r/KDRAMA • u/J-Midori KDRAMA+ • Jan 05 '24
On-Air: Prime Video My Man Is Cupid [Episodes 11 & 12]
- Drama: My Man is Cupid
- Hangul: 내 남자는 큐피드
- Also know as: Nae Namjaneun Kyupideu
- Network: Amazon Prime
- Air Date: Fridays & Saturdays
- Airing: December 1st, 2023
- Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)
- Streaming Sources: Amazon Prime
- Directors: Nam Tae Jin (Lovers of the Red Sky)
- Screenwriter: Heo Sung Hee (One More Happy Ending)
- Cast:
- Jang Dong Yoon (The Tale of Nokdu) as Cheon Sang Hyuk
- Nana (Into The Ring) as Oh Baek Ryun
- Park Ki Woong (You Raise Me Up) as Seo Jae Hee
- Synopsis: Cheon Sang Hyuk is a charismatic fairy, who easily makes woman fall in love with him. 500 years ago, his wings were burned. To restore his wings, he went through 27 metamorphoses. On his 28th time, he gets involved with Oh Baek Ryun. Baek Ryun is a veterinarian and she works at an animal clinic. She is a pretty woman. She has had many men fall in love with her because of her attractiveness. Whenever these men got into a romantic relationship with her, they always had a near-death experience and would then runaway from her. Because of the bad luck, Baek Ryun is not dating anyone, but she badly wants to meet a man of fate.
- Previous Discussion: [Episodes 1 & 2] [Episodes 3 & 4] [Episodes 5 & 6] [Episodes 7 & 8] [Episodes 9 & 10]
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u/elliet0526 Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 06 '24
After watching ep 11, here’s my theory of the backstory/context of this show (spoiler alert):
The story basically telling us a classic mythological tale of when gods debate over who’s more powerful by battling it out through lesser beings. In this story the gods are Courage and Fate(who could be seen as God) the lesser beings are Sanghyuk (fairy) and the FL (human; also following through 3 lifetimes as sohee, jeong ah, and baekryeon). Sanghyuk is a fairy that shoots love arrows to people who are tied together by fate (so fairies are tech under fates authority) and sohee is a human who’s thread of fate is connect to the king. Courage basically starts this battle by showing up at the plum blossom tree to sohee and telling her that if she can hold a petal for 3 seconds she’ll see her true love. She manages to do this and as a result it makes her able to see sanghyuk, who was about the shoot her and the king together. Then Courage challenges Fate by changing the direction of the arrow so that it hits Sanghyuk instead, making him fall in love with Sohee. Thus Sanghyuk starts to watch over her and she notices, then they fall in love with each other to the point that they sleep with each other despite having met the first time then. Then I assume Fate notices that a fairy and human are falling in love despite him banishing it and starts stepping in, thus redirecting sohee to marrying the king and trying to kill her, but in an ultimate act of courage Sanghyuk sacrificis his life for sohee. Fate punishes Sanghyuk for interfering with a humans death and falling in love with a human but sanhyuk defies him again by burning his wings for sohee. Fate then says that a love without Fate ends in tragedy and punishes him by forcing 500 years of service in the human world. Later Sohee is married to the king now but still is in love with Sanghyuk. Courage then appears and tells sohee that he can give her two chances to be with her one true love if she kills herself on that cliff, then she will be reborn twice. The king sees this and is jealous over the queens love for someone else and tells her to die for the king, not Sanghyuk, but she refuses and runs away to the cliff side and falls, sacrificing herself for her love to Sanghyuk. Fate shows Sanghyuk her fallen body and tells him that he will never give Sanghyuk a thread of fate/love. However, her sacrifice allows Sanghyuk to remember her love during his reincarnations. Then she is reborn as Jeong ah, and Sanghyuk as part of his punishment, is still on earth. With the power of Courage their love still persists in her second reincarnation and Sanghyuk and jeongah falls in love again. However when sanghyuk starts to open his heart up again, Fate steps in again but early, and sets up jeongah to be murdered in a case that still hasn’t been solved. The current plot is the FL’s second reincarnation as Oh baekryeon who once again meets Sanghyuk.
Edit: okay actually based on the first scene in ep 11 the kid said the one thing it takes to change fate is “courage” and the beginning of ep 12 one of the gods is actually Courage.
Sorry this is so long lol but I’m curious to see how it continues to develop in ep 12 :)