The Story of Girl Okay: Episodes 5-6
by Dramaddictally
Two court docket circumstances are resolved this week, as our girl turns into a pacesetter in all domains of her life. However resolutions deliver with them new mysteries as one character goes lacking and one other reveals up out of nowhere, showing slightly too excellent. Plus, within the background of all of the machinations, romance is afoot in an genuine manner, bringing smiles, completely happy reminiscences, and extra heartbreak.
EPISODES 5-6
I’ll condense this the perfect I can, however this week is steeped in story, upping the epic-ness much more. First, that collapse on the finish of Episode 4 was truly a loss of life. I didn’t get it on the time, however that’s the final we’ll see of Justice of the Peace Sung. And with Yoon-gyum in hiding, Goodeok is left to steer the ship.
However, it’s not like she has a lot left to steer, on condition that the Justice of the Peace’s property have been confiscated by CHIEF LEE (Kim Dong-gyun), the person who falsely accused him. What we find yourself with in these episodes is Goodeok discovering a technique to reveal the reality, restore order, and likewise get Mak-shim returned to her, since even the servants have been confiscated as property.
A key participant in all this seems to be LADY KIM (Yoon Ji-hye), Chief Lee’s spouse. Up thus far, we’ve seen Girl Kim is a little bit of an outsider in her elite crew, having just a few ideas that she sticks to, not like the remainder. On this case, when Goodeok involves Chief Lee’s home, kneeling on the door and asking for Mak-shim to be returned slightly than offered, she’s rebuffed by the chief. He feels offended by Goodeok providing to owe him a favor (like, “what would I ever want from somebody such as you?”) and leaves her outdoors to kneel all night time.
Within the morning, it’s Girl Kim who reunites Goodeok and Mak-shim, after Goodeok thinks about all of the losses in her life and the way she will be able to’t bear to lose anybody else. After they go away, Goodeok guarantees she received’t neglect that she owes a favor to this household.
Now, final week when Chief Lee was accusing Justice of the Peace Sung of permitting treason to crop up beneath his nostril, it wasn’t solely as a result of he held a grudge about the entire marriage factor. It was additionally as a result of Chief Lee is doing a little unlawful stuff and he wanted to create a diversion.
The gist of it’s that Chief Lee discovered gold on the close by mountain and, as a substitute of reporting it to the authorities, he constructed a secret mine to dig it up. And people youngsters who have been being held captive final week have been truly being offered as slaves to dig that gold. (This man’s an actual sweetheart, proper?) So, his concentrate on labeling the Devoted Hearts Affiliation as rebels was actually simply to show heads the opposite manner. Nonetheless, a bunch of individuals died and have been harmed within the course of, so his crimes have multiplied.
This data involves the eye of Girl Kim, who was left at midnight exactly as a result of she has a coronary heart. After arguing together with her husband about it, Girl Kim disappears out of disgrace, leaving a suicide be aware. And on the identical time, Goodeok will get sufficient bits and items of data to make her wish to examine additional what’s on that mountain.
In the midst of all this, Seung-hwi has come again to city to verify on Goodeok. Now he’s following her round, questioning how she will be able to haven’t any emotions for him, and making an attempt to not get mistaken for Yoon-gyum. He’s cute, however Goodeok brushes him off, saying she’s obtained rather a lot on her plate proper now, as she prepares to trek up the mountain and clear her father-in-law’s title.
However Seung-hwi begins to determine just a few issues on his personal — like why Goodeok’s husband has that Devoted Hearts tattoo on his shoulder. When he mentions it, Goodeok tells Seung-hwi the entire story about how she and Yoon-gyum vowed to maintain one another’s secrets and techniques. Seung-hwi will get riled up over the truth that she revealed her historical past and he desires to know why Yoon-gyum isn’t there to guard her. However since he’s not, Seung-hwi asks to assist together with her plans to free the kids and expose Chief Lee.
As they get began on their journey, Goodeok is dressed like a person (like the primary time she and Seung-hwi met) and he can’t cease himself from mentioning outdated instances. He’s making an attempt to poke at her coronary heart with their reminiscences collectively, however she tells him to again up as a result of she’s a married lady. (And the dynamic growing between them is fully enjoyable and fluttery to look at.)
