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Exactly but from the little we saw, the plan might not go accordingly as the CEO saw a vulnerable side of FL and the "fake mother" is in fact the one behind the revenge. FL is her tool and as we all know, plans centered on a human might go awry because they have emotions and free will.
FL is troubled by the CEO and though the first minutes of the series show that she'll manage to get him to leave it all, I don't think it'll be the end of it.
She's lost her marbles anyways so there might not even have a happy end.

The CEO is her twin Flame while the politician is a brotherly figure with Who she never bothered to keep In contact.
She's also gonna use him and he'll let her because he feels bad. He might love her and maybe he'll fall for her beauty but as of now, what we saw is that FL was unsettled by the CEO while she's indifferent to the politician.

His father is the minister and he's not a good man just like his father before him (as was shown by his tomb being desecrated by commoners). But he seems to love the ML (he was happy ML got angry at him instead of just being polite) and just for that, I hope they'll manage to mend their relationship.

Exactly ! she's delusional and seems she can't live without a man's attention.
She just went through hell because she got played but she won't learn her lesson and be more careful.
Being simple minded isn't an excuse as the saying "cheat me one, shame on you ; cheat me twice, shame on me" says

Exactly! He might be working with ML's chief hence why he doesn't want to use the proofs against him.
I hope ML won't turn against his father for this guy and play more into his hands.

The Pippa player SYZ is so annoying !
After what happened to her, she still hides her relationship with the player while having her eyes on ML.

The main couple are going to be the FL and the CEO. They are shown to have a deep connection.

The older man with whom the ML is working is fishy.

I think it's because LRE visited the house more than once and is suite close to the house owners and Da Bi.

Da Bi has the password because once she saw her father enter the secret groom while she was hiding.

Wow ! Thank you very much!!!

For me SEP feels more brotherly love and pity for LRE than romantic love. It might change but there is no attraction between these two.

The hubby seems nice and maybe he kind of is BUT he played a part in a family downfall and didn't seem bothered by the bleeding teenager on the floor as long as he got what was needed. He now has a good position in the company so he did get a reward for what he did.

For Lee Ra El, he is one of her perpetrators hence why she shamelessly uses him.

You'll get an idea in the next two episodes :)

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I think she had him call her aunt as she was going to assume the role of a concubine and as such, it was the role of the main wife to become the mother of the children of the household.

She told her son to call her aunt but added that the main wife would now be his mother.

I think she did that to ensure that her son would have a more secure life. She lost her daughter because of poverty and now her son akso wanted to hustle to ensure they'd survive. By living in this house as the concubine and having her son become one of the son of the family, it's possible she wanted him to become one of the heirs.
She couldn't foresee that her son would resent the situation so much that he'd end up running away. She might also have thought that boys would be boys and the bullying wasn't so bad. I don't think bullying was a thing at the time.

I remember how -during one of the previous episodes- OD tried to interact with DS and he literally exploded.

I think that she simply doesn't know how to deal with him anymore. He ran away and forsake her more than 20 years ago and even before that, their relationship had been in tatters for years as he gradually lost respect for his mother and grew resentful.

It's true that he doesn't owe anything to his mother but at least, it might be a way for him to finally make peace with the situation.

Also, his mother seems like a woman on a mission. I wonder if the fact that she wants him to accompany her to the memorial is so that she will be able to see her plan to secure her child's future into fruition-if an inheritance is indeed involved.
Maybe it will be a way for her to finally open up to her child about the reasons she acted like this at the time or it might be a way for her to help DS to finally make peace with the situation and let go of the burden of all that resentment or hurt.

The step-brothers are scum but it might not have been easy for them to have a woma n come into their house and take up their sick mother's side of the bed. And it might have been easier to handle their father's death by rationalising it was all DS's fault as they had always made him the scapegoat.

I wonder how their meeting will play out.

I also dislike EH. She's always on her high horse thinking she knows everything better than everyone.

We have to take into account the generational Gap between the mother and the son. She didn't live during a time when people shared their thoughts and hardships with their kids.

Even to this day, some parents don't understand each other because of generational or cultural gap. The parents don't k ow how to communicate their love to their children and still think that providing for them is showing their love.

That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.

The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter.
That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.

She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.

She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.

I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.

We have to take into account the generational Gap between the mother and the son. She didn't live during a time when people shared their thoughts and hardships with their kids.

That's why she didn't tell him anything imo. She didn't think it would affect him this way as it was something that happened and that people did. But while the mother didn't go to school or had to drop out early, her son evolved in a more egalitarian society in which the poor could go to school with the better off kids and thus be subjected to their mockery. That way, he lived, his mother becoming a concubine, with shame instead of thinking of it as a means to an end.

The way I see it, his mother went to become a concubine as to ensure that her son would get an inheritance from her second husband and so he wouldn't need to live a hard life like her, her late husband and daughter.
That's why she became an aunt to her son while the official wife became DS's mother. It was something that happened and indeed, concubine almost never got the privilege to be called mother by their children who were raised by the main wife.

She hit her son this way to ensure he would listen and not make her waver in her choice which might not have been easy to make. She was in survival mode and might not have had another option to be able to fend for herself and her son.

She couldn't foresee everything that would happen next or how South Korea would change in such a short time. She couldn't see that she broke her own son by trying to salvage his life and his future.

I understand DS's resentment toward his mother though and was quite pissed at the trio who was trying to shame him into reconciling with his mother against his will.