The story doesn't make sense at all anymore. Changing the present to change the past doesn't seem very logical. At the point, it's the same person just in a present setting, so I'm not sure why the story needed to take place in present. She just could get back in the past before her wedding to change things.

Tae-Min was the only one right, both his mum and his grand-father are bad. But he could just have left them instead to become like this.

The couple is still cute, so it's the only reason I'm watching it.

Agree about the jump to the future…it doesn’t make sense as it can’t change the past. The lead couple sharing a twisted fate when both are innocent is also bringing me down but only 2 more episodes to go so I’ll make it to the end. Why do I sense an ending that defies all logic?

I agree with you DaebakGrits.  Thank you for the well written recap.
The show has basically lost the plot. 
The only thing keeping me watching is our adorable OTP and even then the writer has wasted so much potential with their great chemistry. What was the point of Taemin? It all seems like a waste of the actors' time.
 I will be FF'ing  through the last two episodes and only watching our OTP and Sa wol.
 The show has given me no reason to care about anything else. 
Sadly In hulk's dimples aren’t enough to save this show despite their hard work.
Again, another show that has been subjected to the scriptwriters curse of 2023.

Shouldn’t the villains be atoning for their sins in their new incarnations? Like, shouldn’t they be the snails that Tae-ha runs over with his car or something?

Yes, they should.

Here lies the big difference between reincarnation kdrama-style and in major Eastern religions, where people who have been good people get reincarnated as something higher, while evil people get reincarnated as cockroaches or telemarketers. Presumably a dog who was a good dog gets reincarnated as a cat(?). But in kdramaland powerful evil bastards get reincarnated as powerful evil lookalike bastards. I don't see how that fits into any major religion's view of just rewards and punishments.

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How can we have a happy ending if our besties are separated?

No. So I think our leads just have to pull some magic trick out of their as*** hats to cheat Fate, and do their happy-ever-aftering in current times.

I can understand her travelling into the future: she unravels the truth of the Past crime and shakes up the Current Grandpa's machinations.

What I don't get is why Yeonwoo has to return. She established herself well in the modern times and she loves Current Taeho, not Past Taeho. Plus she has always been a modern women, she was ahead of her time already in Joseon.

As sad as as Yeonwoo's past was, I had thought that was it and that Yeonwoo just got a chance to live in modern times (instead of being... dead) as the reward from the Time Lady. And that this time she and New Taeho would beat Evil and get their HE.

@daebakgrits Agree with you on every count.

Apart from our main and secondary OTP, the plot has always been boring, but now it totally sucks. Yeon Woo getting kidnapped, a new villain and him trying to kill greedy granpa in plain sight after carefully orchestrating his revenge seems random and illogical. I will definitely thrash this drama and writer if they give an open ending to the OTPs after giving us 10 episodes of cuteness and bond developing between them.

On a side note, the secretary's fight scenes look like he is the real hero. Not only does he have his own relationship arc, but the drama showed Sa Wol making attempts to bond with his sister. It was a mini drama in drama. Loved it!

Well looks like we are all in agreement. We are watching for the OTP and second leads, the rest is shenanigans.

The travel to the present only made sense if it was meant for Yeon Woo to live her life with her reincarnated love. But it should not be able to change the past. She should be able to learn from the past to ensure the married life she enjoys now will not be in vain. That is why I do not agree that she should return back to Joseon even if it was to save her parents.
I still love Tae Ha and Yeon Woo. I don't like their fate though. I hope it will make sense in the last two episodes.

Another thing that didn't sit well with me was when Sawol expressed her feeling of inadequacy to Sung Pyo, his response was to ask her to marry him. She accepted but I felt he should've offered something else to fix it. Imo, he shouldve offered to help her find what she likes to do in New Joseon and even support her dreams.

I am starting to like Tae Min. I hope that Tae Ha and him can improve their relationship. Both are unfortunate to be born in that family.

I am dreading the two week wait for the last two episodes.

The show follows no logic--internally or externally. In a good fantasy story, some rules of how things work are laid out so there is an understanding of how things work. Other than Cheonmyung appearing periodically to explain a little something, we get no clue. Also, the show doesn't follow any logic of how things work in the real world. If his heart is failing, he can't run unless he can and he has, but sometimes he just watches. His heart is an issue except for the long periods of time when it isn't.

The OTP is sweet, but a bit dense. Why does Yeon Woo go to see the grandfather alone after they find out he killed Tae Ha's mother and killed her parents in the past life? She is told of how everything is repeating itself, but she wants grandfather to apologize? Would Tae Ha forgive him for killing his mom and he would feel better? That makes no sense. As for Tae Ha, he hasn't gone back to the doctor again, and there is no treatment plan other than love. Yeon Woo was traumatized by having her first husband die on her, and yet, he doesn't seem to be making any effort to see if there is some modern medical treatment that can keep him alive.

Hye Sook isn't as evil as originally depicted. In fact, her family's company was used to shore up the SH company. Her right and desire to have a share and say of the company doesn't seem so unfair. In fact, she actually seems a much better executive than Tae Ha, who, although he is a nice guy, doesn't seem that competent in business and now doesn't seem like he has more right to the company than Hye Sook or Tae Min for that matter if it is just based on family rights.

The lack of logic makes it hard to care about any of the plot lines; at this point, I have stopped trying to figure any of it out. All I know that if Yeon Woo or Sa Wol go back, they will suffer because it is hard to have had the freedom of the modern life to return to lives as women (and Sa Wol, a servant) in the Joseon period. And that will be noble idiocy indeed.

