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It was so nonchalant I guffawed

I love the main leads but I also feel really invested in Jae I esp after finding out his mother's background. The actor has done a really good job from the beginning of making him seem cold and shrewd but not genuinely cruel. The scene from the past where his father kinda mocks him for being upset and saying what he overheard rather than keeping the secret to himself to use it for his advantage shows how Jae I has a softer heart and is much less calculating than his father. I really am excited for his character arc and to see what happens between father and son esp.

This would be such a hilarious trope reversal, if the 2ML falls in love with the FL -only- when she's body swapped with the ML. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN NOW

Yeah I'm really loving a ML who wears his heart on his sleeve, it's super refreshing. And how he also didn't try and stop the wedding once she told him solidly no, and even sent her some silk shoes to make her feel more beautiful and happy on her wedding day. That's love in a nutshell.

How is body swap a cliche??? You're saying almost every romance drama has a body swap, cause that's what the word cliche means. DID U NOT READ THE DESCRIPTION BEFORE WATCHING

It is literally in the description of the drama how did u not know. There have been like 4 bodyswap dramas in the last 10 years and like 300 regular joseon dramas so idk man

Wait but then the scheming concubine would also have syphilis right?

Right? There's just so many things that could go wrong with them swapped, I love it.

So there's a rule in romantic dramas that whatever man a woman is shown meeting first is the person she will end up in a love line with. So it's important that Jae I and Hae Rim met each other first AND had a meet cute moment (the classic catching the falling girl trope). They are 1000% going to end up together. There is a lot of tension between him and Eun Jo because of their secretly shared illegitimate status but it doesn't read as sexual tension or romantic tension to me.

I just can't figure out what Hae Rim has to offer him that is going to help him accomplish whatever plot he's planning or accept his status and start to use his calculating mind for good. She's kind and does seem to have an independent spirit but I just can't get a good read on her yet.

Sooo agree. The next two eps should be a jump in quality and we should really see the plot starting to move along since they spent two weeks setting up a ton of character AND since the body swap in the description is the central driving point of the plot. If the next weeks are fun and gimmicky but lack substance but I fear for the show

I'm also traumatized after moon river but this show set it up a lot better so I'll at least wait to see how it plays out.

It's an inverted love triangle trope, because it seemed at first like they were setting him up for a love triangle with Eun Jo but it after this weeks eps you see his fascination with Eun Jo is her being illegitimate like him and him needing to prove something about himself and his own identity through her. We still haven't been told exactly why 2ML doesn't want to marry the niece, there is more going on than just him not wanting to marry as secretly illegitimate. Can't quite figure out what the niece's role will be, but I hope they give her more to do.

So my read on Jae I is that his entire interest in her is that she reminds him of his own shame at also being illegitimate. I haven't gotten any actual romantic interest from him for her.

This is so true and hilarious.

I feel like they set up the swap pretty well to actually be central to the plot instead of a gimmick like in Moon River.

Eun Jo has survived by having no pride, the prince has survived by staying out of the fight. Now we have a man who refuses to let his pride be hurt living her life, and a woman who cannot stand by and watch injustice living his. They are poised to completely upend each other's status quo, probably for worse at first but for better by the end.

We also have a prince who has always been on the right side of the law and in the public eye swapped into the body of the rebel thief being hunted for suspicion of murder and a low class woman who is invisible. And a commoner with a rebellious heart but no power swapped into one of the most powerful men in the country. Imagine all of the ways they can use that to their advantage.

That scene when she refused him also made very clear that what was keeping them from exploring any sort of relationship was how impossible it is to understand what it's like to be in the other's situation. They will be able to understand each other on a deeper level than possible by living the life of the other, which will help bridge that huge divide.

So the swap will move the romance plot AND the main plot along pretty well. I get people being nervous about such an imaginative element but at least there's good groundwork for it.

Yeah I feel the same. But man shows that end up being my favorite follow a similar pattern where the first 4 eps are interesting but feel a little slow or like something just isn't quite fully clicking only for them to end up being amazing by the end and I see how important those first eps were for setting up the characters and plot. (Twinkling Watermelon and Chicago typewriter, come to mind.) So I'm hoping this is the latter, because they really have spent a lot of time on setting up the various characters and their backstories

I love the idea of this pairing, both of them are great actors, and I could see them having really good chemistry. Oh Yeon Seo esp is one of the best comedic actresses out there, period. I'm glad I didn't read the manwha first cause I can come in and just enjoy the story for what it is lol

If I watch the first couple eps of a show and decide not to continue with it it doesn't even cross my mind to go and give it a bad rating even if I think it wasn't that great, I just assume it's not my style. I only give a bad rating when I've finished a show and thought it wasn't good by the end, or got at least halfway and it just completely went off the rails.

I also don't understand people giving a show 1 star. That means it wasn't just not good it means it was literally one of the worst k dramas ever produced in the history of k dramas. IT's so dumb.

Yesss cause he comes off as so clueless but is actually quite clever, it's so funny.

Seriously perfectly cast. Cannot think of anyone else who would have the exact right look and acting style.