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am wondering why Thee reacts the way he does,…

am wondering why Thee reacts the way he does, whenever Peach tries to hold his hand - that kneejerk reaction is an indicator to past trauma?!? childhood? his father looks pretty cold & sociopathic.. even his mother gave off a weird vibe. so who knows. but that makes me sad, cause in-spite of his pompous behavior he has a good heart & is more like an uneducated child, that doesn't know how to act... then a malicious adult. & in this ep around his father he looked very vulnerable. **********************& i wanna be frustrated that Peach who has yet to catch on that Thee has fallen for him. but given how they met, i get why he hasn't realized that after the 1st encounter Thee has been fascinated by him & all the times they met, was cause he wanted to get to know him & not cause he wanted help getting close to Aran. wonder what it's gonna take for him to finally realize that Thee wants him & not Aran. the fact Mok didn't clue him in is fine, as it isn't his place to say. he did what a good friend should - share enough info to let Peach know that Thee needs him in his life. ***************************************************************btw really liked the fact that Peach didn't reach out to Thee with his problem. obviously Thee will find out as Wiwid is being a petty b*tch who isn't gonna stop until he creates a big mess. that will totally backfire as Thee got Peach's back - the irony.

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THEE END

MY HEART HURTS. WILLIAM EST AND THEIR DYNAMIC IN THIS HAS ME WET ALL OVER. I am judging speech and debate rn and trying to finish this before round. WHY ARE WE STILL WITH HIM IF HE BEATS US? Just realized I am smiling at grown men and there is nothing to be smiling about bc im a fat fucking chud. The singing is cringe but its okay becasue its him. Marriage is lowkey crazy i cant lie. THEY ARE GETTING MARRIED WHAT THE HELL? IT IS A BLESSED DAY HOLY MOLY THEY ARE SO SEXY AND HOLY FUCK. THEY ARE SO AWARE. IM GONNA DIE THE CAMEOS ARE HILARIOUS. Okay 9.5, i am gonna need a special for mok and rome, and they jumped the gun with the wedding a bit, but other than that it would have been a 10! Okay bye!

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Character introductions are over now their fates have changed.

Some end up in prison, some thriving, some hit rock bottom, and some find their fortune isn't enough to buy an island. The only disappointing thing about this episode is that the romance is still so faint. Well, it’s more than the first episode, but it’s still not enough for me (just 2 scenes?). I’m craving Siyeol and Eunho’s forced cohabitation. It's a bit of a shame that hot and rich Siyeol only appeared briefly before switching back to chaotic and poor Siyeol. I get the authors anyway. Swapping Siyeol and Wooseok’s fates is necessary to lead to the growth and evolving relationship between Siyeol and Eunho, which is the main point of the drama. (I especially loved Choi Seungyoon’s performance in this episode. He really nailed that scene in front of the police station.)

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What a jackass! — whiplash behaviour, crossed lines, and protection mode

Episode 4 had me stressed on the FL’s behalf, because she’s trying so hard not to blow this gig when she doesn’t even know how long her career will last — that’s the brutal reality of the business. And then we get the co-star… and honestly, he’s a giant jerk.He rescued her on the red carpet and clearly felt something, so the complete 360 into being openly unhappy about being paired with her is giving me whiplash. From the moment he stepped on the plane, his mood was obvious, and the producer choosing not to warn the FL only made it worse — because their first proper meeting turns into him being unnecessarily mean to her.What’s especially infuriating is how everyone keeps mixing the FL up with her character, like she’s not a real person with real feelings. When the FL finally learns the truth behind what’s going on, she’s devastated in her own quiet way. Her inner voice is screaming “throw a rock at his head,” but in reality she doesn’t have that luxury — she has to swallow it and keep going.The silver lining is that the ML’s protective instincts kick in hard. He’s watching, he’s clocking everything, and it’s obvious he cares. Which just leaves the big question hanging: if he cares this much, what exactly is holding him back?Side note: the first country they visit is Canada, and it looks absolutely stunning.

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a sign of more romance to come?

I feel like I keep repeating myself in these reviews because I keep saying "good episode", but listen, it was a good episode? I did actually gasp out loud during one of the scenes, and that was when Si Woo expressed his intentions to switch hagwons directly to Director Choi Myung Sun's face. Even though we, as the audience, already knew that he'd switch -- it was still a surprising moment for him to say so out loud to a character that's been established to be very intimidating and scary, especially since Si Woo seems to be the kind of student who is very polite and listens to the adults around him. I also gasped at the end of the episode preview, but that's for the next episode.Hye Jin really is my favorite character of this series. She's just so cool and extremely refreshing in a society where women are instructed to downplay their achievements and exhibit modesty at all times. She's also not written in a "grrl power" kind of way, where her superiority is constantly talked about or displayed without any real meaning or build-up behind it. The story's done a fantastic job at establishing that she's a confident person with the intelligence and talent to back up what she says. The line when she tells Jun Ho that she wasn't shocked by Choi Myung Sun's offer because she believed that she deserved that kind of offer was a banger line. Of course, I also enjoyed at how she shared her troubles with her lawyer friend about how she doesn't know if she wants to take this offer, and her own hesitance is so strange to her. We can tell that part of that hesitance is because of her attachment to Jun Ho, but I wonder if she a.) realizes that or b.) has realized that but is slowly coming to terms with it.The other characters kind of recede to the background during this episode, which is fine because it is undoubtedly Hye Jin's episode. It is Hye Jin who has to deal with the consequences of their special lecture failure, it's Hye Jin's history with the hagwon that makes her punishment feel so bitter to us as the audience, and it's Hye Jin's emotions and decisions that control the flow of the events in this episode. For example, it's essentially Hye Jin who gives Jun Ho his first student, because she decides to step aside for him. The best thing a drama can do is keep the audience wanting more, which I definitely felt when this episode ended. I'm curious to see if Hye Jin will leave Daechi Chase, and I'm curious to see how Jun Ho will try to either convince her to stay or the reasons why he'd let her go.

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