Hime

Not even 10, episode 10 airs tomorrow.

There is also the other side, the haters that flock to dramas with actors they love to hate and give it a rating of 1 just to lower the rating as if that would have any impact in the life of that actor/actress.

I used to trust MDL ratings but it has been some years since ratings stopped being accurate. There are average dramas with high ratings because of the cast and great dramas with average ratings because the cast is mostly made of unknown actors.

The best way to find out if a drama is worth watching is to go through a few comments and see what people are saying. There is the risk of reading a huge spoiler if the drama has already finished airing but it is a risk I am willing to take since I usually add them to my list pretty early on and no one knows how it ends yet. It is also very easy to identify the comments that are from someone who is actually watching it and judging it for what it is and the ones from fans/haters (these are usually more about the actors rather than the plot and sound extremely biased when you read them).

I myself like to leave a comment after finishing most dramas I watch so it can help someone else make an informed decision as to if that drama is worth watching or not.

He basically kidnapped her, she never stayed with him out of her own free will. Since she never gave him her consent, they were not really a couple. It was all one-sided.

Yup. Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min cannot be considered a couple so yes, you are right, the strategist and the princess are the REAL second couple of this drama.

They were NOT a couple, that is the point of the original comment.

Sure the story around them was interesting but they were not a couple so there was no need to show so many scenes of them, they were also repetitive, it was basically either him forcing himself on her or threatening her. I found their storyline intriguing like you said and think it added to the drama overall quality but I wish they had a bit less screen time, specially if it meant reducing the main leads screen time.

The main leads had a lot of chemistry as well, unfortunately a lot of their steamier scenes were cut while for some reason they were allowed to air when it came down to Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min's scenes. You can find some of those cut scenes on social media. One of them was from ep 38, when they were in bed.

Totally agree with you. They were never meant to be considered a couple. Even in the post-credits the writers make it clear that they were never supposed to be together, even if there was a next life. He was an obsessive man and she was a woman just trying to survive and keep the people she loved safe, even if that meant being intimate with him or pretending to care about him like he wanted.

My only complaint is that they got too much screen time. I would rather have that time being spent on showing the main leads' wedding and kids (actually showing the kids, not just mentioning them like they were an afterthought).

I really liked this one as a whole, one of the best Chinese dramas I have watched in a while. I would have given it a higher rating if it was not for the last few episodes.

They showed so many scenes and characters that were not that important, even showed us a "what if" in the post-credits but did not bother to show us their wedding (even tho the ML spent a big chunk of the drama promising her a proper one) nor show us their kids (only mentioning them right before the ending like it was just an afterthought).

If they did not reserve so much screen time for Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min (why are they even listed as supporting characters when they got almost as much screen time as the main leads?), maybe there would have been more time to show us what we REALLY wanted to watch.

I hate when I love a drama so much and then the last episodes are disappointing because now I do not leave this drama feeling the way I wanted. I wanted to be so satisfied with the ending and empty on the inside that no other drama would be able to fill this emptiness for a while. Unfortunately, that did not happen. T T

There were several things about the way things were wrapped up that I did not agree with or thought could have been done better but listing them all would take a while and would only make me feel even more disappointed than I already am and I want to remeber this one in a good light so I will stop here.

This drama is so good that although all episodes have been out in some sites for a few days, there are still no reviews or people leaving comments about how it ends because we refuse to watch this with auto-generated subs and ruin the experience.

A few days ago I thought I could binge-watch the rest of the episodes but once I got to episode 34 I realised the subs were bad and just could not continue. I just watched episode 34 and 35 today and will wait for the rest of the episodes to be released so I can watch with decent subs. I can't believe we are so close to the end. It has been a while since I watched a drama that I liked so much. T T

Ok, I think I know who you are talking about now. I will pay more attention to him from now on.

Sometimes these characters that stay more in the background turn out to play bigger roles than the ones that are in the spotlight. So it is possible his character is more important than we would initially think.

If the revenge is satisfying and the main leads are always or almost always one step ahead, I might give it a try.

I have been watching Asian dramas since 2010 and cdramas since 2015-2016 so I can guess some things from experience, not like I keep up with the trends. ^^'

I have not started watching this one yet but I read about it being cut in half. Chinese dramas being censored or heavily edited out is something I am familiar with but this one seems to have been cut down to the point of almost half of it being wasted.

Some actors might have spent hours filming and now they will not even show up on screen since their character was removed from the plot. That is sad, I would be so disappointed ifthat happened to me.

The young male worker? I am not really seeing who you are talking about but I am also tired since it is 4am in my country. ^^'

I thought so. Chinese dramas 10 years ago were a bit behind other Asian dramas. They looked more dated. I re-watched a drama from 2019 and it felt more dated than I remembered it to be. Felt more like it was filmed in 2013-2015. ^^'

Nowadays high budget Chinese dramas look a lot better. They put a lot of effort into editing, CGI, ost, and so on.

