ShortCircuit

He also played the very shy and naive Mo Qing in The Legends (well, he was so until Zhao Yao was gone), but here there's an extra layer. He always takes that one more second to evaluate how to answer on any given situation, and there are some very small mannerisms and expressions that seem to imply there's something else going on.

I am beginning to like that way of characterisation very much. And now that I think about it, he's not exactly like that when he's around Cai Liang, his best friend, but he IS like that around his parents (mother at least).

There's definitely something about Hua's background, I thought he was being reserved because he doesn't really know Qin Shi at all, but he explained all philosophy of the life he wants to lead so seriously, and had basically the same attitude when remembering what his father said about falling for his mother - a bit restrained, not a lot of reaction (though he's still so expressive, I like that a lot), and so on - he acts like he's a bit on the spectrum and never ever becomes too emotional for any reason at all (or so far anyway). Only 6 friends / important contacts though - that's pretty sad, all things considered.

On the other end, the girls go to town on that beer or whatever it is, and yay, because of that, later we get skinship! LOL (I bet that was pretty awkward to film, props to them anyway!), and then have heartfelt drunken girls' talk...

Seriously, the lawyer part continues to give me Ally McBeal vibes, but the women are so well put-together they could be models, each and every one, so I guess I'll just enjoy the view and miss a second here and there when it's about office politics. The ex seems genuinely interested in FeiFei, I hope he doesn't turn out to be scum to her. If there's any feeling remaining between him and Qin Shi, I guess it's turned into resentment so far... with maybe a bit of competitiveness now that Yang Hua appeared.

If Hua's mom now knows it's an arrangement, wouldn't that void the whole living together before marriage thing? Weren't they supposed to pretend well enough to fool her? Now she knows, she might relent regarding Hua, and the whole deal is off. Right?...

It slowed down a bit these latest two eps, but I like the pace. It's not too fast, not too slow, just right. And there are a LOT of women who have control of their lives (and families) in this drama, LOL.

I'm not going to play semantics, but seriously, in the very first episode it's apparent that KTR is corrupt, his friend the first victim is also corrupt, their boss and friend is corrupt and that at least police officer Kwak (Chief Seo's right hand) is also corrupt. Add to that the whole development committee is also corrupt.

Having watched the drama, you can now see that basically there are no good cops or officials around in that city (or if there are some who might seem a bit cleaner, they tend to have grayer morals or ethics - like SungAh doing whatever KTR asks of her, because she trusts him, even if it might be possible he's actually guilty of quite a few criminal acts, or the newbie immediately spying on his direct team leader and even installing illegal surveillance cameras, for example). My comment doesn't "out" anyone for corruption, it's the usual wide-brush generalisation. To call it a spoiler might be a bit too much, IMHO.

But that's the beauty of the comment section for any drama, after all :)

I actually didn't say in the open that the focus changed mid-drama, just that I liked the initial setting better. How it changes is not mentioned (or not by me anyway) unless under the spoiler tag. I thought it was about the untied threads (that have time to be addressed in the second season, if they make it as a direct continuation of this story.)

I'll leave it as is for now. If you want to report it so that mods change it or delete it, that's fine by me, but (IMHO), it would really be unwarranted. Thank you for explaining it for me :)

PS. Just to explain myself better - I actually really liked the initial setting of police corruption and having a corrupt (for real, not the trope of corrupt-but-not-really as per usual) cop as a main character.

But then there's basically NO good cop? And we're supposed to emphatize with the whole bunch of corrupt a**holes, why? So yup, I did get a bit dissatisfied with how it ended.

I'm trying to improve myself, not being b*tchy, what's the spoilerish part?

Can someone please tell Win I got some dust in my eye, too? Like... err, I need a little help here? :D

I finished it. I'm not going to spoil it for you if you haven't watched it yet, I'm a bit mad, but not because of a major cliffhanger, so there's that. But IMHO the first half was better than the second half.

He's not the accomplice, but it gets worse. There is an accomplice, left for season 2. Watch it.

It's pretty similar in aftertaste to One Ordinary Day, IMHO. I guess this is SK noir now.

KJH being crooked because his son is sick, like seriously? Is his son still alive, BTW? Is he still married, or did he get divorced/separated from the wife?

And he starts the whole crusade on such a PERSONAL level (yes, digging up dirt on Chief Seo, but still, he and KTR really did go way back so at least in that sense, the personal revenge really did make sense) and THEN it's revealed it's actually something he's manipulated into because he sold his soul to some DEVELOPER? Like, REALLY?!

What I take from this for the next part/season is that his accomplice is the one who shot him on command from whomever, that the newbie is still not in the clear (neither is daughter's husband) and someone who's very into knowing how things happened wants to take over from manipulating KTR. To be continued.

What I HATE about this is that all the crooked cops are SO friendly. I mean, KTR suffers deeply for his crooked friend who died first, then for the crooked friend whom KJH killed, and is scared for crooked Chief Seo, too, because we don't need moral heroes any more in dramas. They all have to be dirty and do senseless acts because otherwise the depression afterwards wouldn't be as deep. Dammit. I want noir, and I know it's supposed to let you feel hopeless and less empowered, but I HATE it when while they're doing those acts I'm supposed to be empathetic to their plight because WHY? Why would I care about all these crooks who used to be good cops but strayed, and now they're all dead, imprisoned or blackmailed?

