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I agree, they should have mentioned SNQ is on autism spectrum earlier, instead of viewers being led to believe his drastic change in behavior is due to him getting his eyesight and holding a powerful position, while I have read comments saying that SNQ also turned out the same way even still visually impaired in the novel, so maybe it's more obvious in the novel that his burst of aggressiveness is due to his autism spectrum.

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there's the instrumental version on spotify here https://open.spotify.com/album/1Y61uReThvJfYvzMAvhJc1?si=NKHiu2ACQKSV4pkG5IrGjA&dl_branch=1

if you give this a chance, i think it'd be worth your time. tbh, this is my first cdrama and it has its own charm that keep you interested, especially the main leads.

happy birthday!!

Wait, now that you mentioned this I could hear the similarity. Gonna have to listen to them both again.

Yeah, I made the mistake of watching before I knew it's only 1 ep. per week, so now I'm putting it on-hold until it's ended. It'll make a nice watch to binge-watch over a weekend later.

It's actually 12 episodes and only one 20-min ep. per week, the wait's gonna be long. Not sure about the romance since I'm only on ep. 2 but I think there will be some building between KSR and NDR's characters.

You're welcome and hope you enjoy them or at least they could lead to something closer to your interest. It's been great for me as well and hope you enjoy the rest of your week. Stay safe and healthy.

I have checked ep. 1 of YAMG and I liked the vibe. I'm not really familiar with gaming, so it's rather interesting for me either way to see the scale of pro gaming world. Honestly, the local small screen industry is on the downfall, they don't really put much effort on what to produce, some better quality series are released through OTT though I personally haven't watch them much aside from indie short films on Youtube. I'd recommend some movies instead, most of them are on Netflix: Gie (2005) - on a political activist who lived during the first president's era in 1960s, The Raid: Redemption (2012) & The Raid 2 (2014) - an action films that shows Jakarta's underworld scene, Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts (2017) - a widow (warning: rape victim) on a revenge journey, and Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens (2021) - a young boy goes to New York in search of his mother.

Cdrama newbie, yes. I've just started picking up more Kdrama these past 2-3 years and found Crush after watching a movie on iQIYI. I'm kinda picky on what to watch; mostly it's dramas from actors I have kept an eye on or sometimes the interesting summary drew me in. I've read the summary and comments on YAMG, I don't think I've watch any drama about gaming so it's definitely fall under interesting summary for me to check. Yes and it's a big time difference, I'm actually in Asia (Jakarta, Indonesia specifically).

Hopefully they hear us, it would make such a sweet extra episode or something

I thought he wasn't as abnormal as they keep making him out to be, it's just that none of them really know how to interact with him and as WY said, his family didn't really try to understand him. Yeah, NQ's drastic change as CEO was a bit much, there should be other ways to show how he couldn't move on from WY. He got better after they reunited, but still not a trace of the old-NQ personality, even their mannerism and smile are so different it's like they're two different characters. Tbh, Crush is my first cdrama experience and I've seen several comments here mentioning YAMG, I might check it out.

True, I enjoy this drama and would gladly recommend it to friends alike. The setup, the imagery and the characters are so good, but that is also the exact reason it's harder to let them slide their. I'm not saying that they have to perfect, but at least, they could have handled them with more care and consideration. The musics are good and I think they're trying to tell something whenever they play a certain instrumental almost ominous background on certain scenes, but it seemed they drop this notion after the 3-year break.

Sadly, no. I thought it's hard to navigate the app as I don't read or speak the language. Won't they ever released the dating phase vlog from WY's gopro cam 😭

I'm with you lol I keep coming back here just to read new comments and checking the hashtag on twitter

Okay. I've finished this drama. NQ did grow out of his off-putting CEO phase and redeem his character starting from ep. 21, but songwriter NQ remains the superior NQ and the last four eps. couldn't compare to the first half. As some have said, the final ep. is rushed. WY's pregnancy happened so fast. They don't give some things the required time to build up and others the proper closure to send it away. For my first cdrama experience, I'm happy enough with it all though. Might really be on the look out for more of LYJ in the future.

Yeah, it's part his acceptance but it's also his way to rebel and not conform to his father's wishes. Still, there are past traumas and personal issues that just don't magically disappear after surgery. On that note, personally I'm rather disappointed at the way they make him decide to do the surgery for WY. It's understandable on his father part because he knows NQ could get surgery, but WY hadn't known it's curable at all during those times she made those wishful remarks that stayed on his mind. Those moments made her came across as rather inconsiderate, especially when she take advantage of his disability to tease or lie.

Not only deserving of love and happiness, but a right to pursue that love and happiness, for both of them, what with their own respective issues, trauma and pain.

Finished it just now. Things get okay on ep. 21, but if you want to see their reconciliation it's near the end of ep. 20. I do still feel like they could have tried to wrap it better on the final ep, it's all so rushed and big things happened but they are glossed over. Their dating period remains the best part of the drama, though.