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Bc she SAID she is repaying him for saving her. So he thinks she wants to take him out on a business lunch, as a business favor, not because she likes him.
That hurts him bc he takes it as an indirect rejection.... .He now thinks she does not see him as a person but only as a competent police officer. He likes her and does not realize she likes him too. SO HE REJECTS HER BEFORE SHE CAN OPENLY DISPLAY FRIENDZONING HIM. But he is dumb bc he does not have enough info yet to already (falsely) conclude that he has been friendzoned already.
Also, he is too dumb and cowardly and refuses to take this chance and show her he is not a friendzone material.

He is ... slow and insecure to read the room about love :)
Also he has a point.. Bc there is an existing business relationship between them, the transition to a personal relationship has to be done carefully....

So in short - there are only two solutions to this:
1. she invite him out personally, outside of his work hours, when she sees him in street clothing, and she ask him out bc she likes him.
But for her to be that bold, she has to have some hint that he likes her :) Perhaps the older detective could brokerage their meeting.

(2) she can invite him to do an official "project" together, just the two of them (for example, he comes to check on some safety issue, they distribute flyers, etc) and thenm while working together, she discreetly checks him out ... she could wink at him and see if he winks back :)

Details:
THe policeman is too dumb and too proud and too cowardly weak and does not realize her invite is an opportunity to use this supposedly business lunch as an excuse to see each other, just the two of them, on his day off, as two people... .... and test out the waters and find out for sure if they like each other or not

He is too chicken to give her that OPENING, that chance to show him/ tell him she likes him :) So instead of going there to find out for sure how she feels, he already wrote her off.

He is correct though that going on a business lunch to repay the police work is a tricky issue. He has to be careful that she doesnt gossip around or other ppl dont see them and talk about how she repayed him for his policing service with personal favors.

He cannot - is afraid, is hesistant, is playing it safe - ask her out bc he is a policeman so it is very tricky and could be seen as abuse of his professional role.
And she is afraid to tell him she likes him bc she doesnt know that he likes her and she is afraid to alienate a good police officer for their hood... .... .

But their meeting at the movies was her chance :)

And FL's dad is so .... easily combustive! and rash... and unforgiving... Bucket saved his life...

But the main problem is lack of communication. These adults cannot open their mouth and SAY what they need to say (Bucket, FL to Stepmom);
or are unwilling to listen to the other side and just bail out (FL to ML, FL's dad, FL's mom)
or are slimey manipulators who just shut up the other side and get their way (FL's mom, Stepmom)

Honey, there is no cure for banal comments like yours - what you wrote is 100% contradictory, illogical and so passive aggressive - you are complaining about the CONTENT - which you call "empty banal nonsense" - so you will never be happy no matter how it is written.... bc .. I will never write YOUR ideas :)

Your post is just useless harassment. Where is your specific feedback to what I wrote? What exactly did you call "empty banal nonsense"? What are your arguments and facts to refute what I wrote? What do you think in my writing needs to be "better"?

I analyzed and dissected the entire drama, good and bad, and how it fits in the Big Picture Context. So if you cannot or do not want to read it - just ignore it or block me. SIMPLE!!!!!!

I am 100% sure that the ideas I presented went totally over your head OR you totally understand what I am saying and you are upset that someone dares say it.

It is reaaaaaly STRANGE that every time a kdrama moves forward and rating goes up, some trolls make the rating go DOWN. I see it in many kdramas, actually. It seems like some kind of "organized crime" activity.

Imo, the root evil is RichMom, who produced her SlimeyRichDaughter, who attracted the ConHusband. I am disgusted with the SlimeyRichDaughter

I am NOT going to reply to any reviews unless they show some intelligence :)
So probably you will not get a reply from me :)
you can write whatever you want :) and thus leave a written testimony of what kind of audience likes this kind of drama :)

There are SO MANY QUESTIONS I would love to ask - for example, why ppl think that ML and FL are not arrogant?? bc they are rich and pretty??? but their behaviors....
So anyways, I would like to ask questions, but I dont have the time to waste :)

I want OUT of anything to do with this drama :) It is a waste of time :)

It is exactly as I suspected :) Thanks for confirming who likes PC :)

yeah that's the problem :) I think those kdramas are trash :) Princess Hours officially has one of the dumbest FLs :) Heirs is also officially one of the trashiest most toxic kdramas :)

