Too Citric

guys, in the preview for part 3, who is geum myeong kissing? is it soldier boy or someone else?

Thank you!! LOL they had me stressed with all the mystery.

guys, i'm watching without spoilers but now i'm invested and i need to know, they end up together at the end right??? RIGHT? someone spoil me.

I only compared one scene so far but you're probably right. netflix subs are still weak imo compared to what fansubs used to deliver for kdramas, which is so frustrating because they have the $$$ to do better.

If you're watching in English, I found that the subs "English [CC]" are better than "English". I don't know why they're so different but found the closed captions ones to be better.

yes! I need to know if she lives til the end!! otherwise i'll be devastated.

Wait what illness?? Do we know if it's a happy ending or sad ending?

Don’t skip the last episode. Les Belles had the quintessential rom com ending. 🥰

It lasts like 2 eps and doesn’t go beyond the king’s decree. It’s really written in to highlight even nice men with good intentions can restrict women unintentionally esp when they make such unilateral decisions.

I tried both. I enjoyed the first and third couple a lot from PM. I heard royal rumors is similar? and has the same screenwriter as LB.

I’m in withdrawal. I keep rewatching certain scenes. 😅 do you have any recs on similar cdramas like this?

You summarized it so well. I’ve watched so many rom coms that missed the mark but this show delivered on both romance and comedy without torturing its viewers unnecessarily.

They get paired up again?? as romantic partners?? :D

yes, if i remember correctly...1 accidental, 5 intentional, and then a few cheek kisses...

They deal with this conflict in the later episodes. Turns out she used a special ink, squid ink, when signing the marriage documents. It disappears after awhile. So technically no legal record of her marriage.

Keep watching unless you want a spoiler which I can write below! :)

First time seeing her and I thought she was fantastic. The comedic scenes but also the dramatic ones too—she cries so beautifully when her characters not faking it. 😅

I saw come comments finding ep 25 plot odd but I think they were trying to keep to the theme of freedom. There’s a scene after the koi dance where Lingyu and Lu Yun are talking at night and she talks about how people want beautiful things—like bird in a cage or fish in a pond.

Through both Fan and the Prince we saw how their concept of “love” made her feel confined, even though the prince’s intentions were good…it was unilateral. Lingyu mentions only Lu Yun loves her for she is—not her beauty or social adeptness. With fan, it was psychopathic and obsessive wanting her as an object to admire and literally caging her. (Very Joe from Netflix “you” of him 🥴).

Episode 25 does come out of nowhere but it’s the final conclusion to the running theme they’ve had about being free and being loved for who they are and even in that scene she’s the one who finds freedom. Lu Yun is there to support her but Lingyu is the one to break free from the chains on her own and saves them both with her quick thinking—with Lu Yun’s love driving her.

Now whether any of that is necessary is up to the viewers but I ate up the avalanche angst scene they gave me so whatever lol. Especially her finding Lu Yun’s reply to her note. 😮‍💨

meeeee. the way that entire scene was filmed, as if she were left out, her standing behind his blood family and then add on the fact that she's not the one to show her sadness/worries. but at that moment when she saw what he left behind, that broke her. more emotional scenes will be coming up!

and everyone knew it was fake lol. you'll see what i mean when you get to the episode. :)