Bab 15: Tell dad the Truth
ul thinks about him telling his mother how he feels about her. He'd said he's madly in love with her, and it had flustered her. She's now realizing that his confessions and claims of his feelings weren't a joke, and she thinks back on things he's said, understanding now that he meant every word.
She calls him and says haltingly that she's decided to trust him, just this once. At first he looks like he might cry, but then he gets excited and he tells her to say that again to his face. He rushes to her, but as he's walking towards her, his vision suddenly goes blurry.
After a few seconds it resolves, and he goes to Eul with a huge smile, and grabs her in a grateful hug. Eul is surprised, but Joon-young asks her to stay just for a minute, as he blinks through more blurry vision.
Ji-tae finally shows up at Unni's restaurant long after Eul's given up and left, but he says he actually came to see Unni. He gives her a generous check, saying that the money is to pay for future meals for Eul. He's not coming back here, nor does he ever plan to see Eul again.
Joon-young holds onto Eul for a long time, his vision shifting in and out. Meanwhile Ji-tae's mother wakes in the hospital to see her husband kneeling by her bedside, worried sick about her. Joon-young's mom also lies awake, tormented by her conflicted feelings towards her son.
When Eul points out that it's been more than a minute, Joon-young asks for another minute. Augh, he's so scared and just holding on for dear life, needing her but not wanting her to see his desperation.
Ji-tae goes to see Jung-eun, and crushes her in a desperate kiss. It's obvious he's unmoved, but trying to force his feelings for her, since he can't have the one he wants.
Finally Joon-young's vision clears, and he jokes cheekily that he'd like to stay like this all night. Eul pushes him off and he just grins, and asks her to say again what she said over the phone. She clarifies that by trusting him, she didn't mean she's really going to trust him (Joon-young's smile widens, hee), but that she needs to trust him because her income depends on him. I don't think he's buying it, sweetie.
Joon-young just nods and says she's really pretty, so Eul makes a squishy face at him. He's too besotted and just says that makes her even prettier, and asks for a kiss, but Eul weakly threatens to kill him, hee. She mock-grumpily takes off, but Joon-young calls after her that he'll see her tomorrow… and the next day… and the next day…
Eul is more flustered than she lets on, because she trips and falls, HA. Joon-young laughs after her, looking happier than we've ever seen him. This guy is toast.
He's all business the next day when Eul arrives on the set of his latest drama to film some more footage for his documentary. Gook-young has to promise the milling reporters that he'll arrange interviews with Joon-young and Yuna for them after filming to get them to settle down, and they start their scene.
A rogue drone flies over the set, and whacks Eul in the back of the head, knocking her down. Joon-young maintains his judicious distance, but later during the interview he keeps staring intently at Eul. Yuna takes over when Joon-young doesn't seem inclined to answer questions.
When pushed to speak he keeps things vague, saying that they're professionals, but deserve to have private lives out of the spotlight. He doesn't understand the obsession with gossiping about his love life, and why the person he loves is hated and threatened. He's looking directly at Eul as he expresses his confusion and disappointment.
He says that he won't say anything else about this issue, and adds that he won't be doing interviews any more after this. He leaves, but suddenly the reporters start asking Eul questions about her relationship wth Joon-young, and one of them guesses that it's really Yuna who's being used as a shield. Uh-oh.
Interestingly, it's Yuna who speaks up, and Eul says that she actually likes someone else. Joon-young isn't her style, mentioning that she's a fan of a different top star, but it doesn't seem like she's fooling anyone.
Joon-young surprises her by sliding into her car, and immediately grouches that she's some other guy's fan, calling him a total player. PFFT, he's so jealous. Eul is worried they'll get caught, and Joon-young is all, Caught because I'm actually your type? Because you like me back?
Eul calls Gook-young and tattles that Joon-young is in her car, so Joon-young grabs her phone away before she can say where they are. He says that everything that happens to him from now on is her fault, and stomps out of her car. After he's gone she realizes that he left a jar of sausages in the seat for her, awww.
Ji-tae's mother is sitting down to an unnecessarily lavish meal with her brother Hyun-gil, a police chief, though she doesn't touch a bite. He complains that her husband, betrayed him, but she counters that she just sent Hyun-gil money a month ago.
Apparently Hyun-gil's son got drunk and beat up someone, but Choi refused to get him off the hook, and Mom's brother feels wronged. Mom says that if word got out they could get in a lot of trouble, but he thinks he's entitled to the help because he's family.
Hyun-gil mentions Joon-young's mother and how they used to be close, which upsets Ji-tae's mom. He says that he feels bad because she was carrying Joon-young, but he sent her away on Ji-tae's mother's request. Flustered, Ji-tae's mother slips him an envelope of money and tries to leave, but he starts moaning loudly about poor Choi, raising someone else's son while his own son is right in front of him.
Stuck and with no other choice, Ji-tae's mom calls someone to arrange to have a significant sum of money transferred to Hyun-gil. She falters when she sees Ji-tae waiting for her outside the restaurant, and he takes the phone and angrily cancels the money transfer.
Back at their home, Ji-tae's mom asks how much he knows. He says he knows everything, even that Joon-young is Choi's son. He gently urges his mother to tell Choi the truth, including Hyun-gil's ongoing threats to her.
She's scared her husband will leave her, and tells Ji-tae that she liked Choi even before Joon-young's mother, Young-ok, did. She's the one who stood by his side as he became the man he is today, sure that Young-ok would have held him back if they'd stayed together.
Ji-tae agrees, which is why he thinks his father will forgive her if she confesses everything. But his mother knows Choi still dreams of Young-ok, and she believes that if he learns she had his child, he'll want to be with her and his son. Horrified, Ji-tae says that he's his son too, even if they're not be blood-related.
Ji-tae calls his father to tell him he loves him, and Choi jokingly returns the sentiment. Ji-tae invites him out for a drink and they arrange to meet soon, and Ji-tae nearly breaks when Choi casually calls him "Son."
It was his plan to tell his father everything today, and he'd promised his mother that her husband wouldn't leave her. She hadn't been convinced — his biological father left them for another woman, and she believes Choi will leave her, too. She'd asked for three months, accidentally letting slip that in three months, Joon-young will be dead.
Joon-young and Eul continue their interview, where she asks him to tell her one item on his bucket list. He says he wants to hear, "You're just my style" from the person who just asked him the question. Eul deadpans, "I'll edit that out."
She asks again, and this time he answers that he wants to hear "I love you" from the woman standing in front of him. Eul tells him to knock off the jokes, but Joon-young isn't joking even a little bit, and Eul sighs in frustration.
He asks if she washed her hair, and when she spits back that she did, he takes it as proof that she likes him. She can't win with this guy. Eul says she didn't shower, actually, and hasn't bathed in a week, and she even threatens to fart in front of him, ha.
Gook-young interrupts to take Joon-young to his photo shoot and invites Eul along, but she's headed back to Seoul. She says that Joon-young is acting weird, and he shoots her a snooty look and stomps off, leaving behind another jar of sausages in his chair. Cute.
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