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at this point you are just being stubborn and ignoring explanations. i've explained why honesty wasnt a good option and how she isnt toying/playing/manipulation. all of these things DO imply bad or non innocent intentions by definition! i have also asked what you expect her to do with information she was FORCED to receive.

how is she 'playing' or 'leading him on' when she is very clearly dedicated to him? at no point does it seem like she is just doing it for fun or acting like that on impulse. literally no actual definition of manipulation matches 'leading on someone based on what is known to obtain a certain reaction'. she is using what she knows to hopefully have him *recognize* that she is jieum, NOT to make him fall for her. if manipulation was actually the case she would have hit a book over his head and copied everything jieum did to seoha.

additionally, at the end of episode 5 jieum tells cho won that she was juwon in her past life because cho won also thought that jieum was being manipulative and insincere. if that isnt proof enough that jieum ISNT 'manipulative' and 'leading on' anyone then i dont know what else to say to you.

agreeing with the other person who replied to you, what did you expect her to do with the knowledge? she does not choose to be reborn and to remember her past lives. she says herself in the drama the reason for pursuing the ml is that her previous life mysteriously ended early and that she got reincarnated almost immediately, unlike her previous lives. ofc she would then use her previous knowledge to get close to seoha as it is obvious there was unfinished business between them. also saying she is manipulative and toying is a reach because that would imply she had bad intentions with him or that she had done things/found out the things she did immorally. Seduction is also a reach because she never acts sexually towards him or has non innocent intentions. also i dont agree that what shes doing is insincere bc they are not on the same page. do you know how crazy it would sound if someone in real life told you they were your dead first love in their past life? even if she had been honest and tried to tell seoha, they still wouldnt be on the same page. seoha would look at her as crazy and be scared. he would view her as a stalker for knowing what she did, not be relieved. she didnt have the option of clearing the air about herself.

like i said it was childish emotions she felt as a child to want to marry him. this is not the first child ive seen in a drama ask an older girl or boy to marry them or tell one that they would grow up well so they could get married. this happens irl as well. i cannot stress enough that although her soul is old, she still has the emotions, hormones and thought processes of a child and thats why i included the examples i did. she was a child asking that in a very innocent, childish way. the only thing that transfers from one body to the next is memories, not maturity.

im gonna copy and paste this from wiki since i cant say i knew this before watching the drama. "The origin of soju dates back to the 13th century Goryeo, when the Levantine distilling technique was introduced to the Korean Peninsula during the Mongol invasions of Korea (1231–1259), by the Yuan Mongols who had acquired the technique of distilling arak from the Persians during their invasions of the Levant, Anatolia, and Persia." i think it was showing that the fl was supposed to be the man that first distilled arak that eventually inspired soju, not necessarily that arabs invented alcohol or soju in particular

She does not love him when he is 8 and she is 12, she says so herself that her fascination with him is not bc of love but bc he makes her feel like she is her actual age and makes her want to live- rather than someone that has begrudgingly and consciously lived hundreds of years. i would say her complex emotions are the ones that mix up the emotions of the physical child she was when she met him and the emotions of a soul thats been alive for a much longer time. When child ban ji eum is upset at her brother taking her money, she reacts like any other child her age. yoon ju won also acted like a child when playing and messing with seoha. even though her soul is old, she is clearly being affected by the natural behaviors and hormones that all other children do. shes never claimed to love him and especially as a child never claimed to like him romantically. people are just picking and choosing which parts to understand/misunderstand without actually paying attention to the whole story

if ur on episode five and u still think the fl is a creepy pedo just stop watching cause its obvious youll never understand her complex emotions or the story at all. it doesnt require a lot of critical thinking skills to understand and just reading the subtitles would resolve ur concerns about it.

bc theyre trying to be realistic and it is unthinkable and impossible. if she told them they would all look at her like she was crazy and get scared by her.

this show was so bad but i ate it all up

i'll never get used to how disgusting FLs were treated in this era of kdramas. Theyre given no autonomy or respect without fail and thats true of every drama pre 2010. This drama is no different yet theres something special about dramas from this time that helps me continue.

this show is like crack to me and episode 3 had me bawling

ohh okay. thanks!

thank you. who is it exactly? i dont mind the spoiler

question for those up to date on episodes- are the leads trying to get revenge on one particular person/group of people or is it on multiple unrelated people?

it seems like its actually dropped in a day ?? weird

season 2 WHERE. ARE. YOU. AT? every few months you come to haunt me ever since i watched this in 2020 during lockdown, doing 1000 piece puzzles in my room.

loved this drama until the ML changed. he turned into your typical cdrama rich asshole bf.

since you asked.. hae joon's dad.

im in that age range and still dont like it

oh im sorry did you think people sub the episodes in five minutes? 3 hours is not long at all so stop whining. and you pay good money for it? let us remind you that you are not just paying for one show in hd with subtitles, you are paying for thousands. if there is nothing productive you can give yourself to do in those three hours to wait for an hour long episode rather than complain on the internet, then that is really sad.

its amazing dramas like this one that reminds me why i got into kdramas in the first place.