City Hunter: Episode 14
by javabeans
Bromance! Bromance! Bromance! Oh please, tell me that’s next on the menu. Just the suggestion of such a development has me all awash in anticipation, because the conflict of avenging-hero-versus-lawman is so rife with possibility. We’ve got the romance angle secure, so now it’s time to turn our attentions to the bromance…or perhaps the escalation of their face-off to the next level.
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Kim Bum-soo – “끝사랑” (Last Love), as in, be my first and last love. [ Download ]
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EPISODE 14 RECAP
Caught between certain downfall and death, Kim Jong-shik lets go of the railing and falls to the highway below, hitting a car windshield and landing on concrete. Considering how he chose money over his son, this man is just all about the bad decisions.
Young-ju looks up and sees the City Hunter at the railing. Yoon-sung is shocked — not just at these unexpected events, but at his own actions: “What the hell have I done?”
Jin-pyo calls to ask sternly why Yoon-sung would start his revenge only to turn back to save the guy — clearly he’s watching nearby. He adds, “Then striking down Shik-joong becomes meaningless.” Oh, because it was so meaningful before?
Dun dun dun! Yoon-sung realizes that Jin-pyo was the one who hit Shik-joong, to make him go after Kim Jong-shik, and storms in to confront Bad Daddy. Hot damn, I love that these kinds of secrets aren’t dragged out, but quickly realized so we can cut to the interesting part: the fallout.
Jin-pyo admits readily that he did it, saying, “It had an immediate effect, didn’t it? What I wanted to see from you was this. Eyes blazing in vengeance, ready to go through fire and water.” He wanted their enemies shot through the heart quickly, “By your hand. That is how you protect the ones you love.”
Yoon-sung snarls, “I’ve thought it over, asking myself who’s dear to you, and couldn’t think of any. Except…for one.”
Oh God, don’t mean yourself, oh God, don’t mean yoursel—
Whack! He grabs a letter opener from the side table and stabs his hand to the table with it.
OH MOTHERFUCKING @#$%@$, HE MEANT HIMSELF. Blood drips through wood to the ground beneath. Oh god, oh god, oh god.
Wheezing through his pain, Yoon-sung tells his shocked father, “Me. That’s your one dear person. Does this hurt your heart? It should. It has to. No matter how much you want it, I can’t kill people. I felt that certainty today.”
He wrenches the blade from his hand and walks away, hand bloody. Even Jin-pyo looks stunned.
At the hospital, Nana sees Kim Jong-shik being brought in via ambulance and Young-ju staggering out of the emergency room in shock. They both hear that eyewitnesses stated that it looked like Kim was committing suicide, after trying to grab documents that fell over the railing.
Young-ju checks his phone to find one last text message from Dad: “I’m sorry. Chun Jae-man is next.” Aw. Despite the father-son standoff, this is an acknowledgement that there IS something to investigate. It doesn’t begin to redeem Kim Jong-shik, but it does show us that he cared about his son. Well, enough to feel bad about the corruption he insisted he was entitled to.
Nana finds Yoon-sung sitting with Shik-joong, alarmed at his injured hand, which he says dully is “no big deal.” All full of tortured conflict, he barks at her to leave him before she turns out like Shik-joong, and that it was Dad who did this, not Kim Jong-shik: “To him, I’m neither a son nor Yoon-sung. I’m just his possession.”
Tearing up, he tells her that he’s the one who made Shik-joong like this. He starts to say, “Even with Kim Jong-shik about to die, I pretended not to see—” but Nana cuts him short, enveloping him in a hug.
She knows that feeling of wanting an eye for an eye and says, “It wasn’t you who did it — it was me. If you hadn’t done it, I would have. So don’t torment yourself.”
Young-ju finds the voice recorder he’d left in his father’s jacket pocket, which recorded Kim’s damning conversation with Yoon-sung in the car. Young-ju’s reaction is heartbreaking, because this conversation evokes such a mix of warring emotions with its revelations: Finally, he gets a lead in the 1983 case with mention of the incident off the shores of North Korea; Yoon-sung’s voice practically confirms his City Hunter identity; and lastly, his father begs Yoon-sung to spare his son.
It’s the last one that breaks Young-ju, who screams in fury.
Turns out that Kim Jong-shik isn’t dead, but in a coma. (Possibly Inappropriate Aside: What does it take to kill a character around here? I do appreciate that all these dramatic turns are feasible with comas rather than murders, but c’mon, drama, I want some death-inspired darkness up in here. Or I’m gonna have to downgrade you to Balls of Aluminum. *crumple*)
Young-ju finds Yoon-sung outside his father’s door and rushes him, shaking with rage. He growls, “Don’t you dare get caught by anybody else. I’ll be the one to do it.” He warns him that he’ll be dogging his every move. Yoon-sung keeps up his smartassy cover, though it lacks the usual punch: “You must really feel wronged, to take your anger out on a random person. You’ve wrinkled my clothes.”
Young-ju seethes, “You’re no hero. You’re just a killer.” Just the words to cut Yoon-sung to the quick.
