ShortCircuit

JungWoo's butler (coming VERY close to death, but not realising): I have come bringing treats!!

LOL that was cute. Also the King is cute. I love these two support charas.

Also, theory confirmed - he really DOES have heart attacks in the presence of fated pairs!!!

+ A Horse. Don't forget the horse.

That taking over the merits of Li Ni's work is precisely that modern meme - "I made this".

Well, he might have had something to do with Li Ni existing, but definitely nothing to do with his military accomplishments (that the three of them are hard at work at dismantling, too). No wonder Prime Minister Gu told them off.

I don't even care how much they took out to fit the new censorship criteria - what was left is perfection itself. Li Ni being hurt by the disrespect to his mother, Ying coming to comfort him, that binge-drinking night (I HAVE MY DOUBTS ABOUT WHAT WENT DOWN THAT NIGHT DRAMA, DO YOU HEAR ME??).

I don't want to see the other grandson die or fall in Sun Jing's hands. I hope Li Ni rescues him in time. And ex-Crown Princess sure is a strong woman - still able to admit she DID have some feelings for Sun Jing even as she's poisoning him. I hope it doesn't end tragically for her and her son. Sun Jing could fall in the water and drown like the other trash (that we don't know yet how it will die) too.

Damn.... that fake emperor and his stupid sons are REALLY stupid. Like, straw-between-their-ears stupid. Are they feeling so secure on their seats already that they're butchering thousands of soldiers for the sake of keeping their only able military leader down?! Pretty soon there won't be a throne to defend, if this goes on. I hope all three of them choke on some pies and die.

Also, this no-timer shenanigans are pretty... interesting, so to speak. The timer doesn't seem to work for his drama only, and it takes it out from the currently airing list too... *sigh*

Seriously?

World's number one pretty boy.

There is nothing else to say.

OMG those eyelashes. Yes. This is the high quality content I am here for.

So, lately, I've been thinking about how deep a blue hue can go. Maybe right up to violet? LOL.

Timeline (so far)

1. Dad is a cop in Seoul, whole family (mom and the two brothers) are with him, lots of DV, he's a cop so nobody interferes.

2. KiHo is caught getting money for the three of them to run away from dad, dad tries to hit him and hits WooHak instead, putting him in hospital and causing his amnesia.

3. Something huge happens (there are bodies in the water, not enough info yet) and only KiHo is with dad, who takes him to Chunsam Island where he gets a new police job.

4. KiHo tries running away again, finds out MokHa is also abused by her dad, tries to help her, she goes missing. KiHo eventually turns proof of dad's abuse and causes him to lose his job, then he runs away successfully back to Seoul.

5. He finds mom and bro again, and they are all now living under false identities (maybe those of the people in the water?) trying hard not to allow dad to find them.

6. MokHa is found and here we are.

Haha, it's spread throughout the first episode though. It opens the drama, then goes on from around min 20, then 25th on... it's MASSIVE. Totally worth it though.

The first one is one of the best dramas I've ever watched, but the second one has the best war-scale fight scenes ever.

Yeah, well, did you notice what excellent liars both their characters are?....

It doesn't seem that complicated yet - but then they have a story to tell in 16 long eps, so they string it out. There's only so much romance you can put in before the story becomes too repetitive.

I haven't had a chance to watch the latest ep, so maybe more info was shown in this one. I am not sure which girl you mean appeared after 8 years - do you mean the little girl or her mother? They weren't hidden - they were always there.

The ML's brother visited because they're in the faction that would have to be hurt when the Defense Minister either falls or is found guilty. They're somehow related, I don't remember clearly but I think the brother is married into the DM's family or something. So he comes to put in a word for his relative so that the whole clan doesn't suffer.

One of the best fight/siege ever filmed is the opening scene of Nirvana in Fire 2, IMHO. I always think it's movie-grade and keep recommending it. It must've cost a fortune.

And then they went and had another cavalry charge later in the drama that almost reached the level of the first scene, LOL.

...I love that drama series.

Horses. Think of the horses. Cute horses. No tear-inducing sweetest love at all.

(But seriously, he did improve his game - from grass rats to things he most cherishes. He's learning).

I hope she does!! Li Ni will need some women with their wits about them in the future - if he wants to escape the burden of becoming emperor, LOL.

