ShortCircuit

I HATE THAT PPL WITH A PASSION!!!! :D Bring back the (unnamed) wrist watch PPL LOL!!!

They definitely told him, he's shown processing this after. And his mother didn't make a scene when SDJ called him to the table.

There's that scene in the preview when he's shown around DaeSan too...

I'd love to see him being HID's (because he'd be brothers with TaeYun) but I still think he's YSH's and EunNam is HID's.

She doesn't take the title from Yeom in any case.

That assumes Kang knows how they were all related (outside of DeokHui being married to Yeo SunHo and maybe all of them being friends from their student days). Which is basically zero new info on what SDJ already knows now.

YSH is uncomfortable holding SeongHyeon IN FRONT OF HIS FREAKING WIFE who's taking the picture, LOL. Any cheating husband would :D The kid is too young to know any better.

I think SDJ is YSH's son and EunNam is HID's bastard bio daughter. I don't think he's HID's secret son... though TBH I'd LOVE to see him and TaeYun being actually (at least half) brothers.

But in the car it was YeonJoo's family - madam Ko and her husband, and then Mme Pi took both children in... Which leaves a door open that SDJ's bio mother is alive!!

The woman (SDJ's mom) is surnamed Chu (I don't remember the rest) and she was working at a club. It's heavily implied Yeo SunHo is the father of her son. YSH, HID, DeokHui (married to YSH), presumably Madam/Miss Chu were all there to celebrate Kang Seong's first official job or something (he's Dr. Kang's father, he's a landscape artist).

For some reason - wanna bet it's because she didn't want to stand next to Mme Chu? - DeokHui is the one taking the picture, and for some other VERY strange reason, it's YSH holding young SeongHyeon/SDJ in his arms. And the kid is familiar enough with him to ask to be held again.

And Mme Yeom ALSO knows him and recognised his picture from all those years ago, so their acquaintance wasn't something random or short. She knew him well.

I think EunNam is HID's bio daughter, and so she and SDJ have no blood relationship. He doesn't know though and now he's panicking over having had sexual relations with his half-sister (he thinks she is) for at least one year.

What the hell was that, is SeonWoo's mom related to Yeom?!!! NOOOOOO!!!!

Also, when SDJ and his island saviour I forget his name were talking on the street... did anyone else feel like that was definitely a last-word-among-friends before the character is killed, LOL? :D

OH NOES THE INFAMOUS KOPIKO!!!#@@!~~ ISTG I'll never ever try that thing even if it comes with a money gift from them just to try it. At this point that PPL is already a meme itself, what's one more trope LOL

So I was right Yeo SunHo is SDJ's father... and I bet I'll turn out right that he isn't EunNam's father too. (Because, no, seriously, incest romance is heavily frowned upon not just in SK, LOL, they'd never ever allow that twist. AFAIK, there's precisely one yaoi manga where that was allowed to go on after the reveal, and one of the brothers continued not knowing. If you want to see it - look up Minase Masara's Uso to Kiss. But you've been warned so don't come back complaining about the ending.)

OMG I am almost feeling sad for HID... so he was one of those rounded up in the student protests from not that long ago when SK wasn't a democracy yet (only about 30-some years ago, for those who still don't know) and Yeom tortured him into compliance and made a minion out of him. Could his involvment in Yeo SunHo's fate be due to him being recruited by Yeom?!

When Yeom mentioned HID being too fond OF HIS OWN SON, did that sound like a very clear threat to you? 'Cause it sure did to me. I think HID will break if Yeom keeps threatening TaeYun.

Why did all the people around SDJ keep all those secrets though?! Why didn't anybody go to the police when a random kid just showed up at their house?! I mean he's not a freaking stray cat, though I joked about him being an alley tomcat! Did they maybe try to find his parents but couldn't? But why wouldn't they at least TELL him he's not in any way related to the family that DIED around him in that car?! Because those were YeonJoo's parents, not his at all.

And if his father is certainly dead... what if his MOTHER is not?!

Dammit, another week to wait... *sigh*

LOL, she just totally destroyed his world. YEN, oh YEN... there are no words. At least this time she did it without knowing in advance. Oh well. I hope he moves away from her ASAP and maybe finds Dr. Kang around, just sayin'.

Also, could everybody please just... get another hobby other than planning (and failing) to murder DongJoo?!