Young-ju reports for work and volunteers to drop the City Hunter case, to his boss’s surprise. In exchange, he wants to be granted a secret investigation of Haewon Group chairman Chun Jae-man, as he has evidence of Chun harboring a slush fund and evading taxes. At Young-ju’s insistence on taking on another bigwig, the department head dryly notes, “You’re my anti-fan, aren’t you?” Heh. The previous department head had to resign when he’d tried to go after Chun, and Boss sighs, “I’m like hay in the face of a typhoon.”
Young-ju gets his boss’s tacit agreement when he declares that if he fails this task, he will quit being a prosecutor.
Nana surprises Jin-pyo by arriving at his home unannounced, having gotten the address off Yoon-sung’s GPS. Whoa. I’m thinking maybe she picked up those Balls of Steel.
She gets straight to the point: “Let Yoon-sung go. So that he can live like a person, happily — let him go now.” She calls him a puppetmaster wanting to control Yoon-sung with his strings.
Jin-pyo says that she won’t be able to leave as easily as she arrived. Nana isn’t intimidated: “If I stepped back because of your threats, I’d be a coward. But what can we do? After fighting this heartless world on my own, I found I can’t do things without risking my all. Do you not love Lee Yoon-sung? How could you make someone you love do those cruel things? How much more must he be destroyed for you to stop?”
Jin-pyo stands suddenly and whips out his gun, and Nana doesn’t even flinch. Cocking the hammer, he says he could kill her right now.
Nana: “That’s fine. I’m a human shield anyway.” Dayum. Way to invoke her bodyguard creed, that her value is in taking the bullet for the president.
Jin-pyo releases the hammer and says that it seems a waste to kill her right now, with that look in her eyes. Nana tells him to back off, saying that she won’t stand by, either: “I’ll rally everything I’ve got to block you. I came to say this.”
Chun Jae-man’s turn for the spotlight: He demonstrates why he was one of the Council of Five as he hears of Kim Jong-shik’s coma state and figures it would’ve been “cleaner” had he died. He orders his minion to keep a close watch on Kim’s condition, and if he shows signs of waking, “Get rid of him.”
Recognizing that all-out war is the name of the game, he decides he’ll have to act first. Ergo: Press conference, where he controls the story.
Chun reveals that the dog tags sent in by the City Hunter belonged to special agents, but describes them as traitors who were fleeing after stealing national secrets back in October ’83. They were killed, and upon receiving the report, Chun and his colleagues had decided to keep the matter quiet because public tensions had been running high after the Aungsan bombing.
Clever clever. Just enough truth to seem true (and be backed up by facts), but enough fabrication to turn himself into a good guy, and the City Hunter into the villain. He adds that the City Hunter’s motivation in this is retaliation and chaos. Chun tells the public not to forget that “The City Hunter is not a hero, but a traitor to his country.”
Ironically enough, his pre-emptive strike confirms to Jin-pyo that he’s Target No. 4. Jin-pyo muses, “He’s turned on the spotlight, so it’s time to climb up onstage.” Yoon-sung comes to the same conclusion, that Chun has declared war.
Shik-joong wakes, and Yoon-sung is overcome with relief. And then shock, when Shik-joong tells him that he’s found his mother.
Yoon-sung rushes to the temple and finds Kyung-hee lying down in her sickbed, having refused to leave, saying that her son might come looking for her now that he knows she’s here. That just brings a tear to my eye.
Kyung-hee sits up to see him kneeling at her side, and whispers, “My baby. My son. Not a day has gone by that I’d forgotten you, but how hurt you must have been that I didn’t recognize you at once. My son, I’m sorry.”
She cries into his chest, and he stutters, “M-mom.” Ahh, such satisfying words.
Thankfully she can now resume treatment for her leukemia while awaiting results of Yoon-sung’s donor match test. Yoon-sung requests that this visit be kept off the official records, saying that she has a stalker-like situation going on, and that he’ll pay in cash. The doctor offers to admit her as a foreign patient (hence, no national ID number).
Kyung-hee agrees to be admitted to the hospital now that she’s found a reason to live, but asks to go out, just for today. Yoon-sung balks, citing the danger, but she says that after 28 years apart, she wants to cook for her son. “More than living one more day, I want to feed my son.” Who can resist this universal mom gesture?
And so, Yoon-sung accompanies her home. Before she sets out to cooking, he stops her and admits with difficulty that he’d hated her, having thought she’d abandoned him. And that he’d been angry to see her sick, thinking that she should have been living it up if she’d tossed him aside to be free of him, and that he’d wanted her to keep living because he wouldn’t be able to hate her in death. He apologizes for all that now.
Mom tells him she’s the sorry one, for not protecting him or finding him first, and for being sick like this. She promises to live: “Yoon-sung, let’s live happily, for a long, long time.”
To cast a pall over this moment, watching just outside is Sang-gook, who gives his phone a conflicted look. Don’t do it! Save yourself, and save your soul! Also Yoon-sung!
He turns away without calling (thank heaven) — only, Jin-pyo’s not to be duped and shows up behind him. Gah! Why do you even need minions if your devil’s work is so efficient without them?
He accuses Sang-gook of letting compassion overrule his orders. He warns him that he’ll let it slide this time, but won’t the next.
