After being sucked into her Dad's manga, Oh Yeon Joo finally comes back and rushes over to her Dad's home and she only finds her Dad has packed all the things and Su Bong tells her that her Dad has fired them all and left. Su Bong then states no matter how he looks at it, there is something odd going on: He tells Yeon Joo that Kang Chul was dying but then he was alive. He also points out to his computer screen, showing a frame of Yeon Joo in the webtoon and realizes she is wearing the same dress as what's being shown in the screen.
Even as he’s saying all this, Su Bong doesn’t look convinced: “The thing that doesn’t make sense is, it doesn’t make sense that it appeared in a way that makes sense! But then the thing that doesn’t make sense started to make sense…” Yeon Joo then asks Su Bong how much the dress costs and she insists on the point that there is no one who would buy her that kind of expensive dress. Su Bong then concludes it's Kang Chul who bought it for her still in unbelievable states. Yeon Joo then asks, "Now do you believe me?" and Su Bong still cannot understand on how Yeon Joo can get sucked into the webtoon which doesn't make sense in every way. He then starts to ask Yeon Joo how it feels to kiss Kang Chul, as she is a fan of Kang Chul. Yeon Joo then explains that she did that to be able to get back home...as there is a significant changes in Kang Chul's emotions. Su Bong remembers now that Dad said he’d end the manhwa tonight, and guesses that he’s going to try to kill Kang Chul off again. Alarmed, Yeon Joo starts digging around in Dad’s office for clues, remembering what he’d said about killing Kang Chul on Hangang Bridge when he had the chance. Su Bong then states it's on 2009 that the scene is being made.
It's actually the same year when Yeon Joo left her Dad's home and Dad is very sad to the fact that he's alone right now, even he can't draw a single stroke. It's the same feeling to Kang Chul being left out by his family and thus, Dad is going to end Kang Chul's life on Han Gang Bridge with his drawing. But the next day, Dad realized Kang Chul is saved on the webtoon he draws. He thought that perhaps he decided to let Kang Chul alive yesterday night because he is drinking while drawing. He then lets Kang Chul alive and takes it as the new beginning of Kang Chul and himself too. The next volumes of W became a hit and sold very fast. He gained many fans and that makes Dad felt appreciated again. The strange thing starts to happen when Dad realized there is a scene in which he feels he never draws anything and concludes that Kang Chul is alive actually and he has created a monster.
The next day, Yeon Joo returns to the hospital. Su Bong calls to say that he still can’t believe it’s all true, and asks Yeon Joo how she went to Kang Chul’s world the second time if he didn’t pull her in like the first time. He argues that if there are rules about how she gets out of his world, there ought to be rules about how to get there. And the real mystery, he points out, is—why her? Yeon Joo's headache gets worse and she suddenly faints and being transferred to another world that Kang Chul lives. Su Bong on the other hand realizes that Yeon Joo suddenly disappears again to Kang Chul's world.
In Kang Chul's world, Yeon Joo faints inside the fitting room again in which she was found by Yoon So Hee who directly informs Kang Chul that Oh Yeon Joo is there and why Kang Chul says she disappeared before? Kang Chul directly goes back to the shopping center and picks up Oh Yeon Joo who still lost her consciousness. He said to Yoon So Hee that he is going to bring her to the hotel instead of the hospital.
At the hotel, Kang Chul meets with the police who happens looking for Oh Yeon Joo and Kang Chul says there is no need for them to look for the girl anymore and hide the identity of the woman he brought in his arms.
In the middle of the night, Oh Yeon Joo is half-awake and Kang Chul asks her whether she feels better or not and says that she won't die because it's not that serious. She asks him drowsily where they are, and when he says it’s his place, she asks if it’s the penthouse on the 33rd floor. He’s surprised again that she knows so much about him, and she says she knows lots, like the fact that his family died suddenly, and he goes from hotel to hotel without a home ever since. He prods her to tell him what else she knows, and she murmurs that he sleeps with a gun under his pillow every night even though it’s illegal, but he can’t sleep without it. That’s definitely not something many people know, and Chul’s expression darkens as he asks how she knows that. Yeon Joo: “Because I saw it.” She says that the scene that made her saddest was the one on Han Gang Bridge: “I cried with you then, thinking that Kang Chul might really kill himself.” She starts to cry in her sleepy haze as she says this, and he’s struck by how much she seems to really know about him.
In the morning, Yeon Joo wakes up confused about how she ended up in Kang Chul’s bedroom, and jumps when Do Yoon comes in to tell her that she collapsed from overworking. She considers the two-month time-jump that she was technically awake for, and guesses that it could be the cause of exhaustion. Do Yoon tells her that Chul will be back to have lunch with her, and that there’s a change of clothes in the bathroom. She takes a tour of the expansive bathroom in her robe, and her eyes bug out to see two pairs of lacy, barely-there underthings laid out for her. She picks up the black bra like it might burst into flames, and then remembers Su Bong’s warning about being summoned here against her will.
