I’m so glad we have episode 3 and 4 soon. ☺️

Happy to have a drama that makes me excited every week. 😃

Episode 3 – Now that’s the kind of ending for an episode that I wanted to see. And JH smiled!

Going to watch now. Many thanks, @packmule3. 🍜🍤🍚

Let the (seduction/falling in love) “games” begin! Bring it on JH! I’m smiling, too @GB!

Hi @agdr03 LOL yes, that was the intent of my post. To get readers excited to watch Ep 3!

@Janey yes, yes… let’s see if that kid can do seduction LOL.

@Good Twin, I first learnt that acronym from watching the Taiwanese “Miss No Good”. It was a fun show. The funny thing was that in real life, in the BTS of that show, the NG person was not the FL but the ML LOL.

Well in RL, there are NGs, but we pick up the pieces if things fall apart, and move on.

This is so clever – when they’re staring at each other in the final scene and he blinks and then smiles while she holds his gaze! Made me laugh.
Him calling her a cult leader. Her patting DH’s butt and asking for Vienna sausage in the shape of an octopus. This is my favorite drama in a long time

@Janey, yes me too ! JH thinks he’s very smart and can swindle his way out of anything. I don’t think that’s going to be the case here. Hee hee hee.

@Good Twin yes, I LoLed when the scene cut to JH laying on the floor. The 6 ft+ tall “rose” that keeps trying to manipulate.

Also @GB, one begins by thinking one is the rose. Then one wonders if one might be a butterfly. Either the victim or the delicate , innocent beauty. But alas ! It appears one is a bee, and not just any bee, but the Nasty Bee 🐝

Yes, really intelligent and innovative writing!

@GrowingBeautifully, I agree that the grandfather is playing his cards close to his chest. I’ve seen the actor before and I really like this portrayal with his melancholic or put-upon expressions. He may be better at the whole acting, lying, omitting actions than all of the rest of them. Death bed to golf course for example.

When AJ was leading the conversation with the village people, I could’t help thinking that she would be good on the board of directors. She was playing it as a one-off, but her ad-libs and also great memory of all JH had told her about the project made her able to sound very knowledgeable and sway opinions. (Except for the bride, who may become another thorn unless she can be won over, right?)

Even the commercial aspects of the plot are interesting to me. A development on green land that for once isn’t opposed by locals, how planning permissions work and how a project can get passed from one company to another by the government, why the shares of LJ are dropping and the effect on even minor investors… I wonder how the older siblings will try to sabotage the development.

@Growing Beautifully, I also tried to figure out the term ‘Jade Mat.’ Apart from the obvious link to prosperity, health and well being, would it be like this product? — Infrared Heat Therapy Healing Jade Mat/Pad. This healing mat includes 126 pieces of natural jade stones – the Asian tradition of heating jade stones for comfort and health. Every jade stone 1″ in diameter. With a programmable Thermostat and timer, provides safe, long-lasting, deep penetrating far infrared therapeutic heat.
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Or is it just some advantageous situation (relationship or person) one might traverse to get benefits?

I actually have more to say about Ep 3, but I’ve finished Ep 4 and hubba, hubba! Hot date between enemies! I’d have had butterflies and heart flutters!!

Unexpectedly, or perhaps it should have been expected since rain and the accident in which his mother died, sets off JH’s trauma, there’s danger in this breezy show as well! But this show does it better than Doctor Slump.

I love that the honesty continues to abound. If that is not heart fluttery, the girls’ heart must be made of stone!

Waaaaaa! It keeps getting better and better. I’ll watch episode 4 after laundry but may the Best Actor and Actress win!!! Bring it on! LOL!

I am definitely counting on the shaman with her prediction that Ajung will have a loving husband and they will have 2 kids! SOLD!!! Yipee!

