No Acquire No Love: Episodes 11-12 (Ultimate)
by Unit
As reluctant as we’re to say goodbye, it’s time to ship off the present that has offered us with a lot pleasure and laughter for the previous six weeks. Our finale is a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster in contrast to the enjoyable we’re used to, however No Acquire No Love wraps up on a contented notice with respectable resolutions to its plot factors.
EPISODES 11-12
We resume put up Hae-young’s discovery that Ji-wook was her mother’s foster youngster. Ji-wook explains that Mother made him promise to maintain it a secret, and Hae-young storms out of the home, upset that Mother had no qualms taking in one other foster youngster although fostering value Dad his life. However, Ja-yeon is relieved that Mother wasn’t alone in the home after Dad died, and he or she assures Ji-wook that Hae-young will perceive. She simply wants time to course of issues first.
We come to study that six years in the past, Mother went to see Ja-yeon to apologize for blaming her for Dad’s demise. On the time, Ja-yeon was wallowing in guilt, and Mother tells her that it’s not her fault — and that she saved the assassin’s identification a secret from Hae-young as a result of Dad insisted that Ja-yeon ought to by no means be branded as a assassin’s youngster. Since then, Ja-yeon has been working underneath the belief that Hae-young doesn’t know who killed Dad, and he or she moved again house to be with — and handle — Hae-young instead of her dad and mom.
Ji-wook traces Hae-young to Mother’s outdated home within the countryside and reveals her a video of Mother within the nursing house which signifies that she (Hae-young) is alive in Mother’s recollections regardless of her assumption that Mother not remembers her. They discuss his foster days, and he mentions that they as soon as bumped into one another exterior the home — she was flirting with a pack of cigarettes and impulsively requested the high-schooler passing by for a lighter. Hae-young is stunned that Ji-wook was the scholar she met that day, and we come to study that it was her first time smoking. Now I see why we had that “you by no means always remember the one who taught you find out how to smoke” dialogue final week. Lol.
On their approach again to Seoul, Hae-young is uneasy as a result of Ja-yeon shouldn’t be answering her calls. Hee-sung can be unavailable, so Ji-wook calls Gyu-hyun to inspect Ja-yeon. This seems to be well timed as a result of Ja-yeon’s father has damaged into the home to assault her! Fortunately, Gyu-hyun swoops in to save lots of the day — and simply after I’m pondering I’ve not had a superb giggle since this melo episode started, Gyu-hyun whips out Hae-young’s glow at midnight dildos to beat the shit out of the loopy dad. Girls and gents, I died!
Hae-young and Ji-wook arrive house in time for the loopy dad’s arrest, and Ja-yeon slinks again when he loudly declares that he’s her father. However Hae-young grabs the dildos and smacks him throughout the face as a result of he has no proper to say parenthood. LMAO! Ja-yeon realizes that Hae-young has identified all alongside, and Hae-young replies that she saved Ja-yeon round as a result of it was apparent that she (Ja-yeon) was having a tough time. Hae-young didn’t need to lose her sister alongside her dad, although she admits that she typically felt that dwelling collectively would make Ja-yeon endure much more. However Ja-yeon replies that she hung in there due to Hae-young, and I’m already tearing up at this level.
We pan over to the Bok half-brothers in the midst of an academic dialogue in regards to the variety of ~bananas~ in Hae-young’s bunch. Lol. After thanking Ji-wook for giving him the prospect to guard Ja-yeon, Gyu-hyun addresses him in an off-the-cuff brotherly tone, and Ji-wook is touched. However I’m wondering if that’s imagined to make up for Gyu-hyun’s lack of apology for calling Ji-wook the son of an adulteress and for demoting his spouse. Aaanyway, now that the cat is out of the bag, Gyu-hyun assures Ja-yeon that he loves her regardless of every little thing, and the couple share a kiss.
In our remaining episode, Mother passes away, and Hae-young and her foster sisters grieve. Ji-wook assists them to rearrange the funeral proceedings, and Mother’s different foster children arrive to bid her farewell. It’s a bittersweet send-off for Mother, and from her foster siblings’ tales, Hae-young learns issues about her mother that she by no means knew. She finally ends up acknowledging that Mother lived a fruitful life, and didn’t endure a loss. After the funeral, Ji-wook tells Hae-young that he made a promise to Mother to carry on to her — however at this level, Hae-young has had it with him and all the guarantees he has been tasked with.
