ShortCircuit

She had left SeongHyeon with Madam Yeom for a few days and she left with some baggage AND the kid - I think she was running away from someone (very possibly HID).

People who are really scary don't need to tell you you should be afraid of them, LOL.

It doesn't take 8 years to know you love someone.

You know that goldfish scene though? In my mind it went on like -

Yeom: Bark bark bark BARK BARK bark!!!!!!
SDJ (lazily, bored): .... Meow.

Big scary Yeom didn't make an impression, this tomcat has all the alleys under his control :D

The woman is Mme Ji, Ji SeonWoo's mother (soon to be Cha SeunWoo, and her Chairman Cha's new wife).

In this ep, nothing much went on - the family tried to buy off EunNam so she stays in the marriage, and she didn't. Yeom HuiCheol got beaten up (still unsure how bad) because he offered her the divorce so all the prenup money is now lost (to Yeom JangSeom). SDJ went and made sure the split is official (they annulled the contract). He also warned Secretary Gong not to tell anyone he's SeongHyeon.
Chairman Cha brought SeonWoo into the family and basically everyone but DeokHui and TaeYun agreed. She had a crisis, I don't know TaeYun's reasons, he might've just been shocked. SeonWoo is to be introduced into DaeSan with SDJ's support in all things.
SDJ is still having nightmares about his (first) childhood accident, so he went back to Dr. Kang to get hypnotised, and he remembered everything - HID actually pushed their car off the road after a White Truck of Doom TM hit them (presumably through Yeom's fixing, since the driver of the truck gave HID a DNA report saying SeongHyeon and Yeo SunWoo are biologically related - basically claiming SDJ is YSH's son.)

I think SDJ is actually HID's son and Yeom lied to him (wouldn't be the first time), and that EunNam is YSH's daughter for real. We'll see. The preview promises more action and some new revelations. And SDJ is now mad :D

In the preview for 12th, he's opening one of those official envelopes, he might've already sent some samples to test...

I don't know where the 8 years thing started, because I think it's more or less about a year and not much longer.

What if HID killed them because he felt betrayed, after thinking SeongHyeon is his son? Maybe Mme Chu was fleeing from him!

So that would make SDJ HID's son (the DNA test would have to be fake then), EunNam would still be Yeo SunHo's daughter, and SDJ and her would have no blood link at all?....

Dr. Kang's father is Kang Seong, the gardener. He was friends in college days with Yeo SunHo and Heo Il-Do. At least THEY (Dr. Kang and SDJ) shouldn't be siblings LOL.

Sooooo....

Crazy hypothesis no. 1: What if the DNA report was faked and SDJ actually is HID's son? Yeom manipulated HID into killing his unfaithful (and leaving him) lover because he thought she had YSH's son instead?

Crazy hypothesis no. 2: What if Mme Ji is actually ex-Mme Chu and she's also SDJ's mom? By now everybody and their mad aunt could claim to be his family and I'd believe them. (ETA Which would make him SeonWoo's brother and not TaeYun's. BUT - what if he's half-brother with SeonWoo through their mother and half-brother with TaeYun through their father, LOL? :D Wouldn't that make the whole family tree a complete mess? I'm voting for this twist!!)

Serious question no. 1 Why the hell is HID looking at YSH and NOT at Mme Chu instead, if he feels betrayed?! No but seriously, is there something heavily implied, what with the photo and this look of betrayal, between them?!

Serious question no. 2: So who's side is Mme Ji on?! Why would she go to Yeom and not keep trusting SDJ? Do she and SDJ have a full battle plan that involves her making Yeom help her unwittingly? I hope so, but it'll be damned dangerous.

Aaaaaah dammit the Kopiko PPL claimed a triple hit today LOL. Also the WToDTM made another appeareance (because why not, LOL) but this time they left the finishing job to HID. And he freaking DID IT!! That was the most suprising thing in this series, LOL. He actually had the guts (or red-seeing rage) to finally complete a hit. Wow. Good on you, HID... I guess.

So they had DNA testing in '98 but now it's 2025, we don't do that anymore? :D SDJ, grow a freaking pair and take the test, for your mind's peace if for nothing else.

From tomorrow's ep preview I guess we're heading back into action, let's go, I've been missing a good rage-driven, fight-rearing SDJ :D

Well now, SDJ for nation's son...

Also, I was pretty certain HID didn't have what it takes. Guess this proves me wrong.

Now her father has an armour and doubled it with Fu YunXi, she's out of the house/family and probably won't go back, she hates (or seems to hate) FYX, and the idiot is still poisoned himself with no antidote in sight.

She's going to partner with him, probably, as she has no other option, and he'll probably still not tell her he's in full process of dying by poison. And we're well past the halfway mark, if there was an antidote (and not just a brief mention of it) it would've come into discussion by now. I don't think FYX would just lay around waiting to drop dead.

For what it's worth, that VERY long doomed-lovers-death-scene took way too long, LOL. I was not invested in the mother's first love story, the best scenes of her were when she was hysterically (pretend) evil, but now that's that. At least her death is giving HanYan more fuel for vengeance.

This might be my favourite CDL drama so far, she's showing some skill there. Still can't really emote during pain-crying scenes, IMHO, but can do a great job when she's supposed to suffer while keeping it inside. And the character is pretty smart (except when she isn't), and CDL is doing her justice.

Also, Xin YunLai, wow, he's doing also an amazing job!! I went into this drama for him, stayed for the pretty dark romance (hopefully both are alive at the end, though TBH I don't trust much that it'll be a HEA), but his character too is amazing. Two good people turning villains walk into a bar and this drama happens LOL.

I need to take a little break, there are only a few eps left and finishing all that are aired already will put me in the waiting craze :D

After 18th... I may have miscalculated - this doesn't end well, does it?

That was all of ep1, you're on 6th.

Ah, whatever.

Ever Night (fighting).
Nirvana in Fire (secret identity).
Nirvana in Fire 2 (bestest big bro in any cdrama ever.)
Blossom (rebirth).
Under the Microscope (because Zhao RuoYun and Wang Yang, together through the whole drama.)
Under the Skin (not a costume drama - but Tan JianCi is smol. You need to see this to believe how smol he is. He belongs in /r/illegallysmolcats that's how smol. )

These gems are not hidden. They're all in the open for all to see. Try them.

"Do what you do best!"
"...?!"
"...Acting, I meant ACTING!!!"
"...Oh".

...Was THAT what you were thinking of? Because that was what I was thinking of :D

edited.

You know what? Nevermind.

YeonJoo (Sister Agnes) was in the car with him. They didn't meet until he came to her family's house, so the parents in the car are not his bio parents, but the adoptive family. The kids survived and were taken in by Madam Pi.

PS The adoptive family isn't YeonJoo's bio family either, completely - her mother married Mr. Ko, but YeonJoo's father is Professor Lee (still alive but overseas right now. He's the one who SDJ thought was his actual father who rejected him, so he made himself go through business school and planned to take over DaeSan to show off to his "dad").

He was a freaking torturer in the (not so back) days before SK became a democracy, why would he change?! A leopard doesn't change his spots. I think he IS supposed to be a despicable human being. Well, kind of a human being. You can see that's what he's like from how his wife always seems gone into cuckooland everytime he's around.

The adoptive parents died in the car (the Ko family, YeonJoo's parents). SeongHyeon came to their house and they just took him in. His mother is AWOL, presumably KIA, LOL, but we're not sure yet.