@Fern – so this is probably trying to apply logic to a completely fantastical storyline but here goes my thoughts to your questions:
Q1 – What did he say “I’m going to seduce you so good” what a great cheesy line! Yes probably. I think she saw it as a challenge, plus she still wants to see him fail at this point in their relationship.
Q2 – I always thought he had money, he just tries not to show it since his identity is hidden at work. His house and all the cars in the basement that Do Han commented on. He is not the chosen heir but he hasn’t been disinherited.

Regarding his aggressive dating – except that this is a romcom and I don’t think it will go in this direction – he easily could have used both the date and the blind date to ruin her reputation. I don’t like how casually he tries to manipulate her, but she is nobody’s fool. At the end of the blind date she was more worried about him being insulted by the blind date than herself. Through the blind date’s description of JH she learns that he has more substance than she perhaps thought.

Q3 – that was the boyfriend who was shown beaten up in a flashback. I do like how instead of introducing new characters they are keeping the same cast of characters to expand the story – the boyfriend in the flashback, the nemesis actress, the wedding “friend” and her husband who sold the plot of land.

The ML fear of rain was in Business Proposal too.

I hope DH’s storyline picks up – right now he is not terribly interesting and he is mostly humorless. I hope they give him more personality than he has shown so far.

@Fer, @agdr03, @Good Twin, @Arihsi, @Janey

I’m thinking how AJ and JH make the couple best suited for each other because they both do not flee when the going gets tough. They get going!!! They stay to do a thorough job of whatever it is they choose to do. (I noted that JH had said the kind of person he hated was one who did not do something properly/completely whether it was work or an apology).

We see the amount of homework that both AJ does for her ‘roles’ and JH does to ‘woo’ AJ. No sparing of expense, loads of research, planning and then action!!! We see that AJ and DH have a clash of style when they face adversity. DH runs without even stopping to help (strange when he’s not the one with the trauma, as far as we know it … but maybe he has other trauma). AJ and JH stay the course and hold on. They both even say the same thing about staying on til the end; or encouraging the other party who is suffering to persist.

@Fern, so why does AJ go along with JH’s seduction? The script calls for it, LOL, and it was a challenge that she would not back down/not run away from. She’ll challenge back and they’ll see who has the upper hand. So far she’s been ‘winning’. She got JH to apologise and even to thank her, when he thought he could just roughshod it over her with arguments and lures, then by palming her off to an acquaintance whom he didn’t know was a creep. JH will ‘lose’ because he does not want to cause harm to others. But that’s his winning quality. He’ll also lose because he loves her more than he knows.

My take on his super-spending is that he always had the means. He shared a huge house with his brother where they share also several expensive cars. I imagine grandpa does not stint in giving the boys money and material stuff, but he has a thing about the company going to DH and not to JH, even though he knows that JH makes the better business manager.

JH is able to pay the secretary serving him who’s in the know and has the means to find out stuff about people. However, he deliberately chooses to ‘live poor’. He knew his grandpa would not assign him a role in the company, so he entered LJ as an intern and was working his way up. He won awards for 3 years. He saved up his hard-earned money. He made sure he had a daily-use inexpensive car. He was proving his ability to his grandpa, and showing up his half-brother as a useless lump.

In the middle of one of the episodes, there’s a scene where Show is still keeping the identity of the person who called DH and met him, a secret.

At the end of Ep 4, the person whom DH bumped into outside after the lights went out again looked like the previous boyfriend who had been beaten up. (Did he hurt himself or did someone beat him up is the question that’s in my mind, actually).

Yes, the accident which killed the mother of these chaebol grandkids was definitely more like murder. We get a flashback memory of JH’s where another car was pushing his mother’s car off the road. JH was in the car at that time, and yet, he managed to end up outside the car, looking back in at his mother, … it’s likely that he too was meant to die but he either got out or was pulled out of the car.

So now that we hear someone is trying to cause an accidental fire and keeps doing stuff to DH’s basement lights, it begs the question, who is really being targeted by the ‘killer’?

