No he doesn't have that much role in the novel but I think he will have a major role in the drama otherwise how will they fill 36 episodes worth of drama. You won't even hate him after a point. He is just mentioned in the novel and might have about 8-10 scenes with FL.
It's like this FL has a long time crush on SML but he is quite insecure and treats her like dirt. Even his way…
I don't remember tbh. As far as I remember he doesn't confess due to his insecurity but we as audience know his feelings but he will confess in the drama though because I saw a scene like that.
I need Jiang Mu to find a hobby other than following a boy around EVERYWHERE. God forbid if he had actually died,…
Isn't that just a fresh contrast to how most of MLs nowadays just live only to love and adore FLs. I think I will quite like this drama due to this aspect, sometimes we men also need a girl in a drama which can die for us.
can I get a spoiler before watching? is it the kind of story where the fl chooses between 2 leads who like her…
It's like this FL has a long time crush on SML but he is quite insecure and treats her like dirt. Even his way of showing kindness and affection to her is in a way toxic which causes FL a lot of pain. ML then comes into her life and pursues her which causes her to fall in love.
Well, my concern is the absence of the Romance genre. This means there will be little to no chemistry between…
Bro if you think PSH hasn't improved her kissing game then you might have not seen her recent dramas like Judge from Hell and Doctor Slump. She has really good kissing scenes in those and improved a lot.
Funny how it's only a problem with female characters... lol
I get what you mean about how villain or grey FLs get judged more harshly. That bias definitely exists in the fandom. But I think this case isn’t really about gender, it’s about how the characters are written. Like see Vincenzo wasn’t written as a “pure villain.” You would know that the show goes out of its way to show his loyalty, his limits, and his protectiveness toward his people. He does horrible things, but only to specific enemies. That’s what makes him an anti-hero instead of a straight villain. While comparing it to Dear X, Ahjin isn’t shown to have any moral code at all. She doesn’t just attack people who hurt her. She uses and destroys people who are literally helping her. There’s no line she won’t cross, no loyalty, no rules. That’s villain behavior, not morally grey. Our reactions usually follow how the story frames a character. If a drama writes a villain as sympathetic, we sympathize. If it writes them as ruthless and selfish with zero limits, we don’t. That’s not automatically about gender; it’s about how the character is presented. So yeah, I agree female characters might get judged unfairly sometimes, but in this specific case, the reactions from us aren’t because Ahjin is a woman. They’re because the writing wants us to see her as a full-blown villain, not a grey anti-hero like Vincenzo so when at the end she gets her downfall we feel pretty satisfied about it. Also I haven't watched all those dramas that you commented other than Vincenzo so that's why I comment on how they showed their characters( whether a villain or not). I only replied because you mentioned Vincenzo being a grey but still being celebrated for it comparing it to Ahjin because I feel they are completely different genres and characters.
Funny how it's only a problem with female characters... lol
You can't compare Vincenzo to this one tbh. Vincenzo was at most an anti hero rather than a out and out bad/evil character while here Ahjin is pure evil. She doesn't differentiate between friends and foes and just uses them & later destroys them despite them not doing anything bad to her. They even help her but still she destroys them in a second while Vincenzo at least helped his friends which made us sympathise a bit with him.
I just need one thing properly from this drama. Ji Hyeok should be angry with Darim for at least 1 ep whenever he gets to know the truth about her fake marriage. I need Da Rim to know that her lie had consequences and she should make proper apologies like most MLs in other dramas do. The MLs have to constantly beg and suffer for their lies so much that I need the same from Da Rim too.
She doesn’t just attack people who hurt her. She uses and destroys people who are literally helping her. There’s no line she won’t cross, no loyalty, no rules. That’s villain behavior, not morally grey. Our reactions usually follow how the story frames a character. If a drama writes a villain as sympathetic, we sympathize. If it writes them as ruthless and selfish with zero limits, we don’t. That’s not automatically about gender; it’s about how the character is presented.
So yeah, I agree female characters might get judged unfairly sometimes, but in this specific case, the reactions from us aren’t because Ahjin is a woman. They’re because the writing wants us to see her as a full-blown villain, not a grey anti-hero like Vincenzo so when at the end she gets her downfall we feel pretty satisfied about it. Also I haven't watched all those dramas that you commented other than Vincenzo so that's why I comment on how they showed their characters( whether a villain or not). I only replied because you mentioned Vincenzo being a grey but still being celebrated for it comparing it to Ahjin because I feel they are completely different genres and characters.