[Drama 2020-2021] A Man in a Veil, 비밀의 남자

[yamiyugi]

Okay so while waiting for the last and latest episode of Mom Is Having An Affair to get subbed I decided to check out this show as well. Will say that the first episode was a bit confusing and it certainly didn’t help that we were introduced to a bunch of characters that we have to remember and all Infact one family that was introduced seemed to have no connection to the main characters so far so have to see how they are related and whatnot.

 

Anyway while I suspect that everyone that wants to watch this show is already here so this won’t be very helpful at all I still decided to recap just the first episode. Just in case someone else might get interested after getting an idea of it and all.

 

Spoiler

 

The show initially starts with a young man following a police officer to the morgue. He is our main lead Tae Poong. Even at a glance we can tell that he is one of those special need guys. Once inside he finds his mother on a slab and he can’t understand why she is simply sleeping there or why she is so cold that the police have to pry him away from her body.

 

The next scene shows just how irresponsible the police are in this show because Tae Poong is in a car with a bunch of Rent A Thugs driving him to some mysterious location. Clearly nefearious thoughts in their mind. Come to think of it let’s not blame the cops over here but the writer because after closer examination it seems like Tae Poong is wearing different clothes from when we last saw him at the morgue. But we don’t know how much time has actually passed. He also seems to be dressed in what one wears at a hospital so there is that as well. Regardless of this we see that Tae Poong atleast has been taught that he shouldn’t go with strangers thus he wants to go home and wonders why these strangers are taking him and all. He also establishes the fact that it can be extremely dangerous to talk on a phone while driving.

 

So being the kind hearted soul that he is he tries to bring this fact to the driver’s attention. Unfortunately, this results in the car getting into an accident. Tae Poong takes this chance to try and make a quick getaway. The Rent a Thugs have also made a fast recovery even though none of them were wearing seatbelts. So they give chase to him and eventually catch up to him near the river or someplace like that. They again try and drag him away. But he now knows for a fact that these people are upto no good and they get into a struggle. One of the Rent A Thug has enough of this nonsense especially after witnessing one of his fellow Thugs getting bitten by Tae Pong. So he conveniently finds a rod or wood plank lying nearby and hit and whacks Tae Poong on the head with it. Will this blow jolt Tae Poong to his senses and will he miraculously heal and become some sort of genius? Unfortunately, we will never know for the time being because he ends up falling into the water. This frustrates the thugs because they just lost their payday and perhaps even their reputation. Hopefully nobody will hire them after this day.

 

Unfortunately for the Thugs they aren’t the only ones frustrated because now it is time for us viewers to feel the same frustration as well. Turns out to be a brand new day and Tae Poong seems to be healthy as an ox. Or as healthy as one can be in his mental condition. He is cutely dressed in a Mickey Mouse T Shirt and is clearly heading somewhere. Jumping up the steps and garnering stares as well. but he doesn’t seem to be affected by any of that. How did he get here is a mystery is this a time jump or the past and we will slowly end up to the river scene? Let’s wait and find out.

 

Our next scene is a fancy house. Once inside we get to watch Tae Poong’s mother totally fine and preparing for her dead husband’s memorial. Even her worker/helper is impressed by said fact. So I guess we are currently in a flashback period. Atleast that has been answered but again the writer has been totally unhelpful so we have no idea of the range of this and all. Anyway mom mentions how Tae Poong has recently been craving some short ribs and due to that she has already gotten them and prepared them as well. The helper just needs to prepare them later on. The helper can’t help but comment of how easy her son has it due to his condition and all. If he wants something his mother makes it so. She suddenly realizes her mistake and tries to tone it down. Fortunately, his mother is side tracked by the fact that he should have woken up by now so she goes to check up on him.

 

Turns out that Tae Poong has finally arrived at his destination. We are now finally introduced to our female lead the better half of the twins and namely Yu Jung. She has been selling Kimbap roles to make some extra money. Tae Poong clearly has a crush on her and has therefore brought her some cold water in another Mickey Mouse flask. Clearly we can suspect who he is a fan of. I guess it would be interesting to see who he likes more Yu Jung or Mickey Mouse. Yu Jung on the other hand is clearly grateful for the cold and refreshing water. He then asks her how her business is going on. She mentions that she unfortunately miscalculated today and therefore prepared more than she can possibly sell before the rush hour is over and all. So he volunteers to help her out but she seems hesitant to accept it help. But even she can’t say no to his logic that two heads are better than one. Therefore, with his help she is successful in selling of all her products and all.

