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He was a soldier who saved the women in episode 13 and he probably died young to be reincarnated so soon. In this life, he is a good guy, full of innocence and good will.

Can you picture if he was the bad guy in the past and GR and PJG have to forgive him? Especially GR, since she has been working with him for months and has seen him doing all those good deeds?

That would be so heartbreaking for everyone involved!

What if it's more terrible? What if he was the bad guy in Goo Ryun & Park Joong Gil's first lives? What if it's their ultimate test, to forgive the man who caused them so much pain in the past? The bad guy who turned good guy in his following lives?

Then we mustn't have seen the same episode 6. When SML questions her, he asks her this: "When were you born, what year?" and she answers "2091". He asks her again 2091 as an answer to his question about when she was born.

I don't speak or understand Korean but I watch dramas with english (or french since that's my first language) subtitles and I just checked episode 6, at 44'18mn, that's what is translated.

I think Ghost said that she was born in 2093. So if the FL's baby is born in 2022, she could have a child at 28, meaning in 2050. And that child could have Ghost in 2093. Meaning that Ghost is the FL's great-grand-child.

Ghost needed Manok alive long enough to conceive her grandfather or grandmother. If she knew exactly when her ancestor was conceived, then once the date had gone by, Ghost didn't need Manok anymore. Not a big loss anyway.

In one of the previous episode, when the janitor survived, Ghost disappeared. Why? Because janitor raised Manok right and the kid turned out being a good person and he probably never met Ghost's ancestor. Sometimes, it's little details like these which can change History.

I wonder, what if Ghost number 2 and the mysterious man in the end are from a more advanced future than Ghost's future?

So Ghost is from a future where millions of people died because there was no Grid so when it was invented, she went back in time to install it BEFORE it killed millions of people.

But what if, in the future, the Grid explodes and kills BILLIONS of people? What's best, billions dying or a few millions?

Do you think mysterious man at the end was Manok's grandson? He kinka looked like him.

Lots of questions, is the Ghost in white dead in the future? Is mysterious man her father? Is she going against him by going back to the past to install the Grid? Apparently, there are two factions in the future, one the Ghost belongs to which is pro-Grid in the past (but that faction seems rather light), and another which is against-Grid in the past and that one seems to have lots of power since this faction has blown up, in the past, all buildings linked to the Grid and the AB.

Unless... the Grid is invented in the future and Ghost wants to prevent all those deaths in the past by bringing the Grid informations so that if fonctions when there's that solar explosion but another faction doesn't want to mess with time and what happened happened and better not touch it. So Ghost goes against this faction because she wants to save millions of life in the past.

I wonder then why faction n°2 didn't go back in time before the Grid was built? Unless they already did and it failed so now they just went back to destroy the Grid and the AB, hoping for things to go back to how they were supposed to?

Time travel shows can give such a headache!

I just know that Manok was revealed to be on Ghost's father's side but far away removed (meaning a probable great-grand-father). That's why the female lead was so disgusted and wanted to kill him right here and right there. The thought of her grandchild have a kid with Manok's grandchild just disgusted her.

The thing is, Manok could have conceived a child maybe a few days before his death and then he wasn't needed anymore. Ghost just needed to know WHEN her ancestor was conceived so she only had to make sure that he survived until that date.

Maybe it will all be explained in season 2 but so far, that's what I understood.

Maybe just before his death, he conceived that child so he was no longer needed and he could die? The important point for Ghost was to save him so that Manok conceived the child, it could have happened off screen

Ghost was saving Kim Manok because he is her ancestor on her father's side (either Manok the killer is her grand-father or great-grand-father). Saebyiok is Ghost's ancestor on her mother's side (meaning that Saebyiok's daughter is either Ghost's mother or grand-mother).

So basically Manok and Saebyok aren't linked directly, it's their grand-children who will have a child, Ghost.

That's why Ghost, in the first timeline, killed Manok's father. Because being an orphan meant that he would turn bad and conceive a child who would have a child and bam Ghost is born.

When the janitor wasn't killed, Ghost disappeared, she wasn't born at all. So Saeha went back in time and helped her kill (or he killed himself, I don't remember) the janitor so that Manok turns into a killer once an adult. Because this horrible life will still allow Ghost to be born.

Think about it, if Manok is raised by the Janitor, he turns into a good person, and he never meets the woman who had been Ghost's great-grand-mother so therefore, no Ghost.

The only thing I'm not sure is if Manok and Saebyok are the grand-parents or the great-grandparents. The story takes place in 2020 (or 2019) and Ghost lived in 2093 or was born in 2093, not sure.

So count the generations: Saebyok's daughter is born in 2020. Let's say this daughter has a child when she is 30, so it's 2050. That child has a child when he is in his 40's, child who is Ghost. So Saebyok is Ghost's great-grand-mother.

The ending strongly suggests a second season. I wonder if it has already been shot or if it will be shot once the main actor has finished the army?

Okay, confusing ending but it's because it's a cliffhanger, right? A season 2 is supposed to happen. I wish we had been told that from the start. On top of that, the main actor won't be available for at least one more year but season 2 isn't going air anytime soon.

