Chapter 5: I don't
Back in her ex-boss's office, Eul thanks him for the offer, and he's pleased that she doesn't hold a grudge. But Eul corrects him—she does hold a grudge, a mean one in fact—and turns down the job. She clarifies that it's really because if she were to betray Joon-young now, he'd kill her. Ji-tae must've been trying to get her away from Joon-young's documentary, because he doesn't look pleased to hear that Eul turned the offer down.
Ji-tae's flashback brings us back to the night of Eul's accident in 2011, and this time we see that Ji-tae had been outside Eul's house too, and he saw Joon-young eavesdrop on her blackmail phone call to their father.
Ji-tae watched from a distance as Joon-young followed her out, and he saw the whole accident play out right in front of him. At the hospital, he'd seen Joon-young crying and washing up in the bathroom, and he'd picked up the phone Joon-young left behind, with a picture of him and Mom on the screen.
Ji-tae had ordered an investigation into Joon-young, confused about why he'd nearly kill his own girlfriend to protect Ji-tae's father. He'd gotten a swift confirmation that Joon-young was likely his half-brother, and in the present, Ji-tae takes out an old photo of his father hugging Joon-young's mother.
At the hospital, Joon-young congratulates his doctor on not being a quack. Pff. Doc says his condition is declining rapidly, and Joon-young asks how long he has to live—six months, or three? Doc avoids answering and suggests checking into the hospital and beginning chemotherapy right away. Ah, so it's cancer, is it?
Joon-young confirms that he'd die anyway, and just asks for medication to manage the pain, "So that no one knows that Shin Joon-young is dying. Even me." He says that if the doc can make it painless until the day he dies, he'll sign a hundred autographs for his daughter.
Ji-tae's mother happens to cross paths with Joon-young on his way out, and she wonders why he's at the hospital. Joon-young calls Mom, who doesn't answer and sends back one of those automated messages saying that she's in a meeting and can't take calls. He scoffs at the idea of an ajumma at a restaurant holding meetings.
Mom is in fact holding a meeting, of what appears to be an anti-Joon-young fan club. She and two of her employees (one of them is Gook-young's sister and Joon-young's stylist) are busy writing bad comments about him online, and Mom schools them on being a proper anti-fan.
Ajusshi catches them in the act and threatens to report them all, and chides Mom for her childish method of trying to get Joon-young to quit acting. Ajusshi points out how ridiculous it is to think that if Joon-young became a prosecutor, his father would suddenly break up his loving family and take Mom and Joon-young back.
But Mom has a bone to pick of her own, and says that Joon-young didn't choose to become an actor—he did it because Gook-young got himself into trouble and Joon-young signed with his talent agency for the money, to save Gook-young. Ajusshi is shocked that Mom knew all this time, while Mom feels chastised in turn when she learns that Joon-young knows all about her being his anti-fan.
Apparently Joon-young's fan club has been tracking his antis too, and Haru in particular is ready to go after Mom (not knowing that it's his mom, of course, because who would guess that?). But more pressing news steals their attention: They discover that the PD for Joon-young's documentary is too young and pretty to be left by his side 'round the clock.
Haru gets her group to rally their efforts into finding out whatever they can about this PD Noh Eul, and nearby, a café employee lifts his head at the name. It's Jik, of course, because this must be one of those shows where there is One Café, One Restaurant, and One Hospital in all of Seoul.
Jik hides the fact that that's his sister they're planning to bring down, and he exchanges numbers with Haru, promising to give her some dirt on Noh Eul.
Meanwhile, Eul gives a dreary presentation on the documentary concept to Joon-young, the documentary team, and his staff, and they all nearly pass out from boredom. Joon-young interrupts to ask her to summarize the point like he's stupid, and that finally gets her to speak like a normal person and not a robot.
Eul says that the concept is an uplifting message to young people to fight for life, using Joon-young's bucket list. Suddenly they all realize it's a cool idea, though Joon-young stills when Eul says the message is: Live, however you can, and don't die, because no matter what life throws at you, it's worth living.
Joon-young gets up abruptly and says he wasn't told that this would be the concept, and storms out of the room. He retreats to his bathroom floor again, his mind swimming with thoughts.
Outside, everyone takes bets on whether Joon-young will bow out of the documentary yet again, and the crew is ready to pack up and leave. Eul says she'll try to convince him one more time, but to everyone's surprise, Joon-young walks out with a smile and says they should start.
Eul begins the interview by asking what Joon-young would want to do most if he only had a year to live. He doesn't answer for the longest time, making everyone in the room tense. Finally he breaks the silence by suggesting that a year is too long, and he'd prefer to say it's three months.
Eul says that's fine, so then he says he's going to live recklessly, and kill everyone he doesn't like. She says that's not really the goal of this documentary, but he ignores her and says that he'll go to clubs and sleep with a different woman every night.
His agent tries to stop the interview, but Joon-young barrels on and insists he's serious. Eul asks why he's not including drug use or drunk driving or gambling then, but he counters that he's not joking—he's speaking sincerely.
Then he suddenly says, "Will you date me, Noh Eul PD-nim? Let's say I'm going to die in three months, so just for three months—really passionately."
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