 

After sucesfully selling all the Kimbap they decide to head home. Initially we see Tae Poong be the total gentleman so he volunteers to help her carry the case in which she had prepared them but shortly hands it back to her. But this is only because he spots an elderly person carting away empty cardboard boxes but they haven’t tied them up properly. Tae Poong the helpful soul that he is rushes forward to help said person. Eventually the two of them return home.

 

It turns out that she is living at his place since her parents are servants/helpers over there. his mother’s assistant was her mother and her dad serves the role as family driver and gardener. Dad is impressed that she managed to sell all of them and is also grateful towards Tae Poong for his help. Though since it is breakfast time they all head towards their respective areas to enjoy it.

 

 

We are now introduced to more members of Yu Jung’s family. Turns out that she has a brother who is apparently also a leech of sorts and it doesn’t help that their mother is an enabler. Turns out that it really wasn’t Tae Poong that wanted those ribs that his mother painstakingly prepared but her brother. Turns out that the brother has gotten Tae Poong’s number and has thus figured out that he will get them anything that they want if he is properly hinted. Not sure if he knows that Tae Poong has a crush on his sister or not and is trying to impress his future In Laws and whatnot. Yu Jung on the other hand is clearly not impressed by her brother’s stunt and warns him that this is the last time that she will let this matter slide. She also reminds him of how his stunt previously nearly affected Tae Poong. Turns out that her brother wanted to try out lobsters and had gotten Tae Poong to get some for him. Unfortunately for Tae Poong it turns out that he has an allergic reaction to them. I suspect that this bit of information is going to play an important role in the future. Leech unfortunately isn’t all that phased by this information and tries to justify his actions by pointing out they now know thanks to this incident that Tae Poong is allergic to them and all. Sigh know that he is one of those characters that we won’t like all that much in the future.

 

Mom is back to complaining how easy Tae Poong has it and how is mother is spoiling him instead of making him independent after all parents tend to pass away before their children and when that happens who will take care of Tae Poong. Leech at this point reminds her that she shouldn’t be like this considering how Tae Poong ended up in his mentally disable condition and all. This gets everyone at the table awkward. Fortunately, Dad manages to change the subject by bringing up the other half of Yu Jung aka her twin sister Yura and how she was auditioning for a role as a radio host at her company. Every one of her family wishes her well (she is already at her job) and that she succeeds considering that she has been working at her company for quite some time and if they had any ethics they would certainly give her the job that she deserved and all.

 

We are finally introduced to Yura who is at the audition with a fellow competitor for the radio host spot. The competitor goes first unfortunately she flubs so badly that the judge stops her in the middle of her presentation and moves on to Yura. Yura on the other hand impresses not only the judge but we can even see that the competitor realizes the difference between then and isn’t liking the result.

 

After the audition Yura is walking alongside another fellow worker who I will be referring to as baldy from now on since I don’t know his name and he is bald as well. Turns out that he knows some inside scoop and lets Yura know about it as well. apparently she was the favourite to win as long as she didn’t make any major mistakes. Yura on the other hand believes in fair play and that she hopes that the judges won’t judge on seniority but based on the skill displayed during the auditions. Regardless they all think that she should get the spot considering all the years that she spent at the company and all. At this point they spot another coworker passing by. Baldy apparently has information regarding said person as well and brings up said fact to Yura. He informs her that said person was actually an undercover brother. Ie someone from a rich family who was pretending to be a normal worker (I think his family may even have some shares at their company but I can’t be a 100% sure). This person tried his level best to keep his cover by even driving a modest car and all but he wasn’t fooling anybody or atleast those in the know hows. This guy is Seo Joon.

 

Baldy clearly has a man crush on him and is gushing about how lucky the girl to be is going to be (one who marries Seo Joon) as he seems to have it all looks wealth etc… He suddenly realizes that he is embarrassing himself in front of Yura that he excuses himself and makes a hasty retreat. Yura is on her way when suddenly an arm grabs her and drags her away into an empty room. Turns out that it belongs to Seo Joon and these two are an item but at the same time they are secretly dating. Yura is thrilled yet at the same time cautions him what are they going to do if they get caught by some of their coworkers. He reassures her that they are safe since people hardly enter here unless they have work.

