TAK DONG-KYUNG sits in a doctor’s office and stares blank-faced while he tells her she has multiple brain tumors. When he says she’ll need to be admitted for a week for a biopsy and examination, Dong-kyung says that’s a no go; she can’t take that much time off work.

Exasperated, her doctor explains she’ll only live for another three or four months without surgery. Even if she has surgery and lives another year, it’ll be tough on her due to all the symptoms. The biopsy itself can be dangerous.

Dong-kyung asks if she’s going to die. He says yes. She takes that in and stands calmly. Then she hands him an event plan for “Doctor King Yeomra” and peppily asks him to kindly send his episodes in on time, although she knows he’s busy.

It turns out he’s also a writer, and she’s his editor. She says he seemed like a “real doctor” today (which he is) and thanks him for getting her in early for an MRI. He’s at a loss as she smiles, wishes him luck, and leaves like he didn’t just give her earth-shattering news.

Dong-kyung walks through the hospital in a daze and bumps into someone wearing a white doctor’s coat. She looks up at his face and stares in awe until MYEOL-MANG says with a smile, “I know I’m handsome, but I’m busy.”

Myeol-mang waits in the emergency room and counts down. While several people are rushed into the hospital after a stabbing incident, Dong-kyung stares at her bill in dismay. Recalling that she only has a few months to live, she asks for a three-month installment plan.

In the ER, the man Myeol-mang is waiting for arrives. Using some kind of hypnosis, Myeol-mang convinces the nurse to leave him alone with the patient who is the perpetrator of the stabbings. Myeol-mang commands the man to open his eyes.

He accuses the man of stepping on his doom turf and begins strangling him. The man’s wound heals when Myeol-mang “collects” his doom, but Myeol-mang vows he’ll return it to him one day. His fate now is worse than doom: it’s life.

Myeol-mang goes up to the roof where a goddess , dressed in a hospital gown, waits. She’s essentially his boss and likens herself to a gardener tending to human lives. She calls him the butterfly that pollinates her flowers.

Her peaceful demeanor remains unchanged by his anger at being forced to do this work for her for eternity. He grumbles that it’s his birthday, but she reminds him he was never “born” as such and isn’t human. She sends him to “become someone’s wish” as he can only on this day. Myeol-mang laments that even his birthday is all about humans.

Meanwhile, Dong-kyung sits at the bus stop researching her condition. She takes a call from her boyfriend who sounds frazzled and asks her to meet him urgently. The next thing we know, a pregnant woman is throwing water in Dong-kyung’s face at the café where she was supposed to meet her boyfriend.

Dong-kyung takes in this latest catastrophe, calmly explaining that she didn’t know he was married. His wife refuses to believe her and continues to cause a scene. Dong-kyung finally starts to lose her cool and exasperatedly asks who she gets to unleash her anger on in this situation.

Maintaining an impressive amount of control and poise, Dong-kyung takes a breath before continuing. She’s willing to be the villain in this story because she understands the wife needs someone to blame. Dong-kyung genuinely wishes her a happy life with her jerk of a husband, both for her and her baby’s sake.

Poor Dong-kyung’s horrible day is getting worse by the minute. Before she can get out the door, the wife starts having abdominal pain. She ends up rushing with the wife to the hospital and serving as her guardian until they can contact the cheating husband.

The wife is fine (stress-related pains) and has now calmed down enough to be more rational. She admits it was easier to blame Dong-kyung for everything, even though she knew something was off about this situation.

Dong-kyung meant what she said earlier and encourages the wife to blame her and live happily. She tells the wife she’s dying soon anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Dong-kyung sincerely wishes her a good life and leaves.

When Dong-kyung returns to work, she’s yelled at for being late. CEO Park is a misogynistic piece of work. His response to hearing she went to the hospital because she hasn’t been well is to go on a rant about how women are always complaining and “getting sick” for no reason.

Because Dong-kyung hasn’t had a hellish enough day, her encounter with the wife is trending online complete with video. CEO Park sees it and plays it loud enough for the whole office to hear, asking if it’s Dong-kyung.

She denies it’s her, but he keeps pressing, so she mutes the video. When he yells like she’s the one being rude, Dong-kyung finally loses it and shouts back, “So what if it is me? What are you going to do about it?!” Everyone stares at her in shock. Dong-kyung announces she’s taking one of her meager vacation days and marches out.

