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“ The actress, Kim Hye Yoon, is my honorary, imaginary daughter. lol.”
Good choice. Turns out in real life she’s a force to be reckoned with. She scored a scholarship to study at Konkuk University and chose to study whilst picking up minor roles in drama. It was only when she graduated that she started with bigger roles like in Sky Castle. It’s no mean feat to get a scholarship in Asian countries, competition is fierce. So she’s got brains to match that talent of hers. 😍.
I had to laugh at DO’s dismay when her “bf” HR was clueless about the fine art of “Insta” worthy pics 😂. As she scrolled through HR’s attempts to take pics of her and sulked, I had a Dejavu moment myself. 😂
Daughter- can you take a picture of me?
Me – okay.
Daughter – make me look tall okay?
Me (nodding, I snap 2 pics for good measure, hey I live in the days of the film camera and 2 was pretty good then, plus I took her words rather literally 😂)
Daughter – are you done? (grabs her phone off me and scrolls through the pics)
Daughter (wailing) – how many did you take?
Me – err…2?
Daughter (exasperated) – when I say take a pic it means you take…like…zillions…use the burst function…and you made me look short…you have to angle the camera this way (showing me) so my legs look longer?
Me – okay.
Then we have take 2 or 3 or maybe even 10 of her in various poses as I unsuccessfully attempt to make her look good. 🙄. I think I have a strike rate of 1/1000000 when it comes to photos I’ve taken that she is happy with. 😂
Poor Fairy, he went from King to cook… When the mean younger “bro” is still a rich boy :p
I really like the past story. It’s fun to have two stories in one until they meet. Haru was aware and already could change the Stage. He kept his “power” in Secret.
The trio Dohwa-Danoh-Haru is the best! I need more scenes with them.
Hmm… some reveals about TF relationships. I see some similarities between Secret and TF but I have yet to work out a plausible cohesive link (probably also because I am not sure about which is stage and shadow in TF scenes and also because we’re getting snippets here and there)
So in TF,
The incumbent King is ill. Squid is the Crown Prince. NJ’s mother is DaeBi (Squid’s mother). BK is Grand Prince (DaeGun) and his mother was poisoned by DaeBi (?). BK wants the throne. HR is his bodyguard/assassin (he kills at BK’s command).
2 major royal officials who seem to be in a power struggle (much like the conglomerate dealings in Secret). DO’s father is official 1…he has a bunch of other loyalists (one of whom is killed by HR for refusing to swap allegiances). BK’s father in Secret is the other official (2) at loggerheads with DO’s father. He seems to be BK’s main advisor. BK’s brother is this advisor’s son. Official 2 tells BK that he needs to ascend to power by finding Official 1’s weakness. And that’s DO. BK tells HR to follow DO to find out more about her but of course HR falls in love with her. HR seems to be the only one aware in TF. BK gets HR to set up a meeting with DO and make her fall for him (BK). He seems to change the scene in TF deliberately as well but as per Secret. NJ’s mother DaeBi is insistent that Squid take his rightful place (like what she’s doing to NJ now) in the Empire. Squid seems reluctant (just like NJ)…probably because there’s a commoner he likes (the new girl), just like NJ hesitates because he likes JooDa.
I think this is where it gets confusing…because some characters in Secret and TF play similar roles (same faces), but others like Squid is playing NJ’s part… and whilst there are similarities in the plot line, the changing variables in characters and the stage/shadow set up is making it even harder to make sense of it all.
In this episode, NJ looks to have boarded a plane (as per his mother’s wishes) and left the Secret Universe. JD and DH seem to be together now. HR/DO seem to be playing repeat scenes from TF except HR has stepped into BK’s place. In TF at least on stage, it looks like DO fell in love with BK and HR was the one forced to watch from a distance. In Secret, DO has fallen in love with HR and BK is the one forced to watch from a distance. Maybe that’s why he’s so jealous and keeps saying DO belongs to him. She did. All those lines she’s spouting to HR were originally meant for him in TF. Having said that, it appears in TF that he was merely using her to gain her father’s favour (and the favour of the other loyalists) to gain power (similar to what is playing out here in Secret). What is less clear is whether in the shadows, if he is in fact really quite affectionate to DO (in his rather weird dysfunctional way). And of course if DO is the same in the shadow with HR in TF as she is now in Secret.
