My Candy Mobster: Episodes 3-4

by DaebakGrits

As our mobster and content material creator spend extra time with each other, she learns that she actually shouldn’t decide a e book by its cowl. Our mobster might appear like his pages are filled with violence and gore, however beneath his black cowl is a narrative filled with harmless romance and second probabilities.

EPISODES 3-4

Final we noticed Eun-ha, she was in fairly the predicament, having found {that a} product she’d endorsed made tons of of kids sick. Ji-hwan, who’d simply been discharged from the hospital, witnessed Eun-ha’s panicked rush to the hospital, and since he sensed one thing was incorrect, he made [attractive flower boy] Common Supervisor JOO IL-YOUNG (Kim Hyun-jin) pull a U-turn.

It’s factor he did as a result of Eun-ha, crushed by the load of her personal guilt, froze when the (understandably) offended dad and mom lashed out at her. She would have passively accepted their abuse had her black knight in a flowing trench coat not swooped in to protect her from their projectile milk cartons. After telling Eun-ha to shut her eyes and rely to 10, Ji-hwan hoisted her over his shoulder (hawt) and turned to the pack of fogeys. Sternly, he instructed them to carry on to their milk and put it aside — and their anger — for the corporate that rightfully deserves their ire (additionally hawt).

Ji-hwan insists on driving Eun-ha dwelling, however as soon as they’re within the automotive, he flounders in relation to comforting the despondent girl subsequent to him. She’s ashamed, she tells him, that she trusted the milk firm primarily based on their pleasant advertising and marketing, and he or she’s disillusioned in herself for having judged a e book by its cowl for the second time — a refined acknowledgement of how she’d misjudged him and his firm primarily based on appearances, too. Our main girl could also be a gullible pushover, however at the very least she owns as much as her errors and apologizes to these she inadvertently harms. (Plus-one for character constructing!)

Ji-hwan and Il-young drop Eun-ha off at her good friend KOO MI-HO’s (Moon Ji-in) place, and Ji-hwan, who doesn’t wish to half methods, is torn between rejecting her provide to dry-clean his milk-stained coat and wanting to make use of the coat as an excuse to see her once more. The will to have a lingering tie to the item of his affection wins, and he fingers his coat over to Eun-ha. A keenly observant Il-young whips out a enterprise card and tells her to name if she ever “wants a trip.” Or, you understand, she must return the coat.

Fortunately, the contaminated milk didn’t trigger any everlasting or life-threatening injury to the youngsters, so when Eun-ha returns the subsequent day, just one (formally hostile) mum or dad stays. The mom is noticeably subdued, and he or she admits that she’s additionally partially at fault as a result of she, like Eun-ha, didn’t do her personal analysis. She admits she bought the milk as a result of Eun-ha, in contrast to different content material creators, was centered on educating and entertaining youngsters over pushing merchandise, which made her really feel extra reliable. (Oof.)

Ah, one more reminder that the universe likes to take big steaming dumps on the great guys, however — guess what? — the world simply retains hurling poop emojis at Eun-ha. Macaron Comfortable is actively getting ready to throw Eun-ha underneath the bus due to Milk-Gate, and part considered one of their plan is to “briefly” shut down her account. When the workplace imply woman and rating high canine KANG YE-NA (Tune Web optimization-rin) finds out Eun-ha received’t be getting a gradual paycheck from Macaron Comfortable, she “jokingly” gives to let Eun-ha clear her condominium.

Eun-ha sees proper by Eun-ha’s “joke,” however as a result of beggars can’t be choosers, she accepts Ye-na’s provide with a purpose to get some fast money — in any case, the dry cleansing invoice for Ji-hwan’s coat wasn’t low-cost. The within of Ye-na’s condominium yields insights to this explicit imply woman’s character. Of course there’s an enormous image of herself on the wall that implies her self-importance is of the identical magnitude because the portrait, however the contents of her workplace and at-home studio reveal a girl who has labored arduous for her fame and success moderately than having it handed to her.

Whereas I’d nonetheless lump Ye-na in the identical class with the opposite smarmy salespeople of the world, she takes satisfaction in her profession, and it’s that satisfaction that makes her so irritated with Eun-ha. From her perspective, Eun-ha is underachieving as a result of she coasts alongside, doing no matter she desires, however the disconnect all boils right down to the 2 girls utilizing completely different instruments to measure their success. Eun-ha’s objective isn’t to realize probably the most likes or views — though she’d actually like to succeed in extra youngsters — however to offer high quality leisure to youngsters that’s straightforward for them to know.

