DNA Lover: Episodes 11-12
by Dramaddictally
This week is all about coming to phrases with the reality. Now that the true DNA lover is revealed, all the opposite secrets and techniques, lies, and forgotten reminiscences are coming to the fore. However what’s a woman to do when her hurtin’ coronary heart desires one thing that’s simply not in her DNA?
EPISODES 11-12
Final week we ended with the massive reveal: Kang-hoon is definitely So-jin’s genetically good match. However that’s an issue now that she’s obtained her coronary heart set on Yeon-woo. So, she ventures out to show that the information isn’t true — and that she and Yeon-woo are as deeply linked as she’d prefer to consider.
Our poor heroine doesn’t get far, although, earlier than she realizes that each one the “telepathic connections” she had with Yeon-woo might additionally apply to Kang-hoon. Each time she put out the psychological alerts, Kang-hoon appeared, however she simply stored tweaking her experiments till she obtained the end result she needed (which, as her colleague reminds her, is simply unhealthy science).
Nonetheless, So-jin desires to offer it another shot. And so, she reruns the experiment the place she and Yeon-woo are supposed to satisfy in the identical place on the identical time, with out telling the place they’re going. Like earlier than, Yeon-woo pulls the trick the place he has his colleague observe her. Solely this time, So-jin catches on. And when she’s calls Yeon-woo to ask the place he’s, he blatantly lies — whereas she’s standing proper behind him.
So-jin is basically upset to seek out out that Yeon-woo has been dishonest. Particularly when he admits that he knew she had Kang-hoon’s DNA and never his. He says he needed to do all the things to make her comfortable, even when it included unintentional lies. And does it actually matter that he lied since they like one another? Isn’t that the pertinent level? Nicely, probably not. So-jin looks like he took benefit of her beliefs and tells him they want a timeout to assume issues via.
Yeon-woo doesn’t need to break up. And at Kang-hoon’s nudging (as a result of uri Kang-hoon at all times has So-jin’s greatest curiosity in thoughts!), Yeon-woo reaches out to So-jin first, and apologizes for hurting her. She understands that he didn’t have unhealthy intent, however she allowed herself to get harm by him as a result of she believed they had been fated. She wants time to just accept the truth that they’re not.
Nonetheless, the tables flip when Yeon-woo is out of the blue in mourning. There’s a whole lot of backstory concerning the troubled relationship between Yeon-woo’s mother and father, however the important level right here is that Yeon-woo’s dad dies in a hearth — that it seems his mom purposefully set. She was within the hearth too (evidently attempting to die together with her dishonest husband) and is now laid up in a hospital mattress unconscious. For plot functions: So-jin feels actually unhealthy for Yeon-woo and tracks him down on the seaside, the place he’s gone to mourn alone.
As soon as So-jin will get a sick Yeon-woo into mattress, he begins to inform her about his household. He is aware of that he has bother loving anybody due to the way in which his mother obsessively held onto his dad, whereas Dad moved out of the home and had many extramarital affairs. “The deeper you like somebody, the deeper you get harm,” Yeon-woo says. Because of this he’s too afraid to say he loves So-jin, however he does ask her to remain by his aspect.
The 2 go to sleep holding palms, however when Yeon-woo wakes within the night time, he runs away, leaving solely a be aware for So-jin that claims “Thanks. And I’m sorry.” Oof. Our beaten-down heroine tries to carry herself collectively, however lastly loses it in a puddle of tears when Kang-hoon seems out of nowhere and finds her alone. He sees her, says “Let’s go eat,” and takes her hand — inflicting the primary verifiable squee I’ve gotten from this present to this point. Can we preserve him?!
To make approach for Kang-hoon — and to show his love, in fact — Yeon-woo dives right into a pool of Noble Idiocy head first. He meets with So-jin to formally break it off, returning the {couples} bracelet that she gifted him. He’s chilly about it, saying she ought to give it to her actual DNA lover (ouch), however we all know that in his thoughts he’s doing this for her final happiness. He can’t love her for all times, so she needs to be with the one who can.
And, not ready round any longer, The One Who Can decides to get a head-to-toe makeover (thanks!) and ask So-jin out on a date. After her preliminary bafflement, they go ice skating, however So-jin is so sick with post-breakup heartache that all the things reminds her of Yeon-woo. She thinks she could by no means have the ability to overlook the nice instances and recover from him — till in a while, when she thinks that Kang-hoon is significantly injured in a hearth.
When So-jin hears a information story {that a} firefighter is in essential situation, she races to the hospital in a match of panic. However when she arrives, Kang-hoon is there unhurt, which makes her sob. In a flash, she remembers that 4 years earlier, when her father died, Kang-hoon was the one which stayed by her aspect. She feels fearful of what might need occurred to him, after which rushes in to seize him across the waist for a hug. Yeon-woo, seeing this, turns away.
In voiceover, So-jin thinks about how Kang-hoon has at all times protected her. And when she pulls again from the hug, he wipes the tears from her face and brushes her hair to the aspect. (Gah! How are these two not endgame?) In that second, she totally admits to herself that Kang-hoon is her DNA Lover, as our episodes shut.
Oh, come on! Can’t we simply go in opposition to the grain for as soon as and put our second leads the place they belong? As a result of it’s not solely Kang-hoon that I’m loving — I’ve obtained SLS for our second feminine lead as properly. Mi-eun will get little or no display time this week however when she does, she and Yeon-woo are open and flirty and glossy. Their rapport is beautiful to observe and so they simply appear to be a greater match. (FYI, Mi-eun has given up on her a number of boyfriends and determined she solely desires one love. I’m not going to remark till I see the place this goes, however for now, I feel it’s a waste of a nuanced character.)
And the very last thing I ought to point out is that we’ve a serial killer afoot. (Did you assume we’d escape a rom-com in 2024 with out one?) There’s a PRIEST (Lee Chul-woo) who’s been hanging round and appearing shady for some time, and now it appears he could also be behind the dying of Yeon-woo’s dad. He’s out for the entire fam, although, with Yeon-woo and his mother subsequent on the record. The excellent news (when you can name it that) is that not less than this dude possible has a legit motive (with indicators pointing to the potential for Yeon-woo’s long-lost brother). However all that noise will likely be resolved subsequent week, once we could or could not have to observe our seconds leads get their hearts trampled on (together with mine).
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