So good luck to you :) I recommend youtube videos by Stephan Speaks :)

I was wondering - has Netflix really made something along the lines of a real kdrama... ??? Where was the catch... ? And sure enough LOL this is a smelly pile of script..
I CALL THIS DRAMA "PRINCESS FANTASY FOR LITTLE GIRLS AKA A GREAT BUSINES SWINDLE"

So the first part is mostly about virtual dating, where the princess gets a big house, lots of dresses, shoes, jewelry, and any guy she wants - and she wants pretty guys :) withi nice bodies :) That's THE ONLY criteria :) The FL actress is acting so well, she is confident enthusiastic hot girl going on dates and having fun... and ML actor is on screen just a tiny bit as her colleague in her real life.

THEN THE SECOND PART IS DATING IN REAL LIFE - and this lovely young lady goes into the 1950s mode of trash kdrama sexism - she is prudish, child-like clutz. OMG!!!! in year 2026!!!!! we see a grown, professional woman behave like a little school girl with boys.... Not even kids behave like that today... !!!!! AND THE DRAMA TAKES A NOSE DIVE AND BECOMES SUPER BORING **** C R I N G E **** Basically you get the Practical Guide to Love FL and ML....

THIS SCRIPT IS TRASH!!!! and consequently, the acting of FL goes down the drain and for the second half of the drama, she is a mentally disabled dumbo and a very weak immature loser.. chick... A WOMAN-CHILD

The first part is the satire of all the tropes that kdramas use to grab female audience. It is such a great ridicule, a great jester comedy!!!! The most fun and most sad part is that so many women will not realize that they are being made fun of, and they will be too busy admiring all the good looking guys... And the whole point is to show how immature women fall for those tropes.
I am sorry to male actors, their roles were so ridiculously simple and actually - demeaning - they had to act out some delulu immature chicks fantasy. Well - just like they do in real dramas :) too often.... I realized - the male roles are to be an ESCORT ....
I am glad I saw Undercover High School ML, he was so fun in that drama... This role was waaaay too simple for him.... he was like a robot... ...

Then the 2nd part starts and ... gosh this is the classic old time sexist kdrama... AGAIN!!! where FL is this clutz immature weak woman-child... WHO WANTS HER AS@ KISSED AND GUYS WHO ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR HER... like robots .... And... her behavior with ML is just... CRINGE childish... she is portrayed as a total moron for personal life , sooo immature and weak... and such a consumer, eating up guys who dote on her... AND YET ANOTHER IDOL WORSHIPER OF PRETTY FACES ... gosh... such a dumb chick ...
So again, the drama makes fun of such women-children and again lures them in with a "pretty face guy"

INCREDIBLE!!! this is a real ... jester job... ENTIRE DRAMA IS ABOUT SHOPPING FOR PRETTY BOY TOYS AND GETTING A GREAT SERVICE
it is like ... going on dates with a bunch of escorts... who are all dying to take care of FL...

WOW THIS IS CONSUMERISM TAKEN TO A NEW LEVEL... SHOPPING FOR A PRETTY BOY TOY!!!! and it is all planned!!!!! bc sooo many dramas have one chick trying zillion guys, or dating 2 at a time.... wooow...

AND ML CHARACTER PLAYS INTO THIS TROPE OF LOYAL DOTING GUY, he liked her for so long and didnt pick anyone else - although she never deserved his liking her. So that is the old sexist kdrama trope - this fully dedicated man although the woman is super flawed, stupid, childish, and very crude to him and in general... in general, just a dumb immature snowflake... .

So right now I am starting ep 6 and I SO BADLY WANT TO SEE REVIEW BY OPPA_ if that person wrote a review on this...
Bc I am suspecting there is a catch with this drama...

I like that FL actress is a great actress. IN THE FIRST PART ONLY. After ep 5 or 6, when the real guy steps in, the FL actress is clearly acting fake bc the script is trash cringe. She is having difficulty acting the immature cringe..... BC IT IS NOT A NATURAL BEHAVIOR to behave like an elementary school girl. YET THAT IS WHAT KIDRAMAS EXPECT. this is the classic classic kdrama sexism... !!!!! What FL did here, is EXACTLY how all those FLs behave ... Practical Guide to Love is an example of that ..... woooow....

