No Acquire No Love: Episodes 3-4
by Unit
It’s contract marriage o’clock, and our heroine belatedly realizes she snagged an unique luxurious merchandise as a substitute of the knock-off she was purchasing for. But it surely’s too late to again out now, and the present should go on!
EPISODES 3-4
The week resumes with Ji-wook’s tuxedo transformation that slackens everybody’s jaws on the wedding ceremony store. Like monitoring spirits — which they embodied all week — Woo-jae and his spouse are additionally current, and whereas the spouse swoons, her husband stews. Woo-jae can’t imagine his ex is getting married to a youthful and extra good-looking man, and his jealousy will increase when Ji-wook invents a childhood connection love story with Hae-young. Pfft. This groom has watched too many Ok-dramas. Woo-jae begins engaged on the mathematics: if Hae-young and Ji-wook are childhood associates, when did they begin relationship? Is Ji-wook the rationale she broke up with me? Did she begin relationship him instantly after our breakup? However coming from a two-timer, X + Y = itZ none of your enterprise.
In the meantime, Hae-young shouldn’t be happy that her husband-to-be didn’t inform her of his deadly face card. However perhaps that is her wake-up name to start out paying extra consideration to him. Ji-wook, however, can’t assist however keep in mind all Hae-young’s phrases and actions as a result of he has a crush on her his mind is a “laptop” that registers the small print of her non-public life she spills and not using a care on the comfort retailer. Okay, genius.
We transfer on to the final stage of wedding ceremony planning: the proposal. Ideally, this must be the primary stage, however what does order matter in a faux wedding ceremony? Hae-young wants video highlights of their romantic historical past to be performed on the wedding ceremony. However perhaps what she wants is a psychiatric analysis, as Ji-wook says. As a result of who goes round alone with their digicam to faux being on dates with their accomplice? Lol.
Ji-wook finally ends up planning a thoughtfully cute proposal which is true to the character of their comfort retailer relationship. He arranges cup yogurt by colour to spell the “marry me” and offers Hae-young a hoop created from her favourite model of jelly — which has been discontinued. However Ji-wook known as the producer and different shops that carried the product, and acquired out the final batch in inventory. “You stated it’s your favourite and I needed to see you content,” he says to Hae-young. And anybody who says romance is lifeless clearly has by no means been swept off their ft by a Ok-drama male lead.
The marriage ceremony lastly arrives, and we get a glass of melancholy margarita once we see Hae-young’s mother within the ready room taking photos together with her kinfolk and associates. That is a part of Hae-young’s plans for Mother to say goodbye to her individuals and vice versa, and this leaves Hee-sung and Ja-yeon with misty eyes. We’re additionally handled to a side-eye sandwich when Hee-sung catches the bouquet, and the importance of the motion makes her boyfriend of ten years uncomfortable as a result of he’s a persistent cheat. And she or he is aware of this, however she has chosen to disregard it for causes greatest identified to her.
Following the ceremony, we get a style of honeymoon hotdogs — however ain’t nothing ~sizzling~ in regards to the newlyweds staying as much as rely the congratulatory cash. Heh. I did admire that Hae-young and Ji-wook have been comfy round one another and didn’t battle over the division of the mattress like many a Ok-drama couple caught with the one mattress trope. The attraction is there, there’s a touch of consciousness, however there’s little to no awkwardness between them. And I like it.
Counting the cash results in a dialog about belief, and Hae-young notes that she is aware of subsequent to nothing about Ji-wook. Ji-wook then reveals that his mother moved to Canada when he was younger, and his grandmother made him promise by no means to go to her as a result of Mother’s new household don’t find out about him. However for some time now, his mother has been making an attempt to ask him over regardless that he all the time turns her down. This wedding ceremony was Ji-wook’s final resort to get her to cease making an attempt as a result of he’s “planning to start out his family,” and I like that he additionally has a stake within the marriage.
Hae-young is happy that Ji-wook trusts her sufficient to share this a part of his life together with her. And as somebody with mommy problems with her personal, she tells him to do no matter he desires no matter his grandmother’s needs. Hae-young would possibly joke round with the “husband” tag, however she means it when she says Ji-wook is her precedence and household, and he’s touched by her phrases. Ji-wook and Hae-young half methods the following morning, and in a voice over, Hae-young tells us that was the final day she noticed him. Mini time skip to 3 months later, there’s already a brand new part-timer on the retailer (cameo by Byun Woo-seok!), and I don’t thoughts shopping for Kopiko for the remainder of my life if I had part-timers like him and Kim Younger-dae at my native comfort retailer.
