ShortCircuit

If they make a sequel it won't be another makjang but maybe a psychological drama or something, where he revisits all his problems and heals. With Dr. Kang's help :D

6/10 eps in, we've had more fillers than the main OTP scenes. Those who started it will probably continue but this is not what it should've been already.

It's too soon but I don't think there would be another season. This one ends as it should even if some people don't like it. After all not all dramas are for everyone, some like them, some do not.

Wait, what were you asking before - if they end up together, no they do not (YAY!!), if he still has the money (YES! :D), whose son he is and if they're siblings, you already learned that - HID's and no they're not.

Let's make a league to get SDJ in Dr. Kang's orbit. He has mental health issues by now for being close to the Chas for so many years.

And hey! He's now best frenemies with Yeom HuiCheol! I mean, they should make a club of YEN's ex-lovers/husbands.

He's really a psychopath, LOL, when his father was having his gastritis attack he did carry him but had to be told to do so, he kept playing on the phone looking on the scene totally uninterested until his mother made him play along.

And yes, he didn't intervene between his mother and DeokHui, but I think he started planning already, or maybe he was already planning by then, looking for the opportunity.

The complete lack of respect he showed Chairman Cha, keeping up with the "harabeoji" joking manner of calling him even when he was recognised and included in the registry was another tell. Only when he realised how much money he would get did he start talking to him respectfully.

Psychopaths are good at leading normal lives, people don't really recognise the traits until they do something really atrocious and get found. We'll see if there's enough steam for a sequel where he'd get some punishment, but I think not. The suggestion is there, that SDJ has some proof he did it, but we won't ever see it.

Anyway, beautiful makjang and the best of all, the love line died :D After what she pulled in the first ep, she never redeemed herself, and with the thumbs-up for thinking he killed Yeom, she never learned better,

I vote for SDJ with Dr. Kang.

No LOL. And they won't. He seems totally done with anything Cha and for good reason.

She was killing him herself anyway. He wanted to study music, she pushed him into business and he didn't really fit in. And when he cried out to her about escaping, she basically blackmailed him with her life's purpose to stay there and take it. So he was going to probably waste his life in a world not of his own choice and I seriously think him being on that rooftop so many times ON the ledge, not on the safe side, points to some suicidal ideations already. But SeonWoo did him the "favour" so maybe there might be a chance for some sequel - I don't think it will come though - who knows...

The rule of thumb for kdramas is no gunshot, no death.

You know what... you're right. The way he was struggling in business when he wanted to study music, the way his mother was strangling him and basically chained him to his pointless life, having to live it for her instead of his own... I guess SeonWoo did him a favour. But he did it the Cha way, unexpectedly with a stab in the back, as they all did from that family.

I think the idea was that he was the weakest Cha. Everybody else is A-OK with murder for any which reason (DeokHui got her own husband and SDJ's mom killed, Chairman Cha got HID killed and tried to have SDJ killed too, SeonWoo pushed TaeYun, the useless daughter tried a lot of things that didn't work, even YEN poisoned SDJ accidentally LOL). So when TaeYun was so friendly and innocent, it naturally led to him being eliminated by the snake nest of his family.

SeonWoo was a "reformed" delinquent. I guess the reform didn't take all that well.

I KNEW SeonWoo WASN'T joking when he pushed him the first time. But maybe it took a bit of time to get enough courage to actually do it - which makes it in cold blood, which makes HIM a cold-blooded killer, exactly like Chairman Cha deserves.

I won't say I care if he executes the rest of the family - good riddance to them too.

I'm just happy SDJ didn't take the last step. Even if it cost him his mental health, even if that last scene is left to interpretation, I don't think he'll kill himself. I think he has all that money and will probably go do some work in his sister's name or something. And best of all, even if he kissed her at the end - it was definitely a kiss goodbye, not a passion-inspired kiss. That closed the door on that romance and if YEN can't see it, she's just as stupid as we've always seen her.

And hey, if SDJ has depression and even got to have nightmares and hallucinations... We all also know a certain Dr. Kang who also happens to be a psychiatrist. He should give it a try. Just saying.

This was a great ride - as I've repeatedly said, I do love good makjang and this was perfect. I wish they'd have left HID a little bit more time to try and get forgiven, but at least he came back for a few minutes. And the way SDJ handled Yeom was also good - even if he's not dead, everything he had is gone and he went from one prison to another. I wonder how he managed not to go crazy in a tiny SECRET secret room, LOL, nothing to do all day but fold paper money into planes. Ugh. Then again, he managed to get a bit of revenge in poisoning SeonWoo's mind.

