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A fun "drama" - some very funny moments, some amusing, very little is sad. Everything is over the top and it's perfect like that. An easy watch, a decent story and great actors.

What a fun romp! Fast paced, visually rich and great acting by FL, ML and all the supporting cast. CEW played an adult with telekenesis, with an extremely emotionally damaged childhood who tries to not be noticed (except he's particularly handsome and tall!). PEB was hyper/crazy and given a 2nd chance at life. Definitely a case of opposites attract.

Stereotypical Dr. Evil and misled followers and the guise of a religious cult. Some down and outers were given a chance to be somebody.

Even if you're not seen, doesn't mean you're a nobody!

A worrying premise, the AI boyfriend, that is all too possible in the future! It does show, eventually, that having real, unscripted, messy love is better. I thought the FL got over the pain of her earlier messier breakup with AI2, yet she still prolonged her worry about things ending, which annoyed me in the later episodes. And girls, stop listening and following your girlfriend's (often bad) advice! Some mightily handsome men in this drama - and you get Seo In Guk x 2!!

Loved Legend of the Female General - the fighting scenes (particularly with both of them) are epic. It also converted me to a Cheng Lei fan! I've re-watched this, and still love it!

Prisoner of Beauty was great too - if Legend of the Female General was a 10, its probably at 9.5 in comparison. Once again, I've re-watched it too! Some beautiful couple scenes.

I haven't watched Fated Hearts, so no advice to give.

Definitely worth watching!

This surprised me. I often get a little bored with court intrigues, battle scenes etc, but this had me riveted to the screen all the time in case I missed something important. Li Yun Rui has become a favourite actor of mine now. I wasn't keen on Meng Yi Zi before, but she has redeemed herself with this drama. Definitely re-watchable!

I loved it! Saw a lot of similarities to Brewing Love (eg. ML is a farmer with a product, FL is a selling whiz who helps the whole village, the village setting, the idiosyncrasies of the villagers, the friends of the FL who match up with people from the village, betrayal by someone they trust etc etc). BUT regardless of that, it was very enjoyable! 2ML was a bit annoying, but improved! ML is just gorgeous, of course <3

Absolutely adored the first half. Unnecessary angst in the 2nd half. Some bad decisions by FL because you shouldn't act/think on behalf of others - give them input! Thankfully a happy ending! Loved the two leads, great chemistry. And the 2nd pairing - I have confidence they worked it out, although Jun would have been well in elementary school so I hope he remembered the "pretty lady" from his kindergarten years.

I will just be happy if she learns from her mistakes!

I got up to Ep 7 and had to switch off (at least for a while). Has a FL ever made so many poor decisions that you just know are going to go bad?

Having been out of the school environment for a long time, I was pretty shocked at what they portrayed students doing. The 14 year olds who felt like they were invincible really got me angry!

Read in The Korea Times mid June 2026, that a Gyeonggi Provice education superintendent has met with the Education Minister and put forward a policy proposal to establish a similar organisation Educational Rights Protection Bureau to deal with many of the issues the series highlighted. It was proposed to not be as "hands on" as these inspectors, but will be there to support/investigate/restore classroom order through guidance and discipline (not violence). AND a policy suggestion from the Institute for Democracy proposed bringing a version of the bureau to life as well - a bureau at the Ministiry offices, regional support centres at metropolitan and provincial education offices and field support team. Theirs isn't investigative but providing protective measures, classifying cases and referring to appropriate agencies.

Insight into their lives 5 years later. Reunion, happy ending.

I thought Su-In's water hesitancy might be because the grandmother refers to her as someone who almost lost their life to water before. If she almost drowned before, a large body of water would be something to be avoided. But I agree her avoidance was also because she sensed she shouldn't go near.

From reading comments and theories.
Dam built over a cemetery
FL previously almost died in water.
The ghost lures people in to kill them.
There may be rules eg. people arrive during the day, make a wish/rebuild the cairn (which may or may not be the start of the hallucinations) and potentially touching the water, and then they can never leave.
The missing senior - they were interacting with his ghost.
The grandma may be a ghost or is "stuck" i.e. made a deal with the ghosts to get more people so that she can "live" with her daughter (who is a ghost as well).
ML hallucinated that he rescued the FL and they returned to work. She was actually already dead (fell off the boat trying to get the oar), however her spirit didn't want to die and tried to destroy the cairn.
Her warning at the end is not to trust anything you see, ever. To avoid hallucinations I have heard that if you cut off your senses (become blind/deaf to what is happening around you) you may be able to "escape" the hallucination.
ML may be dead. Or not. He's obviously still hallucinating, but dawn is breaking and the hold may become less. As he didn't follow the "rules", perhaps he has a chance to escape during the day. However he was in the water in the last scene - if that was his first foray touching the water, then maybe he's just at the start of the cycle....

I'm not a horror fan at all. I watched whilst doing something else so that I could retain some sanity! More than scary enough for me thanks. I only watched for Lee Jong Won (kudos - he was great!).

Given that Ki-tae is still there at dawn, was he dead (and we're seeing his ghost still hallucinating) or is he still alive (and still hallucinating)? According to other theories/rules - he arrived after dark (not in the daytime) and he didn't wish/put a stone on the cairn - so is he still bound by never escaping? Was entering the water enough to damn him? Obviously people have been there before eg. there were roads and pathways and the nearby highway. If he's still alive will he make it out since its turning to daytime?

She said later he needed encouragement to keep going - I took that she was concerned that, without her there with him, he might give up and therefore miss out on his potential. He was basically depressed after she left and when she sent him that ping after the results of the exam (the three taps that let him know her location) he became more motivated. But that's not giving credit to him - he had a lot of drive and sense of responsibility. More pings to him might have helped with the whole connection thing and to know they were still thinking of each other - eg ping him when she got back to Beijing to work. When she was at the wedding. When she was missing him. But she only ever did it once.

It could be a double ensemble? But yes, I noticed that!

I have to agree with FL in last few episodes. She didn't show a connection to the family and a remarkable lack of emotion, for the most part.

Wow, did the ML's family upset a god somewhere? Almost everything that could go wrong, seemed to! At the last crisis I was like.... again!?
ML carried the show for me. FL was good, but I felt she was a bit lacking in emotion and connection in the last 3-4 episodes - there were flashes , but it wasn't sustained. And she can't kiss - like there are only a few kiss scenes, she needed to try harder lol.
Regardless, loved it overall. Even though bad things happened, it overall was surprisingly a calm, easy watch.