far with the spies and infiltrators, I'm afraid if it continued for 2 more episodes Even XHA's father turn out to be a Tiemo spy...

And the Syndrome of Ambiguous endings, I don't know why they're afraid to show the ML's death. It paved way for S2 but they have a hard time explaining his survive.

What was XHA given by Cei at the end? Was it poison?