I know some dramas, like this one, also get set aside for many years until they are finally released and by the time they air they are already dated.

Yes, there are a lot of suspicious people around but I hope the director is not the one getting people around the FL killed because that would be boring. There are other characters that would fit the role of the killer/person hiring the killer much better. I will be really disappointed if it turns out to be the director and this guy that dated the ML's sister. Not everything needs to be connected.

The guy responsible for killing the ML's sister also being the one killing people around the FL would be very cliché.
I guess maybe while investigating the ML will find out that the director has something to do with his sister's death but I hope there is a separate killer/mastermind behind the deaths around the FL.

P.S. - Your other theory also makes sense. The FL has a bad habit of not defending herself and letting people misunderstand her. Her guilt would also be enough to make her confess to something she did not do if she is convinced that her now dead FOR REAL ex was the one behind all the deaths around her.

Yes, he is related to the Auction house owner and she is behind the tragic ending the FL's parents had but I do not want to believe she is the one calling the shots and getting the people around the FL killed because that would be really boring.

The not so dead ex, the best friend, even the bar owner are better options. The most exciting one would be for the FL to be a real psycho and be the one behind it all, it would be a great plot-twist, but since I doubt that is happening, I hope they at least choose someone that makes sense and that will not disappoint us.

I know this might sound a bit out there but I also predicted Jun Beom was actually her ex a few weeks ago so I will try to guess now what happened too.

From the preview we see the FL is admitting to this murder and all the other murders even tho we know it was not her (unless she is an actual siren which I doubt because rarely do they make the main character the bad guy).

That leaves us with only 1 logical reason as to why she confessed to something she did not do...to protect someone else. The lights went out before everything happened, so that means there was a third person there. My guess is the one who killed Su Ho was Eun Hyeok. Although it is looking like Su Ho is responsible for all those deaths surrounding the FL...this has yet to be confirmed.

Eun Hyeok still feels very off to me, the way he looks at the FL, specially when other men are around, is not the way a friend looks at someone and not even the way a "normal" person in love looks at someone. He was conveniently always around the places and people who died. When he was being questioned by the police, not being able to pick up her calls was killing him on the inside. I think the FL might have had 2 if not more obsessive men in her life.

Eun Hyeok is one of if not the most important person to her, a friend she had her entire life so it makes sense she would want to protect him, specially if she has yet to realise the extent of his actions and thinks he only killed Su Ho by accident or to protect her.

I have read a lot of negative comments about it tho so I did not even add it to my plan to watch list. How is the romance?

This is supposed to be a remake of a kdrama from 2015 so I would not say early 2010s but definitely has that dated nostalgic vibe. This is probably about 10 years old, probably a bit less since I doubt they made a remake right away. Probably filmed around 2016-2017.

I think her female friend is a distraction. It seems like her, Eun Hyeok and Jun Beom are all left-handed or at least pretending to be. They are trying to throw us off with the left-handed thing.

The female lead did not say anything about her ex being left-handed so there is a chance the real Jun Beom was left-handed so her ex had to practice writing with his left hand.

Maybe episode 8 will give us some more answers...or leave us with more questions. ^^'

Yeah, that was my first thought in episode 5 or 6 when they mentioned something about him having a nurse and being recovering from something. The real Jun Beom died in Syria but somehow they declared her boyfriend as dead, when he recovered he no longer had his identity and by the time he got back to SK the FL might have already been dating the other dude which might have triggered him to start commiting the murders.

This was one of my earliest theories but since him being the killer was so obvious I was trying to look at other people like her friend, the Royal Auction owner or even the plot twist of it being her all along.

I still haven't watched episode 7, will watch it now and edit this comment if I have anything to add.

EDIT: Yup, although they are trying to make it look like it is about something as simple as revenge for the death of a friend that was like a brother to him...I still feel there is more to it. I am definitely leaning more towards him being her ex-boyfriend rather than the brother like friend.

Now there are 2 possibilites:
1 - He is a complete psycho and planed the whole thing from the moment he sent her that video.
OR
2 - He did try to kill himself by not taking cover during an attack and his friend saved him and died in his place and that not only gave him an opportunity to approach the FL as someone else but also made him develop a bit of hatred for her as in his sick mind she was the one to blame for his friend's death.

Let's see what is revealed in tomorrow's episode.

True. I forgot about that. Him being the boyfriend was a theory from before I watched that scene. But since the first boyfriend was the first one to die, he might still be connected to him somehow. Maybe he even got to know the FL through him.