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Five Stars

Good that Yun Xiang did indeed manage to capture Qi TianFeng without bloodshed, per his promise to Shu YaNan. However, the interrogation of Qi was an exercise in dissembling by the latter. If you paid attention closely, Qi didn't reveal anything about the Luo family massacre that Yun Xiang didn't already know. He repeated already known facts and simply claimed he was a weak young itinerant who had nothing to do with it. He threw Tang out as the main villain, but Yun already knew Tang was involved. So this was clearly just a ploy by Qi to get Yun to take down Tang, since Qi is mad at Tang for paying off the pirate Guan. So none of that provided real new information to Yun. The only 'new' info was implication of a connection between Tang and the Yuntai's rival sect. Elsewhere in the episode, more minutes were wasted on Su Mingyu's pathetic can't-seem-to-ever-grow-up subplot. It's really painful to watch the writers portray a character as stupid and pathetic as they are making MingYu out to be.

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better than i expected

oh man the trauma of the test-taking hagwon atmostphere did rear in my head but luckily since it's not student-focused or centered i was thankfully rescued from going down into a rabbit hole of my past.i like seo hye jin as the main protagonist and the character. she's a woman who gets down to business and knows her own mind, but she's also caught between the desires of her clients/customers and the aggressive hostility of the educational institution that she technically profits off of. she's mature, responsible, and very realistic.i think pyo chang sub the high school teacher is a good "villain", in that he's not technically a villain in that you understand where he's coming from. he's also a realistic character. that deep-seated inferiority complex that all kr men have and cannot handle except in the most aggressive bull-headed ways. damn. i wonder how this conflict will be resolved, hopefully not in a makjang way.wi ha joon make a positive impression in this role. he's playful, mischievous, and clearly very optimistic. but still mature in a way that i like for hye jin, who deserves a guy who knows his own mind and way rather than the standard kdrama asshole. i like their conflict, it feels real and makes sense, especially since hye jin sees jung ho as her greatest accomplishment and who technically achieved all the right things and made the right decisions, so she's really thrown off by the fact that he's veered off the golden path. she still sees him as her student in a way that feels refreshing. less someone she raised and more as a sign of her success.

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