Gah I need to go away and have a think. There was the hint about HR’s beginning. He said DO was “his beginning”. And that they had their beginnings from way back (TF?) and how she “found nameless HR” in Secret. So I guess @Barbrey’s and my theory about DO willing him to existence was correct? 😂
Hahaha. @nrllee. I feel you.
I still don’t get the “burst” function and I don’t know how to angle camera to make legs — and neck — longer. But you should be thankful that your daughter asks YOU to take her pictures. She’s still at that innocent age, I see.
I used to get annoyed (but now I just smile) when girls would stop my SONS and trouble my SONS to take a picture of them. I would be standing right there with a son of mine, and the girls would head straight for my son and ask HIM for help. Like, what am I? Chopped liver?
Anyway…
my boys are used to it, and they know that (hahaha, unlike YOU) they’re expected to take a lot of shots. They’d tell the girls to just keep on posing and they’d take multiple shots. Then, the girls being girls, they’d do silly poses, and hugs and kissy faces — just like DanOh did in Episode 9. lol. My son(s) would hand the phone back and the girls would strike up a conversation.
And that’s how girls approach guys nowadays. 🙂
Daughter dear is not that innocent 😂..she prefers her friends taking the pics but when there’s no one else around…well, I’ll just have to do.
Ep 11. The teacher in class talked about Alphonse Daudet’s short story The Stars
http://www.saigonline.com/truc_huy/stars_daudet.htm
It’s beautiful. Pathetic restraint. And it fits well with the HR and DO story… there’s the ever present water motif (does DO drown?)… he a poor shepherd, she the mistress. He from up above (mountains), she from the plains below. She visits him, he explains the stars… there’s talk about stars marrying. He with noble thoughts only despite spending the night together. They share a moment away from the madding crowds. Shooting stars are spoken of as souls who enter Paradise… is that to be DO?
It just seems so foreboding. 😬. I cannot help but feel that whilst DO is talking about changing her fate, she is only thinking temporal…her heart condition. But when HR talks about changing her fate, he’s talking meta…beyond her finite condition now. So if we go meta and see HR as a messianic figure, then he’s talking about eternity whilst DO is just talking about fixing her present situation. She’s talking about cheating death (which will inevitably still come in the end), he’s talking about defeating death so their love will last forever?
The other interesting point I picked out was the 300yo tree…DO said (during that very existential conversation she had with HR on the rooftop) that the writer put it there in the comic. Why would the writer put it there? If not for them to find it? I am still trying to work out where the screenwriter will take the whole reincarnation trope… and if the tree of life is what is hinted at with the 300yo tree.
I am equally confused at which is stage and shadow in TF.
Trying to wrap my head around what DO says in TF…because it is what she says on stage (initially) in Secret. Remember the part about getting married anytime, it was in the TF comic page and then she says in Secret stage to BK. Then in Episode 11, what she says in TF become what she says in Secret’s shadow…to Haru, not BK like in the TF. So BK was looking at the saved TF comic page while she was saying it to Haru in the starry light room, shocked. Note the difference? She is no longer saying it to BK but to HR. DO is repeating her lines, BUT in shadow.
No one seems to be looking at the Secret book, is the stage the same? Or has shadow become stage or part of the Secret comic? (Which is not likely since there is still clearly the “click click” scenes) This stage and shadow thing is acting like scribbles in my head! Hubby’s theory is that stage and shadow is written by the writer…I cannot go there…I can’t reason it.
Anyway, I’m thinking is this the change that is happening? Because if it is I feel like there is hope for a satisfactory ending, that there won’t be a tragedy like in today’s episode 12 giving me glimpses of DO’s tragic ending in TF. (I have yet to watch it!) :O
In TF, I think all the first scenes are Stages because any character isn’t aware. Then, Haru becomes aware and there are Shadow scenes.
The end of the last episode was sad 🙁 The writer is really mean with Danoh!
