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sabina. tired. Asian. she/her.

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if they send seo-ri back to joseon after all this... mrn writers when i catch you...

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the cocaine that they put in the c-plot of shin seo-ri's manager/reincarnated dog and her rival co-star needs to be studied because why am i so invested in this romance.

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cha se-gye lowkey better than me because if i spent my entire life being gaslighted by my family on my nefarious cousin only to find out that everyone knew but didn't do anything about it and my girlfriend that i got after being pathetic and rejected like four times ended up in a coma after a car accident that also took out my grandpa (ngl don't really care about that one) AND the companies i spent my entire life living for got taken over by my nefarious cousin I would've killed someone. not hovered over my girlfriend's coma bed like an anxious bee.

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Spoilers

the ending of EP 10 makes me think that Kang Dan-sim will end up with the prince in the past, not Cha Se-gye himself, and idk what to think about that. part of the appeal of this series is Cha Se-gye, with all of his personality, being the one who ends up with Kang Dan-sim, and idk if I want softboy prince instead as much as I love both characters.

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okay, i don't really care about this, but does anyone know what happened to (presumably) Mrs. Choi Mun-do? why is she not relevant to this story? did choi mun-do have a child out of wedlock?

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shout out to my royal nemesis for actually understanding what dark circles look like on human beings. truly masterful. cha se-gye, kdramaland's first representation of puffy dark circles for an ML, truly pulls off the look.

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every episode of my royal nemesis is a rom-com for forty minutes intercut with ten minutes of the most devastating historical romance you've seen and ten minutes of psychological thriller brought to you by a cousin/brother with an unnatural fixation on the main leads.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

What's getting me is that the female lead was a consort in Life 1 which means the Crown Prince and eventually Emperor was like, "It's not enough to use you to destroy my brother, I need to possess the only woman he loved too" and that's just straight up evil but also profoundly like, insecure of him? You already have the crown but you need to steal your brother's girl too? You cannot be content finding your own woman out of the like thousands available to you?

What a sad little man

[how-are-you-migraine-thank-you]

Did he ever even have anything he wanted or did he just want everything that his brother had.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

This is what I'm thinking

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what i don't get is why he's so hellbent on getting everything his brother had in Life 1. if anything, he's the one with the better set up considering that he's next in line for the throne. from what we know, his brother dgaf about the throne and was content to just chill in his section of the palace with the lady he was in love with, but the Crown Prince is just sitting here seething that his brother exists and is happy?

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I'm wondering if the ML was supposed to become crown prince, but the brother schemed against him and caused the injury that disqualified him from inheriting. I guess we'll see once we get more past life.

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that was actually my guess, but the cousin is older than him in both timelines, so it makes no sense that they would pass him up for se-gye. if anything, se-gye would have become the schemer. it's like he just has it out for his poor brother.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

What's getting me is that the female lead was a consort in Life 1 which means the Crown Prince and eventually Emperor was like, "It's not enough to use you to destroy my brother, I need to possess the only woman he loved too" and that's just straight up evil but also profoundly like, insecure of him? You already have the crown but you need to steal your brother's girl too? You cannot be content finding your own woman out of the like thousands available to you?

What a sad little man

[how-are-you-migraine-thank-you]

Did he ever even have anything he wanted or did he just want everything that his brother had.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

This is what I'm thinking

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what i don't get is why he's so hellbent on getting everything his brother had in Life 1. if anything, he's the one with the better set up considering that he's next in line for the throne. from what we know, his brother dgaf about the throne and was content to just chill in his section of the palace with the lady he was in love with, but the Crown Prince is just sitting here seething that his brother exists and is happy?

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Send help! A male lead is doing things that aren't "green flag"

Oh nos guys! (Source)

This post is interesting to me because I'm like, "Yeah, those are very possessive statements and are red flags, and somehow you want to be talked out of it? So you can go on believing he's green? Like is that the goal here?"

Edit: it gets better! (Worse)

Everyone is colour blind

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*ML stalks and is overtly possessive of the FL, jeopardizes some of her professional career options as of the episode 9 teaser, is generally a massive prick to all people in life.

reddit, apparently: what is red or green even? no, i'm not colour blind, why do you ask?

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Yes!

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watch them both somehow end up in couple's therapy with each other.

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my royal nemesis functions like a cutesy romcom for 90% of the screentime, and then choi mun-do shows up and we're suddenly in a time-travel korean-style succession.

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cha se-gye complaining that his friend thinks that he and his girlfriend are crazy like he didn't come in to ask if his girlfriend needs psychiatric help.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

This man has been called a "green flag" I hear

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the green flag in question:

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okay, maybe i'm just confused, but is the joseon version of cha se gye dead by the time kang dan-sim is executed? like, they both seem to like each other a lot, and he at least seems head over heels, why would she not recognize him? it's not even a case of like "mask blindness" because in the modern world, she can recognize him without a mask. so why can't she recognize him?

[captainjoongki]

My Royal nemesis is really fun but all I see is comment after comment of KDrama fans going "He is such a loser green flag" stop!!!!.

in 2026, the highest form of kdrama critical analysis is looking at a character and going "ahh yes, there goes my labubu-matcha-dubai-chocolate-greenflag-lewser-male-lead-number 10000" on loop and everyone in the replies goes "omg yessss" while i show up on your porch with a gu-

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

This man??? He's an asshole, not a green flag. He's a lovable asshole, sure, but he's definitely a jerk. He just took away an employees PTO because they dared to be happy when he was upset.

Everyone is colour blind these days.

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for this series, it's even more disingenuous because the entire point is that the two of them were morally grey individuals in their respective eras. the entire point is that neither of them are particularly good people. he's literally referred to as a "monster of capitalism"!!

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[christopher-bryant]

leoreturns:

I have been waiting all year to post this.