Xerophytes

yes it does. Im now on Episode 12, at some point I wanted to drop it, but I continued through. Not a big fan of the romance here.

Gotta hand it to the writer, who I felt is a big coffee fan. I feel like this show is best appreciated for coffee lovers, who would actually watch the show with a cup of coffee. The series is quite interesting, easy to watch. But personally just not my taste, yet I still try to finish it.

YES

It's quite slow? When does it pick up? Im on episode 3.

The show is literally called 'The Manipulated', you conveniently ignored my comment that he likes to play god and enjoyed the manipulation.

He literally manipulated his rich client to give up as much money as they can.

He manipulated the victim/avatar's life to get into prison, and break them to commit suicide.

What reasoning or motivation do you need? It's the villain's personality. Why do you need to relate to someone so vile and evil? (Also, judging from other people's posts, it seems like you will find that out in the last 2 episodes)

Does the main lead not show strong reasoning or motivation for his action, can you not relate or connect with him?

He does it for money. and he likes to play god, he actually enjoyed the manipulation.

the last game bored me to death, i literally dont give a f*ck. They really think some random movie in the screen is their actual future? *rolleyes*

Keeps getting better and better, I feel like this is one of the action kdramas that you won't feel repetitive and stale. For example, Taxi Driver is good, but the whole thing feels repetitive and you know the formula. In this one, it keeps on evolving, started out in a prison story, then do driving death game, to foiling the ploy of making a fall person, now it's going to be ML goes after Yo Han's client.

Really great. Given that the series is constantly moving and evolving, I thought it will get stuck in the whole driving game. I'm glad that it was done and over lol.

I dont know how Hsu Ta Wei fit in all of this. There's no way they showed snippets of his backstory without having importance.

I dont know why but I felt like the twist might be that he is not serial killer after all, it might be Hsiao Tung all along. It is also possible that the whole ghost angle does not exist but a fractured delusional reality formed by Ren Yao, The whole drug thing might not be a one off thing.

at the latter part of this series, I had to fast forward quite a lot, just annoyed with unnecessary prolonged scenes, plus the fact that it was depressing AF. I need the second part, which is probably what I want and expected.

The series is so depressingly slow. I wished it was like King of Pigs, where the revenge started early on, instead of extensively establishing the backstory.

its def in my to watch list, because I really like Tseng Ching Hua as an actor.

Watch Before We Get Married too. And On Children.

Victim's Game.

Is Oh No, Here Comes the Trouble also dark? I thought it's comedy. I have yet to watch it

You have to watch Someday or One Day and Before We Get Married. And if you like the ML, you gotta watch Your Name Engraved Herein.

Thought Alice is one of the main leads.

I dont know how I feel. It started with the serial killer and interviewer, which I felt invested already and all of a sudden, the whole narration ended up in the flashback. In episode 4 now.

Yea, the show relied on people investing on him. So I can see why some can be put off