@grace
Yes I noticed that too. What was happening in TF stage (BK/DO) was happening in Secret shadow (HR/DO). Because we are only seeing TF play out in HR’s dreams, it’s disjointed and only from his perspective. We see him becoming aware and changing the scene in TF…but again it only delays the scene playing out in the stage as writer puts the scene on the streets instead of the original teahouse.
The writer isn’t as “cruel” and sadistic as they have made him out to be. There are glimpses of little “mercies”. The conversation at the roof top between DO and HR paints a very different side of the writer. The fact that he has provided a 300yo tree in their Universe for them to make a promise. The fact that he provided them with the antique shop setting on their “date” with objects pointing to HR. Perhaps this drama is more in line with the whole reincarnation story. Where characters are meant to increasingly “grow” and attain that state of nirvana as they move from comic to comic. They are meant to break out of that cycle when free of fetters of everyday life. So instead of the writer being “cruel”, he’s actually doing DO and HR a favour by forcing them to love “better” with each comic instalment until they finally break free and attain “nirvana”. So far that’s the difference I am seeing in the DO of TF (who doesn’t seem to be ill?) and the DO of Secret (who is ill). She’s had to give up focusing on herself and her wellbeing and think about another (HR) as evidenced by the many times she’s tried to hide her pain from him and waving it off. She’s accepted her impending death and has refocused her energies on spending the remainder of her life with HR.
Brava, @nrllee! I love your interpretation of the whole reincarnation and attaining perfection through repetitive cycles.
I can live with that interpretation.
After Episode 9, I felt that the real identity of the writer was irrelevant to the story anyway. He/she could be as capricious as he/she wanted. The writer shouldn’t matter because the couple is determined to go ahead with their plans.
Ep12 thoughts
KHY should definitely have played GD in Flower Crew… she’s clumsy and not ladylike at all in TF 😂. Just delightful 😍.
She’s in love with HR as well in the shadow. She’s become aware.
It looks like HR kills DO? On the stage in TF? Not sure why though? Because her father was accused of treason? Because she was accused of flirting with another man as she was the Prince’s woman? It looked like HR was commanded to do so by BK? And he tried in vain to stop his sword piercing DO hence the wound on his hand as he grabbed the blade?
It looks like HR changed the stage again in Secret. Interesting development because he can
change the stage even when in the stage himself. He was manning the lighting and sound desk and by sheer force of will pulled the plug on the lights at the crucial moment thereby changing the proposal scene from BK/DO to another couple instead. Although I am not sure if he’s only just delayed it playing out (the proposal scene). DO’s started to see the storyboard again. She’s scheduled for heart surgery. She sees herself dying on the operating table at the end of the episode.
The only flaw in my argument about reincarnation/nirvana is that my understanding of nirvana is when you detach yourself from ALL encumbrances in this life and that includes love/suffering etc (like monks and asceticism)? It’s almost an emptying of sorts so it doesn’t exactly fit with nirvana? 🤔
Who cares if doesn’t *exactly* fit the concept of nirvana? 🙂 I don’t.
The theories/metaphors/parallelism don’t have to exactly correspond because the drama isn’t a theology class. But the concept of repeating something until the person finds enlightenment or “nirvana” works with the concept that our characters have to find an answer. That’s THEIR enlightenment: discovering the meaning of their lives. And the meaning of their life is love.
Or to be specific: DanOh is the meaning of love for Haru, and Haru is the meaning of love for DanOh.
And once they get it, they get it. They’ll have broken through. They’ll have escaped out of the infinite loop of the manhwa. They can skip, manipulate, time-travel, transcend, bypass, whatever, the writer writes for them in the future. That’s the point of nirvana, right? The sufferings of this earth (or in case, their manhwa) shouldn’t affect them much. Even the disappearance and death of each other.
Here’s one of my favorite poems. Rabindranath Tagore’s “Unending Love.” It’s about loving somebody outside of time and space. Nirvana is beyond time and space as well.
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
🙂👍
I’m thinking of Squid’s comment that Dan Oh and Haru are not meant to end well. I memtioned a few threads ago that the episode reminded me of Romeo and Juliet, and then Pkm3 showed a screenshot with the title Romeo? on the spine. The other western canon romance was Pride and Prejudice. One is a satirical Tragedy, the other a satirical Comedy.
