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I was reading some reviews of the novel and these two have got me very excited;
-It was absolutely heart-wrenching watching them struggle to suppress and deny themselves.... and then to see them overcome these restraints and choose each other, even at the cost of losing their life/opportunity to reincarnate.
-Rather than being a Mary Sue, Shen Li is a female lead that I am very fond of, particularly because of her willingness to sacrifice and want the best for the person she loves.
I love an OTP that's ready to sacrifice everything for each other, it's part of why LBFAD is one of my favorite romances.

I would think even if it's her pov there should be moments where she says and does romantic things for him on the same level as he does? Otherwise it's strange since this is a love story and there are these memorable lines/actions from XZ but not from SL. It comes off as if she's not as devoted to him as he is to her if she's not showing it with words or actions but I haven't read it so I guess we'll see.

Do we get any romantic lines and moments like this from Shen Li? Everything I've seen people who read the novels mention has been from XZ's side.

I love Hae In and I understand her sense of betrayal but wanting Hyun Woo to beg for forgiveness is baffling to me. His wanting a divorce at that point in time is completely valid. What did you expect when he spent the last two years being treated as a slave by her family and as a pest she couldn't care less about by her? Saying oh she still loved him is just air because it's the way she treated him that matters, they're both flawed and should apologize for their mistakes and forgive each other, that's what marriage is supposed to be, there are no sides, only a team.

This is a great list, unfortunately I think a lot of these dramas are never coming out, there was an article that stated that there are 80-100 dramas that can't find a network and most of them will be shelved forever.

I've been watching kdramas for a long time and always felt in most cases they've done a good job of portraying equally loving couples but lately there has been a strange shift where a lot of otps have a really unbalanced dynamic where it falls onto the ML to do most of the emotional/physical labor in the relationship. Hopefully that won't happen here.

I completely understand why she would upset about him wanting a divorce and think all his care has been manufactured but she has to realize that he also has valid reasons, her family made his life hell for years and her small acts of care towards him in private don't really mean anything if she's been treating him horribly to his face because he's not psychic. They're both at fault and they both have to make amends and her being sick while heartbreaking doesn't magically erase all he's been through and I hope the writer shows that.

One of my favorite tropes is when one half of the otp gets stabbed or shot to protect the other, granted in this case HS was also the one planning to kill him lmfao but still...

I'm someone who really enjoys her especially in sageuks and I've said so in this comment section before but also other people are allowed to express their opinions as acting is subjective and she's literally a professional actor and they're discussing her acting? That's within their rights, as long as they're being respectful, that's what a comment section is for. They're not going up to her on the street or @ on her social media, they're talking on a random site online she doesn't even know exists.

There are always political ramifications to that and I'd think anyone of his many enemies will kill him the second he's not on the throne anymore.

You know what I just realized? Since the King is planning to give the throne to the prince then he is 100% planning to die so that can happen. He is willing to give his life for this and these fools are out here with their baseless revenge thinking they know anything about anything.

I want it to actually be the opposite where Dal ha does something dumb because of course but she protects the king and they lay it all on the table, it might just be wishful thinking on my part.

Am I expecting too much from this drama if I actually think she'll wake up and start protecting and helping and loving him like he has for her in the next episodes?

I agree but I like my endings more concrete without having to imagine things, after following a story for months, it costs them nothing to film 5 more minutes and show it to us.

Since the king is fictional and did not exist in history, if they end the drama with his death we're gonna have a serious problem. After all the sh*t they've put him through, he's the only one with a functioning brain and if it wasn't for him the kingdom would be in shambles, he deserves a happy life away from the palace.

Thanks for clearing it up, it would've been nice if it was less vague and they gave us a 2 minute epilogue of their married life together during the day and them saving people at night.

I actually like SSK in sageuks, my biggest problem is the writing, her motivations don't make much sense, and the way she's going about everything is so stupid if it wasn't for the man she wants revenge against she would be dead 10 times over and she's doing things that will have much worse consequences then what he did when he had no choice but she does. We're not the only ones, I read an article that knetizens are scratching their heads because of her motives and plotting too.

I'm about to start pulling my hair out because of this woman. If they don't turn this around in the next episode I'm done. I can't handle another 4 eps of their braindead plans to overthrow a king that's actually doing good to place a child who will be puppeteer-ed or dead the second he's on the throne while the people suffer all over "revenge" towards someone who is largely not responsible for her misfortune and has on so many occasion saved her ungrateful ass even while knowing she's plotting against him.

I haven't found the episode subbed yet but I read that he found her by accident while she was out being a vigilante or is that not accurate?

I completely understood why she left after being deprived of her freedom for 15 years but I would've liked her to be the one to come to him after a year or two .