Uncontrollably Fond - Episode 7 Summary

Looking back, this episode doesn’t really break new grounds, but somehow the actors really drive this episode forward. Kudos to them, seriously.

Episode 7 starts with another flashback – though it isn’t too far back in time as it could have been. (Uncontrollably Fond released a special episode that depicts the events of episodes 1-4 in chronological order because the constant time jumps were just too confusing for viewers. Hopefully now though the flashbacks are kept to a minimum and only serve to show us what happened just minutes ago.) In the wee hours of the morning,

JY admits that he wanted to take Eul with him to the island, but he also knew that in doing so, he would be tempted to hide away with her from the world for the rest of his time. So he decides to go on ahead, hoping that she’ll never show up in front of him again. He presumes that Eul hears this, but she’s 1) hungover, 2) tired, and 3) going in and out of sleep. So no – she doesn’t remember this conversation.

That would explain why he’s so annoyed at her showing up on the bridge at the island. From the moment she appears in his line of vision, he slowly starts counting in his head, almost like a mental countdown to see how much more he can handle listening to her.

He starts to count "One" the moment Eul starts whining on him about how much money she spent for a cab. With much determination, JY stands up to leave her behind, but Eul stops him again and JY starts the countdown to "Two" and JY tells her to just go and get out from his sight.

Eul thinks she really wronged him, but isn’t sure how since she becomes an asshole when she drinks and doesn’t remember a single thing that happens. She tries to offer him a yakult as a peace offering. She really doesn’t know what to apologize for, and he isn’t helping reveal what she did wrong. And then, with the worst timing ever, Ji Tae calls her.

He figures pretty quickly that No Eul is with JY, and just then JY sees his escape vehicle: the morning ferry. Eul apologizes to Ji Tae and hangs up on him, much to his disappointment.

Ji Tae’s morning doesn’t get any better when his secretary informs him that Jung Eun might have gotten her hands on some pictures of him at the concert that night. It now explains why she asked him whether he went to the concert or not. On top of that, his secretary thinks that Jung Eun is investigating Eul too.

Eul joins JY on the ferry and tries to grovel for forgiveness, but he’s really not having it. Every time he tries to get away from her, she follows him even closer than before and the countdown continues to "Eight" every time Eul tries to get closer to him. He gets into his car, in which his manager is found sleeping in the back, but gets out when Eul follows him in.

She’s really sorry – she remembers some things, like how she threw up on him and how he changed her clothes – but not everything. Well, she does remember that he confessed that he liked her.

That’s the last straw for JY, the last thing he can take hearing from her. And it goes to the "Nine" countdown, “Nine and a half. Nine and three quarters. Nine and a half and a quarter and an eighth." the countdown continues as Eul repeats what she remembers. He hails down a cab and heads back to Seoul, leaving Eul and GY to drive his car back.

JY calls up his worried mother using the cab driver’s phone, interrupting her as she’s eating bibimbap. The moment she hears his voice, relief washes over Young Ok’s face. But then she’s back to her mean self where she rejects him completely and hangs up. Jung Sik is not having any of that and calls the number back: “Do you know what you put your mother through? She’s eating bibimbap! You know what that means. She’s worried sick about you!”

Aww… remember when she made herself bibimbap and ate herself until she choked after JY got arrested? Yeah. Young Ok throws a shoe at Jung Sik, trying to get him to stop revealing her secrets to her son. It does make him feel better though, knowing that she’s not completely cruel. Jung Sik warns JY to stay away from the “gold digger” Eul; Doesn’t he remember how GY got swindled by a gold digger and even went to jail for her? And then needed JY to bail him out? Jung Sik is clearly afraid the same will happen to JY.

But JY replies, “She’s not a gold digger. I actually really like her.” Young Ok overhears this and grabs the phone from Jung Sik, demanding to know who exactly this girl is. JY looks positively giddy at finally being able to admit that he really loves Eul, but he also knows that he might not be able to control himself around her, and so he’s running far away from her. He’s head over heels for Eul. It makes Young Ok pause, as she thinks back to her own love and how she was the poor girl who wasn’t good enough for her rich, perfect Hyun Joon.

GY also believes the same, even though he hasn’t heard it from JY himself. He thinks that JY is serious about Eul because he put Pororo – his best friend! his brother! – outside for her.

Neither one can believe it though – both Eul and GY agree that he must be crazy to like her when he can have his pick of any woman in Korea.

JY arrives at his house, only to find a swarm of reporters outside. He has the cabbie drive him around the back, and almost immediately he gets a headache. It’s a severe one – and JY is temporarily incapacitated. At the same time, Eun Soo learns that JY has brainstem glioma, a really dangerous tumor on the brainstem in which the patient can only treat with chemotherapy, or die within a few months. It’s actually quite frightening – but Eun Soo takes it all in stride. As she continues to paint her family’s portrait, she suppresses a victorious smile. JY and his mother will not be a problem for her soon.