Secret is meant to be a rom com (a happy ending for the main leads) but Trumpet Flower was likely meant to be a tragedy (sad ending for the leads).
That means that the driving force in the Shadow is not toward a happy ending but towards an even bigger tragedy than what Dan Oh might have experienced as a terminally ill extra.
Off to see the latest episode. Hope there are some clarifications because we should have some by now if there is to be any cohesion to the ending.
Just watched ep. 12. I think I’m right.
If you think about it, it never made sense that the teenage rom com that is Secret would have a supporting character with a terminal illness … unless she was supposed to get better and live happily ever after with a redeemed Kyung.
@nrlee, We talked about the Trees of Life, and of Knowledge. What happens when Adam and Eve disobey and become self-aware? After eating of the Tree of Knowledge? They also become mortal. They can die.
I was wrong that the book Secret was the Tree of Knowledge. That’s Trumpet Flower. The book Secret is the Tree of Life, a second chance for Dan Oh to live, and Kyung to redeem himself, and a happily ever after.
So the final conundrum for Dan Oh is: does she continue to love Haru in the Shadow and drive the Stage plot toward tragedy, likely for all of them? Or, in order to live, and for others to live, does she give up Haru and continue with the comedy plot.
(I use tragedy and comedy here in the old sense, dependent on a sad or happy ending).
I think this is why both Squid and younger brother are warning against changing things. 🙁
Honestly, my best ending? We discover that there are two writers, male and female, illustrator/writer, bickering their way to a conclusion. This would be the perfect script for three alternate endings, one a tragedy, the other comedy, but in the end it’s just a normal married couple, Haru and Dan Oh, and their cranky editor Kyung, trying to finish their book.
@Barbrey
I am leaning to the reincarnation model more because of the cyclical nature of the comics…everything is recycled, the characters are recycled, they have memories of a past life, they are working to a “stage exit” of sorts – to escape “fate/the writer”. Like nirvana – breaking free of the cycle of life. And with each iteration they get “better” at it. Kyung in my mind has the most character growth from TF to Secret. So I feel like if there was to be a “most improved” medal, he’d be on the top of my list. HR’s character barely moved from TF to Secret (maybe he doesn’t kill people now so I guess he gets brownie points for that)? 😂
I like that ending of yours. 😂. I would settle for it.
I like that ending too. 😂
Yes, the Tree of Life is a good idea too. I haven’t really thought about the significance of that tree. Have to start on Ep 10 today.
Yes. The title on the spine of the book read:
Romeo? And? Juliet
There were two question marks so I thought these meant:
A. Identity of DanOh’s true love
iswas unknown. But she made up her mind now that it’s Haru all along.B. Whether they’ll end up together is unknown. Thus, the “And?” with the question mark.
I’d agree with those two points. The impression I have is a lone Romeo left behind and blasting through time, space, fiction, pages to find Juliet.
I had a horrible thought about the scar on his hand. We’ve seen from the last episode Dan Oh loved Haru in Trumpet Flower but was forced by the Stage to pretend love for Kyung, just as in Secret.
So what if Haru and Kyung have a sword fight at the TF book’s conclusion, and just as Haru is about to kill Kyung, Dan Oh throws herself between to save Kyung – her love as per the dictates of Show. Startled Haru thrusts his other hand up to help stop the blade but he’s too late, and his sword kills Dan Oh.
Can you imagine his own remorse but also how bitter he would feel against the writer?
Yes @Barbrey. Him killing DO was not deliberate and he grabbed the sword with his left hand to stop it but it was too late. But the scene doesn’t look like a sword fight. It starts off with guards surrounding figures kneeling? DO’s father is supposed to take BK’s side in his desire for power. It could well be that he refused? And BK decides to kill him? HR does the killing for him so as he steps forward to kill DO’s father, DO steps in and dies in his stead.
So I think what’s happened is that just as in Secret, DO and HR fall in love in TF. As they attempt to change the stage, the wedding between Kyung and DO is called off (just like the most recent stage scene in Secret with the proposal). The marriage alliance falls flat. Kyung no longer has the allegiance of DO’s father so he chooses to kill him just like he did the other official who refused to take his side. This chain of events therefore leads to DO sacrificing herself to save her father. Had the wedding moved forward, this tragic end would not have eventuated..
Carrying on from the comment above.
So the writer’s original intent in TF was for DO to live – but as BK’s wife/queen. The fact that DO and HR changed it so that she was no longer BK’s resulted in her death. In Secret, whilst she has a heart problem (which I thought was terminal but now that surgery is mentioned I think it means it wasn’t), I think the intent was for her to live…but again as BK’s wife so the alliance between the fathers goes through as planned. DO’s wish was always to just live, she didn’t want to die. But what complicated things was that HR happened. Now she not only wants to live but to live with HR. BK is the one to “save” her (like they keep saying). I don’t know how this will pan out in the Secret world…how is HR going to “kill” DO? Unless it’s something like he has no means to transport her in time to hospital after an attack whereas BK did? 🤔
As for JMC (Squid). He acts as the writer’s agent in every comic he/she writes. He’s always the one who is aware. This means he can remember things happening in the shadow and stage (of everyone he meets). He’s there to ensure everyone toes the line. That’s why when things started to move away from the original plot into dangerous territory, the writer gifted him with TF to read, so he performs his policing task with more urgency. I am wondering if the dreams/previews were the writer’s way (cryptic much 😂) to rein them back in line?
Another thing that just occurred to me: Haru might be different from all the other characters because he wasn’t just inspired by but actually stolen from another book. The writer never invented him.
@nrllee that makes sense!
This is the scene prior. I managed to get a screen shot
https://i.ibb.co/9wJpQMp/29-F9-AE4-E-B014-4-DBD-8158-4-A7938-AAFA3-E.jpg
Scrap that last pic… Someone from the other forum pointed this as the alternative set up…she got a better screen shot. Hers makes sense.
https://serving.photos.photobox.com/48967862c34421c3d301016af9a5a0f0c7ed0e9fc991a7e78df57b390bd5c4aa97d27f28.jpg
If the second pic is right, then it looks like BK’s blade that kills DO. HR couldn’t stop it. Not sure how it played out… was BK intending to kill HR for trying to leave? And DO stepped in? I can’t imagine BK wanting good kill DO?
I like my idea better, that Dan Oh was compelled by Stage to throw herself on Haru’s sword to save Kyung. For me both ironic and tragic.
@Barbrey 😂 the knives would come out for the writer with that ending. But hey it’s his/her story, their prerogative. For the detractors, they can write their own alternative ending with fan fiction. I am realistically fine with any ending. I just want to see if the screenwriter can tie if off nicely (I don’t even mind an open ending so long as it’s a plausible one).
Let the knives come out! That’s Trumpet Flower not Secret. I don’t care too much about TF, I want to know how Secret,and Extraordinary You, end. I’m not into an open ending because my fellow watchers really do bring out the knives then. But I have a really bad record for guessing much better endings than we get. The kdramas that have interested me enough in a writerly, plot and thematic sense to post on them are these: Cheese in the Trap, Scarlet Heart Ryeo, W (but dropped it), Black, Hotel del Luna and Extraordinary You. Horrible endings open or otherwise. HDL was the best of the lot because at least it was consistent. Anyway I feel EY has the kiss of death, literally and figuratively, on it for its ending just because I’ve taken an interest in it as something more than fluff.
This quote from Romeo and Juliet 🙂… the star cut outs in the curtain scene… the Alphonse Daudet reference… it does sound like it may be headed for tragedy in Secret.
“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”
I know – I just pointed that out in response to your post on Soompi! Unreal!
I don’t need anymore convincing that Romeo and Juliet is heavily influencing the characters, themes and plots, but whether my other speculation, that all the aware characters are stolen from the classics, and from there comes the writer’s lack of control, will bear fruit, I don’t know.
But just for the sake of it, I have to say I think Juda might be Portia from Merchant. Remember I was talking about a ‘love test’? The point of the test was to find the man who loved her for who she was. I think Do Hwa might have passed the test by giving her those shoes, the comfortable ones, not the high heels Nam Ju gives her. Just saying. That makes Do Hwa Bassanio. I will have to refresh on that play, but Bassanio is an all round good guy from my recollection.