That FL chick is totally undeserving of ML's attention, she always treated him badly, then he confessed and she avoids him and rejects him, non stop and he keeps coming back.. .... AND SHE IS AFRAID TO LOVE BC IT WILL END, SO SHE KEEPS REJECTING HIM AND DUMPING HIM.... ... omg what a loser coward ... and he keeps coming back ...... omg what a loser coward.

WOW this is the recipe for every trashy rom com.... YUCK!!!! how did a great actor like the ML end up doing this? Does Netflix pay very well... ???? I do hope he has better scripts to choose from..

THIS SCRIPT IS TRASH!!!! and consequently, the acting of FL goes down the drain and for one half of the drama, she is a mentally disabled dumbo and a very weak immature loser.. chick... A WOMAN-CHILD

WOOOOOOWWWWW THIS IS A SCAM!!!!! THIS DRAMA IS A SCAM!!!! THIS KIND OF SCTRPT SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN YEAR 2026!
or ... it should be... ? bc there are so many lonely women with money who will pay to watch this smelly piece of script...

I really like that actors are not super skinny skeletons :) FL got nice legs :) ML also looks like a normal athletic guy. So at least the drama has a healthy look. I really like that ML has naror and slanted eyes, not plastic surgery big eyes.

I dislike that such a great actor like the ML actor is put into this overly simple role. But then... I realize... all typical male roles ARE this... omg... this is like seeing the whole mechanics of dramas... This is like seeing the swindling behind the scenes...

THIS IS TRULY ... A CON JOB.... and a very successful one, women are paying to see many men without a shirt on, and seducing, and kissing as# and doing whatever the woman says, and the woman can be as awful as she wants... or, to be more precise, as she IS.

Wow who was it who thought of selling this idea of reverse polygamy and/or decadent lewd behaviors by women - basically everything rotten that men used to do? Great busines mind. So many - most? - new kdramas are based on such women.
Our Universe, Practical Guide to Love, Climax, A Graceful Liar, etc etc etc etc etc ...

Why waste your time and my time posting this kind of stuff? If you have nothing meaningful to say, just stay silent. If you dislike it, just IGNORE IT
and instead, you added bla bla bla - really proving you are bla bla bla ....

But that's your problem, You do NOT "listen" to what the other side is saying and you get offended out of your head.
For example. I NEVER praised Korean society, YOU MADE IT UP. I praised kdramas :) I answered that in my post that mentions Parasite. Have you read that post?
Then you accused me of discrimination of Chinese government...

You are the one who is deciding everything and I am just standing there while you assign YOUR OWN meanings to me :)

Take a breath, and just listen. In this case, READ. and do not react. Then you can live your life happily ever after. Learn some inner peace :) Tibetans actually know the most about it :)
Namaste :)

yeah precisely, I dont find those scenes funny but just displays of his pathological psycho (lack of) character
Seriousness and heavy vibes it should have? indeed. That is precisely the problem. I dont have the time to explain and you would not undertstand it anyways.
Lack of humor reminds me of a military parade, of putting things on a pedestal, no questioning allowed.
I 1000% dislike that :)

So I think we are done talking here :) Bye now :)

OMG yes ough yes :) Sorry I forgot her name :) Thank you for taking the time to remind me.

Yeah HY could have done it, why not :)

Yes, I agree with everything you said, except that we know nothing about him.
Remember earlier episodes, when he said that he accepted the job as Dream Chef bc the restaurant was so bad and he wanted to make it #1? He loves difficult challenges.

And yeah we know very little about him.
I want to know how he overcame leukemia and being bounced through orphanages, and how his new parents found him.
Also, I want to know his (lack of) dating past :)

I think the richness of this character is his survival and striving, his tenderness conflicted with cruelty (he was deeply touched by her music, yet he is slavedriving marriage to SR although she said NO). I am not sure the actor can pull it off, but I hope he can, if he relaxes and really tries in that relaxed state. This is just like being on stage, he should be familiar with that.

I am sorry to bother you one last time bc I want you to SEE how the world turns bad. First of all, you have not read everything i wrote :) so your accusations of me are false :)

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Both of us disliked Pursuit of Jade and Perfect Crown.
The review by Oppa_ will show you why.

And on my end, I say that Perfect Crown is something that flames the support of "autocratic aristocracy" concept that so many people VOTED FOR and IDOLIZE in the USA and which can get us into WWW3 soon.

Also, the same idolizing has turned the minimalist communists into the same kind of ppl they fought to replace.

