ShortCircuit

The spiciest moments are in the extras; most of the novel is NSFW-free. Except for the confession and the very last scene of the final chapter, LOL.

That being said, WWX is the definition of SHAMELESS and his mind works in mysterious ways, so he'll be teasing LWJ throughout the story mercilessly. It's hilarious AF, but not really explicit. Therefore, once you get to the extras... you DO need to read them. Because frustrated LWJ is a fearful sight, LOL.

The book/volumes are worth the price. Depending of where you're buying them from, there are pricier and cheaper options, though... as long as you're somewhere you can get them at all. And for a first danmei novel, MDZS is one of the best openers, LOL. You're going to be reading/maybe buying a lot more of them in the future, if this one is to your liking :D

Wow, Joo Won looks pretty handsome with lighter-coloured hair... I'm shallow like this, I think I'll look this up just because of that, LOL.

Wow but this is so badly written and acted (but TBH, it WAS 2017, it's like another world already in terms of drama stories and execution)... Only Yang SeJong remembered to bring his acting skills into it, everybody else so far (up to ep3) is over-acting, being crazy (and not in a good way), obnoxious, loud, straight-damn stupid and annoying. And now they're even going to throw in another badly written journalist (obviously a woman) who might even end up as someone's love interest.

I have no idea why I'm still watching it - unless it's for YSJ playing a double role, that he's doing amazingly well with. But I will stay with it in hope it improves.

But at the same time, OMG... how is HyunWoo not suicidal at this point?! They're basically making him slave away in self-inflicted prison, unloved and feeling unwanted, while they're all threatening not just him, but his family and friends if he even tries to escape...

I know HaeIn is shielding him for a bit, but not when he's around to notice, and everyone else is bullying him into submission. I'd have found a bridge and jumped off it already, not-so-secret surveillance team or not.

I guess we just might see a suicide attempt in the future anyway, from either side...

Well, I like it. I hope it stays along the same lines til the end (seriously don't want another chaebol extra-over-the-top thing). The family is deeply dysfunctional, LOL, but that is hilarious in the end. I think I love the crazy aunt already.

Oh, and the OJS cameo... LOL! He really felt the love that moment hahaha~

PS And the MOST HILARIOUS thing ever is that this drama's title page root (or whatever it's called) STILL shows "untitled Park Ji Eun project" instead of its actual title (in a web browser, anyway), hahahahaha

It's a happy ending. But there will be a lot of tragedy before it ends, so be prepared for that.

I guess we'll find out. But he definitely wouldn't find the orphanage in one day - I mean, does he even know the NAME of the kid?! Unless he started digging as soon as he found out who the FL is. But he also could have noticed the crash orphan from before, given that guy was always close to SuHo's house (how else did he get those photos?)

I hope the writer isn't just throwing red herrings all over and there'll be some actually logical explanation for everything, LOL.

The crash kid looks too young to have been in an accident 8 years back (because the trial for the original crash also took some times).

Kwon MAYBE left in a hurry because SOMEONE told him the kid was out and wandering the streets? Maybe the nosey neighbour called the politician (she's in his campaign now, isn't she? And she WAS out with her own kid, on the street - she either opened the door herself, if that was what they were planning to have her do, OR the affair partner had to flee when the FL returned and SHE left the door open.) And also, SOMEONE learned about SuHo's affairs before they could plot scaring him off...

So, anyway, the kid was out and an open target, etc. Kwon left ASAP to find him before the parents did. Maybe they didn't even intended to kill him, maybe they only wanted to try and scare SuHo and it got out of their control.

Just for a hint, this drama also has the best and on-point recs :D

He didn't look guilty to me, he looked like he was uncomfortable talking to them... I mean, he hadn't seen her in 7 years, and she kept looking at him funny. I would be shy too. If he's a kid with issues (mom says he has seizures) maybe he isn't overfriendly with new / unrecognized faces. And her reputation IS that she's a killer and went to prison for it.

I don't know if there SHOULD be any money left (they all look like they're loaded, still), I thought the big thing in SK was to pay reparations for anything you've ever done, even if punished by law. The family of the deceased should have taken them to the cleaners... and since they maybe did not, I guess the orphan Kwon left isn't legitimate so couldn't ask for anything and ended up in an orphanage.

He's working for a political campaign - maybe even for Kim Joon? And so he maybe noticed someone ELSE is tracking SuHo? (And if KJ's campaign is blackmailing SuHo to keep him in check, they'd definitely track him.)

No, the dude did hit the kid (the politician remained in the restaurant when Kwon left to drive while inebriated in the neighbourhood... And also all DNA results were from Kwon's car.)

He was a tool and he did it because they made sure he would get the easiest punishment available (which he did).

HIS kid, though, got thrown into an orphanage, too, and grew up resenting the FL for what she put him through. And TBH... while I totally get why she did what she did, and would do it myself if I was in her shoes... she never even asked about the family of the man who hit her kid. I guess she never wanted to really know anything more (kind of like SeonYul's reaction too, about the arsonist) but she still hurt the killer's kid, and the kid was innocent in all of this. Particularly IF he was an outside-the-marriage kid and when his father died, all income to raise him dried up and destroyed his whole life, basically. I don't know if they ever said the kid was a bastard or not.

