Feeding My Procrastination

Fan a FLICKER?! What flicker?! This man's gaze has been blazing with scorching heat that's been one fan away from combusting and consuming them both. He doesn't need fanning, but a cold shower, or her in his shower with him for a 'steamy' night.

Bro finally got his wish, just when he was perfectly fine being on first-name basis with her and actually manifesting she would start calling him 'husband'. But 'beloved' will do too, apparently.

Seori received a car full of dresses in every shade and colour imaginable, yet she, who never wears black, picks a black dress because she expects Segye to wear black as he always does, probably after learning about matching outfits from k-dramas. She wants to show off she belongs with him.

Mundo turns Seori's world dark, draining it of light and casting it into shadows and darkness, making her feel hopeless, while Segye brings back the light into it. Literally, but also with his unconditional, unwavering love and bright smile. He is HER LIGHT.

'Are you really crying, hunched over like that?'

It's not merely that he can't bear her tears, he can't bear her on her knees, defeated, because that's how he first saw her cry 300 years ago and it has traumatized his soul forever.

He would do anything to stop it, be it ragebaiting her or sacrificing himself. Even when he imagines her crying in front of the Little Mermaid statue, he sees her on her knees.

We love a self-aware king

Convinced of her insanity since day one, fell for her freak at first sight, paid for her MRI to check if she doesn't have a screw loose, said 'she's crazy but she's mine', has been planning therapy dates for weeks now...

He really went from 'don't you dare throw up in my sports car'

to 'You do YOU, girl'

to 'been there, done that, keep 'molesting' me, I secretly enjoy it anyway'

No matter how hard Danshim tried to forget Lee Hyun, her heart, which only ever belonged to him, remembered him. She reproduced his plum painting from mere memory, recited the words he told her like a prayer to comfort herself as her final act of rebellion before death, and defied the royal order, delaying it, to reminiscence about him, her final thoughts, the final memories belonging only to him.

In the end, their mutual longing brought her to him, transcending space and time and reuniting them.

Danshim's agonizing over Lee Hyun's 'marriage' while he is indirectly reassuring her he doesn't want any other woman but her, as if he knew. The marriage proposal had been his only chance to escape the palace and save himself, but he refused it, choosing to stay with her, unable to leave her, he stayed to protect her in the palace, so she wouldn't be alone and because he loved her so deeply that couldn't bear to be parted from her, while fully aware of the risks, sealing his fate.

Segye's 'dilemma' continues into the present day where he makes the same choice - the marriage can save his reputation and company just as it could have saved his life in the past, but he refuses it, choosing Seori once more because she is more precious to him than anything, the only exception, the only thing he can't calculate or doesn't want any monetary gain from, and he can't bear to let her go.

Lee Hyun did profess his love to Danshim, albeit indirectly! She is his plum blossom, unique and one-of-a-kind, blooming in adversity. The painting is his first portrait of her while his analysis is his heartfelt love confession - that no woman can ever compare to her in his eyes and he doesn't want any one else but her.

The way she allows herself to look at him with affection only when he can't see, averting her eyes the moment he looks at her and it's his turn to gaze at her so longingly and tenderly, unable to take his eyes off her, waiting for her to meet his gaze...