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Finally, a toxic thriller done right??
i think i can finally say we’ve got a kdrama that’s a full on toxic thriller and an endless list of bad decisions made by a woman in love with a walking red flag.
not that it’s bad we all know this kind of messy, dangerous story is catnip for a lot of people 🥴, right? honestly makes you wonder if the writer’s been binge-reading those amazon thriller bestsellers 🤔. but the real question is: is this another “girl loves the wrong guy and pays the price” situation, or are we actually getting something different this time?
➷ let’s talk about some of these decisions:
↳ do-kyung disappears, doesn’t pay rent for three months, drains his girlfriend’s bank account, is being chased by loan sharks in bangkok who literally threatened to HARVEST HIS ORGANS, calls hee ju in a panic and what’s his brilliant plan? ask her to sneak a shady coffin through airport security. at her job.
no explanation. no context. just “it’s important. trust me.” and she actually DID IT. swapped shifts, turned off the alarm with her own hands, lied to her supervisor saying it was just some metal decoration for the coffin.
gurl. GIRL. you didn’t ask once what was inside?? not once?? human curiosity just left her body??
↳ and he didn’t even know what was in the coffin!! he GUESSED it was drugs and decided that was good enough to use as leverage!! this man gambled with her career, her freedom, and her safety based on a GUESS and really thought it would work.
so what does do kyung do after all that? hijacks the van, kicks the driver out on the highway, calls the crime boss and makes a counteroffer of 1 BILLION WON. with the audacity of a lifetime. the confidence level this man has is something i will never understand.
spoiler: it did not work. he got hit by a van and ended up in the hospital.
↳ meanwhile, heeju is waiting alone at an abandoned greenhouse in the middle of the night with a van and a coffin while her boyfriend goes off to “handle things.” then she sees him get hit. with her own eyes. and what does she do? drives off with the van. because that’s what he told her to do.
gangsters surround the place. ho cheol JUMPS ONTO THE MOVING VAN and starts smashing the window with his head with his head, i need to repeat that because i will never recover and she STILL manages to escape.
she ends up at an abandoned mine in jeongsan, the town she swore she’d never go back to, opens the coffin and finds 10kg GOLD BARS. 150 billion won in gold.
and all of this for a man who didn’t even know what was in the coffin and thought negotiating with organized crime was a solid plan.
THE STANDARDS!! 😭
pls, PLEASE give this woman some agency in the next episodes. i’m begging. i’m tired of female leads being treated like doormats.
i started watching because of park bo young in a serious role, but just these two episodes already fried my brain and i genuinely feel like i lost a few brain cells watching this. if i have to see one more “trust me” face from do-kyung i might actually lose it.
on the other hand, i’m hooked more out of curiosity than love. i need to see how far heeju goes, how much the greed consumes her, and what happens when everyone finally collides with all that gold in play.
not that it’s bad we all know this kind of messy, dangerous story is catnip for a lot of people 🥴, right? honestly makes you wonder if the writer’s been binge-reading those amazon thriller bestsellers 🤔. but the real question is: is this another “girl loves the wrong guy and pays the price” situation, or are we actually getting something different this time?
➷ let’s talk about some of these decisions:
↳ do-kyung disappears, doesn’t pay rent for three months, drains his girlfriend’s bank account, is being chased by loan sharks in bangkok who literally threatened to HARVEST HIS ORGANS, calls hee ju in a panic and what’s his brilliant plan? ask her to sneak a shady coffin through airport security. at her job.
no explanation. no context. just “it’s important. trust me.” and she actually DID IT. swapped shifts, turned off the alarm with her own hands, lied to her supervisor saying it was just some metal decoration for the coffin.
gurl. GIRL. you didn’t ask once what was inside?? not once?? human curiosity just left her body??
↳ and he didn’t even know what was in the coffin!! he GUESSED it was drugs and decided that was good enough to use as leverage!! this man gambled with her career, her freedom, and her safety based on a GUESS and really thought it would work.
so what does do kyung do after all that? hijacks the van, kicks the driver out on the highway, calls the crime boss and makes a counteroffer of 1 BILLION WON. with the audacity of a lifetime. the confidence level this man has is something i will never understand.
spoiler: it did not work. he got hit by a van and ended up in the hospital.
↳ meanwhile, heeju is waiting alone at an abandoned greenhouse in the middle of the night with a van and a coffin while her boyfriend goes off to “handle things.” then she sees him get hit. with her own eyes. and what does she do? drives off with the van. because that’s what he told her to do.
gangsters surround the place. ho cheol JUMPS ONTO THE MOVING VAN and starts smashing the window with his head with his head, i need to repeat that because i will never recover and she STILL manages to escape.
she ends up at an abandoned mine in jeongsan, the town she swore she’d never go back to, opens the coffin and finds 10kg GOLD BARS. 150 billion won in gold.
and all of this for a man who didn’t even know what was in the coffin and thought negotiating with organized crime was a solid plan.
THE STANDARDS!! 😭
pls, PLEASE give this woman some agency in the next episodes. i’m begging. i’m tired of female leads being treated like doormats.
i started watching because of park bo young in a serious role, but just these two episodes already fried my brain and i genuinely feel like i lost a few brain cells watching this. if i have to see one more “trust me” face from do-kyung i might actually lose it.
on the other hand, i’m hooked more out of curiosity than love. i need to see how far heeju goes, how much the greed consumes her, and what happens when everyone finally collides with all that gold in play.
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