On their first night time up the mountain, they discover a abandoned home to get some slumber and eat the rice balls that Goodeok has packed. She tells him that tomorrow they’ll have to search out their very own meals, and possibly he ought to return, because it’s solely going to get extra harmful from right here.
However Seung-hwi is a spirited storyteller and he winds a story about their keep that makes it sound very grand. They’re at a comfy inn, with an innkeeper that serves them hen, and there’s just one room, in order that they’ll need to share. Goodeok laughs as he exaggerates additional, making her completely happy in her dire time. And he says that’s how he desires to stay together with her: making her chuckle when she’s down. Life isn’t so grand, he says. He doesn’t want far more than that.
It’s a real proposal (that introduced on the waterworks in me), however Goodeok cuts him off and will get as much as go away, saying the home truly has two rooms, in order that they don’t need to share. Oof. It’s a chilly shut down, however he may flip into kryptonite shortly. And he or she wants all her energy proper now.
The next day, she teaches him a bunch of survival expertise (which is de facto only a manner for us to look at them flirt. Thanks!). And by the top of the day, he likes her much more and he or she nonetheless doesn’t belief his emotions for her. However all that cutesy stuff is reduce brief after they’re noticed by the unhealthy guys who’re holding the children captive.
With a view to survive, Seung-hwi jumps off a cliff into the water beneath and takes Goodeok with him. She will be able to’t swim, however he pulls her out earlier than she drowns. Afterward, she’s sick from being moist and chilly and the nighttime temp is dropping quick. They will’t gentle a fireplace and draw consideration to themselves, in order that they each imagine she’s about to die. She takes his hand and says she regrets pondering she may pull this off, after which passes out.
On the identical time, a sequence of torches seem throughout them within the woods, and Seung-hwi raises his sword and will get able to comply with Goodeok into loss of life. Fortunately, this isn’t the indignant mob they have been anticipating. It’s truly a bunch of escaped serfs, and because it seems, one among them is aware of Goodeok as a result of she helped him escape. As soon as Goodeok wakes up, this group decides to assist their trigger, following them to the place the children are locked up.
As they begin to escape with the kids, the captors seem and there’s an enormous battle between the 2 sides. Simply as Goodeok’s facet is about to lose, they obtain assist from the native navy, who overtakes the unhealthy guys. They be taught that the governor was additionally investigating the case and these males — who have been beforehand jailed — have been launched with the intention to resolve the difficulty. Goodeok feels relieved that this implies her father-in-law might be vindicated.
All proper, so keep in mind that thread about Girl Kim leaving a suicide be aware? Properly, after Goodeok is secure and the children are launched, she stumbles onto Girl Kim on a cliffside about to leap. Goodeok stops her after which calls for that she stay and pay for what these youngsters went via. Girl Kim returns dwelling with the plan to just do that.
It is a turning level for our heroine. She’s indignant and needs revenge towards Chief Lee — each for the children’ sake and for her household. However Seung-hwi warns her towards this. It’s not in her character, he says. After which he reminds her of all of the “good luck” that they had on their journey, from the band of outlaws that helped them to the governor sending within the navy. All of these items have been as a result of Goodeok had accomplished good deeds for these folks sooner or later up to now. Seung-hwi says it’s her heat coronary heart that allowed them to succeed.
We see her wrestle with this resolution when she goes to Chief Lee’s home and asks him to come back clear about all his crimes. He’s shameless, saying he’s destroyed the mine, given again the gold, and paid the children — what extra does she need from him? He refuses to confess that the accusations towards her household have been false. And so, Goodeok says she received’t stand down, marching proper previous Girl Kim kneeling in entrance of her.
However when the court docket date arrives, her techniques aren’t what Chief Lee anticipated. First, she has a witness to testify that the Devoted Hearts Affiliation weren’t traitors. It’s the musician from the gisaeng home, HAE-GANG (Search engine marketing Soo-hee), who was on trial final week — and who everybody thought was murdered. Properly, Hae-gang survived, was in a coma, and is now right here to confess the reality in regards to the members of the Devoted Hearts — but additionally, to refuse to level out Chief Lee because the tried assassin.
