episode 1 spoilers ahead

Spoilers Ahead!

1.In the opening scene, Tong Xue has a nightmare in which she is a high school student and enters a room where an attractive man orders her to strip. This man, we learn, is Mo Shao Quian, or Master Mo/Master. She awakens and heads out, and the maid there reminds her to return before Master returns in the evening because he will be angry if she spends too much time out of the home. Meanwhile, Master follows her in his car all the way to a cemetary where she lays flowers at the grave of her parents (in another flashback, we see her parents died in a car accident, and she saw the whole thing happen). 'Someone' supports her, we know he is male, and it isn't Master based on her memories. Master sees everything and then calls her. She says she is at the mall with a friend. Now she has to rush to the mall. Her girlfriend buys her a skirt, then crashes with Master Mo who seems to be extremely kind and polite and helpful (little does the world know, he is a psycho). He allows a photographer to capture them on camera because he wants the world to think her friend is his secret lover.

2.She admits to her friend that her boyfriend doesn't like people at home. But she can't dump him. When she arrives home, the maid tells her that he went upstairs and is not happy she isn't home. She immediately changes (flashback: he seems to like to hear her admit she is his a lot). She enters wearing his shirt and brings his slippers. She puts his slippers on and we learn he has been training her for two years (he seems to be a hurt/comfort kind of guy). He tells her that her parents would be ashamed if they saw her, reminds her they are dead, and tells her to remember her place: that she is there to serve him and he pays for her i.e. you are my whore. He tries to intimidate her. He accuses her of being a fake.He reminds her to be professional and calls her father greedy--she defends him. It seems she was forced to sell herself to him. She runs off.

3.He gives her a gift and she thanks him without opening it. Its a ring. (Big time hurt/comfort relationship. He is very abusive and then tries to get back in her good graces with gifts and sweet words but she's known him long enough that this doesn't work. )

4.Elsewhere, Yue Ying and Tong argue with the manager over a project. Manager Kim admits he has no choice but to fire her because a major investor threatened to no longer invest in the company. Guess who? yes, it was Master Mo. She threatens to leave him. We learn he is at there grave, and it seems he has had a plant to torment her (revenge?) It seems tong Wan Ba was corrupted, her father, betrayed his father. His investigator has found the source.....

5. Master Mo has a powerful persona non grata and it seems he is more than a little shady and willing to engage in questionable practices. He uses his money and influence to get just about what ever he wants. He easily gets rid of the reporter. Meanwhile, Tong vists her uncle and cousins (her only living family). She gives them some money each time she visits (so she is sleeping with this guy to help take care of her family, who took her in when her father died?)

6.It seems her relationship with her Aunt is awkward. I think she is using her for money. But her uncle explains it is because for 6 months after they brought her home, she did not speak a word and her aunt did not know what to do with her.

7.Uh-oh. Master Mo arrives, looking for Tong Xue, an extremely kind, satisfied smile oon his face. He greets her uncle (it feels like he recognizes him...)They invite him to dinner, and her aunt teases her for not reminding them about the b.f.....Tong Xue goes along with the act and cuddles up next to Master Mo who expresses gentle concern. She tries to leave with him but her aunt insists he stay. (oddly, his uncle says that to a businessman you need to 'stick to your words' hmmm?) He gives them the ring that he originally intended to give to Tong Xue to her aunt. She takes it.(I don't really watch anime but I googled it and he reminds me of Gin Ichimaru from Bleach)

8.He takes her to the metro cafe, and this triggers her. He seems to really want to make her hate him. Apparently the thought of going inside terrifies her. Only when she begs the driver, Mr. Ma, does he relent and go home. (Apparently this bedroom is were he essentially raped her although you could argue it was consensual because she was there for money but she cried the entire time.) He reminds her of that night and regrets he can't seem to make her like him.....(is that sarcasm) it must be because he reminds her that she is just here to repay a debt and doesn't even compare to the housekeepers. (In romance novel fashion this is when the guy wants revenge, falls for the girl, and is cruel to make her hate him but still falls in love with her, I bet)

9.He wants to know if there is another man in her heart. She says no (but in her mind, there clearly is). She won't reveal who this unknown guy is, apparently he knows about her hobby of folding paper cranes because he gave her once (mystery guy). (don't let him know!)She is planning to disappear soon.

10.His Uncle Chen calls to report that his father in law is interrupting his projects (so he is married?). She goes to work (the maid notifies him that she has left for work) and his sister calls to announce President Mu dismissed his Uncle and is trying to replace men. Unfortunately, Uncle Chen let his temper show and was dismissed. He is also threatening to kill himself. Chang He, he announces, has destroyed lives of many people and he announces it all on t.v. He accuses President Mu of selling his daughter in a marriage to Master Mo and of causing the untimely death of Mo's father. Mo now has to go de-esculate the situation (F.Y.I. Mo is the general manager)

11.Master Mo says he will help him and (this feels like Lethal Weapon) he tells him to jump. He tells him how dangerous this is. He calls him a coward.And he saves him. Master Mo visits the president, his father in law, and asks him while the hospital projects are postponed. He appears to be unconcerned about Chen. He admits he should have discussed the firing of chen first but covers it up lightly. Mo lectures chen for his lack of control--they've waited 10 years. Chen points out that his father's business was growing well and that Mu took advantage of his death to take over--they are trying to get back what they lost and now Mo must do it alone (this reads like a romance novel)

12.At the board meeting, it seems that Mo has dirt on every single member. He is using them to show that Supervisor Chen should not be forced out because of their behavior. He personally vouches for him. (all these guys look so shady!). They say they have to fire him because of his near suicide.


--this feels like a daytime soap/telonovella, especially in terms of his treatment of her and verbal abuse

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What a heavy drama...

What a unexpectedly heavy drama... This episode left me in state of shock from the start to the end... All this abuse from Hawick's charactertowards the female lead was at times too much to endure for my poor soul. All this sorrowful atmosphere from every character is really depressing. I cant imagine the girl falling in love with him later on and I can't understand his way of showing interest in her (i thoght he hates her entirely and only harasses her to make her suffer but he was very jealous when he asked if he has another man and that he'll make her fall in love with him...) :/
it's very confusing and sick. And if they still make them end up together then it's totally unnecessary to bring in this typical nice second male lead the girl loves first. Like it's already enough of obstakles they have to overcome (with this whole past gruges and abuse) they don't need a man cockbloking them too.
Well at the end I don't know what to think of the drma (it wasn't great but it also wasn't bad) but it definetly captured my interest in a way...

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Intense start

The first half made me think that Mo Shao Qian is actually this drama's evil character desguised in the male lead's role; someone who bought a girl and mistreats her all the time; a control freak, a sadist who wants Tong Xue to like him by force: The ultimate combination that gives you the urge to hate him but you can't! because in the second half; he's someone who suffers from him father in-law who took his father's company away, someone who treats his father's loyal workers as family and suffers when he loses them, someone who got married by force and still don't have the necessary ^power to go against president Mu Chang Hee.

An different male lead who makes his character very interesting while the female lead is someone I don't think I can open my mind to her yet.

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