What Comes After Love: Episode 5
by Dramaddictally
A standoff, a confession, and a wildly well-done combat scene, our penultimate week fills in all the small print we’ve been lacking. As our lovelorn leads proceed to pine for one another in silence, our heroine makes a closing determination about what she desires.
EPISODE 5
We left off final week with our male leads face to face. After we drop again in, Min-jun asks Jungo to step outdoors the guide signing, the place they’ve a prolonged dialogue in English. Min-jun asks Jungo to avoid Hong and divulges that he’s her fiancé.
Jungo says there’s nothing between him and Hong, it’s simply that the novel is about her. After which he asks Min-jun to vow to by no means make Hong really feel alone. Min-jun is contemptuous and says that’s a simple one. This appears to strike Jungo proper the place it’s meant to and he will get red-eyed and excuses himself.
Afterward, we get to listen to the contents of the letter that Jungo wrote to Hong the month after she left Japan. He retains asking himself why he didn’t perceive how lonely she was and he regrets leaving her alone. “I used to assume that we have been collectively the entire time, however you have been by your self for therefore lengthy.” This prompts him to start writing in earnest, and he hopes that by the point he finishes his guide, he’ll see her on the finish.
Hong doesn’t rush proper out and search for Jungo after studying the letter, although. In truth, she avoids him when she realizes he’s signing books on the publishing home the place she works. However later, when Jungo is invited to dinner together with her colleagues, she decides to attend. It’s his birthday and she or he buys the cake he all the time needed however couldn’t afford when she lived with him in Japan.
On the dinner, one of many workers asks what occurred with the girl within the novel. Jungo says he wrote a contented ending, however in actual life it didn’t end up that approach. He did not see she was lonely, so she left for Korea with no phrase.
In flashback, we see that when Hong received a name from her sister that their dad filed chapter and the household was in dire straits, Hong tried to achieve Jungo at his workplace. He doesn’t decide up and she or he thinks to herself, “What am I doing right here?” Though we’ve seen variations on this theme a number of occasions, right here is the place she hits the top of her rope and the scene that follows is an epic combat.
Jungo comes dwelling and provides an excuse about why he’s late and by no means known as. A author at their firm handed away that day and it was hectic. Hong argues that it’s no excuse for him to not name and inform her what’s up. And worse, can’t he ever apologize for what he does?
As they proceed to argue, Hong says it’s clear he doesn’t care about her anymore. He has no thought what’s occurring together with her in any respect, the whole lot is about him. He broke his promise to indicate up for dinner that evening and she or he’s sick of being the one one who waits.
After holding his voice regular till this level, Jungo lastly lets unfastened, “This isn’t simple for me both!” He yells that they see one another at dwelling, he’s busy, and he can’t all the time preserve his guarantees. Why can’t she be extra understanding? The second has immediacy because the digicam is positioned immediately in entrance of every actor, so we’re seeing them head on, like we’re the particular person they’re yelling at.
After Jungo says these closing strains, Hong asks quietly, “Are you saying it’s my fault?” After which she begins screaming on the prime of her lungs in Korean, lastly saying all of the issues she’s been holding in. Besides, Jungo can’t perceive. He can solely see her contorted face as she belts out, “It’s your fault! You have been the one who uncared for me and left me alone. What number of occasions do I must inform you to not depart me on my own? I’m abroad and I’m on their own with out you. Why do you permit me on my own and make me really feel lonely?!”
She’s sobbing and shaking as she yells all this and by the point she finishes, she’s simply letting out cries into the air, like she’s been ready to specific all that poison for a very long time. Jungo walks towards her and tries to hug her, however she strikes away to cry alone.
Then she switches again to Japanese and begins to inform him that she acquired some information that day. However as a substitute, she says she thinks they need to break up. “I can’t take it anymore. I can’t stay like this anymore.” And she or he walks out.
Each actors are glorious on this scene however Lee Se-young’s dialogue is particularly properly written and she or he delivers it amazingly. The truth that she switches to her native language so she will be able to say what she must say authentically is simply soul crushing. After which how she continues to scream into the air afterward, respiratory it out, had me in real ache proper alongside together with her.
That flashback scene is the story Jungo is telling on the dinner desk within the current (or a minimum of some model of it). And Hong asks if Jungo’s failure to grasp her loneliness meant that his love modified. Jungo says no, his love has by no means modified. Hong seems to be a bit startled after which excuses herself from the desk to go meet Min-jun.
Min-jun is ready at a high-end restaurant, the place he provides her the information that he’s been accepted right into a coaching program within the US. Does she need to go together with him? “You’re all that I would like. I promise I’ll by no means make you are feeling lonely.” At these phrases, Hong begins to cry. Min-jun thinks he’s being very touching and strikes nearer to her and takes her hand.
However Hong pulls her hand away and apologizes, saying she’s simply undecided. Min-jun asks if issues can be totally different if he had advised her how he felt about her earlier than she went to Japan. Hong responds that even when they have been relationship, and even married with three children, earlier than she met Jungo, her coronary heart would nonetheless drop each time she sees him, prefer it did this time.
She desires Min-jun to know she’s being sincere as a result of she actually “likes” him. (In English this doesn’t carry the identical weight, however the level is: she’s not saying “love.”) He says he by no means knew the phrase “like” might sound so merciless. She apologizes and leaves. And my god this scene was brutal.
Immediately, Hong drives to Jungo’s lodge with a bouquet of white roses, interested by the ache on his face when he noticed her on the airport that first day in Korea. She finds him within the lodge bar — with Kanna, which stops her lifeless in her tracks. Kanna sees Hong and the episode ends with the 2 looking at one another from throughout the room.
I actually didn’t see that coming on the finish. In truth, as Hong comes across the nook and sees Jungo on the bar, I used to be interested by how superb it feels whenever you reunite with somebody you’re keen on and the sensation is mutual. And I used to be getting all of it constructed up in my head simply as Kanna comes into the body. Rattling. I used to be as shocked as Hong. Good job, Present.
Nonetheless, we all know how Jungo feels (or doesn’t really feel) about Kanna, so any misunderstanding may very well be cleared up if Hong approaches. I actually hope we don’t have that form of tragedy on our arms, the place these two miss one another due to one thing so ridiculous as this. Worse, in the event that they don’t reunite, proper after Hong crushed Min-jun, the degrees of tragedy shall be a bit a lot for me to outlive. However, if they really do reunite, I’m undecided I’ll survive all of the cuteness of seeing these two beauties again collectively both. Dying by cuteness is unquestionably preferable, although.
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