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This show feels like it would have been better with less episodes and no stupid ES weird obsession plotline. It doesn't make any sense to begin with as his actions directly contradict his goal, it is like there were two characters originally (financial villain and romance villain) and to save on cast costs they mashed them together. Now he is planning on stealing her somehow from the hospital and I guess keeping her locked away forever (can't be out in public in Korea, as she is pretty famous and her romance/marriage with HW is very well known). Just dumb. He was perfectly fine as a bog standard villain after the family's wealth.

The mp3 player connection is fine, not needed, but no biggie. Him having saved her from drowning is dumb. He has known that she almost drowned and her older brother did drown. Over all of this time it is inconceivable that they wouldn't have already realized that he was her savior, unless he somehow has amnesia and doesn't remember that he saved a girl from drowning whose older brother died at the same time.

It is bad writing, in that he doesn't know what her monthly wage/allowance is, so how can he offer 3x? She may already be making the amount restaurant owner was offering (assuming he thought she was making basic purchased maid wage/allowance). We also don't know what it is, just that she is making more than everyone else.

Valuing wages over quality of life is a choice, but it isn't for everyone. Some may prefer security and stability. In her current situation she knows she isn't going to be fired and has someone (multiple people really) who will strongly defend her if harassed or assaulted. At that point in history, it is actually a really good position for her.

Restaurant guy seems decent, but his true character isn't really known by us, much less by FD. It is a big risk to go into that sort of situation, could easily find herself forced back into servitude or worse.

Fudong makes the most out of the group and you aren't putting anywhere near enough value on freeing her.

There is value in loyalty, particularly when you're involved in a growing business. You may be able to command more on the open market currently, but if you believe the business that you are at will continue to grow you can reap far greater rewards by assisting.

Further, HZ has shown that she is loyal and trustworthy. Knowing that you are valued and will be well taken care of is important. How many business owners would be ok with her abandoning the competition?

I'm pretty sure that scene is when they are going for the reading of the will. Previews clearly show that he gets the house. He is in no way owed the hotel, there is no betrayal to granny deciding to give the hotel to her granddaughter who clearly loved her without any thought of financial benefit.

He hasn't lost anything outside of granny, but up till now the show has shown him to not have familial affection for her. In fact, show was pretty blatant that he was only interacting with her to get the hotel and if she did not own it, he would pay no attention to her. MCH, so far, is the only person that he has shown any human interest in (him running down the stairs when he heard about the engagement is clearly not because granny asked him to watch out for her), and I'm sure granny noticed the change in his behavior towards MCH.

Second half will feature more of YZM, ex boyfriend storyline is over and I'm guessing that after mom tries to interfere with the hotel we will see much less of her as well, finishing the process started with mom's delusional behavior with the engagement (its like she doesn't know her daughter at all).

What spoiler? From the beginning it is clear that she lost her memory.

I'm guessing woo ri's mom is mean hospital lady, who was forced to give him up, and leave her true love, by her parents so she could marry neurosurgeon (whom I pity). Soo Ji's bio mom definitely has some memory loss, but bleh, just had to deal with this sort of nonsense in the last one.

Na Young is 100% the child of SJ's dad. The ex-husband bit is a lie they told to cover up how long they had been having an affair. I wager she knows her background and it is a driving force in her insecurity and jealousy. Her lashing out about SJ being abandoned by her mother makes sense in this context, as NY knows her parents are with her, otherwise they both have one bio parent in the family, so same level.

Show at least is moving along at a good clip. I look forward to ML not being a jerkface to Fl over things she has no control over (hospital requirements), it is getting a bit better.

He was doing his military service at the time, so probably just 1-2 years older than ML. Figure 7 years or so for the age difference, well within the rule. They seem to have set it up that she will show no interest, as she got so offended when her rival accused her of sleeping her way to the role. He will, undoubtably, take it really well and not be a bothersome pest for 15-30 episodes...

Saying "hi, I'm the new doctor" is pretty basic. Then second episode was just him being more of a jerk while accusing her of being hostile (culminating in his bs righteousness at the end), all coming from his negative view stemming from his inability to introduce himself like a normal person.

ML is a real jerk. Hopefully he gets punched in the face some more.

I think for DG and CY are at the point where they know it is pointless to talk about it. They've talked about it a lot with JA. JA heard it immediately after she "caught" them from the landlady that there was no affair and didn't care. DG & CY have no reason to believe that there is anything they could say that would get through to JA.