When we consider the people who have easy access to the house, it would only be the brothers and the secretaries. I’ll be sad to find out that one of the secretaries is the culprit. Those 2 ‘friends’ are a great side pair to watch and they give us intell. I want Sec Kim to be able to redeem those coupons that had been given by 14-year-old JH.

@Good Twin, so true about applauding that speech! I was quite moved too! JH gave an astounding performance as the ‘boyfriend’ of AJ.

I am thinking of the Mysteries around the accident.
* Grandfather does not want to push the investigation further, although he hears that there was a chase and it was not a mere accident. He’s protecting someone? He’s being blackmailed? Someone is being threatened or someone naive made a mistake?

* The Choi siblings and Lee siblings all seem to think JH is responsible for their mother’s death. Was it merely because he survived the accident while their mother died? How was an 8-year-old supposed to have prevented any of that tragedy?

= = =

The Intriguing Honesty
It’s strange to think that JH can tell AJ to her face that he does not like her but will steal her away from DH anyway by making her fall for him (JH)… and that he’ll seduce her and then dump her!!! One would think that such honesty would blast his chances at once, but not in this case! Any guesses why?

Is it because, where AJ finds herself acting as a matter of course with people who are hypocrites/insincere, she finds herself authentic when it comes to honest people, and JH is honest to a fault? She appreciates the fact that JH tells it to her like it is, and still tries to ‘woo’ her anyway? He really upped the challenge for himself!!!

AJ to JH: “I’m asking just in case. Do you like me?”
JH still unaware of his own feelings: “No.”
AJ: “Then why did you say that? It sounded like you did.”
JH: “I was only being honest. I don’t like you, but I plan to steal you.”
AJ: “Why?”
JH: “If you fall for me, you won’t marry DH. Be dumbfounded and get butterflies. It’s my turn to make you feel like that.” (She caught on to this admission at once. She had raised heart flutters in him!) “And in the end, you’ll have fallen for me. I’ve made up my mind. I’ll seduce you and dump you.” He smiles.
AJ looks steadily at JH: “JH, did you get butterflies because of me?”
JH: “What?”
AJ: “You just said it was your turn to make me feel like that. That means you felt that way about me before.”
JH is still honest, he does not deny it: “That’s not all I said. You get on my nerves.”

LOL regarding giving her butterflies, he says wait a while… then he says maybe because it’s too chilly and puts his jacket over her… pulls her close. But she actually takes a few moments, checks her feelings and tells him she still has no butterflies LOLOL.

Although she says she’s not into him in the beginning of this episode, we know that changes before the end of the episode, when she refreshes her makeup and rushes to TK Hotel to meet the one whom she thought would be him.

I applaud Show for the smart title. ‘Mission Impossible’ had protagonists working in a team, creating scenarios, donning masks, playing fake their roles faultlessly over time to deceive and so as to bring about an unexpected and difficult conclusion. ‘Wedding Impossible’ offers many similar elements, but with more than 1 team working at cross purposes.

The fun continues because circumstances keep changing unexpectedly, and the teams need to improvise.

I assume mat refers to a sleeping mat. So a jade mat would be a fancy bed?

@Growing Beautifully, I’m watching on Viki and the subs seem to be a bit different. AJ’s girlfriends described DH as maybe being a Jade Mat. I found that there are electric ones on sale at Amazon, if it’s the modern meaning. The subs you wrote for the ‘I will seduce you’ are slightly different, but the same gist.

Thank you, everyone, for the explanations and theories.

Yes, Grandfather is an old fox, right? I wonder if he has an inkling that romance could be possible between AJ and JH? They were together the first time he ever saw her. I think he may have suspected (as one might) that DH is gay, which is why he would accept a ‘love’ marriage even if it’s not ideal.

I don’t think the secretaries are involved in the strange happenings at DH’s studio, at least I hope not. The ex-boyfriend might still have the combination for the studio door and he may well be bitter after what happened. Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned, right? He might want to blackmail DH after seeing the news about his takeover.