Meanwhile, Hyun Joon is hard at work trying to convince his fellow politicians not to include a particular representative into their party because of the corrupt things this person has done. In fact, this person is undergoing investigation for criminal activities! But Assemblyman Yoon only chuckles and points out that everyone in the room has a dirty past. They’ve had to cheat a bit to get to where they are. After all, politics is about lending a hand when someone needs it, right?

It’s clearly a dig into how Hyun Joon helped Jung Eun escape conviction. What’s more surprising is Hyun Joon’s response: “Handling political affairs like that will only leave you with regret, because it forces you to make a decision that you don’t want to make.” Wow. So Hyun Joon is really going to be portrayed as saintly as possible in this show, as he’s showing regret for his decision in helping Jung Eun.

His frustration with the corruption in politics is enough to make him want to go drinking that night. However, Ji Tae won’t join him, so Hyun Joon heads over to Madam Song’s new bar. All he does is stare at her, admiring how much she looks just like Young Ok. Just like in the past, Hyun Joon doesn’t want Madam Song to pour him a drink or act flirty. All he wants is for her to sit there as he reminisces and regrets about Young Ok and all the wrongs he’s made against her.

Of course, when Eun Soo hears of this through the chauffeur, she worries about her standing as a wife and woman that he loves.

As for Haru – we only see her taking a very, very long bubble bath trying to remove the stench of the garbage dump. At the same time she looks at her tablet, reading all the awful comments about Shin Joon Young and No Eul. Seriously… she could electrocute herself if she just dropped the tablet out of frustration. Haru is really depressed because she doesn’t know where JY is, and truly believes she’ll be his wife one day.

Meanwhile No Jik looks for Ji Tae at the student hostel he supposedly stays at. The manager of the place doesn’t recall seeing Ji Tae around, and thankfully Ji Tae calls just in time to distract No Jik from digging deeper. Ji Tae is thisclose to getting found out now. He makes up the excuse that he’s in Daejeon for a family matter and heading back to Seoul, and offers to meet him at No Jik’s part time job.

Dressed appropriately for the part, Ji Tae meets with No Jik to see what he wants to discuss. It’s pretty simple: Keep Noh Eul away from JY. No Jik knows that his sister had a huuuuge crush on JY but gave up her feelings for him for Nari (because sistahs before mistahs). He also knows that if JY keeps pursuing her and making lavish grand gestures confessing his love, she will easily buy into it and expect a financially-easy life. This is nothing new to Ji Tae, but it really drives home his determination to win Eul back.

When JY wakes up again without blurry vision, it’s already night time. He emerges from his bedroom to find Eul in the kitchen, preparing dinner. At first it feels like it could be a hallucination, but Eul really is there. She burns herself pulling a pan from the oven, and he quickly gets behind her and pushes her finger under the faucet, dousing it with cold water. Eul is surprised to see him awake so late, as he was asleep when she arrived (thanks to the manager’s help). She adds that her finger is fine now, and he brusquely lets go of her hand and leaves the kitchen, not wanting dinner. So Eul mutters that she’ll just eat all the food she makes then.

Except – No Eul isn’t a great cook. Her steak ends up way too salty.

Meanwhile, CEO Namgoong is fielding calls from the reporters regarding JY’s status. He reassures the reporter that no one is home (as the reporters outside saw the lights in the house go on), and that JY is under a lot of pressure right now. Continually pressed for details, CEO Namgoong finally admits that JY is dating someone – and that is, his movie costar Kim Yoo Na. No Eul is just a diversion to help get the attention away from JY and Yoo Na, who have supposedly been dating for a year. GY and Man Ok overhear this and wince at the lie, knowing that it’s not really going to help the situation.

After meeting No Jik, Ji Tae heads to another important date first – a dinner with Jung Eun. He presents to her Christmas roses and tries to be a perfect gentleman while knowing that Jung Eun knows about Eul. However, when Jung Eun asks for a kiss, he can’t restrain himself any longer. “I heard that you saw those pictures.” He gives her Eul’s stats and tells Jung Eun not to look into her anymore. Jung Eun quickly grows jealous and asks what his relationship is with that girl. Ji Tae refuses to answer, as doing so would make him break his promise to Jung Eun. I am guessing that if he revealed who No Eul was to Jung Eun, he would hate himself even more for marrying her.

Jung Eun shrilly asks if he likes her, and after a long pause, Ji Tae admits that he does. Splash! And there goes wine in his face. Also, Christmas roses apparently mean that the giver has nothing left to give the receiver.

Back at JY’s home, he shuts off all the lights and brings down all the shades so that the reporters won’t think he’s home. No Eul uses the darkness to her advantage and tries to tell him a scary story involving a ghost.

It completely backfires when she mistakes a mannequin in his house as a ghost though, and she cowers in fear on the sofa.

It’s actually a bit cute, in JY’s eyes, and he has to stop himself from falling for her. At this point, his mental countdown has reached nine-and-a-half four times over.

Eul attacks him when she realizes JY is also making fun of her in the darkness. She straddles him on the couch while grabbing his sweater collar: “Is it that fun to tease me?!” That’s it – JY’s reached his ‘ten’.

He’s tried again and again to stay distant, to run away from her, but she just keeps sticking to his side. So fine, he’s not going to run away anymore, and he’s going to try to keep her.

