No Acquire No Love: Episodes 9-10
by Unit
Our penultimate week comes with secrets and techniques, betrayals, massive reveals, and drama. However no worries, our present continues to be amazeballs with tons of enjoyable sandwiched between beneficiant helpings of romance.
EPISODES 9-10
Selecting up from final week’s cliff, Hae-young and Ji-wook are about to kiss when Gyu-hyun barges in demanding to know if Ji-wook is the product of his father’s affair. It’s a primary, seeing Gyu-hyun this indignant, and I don’t assume the start secret upsets him as a lot because the betrayal from Ji-wook realizing about it and retaining it from him. It doesn’t matter that Ji-wook solely discovered lately. Gyu-hyun needs him — and Hae-young! — to depart Ggulbi. Ji-wook is fearful that Hae-young will undergo due to him, however she reassures him that she’s on his aspect — and tells him to take over the corporate and overthrow Gyu-hyun. Pfft.
However earlier than they will perform their coup, our labor union chief and her husband are demoted and suspended respectively. Cue: Ji-wook saying to Gyu-hyun that he’s divorced (in order that Hae-young gained’t undergo alongside), and the employees within the foyer conjuring a BL fantasy starring the brothers. LMAO! Gyu-hyun doesn’t purchase the divorce, and he threatens Ji-wook to both completely depart the nation — per Madam Fangirl’s needs — or drag everybody he cares about into his mess. Tsk. This Bok household and their threats. Why should everybody undergo due to the chairman’s affair? Actually, reducing off his hair isn’t sufficient. Chairman Bok must strip all the way down to his white inner-wear and bow on all fours for forgiveness — Joseon fashion. Even then, it’s nonetheless not sufficient.
Shifting on, Gyu-hyun confesses his emotions to Ja-yeon. And whereas Ms. Author is amazed that the enemies-to-lovers trope occurs in actual life, she tells him there can by no means be a cheerful ending for her. “Our story ends right here,” she says, and because of this she isn’t the author of this drama. Gyu-hyun is in the course of asking her to provide him an opportunity when Ha-joon walks in on them, and the key is out. Oops! Ha-joon goes on to apologize to Ja-yeon for his hate feedback and swears he won’t ever do this to every other author. He additionally thanks her for naming her male lead after him, and with this, we lastly wrap up the hate feedback arc. I hope.
A light-weight Gyu-hyun quickly finds himself in entrance of Ja-yeon’s home drunk on some “please excuse me whereas I hug you” whiskey, and Hae-young and Ji-wook occur upon the scene. Cue: 1) Hae-young and Ji-wook hurriedly prying Gyu-hyun off Ja-yeon below the idea that he’s an assailant; 2) their realization that he’s Ja-yeon’s hater — who now likes her; 3) Hae-young’s try and hit him with a “how dare you want her?” umbrella; 4) Ja-yeon admitting the sensation is mutual; 5) Ji-wook by chance getting hit as a substitute. Pfft. So dramatic! Anyway, Gyu-hyun finally ends up sleeping over in Ji-wook’s room — and DNA doesn’t lie as a result of they’ve the very same sleeping habits!
Our lead quartet sit collectively for an hilariously awkward breakfast the subsequent morning, and Gyu-hyun’s harmless small discuss spirals into fact bombs: Ja-yeon plans to maneuver out of the home, and Ji-wook plans to depart the nation. Oops! In a makjang, Hae-young’s response to this information would have been to drool her orange juice again into her cup. However since we’re in a rom-COM, she kicks the Penthouse twins Ji-wook and Ja-yeon out of the home — to conclude their breakfast at Subway. Lol. And as for the parrot Gyu-hyun, she tells him to keep away from Ja-yeon — however we quickly be taught that this isn’t simply due to his hate feedback.
It seems that ten years in the past, Ja-yeon’s abusive father murdered Hae-young’s dad. Heol! Ja-yeon needed to transfer to a different foster house to cover from her sperm donor — earlier than he ended up murdering Dad, and this explains why she needs to maneuver out once more now that he’s out on parole. Her ill-fated relationship with that assassin additionally explains why she thinks she’ll by no means have a cheerful ending. *Sniff* Hae-young has all the time — and can proceed to — stick by Ja-yeon whatever the incident, however she’s not assured that Gyu-hyun will do the identical if he learns about Ja-yeon’s previous. Therefore, her warning for him to remain away. Honest sufficient.
Supervisor Jang calls Ji-wook out for some random horse using/advising session — and basically calls Ji-wook’s journey plans “an idiotic waste of time.” Lol. Jang tells Ji-wook to not permit different folks dictate the course of his life, and that he’ll be happier following his coronary heart somewhat than leaving as a result of he doesn’t need to damage his mother’s life or as a result of he needs to “defend” Hae-young. Take that, noble idiocy! Supervisor Jang is a a lot better fatherly determine than the opposite fathers on this present — minus Hae-young’s dad, in fact.
Hae-young pretends to be okay with Ji-wook’s impending departure — in spite of everything, she’s used to watching her foster siblings depart — however Ji-wook is greater than a bit of disillusioned that she additionally sees him as a brief particular person in her life. For a minute there, I assumed they’d drop the ball on communication after doing so properly all this time, however the drama mentioned not at the moment! Waiter, I’ll have my communication steeped in Hae-young’s angsty outburst, Ji-wook’s “I really like you,” their ferocious kisses and the ensuing mattress scene. Please and thanks. Gaahhh! I really like this present a bit of an excessive amount of.
Our secondary romance provides the primary a run for its cash when Ja-yeon asks to do a little analysis at Ggulbi, and Gyu-hyun personally provides her a tour of the constructing. My man is so invested within the “analysis” to the purpose of performing out one of many scenes in her novel unprovoked, and Ms. Author joins within the enjoyable. Lol. I see we’re setting the stage for his or her spin-off. Gyu-hyun and Ja-yeon rewrite the scene to incorporate a kiss — kyaaa!! — and if I manifest exhausting sufficient, perhaps October third will arrive sooner.
Sadly, Gyu-hyun and Ja-yeon’s cute analysis date is minimize quick after they have to cover from Woo-jae and Yi-lin — who’re clearly on this scene for drama’s sake. As a result of why else would two individuals who dwell in the identical home select to loudly confront one another within the workplace? At night time! On a weekend! Tsk. Woo-jae brings up Hae-young’s dad’s homicide, and Yi-lin mentions Ji-wook’s start secret and its implication on Hae-young’s job. No due to the busybody couple, Ja-yeon snaps out of her fantasy and reiterates {that a} relationship with Gyu-hyun is not possible. Nooo!!
The week ends with Hae-young’s discovery that Ji-wook was her mother’s foster child — and like Gyu-hyun, she’s extra upset that Ji-wook stored it from her all of the whereas. It’s the final betrayal after they each agreed to not maintain secrets and techniques anymore, and she or he tells him to pack up and get misplaced. Oof! That is one painful cliffhanger. However the excellent news is that we’ve got only a week left which suggests much less time to pull out Hae-young and Ji-wook’s fallout.
The dangerous information is that we’ve got only a week left to spend with what has been a tremendous present to this point. *Weeps upfront* In different information, Hee-sung is pregnant. The child is almost definitely to be her principal boyfriend’s — who is completely onboard with being the daddy regardless, and also will assist her if she doesn’t need to maintain the infant. It was candy to see Mother congratulating Hee-sung when Hae-young and Ja-yeon’s default response was to fret. However their response can also be legitimate contemplating that Hee-sung herself is conflicted about the entire thing. I hope she comes to a decision that makes her completely satisfied. One final lap, Present, don’t fail us.
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