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Really hate what the writers have done with SFL. He had the potential to be a great character and they blew it all to just have him be a jerk who's in love with a girl who doesn't even see him as a potential love interest.

Yep. It went straight from an exciting ten during the first several episodes to an eightish while I stuck it out waiting for the big reveal and has officially reached six or seven status by dragging it out and making all the characters but Ji Hyeok into jerks.

I liked him at the start and supported him until the last episode. Now he's just a creep and previews make it look like he's just gonna get creepier. Ha Yeong (SFL) might be childish, demanding and a bit spoiled but she's too good for him, that's how far he's fallen.

You're right. At first I thought the whole she's married misunderstanding would be used as a premise. Instead, I think it's the whole plot now. I also dropped Seon-U to a 30% sympathy based on this most recent episode. Looking at the previews, he's probably going to go down to 10 next week. I now think the SFL is too good for him.

That's super rude just to want to use you for a vacation spot because you have such an incredible place to stay. I like my privacy, too, and honestly get annoyed when people want to just use my house for a hub. I always say no. I'm polite but firm.

As far as the show, he needs to find out. If the lie stretches on for much longer, it becomes a lot less empathetic. At this point, if she tells him the full story he will understand. But if she just keeps at it? There will definitely be a lot more issues to resolve.

You are wise to wait and save yourself angst. I deeply admire your self-discipline - I'm just not that strong :-) As to your other points: The kid was six months old at the time of the divorce, so definitely still diaper age, and Da Rim's mom was the one helping take care of him at that point. My mom did that for someone as well, but it didn't just fall on her - all of us who were around chipped in when able. That's just how child rearing tends to go in a lot of minority cultures (I'm Hispanic), and from what Woo Young of Ateez has said, it works that way in Korea, too. He might not be an expert, though, so maybe I shouldn't just assume, lol. It could be a woman thing, too - there's a lot of expectation on us to help out. I have less empathy for her overall, though, because of how she has handled the lie. If it were just the other things, I wouldn't even notice them, but the fact that she isn't putting Ji Hyeok out of his misery is ticking me off.

My sympathy level:
Totally appreciate your perspective. Here's mine, for what it's worth :-)

Ji Hyeok: A billion percent. He is trying so darn hard to do the right thing.

Ha Yeong (SFL): 80%. Ji Hyeok said in epi 6 that he found her spoiled/selfish behavior kind of cute initially and I have a feeling that she knew that and acted it out. She seems very competent professionally and is not well treated in her own family, so I imagine this was something that only comes out when she feels it will advance her cause. I like her because she is great with Jun (Seon U's son), something I haven't seen from Da Rim and because she pursued an artist for his skill, not fame. I'm a sucker for people who appreciate the arts.

Seon U: 60% He's acting like a complete putz over Da Rim but he genuinely cares for Da Rim's mom and offered to make a big sacrifice for the family (sell his studio). He wasn't just giving out of his excess but genuinely digging deep to help. He is a good dad to Jun. I have some empathy for his dilema with Da Rim because it is obvious that a)he's a good friend to her and b) the fact that she wanted him to play her husband led him to believe she was finally seeing him as a man. They are a good fit for each other (the mother TF groups thinks so), so I get that not knowing what happened between Ji Hyeok and Da Rim on JeJu has convinced him that this is his moment.

Da Rim: 50% and falling with each episode. She is oblivious to how her actions affect others. It's not just that she didn't think her initial lie through (consequences to other team members, Ji Hyeok an Seon U) but that she doesn't see how Ji Hyeok is struggling with his attraction to her or notice how Seon U treats her. She also loses points for not knowing how to change a diaper, which tells us that she never helped Seon U with Jun when he was a baby. I mean, dang.

Ji Hye [Ji Hyeok's older sister]: 40% It wasn't her fault she was born and both Ji Hyeok and his mom treat her like it was. Add in the fact that the dad clearly wants to give his son the job his daughter has worked so hard for and that this latest episode shows how she was mistreated in a past relationship and she went from dislikable to a little sympathetic for me.

It ticks me off that the writers have taken an excellent SML - handsome, thoughtful, creative, talented - and turned him into an annoyance. All of this could have been handled without turning him into a jealous freak. Although I am surprised people are giving him hate and not Da Rim the FL. She's messing with everyone's lives and her only excuse is her sick mother.

I do NOT want that jerk to have a happy ending with the sister. She's a witch but at least she has some cause. He's just a jerk.

I agree with much of what you said. With every episode, I like Da Rim less because she is making things hard on everybody. In ep 6 she was teasing Seon U about maybe liking someone and it never even occurred to her that the situation she put him in, of making him her fake husband, would put him in a tough spot to move forward if he did have a crush. She asked for 6 months of his life for her lie like it was nothing. And now she hasn't just lied on an application but has kept up the lie to people whom she supposedly befriended. And honestly, she could have just as easily pretended to be a divorced mom. It would have added a nice diversity to their team (two married moms, a widowed mom, a divorced mom). I, too, feel the most sorry for feel mostly sorry for Ji Hyeok and the SFL. Da Rim is freaking torturing them at this point.

I have been wishing for them to get together. Kang Gyeong Min (secretary) is just a great guy and she seems super sweet. Love them together.

I feel the same in terms of loving the chemistry between the leads, the initial premise, and the fun mix of comedy and drama, but feeling that they are stretching it out too long for ML not to know the truth. It is entering iffy territory by depicting characters caught in an affair rather than just two people kept apart by circumstance. I actually like the 2FL, though. I think she is precisely what the 2ML needs. He is too passive by far, and like she said, why has Seon U (2ML) done nothing with his feelings for the FL for YEARS?

Jun is at school during the day while they are working but aside from appearing in that short meal scene in episode six, he does dissappear when he is inconvenient. Unlike real kids, lol.

I agree that ML should have found out by now. It is reaching the point where rather than being a relief to learn he's in love with a single woman who can love him back, he will be furious at what she put him through by not being honest.

I like 2FL better than FL. I hope Seon U gives her a chance soon. She'll make a great mom for Jun.

Hope it happens soon. The situation is definitely more complicated at this point.

Looks like the 2FL will keep the secret BUT as the old saying goes, two can only keep a secret if one of them is dead. :-) So many people know now it is bound to come out.

Guess I'm alone in having really mixed feelings about this one. I love the mix of comedy and drama, and I feel like all the actors are doing fantastic jobs of portraying the emotions people would feel in this situation. BUT I want the ML to find out what is going on soon. At this point, if she tells the truth, I think it would be an easy thing to forgive. He'd probably even feel relieved. But if she keeps this bigger, more painful lie going on much longer, I'm not sure how easy it would be to let it go.

I completely agree. As a child in the modern era she was a thief who put things in her little sister's backpack to hide her crime. She put that 9 yr. old in a truck and sent her off. I have no doubt both parents mourned like crazy. In the Joseon era, the psycho scarred her younger sister to take her place. Throughout the drama she stole and cheated. In Joseon, she attempted to poison the crown prince. In modern era, she lured him to Tae Mu. That she quibbled at direct murder of her sister - which given the circumstances, she was at the very least an accessory, doesn't show goodness. It shows she maybe has a smidgen of conscience - or maybe just realized that she better do a few good things to offset the bad before a jury.

It was ridiculous.