She runs back out to the bedroom and digs around for Chul’s gun, and finds it under his pillow, just like she’d said. Chul arrives at the elevator and doesn’t like that Do Yoon left Yeon Joo in there alone, though Do Yoon thinks it’s unreasonable to keep tabs on her while she’s showering. Meanwhile, Yeon Joo is in the bathroom having a decision crisis: She holds a gun in one hand and the black see-through bra in the other hand, looking back and forth between them trying to figure out which is the lesser of two evils.She wonders what on earth she’s supposed to do, and then when she hears Chul and Do-yoon open the door and walk into the bathroom, she shuts her eyes, whirls around, and opens her bathrobe to flash them. Both boys freezes and nothing happens. Do Yoon back off from the room and Chul is being left out with Yeon Joo.
Yeon Joo then points out a gun to Kang Chul and threatens him that she will shoot the gun on him if he comes closer. She says it doesn't make sense why but she has a reason for doing so. However, Chul is getting closer and closer which makes Yeon Joo warns him to stay back, but he just keeps walking closer, challenging her to go ahead and shoot. She ends up warning him to be careful because it’s dangerous, and he’s amused that she’s worrying about him while holding him up. When he gets right in her face, she points the gun up to the ceiling and pulls the trigger, but it just clicks and nothing happens.
Kang Chul gets the gun out of her hand and he tells Yeon Joo that a gun must be filled with the bullet right before she wants to shoot and that's how it works. He filled the gun with two bullets and instead, he points out a gun towards Yeon Joo and threatens her to answer what he has been curious about. Yeon Joo says that Kang Chul won't ever shoot the gun to her. Kang Chul asks her how did she disappear the other day? He threatens to turn her over to the cops if she doesn’t answer, and she pouts that he once called her his savior. He says that’s true, but she’s the one who broke her word and disappeared without giving him any answers, when he waited two months for her. He asks it another way: Why did she slap him and kiss him?
Yeon Joo can see that he’s not going to let this go, and finally says that she had to kiss him to disappear. That’s not really the answer he was expecting, and he reconfirms that kissing him was the way she disappeared. She nods, so then he gets up and walks over to her with a determined look on his face, and plants a kiss on her. Kyaaa!
It takes a couple of tries for Yeon Joo to find her voice, and she sputters that it’s not the kissing in and of itself that made her vanish, but the change in emotion due to the kissing. He argues that he didn’t particularly enjoy their previous kiss, and she points out that it did surprise him though, and an emotional shift is the rule. He says she looks plenty surprised now and her face is all red, and she clutches her cheeks in embarrassment and shouts that HE has to feel the change, not her. He asks why, since that rule makes no sense to him, and she screams, “Because you’re the lead character!”
He obviously has questions about that, but she clams up, realizing her slip. Yeon Joo says she’s going to report him because kissing at gunpoint has got to be sexual harassment of some sort, and he argues that she sexually harassed him first, complete with assault. He points to the cheek she slapped, for emphasis. Besides, he argues, he did it for science to prove a hypothesis. He realizes now the pattern among her seemingly crazy antics, like slapping him or taking off her clothes, all in an effort to shock him. He admits that he was expecting an answer like superpowers or teleporting, but not this.
She swears that she’s not lying, but he says even if it’s not a lie, that doesn’t make it true. He says that she’s telling him about the phenomenon but none of the context that explains it, and pulls the gun on her yet again. He warns her to explain the real reason that she disappears when his emotions change, and starts counting. Yeon Joo thinks it’s an empty threat, but he fires a shot at a vase to convince her that he’s serious. Chul says that Yeon Joo might’ve saved his life, but she’s also a danger to him.
Yeon Joo is near tears, but she refuses to answer and says that he wouldn’t shoot her—she knows he’s not the kind of person to do that. But he says coolly that she doesn’t know everything about him, and pulls the trigger…and he shots her! But nothing happens to her because the bullet goes clean through hers and hit the window. She is shocked to see herself without any blood and faints.
Yeon Joo wakes up and gets a clean bill of health from the nurse, when Chul comes in and pleasantly asks if she’s mad. Mad?! Like you took the last Pop Tart or something? She says that “mad” isn’t the right expression after you’ve shot a person with a gun, but he just smiles and says he knew she wouldn’t die anyway: “Why don’t you know that? You’re invincible, aren’t you?” Yeon Joo, herself is shocked with that answer.
