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So much left to our imaginations this week.

1. The leads look AWESOME in hanbok.

2. I've never seen Korean fireworks before. That looks cool. I don't like regular fireworks.

3. So creepy gardener guy really is the stalker. How he and SFL teamed up isn't clear. I wonder if when he said FL looked like his dead wife, he was talking about someone who's been dead for centuries.

4. SML is also creeping me out.

5. FL's nightmare totally creeped me out.

6. So did FL do the "cancel love spell" on everyone? Is that to test if ML really is in love with her, and possibly also to kill off the love effects of all the other men who have drunk the love potion?

7. So do we not find out what happened between ML and gardener guy in the nursery?

I thought it was the adult Joseon Hong Joo who was left on the old lady's door step in the rain. I got the feeling she had been attacked and "sent home" to the old lady, and now the old lady is going to curse the ML's family.

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There's nothing wrong with it. It's just I can't imagine what a 35 year old, established doctor would see in a 20 year old, recent school dropout, other than he's cute and he saves abandoned kittens.

Thank you. Everyone looks so young (I'm really old) so it just seemed like he just dropped out of school, while she's an established doctor.

ACK! Did the writers forget that Kwang Shik's hands were all bandaged up and "unusable" last episode. He was supposed to be "out of commission" for psychic work for weeks. Here his hands are bandage free and he's making deliveries carrying stuff.

I don't want it to be the Shaman. I like the Shaman. I want the serial killer to be Sun Woo. He hates bad people. Every single person who was killed betrayed someone. With every single reason Sun Woo keeps getting ruled out, it just makes me more suspicious of him.

I don't think it's Assemblyman Cha's second in command. We know nothing about him. It's got to be one of the main characters.

Also, I want FL's aunt's ex-husband to be the next victim. Come on Schadenfreude!

I'm also a little weirded out by FL liking SML. Didn't someone mention she is 35? Didn't he just drop out of grad school? That would make him what? 23-ish? It's not the age the difference. It's just the actual ages that make it seem like they have nothing in common. SunWoo has told her practically nothing about himself other than that time he said he wasn't a good person.

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Yeah, but he hasn't been wearing a hat, and his hair is thick. They haven't mentioned him wearing a wig. And FL has been touching butts in crowds and in the Butt Chair. So not as much as Kwang Shik, but still a lot of butts. I just wish the writers would throw a few loose hairs here and there.

So now we have Checkov's Gun Book of Curses. Don't show us a book of curses if it's not going to get used. So, who will Hong Jo curse? She's not the type, but . . . Na Yeon to get her comeuppance?

Did the writers forget that the psychics hair is supposed to fall out? Kwang Shik's and Ye Bun's hair are both as full as ever. Or is Kwang Shik wearing a wig? I know she's taking vitamins or whatever, but they've been touching so many people and still have lots of hair.

Yeah, me too. I feel like Flower Guy is too obvious, and he really has not done anything bad. He asked her to dinner. He brought her flowers. He held an umbrella over her head. He said she looked like his dead wife (OK that's a bit creepy, but not terrible).

But SML? He warned FL off him at first. Then he moves into her house, and starts calling it our house. Suddenly he starts liking her. He doesn't want ML to install cameras. He's creeping me out. He doesn't even make FL blush anymore. Even FL feels something is off, I think.

No, no. I normally love shows like this. But having worked in this sort of business environment, where the top manager dated someone under his command, it's a huge NONO, and an HR nightmare. It was a terrible mess. He was fired. Her career was ruined for "sleeping her way to the top." New rules about whether married or dating couples could even work at the same company were invented, which meant a lot of people got fired. It was a mess.

I would have had more respect for the writers if they were more sensitive to the power dynamics this situation entails. The only thing they did was have ML ask for permission before kissing her. I would have loved it if ML had proactively said, "I want to date you. Please let me transfer you to another position, so you do not report to me." Think of all the problems and solutions that could have caused in the show. OR, ML has her transferred to a different department, but doesn't tell her why and then tries to date her. There were so many options that could have shown better HR strategies.

I know, I know, it's just a show. I shouldn't get so worked up. I'm watching Behind Your Touch and Destined With You, which also have even more unrealistic plots, but King the Land is based a bit more in reality, and this scenario really is an HR nightmare if it were to happen in real life.

That said, I just watched the WTF episode and really cracked up.

Flower guy said he drank from her pink tumbler because he wanted to know what kind of tea she drank.

Get a grip, Shin Yu.

He's done a lot of that. Don't read this. OK, read this, but don't answer it. OK, answer it, but don't see me again. Can I see you?

I like the leads, BUT I hate the premise of the show.

First, you have nepobaby ML who doesn't do any work. He's clueless about how normal people live and the FL has to explain it to him. It's supposed to be cute, but it's not.

Second, you have a manager (again, the ML), at the top of the organization chart, who should NEVER date an employee. That is a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. It's a power imbalance. It's not "cute." If ML really wants to date FL, then he should have her transferred out of his organization and into one that does not report to him. That's the minimum he should do. What would be better would be for him to get her a better job at a different company, and then date her.

Third, Also FL's co-irkers are bound to think she's sleeping her way to the top. Combine that with all the hazing she's going through for not having a 4 year degree, or the jealousy from the other employees. Even the rumor of dating a manager could ruin her career.

If the writers think this is a cute premise, I hate to see the misogyny in the writers' room.

Yes, but HE (ML), as a lawyer, has to recognize that he is doing what amounts to a restraining order on someone who only asked FL out to dinner, brought her flowers, and touched her shoulder. Meanwhile FL told ML she didn't want to see him, and he kept seeing her, so there's that huge consent issue, of what the characters said to each other, versus how we as viewers know they feel about each other.

Thank you! I thought there was a 100% chance we'd seen him before.

I suspect he is using SFL and he'll reveal the affair because he thinks it will hurt ML. But it will actually give ML the best excuse to dump SFL. Also, I'm looking forward to the Schadenfreude of SFL getting her comeuppances.

I loved how ML had to go tell flower guy to quit doing the things to FL that ML was also doing to FL. You could tell he was uncomfortable with the realization of the shoe being on the other foot.

I wonder if we'll ever find out who stole FL's PJs. I think SFL's lover took the photos of FM and ML kissing.

OK, so it IS the CEO of ML's old law firm. Strike that. CEO of the Haum Construction that ML wants to sue.