ShortCircuit

The Chairman is 80, his oldest could be around 55-60 himself. If YES is 34, and was sent to the US when he was around 12, he could be either man's son.

I thought she went to prison while pregnant but for fraud, not adultery (do they really imprison women for that?!) and changed her name immediately after she got out. If he's the oldest's son bastard, the fact he remained a bastard wouldn't have to do with his own marriage, but more with her social status.

The Chairman's wife wasn't dead when the mistress was in charge of scholarships, and they had rows over her presence (said BeomJa). The wife would've been all over the mistress' business. And 60k over just one year - and the money to hush the adopting family - wouldn't have been easy to swindle 20-30 years back, when the conglomerate wasn't as big and rich as now.

I think that YES will be revealed to have blood ties to the family. We'll see.

What's AASOL and how did TSR compete with it?!

Thanks for the link! As long as they put it up with a good TL, I'd be in.

Any news on MoDu, though?

... I wish that guy who ~mistakenly~ put this up would find a friend at the penguin's home to do the same with Immortality T_T

That's what a drama is for, though?... :D

I mean... how could they NOT have at least some bank accounts that are not tied into the conglomerate?! A small private hidey-hole fund for fun so that they at least could rent some motel rooms and not troop over to their ex-inlaws small house?!

And now even HaeIn shouldn't have the money for treatment, unless HyunWoo pays for it himself, or he solves the problem ASAP in order for her to get to Germany again in time.

All of them being SO stupid is taking a bit of the charm of the drama for me...

But then he'd be Chairman's son, so HHI's uncle - it doesn't fly that he'd want to marry her. Unless mom never revealed dad's identity. But why would she have all that money - 24-5 years back, presumably, when he was adopted to the US, the Chairman's wife was still alive, right?

And if he's not a conglomerate bastard son... would she have passed someone else's son as Chairman's?

I don't think there's a clear explanation on how MDL actually rates the dramas while they're airing (or when they've finished airing). I've seen huge fluctuations when they mess with their algorythms (when I joined a few years back, the highest rating was 9.5 and it was Nirvana in Fire. It took a while but for some reason - not going to presume anything here - cdramas ALL started to be rated lower, even those who had always been top-rated, and then kdramas started always being rated higher, even when they were basically mindrot. So there might be preferences included in that algorythm, dunno. J-doramas never got high ratings, no matter how good they were.)

The metrics take into account (in different percentages) the ratings per episode, the ratings per verified users and un-verified users, the ratings over reviews, the ongoing-ratings (people rate the whole drama as they watch it), page views, comment numbers etc. Or AT LEAST it sure looks like it.

The final rating will evolve once people actually finish and rate the drama. So you'd know it a few months (at least) after it ends.

If you're just interested in how successful it it - dramawiki has a section over Nielsen viewership numbers, and those numbers tell you if it's well-watched in SK. For the production team and audience, those are the numbers that actually count.

I said IF. But going from a little makjang involving conglomerates that appears to have started happening, it really isn't far-fetched to presume for the time being that Yoon EunSeong's FATHER is also someone important in Queens. I mean, who the freak would have all that money to send him to school with a 60k USD tuition per year? His mom hadn't swindled her way into the Chairman's house yet at the time!

If so, it should be either the chairman - but then YES would be HHI's uncle (or half-uncle, since he has a different mother than HHI's dad) or the first son (he's old enough), and then YES would be HHI's first cousin (also half-blood, through his father).

If YES is interested in marrying HHI, it really wouldn't work if they were uncle-niece, but first cousins... who knows.

Again, IF. It might not be a twist plot, we'll see.

Anything over 8.7 is usually well-received. Between 8.8-9.2 (highest rating at this time), the dramas should be VERY well received (and they're usually successful even in SK).

Mid-tier should be 8.5-8.7, lower mid in between 8.3-8.4, so-so (low tier) are usually in between 8-8.3, flops (or as good as) are those around 7.5-8. Under 7.5 it's a cult drama, LOL, just a part of the audience actually likes it.

