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I am trepidatious about starting this drama despite my love for IU. IU is the only female in the top 6 castmembers (as shown above) which is never really a good sign.

EDIT, even worse she is the only female in the top 10 castmembers.

I actually find it is the opposite. It is K-Drama actors who have trouble emoting, (probably because they are expected to play stoic in a lot of their roles), but because much of the audience is female who are only interested in a pretty face, it rarely gets mentioned, ie Kim Soo Hyun is a particularly noticeable case what with his acting often feeling interchangeable no matter the drama.

I would suggest survive the first 9 episodes. Episode 10 is where the good stuff starts happening.

I do not know if it is connected, but both the 2fl and the ml's father wanted the gf gone and it is not beyond either to have encouraged people to let her die.

I do not know if you have finished it or not, BUT the show can easily be split into two parts. The first 9 episodes are the setup, the rest are the aftermath. The romance does not really start until episode 11/12.

I never really feel "bad" for second leads who do nasty things to try and force someone to love them.

The love story does not really start until around episode 11/12. And apart from one problematic kissing scene, it gets quite sweet fairly quickly after that.

"Mask". Mask is my favourite revenge melo. In fact not just my fave revenge melo, it is in my top 5 KDramas. Though, the protagonists do not start winning until the 11th episode.

I am not really sure I would call "King2Heart" a revenge melodrama, though I did like it.

Hwang Jung Eum was fantastic in this. In fact I feel she was the reason I love this drama so much. But it has one huge glaring flaw. The "protagonists" only win because the "villain" magically grows a conscience in the 11th hour and confesses his sins. That sort of resolution is not only extremely frustrating, it also says the writers wrote themselves into a hole they could not get out of.

Is there any non-sexist reason you negatively commented solely about the FL and not the mercenary rape/murder apologist that is the ML?

Are you a fan of a main character who is willing to (and has done previously) look the other way when it comes to rape and murder just so he can get some money. Or basically commits rape on a woman who thinks he is her husband whilst he only sees her as a one night stand. meh

um, when are these "barely three episodes" up? I am up to episode 12 and he is still a rather nasty obnoxious jerk with little care for his family and still willing to excuse murder/rape/assault/kidnapping/etc if he gets paid. In fact with how little he actually cares for his family, I am starting to see his "sex" with his wife as bordering on the rape side of things.

Yeah, because the female lead is the one with issues here and not the male lead who thinks rape, murder, assault, arson etc are all a-ok as long as he gets paid. meh.

I didn't find it obnoxious, probably because the person of the receiving end was the douchy obnoxious ML lol.

The ML was not just "naif", he was a grade a moron.

Pity the male lead wasn't reborn with any brains. It seems he was a moron before death and stayed one after death. Though at least it was the ml who was the moron and not the fl.

Pity this time it is the ML who is an absolute moron

I am only the first episode in and already find the ML, Nan Bei annoying

maybe because he is not a good actor. JCWs was by far the most unlikeable character in the entire drama. You watched this vainly hoping the fl did NOT end up with him.

The only time the male lead was interesting was when he was interacting with his girlfriend. I really wish that had not been so focused on pushing the two leads together. it would have improved the whole drama massively if they had made the romances, ml & girlfriend; and fl & college boy. The fl deserved better than the ml. I really did not like the ml, he was incredibly self-centred and conceited, he would never take responsibility for his actions.

I really think this drama would have been a lot better if it was not focused on pushing the two leads together. Like one of the review above stated I still have no idea why the female lead fell in love with the male lead. It just felt like they were pushed together purely because they were the two leads and not because the characters had any real connection. Let the male lead get back with his fiance and let the female lead start a new relationship with a classmate. It would have made for a much more interesting and impactful story.