The timeline jumps all over the place, so bear with me. First, they meet, actually meet, in college. By this time, he is a mentally and physically broken rebellious anti-social loner of man, full of hatred, suffering being wronged by the world at every turn. He is alone in the world, non-conforming to societal ways, but also a pauper, graced with a scholarship for his extraordinary brilliance with programming coding. He thinks that the less people in his life is for the better, as he can just focus on his work, not having attachments to anyone to care for, because losing the people close to him utterly destroyed him. He wants to just be a computer, writing programs, short-circuiting his feelings, basically turning them off, like a switch. We find out this is the case, because his best friend cooked up a scheme to get money, for the therapy for his terminally ill mother, only to get them both expelled. Then his begging for leniency for the friend was ignored, by what turns out to be none other than her mother, who taught him at her school. To add insult to injury, his mother died at the time he was leaving the school permanently, so he missed saying goodbye by mere minutes. This time frame also led to his fight with his brother-in-law, which resluted in the damage done to his back. He speaks loudest with actions, or, to be more precise, his lack of actions and unenthusiastic participation in life, to all surrounding him, which demonstrates what he is clearly interested or disinterested in pursuing. He is apathetic to the world, only focusing on righting the wrongs he personally felt attacked by in life. He is a reluctant, but passionate, hero for his causes, weighing the gains with the efforts, and saving his resources for the times that make a true difference for himself. He wants more people to survive cancer. He wants to teach lessons to the arrogant bullies, but not anything that gets him in serious trouble. Just when they are feeling grandiose or invincible, he swoops in, to knock them off their own delusional pedestal, but only with their own shortcomings, failures, greed, and hubris. He is never wanting to cross the line and pay for his heroism with real dire consequences. He just wants to professionally humiliate those who have destroyed others, leaving them to utter ruination, after using and exploiting them for all they are worth, followed by discarding them with broken promises after stealing their lifetime achievements of work. He absolutely abhors others taking credit for things that are not theirs. Plus, he is a keyboard warrior. For the right price, he will fix your programs to excell far better than you can imagine, improving your business far beyond the wildest expectations of everyone associated with him. Everyone around him thinks too small in their scope of practice. It is a source of irritation for him, making him seem domineering and unapproachable, as he must be the leader, never a subordinate with his inherent nature. They are on the edge of the atmosphere, while he is at the edge of the galaxy. This irritates him, as no one is even close to his abilities, which makes him an outcast in their eyes. When he attempts to make inclusions, trying to teach them some of what he knows, he is met with such resistance, that it is yet another lesson in futility and frustration, so he does the majority of complex work on his own. He decides to not waste his time on "brick walls", that are too stubbornly unwilling to bend or conform to his way, which is proven right, time and time again, creating a perceived arrogance. I would say he is almost a high functioning autistic savant when it comes to programming codes. Brilliantly barely broken is a description which explains the personality issues. He also portrays the flat affect as well, precisely on point.He leaves the rest of the groups the menial tasks, which for their scopes of practice, are daunting and take quite some time to perform, as they do not learn his efficient ways, and he has no patience for their confusion and willful obstinance. This creates resentment among the legions. They see him as an overbearing tyrant, as he expects them to finish tasks with the quality and quantity he performs, as well as finite deadlines that are next to impossible to meet, as he breaks it down into unobtainable hourly expectations, not taking into effect they are mere mortals, as he is recognized as a god, since he never sleeps. It is the OCD part of him that sets the pace, as he never stops coding, with projects lined up all the way to the horizon. As he wraps up one project, he has already begin the next, never taking a break. These reasons are why his teacher treats him like a son. He is aware that the boy has no one. He sees so much potential, but so much behavioral issues, that his reason to teach this kid is not schooling, per se, but how to function in society before he gets killed for angering the wrong person. He also needs to stop him from escalating to the next level of corruption, with his abilities and steep learning curves, it's a real concern he may lose perspective of right and wrong, which he did eventually. But he never gave up on him, even after graduation. Then the girl comes along, by happenstance, and becomes a pesky thorn in his side. Although she is not a worthy opponent, he finally becomes intrigued by her repeated interference in the " cat and mouse game " they stumble upon. He pulls her pigtails, and she kicks him in the shins, but she is fun to torment as well. She has never met someone who didn't like her immediately, which in turn drives her crazy. Like a cat, she keeps parading around him, sometimes hissing with claws out, sometimes just grumbling in the corner. She has to earn a place in his life, as he is the first challenge, which is why she loves him so deeply. Everyone fell in love with her, which puts everyone in the same boat. That is why she likes her friends, but does not love the one who never challenged her. It's fine to be friends, but there is no passion, no conflict, but just tedious boredom. Her friend thought being the complacent caregiver was enough, but he sparked a fire in her, making her believe she could anything she wants in life, willing to stand up to her parents and save her. The best friend was more like her father. The peace-keepers who let her Mother dictate her life, and how she was to live it. She needed a hero to take off her blinders, so she could dare to dream. She loved him, and all the empowerment that came with him. She could not go back to being docile again.Everyone noticed how domineering he was too them, but how special he treated her, yet she was so frustrated by his different torments that she failed to see it. She was just trying to redeem herself, as he took her on as a student. She was the only one who did not hate his abilities, but was