As “Love Your Enemy” inched in direction of its finale, feelings ran excessive. As secrets and techniques have been revealed, many received the closure they have been searching for, and our lead couple lastly received the start they’d been ready for. Seok Ji Received (Ju Ji Hoon) and Yoon Ji Received (Jung Yu Mi) have lastly been in a position to put a hoop to their 18-year-long relationship, but it surely 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 in opposition to 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 completely satisfied that his granddaughter Yoon Ji Received is lastly getting married however can be frightened that he might not be capable to present for her. When he goes via the financial savings he has made in her title, he decides to promote a number of the land he owns in order that he can provide her a good-looking marriage ceremony present. Nevertheless, 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 Received’s father who had ruined the corporate, however Kyung Hoon, who additionally had a big hand in her dad and mom’ 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 to be able to forgive himself. Senior Yoon divulges that he by no means needed to undertake Kyung Hoon, however has completed so on the behest of Yoon Ji Received’s father, who was a kind-hearted soul and had frightened that his buddy would don’t have any place to go. And regardless of seeing how Kyung Hoon had got down to destroy 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 energy 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 Received) lastly musters her braveness and confesses that she was the one who had performed a big half in Yoon Ji Received and Seok Ji Received’s breakup. Yoon Ji Received seems a bit shocked, however smiles at her buddy, saying it occurred a very long time in the past and that they have been all reasonably younger to know any higher. As she tenderly reaches out to carry her buddy’s hand, it’s Ji Hye who’s moved to tears by Yoon Ji Received’s generosity and caring coronary heart.
Each grandfather and granddaughter proved that forgiveness is just not an indication of weak point however reasonably fortitude. There aren’t any histrionics or high-end drama however a quiet energy in the best way they take care of the betrayal by folks whom they thought have been the closest to them.
“Let go of the previous and grudges”
Seok Ji Received’s father (Lee Byung Joon) is just not amused when he sees Yoon Ji Received flashing her diamond ring. He tries to be impolite and imply by displaying her the record of potential brides he has in thoughts for his son. Yoon Ji Received takes it on the chin and says she is the prettiest amongst all of them. As Seok Ji Received’s mom (Kim Jung Younger) apologizes for her husband’s conduct, saying he was born grumpy, Yoon Ji Received says that she has really seen a form facet of Senior Seok. She recounts an incident from years in the past when Seok Ji Received’s father had helped are likely 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 Received additional charms Senior Seok together with her forthright perspective, however he maintains his gruff exterior in order to not present that he’s really thawing.
We see the caring facet of Senior Seok once more when he’s ready to satisfy Senior Yoon, who’s late for his or her appointment. He sees Senior Yoon cross the place they have been to satisfy, and as he rushes out to chastise him for being late, he’s frightened 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 tough. Nicely conscious the 2 shall be in-laws quickly, one sees the ice thawing between the 2. Issues get funnier with the arrival of Seok Ji Received’s grandmother, the girl who was as soon as the item of Senior Yoon’s affections and in addition the reason for the feud between the 2 households, since she had chosen Seok Ji Received’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 Received and Seok Ji Received, 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 Received’s needs and builds an ecological park over the formidable golf course on the town. When Kyung Hoon tries to get Senior Seok’s assist in opposition to 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 type particular person he really is. Alternatively, Senior Yoon too has come a good distance from shedding the girl he beloved and tells Gong Moon Soo (Lee Si Woo) that if the particular person you like is completely satisfied and smiling with one other, it’s best to let go.
“Each finish might be a brand new starting”
Yoon Ji Received tells Cha Ji Hye that she is so completely satisfied that she worries she could also be struck by misfortune. Ji Hye tells her that as a substitute of pondering like that, she ought to have a look at it this fashion: now she has somebody to share her happiness and burdens with. Yoon Ji Received’s face reveals aid as she realizes she has a powerful rock in Seok Ji Received, who’s all the time searching for her.
18 years in the past, when a teary Yoon Ji Received had waited for Seok Ji Received at Namsan Tower on a snowy evening, she had thought he had by no means stored his promise, and it had been downhill for the 2 after. However what she doesn’t know is that he had stored the promise and even knitted her a crimson muffler as she had requested him to. Although he was by no means in a position to 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 Received 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 succeed in 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 Received 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 season the place he’s. She turns round to see him standing in entrance of her. And as they hug, he drapes the crimson muffler he had so lovingly knit for her. The second is actually pleasant and sure to make you smile.
It has been 18 lengthy years, and eventually the 2 are getting their fortunately ever after. However one factor that received’t ever change is that they’ll proceed to squabble and bicker with one another. In the event that they didn’t, issues would appear reasonably irregular. Because the Seok household insists on a grand marriage ceremony, the Yoon household desires one thing intimate. Seok Ji Received sides with Yoon Ji Received’s needs, however the one factor he desires is a romantic marriage ceremony photo-op together 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 shall be removed from boring and mundane.
Ju Ji Hoon is successful in his efficiency as Seok Ji Received, profitable hearts with the love and assist he has for Yoon Ji Received. Alternatively, Jung Yu Mi made Yoon Ji Received a lived-in and relatable character. The chemistry between the 2 actors was straightforward and pure which additional added to the breezy narrative, which shall 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’ll be able to observe her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.
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