Hints for Uncontrollably Fond Last Episode: Uncontrollably Fond is not a Failure

We have been together with very little happy and more sad scenes with Uncontrollably Fond. It is one of the most consistent drama which always focus on melow story line, rather than a happy one. You will feel heavy with each episodes progressed and you will also feel the burden of Shin Joon Young. It's you who will also feel how much he actually loves Eul but he has no right for that. Many times he promised he would give anything and everything as long as Eul is alive, and many times too he tried to put everything back to normal, even though he will lose his happiness during his running out time.

I am not sure as to why Lee Kyung Hee writer-nim focus more on melodrama rather than giving a chance for them to have a happy life. Does it mean that Lee Kyung Hee's life is always full of miserable things and that's why she cannot tell a happy ending story? She has to change if she wants to make a hits drama because melodrama is not everyone's cup of taste and isn't it better to make a melodrama with a bit of jokes and happiness rather than sad story all the way right from the start? I don't know, my feelings right now is very complicated and I am kinda sad that we have to say goodbye to Shin Joon Young and Eul next week. 

Based on the preview for last 2 episodes which will air next week, we would see some scenes whereby Eul and Joon Young will enjoy their lives for a while in the house Joon Young has been dreaming to have. That's the last thing for Joon Young to accomplish, to live in a house with someone he loves. But will he has a happy ending? That's the most difficult question to answer. We all don't know what Lee Kyung Hee writer-nim is planning to do. But somehow I feel this is gonna be a sad ending.

A part of Joon Young has faded and he goes back to the time he most relieve about and that's the time when he doesn't know what his father's wrongdoings. He simply enjoy his life, pursuing his biggest dreams, and being together with his fake girlfriend who turns out that she is the one he loves the most right from the start till the next 13 years. She is someone who is very precious to him, to even he is willing to destroy and ruin his life, his dreams and his happiness. But this time, after a long suffering, he is going to have a little happiness along the way with Eul, the woman he loves. I deeply hope that he is going to stay alive in whatever cases he would end up. But, is the fate really that cruel?

First, do you guys remember the first episode? Joon Young plays a character who has to die in the end but he insisted not to, which somehow if you watch the whole episodes, it indirectly gives us hint that the story will be like this. Joon Young is fated to die but his willpower to stay alive is stronger than that. He doesn't want to die clearly. Then there is Director Nam states that the writer is not going to edit the script. The finale airs tonight and they’re in danger of missing the broadcast. This gives us a big hint in my opinion that the same ending would probably happen in next week episode. Out main lead will die. Seriously, isn't there any other options?

Secondly, there is constant saying that his terminal illness cannot be cured since the tumour has grown too big and it is dangerous to even consider surgery. This somehow implies the possibility of Joon Young to stay alive is pretty low, even almost had no chance at all. However, Joon Young keeps saying that he won't die. His doctor also says that even if someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness, there is no certain rules which states their life span would only be exactly three months left. It's the person willpower to stay alive is the most detemining thing. Maybe he won't die in just a month left, but he sure will die one day. So there is also possibility for us to have an open ending like the last time I have said. 

Third, is Eul going to die too? We never know. It seems that she will be sick in next week episode. There is also rumours that Lee Min Ho will be appearing on the last episode. I guess there will be a scene where Eul is going to find new love when Joon Young dies. It just that I hope the ending would at least be satisfying rather than an open ending one. 

So, we are going to have an ending soon and here I am, I will give my best objective opinion regarding this drama:

1. Production Value

Seriously, I would consider that every scenes are beautiful, even too beautiful. I like the tone color, the angle of expression that the PD took, specially how they took JY's eyes and expression. Besides, Suzy may not have the best costumes here but she still looks beautiful in everything she wears and that itself match her character as Noh Eul. They are doing a good job in cinematography which engaged a lot of viewer on that aspect. 

2. Story Line

It's a typical k-drama storyline. Even right from the start we all can predict what's going to happen, so the content is actually just a normal k-drama. Nothing new. But, the way the writer writes every details of the storyline is super beautiful. I like how Eul tries to gain JY's care when she is hurt, how she says she will meet JY later, tomorrow, the day after and forever, the same way as how JY tried to persuade her before. 

But, I dislike how the editing team cut and edit the storyline. They are loving too many fast forwad and too many flashback, which confused a lot of viewers. If they are going to do that, it's a good thing when UF is aired everyday. But if it's not, then doing a flashback like this won't help the viewers with anything. Insetad, they will make a lot of confusion. 

