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Haven’t seen the new episode yet, but the CEO’s brother calls Seungjoo a killer to his face and behind his back, and the CEO acts supportive but keeps showing in small involuntary ways that he doesn’t actually believe in SJ’s innocence. Even if the brother is just being shitty on purpose to deflect attention, the CEO wouldn’t act like that if he actually knew who the real killer is IMO.

How can Syaon remain so annoying for so long? Someone smack this girl to bring her back to her senses! The CEO keeps enabling her by not being firm enough when she does outrageous shit. Which BTW, he is also getting on my nerves with how he's trying to control Seungjoo, and the mother (actually both mothers) obviously sucks too. The people around Seungjoo claim to care for him but treat him with complete disrespect for him as a person.

But Solhee's ex is kinda cool actually... The way he took her comment about thinking about another man on the chin and told her "that's because you like him, so go date him quickly and come back" made me look at him differently. But he deserves someone who will like him wholeheartedly, so he should get over SH instead of waiting for her.

The neighborhood goofs being exes was a nice little Easter egg.

That's fair. They could have retained LGBTQ characters/themes even if they took out that specific relationship. Good point.

Goblin sucks ass and is creepy too. I don't think it's romantic at all and I should hope it wouldn't get made today.

As for "why didn't they just change the protagonist's age," you're right that they could have done that and made the drama into a romance. I'm guessing the producers were more attracted to the premise of a grizzled gangster possessing a high schooler's body and navigating teenage life with the experience of a career criminal, and for that story to work, the age gap and gap in life experience is crucial.

So they were looking at the different stories they could tell by repackaging the original material and picked the one that didn't have a questionable romantic subplot. Sure, they probably didn't want to make a teen gay romance in the first place because the audience for that kind of drama would be smaller and they couldn't sign an actor like YCY for it, so homophobia played a part in their decision. But getting spitting mad that you won't be able to watch some old man in a teenager's body romance another teenager is just goofy. That's not a compelling premise in the first place!

There's no straight romance in this? They simply removed the creepy romance between a middle-aged man and a high schooler? If you want that kind of stuff, Wattpad is full of it, so calm down.

Not sure, sorry!

You can download the subs from drama-otaku and the raws from nyaa dot si.

It's funny how Kurusu-san is always dropping truth bombs on clients and Hitsuji has to smooth things over after him. It's nice that she's starting to gain confidence in her new workplace.

I've seen the 3 episodes subbed so far and I like this drama a lot. But what is this ex-girlfriend subplot I'm seeing in episode 4? Hitsuji is the only person who can handle the demon king!

Also the drama is clearly hinting that the handsome cashier is a total psycho and if Yebun was able to read his butt she'd see something awful. I wonder if that's a red herring or he really will turn out to be the villain.

That poor streamer has the worst luck in the world. I know she has an awful personality, but I actually think that's a good thing in this case because you probably need that level of arrogance and egotism to get over the compounded trauma of multiple abductions/attempted murders without becoming totally discouraged (assuming she survives this new attack).

I don't find the aunt endearing at all TBH. Yes, she's occasionally funny, but she's annoying as hell.

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Ah, I forgot they close registration a lot. Keep checking! I think by credential they mean the account you provide to prove you're a real person. You can give them a link to your MDL account and it will work.

Yes, you have to register to see the subs. It will take a few days to get approved, but they have a lot of rare fansubs, so it's worth it.

And if everyone is free to "seek justice" for themselves just because they feel wronged, society will collapse. Who decides whether they really were wronged or are acting based on an imperfect understanding of the situation? Who decides whether the punishment they want to enact is in fact proportionate to what was done to them? Who decides the person they want to punish ought to be punished? For example, I don't believe children should go to jail even if they commit violent crimes; other people may not agree. I don't believe the relatives of criminals should bear responsibility for their family members' crimes; other people may not agree.

These are just a few of the many questions we've spent centuries trying to answer. A legal system that everyone respects and is subject to is the best solution we've been able to come up with so far. The law sometimes leaves individual conflicts unresolved and individual victims unsatisfied, but the alternative you so casually describe would trample on a lot more people.

Places like (just for example) late medieval/Renaissance Italy have tried to leave policing violence in the hands of vigilantes via family feuds, duels and personal vendettas, and the result was that society and human relations were a lot more violent and brutal than they are now (even though they still had laws and a system of government). There's nothing simple about letting the victims punish the perpetrators.

That’s fine; I do. I called it “borderline creepy” because it depends on the context for me, but in general I find a 10-year age gap is too large. But as I said, I’ll be watching this drama for sexy shithead Lee Sangyeob, not for tips on how to maintain a healthy marriage in the long term.

The age gap might bother me if this was presented as a fluffy uncomplicated romance, but we know the protagonist is supposed to be an unscrupulous asshole who uses his athletes for personal gain, so I’m expecting the two leads’ relationship to be fraught with tension. For some reason, when the narrative already acknowledges the existence of other issues between them, I don’t mind the borderline creepy age gap. It adds another dimension to their complicated relationship dynamics—and who knows, it could even be a little sexy.

He never lied to her before.

Isn’t this every episode?

I know this is a really terrible thing to say, but when it was revealed that Syaon went from being chubby and insecure to a national sex symbol, my immediate thought was, “Ah, so *that’s* why she’s so fucking annoying.”