DG sending the kids away in that context makes perfect sense, because the two moms are going to end up yelling at each other (as they do every time they meet), and that would be awkward for the kids.

JA had made a big deal earlier to CY that only JA was the mom to EH and EA, so with her foolish pride it isn't unsurprising to me that she would want to hide the fact the SW isn't her biological child. It is amazing that she would be dumb enough to drag him to hear about what happened back then, as he probably knows his own age.

We've seen what happenned that night, and CY did nothing wrong. She had a high fever and wasn't lucid, her landlady called DG and then asked him to wait there to make sure loan sharks don't come back. In the morning, after he had fallen asleep in the kitchen, he said hi to the landlady, went into CY's room and told her to stay strong and that is when JA came in.

Nothing immoral. The really amazing, dumb thing is JA having heard directly from the landlady, at that time, about how nothing happenned and simply refusing to belive it because she wanted to leave the family, but not have it be her fault.

Seems to me that DG doesn't want the ES and SW to see CY and JA behave crummily to each other, hence sending them away.

With JA I assume she is still terribly damaged from her father's death when she was a teen. She shows it through her interactions with CY and insistence that they had an affair, and through her extreme selfishness. Hence her being so shitty to the two kids she does have. I'm sure if EA moved in it would not take JA long to start ripping her apart.

HY is a bad example of common tropes. They've just carried it on for so long. It would have been better to have her move on to EH, but still throw obstacles in ES's way out of spite. The extreme obessiveness for someone that she does not know and never had a relationship with is absurd. At least in the last one the 2FL had an actual reason to be obsessed with the ML, in this one it is just delusional. Her ending up with EH I guess only works because he is a pushover like his father.

Poor abuser. How can ypu folk support an absuive piece of trash like tm? He is a bad person, full stop.

Just habit. Think of how many times they have had similar conversations, its easy to fall back into past patterns. Unlike others here, I don't see it as a big deal also that DG didn't mention it to you CY, but JA making it into a huge deal to her husband is just more of manipulative nature.

I feel sorry for EA who is going to be just crushed when JA tells her she can't move in.

All we know know is he csme over that night with medicine, and, in retrospect, he either shouldnt have done it or left right away (this would be pre cell days, so now easy way to reach JA if she was working, did she work?). So, yeah real dumb.

That was them telling the kids stories before the bio mom truth was revealed. You cant trust any of that.

My wager is that she didn't contact him, someone in her family did, asking him to take meds over, and then DG's personality took over and he couldn't leave a sick person alone. I don't get why they couldn't try explaining to the kids, and honestly should have covered it ahead of time as of course JA would quickly reveal the affair, but it is past time for the two of them to actually talk about what happened, maybe they are burned from no one having believed them in the past, but still.

We've all been operating under the assumption that DG and CY used to be in a serious relationship pre-JA, but I find myself wondering how serious that was, and if we haven't been misled by the writer due to JA's longstanding hate of CY due to her father's death (once that was revealed it changes the impact of JA being so upset over the affair specifically because of CY). The early showing of the affair from only JA's POV already casued a lot of people to go down the wrong track. Plus the early showing of CY being so negative about ES acting it reminds of me of people being so biased against the daughter is AOME when she pretty quickly turned it around form being a brat to a pretty mature kid, but was left in many people's minds as a brat.

My prediction is that EH will ask DG/CY what happened and be willing to listen. EA will not, will move in with with JA's family and then find out that JA is a terrible person, who didn't intend to abandon her kids for 30 years, but did intend to abandon her kids for a bit, and is actively sabotaging/attacking EA's sister whom she loves, casuing EA to move back (and SW and JS to both turn against her). Essentially, JA, like HY, will have to face some repurcussions for character growth, otherwise a happy ending is impossible.

The misunderstanding was due to a legal, medical, or funeral issue. CY did nothing wrong and, instead, raised some pretty great kids. DG should have told JA why he was going there, but with JA's irrational hatred of CY i understand.

JA meanwhile is a terrible mother, entirely selfish, and really just a rotten human being. She is ashamed to introduce ES to people. What a trash bag. She left her kids, which then ended up with her having lost them. No surprise when she, a fully grown adult, still childishly blames CY for her father's death, something she was not responsible for.

JA will lose both eh and ea when they she disparages es in front of them.

Eh and HY ending up together is still bad. She is an awful person and keeps telling EH that she is awful. Guy is a cop and yet isn't concerned at all over the manipulative, stalkerish behavior of the girl he likes? He should be realizing that she is also a terrible person (it will be rough for him to finally face that his crush is crummy, just like his bio mom).