3. Acting of Actor & Actress

Kim Woo Bin has been continuosly mastering the character of Shin Joon Young and he's been doing a good job. There is nothing I could say anymore about him because I've been praising him for the last 18 episodes. Meanwhile, Suzy's acting has improved a lot which I see it bearable enough to watch. Maybe some of you might say she has no emotion. It's not like that, maybe her voice sounds like it but that's her trademark as Eul I think. To stay strong no matter how hard her life was hit. 

In my opinion, this drama is not a failure for Hallyu Drama because seriously, I think this drama deserves even better rating because the whole story fits the melodrama perfectly. It is just that it is sometimes too cruel. We all hope for more happiness. UF just failed to air this drama on proper time and that itself compete with W who has a unique plot.

Overall, if you like melodrama, this drama is a good one to check!

Uncontrollably Fond - Episode 18 Summary

Right before JY meets with Jung Eun, Ji Tae calls him and, almost triumphantly, tells him that he told Jung Eun everything – that JY was just using her for his revenge. Isn’t JY thus grateful for being spared from demeaning himself further? JY sarcastically replies that only Ji Tae looks out for him. And then Ji Tae asks if he’s been eating properly. He reminds him to eat three meals a day, to take his medication, and to just take care of himself. This is sincere, and my heart wells up at the thought that this is as brotherly as they’ll get.

Ji Tae hangs up first, being the cool one, but JY calls him right back. He reveals that he plans to get Jung Eun to admit to everything and that she was the true culprit behind No Eul’s father’s death. Ji Tae doesn’t understand why he’s saying this; he could technically tell Jung Eun what JYg is planning since his parents will also be dragged into the mud if she confesses. But JY doesn’t care if he goes to tell her. He’s been keeping this plan a secret for so long and he had no one to tell it to. The only one he could tell was Ji Tae, and even if he fails in getting this confession he hopes that Ji Tae will carry out his promise of getting revenge for all of them and No Eul.

Thankfully, his plans don’t fail and Jung Eun agrees to help him. That afternoon, JY plants a dozen small cameras around the house at good angles to hopefully capture Jung Eun confessing to the crime at some point. And then that night, he tells Jung Eun and No Eul about how he stole her bag when she was going to report Choi Hyun Joon, and caused a fatal accident. But this time, he admits to himself that he kills that girl. 

Jung Eun replies that he was such a filial son, to have protected his father that way. People die all the time, so he shouldn’t feel so guilty about killing a person. So. This is how she rationalizes what she’s done. She tries to comfort JY, who realizes that she’s never going to admit what she’s done on her own. So he asks her point blank: “Is this how you came to terms with what you did when you killed someone?”

At first Jung Eun pretends she has no idea what he means, but JY presses further, rattling off all the details of the events that night. He even adds that he has a lot of evidence against her, and the statute of limitations haven’t expired. If she had a shred of humanity left in her, she’d admit to it and apologize, and say that she’s felt guilty all these years. Jung Eun tries to leave the situation, but eventually loses her patience and declares that she is Assemblyman Yoon’s daughter. Her father, more powerful than before, will help make sure she never lands in jail, and there will be more prosecutors like Choi Hyun Joon who will help her.

And then she asks if he was purposely just pushing her buttons. He never had evidence… did he? JY admits that he doesn’t – but now he does. She just confessed.Jung Eun thinks. He’s got cameras! On top of that, JY addresses Eul without looking at the camera: “This is the truth you wanted to know! This woman right here killed your father, and the bastard who stole your bag and USB and caused your accident was me. I wanted to let you know before I died. This is the first and final item on my bucket list.”

Eul is watching all of this through the computer on the pier and she breaks down in tears. It’s almost cathartic and at the same time heartbreaking.

Jung Eun tries to locate the camera but JY reminds her that her crazed actions is just adding to her confession. So she stomps off. And when she gets outside, she sees that the pier is empty. Eul is gone.

JY then gets a call from CEO Namgoong telling him to keep his mouth shut when the police arrive. And almost right on cue, they arrive with a warrant to arrest him and search his house under the charge of possession and use of illegal drugs. JY can’t believe this, but then realizes this must be Hyun Joon’s doing. He calmly goes with the police, and Jung Eun witnesses this from afar.

This is when Ji Tae learns that his father was behind the trumped up charges. Eun Soo also asks her husband tentatively (and almost proudly) if he was the one behind JY’s arrest. Hyun Joon sits her down and calmly tells her that JY is his son from another woman, and he ordered his brother to drive the woman away so that he could be with Eun Soo instead. Before it was mentioned that Eun Soo was the one who had the brother drive Young Ok away, and Hyun Joon still seems hung up on Young Ok. So it seems like he’s telling her this story in this way to make Eun Soo feel more assured that he’s picking her, no matter what. He also frames it as, “I want you to know the truth as a lot of things may come to light as a result of this.” Ji Tae overhears this conversation outside his parents’ bedroom and understands what lengths they’re going to do to take down JY.