 

He wonders how her audition went like a good boyfriend and she is confident that it went well. So he suggests that they should go and celebrate it on Jeju Island. She points out that while it certainly sounds nice she is unsure if they could make it in one day. Seo Jung cheekily suggests that they could easily make it a 2 days and 1 night trip. But she reminds him that there would be no hanky panky before marriage. That means no sleepovers before then or the advanced steps that could follow. Seo Jung takes it well and does point out that while she seems to be in the modern society and all she has the thinking of one from the Joseon period. Yet he lets the matter slide and instead suggests that they have dinner in its place. Unfortunately for him she has to let him down again since she has to snag an important interview

 

Seo Jung is confident that if she manages to get that interview she is sure to get some more brownie points which will further help her secure the radio host position that she so desires. (turns out that the person that she wants to interview is hard to do so thus his comment). They finally part with her giving him cute kisses to make up for not being for dinner and all and leave the room.

 

We are then finally introduced to Seo Jung’s family. As of now we are introduced to his mother and aunt? Aunt is clearly trying to still use the excuse that she is jet lagged for her late awakenings even though it has been three months since her return to Korea. As for his mother she works for some charitable foundation I guess (owns/works not much different) and then plans on meeting her husband for lunch afterwards.

 

This leads us to his dad aka the Chairman of his company attending a presentation. Unfortunately for everyone the presenter is a total bore that people seem to have their attention elsewhere if they haven’t already gotten bored to sleep. The Chairman realizes this and tells the presenter to relax and take it easy. He has also realized that the presenter must be under a lot of pressure since he has not only been promoted recently but that this is also his first presentation. The presenter is clearly grateful for this chance. however, we don’t find out the results of the presentation because we next see the chairman return to his office to find his wife waiting for him over there.

 

He clearly isn’t all that happy to find his wife in his office and lets her know this fact. He reminds her that her sudden appearance like that is bad for the worker morale and whatnot so she should make a prior appointment before showing up. She is clearly hurt by all this but pretends that her showing up wasn’t intentional as she had left home due to her work at the foundation and was thinking of meeting up with their son after she was done. Fortunately for the chairman a Thug in Training shows up to remind him of his next appointment that he has to head out to. So the chairman excuses himself and leaves for it. His assistant (I jokingly referenced him as the thug in training) shares a look with his (chairman’s) wife before leaving as well.

 

We finally return to Tae Poong. He is busy getting ready for his job. Apparently he is working as a barista at a coffee shop and all. His mother wishes him luck. Fortunately for him Yoo Jung also works alongside him. Things possibly can’t go wrong at this point now can they. Their boss then gives them their order that they have just received from a nearby company with specific instructions to make one without milk and add the substitute for it. The entire team gets to work on it. Since this is a 3-man team the coworker tells Tae Poong to prepare the milk and let her know which is the one with soymilk while she prepares the coffee. He does exactly that. Unfortunately, when he points out the different milk she is busy on her phone. Clearly she hasn’t heard of not using the phone for personal use during work hours. Regardless the orders are done and Tae Poong heads out to deliver them. At the company he hands it over to the employees outside and even mentions that the marked one is the one prepared especially with soymilk and heads back to work.

 

If anyone is wondering what Yura is upto not to worry. Turns out that Yura is planning on waiting for her target to finish her performance and then ask for her interview once she is done. Unfortunately, she doesn’t get a chance because the interviewers assistant brushes her off and quickly escorts her target out of there. Will Yura be discouraged and give up or push ahead like the bulldozer that she is. Something that caught the eye of Seo Joon and why he fell for her.

 

We don’t find out because the scene has shifted once more and this time we are introduced to another family. As far as I can tell they aren’t connected to any of the main characters so I really can’t see their purpose at the moment. Regardless I feel that this family seems to have the best dynamics so far from all the families shown so far. Am a bit unsure about the uncle but other than that it is okay. Anyway back to the scene at hand. The daughter is running away from her mother who is furious at her for spending the night outside the home without informing anyone about it. fortunately for the daughter the dad shows up and decides to cover for her by informing his wife that she had contacted him that she was having a sleepover with a friend but it had slipped his mind and thus he forgot to inform her about it. Dad clearly loves his wife as well as his daughter since his wife gets a minor cut but he tends to make a major deal out of it. To the extent that both daughter and her uncle have to leave at it. Too much sweetness for them to handle.

 

Tae Poong is cheering up a crying kid at the coffee shop when an angry customer shows up demanding to see the owner. Meanwhile his mother is busy preparing of her husband’s memorial with Yoo Kyung’s mother when she receives a phone call which makes her head out.

