Dreaming of a Freaking Fairy Story: Episodes 7-8

by Dramaddictally

Our fairy story tackles childhood baggage and its aftermath this week, with a deal with love that comes from inside. It’s a little bit of a twist on the basic white-knight love that saves the day in most romance tales — however twists are what we’ve come to count on from this contemporary story that follows not one of the guidelines.

 
EPISODES 7-8

We left off final time with our heroine tied to a chair and our hero hugging her after knocking out the unhealthy guys. This week, we drop again into that very same scene, with Jae-rim performing like a badass and tying up her kidnappers earlier than she and Cha-min stroll out the door. However as soon as she’s outdoors and away from hurt, Jae-rim begins to cry. Cha-min makes her really feel protected, and she or he realizes from his rescue that he does in reality care about her. However, she additionally wonders if his silence on the problem is as a result of he thinks she’s not ok for him.

However no. The reality is that Cha-min has severe belief points in terms of ladies — principally regarding his mom working out on him (or so he thinks). And so, although he needs to admit to Jae-rim, he can’t carry himself to do it. There’s additionally the truth that his father has advised him that he should see ladies as stones (that’s the place Cha-min received the thought) and that if he likes somebody, Dad will disown him. Sheesh. Suffice it to say, Cha-min has some severe obstacles forward if he needs to allure his girl love.

On the house entrance, Jae-rim will get in a skirmish along with her step-sister and decides to go away the home that very night time, able to make it on her personal on the earth. She roams removed from town, out to a one-room shack the place she and her father used to stay when she was younger and so they had been dust poor. The place is unoccupied so she stays the night time, but it surely has no water or warmth (and it’s freaking chilly).

The following day at work, Cha-min continues to be nervous concerning the kidnapping (however don’t fear, he’s already threatened Dan-ah that he’ll name off the engagement if every other shady stuff occurs). So, he’s educating his employees self-defense. In sensible phrases, this implies he and Jae-rim are hugging on a mat — till they begin knocking one another down with strikes to the throat. Ah, these loopy youngsters. Pushing one another away metaphorically simply isn’t sufficient for them.

In the course of self-defense class, Do-hong exhibits up and desires to speak to Jae-rim one on one. The 2 stroll off collectively — making Cha-min virtually hallucinate with jealousy — and Do-hong tells Jae-rim that he’s fallen for her. She noticed him for who he actually is and she or he didn’t decide him, and now, he’s assured that he can love her, even when he doesn’t know her that nicely but.

Jae-rim is conflicted. This can be a actual shot at her Cinderella dream, however she’s fairly certain Cha-min is harboring emotions for her and simply received’t open up. To attempt to coax him to take action, she tells Cha-min that Do-hong requested her out in an easy method as a result of “he’s an actual man.” That units Cha-min off speaking about how social hierarchies shouldn’t matter and if Do-hong thinks they do, she ought to be careful for him.

This kerfuffle provokes Jae-rim to check Cha-min’s class consciousness by inviting him to her shack for the night time. She’s considering: can he survive in that sort of place even for one night time? And he’s considering: OMG did she simply invite me to spend the night time along with her? (I actually do love how we get these gendered inside commentaries on this present that appear so ridiculously useless on.)

After they arrive, she needs to know if his opinion of her has modified now that he sees the extent of poverty she as soon as lived in. His reply is about as right as they arrive: “Why wouldn’t it? It’s not your fault you grew up poor.” And with that, he pulls the tenting tools out of his automotive (that simply occurs to be there) and so they make ramen and chat in entrance of the shack.

The scene turns severe when she talks concerning the battle she simply had along with her step-family. Jae-rim feels prefer it’s her fault and begins saying unkind issues about herself. However Cha-min doesn’t purchase it. “You’ve been hating your self for a very long time,” he says, “viewing the world via the lens of hatred.” He reaches over and pretends to take away invisible glasses from her face. “I’ve eliminated the lens for you. Now take an excellent have a look at your self. You’re a beautiful little one too.”

Jae-rim realizes that she’s been wanting to listen to that from somebody for her complete life. She’s at all times acted like she didn’t want something from anybody, however now that she’s gotten what she wanted, she begins to cry. And as soon as the lens of self-hate is eliminated, she will see that if Cha-min can’t settle for her, it’s one thing to do with him, and never as a result of she’s not ok.

