Issues are getting cute and cute between Seok Ji Gained (Ju Ji Hoon) and Yoon Ji Gained (Jung Yu Mi) within the current episodes of “Love Your Enemy.” Each are attempting arduous to persuade the world and one another that they will’t stand the sight of the opposite, however nothing may very well be removed from the reality.
In final week’s episodes we noticed Seok Ji Gained shifting into the campus residence quickly after his inauguration as Chairman of Dokmok Excessive College. He took on his father on the inaugural ceremony, making his stand clear to everybody besides Yoon Ji Gained, who’s satisfied he has an ulterior motive. Now as housemates, the 2 are in one another’s hair and house past faculty hours, which results in some hilarious in addition to tender moments between the previous lovers. Listed here are three issues we cherished and one factor we hated about final week’s episodes.
Warning: spoilers from episodes 5-6 forward!
Cherished: Seok Ji Gained’s jealous but caring coronary heart
Seok Ji Gained has moved bag and baggage into the college residence. His motive is to get near Yoon Ji Gained and likewise preserve his eyes on scholar trainer Gong Moon Soo (Lee Si Woo), the opposite inhabitant on the premises. Gong Moon Soo shares a straightforward rapport with each Yoon Ji Gained and her grandfather Yoon Jae Ho (Kim Kap Soo), which continuously irks Seok Ji Gained. As Gong Moon Soo reveals his culinary expertise, Seok Ji Gained tries to show-off as properly with some disastrous penalties. When Yoon Ji Gained’s grandfather suggests it’s effective for Moon Soo up to now her, despite the fact that she is seven years older than him, Seok Ji Gained burns with jealousy. Ju Ji Hoon aces the jealously comical former lover act to perfection. His expressions when he observes each Moon Soo and Yoon Ji Gained washing the automobile and enjoying with water is a riot.
Nevertheless, Seok Ji Gained proves he’s a worthy handyman. As he units to repairing and fixing the dilapidated residence, he’s additionally making a blueprint to refurbish the place. In fact being a housemate comes with its personal challenges, and as he retains attempting to one-up Moon Soo, Seok Ji Gained’s antics get extra hilarious and cute in each body.
It’s clear he cares about Dokmok mountain and the city as a lot as Yoon Ji Gained’s grandfather does. And as he continues placing a spanner in his father’s plans, a skirmish between his father and Mr. Yoon will get ugly, and Seok Ji Gained apologizes to Mr. Yoon on behalf of his father. Regardless that Yoon Ji Gained accuses him of being a cash grubber like his farther, he solely replies that one has to know that the small incident of the previous could have impacted the choices of the current.
One other cute second is when he affords to provide a raise to each Yoon Ji Gained and Gong Moon Soo to Seoul, and he turns up the automobile’s temperature when he sees Yoon Ji Gained coughing. You may clearly see the priority in his eyes, however he acts moderately nonchalant. One other second is when his iPad will get swapped with hers and he seems to be at her display screen saver, and despite the fact that they squabble once they change it again, his smile says all of it.
Seok Ji Gained is a person whose expressions communicate louder than his phrases, which are sometimes in battle to what he’s doing. His lingering heat gazes towards Yoon Ji Gained as he watches her and instantly turning gruff when she approaches are lifeless giveaways that he’s masking his emotions and vulnerability the place she is worried. Although he’s a 36-year-old man, it’s apparent that Seok Ji Gained remains to be the 18-year-old boy at coronary heart who can not recover from his old flame. Ju Ji Hoon performs Seok Ji Gained as a well-lived in character.
Cherished: they sealed it with a kiss…
If not snarling, Yoon Ji Gained’s glowering expressions in direction of Seok Ji Gained are fairly hilarious. She acts as if she doesn’t care, however the particulars are within the subtleties. Seok Ji Gained’s room in the home is the one one with out heating, and he braves the chilly each evening and catches a chill. Yoon Ji Gained’s grandfather asks her to get him an electrical blanket, to which she says she doesn’t know the place it’s and couldn’t be bothered.
When she appears Seok Ji Gained heading into his room wanting grossly unwell, she is worried, despite the fact that she acts as whether it is no large deal. She enters the room and checks his temperature, and subsequent factor we see her nursing him with chilly compresses on his burning brow. Seok Ji Gained, who’s in a state of delirium, is dreaming of his heartbroken 18-year-old self, crying on the steps close to Yoon Ji Gained’s house. In his dream he sees 18-year-old Yoon Ji Gained approaching him, and within the current we see the delirious Seok Ji Gained catch maintain of Yoon Ji Gained’s hand who’s sitting subsequent to his mattress. And he vegetation a kiss on her lips.
The second is tender, candy, and hilarious as Yoon Ji Gained is shocked and shocked in equal measure. She spends a sleepless evening fascinated with the kiss, and who would blame her? Although the following morning, Seok Ji Gained doesn’t recall what’s occurred, and Yoon Ji Gained retains gazing his lips.
And when Yoon Ji Gained’s buddy and colleague Cha Ji Hye (Kim Ye Gained) calls Seok Ji Gained manipulative, Yoon Ji Gained springs shortly to his protection, saying that he could also be many different issues, however he would by no means lie. She clearly is aware of him properly.