 

Turns out that the angry customer was actually the mother of the person that was allergic to milk and had asked for the coffee made out of soymilk. Turns out that the orders had indeed gotten mixed up and she wanted to know just what kind of ship the manager ran. The manager decided to diffuse the situation so he got Tae Poong to apologize to the mother. unfortunately, that doesn’t solve the problem as the mother then starts to find an issue with why Tae Poong was hired when he is mentally disabled and all. Yoo Kyung who is also there for some reason gets ticked off at that and tries to defend Tae Poong but that only seems to make matters worse. The manager tries to get her to apologize as well. Fortunately, Tae Poong mother shows up. She starts to apologize for his mistake as well. initially the victim’s mother isn’t satisfied and tells her that it would have been better if she had sent Tae Poong to a facility especially since they could afford it and whatnot. At this point his mother gets on her knees and apologizes once again and promises to take care of her daughters medical bills and compensate them for his mistake.

 

Apparently Tae Poong and Yoo Kyung are given an early day off so they head home after said incident.

 

Finally, the mother gets to attend her husband’s memorial. She talks with her husband’s picture for a bit before we get into a bit of a flashback. Turns out that young Tae Poong was quite smart and had a bright future ahead of him. We then discover that he was involved in some sort of accident which resulted in his current state. She then checks on a sleeping Tae Poong and hopes that her wish comes true.

 

Yura on the other hand hasn’t given up on her desire get the interview that she wants to the extent that even though it is late at night she is standing outside a house in the hopes of getting it. finally, her target notices her patience and lets her inside. Her first question is how did she manage to track her down since this place isn’t known to a lot of people. Even her managers don’t know about her secret hideout. She is them impressed that Yura did her due diligence in finding out especially when you consider that her source was a now defunct magazine. So she decides to reward her by doing that interview that she so wanted.

 

Yoo Kyung finally finds Tae Poong mother drinking away her worries. So she decides to join her. We then finally discover the mothers wish. She knows that this is a hard world especially for someone like her son. That is why she wants to be always there for him till he dies. At that point she feels that her job will finally be over thus she intends to follow him the day after. (I guess she wants the day to prepare for his funeral and all before joining him and her husband in the afterlife). Kind of sweet. Yoo Kyung tries to tell her that she doesn’t need to worry since Tae Poong isn’t alone and that he has all of them as well who would love to take care of him as family as well. At that point she receives a call from their coworker who has finally realized that the milk incident was her fault and that she wanted to apologize for said mistake. Yoo Kyung mentions this fact to the mother and assures her that she would clear up the misunderstanding with their manager thus Tae Poong would be free to return to work the next day. But his mother is against this as this isn’t exactly the first incident that has happened to him.

 

The next day she decides to go for her medical checkup were she discovers some shocking news. It turns out that she has cancer and due to it being in her final stages and all she has at most two to three years at best to live. Clearly her wish to die a day later after her son is thrown out of the window at this point. What is she going to do now? While thinking all this she leaves the doctor’s office to find Tae Poong dutifully waiting for her. All that she can do at this point is to hug him and let him know that she loves him.

 

At this point the episode finally ends. So does this recap. Now we can discuss other things.

 

Spoiler

 

Okay normally I don’t talk about previews and instead stick to the episode itself that I recap. But since I won’t be in this thread I will be making an exception. Perhaps later on when I get the time will join it.

 

Anyway we learn a bit though mostly it is all about Yura which isn’t surprising considering that she is the evil second lead and all.

 

The first thing to note is Baldy congratulating Yura on getting the spot that she wanted. Only for smirky little competitor to get it instead. This results in a catfight between the two. Unfortunately for Yura this means competitors mother gets involved as well who ends up slapping her for hitting her daughter and all. Which then results in Yura getting drunk and finally throwing her principles to the wind and sleeping with Seo Joon or atleast doing the tango with him.

 

If one thinks about it everything seems to be connected. Yura clearly got the spot but competitor couldn’t deal with said fact so she used her family influence in some way to get elected for the spot instead. Showing she comes from a rich or influential background. The catfight further demonstrated it when Yura probably got the upper hand in it. thus her (competitors) mother had to get involved again which resulted in her slapping Yura because she knew that she could get away with it as Yura had nobody supporting her and what not.