That's just my own perception, not an official rule.

Despite being a cretin, I do feel for SooCheol. She did him dirty, the poor bastard thought he was growing a family, loving on his son, loving on his wife, as much as his brain (and heart) allowed.

But everybody else... HOW?!! It doesn't make any sense - aren't they freaking businessmen?! Your top-tier lawyer says look twice, but you just ignore it - because SHAMANS?!!!! - and sign over your POA, including over DNR rights and stuff to someone who is NOT family?!?! How the F*CK does that make any sense?!

That was a house of cards waiting for a stronger breeze in order to fold, not a strong conglomerate. When they're run by idiots, it's just a matter or time before either they go, or it goes.

Now that everybody knows their beloved EunSeong conspired with his mom to take over, it only remains to be seen who the daddy is - the chairman (currently busy dying) or one of the sons.

My money is on the older son in exile, so that YES could still marry HaeIn if she accepted, since they'd basically just be half-blooded first cousins or something.

I have NO idea how the farc did this family actually managed that conglomerate - no, make that, how the farc did they SURVIVE from day to day, being so stupid. There should be a law that people that stupid shouldn't be in charge of anything large business or industry - imagine the world of troubles they'd cast their employees in with every bad decision... and they only make bad decisions.

It's just HaeIn who has a brain and uses it, when she's not busy either mooning over her husband in secret, or planning his demise.

No but seriously... HOW are they so stupid?!

Also, cameos, lots of cameos. LOL, was SJK's Vincenzo actually a divorce lawyer?! (haven't watched that drama, I tend to keep away from anything glamourising the mob of any kind).

PS You can tell that HyunWoo is a good guy just by the fact the worst (named) cat of the region comes to him to get their food, LOL.

Seo DoYoon, come here baby, I'll give you all the hugs!

It's driving me crazy how the OP song singer sounds so much like JongHo - many of the main cast are singers, it's probably one of them singing it, but it's seriously messing with my brain, LOL, all I hear is JH :D

And since we're on similarities - is it just me or do Kim JinKwon's eyes look exactly like Lee JongSuk's eyes (minus the tiny mole)?

Is the manhwa finished? There were a few storylines left untied, either there wasn't enough time, or that was all the artist drew... Overall, a nice tidy little story, nothing sensational, but well-acted, no strange jumps in editing, and if it used a lot of tropes - they did become tropes because people like them, LOL. So all's well.

HEA, if they go by the novel. And there's a baby, too (San Pang's, not theirs, LOL) so they get to be uncles :D

The novel is by Priest, she's a mainlander, AFAIK, and very prolific (and known) author. I wonder how they managed to buy the rights, actually, LOL. And also, TBH, a lot (if not most) danmei novels do have a HEA :D

This is based on a novel, the ending is set (unless they decide to change it, but why would they?)

And lately BL doramas have all had happy endings (at least those based on manga LOL).

Awww~, Wei Qian tickled all pink because someone came back :D

So, this episode was an illustration of that song - "All that just goes to show / That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone".

MORE!

It's been 4+ years and counting now. You don't move on :)

So Run's dad is actually Phupha's dad?! And doesn't that makes them siblings? And he already knew but let his daughter date (and in the other world, even get affianced to) his son?!

What the...

I'd like some more bonding between the MLs and less about the Agent Smiths hunting down Phupha - no, seriously, what the freak are they? Some supernatural things born out of the blue moon cascade, LOL? This is ridiculous. And Khram and Thai arriving at the scene of the accident/assassination attempt on foot right as the masked thing tried to kill Phupha is just as ridiculous.

I'll give this one more ep then decide.

BTW, the music composer isn't credited here, but the music sounds a lot like that of Tale of a Thousand Stars, doesn't it?

This feels like Reader's Digest of the actual drama. I get it that they wanted to cram all the story in just ten episodes... but surely they did remember that it needs to make sense?

It would be SO stupid to use the same trick twice (with faking that), so I guess yes, this is really what's going on, LOL (and by that I mean they're doing it again).