So there is nothing that is purely entertainment.

And instead of sticking to someone who sees more deeply and making further connections and learning, you get defensive about "discriminating against Chinese government."
THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO PROGRESS, bc so-called good ppl are always too emotional.

This idolizing of royalty and rich ppl is not innocent at all. Someone was recently elected in the USA based on that, and also in Japan, and most new gvmts in Europe are fashist too.

This is not a simple light "entertainment" it is mass brainwashing into certain ideas :)

I am reporting users who seem to be rabid idol fans and harass anyone who dislikes this drama, as I was getting crude personally offensive comments from them.
I report INCESSANT STALKING AND HARASSMENT by
@Echantress Maiden from H 13
and
@ONEDOOR847

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I just found the review by Oppa_ so I will recommend it to anyone who thinks there is something fishy about this drama

it is an excellent review that exposes romaticizing of autocracy and putting down Korean history (the only thing missing is male worship)

read the review by Oppa_

Well that' the point... Why should I watch 54 episodes to find what you liked? IF I LIKE A DRAMA, I REMEMBER SPECIFIC "POWER SCENES" and if you ask me, I can recite the scene and the dialogue to you, like I recited the dialogue from Would you Marry Me.

THAT is what I am talking about. IS IT THAT DEEP THAT YOU STILL REMEMBER IT?
If you cannot remember power scenes from that drama, than it is not very deep at all. It left no impact on you. You havent learned anything.

Yeah we have very different tastes, now you are starting to get it, but you still dont understand WHY. I have explained it enough :)

FYI I might know more about China than you think I do :) Imo very few ppl can know enough about China, it is so big and so old and so complicated :)

So you are patronizing me until you cannot anymore and then you lash out for discriminating against Chinese government? That is quite ... arrogant patriotism, isnt it?

Clearly, you did not even understand what I was talking about
and you tried to be nice and show me what you liked
but since you dont understand what I was talking about and since you are so defensive, the talk went bad - and at the end, you misrepresented China

Try differently next time.

On my end, I was trying to explain to you something which you just cannot understand it is waaaay over your head. I should have stopped long time ago :) Just read that Oppa_ review if you care, I really cannot convey anything to you.

Bye now :) Namaste :)

OK fair enough. I know Koreans personally too, but not as much as you do, and my experiences were mostly positive.
If you are a woman, that 16 yr experience must have been tough :) KDramas show deep nasty sexism :)

I wonder then, how much kdramas reflect daily korean life and people.
Also, even if you worked with them and lived with them, I wonder if you really know their history :)

Also, ordinary Koreans might not be of the mind caliber of someone who wrote Parasite etc :) Keep that in mind :)
My own country has Nobel Laureates but also one of those wrote that ordinary people are like a mass of cattle :)

Hm you really did not connect the dots? You thnk there is no brainwashing in Chinese historical dramas and they are purely entertainment? Heck no. There is nothing that is "purely entertainment" , In fact, ... entertainment is the quickest way to brainwash ppl into something...

And you are showing it with your lashing in patriotism - you think there is "discrimination" against Chinese government??? "Discrimination" assumes that they are totally innocent and we are bullying them. No they are NOT innocent. So if you cannot see it, then ... tough luck.

There is nothing that is purely black or purely white, yin-yang symbol teaches that. Chinese government is not 100% evil and has done some good things, lately the Chinese military complained in public that cdrama men are fake, not masculine dudes with makeup, and I strongly support their opinion as intelligent :) and then there was talk about focusing on content and plot, not only on looks and I strongly support their opinion as intelligent :)

But I dont support genocide in Tibet, labor camps, heavy censorship, tracking, etc, etc etc etc

But you are not capable of criticizing your own country, so ... that is blindness and certain "lack of humor"

Koreans make fun of their government, social structure, everything, they talk openly about everything, they expose it, they show how silly it is, AND HOW TO OVERCOME,
and they are KNOWN for kicking out bad governments and keeping their country going. I have deep respect for them.

China seems too brainwashed and a victim of this feeling of false self importance. Lack of humor indicates that.

You being so defensive indicates that. There is no need to be defensive. You can be proud of China without being proud of its government :) But to get there, you will have to look into it more deeply, not just as entertainment, you will have to see its faults and also its gifts.... OBJECTIVELY .. whch kdramas are soooo good about :)
Namaste :)