ShortCircuit

They're mellowing out again these last eps, sadly. As if the palace play before the wedding was the highlight and they couldn't be bothered with all the rest. The only truly heartfelt delivery was her brother calling Yu Jin out with the "you think I'm afraid of you" line, everything else including the Princess Royal falls flat. Yeah I know, she's a real b!tch, we know, we know, DO something instead of blabbering about it.

There are only 5 more eps. Bro needs to get wed, PR needs to die, the Emperor needs to get his head out of his behind, the NanWu people should decide to do what the hell they intend to do, the Jiang family needs reconciliation etc. There's a lot to unfold and time's wasting.

Like, seriously, MDL removed the countdown because there might be an express package today? *sigh*

TBH, the most play is between the three male leads - and I like it that way (there are no bromance waves of any kind, just a kind of very strange subtle particle motions between SDJ (ML) and HID (one of the main opponents). It feels like the writer really wanted to just write a three-male-focused story, but had to include a FL for the sake of more motivation for the ML.

Don't expect romance (a lot), but expect makjang. Myself, I like makjang and actually missed it a lot, so this hits the perfect spot. It might do it for you too :)

I think by now everybody lost hope she'll show brain activity, LOL, I called her an oneorangebraincell foil to the ML's alley tomcat ways, and sadly she doesn't get to use the braincell a lot :D

Lucky for her she's so pretty :D

She indeed is PRETTY and also DUMB, not just pretty dumb :D

It's more action than politics (so far). A lot more personal interractions than the usual political chaebol games (they aren't missing, just not the focal point.) I haven't watched Reborn Rich, though, so I can't compare them. In the beginning, it felt a bit like (a much better) The Impossible Heir (married with The Bourne Identity, LOL). Now it's turned into a game of "who else is trying to kill the ML today" and him surviving everything.

.... I think we should volunteer him for some no-return mission, maybe send him to Mars LOL. I bet he'd return alive (in even more glorious hair :D)

The FL IS indeed very pretty and they're absolutely amazing together in the first ep. Then the betrayals start, LOL. Be warned she's prone to making VERY BAD CHOICES (and she makes a lot of them LOL).

I recommend starting it and giving it at least til ep6 (because the ML is gorgeous and we all like that). Be warned there are lots (LOTS!) of cliches, but this is a makjang thriller, so they're to be expected.

Happy watching! (When Friday comes, this place will be buzzing :D)

PS You should watch this for the absolutely awesome soundtrack, too. Just check it out in the discussion topic about the OST!

We all love DongJoo (except for the incels, ignore them). The FL also loves DongJoo (she says). Heo Il-Do also loves DongJoo (VERY much, LOL).

Basically, this is pure romance. We (characters included) all love DongJoo. You could, too, give him a chance :D

Why would it be her husband's fault she wants to divorce? He married her the same way she married him - through a mutual contract, but he happens to also like her. He wants to stay married, while she's having second thoughts because she discovered she actually loves SDJ more than her idea of a revenge (that's going nowhere anyway).

Huicheol doesn't want to end the marriage and it takes two to decide, or it goes through a court. And there are penalties in the prenup and here we are.

He might be not so clean himself, but he was pretty fair to her with the marriage. It was her making the bad decision in the first place (as usual with her, it appears.)

Okay, I'm back because I'm shallow and I need to look at that windswept face of LYR again.

*looking at it*

...Okay, this goes on the PTW list. (In my defense, half of it it's because of the snow falling around them. We're being snowed in RIGHT NOW - dammit, I have to drive in it tomorrow - it's been GLORIOUS! If you don't know how good snow feels... find a northern country in the winter.)

There can be only one. He is DongJoo Macleod of the Clan Macleod, born (insert birth year)... and he cannot die.

:D

They signed a prenup. When enough money is involved, they all protect their asse(t)s. She probably got some protection against him divorcing her out of the blue, too, if her family's lawyers are worth their money.

I think the raw sleeping boat sailed some months ago. By now, if he doesn't come back to her, there won't be a "their" child to talk about and get Huicheol to divorce her. But he doesn't want to, anyway, it seems.

She wants him, he loves her (that might move to the past tense, but maybe not). They're electric together. But she - sadly - is still stupid (or at least makes very stupid choices). We're mostly rooting for him to dump her and pick another (but again... this is about True Love, among many other things, he might stay with her. Or in true makjang fashion, they might die together.)

So the jury is still out on this.

Just for Xin YunLai... What's one more drama to the list *sigh*.

What did they do to Chen DuLing, that woman is gorgeous and here she looks (in ep1) like she's totally washed out. I hope they bring her back to her real powerglow in the next eps.

I hope the concubine isn't a snake in the grass, I love her motherly antics. She should've slapped her son more often when he was a kid, it's a historical drama, she was allowed parental violence with no reproach at the time, LOL.

PS Is it just me or there's a LOT of rebirth dramas lately? (Not that I complain, it's one of my favourite tropes LOL, bring them ALL on! :D)

Thank you!

So is this going to continue (as a story) in Princess Agents? (What I'm asking, is there a resolution to the prequel - I know you haven't watched it as it's not released, but maybe there's more info on the novel or something that you might know, here's hoping - so that it wouldn't have to segue into Princess Agents?...)

The trailer looks hot, Li YunRui looks amazing, but I'm still unsure - is this a reboot? A sequel? A prequel? Do I need to watch Princess Agents before this one or not? (I haven't yet and so far am not particularly drawn to it.)

What IS it?...

She had no involvment other than lending him the money to trick Yeom into believing he was skimming the account deposits. He said he downloaded the script from her website, and obviously knows how it's used. Their backstory wasn't cleared up (maybe it won't ever be) so far.

IIRC she only took gold bars, that is probably harder to count (if it's only the Chairman who was putting it there - again, he might THINK he misremembered). Even if she took money, he wouldn't be certain what the original amount was and why/how it was spent.

But I don't think she got all that much, even if she went in it every day, she could only take what she can carry and that's a massive safe...

No, her script allowed him to see each character as GuHo was typing them. He has photographic memory, so he just logged in later and simply changed the 32-digit password (didn't even note it down LOL). So now the password to the Swiss account is only in his head... which is why Director Yeom panicked when SDJ put the gun to his own head, hahaha~

He doesn'tknow it wasn't himself who put it somewhere and forgot where, he knows he has senile dementia.

The Emperor: I'll allow this couple to marry in the palace!
Yu Jin: Now I don't want to anymore! *cute pout*

He's a little kid LOL. Also, his father is still a big piece of trash. If nothing had changed, he'd have forced him to the bitter end.