Vince

I thought I was hallucinating at first like in what world is normal for a composer to treat his artists like this?? I do get Jeongyo's anger because we know what happened to him, but if I was a stranger with no insight about their relationship this would be an insane behaviour to witness like hello?? Nobody batting an eye to the batlant abuse of power utilised to wear down both physically & mentally a coworker??
No, they instead further victimised him proclaiming the company lost money because of the artist's mental breakdown. No human in sight fr these kids desperately needs therapy and instead we have Jae In stepping up because no adult here is doing their job I feel insane.

By the way, props to Jae In to be the only sane person in this circus because she was the only one who truly understood the madness of Jeongyo lashing out at Pio in the middle of recording to the point he had bloody fingers and a full blown panic attack who rendered him unable to move.
All the others adults in the room acting like it was completely normal was beyond fucked up and I hope they'll be miserable by the end of this.
Only Jeongyo (+ his friend), Pio and Jae In desperately deserve that happy ending, everyone else can go die for all I care.

Can I throw all Pio's family in the gutter... Not the grandfather trying to make amends now??? A little late for that. To not mentions the mother, zero accountability or remorse... While Pio is left admits all of this to drown in guilt, desperation and being the target of the Jeongyo's anger, which was the only person he ever consider a real friend.

And I cannot even fault Jeongyo for that cause the guy almost died because of Pio's mother and lost the only two things he held dear (the piano and Pio himself), he was alone, hurt and had to carve a path for himself on his own even after the sorry childhood he had. The trauma must be almost unbearable.
While from the other part, we have Pio, who grew up immersed in emotional abuse, controlled and suppressed to the point he only know to self-destruct as a way to process what's happening to him. He was never loved as equal by nobody else apart from Jeongyo, even under the pressure from the competition the adults had put on them. And his mother specifically took that from him, the only person he ever felt as his, so to make amends and try to save his mother in the process (because of course) he willingly left himself burn up in flames by Jeongyo's anger.

I feel them both and that's why it's so painful.

It is a damn misunderstanding and Pio will let himself be destroyed for it I'm about to scream and I'm five minutes in episode 10 how am I supposed to get to the end of this without beating someone (pio's mom) up my fucking GOD

Btw having your mother treating to kill herself if you try to make amends and confess to the horrible things she's done, I can't blame Pio for wavering.
But if he doesn't run away from her, there's no way he will be ever able to heal. Pio, my boy, you need to RUN and never look back.
Just apologise to Jeongyo and move abroad with him alright 😭

Never been so worried about two characters in life, my god.
Even knowing Jeong-Yo could have an ulterior motive in mind, Pio is ready to walk through hell and burn up in flames if Jeong-Yo ask this of him, as a way to repent.
While Jeong-Yo himself is trying to destroy Pio as revenge since his family literally took everything from him (the piano, his innocence and even Pio in a way), but I'm afraid he'll end up in regret.
I'm so scared and only want my boys to find peace and happiness 😭

Pio's mom be like "Since I discovered his talent, I did everything I could to help Pio. That's how he became what he's today." and Im here ma'am, you mean a broken man? Cause that's what your son is. Broken and traumatised 😭

Literally. Like I get him, from his point of view he's SO close to finally be able to rest after 200 years of pain.
But I must stand with James here, I want my man to find happiness, not to die after centuries of suffering, he deserve to feel joy again 😭

Ken has never outright lied before so I'm gonna take his word about him promising James they're gonna catch you-know-who together instead of him going full suicidal, but honestly... The way Ken reacted when he saw first hand he could actually be killed scares me pls Ken don't die on me alright I don't think neither me or James can survive that.

but also... unless James is really an half human and magically stop to age after a certain point, I don't see how this could have a happy ending 😭

Was this extremely predictable? Yes. Did I care? Not so much, since the actors' performance kept me entertained. Kaye was intriguing as a character (or maybe it was Dew's portrayal of him that charmed me) but I got quite attached to him. Almost wished they explored his dark side a little bit more. Glad he got to finally live in peace tho.

I agree with that one review that said this def needed more doom to work at its best, especially since the police's job was quite dumd on it's own, so they should have gone more dark and dramatic to cover that out.

Honestly, I have no idea how Pi-O managed until now, because if it was me with all that crushing guilt and the constant anxiety, after having the confirmation my mother committed such an act I'd probably walk into oncoming traffic.

The way I started crying with Ken when they were dancing and he remembered his old friend bye I'm too weak for this.

Also very random but I love how Tong almost never fucking blink when interpreting Ken, he's just so. Static. Unmoving.

Never expected Ken to be this cute as a boyfriend oh my gosh those scenes where he tries to take care of James and cook for him? God no wonder James is so whipped for the man 😭

Are they still be judge for their director skills at this point lol

This should be called: how to ruin a child, speed run edition by Kang Pi-O's mom (feat. grandpa).

I hope that a guest role at a time he will be able to get another main role soon or later.

The actress who plays the shaman is truly beautiful... I was left mesmerised looking at her.

Also James breaking into Ken's house with no care in the world was freaking hilarious, he really doesn't give a shit about the dangers he can put himself in lmfaoo.

(I get why Ken was so adamant about shipping him away from this whole mess 😂)

Honestly have no idea how Ken is coping with having James around, because if I was immortal AND suicidal and suddenly there's this hot clingy guy who's making me feel emotions for the first time in centuries while I've never been so close to find the one who can actually kill me for good, I'd be a fucking mess.