#When the phone rings

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[natahjikio]

-Tell me how to hate you. Tell me how to not love you.

[moonbeesstuff]

go to marriage counseling ❌

impersonate a kidnapper and harass your emotionally constipated husband by phone to make death threats on your own life ✅

[zeherili-ankhein]

A+ Communication

What he means: if I let you go, your psycho mother will marry you off to someone truly awful.

What she hears: you are trapped by me forever mwahahahahah

What he means: or my psycho family will bury you alive.

What she hears: I only care about power and you are a prop.

What he means: that way you are safe and protected from bad guys and tabloids and everyone else.

What she hears: I am ashamed of my unworthy wife.

FINAL GRADE FOR FAMOUS HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR AND LEGENDARY COMMUNICATOR:

[lux-astrorum]

[25shadesoffebruary]

So don't talk about my wife like that.

[captainjoongki]

the amount of contract marriage and marriage related kdramas in the past year makes me so happy because truly the hottest thing on this planet is a man wearing a wedding band and going feral for his wife

[lansjue]

Thank you... for all your hard work, 406.

WHEN THE PHONE RINGS 지금 거신 전화는 dir. Park Sang Woo, 2024.

[dramashii]

Baek Sa Eon wearing his wedding ring.

WHEN THE PHONE RINGS (2024)

[rosepersicas]

Saeon: I wish my wife would love me

Heejoo: I went crazy and obsessively watched your videos to the point I can anticipate what you're going to say

Saeon: That's hot

[dramaism]

Normal people would've lost it and dug right in for the truth. "Who are you sleeping with?" But he can't even check for himself. What do you think? It's true love. He loves his wife.

[impala124]

Something about how both Hong Hee-joo and Baek Sa-eon are professional communicators, with him being the Presidential spokesperson and her a sign language interpreter, but fail to communicate with each other...yeah.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

The most subtle-est of phone readers ever

He has no shame at all

[natahjikio]

And in the end, he did as he said.

[kalena-henden]

Our male lead intentionally renouncing his very powerful 'adopted' identity and giving no name for himself—except that of Hong Heejoo's husband—has HUGE implications in Korean culture.

Due to their deep-seated Confucian beliefs throughout their history, women were rarely known by their actual names both in public and in private. They were know only by names of the men in their lives (this man's daughter, this man's wife, this man's mother) or by the title of their status or occupation. That still exists today to a certain extent. Also, women were very restricted on when and where they could go places publicly and had to hide their faces when they went out. The individual identity of women was therefore hidden from the world since they were not allowed to be truly seen or spoken about in a way where their unique defining personal attributes could be known.

So when our male lead denies his adopted name and powerful family status and then proceeds to publicly proclaim all his wife's personal attributes that uniquely define her—including a large picture of her face—while only defining himself as her husband, he flipped the traditional Confucian gender roles on their head.

[kateknowsdramas]

There's a couple here now.

They don't hide their true feelings and are honest with each other.

The promised to make an effort to be happy together.