 

This finally resulted in Yura stepping into the Dark Side. She knows that Seo Joon is rich and if he has her back she can use him as her stepping stone and reach the top as well. It also helps that he actually has feelings for her and wants to bed her. So she is going to use that to her advantage. She probably thinks that if she gets pregnant with his kid his family will be forced to accept her as one of them. With this she will be able to use his family name to her advantage and all.

 

The rest of the preview isn’t all that interesting so didn’t bother with any of that.

 

As for the rest of the episode the only things that were slightly confusing were all these time jumps that the writer did without letting us viewers know what was going on and when. After another watch a few things did become slightly clear that I missed the first go. Such as when Tae Poong was with the Rent A Thugs I had initially assumed that it was right after his mother died but then I noticed the change of clothing’s in my second watching.

 

Then we have that family that isn’t connected to anybody yet. Somebody told me that they are probably going to be the ones that discover Tae Poong after his accident (when he fell into the river injured) and rescue him. Then they will become his new family while he plots whatever he needs to do assuming that he recovers.

 

Seo Joon’s family is also there. Again we need to know more about him and it so we can have a good idea why his parents are so cold towards each other. The mother is clearly trying to make an effort to play nice with the dad yet he is giving her the cold shoulder and telling to make an appointment prior to showing upto the office as it wouldn’t be good for the worker’s morale. Wait how does that even work.

 

Then we have his assistant and the look that he gave her. Granted most of us would think that he was only respectfully bowing to her and all. But something tells me there is more to it than just that. I don’t think that she is having an affair with him since she wants to look good for her husband and all. If things continue to be bad between her and her husband, I wouldn’t put it past her but not at the moment. Is she planning on using him for her dirty deeds and since he has feelings for her he will do them. Makes more sense but again it is too soon to tell. What is she planning then? Does she want to take over the company so she is secretly purchasing it’s shares through her foundation?

 

Is she Seo Joon’s stepmother or is the chairman is stepdad. It might explain a few things. Baldy pointed out that he comes from a rich family yet he drives a modest car. Everyone thought that it was because he was trying to play undercover brother or something like that. But the question we should then be asking is why would he want to do any of that. Is it that he actually isn’t related to said family? Perhaps his mother tried to trick the chairman into believing that she had his child so he needed to take responsibility for it. He later on discovered the truth and that is why he treats her like that and doesn’t trust her. Seo Joon discovered the truth so now he wants to find his own identity and make his own mark and that is why he is working as a reporter or whatever his job is at the broadcasting company rather than at the family company.

 

Again this makes more sense for Yura to switch her targets later on from what I am gathering. She thinks that he is this super rich guy that can help her achieve her dreams and goals and reach the top. Only to discover that he has no rights in his father’s company and isn’t interested in inheriting them as well. so she decides to move onto Tae Poong as she knows for a fact that he is actually rich and all.

 

Question why do people think that Tae Poong was admitted to a hospital (judging by his clothes from the start of the episode). Perhaps Yura thought that after she marries him she would get to be rich and all but his mother had found ways to protect him from being taken advantage of. So she sends him to a facility with the lie that he is being sent there to recover meanwhile as his guardian she plans on using his wealth without anyone to stop her. He manages to escape one day and that is why the Rent A Thugs were hired to bring him back.

 

 

 

Anyway that will be all for the time being. my drama has finally been subbed so will be going to check it out. Till then take care. I will add just one more point later on but since this post has gotten longer than expected will end it here. Hope all of you found the recap helpful and all

[tulip06]

Han Yu Ra’s boyfriend is an idiot. He had plenty of time to run from that truck. And he also had time to wait for the light to change or to watch for a clear road and then track her down after that. 
 

As for her, she wasn’t smart about it. She should have have got the abortion and told him it was a miscarriage and that she was too upset to continue the relationship.  Called him unlucky or something.

 

is Lee Si Kang really going to be dastardly?

[Secretz]

34 minutes ago, tulip06 said:

is Lee Si Kang really going to be dastardly?

By the looks of the preview, I don't think so. He'll be nice the the FL I think..

35 minutes ago, tulip06 said:

As for her, she wasn’t smart about it. She should have have got the abortion

Ideally, that's the best way. However, in kdramas, they discourage abortion. If someone gets abortions, they will portray abortion in a bad light. (Like Fatal Promise) It's a narrow mindset they have, because most of the scripterwriters are in their 40s or 50s. So, it is possible that they avoided the abortion solution.

 

The downside of kdramas is that their mindset is so narrow, haven't you noticed they believed to have a good life only when they have a job, they've gotten married are having children. All we can do is not to follow he messages they deliver, do what you want.

[liyahsbutterfly]

On 9/9/2020 at 10:47 AM, Secretz said:

Idk if this is a good or bad thing to you but the writer of this drama wrote Mysterious Personal Shopper as well.

I suppose it’s good. Mysterious Personal Shopper was pretty well-written (I wasn’t a huge fan of the ML though.)

[foreverempress]

Yes she is an evil witch that only cares about herself and upward mobility. I empathize and sympathize with her because she worked hard honestly to better herself and was severely impacted by their family's money and living situation; my heart goes out to her on that part. Based on her circumstances, she has learned that being rich and connected outweighs hard work so she is going to use whatever means to get ahead. 

 

She was trying to use her innocent unborn child as a means to an end and when that means got hit by a truck, she wanted to treat her unborn child as tissue paper: disposable. That said, I'm glad she did not have an abortion. I hate when innocent children inside and outside the womb suffer for their parents choices when that child's only crime to humanity is merely existing by living. Innocent children always get the short or deadly end on the stick when their parent(s) is selfish.  Now she is trying to use a grown man with brain damage which places him with a mental age of seven like toilet tissue she will dispose of once he outlives his usefulness. She is going to be an interesting character for sure and am looking forward to how she will play it out.

 

I hope the revenge for this drama really plays out well to the end and hopefully for those that are truly repentant, redemption.

[maribella]

On 9/10/2020 at 10:06 PM, yamiyugi said:

longer than expected will end it here. Hope all of you found the recap helpful and al

You have done excellently. I thought it was bad enough to have a mentally challenged character with a doting mother, but also a vicious evil female, servants living in his house and being envious of him - very dangerous and a blood sucking leech too. So that family has a woman he fancies, a mother who indulges her son who is a leech, a heartless manipulative criminal of a daughter and an ineffectual father?  That is a bad combination. My heart can't take it.

In Fatal Promise, the antagonists were always losing to the point of annoyance, now the male lead is in such a disadvantaged position and of course the FL is caught between her family and a vulnerable ML. She won't do anything? 
I am going for now, will check in every so often to see if the scales have changed. 

[shana0127]

2 hours ago, maribella said:

You have done excellently. I thought it was bad enough to have a mentally challenged character with a doting mother, but also a vicious evil female, servants living in his house and being envious of him - very dangerous and a blood sucking leech too. So that family has a woman he fancies, a mother who indulges her son who is a leech, a heartless manipulative criminal of a daughter and an effectual father?  That is a bad combination. My heart can't take it.

In Fatal Promise, the antagonists were always losing to the point of annoyance, now the male lead is in such a disadvantaged position and of course the FL is caught between her family and a vulnerable ML. She won't do anything? 
I am going for now, will check in every so often to see if the scales have changed. 

Ah you are here. Did not watch any episode . Waiting ML to turn normal. Then will binge watch if it turns out good . Till then reading comments here. 
 

I feel here the Villains will be winning more and it will be really very messy and mud fight. Coz Villain is female and wife of ML and sister of FL . Plus will always use child as her Schild . Her family will always protect her sins and will kneel and pray to ML-FL every now and then. They will be shameless. . 
 

 ML will be far more stronger here. FL I feel will be far far weaker then Fatal Promise. Plus she will slow done ML . Why ? Coz Villain  is her own family! In family drams villains win if they are direct family . I feel Fatal promise was an exceptional show where baddies always lost and were pitiful for more then half of the drama. Coz ML was strong and unemotional and FL was ruthless . If one went weak another went strong and vice versa .They had no qualms using people and were too focused.  But But But .... both ML and FL had no family ties with villains . That’s why they were always winning .Sadly here it will be opposite.

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[joccu]

the first couple of episode of this daily looks interesting. this is going to one bumpy/crazy ride. 

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[tulip06]

@Secretz The hospital gave Bad Sis such a weird reason for not having an abortion. If her uterus is weak, she shouldn’t be carrying a child to term, lmao.

[Secretz]

1 hour ago, tulip06 said:

The hospital gave Bad Sis such a weird reason for not having an abortion. If her uterus is weak, she shouldn’t be carrying a child to term, lmao.

At least they tried 

[tulip06]

Anyone find the ending tableau of the episode 5 preview hilarious?

