lead couple and Jin Hee's story is very interesting!

wow, this has got to be the most realistic love stories i have watched to-date. the balance for its dynamics is really great. it presents itself not too seriously but there's a lot of depth in it. THE KIND OF WRITING I LOVE!first, we have the lead couple. as i commented before, they vibrate similar sexual energy but their values don't match. they are the most perfect epitome of ex-lovers i have seen who might be better off as friends if one of them is totally done with the relationship and moved on to someone else. problem is both of them are still single after 3 years, and they are both sexually frustrated in their 30s. so being friends with benefits make sense in their situation.now, if only human's feelings is that simple...problem is, they broke up because he vehemently refuses the idea of marriage, and she wants that so badly. that actually means on her side, she has never stopped loving him. we know that from her many monologues, but they haven't given us anything concrete about his. what's his real issues exactly? we don't know anything yet.but they got pretty generous this episode. we got a monologue of his where the previous writer hoobae who got frustrated that he totally changed her scenario, is now being scouted to work under him. and that escalated quickly too, since now the hoobae is also interested in him. so when she stayed at their house, she sleepwalked into his bedroom and laid down on his bed when he's shirtless and already about to sleep LOL. so his monologue was that, no matter the intention or whether or not he does nothing all night, he'd be touted as a sexual harasser. so he left quietly to sleep in the sofa at the living room, LOL.i think the casting for this drama is just perfect. the FL is not the sexy type though she's pretty (she's a bit too skinny and not curvy) so that became an issue and she got jealous with the hoobae girl who's taller, younger, more curvy (in physicality), and also very straightforward (in personality) LOL.however, i liked that the FL is totally not giving in to the hoobae's request to make way for her even though between them there's nothing concrete to seal a relationship. so she finally went brutally honest with him and told him that she has never stopped loving him, and that she wants to end their sexual-partner relationship right away and move on to proper dating. he didn't answer but later that night, he asked whether she wants to sleep together and she consented. as i said before, he comes across as really mysterious and unreadable at times but also quite simplistic actually. he still wants her, but we just don't know by how much.//we also get the dynamics in the female's trio friendship. Jin Hee is the naive type who finds it hard to enjoy sex with her current partner. and then there's Jae Kyung who's the most liberal of them, who we found out at the end of this episode, has been cheating on her husband with her ex-lover who she dumped to marry someone else. she's acting like a total s*** LOL. but her husband is not one without vengeance, so he got someone to tail on her, and then she got into an accident with her boyfriend. as i said earlier, this drama has a really good balance in the dynamics in the love stories it tells, and is nicely represented by the trio friends who are the epitome of someone very liberal/progressive, someone who's somewhat middle-ground and someone who's rather conservative. it'd be so interesting to see how the writer takes all of their stories from here.

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that went down real quick, NOOOOO :(

okay. the heartbreak in this drama is no child's play.the commoner Lee Sun's father who stole water from the Bureau of Water Supply was taken for trial by them, and was about to have his wrist cut off. Crown Prince in-disguise ordered the Deputy Magistrate of Central District Office to take over, and it became a huge dispute. so he then came in person to get the man to be released. unfortunately in the same episode the father was later kidnapped and killed :(Commoner Lee Sun about to avenge the death of his father by killing the person, but the Crown Prince stopped him, and also left him his amulet as a sign of promise to settle this by the law.episode ended when the bad guys found the boys including the Crown Prince and tries to kidnap him. goshh.//honestly i felt so heartbroken when commoner Lee Sun was grieving his father's murder, and that acting on his part was really good. no one saw it coming, and true enough it would have been better to lose a limb than lose his life entirely but who would have thought that was going to escalate so quickly. the kind of injustices that weak people go through in this world is very maddening :(not much opinion about that b*tch who broke into Crown Prince's residence and saw his face from ep. 1. but i think her character will be an important one, so i am looking forward to that.

