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idk how to start this review, I want to praise it but I also want to address my biggest issue besides the last ep

a woman telling men what to do in those times?
for me that was the most unbelievable thing, they were too calm and cooperating, first off as a woman becoming a lawyer in those times, sure she had her father in laws support, but I really feel like they'd have degraded her words alot more
so I feel like her "struggles" were glossed over, especially with so many deaths around her ;p
I feel like it should've been more depressing


anyway, lets go back to the good points, the acting, especially the two mains was amazing, they grew gradually, they were strong, hardedged and jaded but they also never forgot to smile and laugh together which was really sweet
my favorite parts (Eventho I said it was "unbelievable") was when Ok Tae Yeong got all lawyered up and she did have the power and knowledge, maybe more after the 7 year passed


speaking of those 7 years, I feel like that also ruined the pace a bit, almost non looked 9 years older, I think there was another two or three years passing after that


Im Ji Yeon had the best growth, and Choo Young Woo did the double role really well
I did think the 2nd leads were useless and I was a bit confused on Mak Sim, Dokkie, End Dong I and Baekki, I thought they were a family


as the drama goes by the first thing one notices is how fast some plot elements are solved, and it might make one worry a bit, it's barely halfway through what else would happen, and it did get a bit slow in the 3/4 but I think having too many events and slowing them, is better than dragging one or two elements and also wasting time on side characters



so for the last ep, I feel like the pressure of the choice was hard for the writer, you can always address your big plotline, or push it under a rug
choose, A. continue to lie, B. admit it all, or C. outsmart them all

and this writer did try to "solve" it, but idk for me it didn't feel like the best choice in the long term
Cheon Seung Wi's "crime" wasn't adultery, it was suspicions that he and Koo Deok I, murdered Seong Yun Gyeom.

so he tells them he did it on his own, and he's put in jail. but Seong Yun Gyeom is alive, so wouldn't him going to the judge be enough?
especially since people called her Ok Tae Yeong / Koo Deok I as an "adulterer", so no one will believe Cheon Seung Wi died and Seong Yun Gyeom takes her back, a cheater and a former "slave"..
even if they said she didn't know, people were already saying she had "two husbands"...

more so because she gives birth to that "other guy's kid", and that other guy is writing books now.. so no one will believe it.
it's too much to clean. the kid needs to grow up even if her dream is just to live by the sea, and people in her town will know the truth but still it's such a mess
if anyone else wants to point out they can say "Cheon Seung Wi killed Seong Yun Gyeom in prison when he came to claim his life back"

so i wish since her name was cleared and she gained her own freedom, Cheon Seung Wi deserved his name back too