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I can't say if we see the stepfather at this point but it would make sense because thats where this all started from.
However, I think there will be no clarity on TaeOh's biological father if that man is in fact his step dad. I don't think there's a reveal there.

Theres already enough other nonsense spread around that they have to clear up before the end, lol.

Seconding good will towards Huiju.

But I'm starting to think there might not be any mystery about why TaeOh chose Kang Oh, lol. I think it was just that he ran into InHa in school. After 7/8, I think TaeOh doesn't really have any ambitions of his own at all. He relies on other people to give him purpose whether its rescuing his mother/helping InHa/saving HyeWon. This is probably why nothing came of him and Huiju- the girl wants him but she doesnt "need" him.

Dare we hope that we lose HyeWon next week? Oh no, so sad, how will TaeOh survive the loss. Meh.

Looks like the chairman's time has come to an end. Oh well. We move on.

TaeOh working with the prosecuter could be interesting, maybe we'll finally be told what his angle is.

This will be the only vaguely interesting thing that can happen. The romance is so poorly done that there can be no way that it's the core of this story.

Usually we get those around the weekend.

That truly is a twist we weren't expecting, lol.
But especially after the director's interview that people are sharing, I wouldn't be surprised by that either.

I think the lack of anything really happening just highlights how pointless this whole ordeal is. Constantly we're told that TaeOh is a genius and HyeWon is ambitious and brave. When these two characters realised that they liked each why did they not ditch InHa and go off by themselves to achieve money and power? At the start they both had careers that they had supposedly gotten on their own merits. Could TaeOh not have found another company to climb up the same way? And now they're a team of two anyway so what was the point? It doesn't seem like Kang Oh was important to either of them. So why any of this?

I actually feel sorry for the dysfunctional Chaebols, lmao. These three randos just came to throw their lives into chaos. Now one brother is dead, the second is in exile, and Huiju is just there being tragic, lol.

That was the show I thought I was watching tbh- them betraying each other at different turns. What we got is this insipid love story that I just don't understand.

Yeah... I think I'm giving this week more to see if it starts making sense to me otherwise maybe its best to move on. Because obviously I'm not connecting to this story the way I should. And this could ultimately be a me-problem, that's fine.
But from what we've seen so far I think its unlikely that I will ever understand let alone support any decision Hye Won makes.

The other question that raises then is that if we're not on the same page as the director about Hye Won we're also probably not on the same page regarding Huiju. To me personally she comes off as the one who sees everything most clearly. But if we're supppsed to root for Hye Won then we should think that Huiju is being unfair to her and she's just another rich mean girl, lol

LMAO. So Hye Won and Tae Oh are star crossed lovers after all? And that's the central conflict? I thought this was supposed to be a hard boiled tale of business and betrayal not romance?

Also what big steps has Hye Won taken so far halfway through the drama? Marry for money?

I think if Hye Won/Tae Oh get the redemption arc that they're star-crossed lovers that will be my breaking point with the drama. I'm still watching because I really don't like to quit once I've started (and I'm curious where this actually goes).

But it would be such a cliche to make them victims when they made sober, dispassionate decisions to get to this point.

His reaction when Yi Soo asked about the step mother's affair was weird, right? Or was it just me?

He did help cover it, but I think it has affected how he sees her. And this time he's battling loyalties on both sides. Even the step mother acknowledges that he loves Yi Soo. I dunno maybe I just really want to see that even though they're not really brothers they stick together.

Also if he thinks he's going to inherit chairman I think he's in for a unpleasant surprise

I guess now it makes sense why the father was so awkward and cold with the older brother even though he was seemingly doing everything right.
That dysfunctional marriage really screwed up the boys growing up in that household. They're sort of trauma bonded to each other. Still hoping that they stay brothers!

I think the father has changed his will in favour of Yi Soo but I think Yi Soo might walk away from it to stay in the police.

I still think it's unlikely that the brother was involved. He's not that much older than Yi Soo and while they've shown him as a grey character he hasn't seemed the kind of psychopath who would be involved in murder as a preteen/ early teen.

In Ep 14 too, he seemed shocked by what his mother had done, so while she comes off as an ice cold murderer, the brother not so much. Yet.

I'm hoping that at the end the brother is going to walk away from his mother and let her pay for her crimes. He seemed to be shaken by the realisation on what she'd done to hide his true parentage and he does seem to genuinely love Yi Soo. For this week's case I can see why he supported his mother but next week I think he'll also have to think about his loyalty to his brother who he's always considered innocent in their family mess and his mother who he is realising isn't just an icy alcoholic. Fingers crossed, haha

He was going to punish Seungju for covering his mother's crimes and he knows he's not his bio son. So he might have changed his will to leave everything to Yi Soo instead.

It's such a shame we haven't seen any kind of relationship between Huiju and Seungjoo so far, otherwise that could have been fun, lol. Sigh, just another plot idea that could have been more interesting than what we're going to get.