He then gets a call from Jung Eun, who’s still at JY’s house and crying over what she should do. She thinks that JY and No Eul plotted against her, and that’s when Ji Tae silently hangs up on her. I kinda wished he said first, before hanging up, “No. Joon Young and I plotted together.” Because really, both of them were taking steps in the same direction without No Eul’s involvement.

JY sits in the interrogation room listening to the trumped up testimonies from drug dealers and famous models and actors who all claimed that he was doing meth. He starts laughing at the detective’s face, because he can’t believe the ludicrousness of these charges. 

Young Ok must deal with all the customers also talking about her son’s drug charges. She doesn’t want to close the restaurant, while Jung Sik and Man Ok do. Instead she goes to confront her few customers and asks if they’ve read the article about JY’s drug use. Everyone knows that she is JY’s mom, so they don’t want to raise their hands. But eventually they do because Young Ok offers them free food in exchange for honest answers. In a motherly manner, she assures them that her son would never do something like that. If he did, would she still be working at her restaurant so calmly? 

Eul goes to the same old restaurant haunt where she starts picking off the leftovers of a previous customer. Bong Sook tries to get her to move tables, but then gets distracted by a bunch of girls gossiping about Joon Young’s drug charges.

Eul can’t stand to listen to people talking or mentioning JY’s name and eventually leaves on her own. But then she’s stopped by Ji Tae, who arrives because Bong Sook notified him surreptitiously.

Ji Tae informs Eul one more crucial piece of information: JY is Choi Hyun Joon’s secret son. Of course Eul is pissed that, once again, everyone knew this but her. Ji Tae adds that JY is getting charged for drug use, and that his father – their father – framed JY. No Eul doesn’t care. She doesn’t want to care, because in her view everyone has hurt her in some way and she thinks they all deserve her hate for now. Ji Tae begs her to hate him instead. Hate him, for being too cowardly, for feigning ignorance when he knew exactly what Hyun Joon did.

JY should have been just like Ji Tae, and should not have had a conscience or harbor guilt for all these years. But he did. JY is really a good man for having conscience all this time. And because of that, he suffered so much. So, Ji Tae begs Eul to have pity on JY, who only has days left to live, and forgive him. Because if anyone deserves it, it’s JY. JY needs Eul the most right now. 

When No Eul returns home, Nari is on her way out. She warns her friend that she told Jik everything – everything about Choi Hyun Joon, Eun Soo’s threats to kill him, Haru’s family, and how their father’s death was covered up.

Eul does not fault her friend for this and braces herself fo Jik’s yelling. He’s really angry with her for not telling him anything, because now he feels like a fool for having dated Haru.

Eul replies that the family only needs one fool, and that’s her. How could she tell her brother the true nature of their father’s death? How could she tell him if it was going to make him feel guilty and angry all the time? If it was going to make him question if it’s okay to feel happy one day, or to be able to enjoy a delicious meal, or be thankful of a good night’s sleep?

If he constantly had to think about the pitiful nature of their father’s death, would he ever feel okay with thinking, “Now, I can be happy again”? She didn’t want him to suffer when he was so young. Jik is left speechless, and he ends up hugging and sobbing into his sister’s shoulders.

He’s sorry for yelling at her, because he now understands that she bore the burden for both of them so that he could grow up a better and happier person.

The following morning, Jik goes to break up with Haru at a cafe. He tells her he’s gay, but she misinterprets him at first thinking that he likes a girl named “Nam Ja” (which means ‘male’ in Korean). She is left speechless, and amazingly holds in her anger instead of getting shriek-y. He gets up when she stands to leave, and she tells him not to do that. She doesn’t want to hear an apology from him – she doesn’t want to hear anything from him. Instead, she storms out while calling another oppa and asking him to go on a date. Outside the cafe, she breaks down in tears. And inside the cafe, Jik sobs his heart out while other customers watch him. 

He returns home to find that Eul is still asleep – for 15 hours already. She’s not dead, but she’s definitely very tired. Eul spends that time dreaming about all her moments with JY, from when he “confessed” to her in high school to faking their relationship in college. From when he told her again that he loved her and she reciprocated and admitted that she cared for him very much. As much as she wants to hate him, she also can’t.

Meanwhile Young Ok can’t stand trying to be normal and run her business as usual anymore. She needs to see her son in the police station. However there are a bunch of reporters in front of the station, and CEO Namgoong is fielding questions by denying that JY is in there right now. GY spots Young Ok and Jung Sik in the parking lot and hurries over, pretending that he’s looking for his phone in the car. He tells them to pretend they’re talking to each other while he addresses them, so as to seem like they’re all not talking to each other together. GY updates them that JY is inside and fine, and doesn’t want any of them to worry.

