My Candy Mobster: Episodes 9-10

by DaebakGrits

Regardless of their unstated mutual emotions for one another, our mobster and his main woman intend to chop ties and go their separate methods. Our deerlings should not pleased with the present state of affairs and take issues into their very own palms, however will their cockamamy plans to parent-trap our OTP into beginning a relationship achieve success? Or will they backfire spectacularly (and hilariously)?

 
EPISODES 9-10

After listening to Eun-ha inform Ji-hwan that she not wished to look him, I braced myself for the worst case situation: a chronic separation — for me, something over fifteen minutes — wherein our time is spent watching the less-appealing secondary leads attempt to wedge themselves between our OTP. Seems, I ought to have trusted our writers — and our deerlings — as a result of they in some way managed to make the little speedbump in our favourite couple’s relationship not solely palatable however downright entertaining. (You understand, regardless of our hearts aching for them to reconcile and be all gosh darn cute once more.)

As unwelcome as Eun-ha and Ji-hwan’s momentary separation was, I’ll begrudgingly admit that it served a objective and gave our characters the time and area they wanted to determine their priorities. For Eun-ha, her resolution to vacate Ji-hwan’s home and put some bodily and emotional distance between them was completely out of self-preservation — and never, as I beforehand suspected, as a result of Hyun-woo revealed Ji-hwan’s childhood title. As an alternative, Hyun-woo admitted that, though he’s not the Hyun-woo she’s searching for, he did find her lacking good friend. And, if she wished to satisfy him, he would inform her his identification.

Eun-ha, remembering Ji-hwan’s earlier phrases that typically folks don’t need to revisit sure recollections, declines Hyun-woo’s provide. She feels liable for main the dangerous man (Ji-hwan’s father or one among his henchmen?) to Hyun-woo, and he or she doesn’t need to intrude on his present happiness if her presence will remind him of an unhappier time. This identical thought course of is what has her selecting to depart Ji-hwan’s family. If Ji-hwan desires to place up a landlord/tenant wall between them, she is not going to attempt to climb over it. No, she is going to retreat and defend herself earlier than she falls too deeply for a person who has clearly acknowledged he’s not romantically interested by her.

In fact, we all know that’s an enormous fats lie. He’s head over heels in love along with her, and he pushed her away with a purpose to defend her as a result of she is going to both be bodily caught within the crossfire of his enemies’ machinations or be devastated if one thing ever occurred to him. By pushing her away, he thinks he’s defending her. The issue is, although, when he went and advised Eun-ha that she was “simply his tenant” he by no means thought she’d — properly, you understand — act like a tenant and transfer out. (cue: shocked Pikachu meme).

Ji-hwan outwardly accepts Eun-ha’s resolution, however inside he’s simply as distraught as his deerlings, who don’t wish to see Mommy and Daddy combating. Are you able to blame them, although? They’re rooting for our OTP as a lot as we’re, and so they’re right here to get us by way of the momentary separation of our favourite pairing by making us snigger with their parent-trapping antics. Everyone knows Ji-hwan simply wants just a little shove in the best route, and that shove comes within the type of our deerlings tricking Ji-hwan into pondering Eun-ha is on a blind date with one other man.

The masquerade efficiently incites Ji-hwan’s jealousy, and if his judgment wasn’t so clouded, perhaps he would have questioned the strangeness of Eun-ha having a blind date on the bottom flooring of his firm’s constructing earlier than going downstairs to spy on her “date” with one among his extra extroverted and flirtatious workers (a.okay.a. his exact opposite). Sadly, past stirring up Ji-hwan’s green-eyed monster, the deerlings’ plan backfires spectacularly. However, on the brilliant facet, watching Ji-hwan wrestle together with his jealousy after which get caught (as soon as once more) in a seemingly compromising place with Ye-na was priceless.

As amusing because the deerlings’s faux-matchmaking try was to look at, there actually was no want for them to attempt to make Ji-hwan jealous as a result of that’s Hyun-woo’s job because the second male lead. And you understand what? Despite the fact that I’m firmly on Group Ji-hwan — who isn’t? — Hyun-woo earned some brownie factors with me this week when he put aside his biases and did his personal analysis into Ji-hwan’s background.