It most definitely wasn't a ONS. I mean, when FL got back being worried for the kid in the first ep, husband's meds were under the kitchen table because things probably got heated and he was - maybe - busy putting on clothes because his affair partner had to sneak out and maybe leave the door open so that the kid got out and got hit by the car.

At least that's my working theory right now.

SeonYul is the kid who escaped the fire, and the other one is the guy taking photos. Okay.

But then we have a nice-girl-girlFRIEND?-hacker helping him with codes and investigating and whatnot, and also he's part of a political campaign (they called him their maknae in the first eps, so he's definitely someone they actually like having around), and ALSO he knows his ways around photography. I guess - going by the promo for next week - he comes across the other guy (did they give him a name yet?) and helps him. Maybe that other guy gives up his photo revenge of the FL and joins them into discovering whatever.

Also, the husband sold out? Since the blackmail material the politician used on him is definitely proof of cheating, then the FL will turn out to have also definitely closed that door... And if the kid got out then 1. the friendly neighbour let him out or worse, 2. the friendly neighbour's kid let him out to go and get hit and killed by the politician's stooge. And maybe even 3. the AP woman was in the house when the FL got back, sneaked out and left the door open.

I am awful with faces I've seen for only a few seconds - the affair partner seems to be YooRi (going by her over-reaction and relief when FL didn't know who AP woman was), but is it that woman SuHo is meeting actually the neighbour?! She might be the politician's aide (the one giving SeonYul tasks) but maybe they're the same woman too (told you I'm really bad with new faces). Anyway, my impression is he's totally not there at that hotel to meet AP, but to meet someone he KNOWS has blackmail material on him. And she's the neighbour, if anyone could learn he's conducting affairs in his own home when the wife is out, it's going to be the nosey neighbour.

Anyway - tearful mom gets to dig into a political scandal, treacherous dad gets to play for the politician who made it all happen, fire orphan gets to be the action hero (with the hacker girl sidekick) and crash orphan maybe gets to blackmail SuHo some more... and maybe eventually get on FL's good side?

I don't know what the main genre of this drama is, any more. It seemed to be a healing drama, now it's a political action thriller, by next week it might turn into a scifi LOL.

PS Wait I forgot the newly gotten doctor BIL (I don't know what's his niche, LOL) and the waspish MIL - TBH... the MIL and the actual mother of FL are the only two charas I quite like already. The MIL is a snake and won't even pretend she's not, while the mother is the typical protect-my-baby type of mom. At least they're definitely what they're showing to be.

So now the shock of the initial setting of the drama kind of wore off, and the latest pair of eps are also setting back into the usual groove of political-action-thriller...

Weeell, the first part was definitely more engaging. The second half got way overcomplicated with the back and forth exchanges and the story about the building collapse that felt a bit too cold, not as emotional and close as the kidnapping part. And the ending episode also felt a bit stretched, even if they tried to tie off all loose threads.

But at least someone thought about giving them in the past the winning lottery numbers, LOL, it would've been so lame not to use that advantage to get them out of poverty LOL.

TBH, I am not sure about the wife, but ABH really impressed me with his acting - I could FEEL DoKyun being in love with her and all his moments made sense, from a plot POV and also from an actual person's POV. I've seen him in See You in My 19th Life too, but I felt the FL carried that drama instead. Here he's showing his acting chops and I really liked that.

Oh well, now let's go look for another time travel thriller LOL.

I guess they're trying to keep open and unambiguous relationships with SK production companies and actors - even if NF and international audiences don't care, Koreans wouldn't just not take notice of it... (Not saying I agree, just that I could see their point.)

Watch the first half, at least :), until XPZ exits, if for nothing else, for the battle scenes. And because Huang Xiao Ming is so damn fine, and the characters are precious. It won't even matter all that much what happens after, LOL.

... The music totally sucks, LOL, in contrast to NiF...

1. Lots of romance. The romance is kind of the point for quite a lot of the plot - at least it's kind of subtle in the beginning (and definitely does not get to the level of obnoxious lovey dovey scenes). But there will be kids, lots of little kids - worth the romance. Also, LOTS of more fighting scenes - the very best fighting scenes in any historical cdramas I've ever watched. Movie-level fighting scenes.

2. Yes, he dies (not from the opening scene, that is not it, it's going to be much later in the drama). It broke my heart too - but he dies a heroic and memorable death. Still dead, though. It's worth watching it all after all, but it depends on how much you get attached to fictional characters. For me, TingSheng (the father), PingZhang (elder son) and PingJing (younger son) were the perfect unit... and then the writer broke them apart. Then again, she's Hai Yan so we have to forgive her...)

PS You already know TingSheng - he's the unrecognized son of Prince Qi, the kid Mei ChangSu saved in NiF. He's already quite old by now, but he still remembers MCS... and that too breaks my heart from time to time in this drama.