What next, is he going to declare it's OK for women to vote? The horrors! Shun the unbeliever!

[dangermousie]

I am beginning to think Playboy got his irresistible reputation and got into so many women's pants simply because he treated them as human beings.




Heroine: "Yun [childhood love] has left me. And I don't love my husband. I don't know what I should live for. I just want to end my life."
Playboy: "Live for yourself."

This. Frelling THIS.

And then he tells her by her logic he should be offing himself too because she doesn't love him, but he's very much still here and she can do it too. And he tells her she should treasure every day in her life because even if her childhood love doesn't love her, in the future she can meet someone she will love who will love and protect her, and if she doesn't love her husband, she can make money and repay the bride price and leave. It is all possible as long as she's alive.

Playboy, I just might be in love with you.

The scene where scumbag Yun just ditched her (because her abusive husband begged him, barf) and she runs out and sees Playboy there and asks him to take her away, and he does - and takes her somewhere peaceful and beautiful and keeps his hands to himself and then tells her the above - all about her wants and needs and (to use a college term) self-actualization as opposed to trying to force his love on her in psycho fashion or alternatively tell her about wifely duty like a prig? Seriously. I literally started clapping. I totally love him now. He's the only man in this whole benighted town she lives in that I do not want to murder because he's the only one who (a) treats her as a human being with thoughts, wishes and will of her own (b) actually listens to what she says (c) puts what she wants above what he wants (d) motivates her to live her life for her own benefit, above all, and that doesn't have to include him unless she decides it does.
















Bonus. Ady An really is gorgeous.



No wonder Playboy is pining like mad.



And that totally brings her back from despair and she makes plan for how she can work and repay the bride price and she makes a wish in the temple (?) and she's back to herself. YES.

Though Puppy Killer just returned to the scene and this can't be anything good. Lady, why don't you go after Playboy's two wives - presumably he's had sex with them at some point, and I don't think he's even got as far as holding hands with the heroine. Yes, arranged wives v. luuuuurve but still - priorites! Not to mention that trashing the business of the woman he loves as a way to see your ex (because he's going to rush to check on her) is really not a productive route to rekindle your relationship.

ETA: Bwahahahha, Puppy Killer, I kinda love you and your crazy. When Playboy tells her for the umpteenth time that he is sorry but he only loves heroine and he won't be Puppy Killer's lover because it would be a betrayal (which makes me wonder - if he won't have sex with sexy exie in order to be true to his OTP, does it mean he's not sexing up his wives either? It seems so. No wonder they don't have a baby yet), Puppy Killer tells him fine, but before they part, can he hug her. So he hugs her and she arranges for the heroine to walk in at the same time. Puppy Killer, there is a kdrama waiting for you somewhere! No wonder Playboy tells her she's insane.

Comments

[katranna.livejournal.com]

Is this a Chinese drama? I was told by a friend that there was a historical Chinese playboy who basically was as popular with the women as he was because he just liked them and was friends with them (although he was not too into sexual fidelity to one woman, obvs). Sounds pretty familiar. :-p

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup.

I am seriously enraged whenever any male character but this one shows up and opens his mouth or does anything. If I were heroine, I'd swear off men forever and get a hut in the middle of the woods where I'd open a school for girls.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Puppy Killer has skills. They may not be admirable, but they are impressive.

Also, the more you post on this, the more it sounds like a super-emo/less-evil-on-his-part version of Dangerous Liaisons.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think Puppy Killer's game is not to get the guy back but to make sure if she can't be happy nobody can. In which case I don't have a problem with her because yes, evil, but she's going about achieving her goals in a logical manner.

I thought the same thing about DL connection. Though obviously he's not evil (and from what I can tell, all his playboying involved fully consenting/unmanipulated participants who were fully aware this was just for mutually fun no strings sex, which I am OK with) and also heroine has so much common sense. She basically tells him since there is something between him and Puppy Killer, she doesn't really care what but she can't afford to piss off Puppy Killer, so she's grateful to him but let's never meet again. Smart lady (and I like that he hates it but does what she wants).

Ahhh... the misunderstood playah!

[(Anonymous)]

Hola Dangermousie, it's sanaenam. I'm just too lazy at the moment to go look up the info necessary to log in, but... If I end up watching Chinese or Taiwanese dramas, it'll be all your doing!

And as for the Playboy, I've a very good friend who does get the ladies simply because he respects that they are human beings and treats them accordingly. All the boys think he's a playah. The girls who think in an equally sexist manner think he's a playah. They just don't get it - that the whole reason he gets girls throwing themselves at him is precisely the very opposite: he doesn't play games.

Re: Ahhh... the misunderstood playah!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hi! :)

Yes, I can see how this could be very appealing.

[misctalk.livejournal.com]

Should I or should I not download this series? I have already put this in my to-download list. I am not particularly fond of dramas about tragic women with all the possible misfortunes happening to them. On the other hand, I would like to see more of the Ada & her playboy lover. You certainly have the knack of creating interest in dramas which I probably would not have touch with a 10 foot pole,if left alone.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes and no.

I do selective watching - mainly watching the OTP and not the other parts..