Inside, JY is actually meeting Hyun Joon, who offers to make all the charges disappear if he leaves with his mother to another country. He’ll even give them money to make sure they are well taken care of. “I have more than enough money,” JY replies. He then asks what would happen if he says no – would he be convicted as a drug addict? Hyun Joon leans back: “We’ll have to make sure it doesn’t come to that.” JY admires how powerful Hyun Joon is, which is natural after what happened 10 years ago and now. Then he continues, was it he who leaves his mother to gain more power, not that his mother, the one who leaves him?

Hyun Joon stiffens, so JY takes that as a yes. He’s done speaking with Hyun Joon, and he’s not going to take his father’s offer. He stands up, and he addresses Hyun Joon: “Father. Today will be the last day I call you that. Because right from this moment, I will be too disgraced and embarrassed to refer to you as such, until the day I die.”

He walks to the door, but before he can turn the handle he collapses. 

Eul finally wakes up, she gets a call from Jung Eun. They meet in Jung Eun’s restaurant, which is completely empty this time. Jung Eun is completely different in her demeanor, being very polite and gracious towards Eul. She serves her some dinner and coffee because she wants to clear up the misunderstanding from last night. Eul can’t possibly believe that Jung Eun is the culprit to her father’s death, right?

Eul replies that she saw the face of the person who caused the accident. So yes, she believes it’s Jung Eun. In fact, she can’t believe she didn’t recognize her before. (I think she forgot how she looked from five years prior, during Hyun Joon’s election rally, because of a different hairstyle perhaps.)

Jung Eun’s expression hardens, and she hands Eul some money in an envelope. To be clear, she’s giving her money because she doesn’t want Eul to be hurt by what happened last night, not because she’s admitting guilt.

Without hesitation, Eul takes the money and then says that she’s going to air the footage she got last night unedited. She will also give the money to the police as evidence against Jung Eun. She doesn’t care that she might lose the case, and she doesn’t care that Shin Joon Young may get hurt by being an accomplice in some way. Everyone must pay their dues at some point. And with that, she stands up and flips the table cloth over, spilling all the food on Jung Eun this time around. 

Ji Tae addresses his parents in the dining room with one question: “Can you tell me if there’s a way for me to bring you down?” Eun Soo would rather not understand what Ji Tae is referring to, but Hyun Joon answers no, there is nothing Ji Tae can do. So in front of them, he calls up his secretary and asks him to arrange a press conference, as he has something to reveal about his parents. This – this would be a way, right?

Kind of, but not really. As Ji Tae drives to the location of the press conference he sees that he’s being followed. He begins a high speed chase on the roads of Seoul trying to lose his tail. When he finally does, Ji Tae gets hit by an oncoming truck. Goddamn it.

Meanwhile news breaks out that JY has brainstem glioma. It was hard to hide the news after he collapsed in the police station and rushed to the hospital. Everyone in the world has forgotten the drug charges and are crying over his fate. Haru is in tears in her home, and Jik overhears it from passersby on the street talking about it. Jung Sik sees it on the restaurant’s TV, but thankfully Young Ok doesn’t notice it because she’s busy working the cashier. GY and Man Ok are also crying in the agency’s headquarters, unable to help CEO Namgoong pick up the phone to field calls from reporters. Even CEO Namgoong is not his usual blustery self. It’s news to everyone and they really don’t know how to handle it.

It fades out to black, and then when we’re back in the episode, Eul is sitting on a bench under a bunch of cherry blossoms.

JY, happy and healthy, comes by and lays his head on her lap, wanting her to be his pillow for now. It’s reminiscent of that day in college after she successfully pretended to be his girlfriend and he fell asleep on her lap in the middle of falling autumn leaves.

As she watches the cherry blossom petals fall, a voiceover explains to her that their current state is delirium. Where they’re mixing up their past and present, and JY is reverting back to the time he wished to relive the most because of all the pain and suffering he’s gone through.

Personal Thoughts:

I am so happy that Joon Young's plan worked out and he got Jung Eun to be scared for her dark past. It's really something new, in which he finally speaks up the truth to Eul too. I am hoping that Eul understands that Joon Young really loves her, since he's been doing and finding a way to bring happiness to her, to reveal what's been bothering him before he runs out of time. But I know it's impossible for Eul to understand it right when the news broke out. It must be a surprising news to her and she may need more time to acknowledge that. 