Jin-pyo watches the touching mother-son reunion and wonders, “Will you two be able to understand me?” I’m hoping no, since I’d like the others to retain their souls, please.
While eating, Mom notes that Yoon-sung has the same food habits as his father. Yoon-sung calls her jjigae tastier than Shik-joong’s, describing him as a mother, brother, and (ha!) sister figure, and describes Jin-pyo as a demanding type who pushed him to excel in studies and athletics. Understatement of the year award, we have a winner.
Yoon-sung says he was the reason for Jin-pyo’s leg, because he’d saved Yoon-sung from an accident. For that, Mom’s thankful, but she asks, “Does he put you in danger?”
Yoon-sung laughs that off to ease her, then asks about his father, and hears that he was a warm man. Agh, the what-could-have-beens, they’re killer. I know we’d have had no drama without the baby-stealing and whatnot, but I sigh for Yoon-sung’s and Kyung-hee’s lost lives.
He asks, “Losing someone dear to you — it’s a sad thing, isn’t it? Stealing those loved ones from someone, hurting them — they’ll be punished for it, whatever the reason.” Mom senses his turmoil and urges him to confide in her, but he says he’s just talking about their situation.
Nana comes just in time to see the happy scene, smiling to see Yoon-sung eating his mother’s food. She takes a photo quietly before leaving.
Chun is financially strapped at the moment due to pending business matters, and tries to think of ways to come up with 500 billion won, approximately $4 million. Jin-pyo seizes this as his in, and presents himself as a potential investor, wealthy American businessman Steve Lee.
Yoon-sung knows that despite his precautions to keep Kyung-hee hidden, it’s only a matter of time before Jin-pyo tracks her down, and therefore prepares to transfer her to an American hospital when his business here is over. Words that briefly deflate Nana.
Yoon-sung asks Nana if being with him makes her happy — isn’t she scared? — repeating the familiar “Being with me will endanger you” refrain. Nana reminds him that her feelings are her own, so he needn’t worry.
Just then, they spot Jin-pyo entering the hospital, escorted by Chun Jae-man. Yoon-sung tells Nana to wait for him in the car, then follows his father to the VVIP reception area. Jin-pyo’s face immediately goes from politeness to hardened badass, while Yoon-sung’s undergoes a similar instant change, but from challenging stare to playboy smile. The smile is reserved for Chun’s flattered secretary, who preens. HA. The pretty boy persona wins again.
Yoon-sung finds Dad in the restroom to tell him that he may get hurt if he goes after Chun, who’s no easy target. I love how the targets are getting tougher — I don’t rank their misdeeds in any order (how do you rank embezzling against lobbying and drunk driving and draft dodging?), but the baddies do appear to be revealing themselves in order of shrewdness. Which makes sense, since it only follows that the careless brash one who’s drunk on power would be found out before the paranoid one who’s vigilant of possible threats.
Dad replies that Yoon-sung doesn’t have the luxury of worrying over him, when he’s got his own troubles to deal with. To which Yoon-sung replies that he’s not concerned: “I’m telling you not to get in my way.” Gauntlet! Thrown.
Dad tells him he’s being arrogant, and tells him to watch and learn: “Revenge has to be done in the spirit of revenge. Like I’m doing.”
Nana worries that the Chun/Jin-pyo connection means they’ll have to move Kyung-hee from this Haewon-owned hospital, but he says that it’s darkest underneath the lamp — meaning, it may be safer to leave Kyung-hee here.
Nana asks him to take her home, now that the danger from Kim Jong-shik is gone and she can resume her life and her job. Yoon-sung doesn’t like this idea for numerous reasons, which he expresses in his usual way, sniffing that he’s glad, hmph.
He makes himself at home on her couch, and asks if she’s sure she’ll be okay, what with the danger and all. She retorts that he’s much more of a danger to her, prompting him to pull her down on top of him (rawr!), asking innocently, “Why? What about me?” He says he’s done a mental check of his savings account, saying she’s expensive — a reference to their no-contact contract. Which, frankly, just seems like a skinship menu now. (Uh, where can I get me one of those, Mr. Lee Min-ho?)
Example: She hits his shoulder, and he demands 100,000 won, which she offers to repay with some really awesome coffee.
Nana smiles as she shares that the mere sight of coffee makes her think of him now. But that puts a damper on his mood, and he refuses the coffee, saying he’s quit. He leaves abruptly, leaving Nana bewildered at his sudden change of mood, while he sighs, “The sight of coffee makes her think of me? That can’t happen.”
Young-ju sits down for lunch at the cafeteria, which causes all the other employees to get up and leave, now that he’s been outed as a tainted prosecutor. Oh, so sad. As if it weren’t bad enough that Dad’s teetering on the brink, he gets tarred with the corruption brush when, really, he’s the most morally upright one in this cast.
Young-ju receives word about Chun’s meeting with Steve Lee, which is a clear red flag that something is up. He finds an old article about the Aungsan incident mentioned in Chun’s speech, and notices that both Jin-pyo and Mu-yeol are on the list of Secret Service survivors.
