Love Subsequent Door: Episodes 7-8
by missvictrix
Our hero lastly works up his braveness to share his emotions, but it surely comes throughout a nasty time. There’s an outdated face again in our heroine’s life — and a few secrets and techniques popping out within the open, too.
EPISODES 7-8
We choose up proper in the course of the second the present rudely broke final week, and as Seung-hyo stares at Seok-ryu, it seems like he’s about to inform her what he means, and the way he feels. However no, this stunning second is shattered by… Seok-ryu’s ex-fiancé SONG HYUN-JOON (Han Joon-woo). That’s proper, Beanies, he turns up proper on the road at that actual second, and this impolite punk just about continues to destroy our OTP’s vibe for the complete week’s episodes. I knew he was coming again (as a result of Ok-drama), however I actually didn’t count on him to be injected so forcefully into the story. I’m not a fan of this improvement.
And guess what? Neither is Seung-hyo. He’s all “Why on earth did you flip up right here?” and “Why now of all instances?” These are good questions, however the plot has no legitimate reply. To make the evening much more chaotic, Seok-ryu’s dad and mom additionally flip up then and there, and they’re furious. How dare Hyun-joon strategy their daughter! Each Mother and Dad are able to tear him to bits the entire evening for what he did to Seok-ryu. Wait, what? Do they know he cheated on her? It’s right here that I truly paused the present and needed to examine that I didn’t miss an episode, as a result of final I keep in mind, Seok-ryu instructed everybody she cheated on him and referred to as off the marriage. I’m confused, however we’ll simply go along with it for now.
In her protection, Seok-ryu is fairly constant in being tired of Hyun-joon. It’s over for her, and she or he desires to maintain it being over. However Mother (who’s all of the sudden modified her tune within the house of an evening) is now enjoying match-maker once more, and it’s on this episode that my dislike of each these dad and mom has been cemented.
If Seok-ryu is attempting to flee Hyun-joon’s omnipresence in her neighborhood, Seung-hyo can also be attempting to help that, and he’s persistently telling the man off, performing like he additionally is aware of Hyun-joon cheated (??), and even whisking Seok-ryu away on his bicycle one morning for a cherry-blossom-infused trip to work/faculty.
In reality, this complete flip of the plot with the return of the ex is sort of disjointed. Hyun-joon is there so as to add rigidity to the Seung-hyo and Seok-ryu love line, however actually, the story doesn’t want this. There’s sufficient drama already between their households and their historical past — and the inner feelings of this story are extra value investing in than a budget plot arcs, however perhaps that’s simply me.
Outdoors of being overly protecting of Seok-ryu (which I don’t thoughts however I feel others will discover him just a little overbearing and territorial), I appreciated what we noticed of Seung-hyo this week. Fairly than hiding and burying, he’s rather more open, and even factors out the connection sample that he and Seok-ryu have of not being sincere with one another and all the time squabbling and misunderstanding as a substitute. Nicely, Seung-hyo plans to vary that.
In one in every of a number of butterflies-filled scenes between Seung-hyo and Seok-ru this week, Seung-hyo tries to reply the query that he was unable to the opposite evening. However Seok-ryu is beginning to catch on, and she or he stops him, asking him to carry his reply. Although this isn’t The Confession Scene we’re all ready for, I feel this midnight street-lamp-lit scene was one in every of my favorites between them on the mere advantage of the feelings the actors are capable of undertaking into the evening air. It brings out Seung-hyo’s honesty, too — he asks Seok-ryu if she intends to return to Hyun-joon, to which she replies a agency no.
So, think about his shock when he’s going to a flowery lunch with “I would like my outdated boyfriend again” Tae-hee, solely to see Hyun-joon and Seok-ryu a desk away. And rattling that Hyun-joon, he eats Seok-ryu’s japchae when Seung-hyo by no means obtained to eat the dish she made for him the opposite day. We don’t be taught something we didn’t already know from this scene, but it surely’s nonetheless enjoyable — Hyun-joon is laying it on, Seok-ryu isn’t into it, Seung-hyo is jealous, and Tae-hee is soaking in being in “her past love sq.” lol.
Fortunately, Seung-hyo lastly hits the purpose the place he can’t maintain his emotions in anymore, and he rushes to Seok-ryu late at evening at her father’s tteokbokki store (the place she’s secretly training cooking). Right here we get the breathless, heartfelt clarification of his “you’re driving me loopy” assertion — which was summed up fantastically together with his confession, out of the bag finally: “I such as you.”