It's so sad when Joon Young says that revealing the truth is the first and last item on his bucket list. We all know that Joon Young's time is really running out and he only has 2 episodes to live at least. Meanwhile he uses his time only for Eul, for someone he loves so much, yet he, himself doesn't get the happiness he deserves. Instead, his own father framed him in such a way to pay for the right thing he does. Even Ji Tae cannot bear his disappointment, knowing someone who only has short amount of time left, yet his own father who never know that he exists, framed him to a new problem again. 

I’m so amazed at Ji Tae’s speech here, because he is being selfless and correct about Joon Young, his rival in almost everything in his life. It shows the depth of Ji Tae’s compassion, and how he understands that even though he hates Joon Young for a variety of reasons, he is still level headed enough to see that Eul should have more reason to forgive Joon Young. Somehow in this episode Ji Tae feels like an angel who tries to fix everything for Joon Young before it's too late. Sadly, he cannot do anything about his parent. He is even shocked to know that Joon Young's own father crushed his own child right in front of his eyes. 

I am hating Joon Young's father so much for being a coward, someone who doesn't even deserve pity for what he has done. Thanks God that Young Ok finally realizes that the man she loves is someone who doesn't even have conscience. How could he even tried to send Joon Young abroad? He will regret it much when he knows that his own child is going to die soon. And when that happens he will remember his own child is embarassed for having a father like him. He may not be able to change what his own child thinks of him since it will be too late to change everything. 

Uncontrollably Fond - Episode 17 Summary

Joon Young forgets about sending Pororo to a new home, as well as what the statue of limitations means. He narrates that his doctor warned that this might happen as his cancer progressed, but he’d ignored his doctor’s warning, arrogantly thinking that God wouldn’t be so cruel.

Still confused, Joon Young opens the gate to see Jung Eun on his doorstep. She waves her now-ringless hand at him, then steps into his arms. Over her shoulder, Joon Young sees Eul staring at them, and he thinks that God has never forgotten to be cruel to him and Eul. Jung Eun steps back when she realizes that Joon Young isn’t hugging her back, and she comments on his blank gaze, as if he doesn’t know her. After a moment, the memories rush back to him — she’s the hit-and-run driver who killed Eul’s father, and he’s been working on convincing her to give up Ji Tae and date him.

He slips back into character and addresses Jung Eun, saying that she came sooner than he expected. She asks him to make her some ramyun, and the two link arms and go inside. Joon Young looks at Eul only for a second, and in voiceover, says that he decided to be even more cruel than God.

In the kitchen, Jung Eun suggests that they kiss again, this time for real. Joon Young just grins at her, and outside, Eul turns to go. Joon Young narrates that he just hopes that however much misery he’s caused Eul, that he experiences it ten thousand times more.

Assemblyman Choi asks Ji Tae if he knows who Jung Eun is dating, and he knows his son is lying when Ji Tae says that he doesn’t know. Jung Eun’s father arrives for dinner, and he eats heartily while everyone else just sits in awkward silence. He even toasts to the broken engagement, saying that everybody knows. Assemblyman Choi apologizes, and Assemblyman Yoon suddenly mentions that he’s thinking of giving someone else the secretary-general position. All of a sudden, he feels that Assemblyman Choi isn’t experienced enough. When Ji Tae’s mother gently protests, Yoon says that he won’t be giving next year’s government projects to her company. He asks Ji Tae whom he chose over Jung Eun, and his mother can’t stay quiet. She asks about Jung Eun’s new love interest, but this is news to Assemblyman Yoon. She hands over her phone and shows Assemblyman Yoon pictures of Jung Eun with Joon Young.

Joon Young’s mother closes up her restaurant for the night, and Ajusshi stays back to give her a hat. He puts it on her, and she asks again if he likes her, and this time he says yes. Then he immediately takes it back, and asks if she thinks he’s nuts. He turns and sees Eul crouched against the wall, head in her arms, and Mom asks Eul why she’s here. Eul says that she just walked, and ended up here. She tells them to ignore her, but Ajusshi says that if she wants Joon Young back, she should go talk to him.

Eul moans that she knows, but she’s not in her right mind at the moment. Ajusshi nags some more so Mom sends him away, and asks Eul if she’s crying. Eul says she’s not, that she’s too shocked to cry. She finally looks up at Mom, who invites her to her house for some dinner.

After their dinner, Jung Eun asks Joon Young why Eul was in front of his house tonight. He claims not to know, and changes the subject when Jung Eun derides Eul for not taking a hint. The doorbell rings, and Joon Young finds Assemblyman Yoon’s aide at his door looking for him. He dresses in a suit to meet Jung Eun’s father, but Jung Eun warns him that her father is a frightening man and pleads with him not to go. She begs him to let her handle this, saying that she loves him, and Joon Young hugs her with a smile and lets her go. He says that if she’s gone too long, he’ll go himself.