The push and pull that Yoon Ji Gained faces is relatable, and there are moments once you wish to inform her, “I instructed you so,” despite the fact that she is consistently in denial about her emotions. Jung Yu Mi’s snarky expressions are a riot, and her character attempting to place up a courageous “I don’t care” entrance can be properly finished.
Cherished: the recollections and blooming lilacs
Yoon Ji Gained wonders why Seok Ji Gained retains scowling at her each time he talks about their summer season romance 18 years in the past. One evening, Seok Ji Gained by likelihood finds the attic in Yoon Ji Gained’s house. As he friends via the dusty haze, his eyes fall upon a field. When he sees an outdated polaroid image of the 2 from 18 years in the past, there’s a unhappy smile on his face. When Yoon Ji Gained sees him with the field, her alarm bells go off as a result of she doesn’t need him to know that she continues to cherish the recollections of their previous. In a hilarious flip of occasions, as she lunges to get the field from him, she pulls his pants down by mistake, a lot to the embarrassment of all gathered there, together with Seok Ji Gained and Ji Hye.
She sees her outdated cellphone and recharges it, fondly scrolling down the photographs of the 2 of them. When confronted by Seok Ji Gained on why she saved the image, she savagely remarks that she forgot to burn this one. To show her level to him, she throws it away. In fact, our man retrieves it and cutely gazes at it. Based mostly on his actions, Seok Ji Gained remains to be caught in time in the intervening time outdoors her house 18 years in the past, and all through the present we see him persevering with to revisit the second.
One other cute second is when Gong Moon Soo tells the 2 that if the lilac flower has 5 petals, one’s love would come true. The 2 smirk, however each eye the tree expectantly. Although Yoon Ji Gained doesn’t need it to bloom (or so she needs us to assume), she asks Seok Ji Gained why he needs up to now her, to which he responds, “So I can dump you mercilessly.” She seems to be at him with disgust questioning why he has a lot disdain. Regardless of his response, the scene itself is an completely cute second. Once we see the primary blossom, there’s a victorious, but glad look on Seok Ji Gained’s face and Yoon Ji Gained seems to be taken again.
The eagerness with which these two present their dislike for the opposite is only a cover-up for the love that was by no means misplaced. Although each are unaware of the misunderstandings prompted between them, when they’re collectively, their 18-year-old selves involves the floor. There are moments when one needs Yoon Ji Gained was not as clueless as she appears to be in direction of Ji Hye’s refined intentions in direction of Seok Ji Gained, however it is a couple who will win your coronary heart and assist.
Hated: the manipulative Ji Hye
After being rejected by Seok Ji Gained, Cha Ji Hye strategizes her subsequent transfer. She invitations herself to Yoon Ji Gained’s house, and it’s an eerie second when she goes to Seok Ji Gained’s room and sits on his mattress. Throughout the identical evening, when Seok Ji Gained discovers the reminiscence field, Ji Hye is stunned seeing Yoon Ji Gained’s cellphone and the way she had cancelled Seok Ji Gained’s name and blocked his quantity. She is a bit affected however wonders what an outdated cellphone may do. In spite of everything, quite a lot of time has handed since that incident when Ji Hye deleted Seok Ji Gained’s message to Yoon Ji Gained secretly so a few years in the past.
As a way to get near Seok Ji Gained, she says she had confessed her emotions in a second of an anger and needs to return to being his buddy, particularly since he did care for her once they had been in class. She wrangles a trip with him to Seoul, solely horrified that he affords a raise to Yoon Ji Gained too. Seok Ji Gained’s gestures and gazes towards Yoon Ji Gained additional make her jealous, and he or she is irked when Seok Ji Gained tells Yoon Ji Gained to attend for his name in order that he can drive her again house.
Ji Hye does what she does finest… play low cost. When she sees Yoon Ji Gained ready for Seok Ji Gained’s name, she will get irritated, and when Yoon Ji Gained leaves her cellphone to go to the restroom, Ji Hye takes the cellphone, switching it off, and hiding it in her bag. As Ji Hye makes an hasty exit out, you may’t assist however surprise why Yoon Ji Gained didn’t discover that her cellphone will not be on the desk. Regardless that she sees that there’s something off about Ji Hye’s conduct, it looks as if she doesn’t learn an excessive amount of into it, which will be irritating.
It’s unlucky that Ji Hye comes throughout as determined and obsessive. And despite the fact that she has learn the room and the sparks between the 2 leads are all set to flare up, Ji Hye remains to be doing her finest to create conditions and hassle. Nevertheless it appears it is just a matter of time till our two sparring lovers discover their manner again to the opposite and get a blazing love story within the upcoming episodes!
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Puja Talwar is a Soompi author with a robust Yoo Yeon Seok and Lee Junho bias. A very long time Okay-drama fan, she loves devising alternate situations to the narratives. She has interviewed Lee Min Ho, Gong Yoo, Cha Eun Woo, and Ji Chang Wook to call a couple of. You may comply with her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.
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