I'll watch it, though, I'm still intrigued and want to know who this new guy is. The scene with him, another and dead (or I supposed dead?) Ghost, all in white, looks to be in the future. It was a very futuristic look. Then we get Saeha and Ghost in that hiding place. And this is apparently the second future post-Saeha's death because FL already told her husband their daughter's name while she was shocked that he knew it. Meaning, this has already happened and this is a correction by saving her and the baby. Mayb the baby died or was kidnapped and the FL time traveled and told her husband to go and save her and their daughter. Am I right?

How is Sahea still alive? I wonder, the fight between Ghost and the other time traveler... they were really to the death fighting.

Then when Sahea died (the second time), Ghost and Time Traveler number 2 were present and TT n°2 said "It's not me, can't you see it?"

So, does that mean that TT n°2 and the other time traveler that Ghost fought against aren't the same? Is TT n°2 a double agent or are there 3 Time travelers? One who sided with Ghost when Sahea died and who did something to Sahea (maybe healing him but putting into some kind of cryo stuff where he appears dead and it's someone else who is buried?), and another one who is working with the bad guy (I suppose he is a bad buy since he wants to destroy the Grid and let millions of people die).

I think in one of the previous episodes, it's revealed that Ghost was born at the end of the 21rst century so she is probably the grand-daughter or great-grand-daughter of the FL on her mother's side and Manok on her father's side. So maybe at some point, the FL's child (or grand-child) will have Ghost with Manok's child or grandchild.

I noticed that too and I wondered if there was a connection between the two women.

I hope you are right. This drama looked like a real jewel, it would be too bad if it was permanently gone. It's the work of an entire team and they are all punished for something the actor did, it's not fair.

Is it possible? For Netflix to buy the rights of a drama whose ML has been cancelled? I mean, it would be fantastic if it would air in Europe or the USA. But I'm not sure if it's possible to buy airing rights for a cancelled drama in China.
I wanted so much to see that drama!

Unless the first timeline no longer exists and the ML faded when the FL changed his past so it never happened to him. I think it is a time travel story with a first timeline which disappeared once all was fixed and a second timeline was born. But because China's censure where time travel is concerned, the writers had to come up with another explanation and maybe even edit the fading part which would prove time travel. Wouldn't be the first time this kind of censure messes up a drama's ending. I'm a fan of sci-fi shows a la Fringe, Dr Who, so I'll stick with the changing timeline because of time travel. It makes more sense.

Oh my god, I'm having so much fun watching this drama, it makes fun of so many Kdramas (or Cdramas) clichés, and even of mangas clichés! I admit I burst out laughing a few times while watching episode 2. It kind of reminds me of "Lost Romance". It doesn't take itself seriously while mocking regular romantic dramas.

Thanks, I added the spoiler tag. And I'm glad that I wasn't the only one coming up with this theory. I think it has more depth this way, and it's more emotional too.

Great drama, I wonder if it takes place in the same world as "First love again"? Because in this drama, an old cell phone was also the mean to travel, either time-travel or travel to an alternate universe. And in one episode, the first traveler (a monk from the 17th century) told him that many people were time-traveling, by different means (watches, phones, clocks...), so I wondered about that.

Also, I don't know, I doubt the traveling to an alternate universe (I mean, a parallel universe). Because it looks like the ML is alive in the end, with the umbrella scene. Also, in episode 19, the FL realizes that all her "travels" took her to a moment in time in the life of the ML, about what he wanted to do with her. It can't be a coincidence.

So I think that the travels took the FL into the ML's brain, while he was in a coma after his fall. This alternate universe is not a parallel one, one which would exist next to ours, but an alternate one he has created while in a coma, to relive moments with the FL.

Somehow, the FL was able to get into his mind, maybe after her wedding was cancelled and especially after she gave up for good on her cheating fiance. Her mind was free from her obsession with him and with the phone making the link, she could travel to the lives the ML was creating for them.

Maybe I'm wrong but I think it will be my headcanon, rather than the alternate universe or a parallel universe a la Fringe (the american tv series, great one, by the way, I recommand it).

Oh, too bad for censorship, I really liked the original novel's explanation for the time loop. Maybe here the ML has been hired by... I don't know, a company, the police, to create this virtual time loop in order to understand what happened just before the explosion? And maybe something went wrong with the virtual experiment? Or someone interfered with the experiment? I really don't know.

Okay, my opinions on that (yes, plura)

- It's a real time loop. So the show better explains how and why it happened

- Or it's a virtual game. The ML is a game developper, right? So maybe this time loop story is in fact a virtual game, with a mystery to solve (kind of like those old murder week-ends, where people were stuck in a house and had to solve a murder),

- or it's an experiment: not sure what kind, psychological, social, or whatever. Are the heroes really living what they think they are living or is it all in their minds, high on a specific drug making them relive over and over again the same day? to see how their brains resist insanity? To solve a real bus explosion? Who knows?

I haven't read the novel, if it's based on one, like many Cdramas so I have no idea what's the real explanation.

the opening theme is really beautiful, it's stuck in my mind. I sooo hoped there would be a DVD release (since many asian dramas are released a few weeks after it finishes airing) but apparently, no release so far, I wonder why.