Changed my mind. Juda might be a Portia figure but no way is DoHwa like sponger Bassanio. Juda might also be an Elizabeth Bennett figure – she took on Nam Ju’s mom like Lizzie took on Lady Catherine deBourgh. I need more evidence from a self-aware Juda. I’ve become quite interested in this plot line, have you?
Missed that about the shoes for JD. Good points. She’s a strange one JD. I did think about Lizzie and Lady Catherine when they had that confrontation. But that would make NJ Darcy? If we want to fit this threesome into the P&P model, and if JD is Lizzie and DH Darcy, then NJ may well be poor Mr Collins 😂 or Wickham? Or maybe the secondary couple Bingley and Jane and his rather supercilious sister Caroline 🤔 fit better?
We don’t know enough about real Juda and real DoHwa doesn’t really fit Darcy personality-wise. Bingley better but still not there because Bingley wasn’t bright like Do Hwa. Is there a character that hates the violin? Lol. Every time he has to play violin like the second lead from Boys Over Flowers I have to laugh.
“ Every time he has to play violin like the second lead from Boys Over Flowers I have to laugh”
I know. 😂. It’s so lame and he knows it too.
Actually I would really like it if they followed the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet where all 3 die. 😂. Just to be totally subversive. Like the writer throwing up his/her hands in frustration, “I can’t decide. Fine then, how about I just kill all of you in this comic and start over in the next one.”
For me, the hilarious part about this whole violin-playing was that the actor/character did NOT know how to play the violin at all.
pwahahaha.
There were a couple of scenes when a real violinist played the piece (they’re the close-up shots of the hands) but whenever DoHwa played it, he was playing junk.
I was thinking about that too ever since I remembered all three were buried together. Remember that store and the three items: the camera (that may or may not contain a picture of Romeo? Cougn Haru), the tennis balls (Kyung) and the flower (Dan Oh)? It’s like all three are gravegoods/mementos of them. All three will doubtless turn up in the next manwha.
Lol pkm3. On purpose, ya think, or bad production?
Can someone explain the heart monitor on Sae Mi’s wrist and what happened to me? I’d have to rewatch cause I didn’t get what was happening, and though Pkm3 mentions it, I still didn’t understand.
It’s hard to find an actor who’s also an accomplished musician.
But I forgive Dohwa because this is a topsy-turvy manhwa world. It’s like Kyung and Dohwa kicking around a basketball on the soccer field.
There was one Chinese drama — was it “I Hear You” (??) — that had me pulling my hair at the violin scenes. I stopped after the third? fourth? episode. He played a master luthier but he mangled his violin-playing. 😂
The actor was Canadian Chinese. I wish it was Henry from Super Junior who starred in it but I’m not sure about Henry’s acting skills.
Will explain on the blog. 🙂
Hey no knocking Canadians. Henry is awesome! Plays fifty instruments or something. I hated Oh My Venus but loved Henry.
Will read the other topic.
“ I hated Oh My Venus but loved Henry.”
Aww really? I loved Oh My Venus. Probably because I was in the mood for mindless cheese and binge watched from start to finish. I even tried the flying kiss aegyo that MinAh used to introduce hubby to the wonderful world of KDrama. Epic fail. Hubby gave me a weird look instead of playing along. 😂
That was the only show I have watched Henry in. His fiddle/violin playing in the drama was genuine for sure. Wildly talented.
It was the pacing, nrllee. Whenever you hear me say I hated or disliked a blockbuster that most people liked, it’s usually because it was just too slow-paced for me. I got bored.
“ It was the pacing, nrllee. Whenever you hear me say I hated or disliked a blockbuster that most people liked, it’s usually because it was just too slow-paced for me. I got bored.”
Have you tried One Spring Night? It’s a melodrama and I started it but boy was it slow… the characters were interesting and acting great but it was just SO slow…I couldn’t keep going after Ep3.
Hilarious re the flying aegyo kiss! Lol!
Yeah One Spring Night was too slow for me. The only slow one I remember liking was The Story of Ming Lan. It was just interesting in its small moments so kept me going. Good books will do that for me too, where the wordsmithing or imaging is so elegant that I keep reading despite the pace.