The drama really does feel like a throwback to 10-15 years ago before writers and producers realized that audiences have gotten more saavy, especially with all these avenues to discuss theories and such.

I'm enjoying the OTP and secondary OTP and how there is a tiny bit of conscience to some of the side characters, like evil stepmom (I would be mad too if my family money saved the company and then was treated so ungratefully) and delusional coworker. And I'm amazed at how normal Tae-min is given the environment he's been raised in.

I don't understand the cursed fate. Was there some resentful Joseon shaman involved that we didn't meet? As nonsensical as it would be, I hope our girls travel to the past to lock up the bad guys and so that Yeon-woo could see that her parents are okay and then be able to travel back to the present.

Again, I'm still confused as to what SH does. Are they in the art/cultural heritage business? I thought it was shopping malls?

I think cheonmyeong did mention how she can only move yeonwoo's timeline, for her to discover how to avoid this bad fate, as a payback of her grandpa's kindness sort of. Then it kinda make sense that she needs to travel back to this era to have more freedom and possibilities to avoid the doom, and perhaps find a solution for the past as well

I don't think I'd mind the time travel if it made sense. We've only got two episodes left, and we still don't really know why Yeonwoo and Taeha's fate keeps repeating and is always bad. Or why going to the future was the way to fix it. In a much earlier episode they showed flashes of other lives that also ended badly, but they haven't brought it up since. It all comes back to the writing, which is just all over the place. As a viewer I feel like the show has given us all this information but I have no idea what it all really means in the grand scheme of things.

I am still enjoying this show and I think it has done well in answering some of the questions presented in the first half.
- motivations of the Chairman and CEO Min both in present and past
- the truth of what happened to Yeon Woo's family and Taeha's parents
- Cheon Myeong and why she is invested in Yeon Woo and Taeha, though the real truth of why Taeha will die because of Yeon Woo's presence in the present has not been revealed. Cheon Myeong has always been about how humans have the choice to choose in whatever circumstances life presents them. We see that even though the chairman and CEO are powerful, greed has made them make decisions that has been tragic for the people around them.
On the other hand, Yeon Woo and her family represent the opposite which is how love you choose or are born with can make you strong despite life's curveballs.
- The progression of the leads falling in love and supporting each other. It has been a long time since I have been invested in the outcome of the characters of at tv show (Game of Thrones). So I am looking forward on seeing how the show will wrap up things. Episode 11 preview - Taeha wanting to live and begging the doctor to save him and Yeon Woo choosing to leave Taeha to save him. I'm rooting for the couple to change their fate. I do think she will be sent back in the time before the wedding.

I feel like I say this alot but once again, I was confused. I was confused by the grandfather's motivations. He manipulated Tae Ha to get married and then he got rid of the almost fake bride 2 or 3 times? He knew about his heart ailment but he still manipulated him with the forced marriage, when the whole reason Tae Ha didn't want to date or get married is because of his heart (sidenote: 2023 Tae Ha's heart didn't seem like it would kill him at any time since he could take meds so not sure he couldn't do anything but I guess it was just too much of a hassle)

It was said Tae Ha was born out if wedlock? But then couldn't they have just gotten married after he was born? And how could he just lock her away in a dark room? Did the son think she was abroad getting treatment, never contacting anyone?

Maybe all of this has been answered in the show and I missed it.

I don't get all the "change the present, change the past" moments. I also don't understand why it seem has if Tae Ha & Yeon Woo have *repeatedly* gone through this when it's apparently only been these 2 lives.

I wasn't surprised about the CEO having something more to her than murderous blind ambition because the scene when she couldn't destroy her late husband's painting of Tae Ha's mother exists. I almost feel bad for her.

I gave up watching the moment the noble idiocy raised its head in episode 8. I know it will be temporary but I'm not prepared to go through it for the umpteenth time. When will k-drama leads understand that a partnership means figuring things out together?

I find myself increasingly irritated, not only by the things that happen but also the things that don't - not just in this drama but others too. For instance, Yeon-woo flying for the first time and speculating on what clouds are made of and can she eat them (how do they taste?). Now I'm sure she did wonder about things like that 200 years ago but she's travelled to the future where she can find out at the click of a button most of the things she ever wondered about. She has shown no curiosity at all, and how realistic is that? Imagine if we went 200 years into the future and found out certain things were no longer a mystery. Wouldn't we at least be interested in knowing how and why?

There is so much mileage in time travel but it seems when writers pick that genre as a mechanism they fail to use all the ideas it throws up and just hang their usual stupid stories on it, just as happened with Castaway Diva (15 years on a desert island did not result in a resourceful, inventive woman that could turn random components into working objects). Instead, totally ignoring how she survived at all, she was presented as little better than a gullible child.

I would far rather the environment and situations that characters are plunged into created changes and new avenues to go down, instead of just some temporary window dressing that apparently has no effect on them at all.

I fear I have fallen out of love with lazy k-dramas that don't make the most of new possibilities, that recycle the same old, same old, that have me hitting the delete button more times this year than any other.

2024, please amaze me.

Yes, our leads are adorable together. But... I feel bothered about how the our Joseon travelers are coping with the modern world. From the start, they handled the transition really well and adapted so quickly that sometimes I forget that they are from Joseon. One drama that handled the transition from Joseon to the modern world really well and realistically was Live Up to Your Name.

This show went from Rom-Com to Rom-BOMB! I'm only going to watch the next two episodes because of the ROM.

The beginning was so tropey yet fresh. What happened?