Seok-ryu burns herself at her cooking she’s so startled (however is she actually?), and Seung-hyo rushes over to assist her run water over her hand. Oh drama, you shouldn’t have, however thanks for this second.
As a result of this will-they-won’t-they is the meat and potatoes of our story, Seok-ryu can’t reply to his confession but, and so they each endure a sleepless evening peeking out on the different’s room however all the time lacking one another. The subsequent day, they hilariously resolve the “expiration” of Seung-hyo’s confession by selecting a perishable merchandise on the shelf at their native comfort retailer. However the 3-year date on the canned items is just too far off, and Seung-hyo picks some milk after which teases Seok-ryu the remainder of the episode, counting down the 11 days till she has to answer. They’re cute. They might get collectively subsequent week and finish the drama and I’d be okay with that.
As if coping with Hyun-joon’s persistence and Seung-hyo’s ill-timed confession weren’t sufficient emotional load, Seok-ryu’s mother sees her popping out of her cooking class at some point and is livid. At house, she upends Seok-ryu’s bag in the midst of the lounge and confronts her when she sees the evil cookbook on the ground. Seok-ryu’s dad is equally horrified. They’re each about able to disown her and an enormous brawl begins. I used to be over this scene earlier than it even began. I do know we’re neck-deep in a narrative the place Mother and Dad are so buried of their insecurity and self-pity they’ll’t see previous their very own noses, however actually, it this mandatory? Seok-ryu launched proper again at them about how Dong-jin can do no mistaken, however she’s all the time held to inconceivable requirements.
Like many of the high-emotion argument scenes on this drama, it’s a bit over-written, however the takeaways are clear. Mother and Dad need what they need for Seok-ryu. Seok-ryu desires what she desires, now that she lastly discovered it. And Seung-hyo — who’s in fact been in the midst of this scene the entire time — follows Seok-ryu out and comforts her, profitable extra hero factors from me.
However that’s not all that Seok-ryu has on her very heavy heroine plate. Now that she will be able to’t observe making meatballs at her dad’s store, Seung-hyo provides up the swanky workplace kitchen after hours. She will’t not take him up on that, however their plans are interrupted by, sure, Hyun-joon, who all of the sudden desires Seung-hyo to design a retirement house for his dad and mom. Ugh, can this man simply go away. He received’t let Seok-ryu make her meatballs in peace lol. Truly, each him and Seung-hyo sit on the sidelines ready to check her dish. When she lastly delivers it to the desk, they barely get a sip of the broth in when she’s collapsed to the bottom in agony clutching her abdomen. Each males rush to her, but it surely’s Hyun-joon she asks to convey her to the hospital. Our little Seung-hyo is crushed, but it surely feels extra like muscle reminiscence on Seok-ryu’s behalf.
Annnnnd keep in mind that handy breadcrumb from a couple of weeks in the past when Seok-ryu took a go away of absence from Greip? She tells the physician three years in the past she had abdomen most cancers and had 70% of her abdomen eliminated plus chemotherapy. What the Queen of Tears is happening with this present!? And why the heck does Seok-ryu’s ex-fiancé stroll round with a packet of her medical data. Oi.
Our episode leaves us there, and since that’s an excessive amount of makjang for any regular particular person, let’s speak about Mo-eum and Mudflat Man. Someday when Dan-ho is out with Yeon-du, they run into Mo-eum. She has to spring into motion when there’s a automotive accident in entrance of them, and each father and daughter have hearts of their eyes after she heroically saves a person’s life.
When Dan-ho later drives her house, they’re chatting and she or he mentions the man that helped the ambulance get by way of the visitors jam a couple of weeks in the past. Mo-eum overtly fangirls and says he was her superb man. In the meantime, Dan-ho is sweating within the automotive and asks permission to take off his jacket… solely to disclose the exact same mudflat t-shirt. LOL! This scene was timed so hilariously, and so they have been each so awkward realizing what was happening on the identical second. It turns right into a operating gag between them, as a result of afterward when Dan-ho tags alongside on her paramedic staff for a narrative, the 2 are embarrassed once more over Mudflat Man. Now, Mo-eum isn’t probably the most partaking character for me, however I’m all about this cute romance (and Yoon Ji-on in Clark Kent mode). We’d like a drama-free, feel-good relationship on this present.
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