k-odyssey

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[k-odyssey]

[k-odyssey]

i've been thinking it's interesting how celebrity/news work in my royal nemesis. cha se gye is publicly engaged to mo tae hee. he's also going around seoul with shin seo ri, who's a rising star, and has publicly defended him. you'd think there'd be a scandal by now. they were at namsan tower together!

but actually every single scandal so far has been artificially engineered by choi mun do. the engagement itself was just pr by tae hee. se gye buries a scandal with a worse scandal about someone else. and even seo ri/dan shim has managed to take control of the narrative.

also mun do used ai. said something like "who cares if it's true, if we put it out there people will treat it as such."

the writers are trying to tell us something. and the something seems to be "most of the news are a narrative pushed by an entity or person that benefits from your feelings."

kind of meta of a show that lives in that ecosystem and relies on the same pr techniques as everyone else.

also maybe se gye is paying off journalists left and right. but i like better the idea that, on its face, their love is not news-worthy. they're just a random, bickering couple on the cable-car. and like, regular people don't recognize or photograph them. they don't know the intricacies of this love and they don't need to. it just looks like love. and they're busy living their lives and having their own dates.

[xiaolanhua]

My Royal Nemesis ‧ 멋진신세계 ‧ 2026 dir. Han Tae Seob ‧ Ep. 10

[alchemyofsouls]

"It was the scene where she smacks my forehead, and she was debating. Like 'should I use my fist?' So then I said 'I'll die if you hit me like that'." - Heo Nam Jun

My Royal Nemesis (2026)

[inafieldofdaisies]

Filing for Love / 은밀한 감사 (2026) | Season 1, Episode 9 | Shin Hye-sun as Joo In-ah

[baijingting]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026)

[dramastream]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 09

[baijingting]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026)

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Mood.

[dramastream]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 10

[baijingting]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026) — Forget all the assholes out there, and just focus on me. Please.

[bubblysugarwater]

He was so cute standing behind her and closely following her every movement. If he had rested his head on her shoulder, it would've been icing on the cake. Gosh they were so cute on their date!

[dramastream]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 07

[xiaolanhua]

Heo Nam Jun as Cha Se Gye My Royal Nemesis ‧ 멋진신세계 ‧ 2026

[dramastream]

MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 07

[darkside720]

One thing that I will always appreciate about the writing for the relationship between both leads was how focused it was on building up their understanding of each other.

And I really appreciate the writers staying focused on their relationship. It would have been easy to force a love triangle or love square, but instead they were used as a contrast to why the relationship now would work when it didn't work out in the past.

[numerodix]