Earlier on, Ji-wook talked about that he disappeared after their pretend wedding ceremony as a result of he was frightened he wouldn’t be capable to preserve the promise to not inform her he was a foster child. He additionally by no means went to go to his mother as a result of he wished to maintain the promise he made to his grandmother. Now he’s staying by her facet due to one more promise he made to Mother? How aggravating! Hae-young tells Ji-wook that he’s not sure by obligation to stay along with her, and that he must make himself a precedence. “I don’t need to be the rationale and function of your life,” she says, earlier than taking off his wedding ceremony ring and strolling away. Oof!
We might have had Ji-wook guarantee Hae-young that he’s selecting to be along with her of his personal free will and never due to some darn promise, however no. Present in some way forgets that it gave us an OTP with wholesome communication expertise, so it sends Ji-wook overseas and leaves Hae-young — and we viewers — to wallow in distress for almost all of the episode. Sigh. This is the reason I’ve belief points.
Quick ahead to 6 months later. Hee-sung is doing effectively along with her voice performing, and he or she’s preserving the being pregnant — and elevating the kid along with her boyfriend after they break up and get again collectively. Ja-yeon not hides her spicy author self, and he or she even provides a visitor lecture at a college. In fact, she’s nonetheless fortunately relationship Gyu-hyun — who has surpassed his father’s expectations and brought Ggulbi to the primary spot within the business. Ggulbi has additionally revised its coverage to incorporate equal advantages for single and married workers.
Sadly, Woo-jae nonetheless thrives on the firm and reaps the advantages of Hae-young’s onerous work (ugh!) so she stop to launch her personal startup. Hae-young poaches Ha-joon to understand his dream of writing code, however all roads lead again to Gyu-hyun to safe an funding of their startup. Tsk. Why did the present must make them indebted to him? Gyu-hyun agrees to put money into “Traitors One and Two,” and he had higher reduce them a big examine as a result of he’s the rationale why they stop.
Ji-wook returns to Korea with a woman, and Present tries to persuade Hae-young that they’re getting married. However no worries, the one factor between Ji-wook and stated woman is English dialogue I struggled to listen to — and sibling DNA. Lol. Apparently, Canada was one of many locations in his world tour and he’s now shut along with his mother’s household. Good for him. Ji-wook informs Hae-young that he’s not getting married. “I got here again to the place I left my coronary heart, so that you’ll simply must bear it.” Okay, sir. Hae-young tells Ji-wook she loves him, the rings are again on their fingers, and we get the compulsory kiss to finish the drama. Whew!
We had been so near getting an ideal present, however like clockwork, Okay-dramas will at all times Okay-drama. It’s nearly like logic was buried alongside Hae-young’s mother as a result of I don’t get what occurred to my beloved present after the funeral. Okay, I get it in idea. Hae-young wished to set Ji-wook free from guarantees and obligations, however I promise you, Present, it didn’t must be so sophisticated. There have been higher methods to reunite Ji-wook along with his mother in Canada — and provides him area to determine what he needs to do along with his life — exterior of a pressured separation.
I used to be completely trying ahead to Hae-young and Ji-wook’s actual wedding ceremony, and whereas I can perceive — lies, I can’t perceive — not getting a marriage, I completely can not consider we spent all the remaining episode of a rom-com with out a single lovey-dovey second between the lead couple! And no, an ending kiss doesn’t reduce it as a result of a last-minute OTP reunion had no enterprise in this present within the first place. I’m upset as a result of we had a superb factor occurring. I imply, we might have been up there as one of many rom-com greats of dramaland!
However desirous about it once more, No Acquire No Love is definitely up there. I imply, the present utilized practically all of the tropes within the guide and nonetheless managed to subvert and make them really feel recent. And regardless of feeling a bit of letdown with the finale, I’ve handy it to the drama for eleven episodes of peak rom-com excellence. Present gave us a wholesome romance, a number of laughter, fluff, heartwarming discovered household moments with the sisters — and naturally, Hae-young, who is without doubt one of the most great and greatest written feminine leads I’ve ever seen. So what if it wobbled a bit of with its touchdown? The present continues to be a strong 9/10 in my books, and that’s fairly good, too.
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