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MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026)

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MY ROYAL NEMESIS 멋진신세계 (2026), Ep. 10

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Widow's Bay (2026—) | Season 1, Episode 8 "Your Baggage" | Kate O'Flynn as Patricia

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Alya: Would you marry such a woman? Cihan: I would.

Cihan: Since the day you married me, you've never really known peace. No peace, no stability. And there never will be. Because I've always had a difficult life, and that's not going to change. You'll tell me, "Cihan, stop. Don't do it." But I won't stop. I'll do it anyway. Most likely. My family's troubles will never end. My mother will never stop hovering over us. You're a fearless woman. A woman who makes fear kneel before her. At least that's how I see you. You're brave. In fact, you're a little too brave. You even stood up to the Bulgarian mafia. You had a hundred, a thousand reasons to leave, but you didn't. You stayed by my side. You chose to stay. You chose to burn with me. That's why I could never give up on you. Look, this heart may stop beating. This body may return to the earth. But I will never give up on you. Will you marry me? Alya: I will.

This scene is a callback to the one in Episode 5 of Season 1. In that episode, Alya listed the troubles she could potentially bring into Cihan's life, then asked, "Would you marry a woman like that?" His answer was, "I would." (Turkish: "Evlenirim")

In the actual proposal scene, Cihan tells Alya that their life together will be full of challenges, that his own shortcomings and complications will frustrate her, and then asks, "Will you marry me?" Alya doesn't say "yes." Instead, she replies, "I will" (Turkish: "Evlenirim")

Because of the double meaning created by the tense structure in Turkish, they both answer with the exact same word. Alya even smiles a little, as if she's remembering that earlier moment. She also comes close to him and tilts her head like the way he did in the episode 5.

This is exactly why I love this couple. Amid all the third-rate clichés surrounding them, they have a very special world and connection of their own. They are precious. And perhaps that's also why you expect the obstacles created for them to be of the same quality. Unfortunately, they aren't. The storylines that were added later turned the show into a patchwork quilt. It frustrates me, and yet, somehow, I still can't let go of it.

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Some things never change.

Another plot about Kaya being stupid and Sadakat being his partner-in-crime and Alya & Cihan being done with them.

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Yep, definitely the lady of the mansion.

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Cihan: There is nothing tying Meryem to this place. But there is something tying you here. Because you are the woman of this house. You are the lady of this mansion. You are the woman of my life.

Of

Freaking

Course

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Alya is the one coughing, but Cihan looks as if his lungs are burning.

(He looks at her that beautifully and then some writer thinks it's a good idea to write that he could have a grown-up kid. Dear God, keep me sane.)

My poor heart.

Always there to hold and look after his Phoenix.

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They must be protected at all costs.

They way they cling to each other.

A photo that speaks volumes.

[deokmis]

My Royal Nemesis [dir. Han Tae-seob]

[deokmis]

My Royal Nemesis [dir. Han Tae-seob]

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did you watch season two's finale and if yes, how disappointed are you from a scale of one to ten? (one being the least and vice verse)

I only watched the important clips. I'll watch the season finale -the last remaining episode- this weekend.

Honestly, I expected Alya to leave. The idea of leaving never really disappeared from her mind. Especially after Meryem arrived, we could clearly see that feeling of not belonging there starting to take hold of her again. Even Cihan was aware of it. That's why he tried to convince her by saying, "There is nothing tying Meryem to this place. But there is something tying you here. Because you are the woman of this house. You are the lady of this mansion. You are the woman of my life."

Cihan's fear never really went away either. He knew it too.

So Alya leaving didn't disappoint me. What I genuinely cannot stand is the Meryem storyline. I fast-forwarded through almost all of her scenes and only watched the ones that seemed critical to the plot. That's how little patience I have for it. And if they insist on pushing such a ridiculous storyline, I'm going to end up feeling the same way I did about the Mine storyline.

Meryem should have been an important character, but instead the writer came up with yet another absurd child-centered conflict. It's as if she simply cannot write a story without involving a child somehow. I can't even explain how forced and out of place it feels.

That's the only thing that truly disappointed me.

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I just have a lot of feelings about how glorious that scene was.

Amazon prime video has longer version of the kiss btw.

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My new favorite character. She can't talk and is so cute.

Can we keep this tiny cutie and send away the grown-up Serhat?

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Fight with intimacy...Love it.

Cihan: The things Meryem said, the words you heard, belonged to that day. Not to today. Alya: Then why is the necklace around her neck today?

Alya: I'm human too! Enough is enough!

Finally.

Alya: If I lost the man I loved, I would carry his memory with me too. But the moment he stood in front of me and told me he'd fallen in love with someone else, I would take it off.

Hail, Queen!

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Alya: Don't worry, we never got to the point of marriage. We're not even living in the same house today. So don't let it bother you.

which means: I'm bothered by Meryem.

Alya: If the truth between Cihan and me doesn't bother you today, then why should it bother me?

Well then… Alya's silence from episode 57 is gone. Maybe she's finally reached her breaking point, and that sharp, no-nonsense attitude that leaves people shaken has returned. I absolutely loved it! This is exactly the version of Alya that I like.

Cihan's look was basically: "This woman could bury me in the ground, you know." The resigned look of a husband who knows he has a strong wife. Lol.

Cihan: You can't stay here. Alya: You're staying in the same mansion as Meryem, and I haven't said a word about it. What does some random guy have to do with me anyway? Cihan: I'm not going to stay with Meryem. I'm not going to stay at the mansion.

58 is soooo much better than episode 57.

Cihan being afraid of Alya's coldness, worrying that he might lose her, and being unable to close the distance between them no matter what he does… yes! I enjoy watching a man suffer and pine a little, sorry not sorry.

Cihan being caught between a rock and a hard place. He's the one who brought that woman into the house and couldn't properly do anything about the Boran situation, so serves him right. I didn't feel even the slightest bit sorry for him.

Once again, I found myself admiring Alya's grace and dignity. She says, "I'm full," but to me it sounds more like, "My stomach couldn't handle sitting at that table."

Alya is genuinely fantastic in this episode!

By the way, guys, binge-watching the episodes afterward with the skip button is a game changer. I completely fast-forward through all the Kaya, Zerrin, Demir, and İpek scenes and pretty much every other side character too. Weird Serhat, even-more-annoying Müjgan, Meryem, Sadakat, and the disaster known as Boran… it's wonderful. Suddenly an episode is only about thirty minutes long.

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I have to go. No! I need to get up! Why? Uh...I'm hungry. You're hungry? Why are you lying? You never eat in the mornings. Well, I will now!