The Story of Girl Okay: Episodes 13-14
by Dramaddictally
Our heroine’s secret is out, giving her enemies ammunition in opposition to her. However for somebody who’s about to face a loss of life sentence, she’s fairly calm — leaving her and our hero loads of time to save lots of the village one final time, and likewise work on producing that false inheritor.
EPISODES 13-14
Once we left off final time, I virtually thought it was a dream. It was too horrible to think about that Goodeok’s former grasp would discover her the way in which she did. However alas, it was actual. So-hye has moved to city, acknowledged Goodeok, and is about to fire up hassle.
The primary day that the 2 girls see one another exterior the Justice of the Peace’s workplace, Goodeok embodies her position as Tae-young, saying they’ve by no means met earlier than. So-hye doesn’t consider a phrase of it and Goodeok can barely hold her cool, however she learns that So-hye is now married to TAX MINISTER PARK (Choi Jung-woo), placing her much more on edge.
The tax minister is the man that’s been pulling the strings on all of the crime and corruption for the reason that starting. He was behind the gold mine case and the try to border Goodeok as a widow, and he has an enormous vendetta in opposition to Goodeok for screwing up all his plans — although lower-rank officers took the blame every time and this man walked away unscathed.
However now Goodeok and Seung-hwi are actually in a jam. So-hye is aware of each of their faces they usually’re alleged to have run off collectively prior to now. It’s going to look mighty unusual in the event that they’re seen collectively now, claiming to be different individuals. Nonetheless, Goodeok causes that she will’t go away city as a result of she’s simply been seen; it’ll solely affirm her true id. As an alternative, as soon as once more, she tells Seung-hwi to take off. (Poor Seung-hwi! She simply promised to cease pushing him away for his personal good!)
Seung-hwi, in fact, refuses to go away and it means increasingly more individuals are being let in on their secret. Within the midst of it, So-hye spreads rumors round city that Goodeok is a runaway serf. Phrase will get to Girl Kim, who talks privately with Goodeok — as these two have change into shut pals — and Goodeok admits the reality.
It’s a tearful dialog and each girls seem badly bruised. Girl Kim has a glance of deep disappointment, possibly even betrayal, when she learns they’ve all been deceived, however it turns to shock as she hears the terrible issues Goodeok has been by. For her half, Goodeok can also be pained understanding she lied to the individuals she’s come to care about. By the top of it, Girl Kim says she’s going to overlook the whole lot she simply heard, and from there on out, she stays firmly on Goodeok’s aspect.
To get So-hye out of city and out of their hair, Seung-hwi concocts a narrative and sends a couple of servants in disguise to inform So-hye that Goodeok has been captured. Believing it, So-hye races off to her hometown of Hanyang, the place she learns it was a trick. She argues along with her violent, villainous husband that he’s not doing sufficient to satisfy her want of discovering Goodeok. This man couldn’t care much less (about So-hye or Goodeok), besides he learns that So-hye’s lacking serf goes round calling herself Authorized Advocate Tae-young — which is the very particular person he needs to destroy.
As soon as they understand they’ve a standard enemy, Tax Minister Park perks up. He calls a gathering with Goodeok and some different key gamers on the town, the place he accuses Goodeok outright of being a runaway. She denies it and, since they haven’t any proof in opposition to her, they’ll’t do something however go away unhappy.
Up thus far, these episodes are primarily devoted to Goodeok and Seung-hwi ignoring their very own peril as a way to assist the individuals round them. The Justice of the Peace was concerned in defrauding everybody on the town, leaving them bankrupt, and our heroes are engaged on a method to pull them out of it. Lastly, they study that their huge stash of aloe crops are very worthwhile they usually strike a take care of a purchaser as a way to safe funds for the city effectively into the long run.