I could care less. And then they have KTR CRYING for KJH because why the eff?! Crying for his lost youth and innocence? Four hrs ago he was fabricating or neglecting evidence, so that people like KiTae got to spend 5 years in prison for something they're innocent of, or the poor girl's mom had to look for her for 10 years in despair just because KTR didn't feel like finding real evidence.

WTF?

So... yeah. I am that TINY bit annoyed with the message of this drama, and no, I don't think everybody is redeemed because they suffered and feel pain like everyone else, or even die. Eff corrupt cops, corrupt officials and brotherhood between corrupt people!

Okay, rant over. *sigh*

So... I liked it MUCH better with the original revenge plot. I could care less about everybody being dirty in this drama, and about all the untied threads (that are not really all that important to the story, so it's not really a huge spoiler, IMHO.)

I might watch the second season but for now, this left kind of the same taste as One Ordinary Day did, for me - things happened, but in the end, much of it was meaningless. To me, anyway.

Auto-upload to the cloud. KTR accessed the cloud drive, I think. The phone ended up there because... magic! (Technically, he could've shared the cloud between the burner and his own phone and left the phone or burner at the tavern.)

But then I'm not the script writer and that's not the only unexplained thing...

I haven't watched any trailers or spoilers ahead, but at this time, based on the hints from the first 6 eps, I think he WAS involved in finances officially in some firm, and something really bad happened to make him quit. He was in securities, so maybe he got blamed for something and banned from the finance world, in which case his name in a trading account would be poison. Therefore, he might've borrowed his mother name and phone numbers so that he didn't attract too much attention from whomever.

I guess we'll see in a while how close I got :D

You're right, Qin Shi even said at one time that her father KNOWS how families work, given he'd been divorced and remarried three times, LOL. I'd forgotten about it. Maybe that's the stigma that TJH's mother couldn't accept on her side.

Thanks for the reminder!

Those lawyers heading up the firm are bit less nice now that they're trying to get their own money back before the firm folds, and leave all other investors hanging out to dry... Also, Li Dai, Tao JunHui, Wu Fei and all the rest are acting in Ally McBeal while Yang Mi and Xu Kai are in an actual meet-cute rom-com LOL.

I guess the law firm will either fold, or Qin Shi will get exposed and forced to start out her own firm pretty soon (because 40 eps and only 6 have passed, yet we're on the brink of her being discovered and brought "to justice" about the fake husband and child...) But I just want to have mom still heavily waging a battle with her, LOL, and them growing closer in the end over time.

And yay, there's a THIRD brother in the family - something's suspicious here. Why would TJH's mother make such a fuss over QS's family back in the day? So many kids, is their father someone who's rich and has a side-family like in the webnovels, and THEY're the side-family?

Older brother's wife is a cook so good everybody can't even make small talk before gorging themselves, but she doesn't participate in the debates regarding family? That's the first meek woman in this drama... What's the deal?

You know, there's a lot of meat to this story, even with all the tropes, and it doesn't definitely hurt there are so many good-looking people in it. If that's shallow of me, well, tough luck. I like it and that's that.

No, seriously, Xu Kai's expressions are killing me. Each and every time. And OMG, exposed so early?!

I might've been disengaging and missed that Mr Cheon was a tool, too. I had the impression they (all of them) used to be closer.

Then again, I haven't watched the last two eps yet, so I guess I'll have to wait and see what gives anyway. I just hope it doesn't end in a cliffhanger, since Lee SungMin is scheduled in at least two dramas as main cast before there's even a hint of SD season2, LOL. It'll take forever for it to come, if this season doesn't have at least some explanations.

Elevator guy was a hotel employee, he slipped her the key card to her brother's room.

I didn't notice Hua's lips swollen from the kiss, just smeared with lipstick. Then again, it was all over his lips and face, so yeah, they smooched intensively LOL.

Okay, those were a few pretty good first episodes. There were laugh-out-loud for real moments for me (Xu Kai's expressions are soooo cute LOL, all those THIS IS MY LIFE NOW moments, yes please may I have some more? :D)

I like all those picture-perfect women, I wish I had clothes and jewellery like that *jealous*.

But THE MOTHER!!!! I think I will LOVE the war between her and her intended daughter-in-law, the mother is to die for LOL. Also, ALL the women in this drama have their husbands or lovers well under control, LOL. Maybe that's why I like it. But OMG what Yang Hua thought was going to happen and what actually happened, ROFL, that was BEAUTIFUL.

I have NO idea why I couldn't wait until mid-December, now I'll have to wait for each episode dammit.

Somebody please tell me there's a novel or something, and that it's been translated, this would look so good as a novel :D

Maybe real voices, but dubbed at least in some scenes. There were a few unsync-ed moments.

But if that's Xu Kai's real voice, it's pretty nice. Not so sure about YM's...