Nana reports to work, only to find to her surprise that so has Yoon-sung. Gee, I wonder why! The ensuing scene between Yoon-sung, his IT colleagues, and Da-hae and her bodyguards has me cracking up because there’s so much stuff going on all at once, and it’s hilarious.
For instance: IT boss is thrilled to have Yoon-sung back, as is Da-hae. Yoon-sung’s only got eyes for Nana, who hangs back and smiles at him — until Da-hae flings herself at him, which provokes a frown of jealousy. Eun-ah makes eyes at Ki-joon, but her comments are flirty toward Yoon-sung as well. For instance, the boss writes off his absence as vacation, to which Yoon-sung balks that that’ll interfere with his real vacation, and he needs to see bikini-clad bodies to remain healthy. Ha. Eun-ah suggests the pool rather than the beach (easier to safeguard Da-hae), and offers that she has a bikini — which makes Ki-joon yell out in protest, apropos of (seemingly) nothing. Heh. These Blue House scenes have really grown on me; they’re frivolous, but they make me giggle.
Nana tells Yoon-sung (calling him Mr. Bad Luck Bastard now, affectionately) that there are pictures of his father in the Secret Service records, so he takes a look at the books…of which the 1983 volume is missing. Who should show up to hand it over but Young-ju, who’s just had a look.
This means that Young-ju now has confirmation that Jin-pyo, who’s pictured in the book, is also Steve Lee. When he shows up to confront him, he cuts to the chase and calls him Jin-pyo.
Jin-pyo doesn’t play coy, and acknowledges that he’s one and the same. He says that he took on the Steve Lee persona because people would treat him differently if they knew he was a former Secret Service agent, and he’s proud of achieving his business success on his own.
Young-ju finds it mighty suspicious that he went as far as to invent a new identity (the term is identity laundering), and Jin-pyo says he had reason to do it: “I washed my soul in the ocean with that incident, back then.”
Young-ju: “That incident?” Jin-pyo tells Young-ju to figure it out. Young-ju leaves him with the warning that he knows Jin-pyo’s working to get to Chun Jae-man, who he knows is the next target.
Shopping time for Yoon-sung, which gets a chuckle out of me since they’re at a Trugen store, the menswear line for which Lee Min-ho has been brand model for the past couple years. Nana’s here to give him a two-fold gift — to repay the 100,000 won he demanded, as well as welcome him back to work — and tells him to pick out a tie. To put the kibosh on his complaining, she gives him five seconds to choose, ha.
Make that a three-fold gift: It’s also a pseudo-bribe so he’ll keep her in the loop as his partner. Reluctantly he agrees, and I wonder if he feels the least bit of satisfaction when the reward for her pestering is that Nana has to watch him check into a hotel with another woman on his arm. Heh.
It’s Chun Jae-man’s secretary, who pouts to him about how hard her day was and mentions his meeting tomorrow with the National Intelligence Service’s head of records. With that key info secured, Yoon-sung raises his glass for a toast, and the drink knocks her out cold.
Yoon-sung takes her employee keycard and heads out, only to be confronted by an annoyed Nana, who asks why he had to use these methods: “Use me instead! Why mistreat your body like that?” LOL.
Chun Jae-man visits comatose Kim Jong-shik in the hospital (whose hand twitches, unseen) and comes face to face with Young-ju. He’s aware that Young-ju’s digging around in his affairs — he’s got informants to keep him apprised — and asks what’s got him sniffing around. Young-ju refers to Chun’s press conference statement about the traitors who were killed, and drops the hint that he knows he’s covering for the North Korean incident of 1983.
Chun decides that it’s too bad that Young-ju’s his friend’s son, but orders his minion, “Get rid of him.” Dude, that’s his solution for everything, which makes him the deadliest target thus far, though I can’t help but laugh at the image of him dealing with every minor crisis in the same way: “The cleaning lady can’t make it? Get rid of her. The dog won’t beg? Kill it.”
Yoon-sung heads to Haewon Group in time for Chun’s meeting with the NIS guy, and takes on the two guards stationed at the front desk with cool efficiency, knocking them out with their own walkie-talkie. He positions them in their seats to look normal (asleep, perhaps), and calls Chun’s secretary to say he’s here to see her, but can’t get in without a pass. She hesitates to leave her station, but when he suggests he’ll just turn back and go home, she offers to come down to meet him.
Yoon-sung waits for her to vacate her desk, then slips inside — using her keycard — and approaches Chun’s office. He opens the door quietly, just cracking it enough to affix a tiny camera to the inside of the door, then monitors the scene on his phone.
Chun pays off the NIS head of records for the file containing reports of the 1983 incident. It is to remain classified until 2030, and is the file Young-ju had wanted.
With the file safely in his hands, Chun mutters that nobody needs to know something that was to remain secret till 2030, and takes his lighter to the book…just as he gets a phone call.
Chun orders his minion to make the death appear as suicide, saying, “That Kim Young-ju fellow has gotten too arrogant.” Young-ju’s current status as persona non grata will explain his suicide, and Chun says he’ll wait for the report on tonight’s news.
Which means, of course, that the plan is going down today. Possibly now.
