As “Love Your Enemy” inched in direction of its finale, feelings ran excessive. As secrets and techniques had been revealed, many obtained the closure they had been searching for, and our lead couple lastly obtained the start they’d been ready for. Seok Ji Gained (Ju Ji Hoon) and Yoon Ji Gained (Jung Yu Mi) have lastly been capable of put a hoop to their 18-year-long relationship, however it appears our lead couple has just a few extra hurdles to navigate earlier than the fortunately ever after. The final two episodes of “Love Your Enemy” centered its lens on the elders, who had their very own baggage to take care of, and the 2 leads stood by one another towards the storms their households geared as much as face.
Warning: spoilers from episodes 11-12.
“Be the larger particular person”
The Yoon household faces one more heartbreak. Senior Yoon (Kim Kap Soo) is joyful that his granddaughter Yoon Ji Gained is lastly getting married however can be fearful that he could not be capable to present for her. When he goes via the financial savings he has made in her identify, he decides to promote a few of the land he owns in order that he may give her a good-looking marriage ceremony present. Nonetheless, he’s in for an enormous shock when he learns that Ji Kyung Hoon (Lee Seung Joon), whom he had raised as his personal son, has been embezzling funds and mendacity to him all alongside. It wasn’t Yoon Ji Gained’s father who had ruined the corporate, however Kyung Hoon, who additionally had a big hand in her mother and father’ demise after he had mercilessly walked away from the accident website 12 years in the past.
Unable to take the shock, Senior Yoon faces a cognitive dysfunction, regressing again in time. However Senior Yoon quickly visits Kyung Hoon in jail and tells him you will need to forgive Kyung Hoon in an effort to forgive himself. Senior Yoon divulges that he by no means wished to undertake Kyung Hoon, however has finished so on the behest of Yoon Ji Gained’s father, who was a kind-hearted soul and had fearful that his good friend would haven’t any place to go. And regardless of seeing how Kyung Hoon had got down to spoil the very household that had made him, Senior Yoon says he has no choice however to forgive and let Kyung Hoon go for his personal peace.
Senior Yoon showcases his power of character. Regardless of being devastated and damage, he doesn’t search to take revenge, however pardons Kyung Hoon and walks away.
In the meantime, Cha Ji Hye (Kim Ye Gained) lastly musters her braveness and confesses that she was the one who had performed a big half in Yoon Ji Gained and Seok Ji Gained’s breakup. Yoon Ji Gained appears a bit shocked, however smiles at her good friend, saying it occurred a very long time in the past and that they had been all quite younger to know any higher. As she tenderly reaches out to carry her good friend’s hand, it’s Ji Hye who’s moved to tears by Yoon Ji Gained’s generosity and caring coronary heart.
Each grandfather and granddaughter proved that forgiveness is just not an indication of weak spot however quite fortitude. There are not any histrionics or high-end drama however a quiet power in the best way they take care of the betrayal by individuals whom they thought had been the closest to them.
“Let go of the previous and grudges”
Seok Ji Gained’s father (Lee Byung Joon) is just not amused when he sees Yoon Ji Gained flashing her diamond ring. He tries to be impolite and imply by exhibiting her the listing of potential brides he has in thoughts for his son. Yoon Ji Gained takes it on the chin and says she is the prettiest amongst all of them. As Seok Ji Gained’s mom (Kim Jung Younger) apologizes for her husband’s conduct, saying he was born grumpy, Yoon Ji Gained says that she has really seen a sort aspect of Senior Seok. She recounts an incident from years in the past when Seok Ji Gained’s father had helped are inclined to her scrapped knee and even handled her to ice cream, gruffly telling her to maintain it a secret from her household and his. Yoon Ji Gained additional charms Senior Seok along with her forthright angle, however he maintains his gruff exterior in order to not present that he’s really thawing.