[Secretz]

 

Um, excuse me? Why are you poking at her leg? That's not how a 7 year old would react. They would shake the person's arm or his/her shoulders or at the very least, poke the arm? I suspect that you actually enjoyed this.

 

So, we were told on how TP got his brain damage, tbh I'm quite disappointed because I expected a much more interesting flashback, instead it's just two high schoolers drowning in water. Really writer, really?

 

And we have the parents finding out that the evil twin is pregnant. After the unecessary blaming, scolding, crying, hitting, (you name it), they went to TP's house and told his mother about the baby. Coincidentally, the angel twin walked in as she was shook. 

 

Yep, that's the important parts for episode 5. Not really much information. 

 

 

37 minutes ago, tulip06 said:

Anyone find the ending tableau of the episode 5 preview hilarious?

 

It's hilarious lmao 

[Lmangla]

caught up on ep 3 & 4 ~ are we supposed to feel sorry for bad twin that she is tormented she is ruthless? are we supposed to feel her pain at being poor? then, won't most of the world have meltdowns if that was so?! in many dramas, the woman will be left pregnant while boyfriend coolly walks off. here, the guy is nice. he did not pretend that he was rich or was scamming her. instead, she was the one scamming him and left him to die in an accident -- usually, this will happen to one of the female characters and instead, it happened to poor ex-boyfriend. hmmm, so does that mean he will wake up, change his identity and come back and take revenge?

[foreverempress]

2 hours ago, Lmangla said:

caught up on ep 3 & 4 ~ are we supposed to feel sorry for bad twin that she is tormented she is ruthless? are we supposed to feel her pain at being poor? then, won't most of the world have meltdowns if that was so?! in many dramas, the woman will be left pregnant while boyfriend coolly walks off. here, the guy is nice. he did not pretend that he was rich or was scamming her. instead, she was the one scamming him and left him to die in an accident -- usually, this will happen to one of the female characters and instead, it happened to poor ex-boyfriend. hmmm, so does that mean he will wake up, change his identity and come back and take revenge?

I hope he wakes up and fakes his identity along with the ML and they both double dropkick her off the roof!

[maribella]

2 hours ago, Lmangla said:

caught up on ep 3 & 4 ~ are we supposed to feel sorry for bad twin that she is tormented she is ruthless? are we supposed to feel her pain at being poor? then, won't most of the world have meltdowns if that was so?! in many dramas, the woman will be left pregnant while boyfriend coolly walks off. here, the guy is nice. he did not pretend that he was rich or was scamming her. instead, she was the one scamming him and left him to die in an accident -- usually, this will happen to one of the female characters and instead, it happened to poor ex-boyfriend. hmmm, so does that mean he will wake up, change his identity and come back and take revenge?

So many possibilities. Maybe another mentally challenged character? 
So the evil twin is actually pregnant with another man's child and framing TP with her little B? How can that happen in this day and age of DNA tests? I watched the clip above, TP is being taken care of by servants?  not even the lawyer of his mum's company?  I have nothing against helpers but they don't have legal rights and these do not seem to be of much help. Call the police, they will come at once for children and the mentally challenged. But no, they prefer to run around in the rain calling TP, including the CEO mum. 

[foreverempress]

According to the previews, who does the father think he is to slap the ML? That whole family with the exception of the sister will turn out to be (and a couple of them are already) poisonous leeches. Why is mom getting locked up?

[Lmangla]

only at ep 5 and already wanting to kill the evil twin. rather than tae poong, I want good boyfriend to wake up from his coma and give her a tight slap.. but why do I get the feel that he will be pushed off a cliff next?

and mickey mouse is the good twin to tae poong? is tae poong then minnie mouse?

@tulip06 @Secretz ~ doesn't it seem like every other daily drama villain ladies have poor uterus walls/lining?

 

[brooksmom]

53 minutes ago, Lmangla said:

only at ep 5 and already wanting to kill the evil twin. rather than tae poong, I want good boyfriend to wake up from his coma and give her a tight slap.. but why do I get the feel that he will be pushed off a cliff next?

and mickey mouse is the good twin to tae poong? is tae poong then minnie mouse?

@tulip06 @Secretz ~ doesn't it seem like every other daily drama villain ladies have poor uterus walls/lining?

 

The poor uterus walls/lining:  It's a female villain curse. The good females get it too. That's how the husband or husbands' family end up betraying the woman. 

