What Comes After Love: Episode 4
by Dramaddictally
Extra disappointment and heartache this week as we get one other seed of details about the massive breakup up to now. There’s readability round our hero’s intent, and the result he’s hoping for on this story, however our heroine nonetheless has numerous soul looking out to do.
EPISODE 4
Final week we ended with a wedding proposal. Kanna was at Jungo’s resort room door wrapping him in a hug and hoping to get hitched. However this week we study two issues: she was tremendous drunk on the time, and she or he and Jungo should not in any form of relationship. It wasn’t completely clear to me final week what was up with them, however after we see the total scene, she says, “Please come again to me.”
The ache on her face is actual when he removes himself from the hug and apologizes. And it appears to be like prefer it causes him numerous ache to harm her a lot as effectively. She’s in love with him. He is aware of it. And it’s like he simply has no concept what to do.
In the meantime, he wonders why he bumped into Hong once more. Was it to choose up the place they left off? Or to offer them closure? We study that he doesn’t need it to be the top — and in reality, he wrote his novel hoping that she would learn it and perceive his aspect of issues.
However on this episode, we get to grasp Hong’s aspect of issues significantly better. We already discovered that the primary motive for his or her breakup was Hong’s loneliness overseas and her overreliance on Jungo. However now we see he’s not the most effective boyfriend both.
When Hong was invited to a co-worker’s marriage ceremony, she obtained actually excited — since she has so few occasions to attend in Tokyo. She needs Jungo to go along with her, however he’s hesitant. She tries to maintain every part on her personal (from understanding the customs to getting the present), and even agrees to play a track on the marriage ceremony along with her guitar.
Jungo lastly agrees to go, however on the day of the occasion, he has an interview with a publishing home. They provide him a job, however they’re so brief staffed that they want him to begin that day. So, Hong sings and performs a love track whereas considering of Jungo — and he’s not there to listen to it. Worse, he doesn’t even message her to say he’s not coming as a result of he mistakenly thinks he can end working and nonetheless arrive. He can’t. He will get there when the get together’s over.
At house, she’s upset and ready for him and he explains what occurred, saying he all the time needed to work at that publishing firm and he “couldn’t assist it.” (Critically, if there’s any technique to get me on her aspect in a heartbeat, it’s him saying that crap.)
After some arguing backwards and forwards, he says that he informed Hong he’d attempt to go — it was by no means a particular sure. And he or she says that he ought to have simply mentioned no if he was going to behave like this. Then she leaves the residence and admits to herself that eternal love doesn’t exist .
Within the current, Jungo cancels his schedule for the day and makes a guess about the place Hong could be going for her every day jog. He finds her. She sees him. And he or she runs proper previous him like he doesn’t exist.
Each of them are clearly upset by this encounter, nevertheless it brings up the query of why Jungo by no means tried to seek out her earlier than. We study that he despatched her belongings to her in Korea after she left, which implies he’s recognized the place she was all this time. Did he wish to be well-known first? Or to attempt to develop up?
When Jungo despatched her issues from Japan, Hong was conflicted. For one, it meant it was actually over between them. But additionally, she says, “It took me a very long time to comprehend I wasn’t making an attempt to overlook Jungo, however the me who beloved him.” And so, she tosses all her stuff right into a closet and doesn’t take a look at it for 5 years. That’s, till her sister needs to make use of her guitar and finds an unread letter tucked contained in the case.
We shut this week’s episode with Hong nearly to open the letter, however within the interim, we see extra dreamy flashbacks of our major pair falling in love. We all know Jungo has a tough time saying how he feels out loud (that’s why he’s a author), however he thinks that in case your emotions are honest, the opposite particular person will ultimately really feel them.
Hong is aware of how he feels, however it could be good to listen to him say I really like you, she says. They joke round about it and he says that’s a tricky one. However he guarantees to jot down a novel about what he feels for her at some point. In voiceover, Hong tells us that they solely spoke of a shiny future collectively and prevented issues — which ended up snowballing into uncertainty inside them. “We had been blind to the cruel realities of the world after we had been on the peak of happiness.”
After which we see that Jungo’s novel is named What Comes After Love. Whereas he’s doing a e book signing, somebody says they’ve had an identical expertise to his feminine protagonist (which is predicated on Hong) and “It was extraordinarily troublesome to beat borders and cultural variations with solely love.” Does he nonetheless suppose that’s attainable?
Jungo responds that he didn’t write the novel to ship an overarching message. He simply had so many reminiscences and a lot remorse a couple of sure individual that he needed to jot down his trustworthy emotions. He says that if that particular person occurs to learn the e book, he hopes that she understands he was younger and inexperienced once they had been collectively. That hope helped him write the novel.
Hong is at his e book signing, however she leaves with out approaching him. Min-jun, nonetheless, goes as much as get a duplicate of the novel signed and asks Jungo if he is aware of Hong. Jungo affirms, and we have now our two male leads staring one another down over a desk till subsequent week after we see the place that is headed.
Two extra episodes to go and it appears to be like like subsequent week will probably be about reveals. We’ll see what Min-jun already is aware of (perhaps what he discovered from the novel) and what Hong is about to seek out out when she opens that letter.
I’m actually torn in regards to the ending I need for this story. Hong and Jungo seem to have grown as individuals, however the ache has had a lot time to fester, it could be actually laborious to return or begin over. Nonetheless, they’ll in all probability by no means recover from one another both, which brings one other form of ache. It’s a tricky one.
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