I like JH’s secretary Eun Taek. I don’t think he can be a bad guy, because he likes one of AJ’s loyal besties, who calls him by the type coffee he orders.

I was laughing when Eun Taek was complaining about his own love life and blaming his fails on JH who scoffs at the idea of being helpless in love.

ET: If it was that easy, would it be love? My feet just keep moving toward her without realizing it, I keep looking at her, and she’s got all of my attention. Liking someone is like that.
JH: Isn’t that more like a robot controlled by a scientist rather than liking someone?
ET: Once you really start liking someone, you’ll understand all that…

I think JH is showing signs of that already.

@Fern, JH is definitely showing signs of of liking AJ. He did from the time he got her the acting role and watched her acting, with a smile on his face.

Continuation of ad hoc recap …
The next morning she looks at the scar on his face and notices another scar under his shirt. She draws back from touching him when he opens his eyes to ask if she appreciated the view (narcissistic!)
JH: “Keep looking, then. I’ll let you.”
He gets up with a smile and touches his scar, because she’d been paying him attention.

However it begins to rain and he gets tense. She notices how he’s gripping the arm rest in the plane and places her hand on his. This is a parallel to how she’d be afraid of the turbulence when they had first taken off to go to Busan. However he hadn’t taken the liberty of holding her hand then.

DH gives AJ marriage registration forms to fill out and plane tickets to New York (dated 10 Apr 2023 – 10 Apr 2024). However DH has to meet AJ’s family first. While AJ is preparing to get married, JH is busy choosing a blind date for her LOL.

AJ’s friends think she went to Busan with DH and she does not tell them that she went with JH. At that moment he messages her to go to TK Hotel. Although she complains that if he wants to see her he should come and not expect her to come and go as he wants, she refreshes her make-up and rushes out eagerly to meet him.

JH finds out that he’d set AJ up with a creep of a blind date and abandons Chae Won to go to AJ.

At the blind date, AJ throws a drink in the creep’s face so he threatens her that he’d spread rumours about JH paying an actress to sleep with him. He makes a snide remark which escapes me: “Right. Trying to set me up with you? Does he want me to become like his mum? Drink. Unless you want that parasite to crumble from weird rumours.” From describing JH as an upright guy he has changed his tune and calls him a parasite.

AJ was on her way out but returns to keep creep from ruining JH’s reputation, offering to drink if creep promised not to hurt JH. JH steps in at the right moment to take the glass away from AJ, exactly like the male leads that he’d studied LOL. He drinks all the liquor in the bottle too and walks out with AJ. She’s surprised that he drank so much without berating the creep.

Continuing the ad hoc recap …

AJ is angry and JH thinks it’s because he set her up on a date with a creep.
AJ: “The point isn’t whether someone decent or not came as a date. You heard him, but why didn’t you do anything?” (He had stood up to Na Ri for AJ, but he didn’t stand up for himself).
AJ: “You always say harsh things to me, but why did you just listen to all that crap? Can’t you talk?”
JH: “Of course I can.”
AJ: “See? You talk back to me all the time. Why didn’t you talk back to him?”

JH: “Are you angry because of that? Not because I sent you on a blind date?”
AJ: “You know, I don’t care what strangers say. I won’t see them again anyway.” She says that she gained by eating delicious food and getting expensive drinks for free. “There was no loss for me. But it’s different for you. Why do you keep getting hurt in front of me? Your cheek and that jerk’s words. You’re making me feel sorry.”
JH: “You don’t get butterflies. You just feel sorry?”
AJ: “You’re really going on about that?” (Yes, he’s really one-track minded!)

JH: “I’m angry too. Because you were insulted.”
AJ: “That’s a surprise. Getting angry because of me? I thought you hated me the most.”
JH: “I guess I like you, then.” He takes a step towards her. “I like you enough to get angry if someone insults you.”