Eul eats with her usual gusto at Joon Young’s mom’s place, and Mom complains that she could have made more than ramyun. Eul explains that she heard that Joon Young was making ramyun for the woman he’s dating, and she was suddenly craving it. Mom asks who he’s dating, and Eul opens a bottle of soju and says that she’s rich, sexy, and from a good family. Mom snatches the soju back, yelling that she brought it for herself, and Eul realizes that she was gulping it without it even registering. She whines that she’s not supposed to be drinking, worried that she’ll act out again. Mom just invites her to share a drink and they’ll see just how bad it can get.

As Joon Young waits, he breathes on his window again, revealing the little cartoon he drew of Eul on the glass. He goes to his room and pulls out a small recorder, and films himself saying that he’s not sure when his memory will start to go again. He starts talking about his mother and her life, and, this makes my stomach hurt, especially when he haltingly says that he never had a father. Joon Young reconsiders, and records that his father is Choi Hyun-joon, but that he doesn’t know Joon Young exists. He says that Assemblyman Choi fabricated the details of Eul’s father’s hit-and-run accident, then he’s interrupted by a call from his mother. He affects his usual cheerful tone when he answers, saying that he’ll rush right over if she misses him. 

At her home, Mom tucks a sleeping Eul into bed in Joon Young’s old room, then answers the door when Joon Young arrives.

He thinks he’s here to fix a broken chair leg, and he’s surprised when Mom tells him that Eul is in his room. She asks why he’s dating someone else when he’s crazy over Eul. He covers her mouth when she raises her voice and accuses him of only dating that other girl because she’s rich. 

Joon Young starts to leave, but stops when Mom says that Eul hasn’t slept in days, so she got her drunk on purpose. She pretends that there’s an emergency at the restaurant, and leaves Joon Young alone with Eul despite his protests.

Joon Young can’t resist peeking in on Eul, and he sits on the floor to watch her sleep. When she starts to roll off the bed, he quickly slides under her, catching her on his chest. Eul doesn’t wake, but just snuggles into him, and he’s stuck for fear of waking her.

His mother texts that she’s going to stay at the sauna with friends tonight, and Joon Young wonders what to do about Eul. He pulls his pillow under his head, and gently pushes Eul’s hair off her face. His hand hovers over her face as if he’s dying to touch her, but he settles for cradling her in his arms and falls asleep. In the morning, Eul wakes on the floor, alone. She looks around Joon Young’s room, smiling at the encouraging quotes he’d taped to the walls and written in his old textbooks. In one book she finds folded papers, and opens them to see her old posted flyers asking for witnesses to her father’s accident — and also the newer ones Joon Young had posted after she’d left, with his own phone number as the contact. Joon Young’s mom comes in to ask where Joon Young is, and Eul is surprised to learn that he was here last night. Mom seems disappointed that Eul never saw him, but she notices the old signs, and tells Eul that Joon Young did everything he could. She says that Joon Young was a law student then, but he gave it all up. She says that he’s a man of conscience, unlike his parents, and asks Eul not to resent him or she’s a bad person, too.

Joon Young wakes to find Assemblyman Choi at his door, and they go to the dock out back to talk. Choi asks what Joon Young is aiming at, threatening him with the USB (the one that had evidence of Choi with Madam Song), and also stealing Jung Eun from Ji Tae. Joon Young says that he merely wants a just society. Assemblyman Choi says that it wouldn’t be hard to destroy Joon Young, adding that Joon Young started the threats first. Joon Young questions whether asking for a just society and a welfare state is a threat, when those are words that politicians like Choi spew all the time.

Choi asks if Joon Young means to continue playing this absurd game, and Joon Young counters that Choi started it. He asks if he’s forgotten what he did when he was a prosecutor just to gain fame and prestige. Choi says that if Joon Young’s goal is to ruin his life, he ought to mess with Choi alone, and leave out his wife and children. Joon Young isn’t the least bit intimidated, and he refuses. He says that Assemblyman Choi’s family needs to be equally harmed; they need to learn that it’s a sin to have Choi as a husband and father. Furious, 

Assemblyman Choi grabs Joon Young by the collar, and warns him one last time — destroying Joon Young would be a piece of cake. He growls for Joon Young to stop this, and not to touch anything that belongs to him. Joon Young just smiles and gives Assemblyman Choi a piece of advice: “Don’t just warn me. Destroy me.” He says that he plans to spend the rest of his life standing in the way of Choi’s success. He invites Choi to try to knock him down, or he’ll just grow worse.

Jung Eun’s father isn’t pleased with his daughter’s choice of men, and he snatches her phone and slaps her when she tries to text Joon Young. He asks if she plans to live recklessly now, but she retorts that she’s going to stop living recklessly. 