Eee! This sends Yoon-sung running, even though it keeps him from stopping Chun when he holds the lighter to the book again. He calls Young-ju, only to get his assistant instead, who reports that Young-ju was called by his apartment building to address an issue about his gas line. He’d headed home, but left his phone behind.
In his apartment, Young-ju can’t find a problem and calls the apartment management office, only to hear that they hadn’t called him. He frowns; how odd.
When he enters his car, he’s attacked from behind by a man with a chloroform-soaked rag, and knocked out as the minion locks the doors and gets the carbon monoxide pumping.
Fumes quickly fill the car, while a barely conscious Young-ju fumbles for the door. But in his weakened condition, all he can do is gasp and cough.
Yoon-sung arrives in the parking lot and scans the aisles — just as Young-ju’s hand lands on the steering wheel and blares the horn. Rushing to the car, Yoon-sung pounds on the doors and yells at Young-ju inside, but the doors are locked.
Time’s ticking. Yoon-sung draws back his hand and smashes his bare fist through the window.
He drags Young-ju out of the car and checks for a breath. Judging him alive, he starts to walk off — only to have Young-ju grab his ankle, stopping him.
Yoon-sung freezes, while Young-ju squints up at him, trying to focus the blurry figure into a familiar silhouette…
COMMENTS
Although I’d LOVE if bromance were to arise out of this turn in the story, it’ll be a twisted sort of bromance, with both men holding very legitimate grudges against the other. How ironic that these men might actually respect each other, possibly even like each other, on the strength of their own merits — except that the weight of their father’s generation burdens theirs.
This is the kind of conflict K-dramas love so much, the sins-of-my-father-become-sins-of-the-son dilemma. City Hunter manages to depict this scenario in a way that is both more epic than the usual K-drama, and less epic, in the best way. More epic because of the magnitude of the country’s betrayal, but less epic in that there’s less forced melodrama. I think what saves it for me is that these two aren’t entangled in a Fateful Love Triangle on top of the fatherly angst, because that’s where I always feel like the melodrama goes into overdrive. (Example: East of Eden.) They both have feelings for Nana, but it’s not the typical love triangle, which I appreciate — and the same goes for Sae-hee.
I want for these two to be friends, because I feel like they’d understand each other in a way that few others could, but the facts of the case make that pretty improbable, maybe impossible. It’s great.
I haven’t commented much on him thus far, but I have to say that I quite like Young-ju as a character. I love his humorlessness, his strait-laced drive for truth and justice. I know Lee Jun-hyuk is plenty capable of comic timing and light-hearted boyishness, but he’s committed himself to this character and it’s so compelling. I actually LIKE that he’s a fuddy-duddy. It makes his passion seem real, not just show.
What makes both Yoon-sung and Young-ju work for me is that unlike other dramas, they don’t overplay the angst. It’s why I find Lee Min-ho so damn cool in the action scenes — because he’s not posturing for the camera in that “Yeah, I know I’m cool” way. We could call it The Song Seung-heon School of Acting, in the way those kind of leads can’t get rid of that self-awareness of how very hot they must look at any given moment.
It’s like that unspoken rule where wanting to be cool actually makes you less cool, while not giving a damn? So cool. On that score: Yoon-sung’s super calm and efficient, like he’s only here to get the job done. And Young-ju is all blazing passion, in an understated sort of way, if that contradictory statement makes any sense, and it’s so endearing.
I do wish they’d taken Yoon-sung — or at least his conflict — into darker territory, rather than sort of letting him off the hook. But in the end I’m not complaining because I love the conflict that this stirs in Young-ju — the idea that his enemy may not really be his enemy. I appreciate that they’re giving a second lead this kind of complexity, when a lot of dramas would be piling all the narrative glory onto the hero, and the hero alone, leaving Mr. Second Lead as merely the foil.
Also: I’m starting to get the feeling that Jin-pyo doesn’t just want revenge, and found it particularly telling today when he repeatedly says that Yoon-sung must be the one to shoot the bullet through their enemies’ hearts. He wants to bring Yoon-sung to his side, to share his views, like Darth Vader tempting Luke to the Dark Side. Jin-pyo needs Yoon-sung in a strictly technical sense because Yoon-sung has access he doesn’t with his fresh face and background (as well as youth and an able body), but with all the means at his disposal I’m thinking Yoon-sung wasn’t his only option. But now, I’m starting to think that he needs Yoon-sung to see his point, like it wouldn’t be a complete victory without it. Is it merely validation he seeks? Or is that his twisted way of upholding his brotherhood with Mu-yeol? To give Mu-yeol’s son the right to avenge him, as a beloved father deserves? Is this like Jin-pyo’s way of pressing bloody thumbs together with his best friend’s son to be blood brothers, in shared vengeance? It’s fascinating, for sure.
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151 corn tea
July 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Not a good idea to watch episode 15 preview before bed time.
*must turn brain off*
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152 Freehee
July 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Hmmm, anyone notice the very new picture of Kyung-hee that Jin-pyo had? Maybe there was more to their story as well?
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153 Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 9:21 AM
I'm HERE!
