MadelineMaureen

The parents went to investigate something & left the little brother behind until they returned.

Are we sure he's dead though. The man could have changed someone to look like him. It looked like he recognized a man in the inn before Mu Qing Yan showed up.

Go back and watch the scene in the inn again before Mu Qing Yan shows up. I think there is more than meets the eye with his death.
Wouldn't be surprised if he was switched out. The abandoned house also seemed to be a clue with the toy sword. idk 🤷🏻‍♀️ but someone who can easily change another's appearance doesn't seem like someone who would just disappear. It looked like he recognized the man who worked for the boss lady at the inn.

I honestly can't say the same. But I'm also used to this director & how he builds a story.

well she's betrothed to someone other than the ML. She also seems to have collected another admirer, but he could just appreciate her in a platonic way, too early to tell. I dont know the source material so i went in blind.

So far so good. only up to ep7, but the direction & production quality are nice. The performances are good. I still interested to see where everything goes.

alright about to start to see if the story is something im interested in. Definitely love the leads' other work so I dont have any fears about performance or chemistry, just if imma vibe with the world/story always a hit or miss on this genre.

pretty much. she had to see herself how others see her & it took a kid with the same trauma for her to realize the path she took isnt the only way.

it honestly felt like i was watching an ad for 12 episodes.
I get characters need to have an occupation but im getting really tired of being sold things when I watch modern kdramas.

1. they hook up in episode 1 get together in 7(i think)
2. not that I remember. just misunderstandings.
3. Sort of. She has a male friend that she's known since middle school that she had a crush on. Her other best friend likes him. He doesn't realize he might like FL until after she's pregnant with another man's baby.
4. Yes. very typical everyone is forgiven for their wicked behavior.
5. Not really imo. ML can't touch people's hands because of a trauma, so the romance is a bit silly/stilted because of it imo.
6. I guess episode 1 is the most skinship that happens in the whole show. after that its a bit...juvenile.
I like the people in the show, it was just a little too silly for my personal taste. & as they were all adults working at an alcohol company the comedy was a bit ott. I think this is like the 3rd beer focused show to come out in the last 2 years.

She's taking care of him through others in episode 31. A month has past and he still isn't doing great after working tirelessly to get her freed from lockdown and then discarded. He kind of loses the will to live in a way. So think of it like a cold with a deep depression happening at the same time. He was heartbroken and couldn't really eat, then the sickness took hold making him more ill than he would have been.
So it takes him over a month to get back to work. Gu is bringing him expensive meds that Li Pei Yi has supplied, she sets up warmers along the path Huai Jin takes through the palace, she replaces the compass she had broken and returned to him, again through Gu.
While working on the case "The Misaligned Seven Stars" they come across the murder of a man the have in custody's entire family...the only survivor, his young son who witnessed the whole thing. (sound familiar?) While looking after the boy Pei Yi finds him with a knife stabbing a straw dummy swearing revenge on the man that killed his mother and grandparents. Seeing the bloodthirsty innocent child finally makes her see herself from the view of someone who loves her and wants the best for her. She talks the boy down and explains that his mother and grandparents wouldn't want him to spend his life in hatred and wouldn't want him to become a murderer etc....this conversation is overheard by Huai Jin. This I believe happens in episode 32.
ep33 Pei Yi figures out that her father's subordinate is working with someone powerful so he can get revenge on everyone involved in Prince Duan's case. Including killing innocent family members of the guilty.
She can't go along with his methods nor can she stop him for fear that she wouldn't be able to see the next strike. She also knows that someone is using her "uncle" and their true target is Consort Shu, the woman who raised her and protected her. The puppet master needs the Cui family to fall, and that means getting Consort Shu killed or out of favor with the Emperor.
She becomes a double agent, leaving all the others in the dark about her findings and plan. They continue to investigate, but Huai Jin is too smart and figures out her slight of hand. Thinking she's gone to the darkside he tries one more time to stop her before it's too late, but she dismisses him and ties him up.....with a small blade right next to his tied hands out of sight of her "uncle". He realizes she needs him to act as the final nudge to get the now paranoid Minister Cui to go "rescue" his sister from the smear campaign and murder plot against her in the palace.
After Pei Yi arrests Minister Cui, they(Huai Jin and Pei Yi) reach out for each other, finally able to turn the page on their decades long shared trauma. Because they trusted each other to be the person they had gotten to know.
Huai Jin: She has to have a reason for this. What is her goal in lying? How can I help her with her plan?
Pei Yi: He knows me better than I know myself, he'll understand what I'm doing even if I can't tell him, he'll help.