The one downside is that the tax minister claims he owns the land the place they’re cultivating the aloe. This results in one last court docket case, the place Goodeok discovers authorized paperwork to point out the land really belongs to some common of us on the town. Goodeok wins the case on enchantment, and additional, as inspector common, Seung-hwi brings a declare in opposition to the city’s new Justice of the Peace for forgery, cruelty, and torture.
They win this case as effectively and the Justice of the Peace is arrested and sentenced to lashings. We’re compelled to observe, however the level is vindication. Because it occurs, this man who brutalized Goodeok, her dad and mom, and so many different individuals, dies throughout punishment.
All through all this, we see that Goodeok and Seung-hwi have created a type of utopia of their little nook of the world, by their authorized activism, the place the gap between servants and noble individuals is far lower than it was. The ambiance is jovial and jokey with out the brutal hierarchy, main the Justice of the Peace to remark at one level that the individuals on this city are “so impolite.”
The tip end result, although, is that the townspeople are all on one aspect (slightly than the in-fighting we noticed earlier than), and their enemies are coming from exterior. I’ve a sense (or deep hope) that that is going to matter as we go into our finale week when our heroine is the one on trial.
So, how will we get from right here to the purpose we opened the drama with, the place our girl is standing accused within the heart of city? Effectively, it has to do with love — and the way a lot of a legal responsibility it’s. Our happy-to-be-fake-married couple is smiling in the course of doom and stealing kisses wherever they’ll.
Once they resolve to go to their hometown of Hanyang (the place Do-gyum and Mi-ryeong at the moment are dwelling), they make a visit to Goodeok’s mom’s grave. Goodeok introduces her mother to her husband, saying she wished to convey him there to boast. And Seung-hwi lays down flowers and apologizes for not asking permission to marry. It’s a touching scene, and simply one other reminder that they consider one another as a legit married couple.
Throughout the identical go to, they study that Seung-hwi’s father has handed away. This tears him aside as he thinks again on the alternatives he made to be with Goodeok, and the truth that he can’t be there to correctly mourn. He admits that he regrets leaving the storytelling troupe, however provides that he liked it as a result of it introduced smiles to individuals’s faces. Nonetheless, after they negotiated the aloe deal, and he noticed the grins of the townspeople, it felt the identical to him. This is the reason it’s value it to do good work.
He’s telling Goodeok all this as they settle in for the night time, and following his speech, she asks if he needs to make use of only one blanket tonight as a substitute of two. He promptly extinguishes the lone candle that’s lighting the room and there’s a gradual and prolonged scene of the 2 unwrapping one another earlier than attending to the enterprise they’ve been ready for. Fireflies float in by the window and illuminate the backdrop, creating the texture of a shadowbox theater (which is good visually, but additionally a callback to Seung-hwi’s on-stage storytelling strategies).
Afterward, and earlier than we all know it, Goodeok is pregnant, Seung-hwi is overjoyed, and there are menacing males on the entrance door asking for “Goodeok and Search engine marketing-in.” That’s, they know each of their actual names from earlier than our heroes took on new identities. They seize maintain of Goodeok and lead her away, and he or she sends a sign to Seung-hwi which means he’s supposed to flee with out her. She’d advised him beforehand that at the present time would come and his leaving is the one means for everybody to outlive.
They steal one final take a look at one another earlier than the gate closes between them and we finish proper again the place we began. Seung-hwi’s terribly helpless face, coupled with watching this band of males haul off a pregnant girl, actually obtained to me. This has at all times been a narrative of excellent and evil with clear traces about who we’re rooting for and who we’re alleged to hate, and the drama does a superb job of drumming up these indignant feelings.
Goodeok did her finest to maintain Seung-hwi secure by conserving him away from her, however she’s fallibly human (everybody wants love), and now she’s obtained two different lives on the road moreover her personal. And so, how is she going to get out of this one? With two extra hours to fill, there’s certainly a means, and I’ve confidence that the drama will go away us with smiles on our faces — similar to the followers in Seung-hwi’s storytelling crowds.
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