Her father calls her childish to choose a lowly celebrity, and Jung Eun yells that she loves him. Her father books the next flight to the States, intent on sending Jung Eun away until she comes to her senses. He forbids her to return until he allows it, saying that she’s not in her right mind, just like ten years ago.

Ji Tae arrives to speak with Jung Eun, and tries to warn her away from Joon Young. But she wants him over anybody else and isn’t going to be swayed away from her love. At that, Ji Tae tells her that Joon Young approached Jung Eun with an agenda—he’s doing it to get back at Assemblyman Choi.

Haru visits Na Ri at work, and Na Ri tells her that the daughter of a restaurant owner has been flirting with Jik, and she approves, since she wants Jik to marry someone rich. Jealous and indignant, Haru reveals that she’s even richer, though Na Ri doesn’t believe that she’s the daughter of KJ Group. Haru shows her a family photo to prove it, and Na Ri is shocked, but not for the reason that Haru thinks — she tells Haru to go home, delete Jik’s number, and never contact him again. Haru refuses, and Jik arrives to find Na Ri trying to physically peel Haru off the display case. Haru pouts that Na Ri is telling her to break up with him, and Jik confusedly asks why. Jik takes Haru outside, where she sobs that things at home are bad enough without all this piled on. Jik promises that he won’t break up with her no matter what anyone says, and hugs Haru while she wails that she’s better than that restaurant girl. As she cries, Jik wonders why Na Ri told them to break up.

With Ji Tae’s words ringing in her head, Jung Eun goes to meet with Joon Young by the river — and when she sees him standing there, she grows angry and nearly runs him over with her car. At the last second, she screeches the car to a halt just feet away from him, while he doesn’t even flinch. She calms and they sit to talk, and Jung Eun says that she heard something from Ji Tae, but if Joon Young says it’s not true then she’ll believe him.

Joon Young asks if Ji Tae told her that he approached her to get revenge on a father that abandoned him. Jung Eun demands that he say it’s not true, but instead, Joon Young tells her to run before he comes up with another scheme to fool her.

Eul goes to Joon Young’s home again, but her work sunbae calls her before she works up the courage to ring the bell. She’s in trouble for showing up at Joon Young’s home while they were shooting his documentary. Her sunbae gets a call from Joon Young requesting that he send Eul for tonight’s shooting, and he grumbles at Joon Young’s unpredictability. 

That evening, Joon Young sits on his pier at a table covered in flowers and a cake. Eul asks what they’re filming, and Joon Young says that it’s the first item on his bucket list — to propose on camera to the woman he loves. He complains that Eul is frowning, and she turns up the corners of her mouth with her fingers to prove that she’s not.

She can’t help but ask who he’s planning to propose to, and his answer floors her: “Noh Eul.” What? But he’s not answering her, he’s just telling her again to stop frowning. The real answer is that he’s proposing to Jung Eun. Eul excuses herself to get a some water, and she’s so shaken that she drops the glass and shatters it. She mutters to herself that Joon Young is cruel, asking her to film his proposal to another woman.

We see that earlier in the day, after his talk with Jung Eun, Joon Young had called Ji Tae’s mother. He’d told her that no matter what happens, he’d have Jung Eun: “Everything you people want to have, I will now steal away, one by one.”

Jung Eun had been watching from her car, and had taken a call from Ji Tae’s mother asking if she had a nice talk with Joon Young. She’d told Jung Eun to come back and marry Ji Tae, and when Jung Eun tried to hang up on her, she’d said that she had CCTV footage of her hit-and-run from ten years ago. Jung Eun accused her of lying, but Ji Tae’s mother invited her to come see for herself. Jung Eun desperately reminded her that she wouldn’t be the only one affected if it goes public, but Ji Tae’s mother had been willing to take that risk. Between a presidential candidate with a murderer daughter and a mere prosecutor who gave in to power, “I wonder who’ll shed more blood?” Shiver.

Jung Eun had gone back out to Joon Young, who’d asked if she decided not to run. She’d asked how far Joon Young would have gone if he hadn’t been caught, and he said he’d have married her. He admitted that he wants to take the one thing his father wants, and when Jung Eun was surprised he’d marry someone he doesn’t love for revenge, Joon Young had said that feelings change. He’d told Jung Eun to leave, but she’d stopped him. She’d commented on his ability to know what a woman is feeling, and suggested they follow this through together. 

Now she shows up at his place and sits at the table, and she hesitates when she sees that Eul is here to film it. But she gathers her wits and even greets Eul, and asks her to make them look good.