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Celexa
July 13, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Me Too! waiting to see who has episode 15 up first! ^.^
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:32 AM
welcome back!
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Hey, there, Little Lulu!!! Where have you been sweetie?
Have you watched ep 15 yet? ;)
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Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Ani. That's why I'm here. I feel so sorry to you guys I wasn't able to comment for the last episode. I just feel so useless these past few days. Got a major withdrawal syndrome from everything. Work, people, life. Oh yes, including CH. *Mianhe, LMH* Though I kept on reading your comments! But, I'm definitely back on the roll now!
So, where are we? Oh yeah! I'm going to watch RAW for the first time. I'm guilty for not showing up last time so for you guys, I'm going to spoil myself and let's SPAZZ together after. Araso?!
KAJA!
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM
@Little Lulu!! ;)
definitely!! we HAVE to make up for lost time!!!
KAJA!!! KAJA!!! my dear Little Lulu, the one with the name that i just LOOOOOVVVE...Lulu... ;)
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Little Lulu
July 14, 2011 at 12:13 AM
Hahahahah.. AWWW, that's sweet kdl. ^____^ Thanks!
Anyway, I changed my mind last night. So, I'll be watching it tonight. Recap 15 is up. Awww..... TORTURE!
koreandramalover/kay
July 14, 2011 at 2:42 AM
@Little Lulu ;)
don't get distracted...just focus on watching the ep, after which come to the ep 15 recap...and we can continue our chat there... ;)
154 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Ep 15 Raw from Viki:
http://www.viki.com/channels/1820-city-hunter/videos/46802
Sigh. Too many hours to wait. My korean friend invited me over again to watch it at her house but she doesn't speak great English and thus isn't the best translator. It's too torturous for me.
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Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:29 PM
KAMSAHMANIDA!
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155 smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 9:35 AM
Guys, preview for episode 16 is already up in soompi.com
I guess we will see the preview as well in the ending of episode 16 so I'm not gonna post it here and spoil the fun. :)
Ok, right now I'm under deep concentration to resist watching Episode 15 RAW...It taaaaaaaakessss a LOOOOOOOT of work to resist watching it until sub is out...*huhum, huhum*
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smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 9:36 AM
*oops, sorry, i meant "in the ending of episode 15 so I’m not gonna post it here and spoil the fun."
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:41 AM
yes, i know. i started watching the beginning of ep 15 as well but stopped at the part from last ep where young ju grabs YS's ankle----well more like tore myself away. I would DIE not knowing what they were saying!
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smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 9:47 AM
"tore myself away"..glad that I'm not alone :)
Been distracting myself with just about anything just to get away from RAW... Oh it takes a lot of work and DETERMINATION!!
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:49 AM
hehe, I probably didn't make it any easier for you by posting the link on here. But there are those few brave souls who can endure--and god forbid, even enjoy---the beautiful masochistic ecstasy of watching CH raw.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM
For me its going to hours of refreshing DB and googling desperately "CH ep 15 ENG SUB" plus youtubing until tonight even though I KNOW its fruitless. And of course venting my frustration/discoveries/queries on here.
Celexa
July 13, 2011 at 10:27 AM
O.O
I'll blatantly admit I'm an LMH masochist! I'm watching RAW during my lunch hour and subbed tonight :)
Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Oh my, glad I scrolled down. So, I'm not watching it RAW, then.
Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM
You have so much self-control. I couldn't resist and watch 15 raw. To me 15 feels like the calm before the storm and I really need sub to understand all the dialogues. The preview at the end make me even more excited for tomorrow episode.
I really dislike YJ right now and from the preview I think I'll hate him more tomorrow. I thought he promise his boss to step off the City Hunter case and concentrate on investigating target # 4. Ugh...making YS and JP doing all his works.
I have the link to episode 16 preview on youtube if anyone need it. I will post it if there is a request for it, otherwise, I won't post it so as not to spoil tomorrow for anyone.
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Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM
SPOILERS... huhuhuhu!
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:28 PM
@maymay dear ;)
if you could grant me the request for the ep 16 preview, i would be your friend for life... ;)
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 8:42 PM
Not sure if you still need it but here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInNQpgDgw8&feature=player_embedded
Sorry for the late reply. I was busy trying to finish all my homeworks so that tomorrow I am free to enjoy episode 16.
koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM
@Maymay
thank you for the link! and you are not late 'cause i just sent the request abt 30 mins ago.. ;)
hope you get to finish your homework so you can watch ep 16 ;)
156 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:45 AM
OH NO! I JUST WATCHED EP 15 PREVIEW. I COULDN'T STOP MYSELF! And OH SHIT now i'm going to feel the burning urgency of anticipation EVEN WORSE! DAMMIT wish I could fastforward the next few hours or that I had Hermione Granger's time turner! Somebody---preferably an IT tecchie geek---invent time machines already!
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157 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM
If someone walked up to me right now with a little box containing a dvd or something of CH eng subbed and asked me for an obscene amount of money, I'm pretty sure I'd go rob a bank for them.
I wonder how much money sub-ers make? Well, I think they should make more, b/c they truly deserve it!
