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I'm with you in the confusion. But I'lm leaning towards the surrogate role.

Thank you. I guess that explains my frustration with this series....we're 36 episodes in, and the story isn't going to really start until she shows up. Because KS won't allow himself to develop feelings for MR til then. SIGHHHHHH

In Ep 13 he said they had to try IVF because he "was the issue".

Am I correct in assuming that we are just waiting for the missing wife to re-appear and seek divorce, because KS won't pursue any interest with MR until he's free?

I've watched it twice, and I'm STILL trying to process it. Kudos to you for being able to write a recap of it for us!!!

Exactly. Completely unprompted, not only did he let the scumbag have it, he finished him off by calling him a punk.
As far as how he seems? He is afraid. Both of his feelings and how she'll react. For someone who was so against the concept of marriage, etc, this is how he should react to being in love. Unfortunately, we aren't going to see them confess their feelings until they are separated and have to fight for their love and each other....unless the writer has something more different in mind? (I wouldn't put it past him, he's kept me guessing since the start).

That feeling when you watched a crappy episode 15 and are waiting for the subbed 16 to make things right......

PS - I just watched it....my head is spinning. How are we supposed to keep up with this????

And FWIW, TK is already in love with her and her family. He just doesn't know how to deal with it. In the unsubbed clips on KBS YouTube channel: you can see the playground scene at the end, he clearly shares her pain and wants to hug her, but doesn't know what to do, probably because he's afraid of her reaction. And the way he scooped up her niece when they were walking home from school....that wasn't just some casual friend or contract-partner. He's long gone over the bend. It's up to her now.

You are absolutely correct in your first paragraph. And this is getting to be a bad habit for the writer (we saw it in 13/14 as you mentioned). He needs to dial that back to creating and solving situations in the same episode as he did in the early episodes, which gave us the fast pace that was so likeable.

Oh man, I'm really starting to dread watching this episode.

thank you!

In Ep 14, at the end of the scene where TK helps out at the restuarant, it's mentioned that he brought BN a gift, that she was so happy to learn about. Did they ever reveal what the gift was?

That 's a great point. She DOES look bored and is definitely stone-faced.

Is it just me or is the pace of this show glacial? Bravo My Life & Love in your Eyes seem fast-paced compared to this. Thank goodness for KS dad, for keeping the show interesting.

When re recounted the conversation alone that night at home, he blamed her for being odd. He doesn't realize that he loves her. Otherwise, he would have reminded her in the car of Housemate Rule #4(?): Don't mistake TK's acts of kindness as affection.

I agree with your second point. I think for the writer, it's too tempting to split them up. They need to be apart for them both to realize how empty their lives are without each other and I think this will be especially difficult for him as she brought him more than love, but a sense of family via "Bong Min and the Boys" that was so lacking in his life. She'll probably go back home, so she will at least be surrounded by her family, but she won't be able to stop thinking about him, and BongMin won't let her forget him. I do believe that their moms play a vital role during the separation phase.

Interesting weekend... I'm glad they cleared up the miscommunications from Ep 13 in 14. And any sympathy I had for SeJin given the fact her Mom's a nutcase, vanished as she's really gone off the deep-end now, forcing her parents to divorce to support the reason she 'cant' go to the US after all. (I did think the writer would send her to the US to team up with JH to plot to disrupt YD/TK.)

And poor TK doesn't realize it, but he's already circled the drain, and is love with YD. He beat her to it...she's getting there too, but he's already gone.

I too would like to see more of YDs brother + the youngest sister: more airtime please! And we need to see more of the 2 moms getting together - they are such a formidable pair!

The thing that bugs me (other than the annoying but necessary characters to create drama) is that YD doesn't realize (or appreciate) what InOk's reaction will be when they split up after 3 months. Does she think InOk will just disappear? It's her only grandchild, for goodness sake! They have no idea of the pressure that will be on them to reconcile from their Moms, and that her child's grandparents will want a role in its life. I think the 2nd half of this series, after the '3-month point' will be really interesting and bittersweet. I still have faith in this writer, he's been very clever with us so far (even mocking the old separated-at-birth-twin trope) so I believe he knows what he's doing, unlike 3BS which wandered around for most of its plotline.

I really like how fascinated/enamored he was of the group chat, considering he was from a "family" that barely communicates. It seemed to me that "communication (good or bad)" was the theme of Ep 13.

for her, it's a solution to a short-term problem: calming her mom down enough to have the baby. For him, it's a solution to a long-term problem: Marrying SJ.

Biggest problem: she's not thinking long-term (will he help raise the baby?) and he's not thinking short-term (how does a committed bachelor handle living with someone?)

Thank you for the synopsis! The "shady dude" was the other "star teacher" at her academy who went thru her desk, right? I saw the raw preview on YT this morning, but wont be able to watch the subbed version til tonight.