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i am shooketh by how confronting and brutally honest this drama presents itself, LOL!

okay the brutally honest and upfront approach of this drama is very charming and a breath of fresh air, LOL!mainly comes from the character of the second BFF of the FL who's very brutally honest and realistic. she's the one who's already married to a rich guy but has a dysfunctional marriage in a sense that her husband is a cheater, and after years of marriage she still doesn't divorce him because his wealth and status benefits her, and they sleep separately but at the same time she also cheats on him in return LOL. what a fckin mess.then the other best friend of hers, she's kinda the naive type, and is not adventurous enough in the bedroom, but her boyfriend is not one without fault, because it seems like he fails to satisfy her during their intimate sessions LOL and he keeps pushing her to make more efforts. what a jerk.on the other hand we have our lead couple who vibrates similar sexual energy, and has been dating each other for 12 years since high school (childhood bestie), but totally broken up and stayed friends since 3 years ago.these days she's sexually frustrated of being single in her 30s and not getting laid LOL, so his simple and usual skinship triggers her erogenous zones, haha. after getting the advice from her second BFF about just being upfront with him about wanting one-night-stand, then she spat it out, and at the end of ep. 2, he accepted and they had sex.in the beginning of ep. 3, she woke up without him on the bedside, as he had left to watch a movie alone that he has booked earlier. frustrated with that, they clarified their status and both agreed to just be "friends with benefits", a.k.a. sexual partners with no strings attached.all the while we also get glimpses about how she still loves him, but their values problematically don't match. he's the kind of person who refuses the idea of marriage at all costs, and she's someone who wants to settle down. basically two people who are not bound to last.i particularly liked the narrations and flashbacks to their previous 2 breakups so far (they broke up 5 times and reconciled 5 times in total before calling it quits). the first time was when she spat out the word "let's break up" to him out of anger, thinking he will console her, but he didn't so it just went on like that. and the second time was when he desperately needed a time-alone, and she didn't understand it or respected it and she forced him to be with her right away, and when he refused, she broke up with him.these two incidents easily hit home with me, LOL. i was with my first boyfriend when i was as this childish (and rightfully young), and it got tiring because the break up was more than i could count LOL.honestly, the kind of narrations that we get to their previous breakups are only from her POV. i would really love it if they can also give us a glimpse of what he felt at the time during their previous breakups too, i think it'd help shed some light on the man's inner thoughts. also, we had a scene where he works as a screenwriter, and at one night, there's a new upcoming writer who came to his house being all upset about how her serious medical drama script got butchered into a rom-com in a hospital setting. and he was acting very cool-headed and nonchalant about reworking the script according to the request by the production company without protesting that decision in one bit.there's definitely more to his character. i personally find his character to be interestingly mysterious and complex, at the same time quite simple-minded, and i really hope they flesh out enough about him. jebal writer-nim!

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Each episode is a roller coaster of emotions WTF, let us breathe :(

Daebak! The scheming and backstabbing in this drama is pretty insane.There are 4 people who are ready to cut off each other's throats LOL:1. Min Jae2. Black (Cha Ji Won)3. Baek Don Seo 4. Seo Jin TakAnd their scheming are pretty sophisticated, so you never know who'll make the first move next, and how. The writing is really good.Also, last episode Seu Wan kissed Black first after he followed her from being taken away to Baek Don Seo's residence. And then he kissed her back. He finally accepted her feelings because his ex lover told him that she's pregnant with Min Jae's child. (Plot twist: i wouldn't make it past Min Jae to bribe the doctor to lie to his wife about being pregnant to stop her from divorcing him, because the doctor is suspicious as hell LOL).Also immediately after they kissed, he drove her back in his car, and he hold her hand. And then she lets her hands slide off his grip out of shyness, and then he teased her about how she always kissed him first LOL. And then he assures her that it was her who gave him reason to live, only that he realizes it late. Auwhh. ❤❤❤❤(The way he's overflowing with confident masculinity, holy sh*t. Man is sexy as fckk)Also the next day he picked her up from her house to send her to work, but he actually told her to drive them so he can sit at the passenger seat and stare at her LOL. THE WAY I GOT DIABETES!!!!! DAMN. That was so original. I never saw this small romantic gesture anywhere else LOL. Goodness, the way my heart keep getting butterflies. ❤❤❤❤Also, finally. One of the things that Baek Don Seo blackmailed Min Jae with is Cha Ji Soo, Black's younger sister who was kidnapped by him. So Min Jae had to cancel his plan to fire Baek Don Seo and now both of them are back on the game LOL.Fortunately but unfortunately, Black and Seu Wan found Cha Ji Soo first but she's slightly demented. So he's even more dejected and burning with anger because of that :(Ouh i must also mentions Song Jae Rim who plays Seo Woo Jin, the clumsy editor-in-chief who likes Seu Wan LOL. This drama is so interesting and complex with the 5 sided love going on, LOL.Ahhh, i can't go on like this. One episode is too much WTF.

