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harin has her "grandma's" favor, and her grandma is someone everyone fears and wants to impress, so even if harin is young and controlling, it's because those adults, even her adoptive parents, fear her grandma. maybe they even fear her killing them🤣 or she has every dirt on them too, again thanks to her grandma
everyone has a price, a laptop, a competition, a secret, and harin has the means to manipulate them all

suji enjoys the analysis, and she also doesn't want to "bother" her dad, especially since she lost her mom, he must've hidden his grief and overworked while she tried her hardest to always adapt to new schools

jauen, she's just too precious! from her kindness, to her awkward social interactions, lol the way she doesn't know what to do when Ji Ae was crying, and the way she was practicing her lines, she's just too cute🥺

Jae Hyeong is also fun🤣

Am I, dare say, having fun🥹💖 this was ok for the first two eps but this ep made it more exciting

I adore jauennie 🥹 bona is also doing a really great job👍🏻 evil fl idk if her character is supposed to give that soulless eye look or if she’s a horrible actor but the shoe fits🤷🏻‍♀️
The unexpected friendship is cute, the greyness of fl is well done, she’s not selfless but she’s not cruel, and she’s calculating and enjoys the game

The game itself, reminds me of the variety show The genius and more specifically The devils plan. Fl is being like Orbit, ppl can see him as cruel cuz he was using the low ranks by saving them so the higher ranks were eliminated first and thus he also eliminated the competition by using the desperation of the low ranks, but it’s a game, either play or be played

Exactly, it’s like at this point everything is a remake so non actually put in the work
And when they do they just twist the good points of a webtoon and make it cliche drama

lol 2017 feels like yesterday and no mater how long passed, it’s still num1 Korean sci-fi for me

Exactly, remembering everything can become a curse, so forgetting things is necessary but just because we don’t remember it it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen or that our brain subconsciously holds into them

I’d even be happy if any of them writes another drama, lately everyone is following trends and no one is trying to make new things anymore

Dark historicals are even more rare than good historicals

Yeah true, many things got toned down to wrap it up fast, I even thought they’d have a big fight like how did the big bad not have an army with him🤣

Aw you reawakened my favorite drama memory 🤣💖
While watching I was full of theories and after it ended even now I keep thinking g about the possibilities🥹
I might’ve rewatched this again 3 years ago, and this time I realized the concept was heavily on “memory”, what happens when they’re removed, and how important it is for our “personality”, we’re not ourselves without them, whether they’re sad or heartbreaking memories, we are us cuz of it

There are skills one gets after mingling, so like she saw the dark side, but also rarely had any experience how to convey things around people

For example, whenever she was with the inn manager, she looked mature and smart because she had dealt with that business side, but other times seemed like her fire time being in big gatherings with the ahjummas so unlike the other widower, she was always like a kid around adults


That’s so true, for one they taught her no one would want her, but they also drilled it into them that they would be shunned for it
Meanwhile ml never experienced that mindset so he was so casual about it

I feel like yeohwa kept a bit of her “innocence/naiveness” cuz she rarely got to socialize, women at their time “changed” to fit the society after they marry to show a mature “wife” reflecting society’s expectations

So for her she was always that young girl forced to marry a ghost, so in reality she was just forcefully adopted

I do agree with suho, once the female character became the driving force, he had to take the backseat quite often, tho that’s the “plot hole” because he did have a lot of things and power to do as an “officer ” but mixing in his “older brother” that had more power than him and their overall uncomplex evil plan, there wasn’t much for him to do beside looking adorable

Enjoy😭💖

My favorite drama since twinkling watermelon 🥹 feel good, great characters, not draggy tho sadly not enough romance 😭

I’ve been waiting for this for 7 years🤩

I just want two episodes of them together, going on a date out of town and chilling together in peace 🥹

i dont know her but you can add anyone you like😉

I’m glad the king is smart, and that he has yoonhak by his side

The left hand man wanting to control the king is old, but to have the king fake his support and have his own plan is nice

And the minister of finance’s wife, is the widowed queen’s niece? While yeohwa’s brother was also on the kings side, and the king new his dad was poisoned but no one believed him
Now they know cuz of suho, it’s such a nicely done plot progression 👍🏻

The son/ie husband could’ve faked his death cuz he didn’t want to marry someone he didn’t know, while his dad wanted yeohwa cuz of her brother

Even the palace politics are fun 🤣 I had a fun time binging the 6eps in 6 days and now it’s sad we have to wait for the rest🥹

either way, I really like their dynamics.
Both grew up too fast, yet still have glimmers of naiveness that comes from that sudden maturity

Overall every character feels so well developed, it’s sadly rare these days

This is one of the good examples of age gaps, hani is 40 irl and jongwon is 29, tho in the drama she’s said to be 35, she was 20 when married and it’s been 15 years, so even if we assume suho to be in his early 30s, they’re such a well balanced couple, both are smart and strong yet naive and adorably cute
I want both to see their cute side now, they’d be too cute🥹💖

Same goes with kiwoo 42 and yeonseon 25, but he has a really soft approach and she’s smart as she was raised by yeohwa well to be an independent woman

couples in dramas that aren’t romance focused are the best🤣

I really hope they aim for yoonhak x yeonseon, if they want to add romance, especially to not make both brothers fall for yeohwa

This is overall so cute, so refreshing and so much fun🥹

I remembered ml more after seeing he was in xx, and my dude is so adorably handsome 🥹 he’s square jaws are refreshing, his plump lips are squashy and his preciously soft eyes are EVERYTHING 😭😭
He also has a cute sense of humor always chuckling on the side, mainly cuz of hani🤣
And hani is so well balanced here. She’s perfectly elegant but also adorably quirky✨