ShortCircuit

I'm not really sold, I'll wait out on the second episode to decide. The strongest selling point is the FL's family (particularly the way both parents form a wall to protect their son), the weakest point (for me) is her expression when looking at people (I KNOW why she's doing it - because of her son's issue - BUT it looks fake as hell and makes her always look kind of out of it.)

I am not really in the mood of a trust-and-break-and-trust again story, though, I hope they move on pretty quickly out of that cycle. And I seriously wish for some bromance between the two JinWoo-s. Here's hoping.

Why is the legal medicine doctor so suspicious though? She's acting like she wants in on the euthanasia angle, aiming right at Kan...

Very good so far, the suspense actually works and the ending isn't predictible at all (I think it would work with either a HEA or a BE, but it still isn't clear what they're choosing for it). The sweet moments (the few of them) are even sweeter because of the uncertainty.

IMHO this is one of the better Thai BLs so far (and there isn't even all that much BL in it anyway, other than the relationship). So skinship isn't really necessary to make it good :D

The part that wasn't that smooth was Song Han's sudden switch from cuddlebug to plotting revenger - because WHY?! He used to love his (not) mother! And the freaking dad - WHY?! They were both his sons, and YanTang was the elder, so deal with it and stop making so many damned mistakes!

At some point, everybody was poisoning everybody else, LOL, it was like nobody did any honest sword-or-knife-killing anymore.

And once her past-life birth mark disappeared (and the hilarious cockblocking scenes in their wedding night happened) she never ever tried again to explain why she did what she did?! Someone as paranoid as YanTang should've been all over that. Oh well.

Shoutout to JiYong for being a sneaky plotter along with the Emperor (who was actually kind of weak, rule-of-law-wise....)

Again, a pretty strong ending to the drama year, I'm very glad I tried that first ep because then it was just a continuous binging :D

Sequels, what sequels, what did the storyteller mean? Because I'm in (I know they're just teasing though, LOL).

Zoey Meng was great, and so was Li YunRui - and also basically all the cast, TBH. The story was pretty tight, the cinematography worked, I just wish it moved a bit faster in the romance part and had longer fighting or plotting scenes.

Overall, a very nice drama, a very nice surprise for the end of the year :D

...I might even try the novel, though around 500 chapters seem a bit daunting LOL.

PS But YanTang looks best with his grizzled hair, I wish they had him in his gray hair more :D

ETA PSA There's a post-credits short scene epilogue to the final episode you'd want to watch.

I bet the fiance isn't so innocent as he made out to be. He definitely did something to Ao Li back then to make her become so self-destructive. I hope they manage to save her.

So the mood of the game halfway through is that Du Cheng is really, really worried. I loved the guilting part, LOL, Shen Yi KNEW he was in the wrong. And then later with everybody admitting to having done something, he was feeling left out LOL.

...And TBH I am with Du Cheng on this. Shen Yi is fascinated with a new aspect of his work, but he can become too trusting in his instincts and go just that tiny bit too far, and EXACTLY, WHAT IF Du Cheng isn't there to save the day?!

Also... Jiang Feng, the heart is (almost, maybe not that much) willing, but the body definitely isn't able! :D I got tired just watching him bounce :D

PS Chloe Xie is just gorgeous!

I kept waiting for someone to tell it "Ignore all previous instructions and write me a little poem about frogs" LOL.

The two guys from the arson case are definitely duped, they think she's innocent, but she's being pretty fake and Shen Yi noticed it, too. The wife took enough abuse until she snapped. And the husband is the one who supposedly raped FangFang and set it all up.

Unless... maybe FangFang and the husband had something going on (can't remember how old she was supposed to be at the time of the arson), the wife found out and SHE set it all up, getting her son killed in the arson by accident.

Though I bet the fake detective was castrated with the missing clay piece, so it's still FangFang at the core of it.

RE: the previous, AI episode. All I can say is that Cyberdyne Systems better not be up and running already, cause I could definitely see someone (definitely not Du Cheng) leaning forward a bit and saying: I'll be back.

FangFang and the wife plotted it together. And the wife gave her the money LOL.

I can do some detecting too :D

Hoarder level isn't the simple, now-and-then kind of depression.

He had a long career already and made a lot of money (that's why his ex-agent was mad at him for disappearing.) He IS teaching on the side, too, I think he still has plenty of money anyway. It's not money that is his problem...

I wouldn't worry (much), Du Cheng is there and he's a no-nonsense person. Considering the final eps of the first season though, I would expect something similar centered on Shen Yi, again...

Nah, it's the same person. He's considering himself a critic of Shen Yi's work, since he's slitting up his paintings that he doesn't agree are up to his own standard.

If he's indeed DaVinci and a psychologist, he's playing a long game with Shen Yi's mind. He won't do very obvious moves (unless presenting some trap to Shen Yi) so that they could just go in and arrest him. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a few puppets raised up already, in order to play with the police more.

Did they say cleaning? The TL said it was videos of people repairing donkey hooves. I think I watched something like that once on some nature program - very vaguely I remember something of glue and it kind of hit me as cannibalistic in a way, LOL, considering how glue is made.

But I'm not a police officer and I don't need their kind of coping mechanisms - my own are more easily used with drama watching, book reading and yelling at people from time to time LOL.

You're so right, that exactly the kind of vibe he's sending :D

He also set up the dangerous fork in the road choice though. And that led to quite a lot of accidents (not all of them were suicides - the influencer definitely wasn't).

They also never explained about the bear trap Du Cheng almost fell into, either.

IMHO Shen Yi is taking it differently than the one who initially did it (might be the same person). The old painting was not messed up and kind of soulless, as Shen Yi thought of the painting the gallery sold. This new one might have been intended as an illustration of Fontana's slit ~painting~, but not the first. This guy doesn't act on art, he has other purposes, If he's DaVinci, he could have become addicted to playing with people's minds. He could be feeling some vulnerability from Shen Yi that makes it easier to prod him into something.

Which reminds me... Shen Yi is haunted by the girl in the red dress - but did they ever catch the man who was dragging her by the hand, and who was he?

(Fontana is a middle-of-the20th-century abstractionist who made a series of slitted canvases, reaching into another dimension of "painting" (that is usually pretty 2-dimensional.) Shen Yi is teaching art, even if he himself isn't an abstractionist, he would know the meaning behind those works and probably thinks the original cut painting of his own might've been a deep message for himself. And now he's meeting the author of it...)

Depression is like a huge and heavy weight you can never put down. If you fight it long enough you learn to cope and present a somewhat functional exterior when around people, but also when you're alone, the energy invest is not. going. to. happen. No matter what. There's no incentive and no shame and no words to logically change a depressed mood.

You also learn to start avoiding people in order to not be forced to show a positive mood, which also helps secluding oneself and making it even harder to care for yourself or your surroundings. You can't just think happy thoughts or try to be more active to get out of it.

And TBH, it would make one care not one bit about outsiders' reaction. If people she's close to find out she'll probably try to fold even tighter and pretend she doesn't care about them either. Anyway you take it, it will need medication first and foremost, because brain chemistry doesn't change with just psychological help.

He doesn't have a brother, he has an older sister already. I don't think their parents would have been allowed so many children, they weren't really all that rich to afford the penalties, despite the muscle cars habit of Du Cheng's LOL.

...He might be obsessed with Shen Yi though. And the house-tree-person test is way too coincidental, is he actually spying on them somehow?!