Again contained in the shack, our leads attempt to preserve heat on a heating pad with a blanket round their shoulders. Cha-min is set to remain and move her take a look at, however he means that she go to his place and wait it on the market. She’d wish to go, however after they get an alert about heavy snowfall on the best way, she convinces him to go along with her.

And so, now our pair is in a ginormous condo with all of the facilities — the place Jae-rim can take a scorching tub and calm down. That’s, if she will determine the best way to shut off the water from the digital management panel earlier than the bathtub overfills and floods the room.

She will’t. So she has to name Cha-min in to assist. As he’s getting the water scenario below management, he slips, falls backward, and lands on the ground — along with her on prime of him. That’s proper, it’s a category Ok-drama kiss, with shocked faces and open eyes. However simply as I’m considering the most important change-up is buying and selling the standard trip-and-fall for a slip-and-fall, we get an excellent larger shock: Cha-min places his hand to the again of Jae-rim’s head and pulls her in for an actual kiss!

Solely, he’s imagining it. (And I completely fell for it.) In actual life, they stand up off the ground and go to the lounge, the place Jae-rim will get a name to go house since her step-sister needs to make up. And whereas neither Cha-min nor Jae-rim actually needs to half, she goes anyway and has a heart-to-heart along with her step-mom. Jae-rim admits that she by no means thought they could possibly be an actual household, so she protected herself by by no means making an attempt. She sees now that her step-mom has at all times considered her as household, and it seems to be like our heroine is on her approach to being healed.

Along with her newfound self-love, Jae-rim is able to get up for herself at work the following time a buyer pushes her round. However simply as she’s taking out her aggression, Do-hong arrives and confesses his emotions for her in entrance of everybody within the VIP lounge. Cha-min will get sulky and leaves, however Jae-rim runs after him. She says she doesn’t like Do-hong, however leaves the remainder unsaid, which is that she likes Cha-min.

However our hero is haunted by the phrases of his father, telling him that any lady who likes him is simply pretending. And so, in a really real looking turnaround, he will get defensive and asks Jae-rim if she’s utilizing Do-hong. That’s, moderately than considering her insincerity with Do-hong is situational, he acts prefer it’s a personality flaw. Clearly Jae-rim feels insulted. And Cha-min walks away, however feels unhealthy instantly after. So unhealthy, in reality, that he punches Do-hong within the face the following time he sees him.

Okay, after which we meet Cha-min’s mother. For some cause, she’s a sunbae of Do-hong and is at his studio on the identical time that Jae-rim is there. Mother reveals her identification and asks Jae-rim to remain by Cha-min’s facet. After which we get the complete scoop: as a result of she was a “Cinderella,” she was regarded down on by the individuals in Cha-min’s father’s world. Her mother-in-law accused her of dishonest — which Chamin’s dad believed — and she or he was kicked out of the home and never allowed to see her son. And but, Cha-min thinks she deserted him.

This info makes Jae-rim perceive Cha-min loads higher, and she or he units up a gathering for mom and son to be reunited. On the assembly, although, Cha-min doesn’t consider a phrase his mom says. He cries on the desk, then storms out to seek out Jae-rim and inform her she crossed the road by getting them collectively.

Jae-rim counters that Mother just isn’t mendacity and speaks this nice line: “Don’t doubt her love for you. It’s solely hurting you.” Cha-min says that love doesn’t exist and Jae-rim steps ahead and hugs him. “Love can’t be put into phrases,” and so, she needs him to only really feel it. Cha-min cries extra, feeling just like the harm little boy he was is lastly being cared for. After which he symbolically drops the umbrella he at all times carries round to guard himself.

I proceed to love this present, and although these episodes may be my least favourite, I really like how there was a deal with shallowness for each leads. They’re “saving” one another by build up one another’s confidence and self-love, extra than simply proclaiming that being beloved by another person goes to resolve their issues. That’s a pleasant message. And the truth that Jae-rim realizes that her step-mom needed to incorporate her within the household, however her personal self-doubt saved her on the surface, was really fairly profound for this slight drama.

The dynamic between the leads is what continues to attract me to this story every week, and I like the way it depends on their personalities to attach them. The truth that they’re from such totally different backgrounds hardly appears to matter as a result of they’re only a good match. I’m really actually excited to see the place this goes now that we’ve gotten via the private development half. And I’m trying ahead to seeing what fairy story twists are nonetheless in retailer.

 
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