[yamiyugi]

@maribella glad to know that my recap helped in your decision and a shame that you won’t be sticking around. Then again I am in no position to complain since I also haven’t made up my own mind about doing that. Generally, I give dailes 10 episodes at most before committing myself these days. Even then there is no guarantee that I will finish one these days.

 

Anyway now on to the main reason for why I am posting this post.

 

Spoiler

 

I wanted to mention a few things that I realized after watching a few more episodes and a mistake that I made in my recap. I mistakenly wrote that the Chairman and his wife were the parents of Seo Joon and all. Turns out for some weird reason I was referring to Jun Seok as Seo Joon. Awkward. Seo Joon is indeed the son but he will be making an appearance in the next episode. My Bad once again. Don’t know how that mistake happened. Am totally embarrassed about it as well.

 

I think part of it was Baldys statement about how his family was part of this rich family group called Sammo Group and then later on we were finally introduced to a company and all. Granted it was called DL Group on the boards but I wrote it off as some sort of PPL. After all this isn’t uncommon in dramas yet we know the actual brands. Such as in My Mom Has An Affair the main lead is from the family of the fictious LX Group which is sponsored by Lynx Company in real life. So I assumed that was the case over here as well.

 

Turns out that Baldy needs to get more reliable sources since Jun Seok really is a simple guy from a normal family just living in a friend’s place and all. Hence the misunderstanding and misinformation at the broadcasting company.

 

Another thing that I mentioned in my last post was how Yejin’s family was totally confusing and how they didn’t seem connected to any of the main characters seems to be partially answered with probably a hint of more in it as well.

 

For starters the dad is friends with Yujins dad. So there is the connection to one of the leads atleast. How that will further play out remains to be seen. The other that is clearly hinted is Yejin’s mother. She conveniently has amnesia at present. Her husband is trying his level best to either help her recover her memories or track down her family. Get ready for some awkward times folks because we can clearly see where this is headed. If not let me share some of my thoughts.

 

The Chairman of DL Group is currently on bad terms with his wife for unknown reasons. Then we had a scene when he was in his study secretly looking at a picture which he quickly put away when his wife entered the study. When asked what he put away he further lied that they were some documents related to work. I mean if you consider some of this the signs are slightly obvious where this train wreck is heading. While we didn’t get to see who was in the picture we can assume that it was probably his first love or wife that suddenly went missing. In this case this would probably be Yejin’s mother.

 

This probably happened due to some sort of foul play otherwise why does she have amnesia. Probably his wife and his assistant are somehow responsible for that. Not sure how they are going to end up resolving this current relationship assuming that both couples are married at this point.

 

Then we have the Yura angle in all of this as well. Yejin’s dad mentioned to his daughter that he was planning on sending his wife’s picture to a studio in the hopes that they could help find her family. Knowing drama laws and all we can safely assume that this will be the exact same studio that Yura works in allowing her to discover the secret first and try and use it to her own advantage.

 

Some of you mentioned how Yujin won’t be able to do much thanks to the fact that Yura is part of her family and whatnot and that is why the main leads are going to suffer a lot. Am going to agree with this assessment. Especially if the preview is any indication. We see Yujin talking with Tae Poong of what happened on that fateful night that he was with Yura and all. From his description she probably realized that some sort of foul play took part. Problem here is that is she tries to reveal said fact she is going to get stopped by her mother who isn’t going to care about any of that because her daughter is pregnant and she will want to hide this fact regardless of the truth. If she is getting a free get out of this mess card, she is going to take it and guilt trip Yujin into remaining silent in some way or the other.

 

Finally, before I end my post I wanted to bring up Tae Poong’s mother and how she wanted to set him up with that gold digger. I’ll be honest over here I thought that was a bit unfair on a person. (before we all knew that she was a scam artist and all) Her parents were already disabled and then on top of all this she wanted her to raise and take care of her son as well. wouldn’t that have been too much for a normal person. When would they have their own personal time. Taking care of three fully grown adults would be too much work. I could understand someone like Yujin doing that for Tae Poong because she doesn’t have that burden it would just be her taking care of her husband but three or more people no thankyou.

 

The only thing that I found sweet in the latest episode was the reason why Tae Poong is a fan of Mickey Mouse. The answer was Yujung and he subconsciously remembers that even now in his present condition.

 

 

Anyway that will be all from my end. Once again I want to apologize for my recap mistake. Hopefully it won’t affect the rest of the viewers over here and they enjoy the show. Might check it out later on when My Mom Has An Affair ends. Just 20 or so episodes remaining. So till then take care all of you.