Dangerous Reminiscence Eraser: Episodes 3-4
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Our workaholic researcher learns extra about her lovestruck affected person, inadvertently uncovering simply how dysfunctional his household is beneath their picture-perfect floor. The load of sporting fame is crushing his little brother’s shoulders, even because the selfless tennis star tries to push ahead with a smile for the sake of everybody however himself.
EPISODES 3-4
The drama’s second week picks proper again up on the secondhand embarrassment, as Gun follows Joo-yeon round just like the cringeworthy lead of a romance manhwa, full with mushy backlighting and fluttery flower petals. Gun’s story of how his old flame saved his life at 13 earns Joo-yeon on the spot parental approval, nevertheless it makes Joo-yeon really feel like a fraud.
She lies to Gun that she has a secret boyfriend, and Gun assumes she’s courting her hospital crush YOON TEO (Kim Jae-yong) — besides Gun quickly finds out Teo is an incorrigible womanizer. To Joo-yeon, the keychain Teo gave her is a honest birthday present, and he or she’s devastated when she by chance loses it. To Teo, nonetheless, it’s a price pack memento he gave to each worker.
Gun, regardless of his jealousy, can’t bear to observe Joo-yeon’s misery. Not solely does he pilfer an worker’s keychain to faux he discovered Joo-yeon’s lacking one, however he additionally blocks her from witnessing Teo kiss a junior researcher, ultimately resorting to cupping Joo-yeon’s face so she will’t flip round. It makes him appear like the unhealthy man who doesn’t know boundaries, incomes Joo-yeon’s ire, however he holds on till Teo and his beau separate.
In the meantime, Shin continues to be coping with the fallout of Gun’s suicide try. The police gather his assertion, however save for some half-formed suspicions about how rapidly Shin managed to tug Gun out of the water, they’re prepared to shut the case. Nevertheless, the opportunistic company director HONG JOON-MAN (Han Sang-jin) coerces Shin into renewing his contract, threatening to unfold rumors about Gun in any other case.
Opposite to the flawlessly glamorous life we noticed our tennis star basking in final week, Shin has been buckling below the micromanaging of his helicopter mother and the load of everybody’s excessive expectations. Consequently, Shin has developed OCD, and he always overcommits himself attempting to please everybody. When Joo-yeon fills in for his common psychiatrist Dong-chil sooner or later, she instantly clocks Shin’s compulsive tendencies, then cuts proper to the guts of the matter — Shin’s all the time worrying about others, however by no means himself. “Does my opinion matter?” Shin asks, as if already satisfied that the reply isn’t any. However Joo-yeon counters that it’s his life — his personal opinion ought to matter most.
Grasping for promoting bucks, Director Hong pressures Shin into sporting a brand new pair of sponsored sneakers, and with a view to shield Gun, Shin has no selection however to agree. Shin wins his match, however at the price of terribly painful blisters. He rapidly hides his bloody socks when his dad and mom enter the room, and when Mother lectures him to dwell as much as his popularity, Shin quietly guarantees to do higher. Noooo, his eyes look so unhappy. *Sobs*
Later that day, Joo-yeon by chance bumps into Shin within the comfort retailer, inflicting him to drop and crack his boiled eggs. Pouting adorably, Shin whines that it’s a jinx and he’ll lose his ultimate match tomorrow — and so Joo-yeon finally ends up on a foodie tour with him to interrupt the jinx’s curse. It seems Shin was doing all of it to carry the harassed Joo-yeon’s spirits, and when she realizes he’d as soon as once more been looking for others and never himself, she stuns him by sincerely praising his earlier match. Breaking out right into a beatific smile, Shin sticks to his train routine by operating alongside her taxi. Aww.
That’s how Shin winds up operating into Gun on the hospital, and after Gun tackles his child bro to the bottom so he can’t return Joo-yeon’s misplaced keychain to her (and blow his cowl), the brothers share a bonding second on the grass. Reminiscing about their childhood days, Gun declares that he’s nonetheless holding quick to his childhood dream — changing into not only a world star, however the universe’s star. Shin guarantees to satisfy it in his stead, and in flip, Gun reminds him that he should chase his personal dream. “Successful isn’t what’s essential,” Gun says. “What issues is doing one thing that actually makes you content.”
Joo-yeon and Gun’s phrases linger in Shin’s thoughts the next morning, and on the competitors subject, Shin drops a serve. Cue shocked gasps from everybody, who can’t imagine the flawless tennis prince may ever make such a mistake. Shin nonetheless wins, however when Mother chastises him within the aftermath, he walks out on his scheduled appointments. He’s going to take a relaxation — by his personal choice, for as soon as. Ahh, I’m so happy with him! *wipes tear*
Whereas everyone seems to be preoccupied on the match, Joo-yeon finds herself in one more predicament — the higher-ups are demanding the essential work paperwork she was presupposed to submit. Amidst all of the latest chaos, it’d fully slipped Joo-yeon’s thoughts. Since she will’t precisely ask the amnesiac Gun for her suitcase again, Joo-yeon fibs her method into acquiring the home passcode from Mother — besides Gun returns dwelling simply as Joo-yeon is wheeling her suitcase out. Oops.
We’ll have to attend until subsequent week to learn how Joo-yeon explains that away, however for now, there’s a bubbly new child on the block. Joo-yeon wakes as much as an uninvited roommate within the type of JEON SAE-YAN (Yang Hye-ji) snuggling subsequent to her, and one grumpy breakfast later, Joo-yeon learns that Sae-yan is Mother’s buddy’s daughter. Though Joo-yeon barely remembers, they’d been childhood associates till Sae-yan moved overseas. The vivacious Sae-yan charms the entire neighborhood in seconds together with her useful kindness, a lot to Joo-yeon’s incredulous vexation.
Regardless of Sae-yan’s efforts to rekindle the friendship, Joo-yeon is unnecessarily chilly to her. Sae-yan laments that Joo-yeon is self-centered and irritable, and to be frank, I’ve to agree. I’m not completely certain whether or not it’s Jin Se-yeon’s portrayal or the way in which the character is written — maybe each — however Joo-yeon comes throughout as petty and oblivious, and never in an endearing method in any respect.
Nonetheless, Mother says Joo-yeon solely acts like that to place up a entrance — she’d witnessed her father’s dying when she was only a youngster. Afraid to undergo that ache once more, Joo-yeon pushes others away as a self-defense mechanism. Her trauma doesn’t excuse her habits, nevertheless it does contextualize it, and I hope the drama explores this subject with the gravity it deserves.
As for Gun, his juvenile antics belie a considerate maturity. Upon studying of Joo-yeon’s emotions for Teo, Gun has been attempting his finest to look out for Joo-yeon with out crossing the road. He even leaves a be aware urging the overworked Joo-yeon to go dwelling and relaxation, then indicators off as Teo, figuring out Joo-yeon can be extra inclined to hearken to Teo’s phrases than his. As well as, Gun additionally units up his personal company, recruiting Shi-on and scheduling rehab for her injured knee. Right here’s hoping he extricates his expensive brother from the slimy Director Hong’s grasp quickly — Shin deserves to play tennis on his personal phrases (if he even desires to), and never another person’s.
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