The extra he learns about Ji-hwan from Eun-ha, the extra prepared he’s turn out to be to placed on his essential pondering cap and discover the chance that Ji-hwan is not a brutally violent thug. And, after assembly with one other witness to the incident on the resort ten years in the past, Hyun-woo confirms that Ji-hwan isn’t solely man however the particular person liable for his personal father’s incarceration. Sadly, it’s Ji-hwan’s sense of justice that has painted a really massive goal on his again, and now that Ji-hwan’s father has been launched from jail, there’s not one however two harmful males aiming their knives at him.

Though Ji-hwan and Hyun-woo are in settlement that Eun-ha is safer if she stays out of Ji-hwan’s radius, it’s simpler stated than completed, particularly when she retains entering into bother on her personal. Ji-hwan almost loses his thoughts with fear looking for her after she ticks off a gaggle of teenage hoodlums and drops her cellphone, however he retains that info to himself when Eun-ha asks him why he would name her twenty instances when he thought she was in peril. As an alternative of unveiling how scared he was, he places his palms in his pockets and nonchalantly explains that he’s only a boy, standing in entrance of a woman, telling her that he’s solely comfy being alone and conserving everybody at arm’s size. (Oh, Ji-hwan.)

The factor about Ji-hwan that retains Eun-ha in a continuing state of confusion — and questioning whether or not she ought to transfer out or not — is that Ji-hwan’s actions are at all times at fixed odds together with his phrases. Ji-hwan could say he doesn’t like her, that she’s only a tenant, and that she’s free to signal a lease on a brand new house — even when stated house isn’t as good or as safe because the one he secretly leased for her — however his actions are screaming “I really like you, and I’d throw myself onto a mattress of cacti earlier than letting you undergo a single splinter!” However phrases are concrete, whereas actions could be misinterpreted. So, Eun-ha indicators the lease on a brand new house, not bothering to attend till 11 o’clock out of some misguided hope that Ji-hwan would possibly romantically present up and cease her earlier than she will be able to signal the paperwork.

However guess what? Ji-hwan was spurred into motion. He was simply too late — too late to forestall Eun-ha from signing her new lease, however proper on time to witness Hyun-woo shoot his shot and confess his emotions to Eun-ha. She rapidly releases her wrist from Hyun-woo’s grip when she spots Ji-hwan watching them — a positive signal of the place her emotions are aligned — however Ji-hwan’s mind is just too busy making an attempt to determine a approach out of this awkward scenario to note her instinctive response to his presence. Finally, Ji-hwan decides one of the best ways to get Eun-ha away from Hyun-woo is to inform her she’s wanted at house — as a result of nothing says “I secretly need to confess my love for you” fairly like telling a girl she ought to do home tasks. (*facepalm*)

Despite the fact that Ji-hwan has lastly accepted his emotions and is able to take an enormous leap in direction of Eun-ha, he’s inexperienced and clearly wants some assist. Enter: our deerlings. Their earlier failed try at parent-trapping hasn’t discouraged them from plotting a brand new matchmaking scheme. This time, they determine they want a change of surroundings — and a few mild-mannered kidnapping. They’ve all of it deliberate out: drive Eun-ha and Ji-hwan right into a van and escort them for a pleasant little getaway within the mountains. Certainly the woodsy environment and remoted bonding time will present Ji-hwan and Eun-ha that they need to all proceed dwelling beneath the identical roof like one massive completely satisfied household.

Virtually instantly, their plan goes awry after they must pivot and kidnap Mi-ho together with Eun-ha, inflicting the van experience to be additional tense as a result of there’s now two awkward {couples} avoiding eye contact — not that anybody else is conscious of the truth that Mi-ho and Il-young had a one-night stand. Whereas Eun-ha offers Ji-hwan the chilly shoulder and ignores his edible peace choices, Mi-ho is extra vocal about her displeasure — particularly since she’s bought a being pregnant check burning a gap in her pocket. Yeah, that’s proper, Mi-ho’s interval is late and sure meals smells make her nauseous, however earlier than she may learn her being pregnant check and make sure her suspicion, she bought kidnapped by her perhaps child daddy and his mates.