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM
They don't make any money at all really. All their works is for free. It mostly the love for the drama that they are working so hard. That why I feel bad when people complain about how slow they are.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM
that's what I figured. That's why I'm not complaining---am I?--was I?
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:06 AM
It's not you I'm referring to, but at this other site I visited, I notice people are always rushing the subbers to work faster.
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smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM
yeah, i think I know which site you're talking about maymay.
Kinda sad for these people who put up too much effort subbing SHOW in less than 24 hours. :(
158 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Okay that's it, I'm opening my calculus book RIGHT NOW and doing 50+ problems.
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Good luck concentrating on that. All morning I have been trying to read my Bio textbook but couldn't get past the first page. Thoughts of CH and what is going to happen tomorrow have been distracting me all morning. I have long since giving up the idea that I'm going to be able to do anything productive on Wed and Thursday.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM
I KNOW! I was thinking, did I willingly enter into this mental/emotional servitude?
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Little Lulu
July 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM
I have long since giving up the idea that I’m going to be able to do anything productive on Wed and Thursday.
The same here!
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159 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM
WTF?! I just refreshed the Viki page and city hunter was 3% subbed but after refreshing it was only 2% subbed!!!! Seriously? Is the universe conspiring against me? Did it hear my plea for hurtling forward into time and is thus getting back at me by moving backwards?
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:03 AM
its STILL only 2% subbed. Time, I'm considering getting a divorce from you. However, if you move a little faster it might only be a temporary legal seperation.
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Haha thameryst, you are so funny. Are you still working on your Calculus problems?
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160 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:19 AM
The book has yet to be opened and is, in fact, lying facedown on my desk crying mournfully, completely jealous of the undeniable fact that all my attention has been usurped by CH. But I think I'd better pay SOME attention to the little beast. Calculus is rather vindictive, and like Jin-pyo, does not take to betrayal very lightly.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:20 AM
crap. this was meant to be a reply, not a seperate post. CH, I'm not sure this love of mine for you is very healthy.
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Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM
I guess we all know it's not healthy. That's how loving a vampire is. Sucking....sucking just everything in us.
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:26 PM
@thameryst!! LOL!!! you are toooo funnny!!! ;)
but you are not alone in your predicament!! ;)
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Oh great, now every time I see a Calculus book I'm going to be thinking of JP. I can just see him now hovering over my shoulder threatening me to get the correct answer or else he will stab my hand with his sword-cane.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM
LOL :)
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Little Lulu
July 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Oh.. CUTE.
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:41 PM
@maymay!!! LOL!!! HAHAHA!!! you are hilarious!! ;)
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161 koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 10:22 AM
the ep 15 raw is up at dramacrazy.net :
http://www.dramacrazy.net/korean-drama/city-hunter-episode-15/
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162 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Now CH is 3% subbed. Time, I believe this is truly the end for us. Pack all your memories and get out.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:26 AM
now its 4% subbed. sorry that's just not going to cut it.
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Celexa
July 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Even at 50% it's still hard to follow if there is a lot of detailed dialogue :(
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Celexa
July 13, 2011 at 10:31 AM
You're so funny! Thanks for the laugh... now quite fantazising with City Hunter and go do some Calculus!
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:35 AM
sorry, I already gave Calculus over 5 hours last night. It will have to wait until after my lunch break or possibly after midnight (which is usually get done with CH).
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:36 AM
oh since its lunchtime for you, are you in the U.S. as well? Is it alright to inquire what part you live in?
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Not sure who you are asking but it seems to be only you, me and Celexa online right now.
I live in Texas. It is my lunch break but I'm not eating since I'm on a diet. I need to be skinny like Nana.
I finally make it to page two of my Bio text, so maybe you should try to solve one Calculus problem.
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:55 AM
actually solved three just now. We made a compromise. Every three problems equals a DB break.
I was talking to Celexa, but its cool to hear from you as well. I'm in Oklahoma so you're not far at all. I drive to Texas about one weekend a month. It's far more interesting there!
Celexa
July 13, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Hey Thameryst... Yeap.. I'm in The Great State of Texas!
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Hey, a fellow Texan.
How are you surviving the heat this year? I feel like dying and wishing winter come early this year.
corn tea
July 13, 2011 at 5:16 PM
I am in Tejas, too! Did ya'll remember in episode 2 when Daddy JP gave YS his fake US identification, he told YS he is now John Lee from Texas. There was even a Texas driver license shown on screen.
163 thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Oh I just figured out a perfect solution: just watch LMH in personal taste which is the second best thing to watching him in CH (BOF would be the third best thing). Well, I've been watching PT all week but still...and its my lunch break as well. Yes, will do.
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Venus
July 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM
LOOOOOOL is so funny cause I have been replaying all my PT fave moments....LMH do you have any idea how much we are obssesing about you....and you have no clue that u are famous in all over the world.....
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 11:06 AM
Of course he has no time to have a clue. He is working so hard earning the right to all that adoration and obsession.
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164 Venus
July 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM
OK OK just like you guys I have been stalking every site related to CH the anticipation was driving me baty, but I got to watch it raw, actually I love watching raw first cause I pay more attention to the acting and other deatails, but i'm sure by the time I get home the subs will be up.