upset her usual tactics were of no use on him. He made her be her real, authentic self that she didn't even know she was capable of being. He brought out the best and worst of her, all while trying to level her up to as close as he could get to being just like him. Every time she thought she caught up, he had already jumped on a comet and was speeding past her, light years ahead, seeing a much broader picture. As much as they thought alike, she could never grasp it all. Hence her begging for conversations. He was weighing in about what she should know and what to keep oblivious, to protect her, but after their first major catastrophic tragedy, she could not trust him that he was not going to destroy his life again, and she would lose him again. She would not survive a round 2. She almost took her own life, twice. Once, when she walked into the surf on the beach, when her friend left her alone to get the pastry for her. He saw the relief in her eyes, that she wanted it over, because the overwhelming guilt, frustration, with resounding regret, for not stopping her greatest love from destroying his life and going to prison, along with the overseas separation, was just to much for her. All the medication was making her functional, but she was robotic, empty, hollow, only persevering for a second chance to be what he needs when he gets out of prison. Like her friend said, he saw her come back to life, saw emotions, only when she was around her first love, be it for better or worse. Her friend hung in there valiantly, even there the second time, when she drank too much and took too many pills, after their fight, when he lashed out at her at work, destroying her a second time. He thought she was in a better place, and he was protecting her from his revenge game, which could send him over the edge again. The third time he hurt her, was when she saw him throw his friend off the catwalk. But that one was on her. He told her to stay in the car. She had to see half the story, but not the ending, but it put her right back into her helpless regretful state again. But, she was getting used to it, sort of, by then. All I can say is, boys will be boys, and they handle things in a more physical manner than most girls do, but that was still pretty extreme. But she saw what he is capable of, so she knew what she was getting herself in to, the first was a surprise, but second and third were on her to go back to him. Plus, in a weird twist of fate, he knew who she was before she knew anything about him. He saw her in the window of her parent's home on her birthday. So that was the basis of the Princess nickname. But she never saw his face, as she offered the umbrella, but he never turned around. He just kept walking. This was just before his mom died, just before the fight with the brother-in-law that severely damaged his back. So, due to his damaged past, he thought that by hurting her, and he knew how to thrust the knife deep into her kidney and twist, to deliver the most fatal blow but thinking it would still leave her alive, but just driven away to a better life without him, he did not realize how damaging it was to her, who never knew that kind of cruel punishment in battle, and had no defenses against it, let alone survival instincts. His defenses had been building, as the world punished his very existence, so he could survive such a conflict. Girls are wired differently, and he rendered her catatonic. You can potentially die in that state, or the resulting phases of beginning to heal, because they are at their highest risk of acting out their plans when they have energy again. This was when she had the opportunity to wade into oblivion at the beach. She awakened from her purgatory when she ran after the guy, who was his prison buddy, that ran his errands at the coffee shop. When she caught him, asked where he was, froze at the sound of his voice, and turned around, you could see the switch turn on in her brain when she had the potential to see him again. Her friend knew, after that, he was the third wheel, but stayed for a bit anyway, hoping to be the runner up, although he gave in later, seeing himself always being in the friend zone. He had given 15 years of his life to her, and got nowhere. He is off to find his love too. But they will always be good friends. If he had not gone along with her mother, but protected her, he would have had a chance. He schemed with her, but her love actually faced her mother head on. He is bound to let her live her life, next to him, facing everything together, working side by side. She is like his light in the storm, guiding him to safety, but she is also his Achilles' heel, the bane of his existence. He went to jail for his love of his sister and his girlfriend, both who lost lives as a result of the man he punched, but also for every person he ever screwed over, as he was a pathological narcissist who basically put in motion 2 deaths, maybe even more, but never was held accountable for 2nd degree murder or murder by proxy for his actions put them in harm's way. It was 50% his sister, 40% his girl, and 10% all the other wronged people, by my math. The one guy he trusted to run his company, as he knew he would go to jail, screwed him over as well. So he decided to go after 2 birds with 1 stone when he got out of prison, but the strategy was to do it legally, so they did not go back to prison. But that became an intricate tangled web that they had woven of deceit. I will say, when it came to acting like his back was hurt, he knocked it out of the park with that acting. Plus, he never scooped her up and carried her. It was refreshing to have someone so consistent. But he has directed a lot, so he keeps that in mind. She jumped on his back in the snow, but they were spinning so her weight would be different with centrifugal force, so I will give them that one. It was a fantastic show. I loved it and will put it as one of my favorite shows.
Same gurl, finally found someone who can't watch Esther Yu's drama like me. And true SWL is the GOAT and so is…
What fanwar? That's my intial ratings and it can change anytime. What gives you the right to say that? I love both the actor and actress. It's not like I never watched Esther's drama. I never found them interesting because of her voice. Also the original commentor mentioned about her which is true for me. It can not be true for you and it's okay. But calling my words and rating a fanwar is so weird.
are you planning to continue waiting?? I am lowkey debating because its night for me 😭😭 a part of me wants…
Don't sacrifice your sleep,dear😭 It will feel good when you wake up and see that episodes have come. In my country, it is afternoon now, I am going to study and then watch it😭😭 I don't know if I can even focus now.
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And true SWL is the GOAT and so is ZJY