Clearly, I’m biased for our main girl — particularly after Ye-na invited the remainder of her imply woman posse over to humiliate Eun-ha — however, you understand what? I respect that the writers have added depth to Ye-na’s character and given her a logical purpose for disliking Eun-ha, even when I don’t agree with stated logic. She’s not imply for the sake of being imply, and her bullying of Eun-ha isn’t over a person — at the very least not but.

It’s gonna occurred ultimately, although, as a result of Ye-na feels indebted to Ji-hwan, who freed her from her father’s debt, and his generosity endeared him to her. On the flip aspect, Ji-hwan doesn’t bear in mind her (hah!), and when given the choice to linger and speak with Ye-na or path after the humiliated and unhappy Eun-ha, he clearly chooses Eun-ha. And thank gawd he did as a result of what follows is pure squee-on-a-stick.

Ji-hwan follows Eun-ha to a pojangmacha, and since there’s no different obtainable seat left, Eun-ha permits the previous gangster to take a seat along with her. He’s not a lot of a drinker, although, so he orders a soda, which he knocks again emotionally when Eun-ha admits that she wished he wasn’t a former gangster. Ji-hwan is so ashamed of his previous and within the dumps that Eun-ha doesn’t like that aspect of him that he doesn’t notice that he unintentionally grabbed Eun-ha’s bottle of soju. And — woo boy! — that tall glass of soju knocks him on his ass — in the easiest way attainable, in fact.

The alcohol unleashes his interior youngster, and Eun-ha follows her lacking mobster to a close-by playground, the place he runs round exuberantly and coaxes Eun-ha into taking part in with him. It unexpectedly turns right into a mini remedy session for Eun-ha, who additionally lets free and briefly sheds her grownup worries, however one of the best a part of the night time is once they each collapse within the sand and Ji-hwan encourages her to maintain making movies. “I miss watching them,” he admits, and the cherry blossoms fall in sluggish movement as Eun-ha absorbs his confession. (It’s at this level in our story, Beanies, that I made a noise so excessive pitched that solely canines may hear it.)

The subsequent day, Ji-hwan very a lot remembers the night time earlier than, and he alternates between feeling acutely embarrassed and daydreaming concerning the object of his affection. He’s late to a gathering, and despite the fact that his physique is current throughout his subordinate’s presentation, his thoughts may be very a lot on Eun-ha. As a lot as I like seeing this tough-as-nails man diminished to a puddle of goo, his Thirsty Deerlings — save for the keenly observant Il-young — are very confused by his odd habits. They assume he’s mad at them — both as a result of he doesn’t like their advertising and marketing technique or due to the “rat” Eun-ha, who triggered to their firm’s status.

If solely they knew that their boss was stressing over his response to Eun-ha’s textual content that they need to meet up so she may return his coat. He worriedly calls her to make clear concerning the accidentally-crude typo in his textual content — and he simply so occurs to overhear her being kicked out of her firm sponsored housing. Her one-year contract with Macaron Comfortable is over, and her boss has unceremoniously fired her and made her homeless. I hope sooner or later on this drama’s future we get to see Ji-hwan completely destroy Macaron Comfortable and Eun-ha’s boss, however for now Ji-hwan’s highest precedence is making certain Eun-ha is protected. And, as drama future would have it, he finds her coincidentally exterior his own residence.

You see, when Eun-ha was younger and her household was being harassed by gangsters, her childhood protector, a younger Hyun-woo, used to reside in Ji-hwan’s home. On condition that her nostalgia and curiosity for her lacking former good friend has peaked since assembly prosecutor Hyun-woo — nonetheless unconfirmed if he’s the Hyun-woo — she wanders to the home the place she used to hunt out safety.

Ji-hwan is startled and relieved to see Eun-ha, however he doesn’t let on that he is aware of she’s homeless. As a substitute he makes use of his coat, which she’d been using as a makeshift umbrella, as an excuse to ask her inside. , he’s acquired to make it possible for the dry cleaner did job. And whereas he’s inspecting the standard, if she desires to alter into some dry garments, all the higher.