He passes out on her shoulder and the preview suggests that she brought him to her home and he complains that he’s been kidnapped. 😂

It’s said that love and hate are two sides of the same coin. I like that Show has given us so much dialogue and so many encounters between the leads that it makes perfect sense how they turned from enemies to lovers. They found that they were both relatively decent people who were trying to achieve their dreams, but who were hurt without being able to fight back in certain situations. This called for camaraderie rather than challenges or battles. The ways to both their hearts were through feeling sorry for each other because they both understood how it felt to be the one not preferred.

@Fern and @GB when the secretary describes love as “my feet just keep moving toward her without realizing it” We soon have a scene where JH is quite literally running towards AJ at hotel. He seen in the bathroom washing his face with cold water asking himself what he is doing – seemingly having gotten their on auto pilot when he thought she may be in danger. He has become the robot being led by his heart.

That blind date cameo was golden – he looked rich and greasy!

I have one small quibble – AJ’s hair it is so limp and unflattering. She looked so pretty in the hotel room when her hair was in a pony tail in the hotel room. She needs a few inches taken off, a good blow out and some hair extensions for body imho!

@Good Twin that’s true. JH simply headed for AJ and he found that he could not stop himself from going to her. At first he looked for her, thinking she might have been abandoned, then when he saw that she was still with the creep, he paused to ask himself what he was doing. He must have waited around long enough to hear what was being said, because he stopped AJ just in time from downing that drink.

I agree that the stylist is not bothering much with AJ’s appearance. She often looks like she’s without make-up and her hair is just left natural. Perhaps she’ll get some kind of makeover later?

Anyeong chinggus! I am really enjoying this show! JH is becoming one of my favorite MLs! What he did for AJ at the Busan Film Festival was so swoony… and the way it was revealed was “Mission Impossible” style. I was laughing and clapping (like the PA of Nari) on how JH thwarted her plans from the dress, the business class being full (although in reality, this will not happen since he just booked the day before, not sure what clout he has to bump off everyone else who already had business class tickets – but I don’t care, it was too good!) to the restaurant and hotel.

JH does good research when he needs to. even with Chae Won, he was already wooing her for DH even before her first marriage. CW is actually falling for him ( I think CW is the butterfly to the thorny rose JH and AJ is the bee) and she even thought he was defending her honor when JH physically punished the stage/production guy who bumped into her but that was actually for AJ. His research on AJ was spot on and since she watches and is in to so many dramas, that was the hook! His amalgamation of the male leading man exacting revenge for her was awesome!

Despite this, he is unaware of his brother’s secret life.

@Fern – what part was the jade bed mentioned? I don’t remember seeing this in the subs.

On the last scene of ep4 – I believe the drink was spiked. She would have been in a worse situation if he did not stop it, although it was his fault why she was there in the first place. He did not do a good research on the douchebag guy.

BTW, This drama is worth rewatching the episodes.

So nice and enriching to read everyone’s views here. @GB, @good twin, @janey, @fern… I’m having this much fun because I’m watching this drama WITH all you guys ❤️

Now for my (wild) two cents 🙈

My observations are based on the opening theme and not what we’ve seen till now. The opening theme actually tells a story, instead of just being artistic as in MMH.

The opening theme begins with opening an envelope to a marriage invitation followed by a heavily corrected contract which is kissed, not signed by FL but signed by ML. She kissed and gave something to JH, didn’t she ? This implies it’s not a real marriage.

Then we proceed to a couple of frames with Korean marines shown prominently+ volunteering and a frame with horses and women from alternative white and black stripes – I’m yet to figure out what this may imply.

Next is the ring and the wedding – meaning they’ll proceed with the wedding. JH’s plans are not successful. BUT BUT BUT, She is abducted from the scene (against her will). Maybe they’ll make it look like she ran away ? JH is NOT behind the abduction because he’s depicted with a long tie. Maybe grandpa ? Psycho ex-bf ? Evil half-siblings ?