I think a lot of people overlook what medical trauma can do to a person's personality when said trauma happens during a transitional time in life stages. Right when you are supposed to be your most independent and test your limits something happens and you are back to relying on your parents. Your friends leave you behind because they have parties to go to or get in relationships or they just can't handle your new limitations. So you throw yourself into a hobby that doesn't need others, that keeps you engaged in life and brings you joy. But the people who were once your peers are starting their own families and getting corporate jobs, that you can't even think about doing because of the delay in your start. You can't afford to move out on your own because you are medically dependent on others. etc. Add on top of that she's a millennial....yall be so for real right now.

https://kisskh.at/discussions/time-walking-on-memory/124879-important-dates-to-remember

I made this timeline while watching if you ever get confused or don't understand a reference.

Still going to keep it vague. So good luck understanding this. She realizes why he did the things he did and he overhears her working through the logic. He traces parts of a case back to her and she trusts him to figure it out and he does trust her when the times comes. Don't really remember any "i'm sorry"s more like I knew you'd understand me.

Pretty much she does a lot of things that he is able to pick up on(taking care of him from the shadows, and back to her old secret plot ways). She finally truly understands why he stopped her and they save the person she wanted to save while they get to actually punish the person who deserves it.
Lets just say she will never be boring, but they are going to have a hard time surprising each other in the future.

pre-postcredit scene yes. open ended if you watch the last scene. but I have faith they can pull through any plots against them.

I just spoiled the very last episode not the ones prior.

so he invades the palace with armed soldiers thinking his sister Concort Shu is in danger because of all the rumors & fear/suspicion the Emperor holds for "signs". Anyway really hard to wiggle your way out of a palace coup witnessed by hundreds. Pei Li faked out the original plan by the crown prince that would have harmed Consort Shu. She included Huai Jin in her plans, only leaving him hints to follow so that it was more believable if others were watching.

finished one show then started the last episode of this one. went to adjust my glasses because, tears, only for the earpiece to snap off into my hand. 😢😭
wore my fitted(work) pair to bed one to many times. thank goodness for back up glasses. (well they wouldnt be "back-up" had i actually worn them whenever I got home, more flexable earpieces that are better suiting for bed rot activities such as watching tv & reading books.)

I've decided Heo Jung Eun needs to play Ha Seok Jin's daughter in a drama. She played the younger version of the FL in 100 Days My Prince and I can't unsee how alike her and Ha Seok Jin's eyes and nose...well whole face are to each other.

There is an end credit scene in episode 34. I repeat...THERE IS A EXTRA SCENE at the END of episode 34.

I took it as Huai Jin knowing that even though she wants vengeance/revenge for her family's murder, what she truly wants, more than anything, is Justice and redemption for her family and father's name.

If she were to just take his life in that moment, it would be just like every other case in the palace....aka mutual destruction and death with nothing coming to light and the truth buried and twisted with white lies to protect the powerful.

All the cases involved revenge but the victims didn't really get justice because they became the perpetrators themselves, either dying, being imprisoned, or left to be one of the only people to actually know the truth about their loved one's unjust death.

He wants her to choose life. A life with him, preferably. But it was also the wish of her master Du. He is protecting her the only way he can.