He can solely drag out the coat excuse for therefore lengthy, so in an effort to maintain her there longer, he gives to repair her some ramen. He’s utterly oblivious to the innuendo — or else he would have been blushing redder than a cooked lobster — and when Eun-ha realizes his meals alternative was literal, she accepts. She by no means will get round to consuming the ramen, although, as a result of she falls asleep in the lounge, and sooner or later within the night time, Ji-hwan carries her to a spare bed room.

She wakes up the subsequent morning to search out Ji-hwan’s deerlings getting ready an epic breakfast, and so they’re all — once more, save for Il-young — shocked to search out out she’s their “particular visitor.” After they end consuming, Eun-ha is at a loss as to how she ought to repay them for his or her kindness. The six males work collectively like a well-oiled machine, and there’s no process obtainable for her to help them with. However then she overhears Il-young inform Ji-hwan he ought to carry somebody — ideally somebody nice with youngsters and fewer… intimidating — with him to go to his lacking worker’s (the previous drug seller) youthful sister.

who’s good with youngsters? Eun-ha, and he or she jumps on the alternative to repay him for his kindness. Ji-hwan is reluctant to take her with him as a result of he doesn’t wish to put her in any hazard, however Il-young assures him that there haven’t been any members of the Kitty Gang watching Former Drug Seller’s sister. It’s protected, and since not one of the different deerlings can be found to go along with him — an enormous fats lie — he ought to take the much more personable Eun-ha with him. In case it wasn’t already clear, Il-young is taking part in matchmaker.

It’s factor Ji-hwan introduced Eun-ha with him as a result of the younger woman instantly sees him as a risk. She bravely stands between Ji-hwan and her dwelling, and despite the fact that it could be straightforward for Ji-hwan to overpower her and enter the home, he isn’t within the behavior of scaring youngsters — at the very least not deliberately. Eun-ha steps as much as allure the younger woman and entertain her whereas Ji-hwan searches for clues to his lacking worker’s whereabouts.

Flashbacks reveal that, despite the fact that Ji-hwan is within the enterprise of giving second probabilities to criminals in hopes they’ll flip their lives round, he was reluctant to rent the previous drug seller. In any case, promoting medicine is simple cash, and Ji-hwan feared the opposite man would return to his legal methods as soon as he realized that turning his life round can be arduous work. Former Drug Seller, nevertheless, sincerely needed a greater life from him and his ten-year-old sister, and all indicators in the home point out he hasn’t gone again on his promise to steer an trustworthy life. However past that, there aren’t any clues to his whereabouts.

Simply as Ji-hwan is about to name it quits, a automotive comes dashing as much as the home, nevertheless it isn’t a member of the Kitty Gang. Out pops Hyun-woo, and he’s brazenly hostile in direction of Ji-hwan. Because the starting of this drama, there have been hints that he has a private vendetta towards Ji-hwan, however no matter historical past they’ve between them — and whether or not or not it has something to do with Eun-ha — stays a thriller. Nevertheless, even when Hyun-woo’s beef with Ji-hwan has nothing to do with the gang that terrorized Eun-ha as a child, she’s positively caught up in the course of these two now — as a result of our love triangle is up and working.

I initially thought Hyun-woo can be a robust competitor for Eun-ha’s coronary heart, however the extra we study Eun-ha’s childhood protector, the much less I believe she’s trying to find a “past love.” As a substitute, I’m sensing she noticed the younger Hyun-woo as extra of a brother determine, and he or she desires to search out him out of concern that one thing tragic might need occurred that night time he hid her plastic bin from the unhealthy guys. So if Hyun-woo seems to be her childhood good friend, I believe she’ll really feel happiness and reduction moderately than an instantaneous crush. Plus, after this week, even when there have been some past love tropes in play, I believe Hyun-woo is simply too far behind to catch up.

Ji-hwan not solely took the lead in my coronary heart, however probably Eun-ha’s, too, together with his drunken antics and his frank dialogue on why he turned his life round and commenced offering a platform for different ex-convicts to do the identical. Though there’s a variety of silliness of their interactions — and the drama as an entire — our story is doing effectively to infuse the lighthearted moments with severe subjects that create fascinating character improvement and supply groundwork for our OTP to maneuver previous biases and construct a relationship. So kudus to this writing staff, and my fingers are crossed that our story maintains this rhythm!

 
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