Then her dress changes. Maybe she’s forced to change identity? Followed by a forced plane ride. Maybe sent somewhere away from DH where she can’t be found easily?

This frame is followed by her image with a big HELP written on it. Meaning she needs to be rescued. She’s definitely not in a situation she can get out of herself – along comes a man in a tie (not DH because DH is in bow-tie. This man wears a long tie. It’s JH). She falls and this man catches her in his car. – JH rescues her.

But then… Comes the climax. It starts raining and the car falls apart. He is ousted from the family he’s barely holding on to / the company ?

It continues to rain in drops larger than his image, meaning it is overwhelming him completely and his image becomes very small… Like that of a scared individual overwhelmed with fear and sadness. His posture changes to that of a person in despair. He starts to fall in that posture because there is no car anymore.

Enter hands of a woman (they’re purple. Same colour as the dress of FL earlier). Much bigger and stronger than his small, hunched image. The hands don’t let him fall. He is cradled in one of them safely while the other shields him from the rain. The umbrella is small and covers only him. The rain continues to fall on the hands but they’re so big and strong compared to the drops and one doesn’t feel concerned. He finally looks up to his saviour and we close the envelope.

She, the Nasty Bee™️ is going to save the fallen thorny rose™️.

Fin.

PS – Did anyone notice that in the final shot of Ep 4, when AJ is holding on to a collapsed JH, they zoom out to a ginormous image of roses in a vase in the background? Nasty Bee™️ is already holding the thorny rose™️ in her arms.

Howdy! I’ll echo @Arihsi that this drama is more enjoyable with you Ladies because of the comments and break down of scenes. Thank you! I really appreciate it too. 🙂

I agree that this is worth rewatching because there’s so much to unpack. I actually didn’t hear the jade mat and the sausages being cut into octopus? I’m watching on a streaming site, I don’t have VIKI access.

What I read about the request for sausages scene at the family gathering was for Ahjumma to cut the head/sides off. LOL!

I have been thinking about the opening credits too so thank you @Arihsi for going over it. 🙂

I agree that Grandpa is hiding more than he lets on. How awful did the dinner turn into once he said that he is still handing DH the company.

I thought I had the butterflies too besides AJ and JH with all his boyfriend moves. Swooning and squealing here. 🙂 I like how they showed both of them running thinking that they will see each other.

The slap on the butt was hilarious. I haven’t seen one like it for awhile.

I like their honesty even with the knowledge that they do not like each other. It’s refreshing to just be upfront about it.

This drama is very addictive. I love it. 🙂

@Janey, Yes this is a rewatchable drama!!! I need to double watch in order to remember the things that hit me on first watch. I’ll only be able to do that in 10 days time. Going to be busier and busier this weekend onwards!!!

I’m guessing the scar hidden by his shirt is from the car crash when he was a child.

@Fern, I agree. That scar under his shirt was from when he was in the accident. I’m wondering if as a child he’d asked his mum to bring him somewhere and that’s why he’s being blamed when that trip resulted in her death. So unfair on the child who has grown up to be an adult with unresolved trauma.

@Janey, good catch with the air tickets linking this to his ex-.

And yes, no little green car (name and brand hidden). Pity, but perhaps the animators didn’t have the information.

@GB, it seems idiotic to blame a child for that accident regardless of the reason for the ride. But perhaps they aren’t blaming him but rather saying that he blames himself? It still doesn’t add up to why he is Hyun Dae-Ho’s shame.

I agree with all above, @Janey. I wonder if Grandpa may be protecting himself or someone else about the accident? If someone he knew misinterpreted some remark he made in frustration and acted on it, thinking it was what he wanted? But that tragedy would be almost classic and he doesn’t present as a haunted, tragic figure.

Yes, we’re going towards another kind of car crash, with CW falling in love with JH, DH’s ex-partner showing up, JH and AJ falling in love with each other.