He sits up, and man is it a bit of a romantic position… And he suggests they eat dinner.

Eul presents the steak she made, and he eats with great gusto. She can’t believe it though, since she could’ve sworn it was too salty for anyone to eat. He grabs her finger to check her burn mark and then hurries off to get the first aid kit. While he’s gone, she takes a bite from his plate. Yup – still salty.

JY rushes to the bathroom and is ready to heave the food into the toilet. (Not because he’s sick, but because it’s just awful cooking.) But he forces himself to keep chewing and finally swallow. This is the first time the girl he’s liked has cooked for him, and he’s gonna damn well appreciate it! While also taking multiple swigs of water from the sink. When he returns to the dining table with the first aid kit, Eul bets that he spat out all the food, but he takes another bite just to prove her wrong and starts putting a bandaid on her blister.

Eul really doesn’t understand what’s going on. First JY’s been aloof and mean to her, kicking her out every chance he gets. Suddenly he is so nice to her, eating her horrible food and bandaging her burn. “They say that if a person changes all of a sudden, they’re going to die,” she says. Pause. Then JY gives an awkward smile, knowing that she doesn’t know he’s dying just yet.

After the disastrous date with Jung Eun, Ji Tae goes to track Eul down at Nari’s, but she’s not home yet. The reporters have all decamped as well from outside her home. He discovers that she’s still at JY’s and musters up the courage to ring the intercom.

JY luckily happens to see him there while Eul is outside talking to Pororo. (Pororo still hates her for kicking him out of the house. This dog is too cute.) He doesn’t respond to Ji Tae’s demands that he send Eul out now, and shuts off the intercom when Eul comes by asking if a reporter is ringing the doorbell. With a quick rock-paper-scissors game, JY gets No Eul to stay in the kitchen and wash the dishes.

That’s when Eul gets a call from Nari with breaking news: JY’s supposed romance with Kim Yoo Na has hit the news.

JY exits his house from the back, and Ji Tae hears him from behind the garage door. (This house is beautiful, seriously.) He bangs on the metal garage gate and demands that he let Eul go.

Even if he doesn’t deserve her because he let go of her hand the other night, he believes JY deserves her less because of what he did to her in the past. The implication is clear: JY caused that accident so many years ago.

Just then Eul steps outside with her coat and bag, ready to leave. For a moment, JY fears that she might have overheard too much but then casually goes over to her. Eul confronts JY about his relationship with Yoo Na and how he used her as a diversion so that he wouldn’t be found out.

JY is taken aback. It’s not true, but no matter how much he denies it (especially since he doesn’t realize that it’s CEO Namgoong’s fabrication) she doesn’t believe him.

Eul is sick of how JY’s been toying with her. She is somewhat relieved that she can now walk around like a normal person, but she plans to sue him for psychological abuse and milk him for all he’s got, becoming the gold digger that the public had labeled her to be.

JY insists that it’s all a lie. “I love you, No Eul,” he says, softly. Oh man, this is why I love you Kim Woo Bin – more than Lee Min Ho!

Tears well up in No Eul’s eyes and she furiously tells him that this is exactly what No Jik tried to warn her about. No Jik was right the entire time – that JY was going to try to make her feel things and then hurt her afterwards. They live in different worlds too, and she can’t accept JY’s confession as much as it’s making her sway.

So he kisses her.

Personal Thought:

I know it right from the start, it's going to be a KISSING SCENE!. This is SO PREDICTABLE – but I couldn’t help but swoon when Joon Young kissed her. I know, I know. You’re all probably thinking, “Gosh you’re so easy to please.” But the lead up to that kiss was just perfect. The way Kim Woo Bin has done most of his acting through small sad smiles and expressions in this episode was just perfect. The way he said “I love you” was perfect because it came from a very vulnerable place and you believed him. It wasn’t the kind where the main lead throws the words out as a last-ditch attempt to stop the girl from leaving him. It was sincere and vulnerable, and you really believed that he had this pent-up emotion inside and had to let it out, but he was scared to do it at the same time. I also loved the way that Joon Young came forward to his mom about his love for Noh Eul because it was so sincere that it gave Young Ok and me pause. It wasn’t petulant or stubborn. It was so sincere that you could feel like he meant it this time around, and wasn’t joking around.

I really appreciated the acting in this episode. I couldn't believe why people said Suzy's acting is awful, meanwhile I think she's pretty good and this drama is enjoyable to watch. Seeing how beautiful she is even without much makeup, I really like Suzy. Besides, Kim Woo Bin's acting feels so real and here I am, saying that I am in love already with Shin Joon Young. I can feel Woo Bin has the potential to act as Kim Joo Won in Secret Garden too, a jerk but actually damn good inside. I really really appreciate the cinematography, the beautiful landscape and photography also with every little bits of Woo Bin's sad smile, expressions and action, he shows a really improved acting and I am sure you all will notice it. Even I think Suzy is also too cute and her acting has improved a lot more than just I expect. No matter what the ratings will be, I am rooting for this drama! <3