Though I don't think it took a great effort - in the very beginning, SeonWoo was presented as an ex-delinquent, so the criminal mindset was always there. Enough crumbs were planted for everyone to get their own preferred ending - like for example, I choose to believe when, if ever, SDJ comes back he has pretty good circumstantial evidence that SeonWoo and TaeYun were together at the time TaeYun "fell"/was pushed. So sooner or later, SeonWoo will also get his punishment.

Overall - good-looking leads, great emotional conflicts, enough action, AMAZING music, great entertainment. It had it all.

... Now I guess it'll be some time before another great makjang comes along... I'll be having withdrawal symptoms LOL.

ETA Oh wait I just remembered - the MAIN reason he did the go-away-looking-at-the-sunset-with-a-gun thing was probably YEN's complete and total approval for him having killed Yeom (he did not, she didn't know, but still). She was all over him, "good job!" - WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F!CK WOMAN!! At least PRETEND to be disappointed or say something like he didn't have another option, don't just go "great thing you're a heartless killer, that's what I love about you!!" THE HELL!!!

No seriously, every Cha family member has murder in their blood. Maybe it's a good thing TaeYun fell. At least we could think of him as being the normal one.

I liked the ending. It's perfect for the way it took toward the end. And TBH I liked SeonWoo the most in the last ep, LOL, a snake's son remains a snake. Chairman Cha got exactly what he deserved, even if he won't remember it the next second. Good riddance!

And hey, some charas even got HEAs - I mean, Yeom HuiCheol didn't remain married to YEN so he had a very lucky escape LOL.

Haven't had time to watch the last ep yet because work - but the BGM OST is out and it's still just as amazing as it was from the very beginning :) This goes on the replay list.

I don't know who did the hairstyling and why they chose to do it like that, but his hair looks like a turnip head and I can't even get in the first ep because of that. He's a good-looking guy, what is the new trend, have them look like they're the OG gardener or something? sigh

I'll be honest, this is quite a letdown. We're 60% in, almost nothing is moving in the BL section, while the hetero romance takes most of the screen time. I thought things were going in the right direction with ep5 but they just reverted to the very little BL and way too much het of the previous eps.

I feel bait-and-switched with every set of weekly eps. We're a good bit past the halfway point, I don't think this will have a satisfactory conclusion even if they end up together. With this pace it ends with a half-hearted confession or cheek kiss and that's it. I guess if I need to see what the story is all about I should actually only be reading the manhwa.

...No?

... No. They planned to meet Chairman Cha at SDJ's house, at Chairman Cha's request. But instead of Chairman Cha, the killer came. I mean, it's not that complicated, seriously.

LOL, okay, let's try again. It's not the relationship that is fake. Yeom told Cha that the REVEAL is fake and that they did not just realised they were father and son, but had always known (or for a very long time, anyway), so that HID marrying DeokHui and then later SDJ coming to work for Chairman Cha was all part of a grand plan of theirs.

Sorry, I can't simplify it even more. I hope this is clear enough for you now.

Yeom told Chairman Cha that SDJ is HID's son. Then he added that the reveal of the relationship is fake, that they both planned to enter DaeSan and steal if from the Cha family from the very beginning, that if SDJ gets a foot inside the conglomerate, he and HID will never allow SeonWoo to get the power.

So Chairman Cha and Yeom had a nice little side talk, then when SDJ came to tell Chairman Cha of the fact he just learned HID was his father, Chairman Cha decided to "hear him out" and set up a meeting between the three of them at SDJ's house. There they went unsuspecting and waited for him, while the killer was closing in. They trusted him to play fair and at least listen to them before making any decisions, so that they both drank (and that seriously impaired any meager fighting skills they might have had.) BOTH were supposed to die that night, if HID didn't take a very high risk and died for it.

The main thing though is - Chairman Cha IMMEDIATELY made the decision. He never intended to listen to their side of the story, he and Yeom sent the killer to the place where the victims were waiting.

Again, that's not rational. Not for who these two people are (especially HID, his son-in-law). I first thought it was because the dementia made him unreasonable so it was mostly an impulse, but all the days AFTER he was highly functioning, almost as if he never had the dementia at all. The killing made him more aware, eugh.