ETA I keep labelling her CEN and not YEN, LOL, 'cause in my mind she's a Cha family daughter and not a Yeo hahaha~ I'll have to pay more attention in the future :D

Haven't had time to watch 10th, it seems the mystery should become clearer with this ep. I don't want to try guessing now, until I've seen it (though I had an idea, don't know if it'll turn out to be true LOL).

Except for the first episode (setting the stakes), so far, not so much.

Better yet... read the novel. Because there's a whole world of danmei out there :D

Also, whatever you do, don't miss the chibi donghua, MDZS Q :D

If you already dived in... dive deeper :D The more fun is with weekly cliffhangers and messed-up plot twists :D (and everybody going mental over what the hell is going on LOL).

The cat didn't register the first ep 'cause I was looking at his face, but LOL it makes so much sense he would be petting the oneorangebraincell :D

So, just a hint so you don't get frustrated - EunNam is prone to VERY BAD CHOICES. Like, a lot of them. So don't get mad at her for being very oneorangebraincell-y herself, hahaha~

DongJoo on the other hand is an alley tomcat - he has AT LEAST 9 lives, maybe more, and he's going to need all of them to get out of it alive :D

Another warning - expect tropes (because this is very makjang, and this genre lives on tropes.) While they're tropey, they're also addictive. AND THE MUSIC IS THE BESTEST EVER :D (there's a discussion topic above where you can find the links to the OSTs out so far, and they're worth it. We had to wait 4 weeks for Break Through, you're lucky :D)

I liked the premise and the first eps were very good. But then the NIS plotline fizzled, she became interested in him way before knowing he wasn't an underaged student and that (I'm not sorry to say it) is a very big icky factor to me, the chairwoman's plotline is becoming unhinged - what, she's always been crazy but now it's crazy all over and nobody bats an eye?! and I don't like the romance (that's on me, I didn't start watching it for the romcom and obviously that is not the same for everyone else).

So if more people are like me, no wonder it stays at the same level (the ratings didn't drop, it just stopped growing.) They were rising while things were interesting (and SKJ was pretty interesting to look at too LOL), but I guess people who came in for the action - like me - aren't romcom fans, and the romcom fans didn't get into it because there was action or something, IDK.

There's still time for the ratings to rise, though, but for me it's on the backburner and I don't really feel motivated to watch it as soon as it airs.

MDL ratings take into account episode ratings, and there are a few dedicated people who are rating them very low and have since it's beginning. I've gone through a few profiles and it's kind of obvious there's a ratings battle between this one and another still airing drama.

BUT since MDL isn't taking any measures and after all, if they want to go all battle on it, let them - the most important thing is if you're enjoying it, with all its best and worse parts.

If you want to compensate or redress the ratings a bit, you can rate the individual eps on Episode Guide, where you need to click on the Review and rate it (you don't need to actually write a review if you don't want to), and only then it'll register. Or you can leave it as it - again, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter LOL, the series seems to be at least decently successful in SK and that's all that will matter to the production team and the cast.

By ep9 it's clear he came in DaeSan with a plot and EunNam happened later (took him by surprise and diverted parts of his plan).

Everything happening after the marriage is plan correction, plan correction again, plan change, okay full-time revenge LOL. If in the beginning he wanted to take over or somehow destroy it, now it's all SDJ against the world (or most of it anyway.)

I told you, this is the best makjang thriller ever :D (way better than anything Si Jin had in store, allowing for the difference in genres, obviously). Enjoy the ride, it's going to be wild :D

I haven't seen the orange cat in that picture yet, maybe the kitty was just a prop LOL.

I never knew but I did want some of that!

This was the simplest tropey love story (and filmed vertically, which is not something I enjoy usually), but there's all the charm in the world in it. The MLs are both cute beyond words, the story is flawless (even if simple, it doesn't need twists and turns to be good), a surprisingly good production overall.

Thanks to whoever reviewed last here, because if I hadn't seen that review, I wouldn't have tried it LOL. But it was very good :D

(If anyone knows the rest of the cast, please add them here, they were ALL very good, which was double surprising LOL. I seriously never expected it).

PS Why the heck does it have a 18+ rating though?!

From now til eternity, every time Yeom takes a call he'll expect SDJ on the other side, LOL