Spoiler alert: there are two traces, which implies it’s constructive. Personally, I’m not a fan of this flip of occasions — even when the constructive COVID being pregnant check did lead to what’s, palms down, my favourite one-liner joke from this drama up to now. I simply don’t discover unintended pregnancies amusing or romantic, particularly when the connection standing of the parents-to-be is as sophisticated and undefined as it’s between Mi-ho and Il-young. Certain, we know that Il-young solely stated their one-night stand was a “mistake” as a result of he assumed that was how Mi-ho felt, however I’d have most popular our secondary couple sorted out their emotions earlier than discovering out they’re going to be mother and father. As it’s, Il-young inadvertently sees the being pregnant check earlier than Mi-ho, and I concern he’s going to begin pursuing Mi-ho “for the sake of the newborn.” At this level, I’m hoping the being pregnant check was a false constructive, but when not, my fingers are crossed that the writers discover a approach to deviate from the same old pitfalls of this explicit trope.

After arriving at a mansion within the woods, Eun-ha decides to go for a stroll and put just a little distance between her and Ji-hwan. An hour later, when she hasn’t returned to the home, Ji-hwan grows more and more fearful, remembering the suspicious particular person he noticed earlier outdoors his home. Panicked, he searches the close by woods, frantically calling her title till he lastly finds her. Eun-ha, utterly unaware that she’s inadvertently stirred up a fuss, backs up when she sees Ji-hwan operating at her. She then twists her ankle, and sends them each tumbling down a hill. Ji-hwan, at all times the dashing hero, cups her head and grabs her in order that he takes the brunt of the autumn.

In between gasping breaths, Ji-hwan confirms she’s all proper, scolds her for wandering off on her personal with a lifeless cellphone battery, admits he was fearful about her, and confesses he likes her — wait! Eun-ha has to double-check she heard him appropriately, and Ji-hwan bumbles his approach by way of his love confession a second time. All of the sudden, all of it is sensible to Eun-ha as she thinks again on their time collectively. Ji-hwan is probably not one of the best with phrases, however his actions made her fall for him, and Ji-hwan almost passes out when Eun-ha admits that she likes him, too, after which leans in to provide him a fast kiss. (Ahhhh! His awkward innocence is so adorably horny!)

Ji-hwan’s mind brief circuits after the kiss, and each time he appears at Eun-ha, his eyes wander to her mouth, which reminds him of their kiss, and — beep, boop — his mind explodes. Unable to course of these new emotions — emotional and bodily — Ji-hwan develops an unlucky behavior of operating away every time he’s in shut proximity to Eun-ha. Fortunately, now that Eun-ha has obtained a verbal affirmation that Ji-hwan reciprocates her emotions, she’s in a position to appropriately interpret his awkward conduct as an indication that he’s smitten and never disinterested. Even higher, she decides to use her newfound information and ship him lovely movies that she is aware of will flip him right into a gooey, heart-eyed idiot. (The very best type of idiot.)

However, as completely satisfied as she is to begin her romance with Ji-hwan, Eun-ha realizes that the time has come to formally inform Hyun-woo that she will be able to’t reciprocate his emotions. Hyun-woo, good man that he’s, has already come to the conclusion that Eun-ha goes to reject him, however they undergo the motions of getting dinner, shopping for ice cream, and strolling off the energy earlier than lastly addressing the elephant within the room. Hyun-woo’s disillusioned, however — not like his coworker, who has secretly stored her emotions for Hyun-woo a secret so she will be able to stay part of his life — he tells Eun-ha to not take his emotions too critically. He assures her that he’ll recover from her, and he encourages her to achieve out if she ever wants assist as a substitute of worrying that issues may be awkward between them. (Okay, Hyun-woo, right here’s some extra brownie factors.)

Hyun-woo escorts Eun-ha house, and simply as he’s reaching out to shake her hand goodbye, Ji-hwan swoops in and palm-blocks him. With Eun-ha’s hand firmly tucked in his, Ji-hwan glares at Hyun-woo and yells, “Let’s go, Child!” at a decibel that clearly signifies the time period of endearment is as international to him because the jealousy welling inside him. He then whisks Eun-ha up the steps and into the entrance yard, the place he offers her a kiss that claims — clearer than any phrases his malfunctioning mind may cobble collectively — that he’s been fascinated about her all day. (Me-ow)

And there it’s, Beanies! We lastly have a love confession and (a sober) kiss! This week might need began out just a little gradual resulting from Eun-ha and Ji-hwan’s temporary separation — if you happen to can name it that — however the payoff was price it! I believe this may be my favourite Okay-drama love confession scene of all time. One thing in regards to the mixture of Ji-hwan’s concern and the way in which he simply blurted out his emotions was completely endearing, however even higher was the way in which he remodeled after listening to his affection was mutual. Beanies, he’s smiling!

 
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