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Watch the scene again where Woo-hak, believing he’s Ki-ho, starts to feel immense guilt that he ruined Mok-ha’s life. If Bo-goel is Ki-ho, it’s like we’ve been saying all along. He feels so much guilt towards Mok-ha and thinks that he ruined her life. He has a lot of regret which is why I think he’s so critical of Ki-ho when he talks about him. This is likely him being self critical. He hasn’t forgiven himself for what happened to Mok-ha and he’s also fearful because his father is very dangerous and people keep getting hurt because of him. I think he made a decision to ‘bury’ Ki-ho.

Woo-hak keeps saying he met Bo-goel some time after he woke up and saw his parents. This suggests he didn’t meet Bo-goel straight away because he’d been in a coma and after waking up met Bo-goelKi-ho after he escaped from his father.

For the safety of the family and to protect Woo-hak from the trauma, the family decided to conceal their past from Woo-hak and change both brother’s names, the mum’s name and start afresh by burying the past and Ki-ho.

Ran-joo I think (unless this is another misdirect).

Literally been saying this about the father since day one. Dude is psycho.

You might not want to go putting all your eggs in that basket yet.

True but the writer has been hinting at both of them being Ki-ho so I’ve been keeping an open mind even though I also thought it was Bo-goel since episode two.

This is my exact theory too plus a few bits.

I don’t want this information. Send it back where you got it from. 😂😅

Nooooo! Say it ain’t so. I hope Mok-ha, the brothers and their parents remain safe.

I’m going to do a full detailed breakdown after tomorrow’s episode but I’ll share something I’ve observed in regards to that. If you go back and look at the family picture again which one of the brothers look younger in the picture? Ki-ho or the other brother in the picture? If my theory is correct, then it means Ki-ho is younger than Mok-ha or there is some other explanation for the age difference but shows that the age discrepancies is a crucial part of the story. I’m getting so excited because so much of what I predicted turned out to be the case in today’s episode. 🤗

It’s all starting to come together. I think next episode we’re gonna find out that Ki-ho is Bo-goel.

My God! That duet had my heart soaring like an eagle. ✨😍🥰🫶

Unfortunately, due to the writer this may be a 50/50 possibly as she’s done this before. I personally hope she doesn’t do it again because viewers tend to only give writers and directors one second chance and this is hers. Also, something I’ve been thinking about the past few days is that we don’t actually know for sure if Bo-goel is the lead. We’re assuming he is because of the order of casting and cast listing but this is something else that the writer has left ambiguous.

#womance. 🫶

Ki-ho is inside all of us. 🌈 🤭

To add to this, he says something along the lines of “if it doesn’t fit, I can get you a different size”. So he guesstimated her shoe size.

Could you tell me where they discussed him running away before? I tried to go back and find it but I must be having a brain fart because I can’t seem to find it. Thanks in advance. 🙂

I thought this might have been the scene. How I interpret it is that she’s saying she’ll be the breadwinner and take care of them which means she’ll take the position of the elder in their new formed unit. She’s gonna work as an adult now (as a singer) and he can continue his studies. Still, as you said it could be a hint from the writers that Mok-ha is older.

And this is exactly the intention of the writers. They want viewers to believe that either brother could be Ki-ho and will keep this tactic until the later episodes. This is why I want viewers not to be set on one person regardless and to be open to going where the clues lead even if it changes who they thought was Ki-ho. It’s too early to tell who is the real Ki-ho. I have my theory (Bo-goel), but others believe it is Woo-hak.

What I like about your answer is that it’s detailed, analytical and shows you’ve thought about it - weighing the possibilities. As I said in my previous answer I have thoughts about why Bo-goel is being so cold/distant/stand-offish with Mok-ha but it’s an analysis I will be writing after the next episode airs (as it will be the halfway point).

What I’ll say here is that we do see Bo-goel sneaking a look at Mok-ha on the ship back from the island. These are the looks he gives her that many viewers have noticed as ‘the eyes that do not lie’. From then on, the looks he gives her suggests that there is something else there.

I do think Bo-goel’s behaviour can already be explained, so I don’t share the same view that him being Ki-ho would be a plothole. I think it’s intentional that we haven’t seen a lot of Bo-goel yet or a lot of interactions with Mok-ha. This is why I am waiting to see the next two episodes because I think it will set the lay of the land more clearly. For now, my theory is that Bo-goel has done what he adviced Mok-ha to do when they were younger and that is to change his name, forget his past and bury his identity as Ki-ho so that his father won’t find him. I think people underestimate the threat that Ki-ho’s father is, because Bo-goel is now an adult, they wonder why he wouldn’t be able to fight back if his father comes but people who have experience of domestic abuse (whether directly or indirectly), know that abusers can turn homicidal. Especially when their victims leave them or threaten to leave him.

I think a lot of Bo-goel’s reactions have been purposefully muted but it’s there. For example, when he finds out in the elevator that Woo-kah’s boss didn’t allow him to drop Mok-ha’s story he looked unhappy. “Why didn’t you kill the story”. It’s subtle, but it’s there. But what can he do now. The story is already out. They’re watching the broadcast in the elevator.

Even though these are my opinions, they are based on the first four episodes which imo heavily suggests that Ki-ho is Bo-goel. I will continue updating my theories based on how the episodes unfold. So far, I do not believe Woo-hak to be Ki-ho but I’m open to this changing. We’re coming up to the halfway point and I’ll be looking for the writers to shed more light on Ki-ho’s flashbacks/memory loss and for the writers to show more interaction between Mok-ha and Bo-goel. If the writers are following a formula, the majority of episode 5 will make it seem like Ki-ho is Woo-hak only for them to throw in something at the end to make you think it might be Bo-goel. In episode 4, they hinted that Bo-goel was Ki-ho for most of the episode only to introduce the flashback right at the end to suggest it might be Woo-hak.

After this week’s episode, if I can, I will do a breakdown of my theories so far in the discussions section here.

This is one of those things that are on my list of ‘something that I’ve noticed but may not be significant, still I’ll keep an eye on it’. Another thing is that Mok-ha’s friend called Ki-ho the runaway even though he is a new student. It makes me wonder how many times had he attempted to run away before.