Ji Tae drinks at his and Eul’s old haunt, and the restaurant unni fusses at him for disappearing for so long, calling him sexy and handsome in his fancy new appearance. Ji Tae just says that he had always thought he was a rational, reasonable person. His assistant finds him, and shows him the latest news on Joon Young. We don’t see what Ji Tae sees on the phone screen, but whatever it is makes him go pale.

Over at his mother’s restaurant, Man-ok and GY also gape at the news. Ajusshi says that Joon Young’s mother should never see this, but it’s too late — she’s just walked in and overheard them talking, and wants to know what this is about.

Eul continues filming as Joon Young slips a diamond ring onto Jung Eun’s finger. Eul asks the two what made them decide to do this on camera, and Joon Young says again that it’s on his bucket list. Eul wants Jung Eun’s answer, and she responds that she wants to publicly show people that she’s chosen Joon Young, so that they’ll stop threatening her. Well, how romantic.

Eul asks if they really love each other, zooming in on Joon Young’s face for his answer. He says that he does, but Eul pushes, wanting to know when he starting loving Jung Eun. He looks cornered for a moment, and he says that he doesn’t remember exactly. Voice rising, Eul asks why he can’t remember. Joon Young asks if she recalls every single moment she fell in love, and Eul confidently says that she does. It was March 15, 2005, at the playground in her neighborhood. Some kids had made fun of her brother for having no mother, and the boy in question had comforted Jik.

Of course that had been Joon Young, and he remembers it vividly. He’d told little Jik that he used to get teased for having no father, but he never cried because that’s what the bullies wanted. Eul had witnessed the whole exchange, and she’d fallen for Joon Young that very moment. Joon Young looks shaken now, but Eul doesn’t let him off the hook, and she reminds him that he loved another woman before Jung Eun. Eul asks if he really even loved her, and Joon Young says that he doesn’t remember, gripping Jung Eun’s hand tightly to stop her from chiming in.

He regains his composure a bit, saying that he’s the type of person who starts a new relationship cleanly, erasing old memories. Now Eul is upset and she calls a break, and Joon Young watches as she walks away. Jung Eun says that he’s a scary man. He stands and starts the camera, but Jung Eun doesn’t notice. She asks if they could start again once this is all over. Joon Young asks her what her dream was for her life, explaining that his dream was to become a prosecutor, then find his father and show him that he grew up well without him.

Jung Eun asks if he doesn’t resent his father, since he wants to get revenge on him. Joon Young just says that his father doesn’t even know he exists, which is why he studied so hard. But then one day he discovered his father’s true colors — that he’s cruel, and a fraud who’d do anything to get what he wants. Joon Young tells her that his father covered up a hit-and-run case for a powerful man. As he lays out the details, Jung Eun realizes that he’s talking about her, and drops her wine glass in shock. She excuses herself, and Joon Young watches her go with a calculating look in his eyes. Eul comes back and sees that the camera is on, and Joon Young hands her something and tells her not to take her eyes off the monitor.

Ji Tae confronts his mother, accusing her of starting the rumor that Joon Young is a drug user. Oh no. Joon Young’s mother makes Man-ok read her the article, which states that a “Mr. A” uses drugs in clubs and has drug parties with girls. Though the articles don’t name him, everyone assumes that the rumor is about Joon Young. Assemblyman Choi looks deeply conflicted, but it turns out that he’s the source of the untrue rumors.

Jung Eun emerges from the restroom, having composed herself. She tells Joon Young that prosecutors are people too, who can be cowardly and make mistakes. Joon Young counters that the prosecutors he knows still try to be good fathers and stick to their principles. Jung Eun asks if this is why he wanted revenge on his father, but he just tells her, “The man who died in the hit-and-run accident was my girlfriend’s father.” He confesses to interfering when Eul tried to expose the truth, by trying to protect his father.

Just as Joon Young instructed, Eul is witnessing this entire exchange through the camera that Joon Young re-positioned, and she watches with tears in her eyes as he says, “I wanted to protect him, so I killed my girlfriend.” 

He looks directly into the camera, and says again, “I killed her.”

Personal Thoughts:

Joon Young sets his plan into motion, bringing all the pieces together for one final confrontation. But every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and as Joon Young pushes, his adversary is ready and willing to push back just as hard. The question is, will Joon Young be able to outwit his opponents and set everything right before his time runs out?

This episodes reveals a lot about JY's secret and thats what is good about. It's reaching the end already but this conflicts seems to be a little bit dragged out. Shouldn't we see some beautiful and happy scenes between JY and Eul already??

I am happy that JY's Mom is now on Eul's side and she plays a bit of cupid yeay! I was also touched when I see how hard for JY not to touch Eul, instead he just sleeps with her in his arm. At least for that time, even if he dies, I would be so glad that he dies in the arms of someone he loves. Though I may not want him to die.