It’s a part of Goodeok’s plan, and Chief Lee and his household are in shock at not being accused. When Chief Lee goes earlier than the identical court docket, he confesses his crimes associated to the gold mine. However regardless of his confession, he’s about to get a stiff sentence and Goodeok steps in to defend him. (Uh, yeah, keep in mind that favor he mentioned he’d by no means want from her?)
After stridently defending him, she wins. He’s dismissed as chief, however that’s his solely punishment. Additionally, Hae-gang is acquitted and launched. Later, ex-chief Lee involves see Goodeok, indignant that she was so brazen as to pity him, and he asks why she didn’t report his different crimes. She says she was making good on her favor for the return of Mak-shim. He argues that not reporting the crimes would have been sufficient for that, so why come to his protection? And Goodeok tells him that he has Justice of the Peace Sung to thank for that. Her father-in-law suggested her that to be a greater authorized advocate, she needed to defend everybody equally, even an enemy.
That basically prickles the ex-chief — realizing that the person he helped to kill simply saved his life — and he falls to his knees, saying he’ll return her household’s property to her. It’s a win throughout, for the city, her household, and the Devoted Hearts, so it means Yoon-gyum can come dwelling. And with the information of her husband’s return, Seung-hwi and Goodeok say their goodbyes.
She tells him that he has a present for making folks completely happy and he takes again the gat decoration that he gave her way back. It’s a reminder of a girl he cherished deeply as a result of she helped him stay his life, however that lady is gone now. He says he received’t search her out anymore. She says that “for his subsequent novel,” he ought to know that the lady was certainly in love with the protagonist. She turned him down due to circumstances every time they met, however has at all times longed to be with him. They each cry silent tears and he leaves, saying it’s the right ending.
Then we’re onto a seven-year time bounce! We be taught that Yoon-gyum by no means returned and Goodeok took over as head of the family. The one vital character I haven’t but launched is Yoon-gyum’s little brother, who was a toddler seven years in the past, however is now all grown up. That is SUNG DO-GYUM (Kim Jae-won), who Goodeok raised on her personal and is now planning to marry off.
This ought to be no bother, given that each one the one girls on the town have their eyes on him, however he’s very choosy. He desires a girl similar to Goodeok. And so, he rejects everybody he meets, till a spritely little legal-advocate-in-training reveals up from one other city to get Goodeok’s assist with a case. Do-gyum likes CHA MI-RYEONG (Yeonwoo) immediately, and Goodeok is completely happy to set them up, in addition to supply Mi-ryeong a place at her workplace. The one drawback is: Mi-ryreong is hiding one thing and it seems to be like she could also be there to spy.
Someday, Goodeok will get phrase that Seung-hwi is in jail. After some convincing, she units out to journey to a distant province to assist him, however on the dock, she sees Yoon-gyum. She calls out to him, he seems to be at her, after which he turns away and ignores her. He boards a ship that sails off and Goodeok continues to yell to him, sobbing, because the credit roll and we’re left to marvel what different secrets and techniques he’s maintaining.
Holy crow, this drama will get extra enthralling every week. They only maintain dishing it out to our heroine and he or she simply retains rolling with the punches. She’s constantly simple to root for with well-motivated actions and style beneath stress — only a solidly likeable character that I like to look at wrestle and survive.
And that last scene actually threw me off. We’ve seen her maintain her head up and act like she’s obtained all of it beneath management, however it’s clear from her wails that she’s been bottling up rather a lot. I do not know what’s up with Yoon-gyum or why he pawned his household off on her, however these episodes made me neglect all about him with their gleeful getting-to-know-you scenes between Goodeok and Seung-hwi. The connection obtained correct growth this week and I used to be consuming it up. Choo Younger-woo is in his component right here because the adorkable lead who’s vivid, humorous, sincere, and keen to take a backseat to the lady he loves (which is precisely what I cherished about him in As soon as Upon a Small City too). Gah. Offered.
It is a story for the lots, the place good prevails over evil and the underdog comes out on high. And with a lot depth, you possibly can wager I’ll be again subsequent week, cheering on our heroine from the again of the gang with the remainder of the widespread people.
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