In a serving of dramatic dessert, Gyu-hyun’s long-suffering secretary, YEO HA-JOON (Lee Yoo-jin), was highschool classmates with Ja-yeon — and she or he had/nonetheless has a crush on him as much as the purpose of naming the male lead in her webnovel after him. Aww. Ha-joon remembers Ja-yeon used to put in writing youngsters’s tales, however she’s too shy to inform him she has a unique fanbase now — and she or he’s amassing extra by the day (viz., Gyu-hyun stumbles on his mother’s pill PC and is traumatized by the extent of spice in her studying assortment. LMAO!)
Gyu-hyun spends a complete night time binging Ja-yeon’s Spice Up Our Love novel. However since he can’t carry himself to cease his mother from studying the express stuff, he decides to depart Joseon-level hate feedback on the “debauchery” he selected to feast his eyes on. A wise son would get his nostril out of his mother’s enterprise, however Gyu-hyun would moderately “break the author’s pen” along with his feedback and rob his mother of her solely supply of happiness and escapism. Smh. Ja-yeon has by no means been fazed by unfavorable feedback, however the depth of Gyu-hyun’s bile shocks her, and she or he decides to sue him. Get him, lady. Don’t settle!
Chairman Bok is livid when the summons arrive, and he storms into Gyu-hyun’s workplace to beat him up. You simply know the Boks are the definition of a forked-up household when the son writes hate feedback, the dad has affairs, and the mother insinuates that her son is predisposed to trigger hassle as a result of he has his father’s DNA. Tsk. For a person whose ethical compass is defective, Chairman Bok shouldn’t be accepting of different individuals’s errors, and he threatens to disown Gyu-hyun if his title seems within the tabloids. That is probably why Madam Fangirl admonished Gyu-hyun to remain vigilant if he desires to inherit the corporate.
When Gyu-hyun talked about that he’s his father’s solely little one, his mother’s response steered that she received’t be stunned if there’s one other Bok offspring on the market. And her assertion about Chairman Bok “getting rid” of an issue from his philandering days additionally factors on this route. Placing the items collectively, I wouldn’t be stunned if this downside has one thing to do with a sure somebody in Canada. In all of those forked-up household moments, although, the present’s humor all the time shines by means of, and that’s one of many issues I really like about it.
Gyu-hyun reveals up on the police station wanting like a bum to cover his id, and Ja-yeon lurks the premises to catch a glimpse of her hater. However once they stumble upon one another, Gyu-hyun is bowled over to see his nemesis within the flesh, and Ja-yeon is shocked by how regular — well mannered, even — he’s. The meet-not-cute modifications Ja-yeon’s perspective as she realizes that seemingly strange individuals could be vicious behind their laptop screens. The scene additionally highlights how Hae-young’s actions have cemented her place as an important particular person in Ja-yeon’s life — from defending Ja-yeon’s writing desires to judgmental academics in highschool to working to select her up from the police station.
Circling again to our latest couple, Hae-young wins the in-house contest and turns into the chief of the TF workforce. Yay! As for Ji-wook, we see him go to Hae-young’s mother on the nursing house — which is surprisingly reverse his goshiwon. Coincidence? Perhaps. However was it additionally a coincidence that Mother had a second of lucidity on the wedding ceremony and addressed him as “My Ji-wook?” Ji-wook leaned in to answer “it’s me,” and now I’m wondering if he was among the many dozen youngsters Mother fostered. So there’s an opportunity he wasn’t mendacity about his childhood connection to Hae-young in any case.
Ji-wook will get a mysterious go to from a mysterious man in a mysterious automotive, and the following factor we all know, he reveals up at Ggulbi Training with a model new haircut and a swimsuit! Hae-young is shocked to see her husband among the many new recruits, and he swaggers as much as her with an “I missed you, ma’am.” Sure, she missed you, too, however that’s not the purpose. Who’re you and what have you ever finished to that mini mane of glory the part-timer who was not curious about getting a company job? It appears this man is out to destabilize Hae-young each week along with his transformations, and I’m right here for it.
Two week in and I’m nonetheless having a blast with this drama. It’s a brilliant entertaining and straightforward watch, and even the bits of melo surrounding Hae-young’s mother’s story and her regrets about dad’s passing don’t dampen the temper as a lot. Now that Ji-wook has proven up at Ggulbi, he and Hae-young are going to need to sustain the fortunately married ruse. And what meaning? Noona romance, hijinks, skinship, kiss kiss and fall in love. Ha! I can’t wait.
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