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"Is that all you found about her ? How can an entire life be summed up in a single page ?" That's exactly what the publisher said to me when I submitted the manuscript of my autobiography. What a coincidence !
The humor relies on an anachronistic contrast, but with intelligence. Really funny but there's more to it than that. It serves the romance that has become inevitable, like two lovers reunited through reincarnation. They're meant for each other, in one era or another. They understand each other right away. And their exuberant personalities, each in their own way, make them so endearing. Impossible not to adore them. These two characters are so well-written and definitely not for everyone.
Seo-ri/Lim Ji-yeon knows that we must not look forward or backward, for we are surrounded by a bottomless abyss. She is that tiny, lost central point we call the present. The rest is nothing but a shapeless cloud, an empty void, and there's no point in plunging into the midst of this chaos. (I'm more or less quoting Jane Eyre.) In this life, she will find what the previous one denied her.
Good for her, she lands all these jobs so easily. No bank account, no resume, no skills that are actually useful in 2026 ? She's so better than me. Very quickly, none of that matters anymore ; money doesn't matter anymore. Everyone is rich... The conflicts between the chaebols weren't exactly thrilling. But, ok, I know, they're meant to be a parallel to the conflicts at the Joseon court... That makes it terribly heavy !
Similarly, the tragic scenes just don't work, aside from the injustice in the very first episode and the (too-long) conclusion. We're asked to care about a character who's no longer there (since Seo-ri has taken her place) and besides, where is she ? What's going on with her ? Her miserable life only matters for a few scenes.
The same goes for the misunderstandings that arise artificially from dialogues where one person refuses to listen to the other's arguments. It happens several times and serves no purpose. Minor flaws… but they really drag down a series that could have been one of the best rom-coms of the year !
"How did you fare last night ? By a sunlit window, my fondness for you grows. If the traces of my visits in your dreams were left as a fragrance, the green garden before your door would be full of butterflies." Unit 203
_Seg-ye's "fiancée" made me feel sorry for her the whole time. She's desperately clinging to someone who never asked for her and rejected her from the start. When she tried to act threatening, I felt even more sorry for her. Poor thing.
_Here we go again with the accident at the end of an episode, and everything’s fine in the next one! This has to stop.
The humor relies on an anachronistic contrast, but with intelligence. Really funny but there's more to it than that. It serves the romance that has become inevitable, like two lovers reunited through reincarnation. They're meant for each other, in one era or another. They understand each other right away. And their exuberant personalities, each in their own way, make them so endearing. Impossible not to adore them. These two characters are so well-written and definitely not for everyone.
Seo-ri/Lim Ji-yeon knows that we must not look forward or backward, for we are surrounded by a bottomless abyss. She is that tiny, lost central point we call the present. The rest is nothing but a shapeless cloud, an empty void, and there's no point in plunging into the midst of this chaos. (I'm more or less quoting Jane Eyre.) In this life, she will find what the previous one denied her.
Good for her, she lands all these jobs so easily. No bank account, no resume, no skills that are actually useful in 2026 ? She's so better than me. Very quickly, none of that matters anymore ; money doesn't matter anymore. Everyone is rich... The conflicts between the chaebols weren't exactly thrilling. But, ok, I know, they're meant to be a parallel to the conflicts at the Joseon court... That makes it terribly heavy !
Similarly, the tragic scenes just don't work, aside from the injustice in the very first episode and the (too-long) conclusion. We're asked to care about a character who's no longer there (since Seo-ri has taken her place) and besides, where is she ? What's going on with her ? Her miserable life only matters for a few scenes.
The same goes for the misunderstandings that arise artificially from dialogues where one person refuses to listen to the other's arguments. It happens several times and serves no purpose. Minor flaws… but they really drag down a series that could have been one of the best rom-coms of the year !
"How did you fare last night ? By a sunlit window, my fondness for you grows. If the traces of my visits in your dreams were left as a fragrance, the green garden before your door would be full of butterflies." Unit 203
_Seg-ye's "fiancée" made me feel sorry for her the whole time. She's desperately clinging to someone who never asked for her and rejected her from the start. When she tried to act threatening, I felt even more sorry for her. Poor thing.
_Here we go again with the accident at the end of an episode, and everything’s fine in the next one! This has to stop.
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