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"The Witch's Game" tells the story of three women whose lives are intertwined.
Yu Gyeong lives a happy life with her daughter Mi So, but everything changes when a fire breaks out and she thinks her daughter is dead. Years pass and Yu Gyeong wants to adopt a girl, she feels a connection with Hye Soo, but this is interrupted by Se Young's scheme. She discovers that Hye Soo is Yu Gyeong's daughter and makes a plan to take the girl's place and finally have the life she wanted, having a rich mother.
Time passes again and Yu Gyeong keeps in touch with Hye Soo. The two are almost like mother and daughter and this makes Se Young completely furious, because she is afraid of losing her place and her mother. She then starts seducing Ji Ho, who is basically Hye Soo's husband, since they live together and have a daughter. Because of Se Young, Ji Ho breaks up with Hye Soo. There's also In Ha, he's a good person who is engaged to Se Young but doesn't want to marry her.
Ji Ho wants to marry Se Young but her family doesn't approve of him, so Ji Ho makes up a lie that he's the grandson of Ma Hyun Duk, In Ha's grandmother, and he does it with the help of Yu Gyeong. This alliance was something that made Yu Gyeong someone I could never forgive, especially because of what happened with Han Byeol, her plan to threaten Hye Soo with Han Byeol's life, which really showed Yu Gyeong's true colors. After that, she still did a lot of horrible things, even after Hye Soo donated her kidney to her.
Se Young hurts In Ha and Yu Gyeong frames Hye Soo for the crime, the twist is that in prison Hye Soo finds out that Yu Gyeong is her mother and Ma Hyun Duk also finds out about this. In order to separate mother and daughter, Ma Hyun Duk lies that Yu Gyeong abandoned Hye Soo and even tries to kill the girl, saying that it was all Yu Gyeong's plan, that this was to make Hye Soo hate her mother and that is exactly what happens. Hye Soo comes back as a different person, with a plan for revenge.
The drama started well, but there came a time when the story lost its way, became repetitive and tiring... a shame. I think my biggest problem was with Seo Yu Gyeong, a very hypocritical character, who I couldn't get attached to, much less to her revenge, especially because she was the person who most incited evil to others. In this sense, I even felt sorry for Se Young, because she learned to be like that from her mother, as she was raised, that everything is solved with money and power and Yu Gyeong treated Se Young like a treasure until she found out that she was not her daughter, after that, she coldly abandoned her.
The romance between Hye Soo and In Ha had potential, but there isn't much development in their relationship in that sense, they could have given more focus to them as a couple.
In conclusion, it's not a drama I would watch again.
Yu Gyeong lives a happy life with her daughter Mi So, but everything changes when a fire breaks out and she thinks her daughter is dead. Years pass and Yu Gyeong wants to adopt a girl, she feels a connection with Hye Soo, but this is interrupted by Se Young's scheme. She discovers that Hye Soo is Yu Gyeong's daughter and makes a plan to take the girl's place and finally have the life she wanted, having a rich mother.
Time passes again and Yu Gyeong keeps in touch with Hye Soo. The two are almost like mother and daughter and this makes Se Young completely furious, because she is afraid of losing her place and her mother. She then starts seducing Ji Ho, who is basically Hye Soo's husband, since they live together and have a daughter. Because of Se Young, Ji Ho breaks up with Hye Soo. There's also In Ha, he's a good person who is engaged to Se Young but doesn't want to marry her.
Ji Ho wants to marry Se Young but her family doesn't approve of him, so Ji Ho makes up a lie that he's the grandson of Ma Hyun Duk, In Ha's grandmother, and he does it with the help of Yu Gyeong. This alliance was something that made Yu Gyeong someone I could never forgive, especially because of what happened with Han Byeol, her plan to threaten Hye Soo with Han Byeol's life, which really showed Yu Gyeong's true colors. After that, she still did a lot of horrible things, even after Hye Soo donated her kidney to her.
Se Young hurts In Ha and Yu Gyeong frames Hye Soo for the crime, the twist is that in prison Hye Soo finds out that Yu Gyeong is her mother and Ma Hyun Duk also finds out about this. In order to separate mother and daughter, Ma Hyun Duk lies that Yu Gyeong abandoned Hye Soo and even tries to kill the girl, saying that it was all Yu Gyeong's plan, that this was to make Hye Soo hate her mother and that is exactly what happens. Hye Soo comes back as a different person, with a plan for revenge.
The drama started well, but there came a time when the story lost its way, became repetitive and tiring... a shame. I think my biggest problem was with Seo Yu Gyeong, a very hypocritical character, who I couldn't get attached to, much less to her revenge, especially because she was the person who most incited evil to others. In this sense, I even felt sorry for Se Young, because she learned to be like that from her mother, as she was raised, that everything is solved with money and power and Yu Gyeong treated Se Young like a treasure until she found out that she was not her daughter, after that, she coldly abandoned her.
The romance between Hye Soo and In Ha had potential, but there isn't much development in their relationship in that sense, they could have given more focus to them as a couple.
In conclusion, it's not a drama I would watch again.
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