I don’t think it’s subconscious that JH wants AJ to be attracted to him; quite the opposite. He says he wants that and to be able to kick her to the curb afterwards, I guess, using AJ to make a scandal so DH can’t marry AJ and will have to marry CW? Interesting and rather horrid. So maybe some levels above the nasty blind date who was resorting to threats and possible spiked drinks to seduce? Clearly, although JH’s intentions aren’t honourable, his mind just doesn’t work that way. He can’t be ungentlemanly around her. She impresses him. He really wants to impress her in turn. And you are so correct: when he realises he loves her, what will he do?

In a way, even though DH is a flawed figure because of his inability to cope with fear and stress, I feel he is getting backed into a corner by so many people. His step-father and step-siblings want him to fail; his brother and father want him to marry and take on a huge corporation he doesn’t want; his best friend said she would marry him because he needs her support, but she is secretly dating his brother; someone is dangerously sabotaging his workshop. What could go wrong?

@Fern, @GB – great points!

LOL! You are right @GB! AJ is already on breach of contract as DH’s gf!

JH thinks the only way to pursue his dreams is to mastermind everything and be tough and even be mean on the outside but inside, he grapples with doing the right thing. Meeting AJ further pushes his limits. That’s why he is the thorny rose! The queen bee AJ will sap everything he has though. He will break that mold soon enough!

@Arihsi, what an interesting observation. I sort of notice colours and looks but not enough obviously! Thanks for your take on JH. I think you’re right! Poor fellow is as dull as ditch water!

Aah! @Arihsi, we can look forward to him in dark blue!! LOL still a bit on the dull side but he looked quite fetching in it. Thanks for the link!

I haven’t seen this actor before but I like him. I may try another of his shows where he’s in the ML role. It looks like he only started acting in 2019 but has already been given 5 ML roles out of the 9 dramas he’s been in. That’s a pretty good percentage for a newbie!

Thanks @Arihsi on the wardrobe notes! Very interesting indeed. Although JH’s clothes are quite rigid, he is cute as button if he lets the charm machine going. CW is swayed for sure, I bet the dinner talk they supposed to have was a love/like confession. If only he can sway grandpa of his merits especially on the business side.

Rewatching ep1 when the eldest grandson was apologizing to grandpa on stock manipulation scandal, he was saying the deal seemed legit until something happened and the Chinese firm pulled out – the camera focused on JH who just entered the room. I have a feeling he had something to do with that!

Also my first time to watch Moon Sangmin in a show and I’m very impressed. He is equally carrying the show on his able shoulders. His height and deep voice makes him look and sound more mature than his age, he can be good ML and can match older actresses like AJ and CW for noona romance.

@agdr03 I don’t have Viki access either and subtitles seem to differ based on which streaming site… They very broadly mean the same but if one wants to enjoy good dialogue, they butcher it 🙈 I wish this drama was on a regular platform so that reliable translation was available.

@Fern I think a drama gets perceived as nonna romance only if it’s marketed as such and that’s not the case here thankfully. I don’t enjoy dramas such as sunbae don’t put that lipstick or something in the rain (qualified nonna romances). 🙈

If people on the internet are anything to go by, everyone is enjoying AJ a lot. The actress is being praised too !

In other “news”, I checked the webtoon this drama is based on. It available on sites with lots of ads and umm…. Nope ! I didn’t like the FL there ! The FL we are seeing is a re-written FL and she’s much more gutsy, independent ,fresh and fun! I hope she stays that way.

P.S. I don’t mind current JH styling apart from that Anaconda type tie.

@Ahihsi, I thought it was a noona romance if viewers simply start calling it that regardless of the network’s billing. I still have a lot to learn.

As to your wardrobe, it sounds a lot like mine, mostly black, grey and white, with blues/teals. Earlier this week, we went to a funeral. There was a request for the attendees to wear something orange. I could probably have improvised with ANY other colour but that. I’m not alone – I couldn’t find anything suitable in shops, either. Finally bought a scarf with a bit of pastel orange in it.