#yi gon

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usually, a zero means that there is nothing but it’s actually a number of absolute power. it can nullify any number or take everything away from it.

what makes money powerful is not the number a the front but the number of zeros behind it.

I think the person who saved the young Yi Gon might be Shin Jae, Tae Eul’s longtime detective partner. He definitely has a yet unexplored connection to the parallel world already (he’s been doodling the Kingdom of Korea flower symbol in his notebook before the King came over) and the saviour’s facial features (that we’ve seen from behing the mask)could be a match to his. He is also close to the female lead, so it would make sense for her badge to be on him at the time. He used to go to a therapist because he had been having nightmares.It is possible the source of those is represeed trauma in his past, connected to the Kingdom of Korea.

It is also strange that we’ve seen him meet the psychologist twice, but they talked both times as if they were meeting up for the first time after he has been to sessions with her. Shin Jae seemed to cross a street in the Kingdom of Korean passing Tae Eul by without seeming to recognise her. I assumed that was his alter in that world but later on we see him in the same outfit, in Tae Eul’s world, checking to see if Tae Eul has responded to his text…It is unlikely that he passes back and forth without realising the change in currency etc. Perhaps he has a non-magic-flute-related way of passing between worlds that has severe psychological side effects????idk

I saw some people theorise that it is Yi Gon himself saving his younger self, but I think they made a point of telling us that he is a BAD shot to negate that - his childhood saviour was definitely a good marksman.

So how will they explain the time travel aspect? It would definitely have to be there because the ID’s date of issue. I would get if there were a time distortion between the worlds but it doesn’t seem to effect Yi Gon and Tae Eul. (Except when she goes back, it almost seemed like she went back to the time of her high school years when she was scolding her dad for accepting eggs as payment…but maybe he has been doing that constantly lol…still, if that was not intentional, it was another unnecessarily confusing directorial choice Director-nim…)

Some people Yi Rim visits point out that he should be a LOT older so maybe frequent travels back and forth would lenghten his life…or maybe it’s spending time in that place between places… still not a trip into the past though

Behold, your potential saviour: