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She knows who he is. She doesn't accept his feelings/advances when she doesn't know. In fact she's horrified at herself for feeling like a cougar and constantly questions herself on whether she's actually attracted to a child or just her own currently elusive husband who the child exactly looks and acts like. But she finds out the fantasy truth by the time she gets to that stage. Earlier quarter of the drama she only suspects and treats him (teen version) to be the product of secret love affair/cheating of her husband.

I also dislike that she got PS and I honestly think that actors should never get anywhere close to a knife or other treatment since it can severely affect their ability to emote.

But it's a shallow reason to hate on someone or to insult them or worse, victim blame them. Likely, she was just fine with her own face until she was pressurised by impossible beauty standards and toxic industry environments that force most celebs to get some treatment or the other.

No comment on the acting, but Baku's character does tend to put on a hyper positive/jovial facade atleast to some extent. Like when he comes back to school after his forced absence/suspension and sees absolutely nothing has changed at school/the miscreants are back to their bullying ways. He's about ready to kill them/exhausted with the cycle of violence. But instead he immediately starts acting overly friendly with them to physically force positivity/peace in the school.

He's also the type of character whose escape is the school grounds (due to poor home situation/lack of future hopes) as opposed to characters who're trying to survive school to escape one day (graduation).

male lead actor, but which male lead actor?

lol, this is one of the only times where i can ask this question

I read somewhere that maybe MDL is now restricting ratings of new airing dramas? Because usually a romcom with well-known leads like No Tail To Tell would be 8 something even if it's a mid drama. Undercover Miss Hong is also only at 8.1, despite being engaging. Then we have past aired mid shows like Again My Life sitting at 8.3.

Either way, ratings are often skewed on MDL and not a good indicator of quality. If you want to give this drama a shot, I say do it. It reminds me of OCN (RIP🙏) crime dramas.

Took me about 3 months and a bunch of detours into other random films to finally get through this.

Writing was peak Wattpad level. The MC was a male Mary Sue incarnate. Emotional depth? What is that, never heard of it. I usually can enjoy any time travel drama, no matter how stupid, and I've loved LJG in other works but even missing him since I last saw him way back in Flower of Evil, did not help. He wasn't given much to work with and seemed to be coasting through by throwing constant all-knowing smug smiles. Worst of all, 99% of the drama and screentime is dedicated to that SA creep whose role is to act like himself but still fails to bring any charm to his villain.

It's equally exhausting to scroll past that gutter in the hopes of seeing a real, genuine comment from an actual audience.

Half the time on the net it feels like you're either seeing the worst humans in existence with access to a keyboard or weirdly hyped "positive" bot comments that are basically repeated ten times in a row by different people and are equally nonsensical.

Average Mdl-ers are frivolous and impertinent. They are the same as those "infamous killer knetz" that the same non-Korean crowd hates. I found one knetz comment the other day that was obsessing over the female lead's !hair length! in this role and the older male lead's age..... Meanwhile the infants here either want to trash talk the female lead in that typical non-substantial manner or want to obsess over noses.

It's happening all over mdl. Hate it. All the classic names are far superior and memorable! The new unnecessary English titles are cringy. All these kdramas had English titles already anyway.

Drama's still airing, no way to definitely tell how everyone's relationships will end. imo, there was always rivalry and jealously in their friendship, and they weren't particularly close either. The other dude didn't know the ML was an orphan until like one day before his accident. Whilst the ML didn't know how the other dude was living all the years he was finally thriving.

I am from the future when these shows are finally released.

Congratulations on becoming a great-great-halmoni NeoB shi!. Your great-great-new born sunja is beautiful!

PR usually tends to exaggerate and use rehearsed flashy flowery language. I've learned not to trust them.

But as for whether the character will die... considering half the audience has died waiting for season 2 to roll around and like 90% of the characters died in season 1, you better go in expecting any remaining and new characters to die as well in the sequel.

2nd ML** in AOUAD

So his character in the book is a lot different. He's always been mentally unstable and weak. Self-hating. Wanting to distance himself from his Korean identity because he wants to fit in.

So when he learns his dad is a bad guy, someone he is disgusted of. He kind of breaks down. He doesn't stop to say goodbye to his mother or have a chat with said father. Gets a job like in the drama at that random racist shopkeeper's place. Pretends to be a pure Japanese person. Marries under that false identity. Then panics that his life that he's built here with lies will be snatched away when the mom eventually comes knocking. So he offs himself. Later his mom finds out that he still visited his adopted father's grave regularly or something. So he still cared for and recognised the priest as his dad. But he doesn't really give a chance to listen to his mom's POV or why she did whatever she did. Which is worse because in the book, Sunja is rap*d by Hansu and has never once liked him back or respected him. Unlike in the show where she does have some lingering feelings for him, even if she has chosen to stay loyal to her husband's memory.

The characters are of the same age. The age gap is between the actors

Moving was always planned for a second season. Considering the entire first season is a set up. The source manwhas is also not run dry.

I didn't mind her leaving him. Considering she likely would've been murdered if she kept trying to support him. And unlike his friends, he wouldn't have ghosted her so easily. I did want to see her again though. Kept expecting her again for some closure.

He absolutely did kill people. We atleast saw one guy definitely die instantly and brutally- the car driver thug he pushed out. The dudes head got detached from getting run over by I think Kwang Soo's chasing car.

Years later. Like he's married with four kids. His parents track him down. But he k*lls himself instead of choosing to return home

He's dead in the books. But only after Hansu and Sunja find him again years later. Apparently he takes his own life after meeting Sunja again. Even though he has a wife and kids now. Don't really understand it. Like what the hell bro.

I hope they change it in the show if we ever get a third season.