This is one of those dramas that’s hard to rate. I don’t even know what I expected from it. Everything was chaotic, wild, dark — and yet something was missing.
It’s an intriguing story about an unconventional female lead who resorts to questionable motives and feels absolutely no remorse. Baek Ah‑jin is a manipulative vixen. You realize you’re caught in her web only when it’s already too late and the chain is tightening around your throat. Every time you think her kingdom of lies is about to collapse, the next moment you see her standing on top, with all the unlucky souls who crossed her lying at her feet. I felt sorry for the victims — at least the innocent ones — while at the same time burning with curiosity to see what devilish plan she would come up with next.
I’m not sure where exactly things went wrong, but something definitely did. Whether it was the character development or the direction of the plot… I don’t know. The beginning was fantastic. It promised something phenomenal. But with each episode I felt like I was going in circles — an endless loop of repetitive actions with no clear direction.
The whole time I watched Yoon Joon‑seo, I kept screaming: leave her, save yourself, Baek Ah‑jin is manipulating you, can’t you see it! The only logical explanation for why he stayed by her side all those years, despite her never promising him anything, is that he’s just as broken as she is.
Kim Jae‑oh was probably the most normal one of them all — just blinded by his own illusions about her. Like Joon‑seo, he could have started fresh, but he chose to remain in Ah‑jin’s shadow because he genuinely believed that made him useful, and he was strangely okay with that.
I expected some kind of development between her and at least one of the two, but everything was touched on only superficially and quickly brushed aside. Instead, they became willing prisoners in her web — a web that slowly and inevitably consumed them.
And what was Moon Do‑hyeok’s role supposed to be? His motives remained unclear until the very end. He married Ah‑jin, but for what purpose? Everything about him felt suspicious — a door left open for something more — but instead of exploring it, they simply left a gaping hole in the plot.
And then we get to the ending. Why did they have to settle for the easiest possible conclusion? What did we get — an unnecessary death and a finale that existed solely because they needed to wrap up the story as quickly as possible. After all the madness, I expected something bold, but what I got was a compromise.
It’s an intriguing story about an unconventional female lead who resorts to questionable motives and feels absolutely no remorse. Baek Ah‑jin is a manipulative vixen. You realize you’re caught in her web only when it’s already too late and the chain is tightening around your throat. Every time you think her kingdom of lies is about to collapse, the next moment you see her standing on top, with all the unlucky souls who crossed her lying at her feet. I felt sorry for the victims — at least the innocent ones — while at the same time burning with curiosity to see what devilish plan she would come up with next.
I’m not sure where exactly things went wrong, but something definitely did. Whether it was the character development or the direction of the plot… I don’t know. The beginning was fantastic. It promised something phenomenal. But with each episode I felt like I was going in circles — an endless loop of repetitive actions with no clear direction.
The whole time I watched Yoon Joon‑seo, I kept screaming: leave her, save yourself, Baek Ah‑jin is manipulating you, can’t you see it! The only logical explanation for why he stayed by her side all those years, despite her never promising him anything, is that he’s just as broken as she is.
Kim Jae‑oh was probably the most normal one of them all — just blinded by his own illusions about her. Like Joon‑seo, he could have started fresh, but he chose to remain in Ah‑jin’s shadow because he genuinely believed that made him useful, and he was strangely okay with that.
I expected some kind of development between her and at least one of the two, but everything was touched on only superficially and quickly brushed aside. Instead, they became willing prisoners in her web — a web that slowly and inevitably consumed them.
And what was Moon Do‑hyeok’s role supposed to be? His motives remained unclear until the very end. He married Ah‑jin, but for what purpose? Everything about him felt suspicious — a door left open for something more — but instead of exploring it, they simply left a gaping hole in the plot.
And then we get to the ending. Why did they have to settle for the easiest possible conclusion? What did we get — an unnecessary death and a finale that existed solely because they needed to wrap up the story as quickly as possible. After all the madness, I expected something bold, but what I got was a compromise.
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