I love this episode it was so calm, tender and so funny, I just crack up, basically this was JY episode in my opinion, but the storm is coming I could feel it...can somebody tell me HOW LMHOT makes a raggidy hospital clothe sooooo HOT/ADORABLE...I swear he is driving me crazy with his HOTNEZZZZ....
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Maymay
July 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM
I see you feel the same way. If LMH can make wearing pink skinny jeans look hot, the hospital clothes is nothing to him. I bet he'll look yummier in a ragged towel.
Okay, taking my mind out of the gutter and back to reading my boring Bio homework.
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Venus
July 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM
awwww good Luck with BIO...I suck at math and science to I admired people for taking on these 2 subjects.
LOOOOL @ ragged towel couldn't agree more....
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM
@Venus ;)
i agree with you on what you said abt the ep but for the sake of others who do not wish to be spoiled with spoilers, i would just like to add that to me ep 15 is the ep to pay closer attention to LMH's utterly seductive voice... ;)
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 12:16 PM
really, cause I thought every ep was the one to do that. but yes, my ears will be particularly, twitchingly attuned to it for this ep!
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:19 PM
@thameryst dear! ;)
i can't agree with you more!! hehe!!
i too think that in every episode, LMH's ultra-smooth, ultra-sexy-seductive voice just blows me away... ;)
hehe...
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165 smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM
you guys are really cute with all the talk about calculus books and stuff :) Making me wish I'm back to a university instead of being here at work, stuck with meetings all day and with end-of-day deadlines..(*grrr)
Darn, too much craziness for CH/LMH.
The good news is since my boss just gave me a pile of work to do which needs to be submitted within 4 hours, it will help me "break" myself away from RAW. Just imagine the crazy resistance going on over here *LOL*
Oh, and for me to still be satisfied while waiting for subs, stalking DB today won't be wiped off on my task. :)
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Venus
July 13, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Smash I hear you, me too I'm here stuck between all this paper work and so dying to go home get some food and watch CH....and of wait for DB/GF recaps and then wait for ep. 16..... Good luck on trying to keep away from LMH....
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM
@smashingalou dear!! ;)
i truly admire your will-power!! haha!! ;)
but then, you know, at the end of submitting your work, you have LMH waiting to reward you for your hard work! ;)
so its a win-win situation!! go, smashingalou!! ;)
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thameryst
July 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Good Luck with that!
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smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM
thank you dear sisters for the support
@kaye, @thameryst @venus...you guys are so sweet for wishing me luck...
now I was able to resist watching it RAW which finally means my love for CH/LMH now blossomed into an UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!!! That I can fight anything as long as our CH/LMH is here to stay... :)
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM
@smashingalou dearest ;)
you are most welcome!! ;)
what are sisters for? ;)
and can i join you in the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE you have for CH and LMH?? ;)
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166 smashingalou
July 13, 2011 at 4:39 PM
yay! I was able to resist it!! *chicken dance*
Now viki's 100% subbed and I'm going to watch allll ttthe waaay...*can't wait, can't wait*
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koreandramalover/kay
July 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM
@smashingalou sweetie!! ;)
YEAH!! way to go!!! i knew you could do it!!! BRAVO!!!
now, go and reward yourself, dear, 'cause you certainly deserve it... ;)
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167 widy
July 13, 2011 at 8:23 PM
just watched ep.15 with eng sub and now waiting for dramabeans recap!!!! cant hardly wait anymoreee
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168 Aisling
July 15, 2011 at 8:29 AM
I really want Yoon-sung to have a happy ending... but everytime there's an exchange with Jin Pyo, it just seems that the noose around him gets tighter and tighter... and the chances of him breaking out becomes slimmer and slimmer...
But after this episode it seems that there might be a way out for Yoon-sung after all... Jin Pyo's bad businessman personna Steve Lee might be able to take the fall for Yoon-sung...
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169 my_diaries
July 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM
After i watched the episode i'm coming here to read ur recap :)) thanks xx
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170 Eugenia
July 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM
Edit: It's around $500 million that Chun needs, not $5 million. :)
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171 www
July 27, 2011 at 3:58 AM
maybe coz i'm watching in 1080p but i keep noticing little trivial flaws in editing... lol like when a ys' car parked facing towards in 1 shot, then next shot is facing away...
and in this ep when he stabs his hand, the shot that he pulls the letter opener out his hand is clearly not injured when he flings it around in front of the camera.... looooooool
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172 eeeee
August 12, 2011 at 7:12 PM
This is one of the very rare drama that I'm savoring each scenes and I hope it will never end...
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173 Rachel
December 1, 2011 at 6:45 AM
I have a strong feeling that Lee Jun-Hyuk just looks a little bit like Song Seung-Heon. Must be the hair and the suits.
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174 xRazer
January 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM
Does anyone know what the actress name that plays Chun Jae-man’s secretary?
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175 SR_41210
January 19, 2020 at 1:14 AM
so i am rewatching this drama and while reading your comments and seeing how you noticed these few details that are super important in the upcoming events makes me want to say wow! you're really smart !!!i didn't notice a thing when i had watched it for the first time....
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