I’m not one for the details, I prefer you get a little snippet, and then go watch the show yourself…so if my summary bothers you, I’m sorry. I feel that, even though I like spoilers myself, just knowing the gist of what’s going to happen is good enough.
They sure know how to follow a good episode, with an even greater one. This time, Dae Woong returns the ring to Mi Ho, but officially as his girlfriend. Dae Woong reaches for another kiss, but the bead has a bad reaction. Mi Ho says that the bead is angry about what happened earlier, and it’s acting up because Dae Woong is “thinking of mating on a full-blown scale” LOL. As much as he tries to deny it, the bead tells all. She tells him to just bear with the pain and try kissing her again, but he’s in too much pain. But it is really cute to watch the two attempt to kiss. They go inside the loft and Mi Ho starts writing out her life plan of things to do after 100 days and it includes, one: mating with Dae Woong, two: get married to Dae Woong, three: have kids with Dae Woong, one every year…and all that is supposed to happen in the course of a year. I love that all her plans involve Dae Woong, who is freaked out by it and pointing out that he is only 21. He tells her that they have to go see his grandpa the next day, and points out that her life plans are practically the same as his grandpa’s plans for him.
A mysterious young boy shows up late in the game, and turns out to be a goblin, who is has a hunger for Mi Ho’s bead. Stalker Dong Joo totally witnessed Dae Woong’s declaration to Mi Ho and realizes there is no possible way Mi Ho could leave Dae Woong now, so he decides to give up and leave himself. This is when I start believing he’s pretty cool, no longer standing in the way of the couple, and going off to live on an island. Mi Ho tells him that she won’t be able to visit him because she’s afraid of the water, which he doesn’t understand, since foxes are supposed to be afraid of fire. But she nonchalantly points out that she was made out of fire, which peaked an interest in that mysterious head of his. He runs into the goblin and questioned it about why it was following Mi Ho’s bead, and it revealed to him that it smelled of goblin fire. Dong Joo starts connecting his dots to realize that not only does Mi Ho have a similar face to his first love, but that she is also made of what his love used to be. He regrets helping Mi Ho become human, because it has put him in the same position he was in, all those years ago.
Dae Woong takes Mi Ho to his grandfather’s for dinner and she uses the things she learned in the past 500 years to impress her in-law as well as Dae Woong. Mi Ho looks through Dae Woong’s old albums to see the life he led in the past 20 years and envies that he’s been able to do so much with his life. Dae Woong is surprised, since she is over 500 years old, so she would probably have a more interesting life than he does. But she points out that he has spent 20 years living his life, while she spent all her years merely existing in hers.
This is something even humans go through, and I love that they point this out in this drama. In previous episodes, it was discussed how this show is about acceptance: accepting someone for who they are, no matter how different they can be. But now, it’s about truly living the life that was given to you.
Mi Ho was explaining to Dae Woong that the things in her life plan were things she constantly heard people praying and wishing for in the temple…their dreams and deepest desires…maybe not the mating part LOL. She told him the things that seemed normal or unimportant to everyone else were significant to her. Which made Dae Woong realize how true it was for her. So he decides to help give her actual memories, which led to their first picture together, that he got developed to put into an album for her.
Dong Joo is off to see Mi Ho, after finding out her real identity…Okay, it was bad enough with him lingering around trying to “help” Mi Ho when he thought she looked like his lover. But now that they’re practically the same gumiho, he’s never going anywhere…which he tells Mi Ho himself, vowing to always protect her. Guilty much? Maybe if you didn’t kill her to begin with, you wouldn’t be living with so much guilt you dummy.
Dae Woong finds out he has to go to China for 2 months to continue filming in China, and hesitates to go because of Mi Ho, but she encourages him even though she’s clearly upset about it. She’s sorry that she can’t be a normal girlfriend, and that he has to worry about her so much. To cheer her up, Dae Woong tells her the 9 best things about having a gumiho as a girlfriend. One of which is that he really really really really really really really really likes her.
While Dae Woong is away, Dong Joo tells Mi Ho about the goblin after Dae Woong and convinces her to leave with him until he can get rid of the goblin. Mi Ho only agreed because Dae Woong was safe in China. At the same moment, Dae Woong came back briefly to surprise Mi Ho, always denying that he doesn’t miss her.
The goblin sniffs Dae Woong out and ends up knocking him out. He wonders how to remove the bead right when Dae Woong wakes up. The goblin points out that it’s better off that he have the bead, since it could kill Dae Woong. At the same time, Dong Joo is driving Mi Ho out of town when his supernatural sword reacts and he rushes to find the goblin. He only injures it and the goblin makes a run for it, while Dae Woong takes the time to ask him about what the goblin meant about his death and the bead. Meanwhile, Mi Ho is outside and has caught the goblin, and misunderstanding that Mi Ho is evil, he spills the truth about the bead to Mi Ho. She yells at him for following her, and he yells at her for trying to take a human life and explains to her how Dae Woong could die after the bead is removed from him. He also tells her that Dong Joo knows that as well. In the action school, Dong Joo tells Dae Woong that if he betrays Mi Ho and doesn’t return the bead to her after 100 days, then she will die, so he has to protect it well until that time. Dong Joo is pretty shady to use Dae Woong’s feelings for Mi Ho to lie to him like that. But our boy firmly tells Dong Joo that even if he didn’t mention it, Dae Woong would have done so anyways.
Mi Ho is worried about Dae Woong’s safety, so she starts to cry…therefore, it starts to rain. She cries and tries to figure out what she can do. Dae Woong goes back to the loft, but Mi Ho obviously isn’t there…he sees Mi Ho’s life plan glued on that basket thing she sleeps on, and decides to add his name and a heart to the page, to read Dae Woong & Mi Ho’s life plan. Adorable, right? Meanwhile, Mi Ho has gone to see Dong Joo. I noticed that after both men have grown to know how innocent and honest Mi Ho is, that even when she’s keeping things from them, they don’t notice, because they’ve gotten used to her so much that they don’t think she’d ever lie, or even know how to. Well, she knows the truth, and you can tell she’s upset, but Dong Joo isn’t seeing it. I guess at this moment, she wants to know what lengths Dong Joo will go for her, and finds out that he will do anything to get the bead back for Mi Ho, whether or not Dae Woong agreed to it. He also points out happily that he told Dae Woong what would happen if she doesn’t get it back, so they don’t need to worry about Mi Ho’s willingness. It only reassures Mi Ho that 1: Dong Joo is willing to let Dae Woong die, and 2: Dae Woong will give Mi Ho the bead to save her life. She realizes that she only has one option, and she thinks about it as she’s eyeing Dong Joo’s supernatural dagger and asking if that can really harm her. She goes back home and Dae Woong brings up the fact that she kept the part about her death from him, at first thinking that she didn’t trust him, but later realizing she does, that’s why she didn’t need to tell him. He tells her that they need to stay together and that he will protect her, and she vows to do the same…she’s crying, I’m crying…it’s just a really sweet moment. Because they’re on completely two different pages, both trying to save each other’s lives but not having the ability to without risking their own.
I find that interesting, one is a human with just a fox bead inside of him, while another is a gumiho that is slowly dying. They have about the same power in them, yet so willing to protect the person they love. Only 3 episodes left!!!
And for those of you in America, it is now airing on your local SBS station on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Episode 2 just passed. I will be re-watching this as it is airing. This has to be one of my favorite Korean dramas since Smile, You. So much for Smile, You or whatever else is out there, this is my drama for this year.
