Cruheart

I guess I have seen too many Chinese vertical dramas to have any sympathy at all for GC. He is not acting out of any type of love for Jae- in at all. His feelings are rooted in plain old perverted obsession. While he may look back at moment of happiness they shared as a family, he does so selectively. He has zero awareness of the pain that he inflicted on his wife and child and zero remorse for doing so. He continuously does not listen to her objections and stubbornly refuses to take into account that she is done with him and has moved on. He has now started moving into stalker and domestic violence territory. He has repeatedly forcefully grabbed her - restrained her and taken her by force to places against her will. Dragging her into his car and driving off with her would result in kidnapping charges being filed on him if he lived where I live.

There is absolutely nothing romantic about his forceful behavior and I would not classify it as chemistry at all I would classify it as one sided toxic interactions. Chemistry takes two and I do not see Jae- in returning his feelings. On the contrary, she is actively repulsed by him. GC refuses to acknowledge that fact and keeps pushing his on sided obsessive feeling onto her. I have no sympathy for that type of person or behavior. These are the types of men that eventually make dead the objects of their obsession.

Yup

The truth will come out in episode 95 according to KBS

Well at least he is doing a better job at mixing things up than our wet noodle ML.

We almost have a reverse harem situation going on

I like this character and the actor. He has come in and lit a fire under this drama.

I agree as well.

One of the things I hate the most in drama's is one of the love interests saying "I knew you first" or "I liked you first". It is a pathetic attempt to exert some sort of right over someone's feelings. No one is obligated to return somebody else's one sided feelings! I cannot believe our ML pulled this super annoying and equally pathetic 2ML move on our FL.

I know he has done a lot for her and he has supported her, but she does not owe him her heart. What she does owe him is an answer. I know she told him to wait until the revenge was over and they would have that discussion again, but if this guy is going to start pulling this beta male act, then give him a proper answer. Either reject him properly (so he can move on) or at least set the record straight if she does have feelings (but emphasize she wont act on them until they are done). She has left it ambiguous.

Agree 100%.

I have a feeling that GC is going to do something really drastic before this is over. They are really setting Theo up as a huge pain in the rear for GC. They are really starting to push a "possible relationship" between Theo and JI in front of GC. They may not want to kill off the ML in this drama, but Theo may be fair game. I would not be surprised if the last straw for GC is the "not his child" reveal and GC takes out Theo himself.

When Ki-chan decides to drop everything to return to Jae-in, he faces a big test...

Episode 94 Spoiler Text (from KBS) Below:

Yeah,
I agree. This is way more than just regret. This has become diagnos-able mental illness level obsession on his part. He definitely has become more and more unhinged. His fixation on his ex-wife is just an object level obsession. He wants to own her and does not want anyone else to "have" her. He is about to really lose it now that he knows that Theo has feelings for her. I read on the KBS site the preview text for episode 93 says that he "loses his senses" over Theo's affections for Jae-in.

I understand where you are coming from. However, whatever the writers had her doing at first has changed up. Just like her stupid ex-husband. I have no idea where all this new found jealousy and obsession has come from - except the writers wanted to change things up.

To be honest though the ML has the personality of a warm bowl of jello. I just cant take him seriously. The new guy has more chemistry with all the FL's than the ML. I don't know if it is the actor or the character that he is playing, but the ML just feels like a bland 2ML character for some reason.

While I am all for the whole ex has regrets thing. This whole pining thing with Gi Chan is just too much. He is supposed to be and has been this evil self-absorbed bastard until these last several episodes. NOW all he can think about is his ex-wife Jae-in. I guess the writers needed to put him on pause for awhile? I am sure they will have him devolve into some sort of love-sick obsessed 2ML that thinks that if he kidnaps the girl that it will make her fall completely in love with him. (CUE: Kidnap trope).

I just wish they would return him back to his scheming don't give a f**k about no one but himself character that I loved to hate. This obsessed lovesick puppy shtick is getting old really fast.

Yeah the villian arc was pretty stupid. Heck him coming back after the MC had been in a committed relationship for the last 8 years and EXPECTING her to immediately drop her boyfriend for him was mental hospital level delusional!

Yeah we knew from the beginning of the drama that they would have to go back to where nothing was different. Given the ban on time travel, my biggest hope for an ending was that they would at least have a shared dream" experience. They did!

On these Chinese time travel/transmigration dramas, I try to separate out the two stories any way - but I always keep in mind that the ending will always go back to square 1. It helps me enjoy them better. So we had two endings, the happy ending in the dream timeline, and the happy ending back in the future.

It could have been worse - they could have left their relationship as it was in the novel - where the brother was not bio-related to the fl and he had feelings for fl ... and then all kinds of different crazy insufferable issues would have occurred!

In the drama , it is an entirely different situation. Instead of transmigrating into a novel as fictional characters, they go back in time.

The FL had been dating the SML for years and she loved him enough to give up significant educational and career opportunities for him. When she goes back in time, she is already aware of who ml is & has an hate/hate relationship with his original self. She also is aware of the mistake she made with the 2ml and tries to avoid him.

The 2ml is of course obsessed and is rejected - the fl develops feeling for the ml and they start a relationship that so far has been long term. The 2ml has been out of the picture for the last couple of years. - waiting on him to show up again - That is it so far ...

In the novel, the basketball player is in love with the fl throughout high school, her brother (who is not bio related to her in the novel) also has some conflicted feelings for fl. The ml is a grown assed man and the fl is a 16 year old HS student - the ml is a mentor to the fl - and that is all. He discovers that he has feelings for her, but because she is a child, he tries to not cross the line until she becomes of age. The fl has a bit of a crush on the ml, but initially it is a HS girl crush. So in the first half of the novel there is a focus on the basketball player and the brother jockeying for her attention. The ml is basically a side character.

After the college entrance exam, the basketball player is going to confess to the fl and the fl was going to actually consider dating him (as she realized that she had budding feelings for the basketball player) but they get into a fight and he leaves her crying in the rain. The ml finds her crying and picks her up and takes her with him. She cries about losing her possible first love (the basketball player). However the author later starts qualifying her feelings for the BB player as just budding feelings that were never realized.

The BB player realized this mistake that night and tried to go back and get fl but only found ml's umbrella lying on the ground. He would look back on that night for years with regret. He never got over fl. He did come see her years later after the ml and fl were a couple and tired to woo her and even chased her down the sidewalk and back hugged her in front of the ml (of course). But she basically told him to get a life (without her). Dude was a sad lonely dude the rest of the way...