It scared the hell out of me just how eerily similar Mo-yeong’s mom looks like Mo-yeong, especially the childhood version of her we have seen. They have the same hair and style of dressing almost like her mom was grooming her into a mirror image of herself. It makes sense then with how controlling she seemed to be of Mo-yeong. Even the symbolism of Mo-yeong always staring at her reflection in the mirror while her mother brushes her hair realizing how much her reflection looks like her mother. Its so creepy!

The butterfly symbolism makes sense as well in this context since its a mother butterfly carrying a baby on its back similar to how her mother made Mo-yeong so dependant on her. When she said “I’ll take care of my own child” it seemed like she was conditioning Mo-yeong to follow in her own footsteps. And to an extent, that conditioning has followed Mo-yeong into adulthood.

Especially in earlier episodes: hed long hair, clothing, her fixation with sharp objects like her mother, those shoes, and even her red lips and way of talking all seem so eerily similar to her mom! But while her mother looked so soulless and empty, Mo-yeong actually feels vivacious alive and full of feelings or emotions. She’s just bad at expressing them. Its only after she meets Kang-tae again that she learns how to be more expressive and control her anger.

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    I think it’s narcissism, but do you really think “my child” was MY? I wonder….

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      Hmm so far I think she was referring to MY i wonder why it came up in conversation though I didn’t think they knew each other.

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        I am wondering if the child she was referring to was Sang-tae, if he was the ugly duckling rejected by his family and adopted by Kang-tae’s mother. If so, MY and ST are actually siblings. That makes the family photo v ironic indeed. Just a thought.

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          Hmm I’ve seen this idea floating around and it would make sense then why the mom didn’t kill Sang-tae and said the lines she did. But honestly I don’t want them to be blood related. I would rather have the Mo-yeong that cares so deeply about Sang-tae without even being related to him. I like the idea of them being more like siblings than Kang-tae and Sang-tae

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            I love the unpredictability of this drama and dramas in general. No matter how much I try to second guess them, I am usually left flat-footed. I get what you’d like about this little family, but will the writer be able to resist the twist or will they do something altogether unexpected?

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