I SO HOPE they don't kill the other kid!!!!! I know there HAS to be a lot of drama next, but I want that kid to survive so that they go off and have their elopement in Wonderland and then go to Laolan Pass together - he wasn't joking when he said he wanted to elope with her.

And now the city is taken - does that make stupid dad the emperor? He's one of the surviving (if not only surviving) sons of the assassinated emperor, the two older sons of his won't let Li Ni get the other grandson as a Crown Heir, and even if Li Ni gives them the empire on a platter, they won't be grateful.

I say we packed them all a nice load of poisonous rouge, shall we?

I try hard no to watch any trailers for future eps, cause I can't wait... but dammit. After Thursday we'll have a long drought...

ETA The trash will really go to the enemies that killed Cui Lin's mom, won't he? And then come back, maybe leading a horde of them against his own country? I mean, traitor once, traitor forever....

I kind of expected the ex-Crown Princess to do that, poor woman, And another major support chara gone. I wanted her in for longer - her son is going to need all the help. Maybe she'll survive *keeping fingers crossed*

Awesome proposal!!! If she won't have you, Li Ni, here, take me!! Take me instead! :D

All the extras fighting it out were probably either real soldiers or firefighters, LOL, having the time of their lives on set :D

PS This must be the best filmed (cinematography, scenery, scene sets, music, etc) drama of this year, with very small problems in some green screen scenes (very few). Those colours and sets are just amazing!!

Usually I'd watch both eps in one go then comment, but I can't with this one - OMG this was so cute, sooooo cuuuuute!!!!

His EXPRESSIONS - if I didn't know any better, I'd bet he really IS Li Ni and totally, head over heels, love-larger-than-mountains epic love story like in love with her. I'm falling for Xu Kai's eyes. OMG.

This episode it pure love.

And like, ten seconds ago, Cui Lin/He Ying was like - "I'm gonna get my daddy to come and beat you bloody, see if I don't!"
And now she's like: "Kids, when a dark horse and a white horse love each other very, very much..."

LOL. Still swooning though. And the music- perfect fit!

PS A'Shu, where did you pick up that trash?! PUT IT RIGHT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT!

1. Heirs. He is the only heir to the kingdom, and the King is not getting younger (or having more MATURE sons if he passes suddenly.) They need to get the heir married so there's an alliance behind him when he inherits (supposedly the wife's family/clan) and he gets to hold on to power (and not die either).

2. There is a faction actively going against the King on this, and they made JungWoo find a way to block any talk of royal marriage. Being the frustrated virgin he is, JungWoo discovered the low rates of marriage (therefore lots of spinsters) in the kingdom and linked it to the drought. So - unmarried women are guilty for bringing in the drought and YET if they marry, who knows what other disasters they'll bring about? Definitely not the auspicious time to marry the heir! LOL.

So when the King finds out who started the whole idea, he plays a punishment game with his unlucky son in law, LOL, and makes him undo what he did by marrying off three unwed older sistes of some noble standing. So now the daughters of the old and faithful royal tutor are the "lucky" spinsters that need to be wed so that everyone sees there's no problem and the HEIR can then get wed too :D

3. The MIL and FIL are part of the faction opposing the King. They don't want to have the heir inherit OR marry and in fact have already picked the successor to the kingdom. So they're basically going to go all out to kill the heir or destroy his marriage, if it ever comes.

4. The minister of defense is MIL's brother, he's part of the same faction. He used to lend grain in times of need and get very high interest, and when the debtors couldn't pay he'd take their young daughters in his house. He's a freaking lecher. And he did so without paying the treasure owed taxes, the idiot, so now he's paying it all out of pocket and he can't even charge interest any more. Serves him right!

5. The MIL had that DIL killed off (maybe) and even got a merit recognition from the royal administration for it. And he's now kind of obsessed with it, seemingly.

TBH... I kind of think the DIL didn't die, but is the actual Lady YeongJu, the one who's identity the FL is borrowing. They (the FL and her husband) had found her heavily pregnant and almost dead on a river bank, and she went and had the little girl later on. I am PRETTY sure her identity could very well be that of the former DIL of the house....

But we'll see.

His dad might've been under the impression that he HAD killed mom and WooHak.... I mean, there are bodies in that water.

And so he took KiHo to the island after he killed those people.

It's BoGeol. WooHak was trying to protect him from Crazy Dad and got hit in the head then lost his memories. BoGeol is the one telling him what went down - he is/was KiHo.