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in the midst of the growing tension, the comments i am inserting below cracked me up, haha

"okay this is a really great drama, i don't even need to say that. BUT LEE JIN WOOK'S EYES KEEP MESSING WITH ME. I'VE BEEN THIS DUDE'S FAN FOR YEARS AND OMFFGG HIS EYES hjgdfhjf i know it's not time to talk about the two leads' chemistry but i want to talk about it"."but i really really want to some romance between two leads..they r damn cute together..and when kang dong woo;s friend told that may be they were married couple in their past life..i don't know why but i love that line..and i wish that will be true..hope so s3 we will see some love line between them :)""i have high hopes for some romance, they've been dropping hints T_T and they really cute together,, no need to try hard, the chemistry is just so natural""Damn... yeah.. hell yes! His eyes are f*cking wowowowowww~ His face actually is a complete package. I really love watching Jin Wook when he's snobbish! It's so attractive!""ikr! he's snobbish and tough but actually really soft here! he's using his gaze really well, damn those beautiful eyes fhkjudsfhgkd".//HAHAHAHA! the way these comments really cracked me up. literally at the exact juncture where it gets really nerve-wrecking and these people are literally commenting on the ship LOL.

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okay Director Kang and Team Leader Do are kinda shippable, haha

haha. okayy. Lee Jung Shin (CNBLUE's bassisst) and Jae Hee (ML from Delightful Girl, Chun Hyang) made a guest appearance in this episode, both as total psychos LOL.also, kinda understand why people ship Director Kang and Team Leader Do. she's been avoiding his eye contact from last episode to this one, when his past records are being made known to her, and she's growing cautious or scared around him, and he notices it each time though she hasn't explained anything. i think it's the way he reacted to it that makes their tension more noticeable, because with other people he doesn't give a fck LOL.ahh damn. i have to continue right up to season 3 to know whether there's something happening between them. :/