He says that she’ll never die, and asks again if she really didn’t know that about herself. She asks how he knows, and he wants an answer to his question first before telling her. He says that they should just openly acknowledge that Yeon Joo is not a normal human being, and he guesses that she comes from a different world. He even puts forth the idea that she lives in a different dimension, where she’s a surgical resident at a hospital. He takes out her hospital ID tag as proof. He asks the all-important question: “Where?” But she doesn’t answer. Chul says that’s fine, since he’s got nothing but time. Now that he knows she can’t leave on her own, he can keep her here as long as he wants, until she gives him some answers. He tells her to stay here with him and promises to protect her from the police and the media. He figures that she probably has lots of answers that’ll shock him, and encourages her to tell him the truth so that she can shock him and get herself back home. He asks what kind of world she lives in, and where she saw the things she knows about him, but again she can’t answer.
Chul says he’s leaving for a business trip but will be back in a few days. When he is going to leave, Yeon Joo chases him and says that Kang Chul should be careful. Chul is getting curious on how Yeon Joo can say that and asks her whether something might happen to him, or he will die during his business trip. Yeon Joo says she doesn't know about anything when she is there and Chul concludes that Yeon Joo might know what is going to happen to him when she goes back to her home. She tells him is that she’s someone who wants him to have a happy ending, and adds with a big smile: “I’m your fan.”. She adds that he’s the first patient she saved on her own, and also the second patient, and says sincerely, “So always be careful.” He has no sly comeback for that, and agrees to be cautious.
He asks how old she is and learns that they’re both the same age—thirty—and then asks if she’s married. She says no, and he replies, “That’s good,” before getting on the elevator. He winks at her as the doors close.
As Yeon Joo stands there watching him go, she reaches a hand up to her beating heart and narrates, “I found out later, the reason I was the only one who kept getting summoned here—it was because this man said I was the key to his life. At that point, the heroine of this manhwa had already changed… from Yoon So Hee… to Oh Yeon Joo.”
The next morning, Oh Yeon Joo is awake and she is served with much dresses, shoes, cosmetics and perfumes. She is amazed to receive that kind of treatment and when she hears herself as a fiance of Kang Chul, she feels how weird it is although Kang Chul is a very charming man. Then she receives the call from Kang Chul and asks him since when she becomes his fiance and Chul clarifies to her that it's gonna be weird if she stays with him without any status.
With this phone call, Kang Chul states to her that whenever she wants to go back, she can always call him. But even at this point, she suddenly says to him "I love you" to get a chance to go back to her world and Kang Chul smiles and says it's not going to work and Yeon Joo realizes it too. Once the phone hangs up, Kang Chul says once more he hears word I love You from her again, he can't pretend he is not shaken up.
Yoon So Hee asks Yeon Joo whether she is bored and invites her to go for a drinks at the hotel bar. She's actually trapping Yeon Joo so that the police can arrest her and with much troubles, she is being arrested and locked up in the jail. When she is at the police station, Yeon Joo is being questioned by the investigator on how she can disappear without any traces and the investigator asks her identity, that includes with her real name, her identity number and where she lives. Of course, Oh Yeon Joo couldn't give him any answers because she knows she is not someone with an identity to prove her innocence there because she is not a person from this world and so, she keeps quiet. Because of this and no progress of finding who is the suspect on Kang Chul's attack since two months ago, the police is going to make Oh Yeon Joo to be the only suspect for killing attempt on Kang Chul.
It took two days for Kang Chul to get back from New York and once he is landed, Kang Chul plans to visit Oh Yeon Joo in the police station and Do Yoon tells him that Oh Yeon Joo is being transferred to the Detention Centre and thus, Kang Chul gets even more frustrated as he knows it's Yoon So Hee who happens to make the troubles. He then receives the call from So Hee and with this, he then scolds So Hee for not being able to understand the situation instead she is going to make someone innocence to go to jail because she has done nothing wrong. Because of her action, Kang Chul then fires her from the personal assistant position, although So Hee claims that she think this is the best solution from her perspective.
Kang Chul visits Yeon Joo in the detention center and tells her how it's going to work from now on, because she has no other way to escape from there and it's going to be hard for her if she keeps shutting her mouth. Since there is no other way, Kang Chul asks Yeon Joo to asnwer his question and he is going to let her disappear from there. Yeon Joo points out that it’ll cause a frenzy here if she vanishes, but he says he’ll deal with the mess since this is his world.
She says with tears in her eyes that she can’t tell him because it’ll make him unhappy, and he says with a rueful smile, “I don’t think I’m enormously happy now. I can’t sleep because I never know when I’ll die. You know that.” He asks if she’s really okay to be trapped here the rest of her life, and she cries no. He says they don’t have much time, and asks her where she’s from. Yeon-joo answers hesitantly that it’s Seoul, and he understands that it’s a different Seoul—she confirms that she lives “there,” and he lives “here.”