We see the caring aspect of Senior Seok once more when he’s ready to fulfill Senior Yoon, who’s late for his or her appointment. He sees Senior Yoon cross the place they had been to fulfill, and as he rushes out to chastise him for being late, he’s fearful to see the outdated man disoriented and takes him to the hospital. Just a few days later, when he’s summoned relating to Senior Yoon’s missed follow-up on the hospital, he places on his grumpy act and chastises him for being troublesome. Properly conscious the 2 will probably be in-laws quickly, one sees the ice thawing between the 2. Issues get funnier with the arrival of Seok Ji Gained’s grandmother, the girl who was as soon as the item of Senior Yoon’s affections and likewise the reason for the feud between the 2 households, since she had chosen Seok Ji Gained’s grandfather over Senior Yoon. She tells her son to finish no matter is happening between the 2 males as a result of with the wedding of Yoon Ji Gained and Seok Ji Gained, the households are on the cusp of a brand new starting, and the cycle of hate will lastly finish.
The sweetest second is when Senior Seok complies with Seok Ji Gained’s needs and builds an ecological park over the bold golf course on the town. When Kyung Hoon tries to get Senior Seok’s assist towards Senior Yoon, he’s firmly put in his place with “we’re household.”
Lastly rid of the grudges and hate which have bogged Senior Seok down, one sees him for the sort particular person he really is. Then again, Senior Yoon too has come a great distance from shedding the girl he beloved and tells Gong Moon Soo (Lee Si Woo) that if the particular person you’re keen on is joyful and smiling with one other, it’s best to let go.
“Each finish might be a brand new starting”
Yoon Ji Gained tells Cha Ji Hye that she is so joyful that she worries she could also be struck by misfortune. Ji Hye tells her that as an alternative of pondering like that, she ought to take a look at it this manner: now she has somebody to share her happiness and burdens with. Yoon Ji Gained’s face reveals reduction as she realizes she has a powerful rock in Seok Ji Gained, who’s at all times searching for her.
18 years in the past, when a teary Yoon Ji Gained had waited for Seok Ji Gained at Namsan Tower on a snowy night time, she had thought he had by no means saved his promise, and it had been downhill for the 2 after. However what she doesn’t know is that he had saved the promise and even knitted her a purple muffler as she had requested him to. Although he was by no means capable of give it to her, he lastly will get an opportunity to take action 18 years later. When he will get prepared to go away on a piece journey for a month, Yoon Ji Gained tries to place up a sulking act, saying he’ll miss their birthday which falls on the identical day and the way she’ll be sitting by herself at Namsan Tower. She waits his return and is unable to achieve him. As quickly because it begins to snow, she finds herself at Namsan and tells herself it’s silly that she is right here when Seok Ji Gained is away in New Zealand. However she will get a name from him saying that it’s snowing the place he’s, she says, however it’s summer time the place he’s. She turns round to see him standing in entrance of her. And as they hug, he drapes the purple muffler he had so lovingly knit for her. The second is really pleasant and sure to make you smile.
It has been 18 lengthy years, and at last the 2 are getting their fortunately ever after. However one factor that gained’t ever change is that they may proceed to squabble and bicker with one another. In the event that they didn’t, issues would appear quite irregular. Because the Seok household insists on a grand marriage ceremony, the Yoon household needs one thing intimate. Seok Ji Gained sides with Yoon Ji Gained’s needs, however the one factor he needs is a romantic marriage ceremony photo-op along with her, to which she agrees. It’s candy how these two spar and make-up, and it’s obvious married life for the 2 will probably be removed from boring and mundane.
Ju Ji Hoon is successful in his efficiency as Seok Ji Gained, profitable hearts with the love and assist he has for Yoon Ji Gained. Then again, Jung Yu Mi made Yoon Ji Gained a lived-in and relatable character. The chemistry between the 2 actors was straightforward and pure which additional added to the breezy narrative, which will probably be missed!
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Puja Talwar is a Soompi author with a powerful Yoo Yeon Seok and Lee Junho bias. A very long time Ok-drama fan, she loves devising alternate situations to the narratives. She has interviewed Lee Min Ho, Gong Yoo, Cha Eun Woo, and Ji Chang Wook to call just a few. You possibly can comply with her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.
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