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Five Stars

"Ffs, it's episode 17 why are they still pulling the same crap of killing of or disturbing anyone who's about to tell him the truth about what happened to his father. Finally realized why his revenge felt so empty. It's because he hasn't found even the tiniest clue about what happened even though he's had like a hundred close encounters. I'm convinced that whoever wrote this story is evil af. They even went and killed swe dol too. Why????? It added nothing to the story except make us sad(again!). He's already out for revenge for his real father. Kill his mother too, why don't ya, I don't care anymore! Maaan never knew I could like a drama so much and hate it equally all at the same time. I need a nice comedy after finishing this. Heck I think I'd even go for those sickeningly sweet romance dramas. Need to drown my sorrows from this one."//yeah the story is really annoying because the writer gives us the illusion that Iljimae was getting closer to the truth, but the people who can spill the tea keeps getting killed left and right. but i think this kind of story is not exactly new to me, the second half of The Royal Gambler also had the villain kept winning LOL, so maybe that's why people disliked it so much.the biggest 'plot twist' is having Yong-ee's mother finally admitting to Ja Dol that he is his younger blood brother, with the same father of Lee Won Ho (who got killed and framed as a traitor) to stop Ja Dol from killing Yong-ee when his identity as Iljimae was found out. Yong-ee is the legitimate son, and Ja Dol is the out-of-wedlock son. she confused him and the rest of us viewers by saying that Ja Dol's father is Byun Shik who raped her (FL's father), and after saying that wasn't true, that he is the son of Se Dol, LOL.p/s Se Dol, their father was killed after pretending to be Iljimae to save his son. what a heartbreaking character, a true dad. sighh.now it explains why the King looks so tacky and un-regal LOL. he was enthroned because of a rebellion and not someone of a royal lineage, LMAO. he also killed his own son, Crown Prince who's favoured more by the Qing. all the killings of Heaven's Comrades may have been ordered by him too, WTF. sick b*****.anyways, Lee Joon Gi's mid-air kicks are phenomenal. reminds me of Warrior Baek Dong Soo at some point (their fighting methods are similar), they don't raise their swords unless to protect themselves so mostly they fight with their bare fist, and got to show off those gorgeous acrobatic moves. LJG probably has a slight advantage since he's a real martial artist with multiple black belts, and his small frame makes him really agile and fast like a ninja.JCW and LJG are truly something else, especially in sageuk!!

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The kind of injustice that we still see happen today :(

Damn heartbreaking. Last episode Yong-ee was about to leave to the desolated island to learn martial arts with the Monk Master, and he gifted the young girl who liked him a hair ribbon. So cute!!! The girl saw he was pretending to join the Ajik gangster gang and collect taxes from the hawkers, but he helped them afterwards so she said she wants to marry him haha.But this episode was so sad with the girl being run over and killed by an asshole Qing Ambassador's son who drunk horse-ride. Bong Soon who saw it got super mad and started a solo protest in front of the Ambassador residence to be later joined by other people. Sadly we could see that their group was finally didbanded when they were beaten up by the royal guards.This episode ended with Yong-ee or Iljimae completing his steel body armored gears to upgrade his revenge this time.Yass i can't wait for what's gonna happen next. The cute girl who died broke my heart like crazy. She's so freaking cute :(P/s the kind of injustice we still face to this day. The aristocrat using the military personnels to fend off protests or rebellion by beating up ordinary people when they are the ones who caused this mess. What a fcked up world. Sh*t!

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So fckin heartbreaking :(

"I.....you know when you see suffering just wherever....whether it be on the streets or on your screen through documentries or even dramas....there is something in all of us, that just makes us connect with each and every character we see whether real or not....this drama even though has all these slight comedic scenes that makes me giggle, it just flips so quick and shows me that each of the very characters that make me laugh have something painful they went through or are going through....and so the people we see today (or in the drama) are the one sculpted from all the pain and suffering to who they are now....it just makes me really aware of the individuals around me, my parents, my brother, my grandparents....people i will meet and the people i have met...this drama is the perfect depiction of everything that's wrong and beautiful in our world...and i truly hope it gets acknowledged for its plot, its storyline, its actors and just in general for the amazing atmosphere created by the writers because its not just a korean thing, its a worldwide thing....and every single issue they raise is just so realistic and in depth, it gives me a new perspective in life...i thank the writers for being absolute angels for being able to potray such scenes in various details and aspects....i am just mindblown".//Really another beautiful episode, damn. In fact i keep saying that one episode after the other.The failed attempted suicide case that resulted in permanent paralysis of the adult son (someone who's suffering quietly by himself). Also the second case where divorced parents fought for the custody of their daughters, and after weighing several factors, Judge Han decided that the custody should be maintained with the children's mom who cheated on her husband. Gosh, so heartbreaking because they gave us a glimpse of Judge Han's life himself as a father when his daughters were still small.The judgement delivered saying "i am sorry i cannot give the kids to you, but i hope time will provide a better remedy than the law can ever will".So damn heartbreaking and hits you right in the feels :(

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