He asks how she knows everything about him, and Yeon Joo can’t bring herself to answer that. She wipes away her tears and jokes that a nude show would be better than this. He laughs and says that won’t work on him, and prods her again to answer. Yeon Joo says: “You’re going to regret it.” Chul: “I won’t.” He asks again what world she comes from. After a long pause, she finally says the words: “Inside a manhwa.” He thinks she’s answering his latest question and saying that she came from inside a manhwa, but she clarifies: “No. Here. This… is inside a manhwa.”
Kang Chul is frozen in shock, and Yeon Joo continues that this world is inside a manhwa that she reads: “And you’re the main character of that manhwa.” As her words start to sink in, Yeon Joo spots the “To be continued” chyron being written in the corner. This time she vanishes right before his eyes, and she reappears in her own world at the bus stop where she’d fainted, dressed in her prison jumpsuit.
Su Bong is there and approaches him and asks her whether it's true that she's been locked up in prison because the new episode is just being added. He says to Yeon Joo it's just only been 30 minutes since she disappears and it takes Yeon Joo 7 days there.
As Chul walks out of the prison, he finally gets over the initial shock enough to think about Yeon-joo’s words. He remembers her saying before that his change in emotion was the key to her coming and going because he was the main character, that she could see how he’d be in trouble when she was outside this world, and that she was rooting for his happy ending because she was his fan. It starts to come together in a way that he can’t ignore, and Chul is so lost in thought. Chul concludes it’s an explanation that never once entered his mind, and hesitates again and again before finally saying out loud: “This world… That this world… is all fake. It’s a completely fabricated world.” The moment he says the words, the prison guards in front of him all suddenly freeze mid-stride.
At the same time in Yeon Joo’s world, Su-bong erases the “To be continued” from the webtoon’s last frame, and says he’s going to put up a notice that they’re ending the series due to personal reasons. He figures they’ll get a gazillion anti-fans, but they have to do it. Yeon Joo clearly doesn’t want to, and can’t even watch as Su Bong does the deed. But as soon as he starts typing the message, the webtoon image disappears and his screen goes white.
As Chul starts to panic, Yeon Joo narrates: “The moment the main character recognized the fiction, the world inside the manhwa stopped. Only Kang Chul was the lone survivor in a world where time had been suspended—like a punishment brought down on the one who was self-aware.”
Su Bong runs around trying all of the computers in the workshop, but it’s no use. Yeon Joo stands still, tears brimming in her eyes as she cries, “Something’s happened to Kang Chul! Because of me! Something bad has happened because of me! What do I do?”
At that moment, Kang Chul notices something changing in his world. He turns to look down the hallway, and sees an outline of a frame—like the outside edge of a webtoon frame—being rendered out of thin air. He walks inside that frame and transferred to Oh Yeon Joo's world ~
It ends as Kang Chul moves to another different world, Oh Yeah!
Personal Thought:
The show is moving pretty fast and I like how it progressed till now. It just that maybe this is not my taste in romantic comedy drama because it feels surely doesn't make sense in every way. I realized that I like a korean drama with more realistic side. I know that I like Secret Garden and My Love From Another Stars too, but somehow it makes some sense to me, like a magic spell created by Gil Ra Im's Dad so that his daughter can get the happiness he wishes for her. Or maybe like parallel universe in which Do Min Joon, as an alien from another planets travels to another world when the meteor comes to his planet and he couldn't go back to his planet till the meteor comes again. That somehow has a foundation as to why it happened like that, yet W doesn't prove why the story becomes like that. I like fantasy drama but W surely hits the point in which no matter how I like the main lead, the kissing scene as the service to the fan, but surely enough the fantasy is a bit too much for myself.
More than that, W is being aired at the same time with Uncontrollably Fond in which UF deals mostly with feelings rather than fantasy in which I can say, I am interested more towards UF, not only because I am a fan of Suzy and Kim Woo Bin, but the story seems to be more realistic. Maybe it is not that real when you look at a Hallyu Stars who happened to falls in love with an ordinary girl, but let's just take it as an almost dying man who happened to like a girl whom he loves ten years before and got separated and once again, he is given chance to win her heart back. It's just so heartbreaking yet I like the story so much, till every details of the main lead actions. It's touching, full of unexpected feelings and reactions.
But this doesn't mean that W is not good. It's good but it's just not my taste. I will keep watching it since the story seems to be interesting enough since Kang Chul comes out from his world and see the real world instead. But I doubt the ending will be a happy ending one because almost all stories with different dimensional world seems to have an open ending rather than a happy one. Well, at least UF feels much real because both of our main lead lives in the same world.
Cheers ~
