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The pieces are moving

Mr Jiang’s tendency to be led around by his lower appendage is so damn prosaic considering how intelligent he is supposed to be. Now Gma has put him in his place and LiangLiang is back. She and Chen Xi have joined forces to go against YuCi. Dept 3 went to the vendors with very detailed data and the promise they would not have to lay off any employees. This tactic beat Bosi who offered more money but at the expense of sacrificing workers. This made Lysen’s offer much better for the managers of smaller companies that wanted to remain intact. Thanks to Chen Xi’s maneuvering, the project that dept 3 earned was changed into a contest between them and dept two. The winner would be the one with the best presentation. Even with the surprise support of HR director, Ren, Yu could not be rescued this time. Meng was forced to turn over the details and YuCi finished the dirty work for her and sent the email with all their data. She told Meng not to worry, to just do whatever they said and that she would take care of the rest. Ren made the mistake of letting them present first and they used dept 3 data for their presentation. Yu lost it when YuCi said they were not presenting. Jiang knows their data was stolen he had seen the preliminary stats already, but he chose to see it as a failure of dept three. That he let the theft slide annoys the hell out of me. He knew the truth and didn’t give a rip. 😝 When he said dept 3 chose to give up I wanted to smack him. He returned the favor to YuCi that she did to LiangLiang because he was annoyed LiangLiang was back and Chen Xi demoted. He did this to keep his lady happy and I am as pissed off as Yu she is getting away with it.🤬Ren moved Meng to dept 2. She also did this without informing Jiang first. Yu is extremely pissed off that she transferred his best and most loyal colleague. . Ren encourages Meng to pay attention to their projects. However, the real mole, Samira Yang, is still in department 3. He is regretting his choices but still won’t own up to it with his superiors. The dept change will hopefully make things better for Meng and the baby since their offices are in significantly better condition. Here is where MuRan finds out that he has been on his leisure since back due to gma and LiangLiang’s maneuvering. Jiang was more than happy to let him know that his Gma got LiangLiang back to work and that LiangLiang encouraged Jiang to keep him out of projects and resting after his time overseas. Jiang congratulated him for his gf looking out for him so well. Gma has very thorough messaging in how she does things. The discarded meat for Jiang and the servile task of daughter in law to show MuRan. She lays it out for them completely with minimal words and it drives the point home. I now understand YuCi’s dress code. It is clear her brain is the only asset being offered. She puts nothing else on the table. Chen Mo has offered to be her knight and she has declined. I am thinking he will stick around anyways just like Ren does for Yu. A very sullen MuRan is driving off with YuCi when the episode ends.

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FINISHED IT

OMG this kdrama really enlightened me in the sense that even the strongest of loves don't always win. I don't really hate yijin to be honest because for some careers are just as important as their personal lives and how could he have supported heedo whilst he was struggling to support himself yet it wasn’t his right to experience that misery alone when he should’ve shared with heedo. And she was left all alone countless times because he couldn't meet up with her so I felt bad yet I understand that he wouldn't risk his career like that since just 10 years ago he considered himself a failure due to the imf crisis. AND BRO they broke up at the same place they met (outside her house) AND SEUNGEAN WORK FOR ENTERTAINMAINT AND REALITY SHOW AT LBS. a news company I think and jiwoong made his own fashion business after his website took off with all the photos of models and how everyone loves his fashion style, yurim opened a fencing club school after she retired. Now everyone’s gone their own way EXCEPT YURIM SND JIWOONG WHO ARE GETTING MARRIED AFTER HE PROPOSED TO HER IN FRONT OF HER STUDENTS AFTER PRETENDING TO BE ONE OF THE THEM AND INITIATE A MATCH WITH HER AND SHE DIDNT CLOCK UNTIL HE TOOK OF HIS MASK.

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strongly dislike the male lead character as written -- enough to stop watching

Normally I enjoy most food/restaurant related dramas, and from the marketing show descriptions/synopses this seems like a show I should normally like, but so far the male lead is so annoying that I'd rather see him get dropped onto a deserted island and never be heard from again than to be rehabilitated or redeemed, and the prospect of him being beaten into shape by the female lead just doesn't feel like it would be preferable to being dropped/replaced (tho none of the other characters from H-company have been any better). So far the most positive thing i can say about the male lead is that he seems less bad then the other people at his company, but so far those characters are essentially cartoonish cardboard cutouts of corrupt corporate executive villains, so it isn't saying much. The female lead is quirky and somewhat interesting tho. No hate towards the actors -- you could even make the case that inspiring this level of disgust towards the character means the actor was doing a good job -- but the writing and direction has created a character that I really can't / don't want to root for.So, stopping here for now -- maybe I'll pick it up again later if I run out of things to watch (and am feeling a lot more charitable towards the ML), but probably not (at least without an external reason for watching)

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I hate yijin.

BRO OMG jiwoong kept his word and acc visited yurim in Russia eekk. And yurim and heedo hugging after heedo won the gold medal got me so emotional bs they forced to be enemies in fencing but they made to be besties. AND YIJIN LIKE BRO HEEDO SUPPORTED U SM IN UR CAREER yet all he could do is come up with countless sorrys whilst she struggled to make time for him, I think they gonna break up next episode but I honestly don't blame him especially when he was mentally suffering sm with him being a reporter like for example in the ep some crane fell killing like 3 workers and he was so sad just watching the families sob and wanting their family back and he went drinking with his sunbae (the sexc dude that helped him out when he was a starter) and they started drinking and how yijin couldn’t handle it and then the Dunbar gives advice saying you should grow numb to it and learn to get used to it so u don't get affected but then yijin said he wants to feel it, feel their pain and wtv and then his sunbae surprises him by inviting heedo so yijin could feel better after reporting such a disastrous incident, and it was so cute because yijin was drunk and screamed her name when he saw heedo but I truly want them to be endgame but I don’t think the kdrama will let it. AND OH YEAH IDK IF IT WAS TS EP OR LAST EP BUT SEUNGWAN GOT INTO COLLEGE (UK VER. OF UNI)

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