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This one had me crying like a baby. I will watch Shin Hye Sun in anything

I'm so happy to have watched two broken souls fall in love, mend and come back together again. This was beautiful

It's Yoo Ah In for me.

The relationship between the leads is something so fragile and beautiful. I wanted to protect them from the world ㅠㅠ

There's a scene of Ahn Hye Seop standing in the entrance to the hospital I think, in tears at his desperate situation (the debt collector coming after him at Doldam) after Dr. Sa Bu confronts him about why he is living his life the way it is. It always remains in my head. 

I've binged watched this twice and both times cried like a baby. The first time I tried to self soothe by looking for interviews by the cast but I couldn't watch them without crying. I really felt like I had lost close friends. The conversation Lee Dong Wook and Gong Yoo had about that scene let me know I was not alone in feeling that it was all too real. Beautiful drama

Something about Jung Il Woo's presence and performance keeps drawing me back to this drama. Finally a King who was actually doing his job, and ministers who I somewhat respected by the end

Yoo Seung Ho man. Able to deliver childlike innocence and adult heartbreak. I keep returning to his drunken scene with Chae Soo Bin's character 

I think I shed a tear every episode. I'm scared of watching this again. The first time I put it on hold because the knew I would feel empty when it ended. I know I will feel that again if I rewatch it

I'm obsessed with the scene between the king and his sister near the end. It never fails to have me in tears

My God. One of those ones that hurt my chest

I don't think I would watch this again but I think about these two, and I get reminded of my late grandmas. Much has been said about Song Kang but it's that openness to his screen partner that explains why he gets these soft hurt boy roles, apart from his looks. Or maybe Park In Hwan was so great he brought that out of him. 

This is a comfort show. I love watching two people fall in love, no past connection, no trope, just in a quiet, natural way

This show got me through 2020 honestly. I view it as a high concept Hallmark series about a romance between a king from a fictional country/world and his warrior bride. I was really obsessed with this, read all the analysis I could find to dissect every theory, conversation and reference. I even tried to purchase Azaelas by Kim So Wol (translated). Now I just rewatch this to see beautiful people, cinematography and lyrical writing

I think about the leads every now and then because this is one of the few c dramas I've watched in which the leads are well matched. Each is cunning in their own right and each of them is driven by their own ambitions in a way I respect. I love when characters' choice to forsake love or put it on hold is justified to the end without an ex-machina to give them a HEA. The last third of this drama is a mess, but it is one of my favourites because the leads gave performances I will never forget. Not to mention the cinematography is beautiful (like a film) and the costumes are marginally better than the usual whites, blues and pinks of Chinese costume dramas

A masterpiece. This one showed me that in c dramas, what a show will lack in budget, it will make up for it in spades in acting and good writing

I remember crying so much at the end. This one took me on a journey

Yang Yang delivers stoicism so well. His character would be my ideal man (if he just communicated).

I just love watching Yoon Shi Yoon perform. I love when I can tell an actor is having fun with their part

I tried to rewatch but I couldn't get into it because it is so episodic (and long!), something that Goblin was as well but not as obvious. The OST brings up all this sad and empty feelings in me like some psychological trick and that's why I think about this show

This one is so dark and fucked up and the last third is a mess but there's something about the desperation between the two leads, struggling to find some light in this despite the darkness that makes me think of them from time to time

I miss the leads. I relate so much to the female lead, since I tried to pick up the cello in my 20s. I also relate to the feeling of not feeling good enough. Also Kim Min Jae is just so darn handsome

I felt like I said goodbye forever to friends I had made in the end

This was one of the first dramas I watched. I guess I like it because I was so new to this and this just came to me when I couldn't find a sci-fi romance in western offerings. 

I really liked this one. Just the right amount of sweet I needed. I don't know why but I cried so hard at the end, which in any other show I wouldn't have. It's Lee Jae Wook man

I just wish these two could have stayed in Cuba forever 

This could only work with excellent acting from experienced and older actors, though the ending is rushed. I miss Wen Kexing