Myeol-mang walks down the street and pauses outside of a bakery. After staring at the cakes, he keeps walking. Meanwhile, on the subway, Dong-kyung reads the vicious hate comments about her. Someone alerts her that a man is filming her, so she confronts him.

When he runs out at the next stop, Dong-kyung chases him all the way out to the street. Nearby, Myeol-mang gets in his car and starts the ignition. Two cars crash. He takes out a cigarette and lights it. A massive hole appears in the middle of the street right below the feet of the man Dong-kyung was chasing. She stares down at the man, stunned.

Myeol-mang’s bad mood gets worse as he ruminates over his conversation with the goddess and wonders what makes humans so special. Outside, Dong-kyung gets caught in the pouring rain without an umbrella on her walk home.

Her little brother TAK SUN-KYUNG calls asking for money. From her response, this is a typical occurrence. He gives some excuse about crashing a rental car in Jeju, but he’s actually playing games with his friends at an internet café.

Dong-kyung scolds him for being like this on their parents’ death anniversary which he forgot about. He’s unfazed and brushes it off. This poor woman. After hanging up on him, she buys a cake and arrives home drenched.

Dong-kyung narrates that she learned to hold in her tears at age 10. She places her parents’ wedding photo on the table and sits down to eat. We flash back to her parents’ funeral where she holds her little brother’s hand as their relatives sit nearby discussing whether to send them away or have a family member raise them. Now she concludes that all those repressed tears must’ve settled somewhere in her brain, causing her illness. Her aunt KANG SOO-JA calls from Canada and makes sure she bought cake for her parents – it’s better to celebrate than be depressed.

They chat comfortably and seem close. Dong-kyung keeps her diagnosis to herself and lies that she’s doing well. Her aunt happily notes that things are finally going their way. After they hang up, Dong-kyung tells her parents she’s dying and asks if it hurts to die.

While drinking on the roof, Dong-kyung gets a text from her cheating ex who wants to explain. Then, she receives a text about her loan being overdue. Several shooting stars light up the night sky, and Dong-kyung yells out her wish: “I hope the world goes to hell! I wish everything would stop existing! Bring doom upon the world!” With that out of her system, she laughs.

At home, Myeol-mang hears the wishes of people throughout the city, most of them wishing for personal gain. Suddenly, Dong-kyung’s wish for doom rings out. He scoffs that he smells alcohol in that wish and heads out. The doorbell’s incessant ringing at 3:33 A.M. wakes Dong-kyung who has literally drunk herself under the table. She stumbles to the door and looks out the peep hole. A train makes its way through a snowy mountain scene.

She rubs her eyes and looks out again. This time, she sees the Duomo in Florence, Italy. Baffled, Dong-kyung slowly opens the door. Myeol-mang gives a cheery hello and says he played a little trick to get her to open the door.

Dong-kyung recognizes him from the hospital but is speechless when he introduces himself as Myeol-mang (which means “doom”) and insists she called him here. He pushes past her and makes himself at home in her apartment.

Seeing the table set up with food and a photo of her parents, he guesses it’s their memorial day. He adds that today is his birthday. Dong-kyung naturally thinks he’s nuts and politely wishes him a happy birthday while secretly dialing 112 (the police). Her phone powers off.

When Myeol-mang mentions her doom wish, she thinks he’s been stalking her. Dong-kyung tries to leave, but her door won’t open. Myeol-mang helps himself to cake and says they don’t have time for this. She’s going to die in 100 days. He explains that his birthday “crosses over the centuries and leaps over destiny,” so she should take advantage of this rare opportunity. Dong-kyung has an epiphany and gasps that she didn’t know her brain tumors could cause fascinating hallucinations like this.Myeol-mang chuckles and says he’ll give her more time to wrap her head around this situation. His birthday isn’t over yet. He leaves with a smile and a promise to see her again. “Is this a dream?” she asks herself. Outside, Myeol-mang answers, “No way.”

Dong-kyung falls asleep on the couch and finds herself transported to Myeol-mang’s lair which is sort of cave chic; there are massive rocks and candles everywhere. Myeol-mang apparently has the power to enter her dreams whenever he wants.

She’s amazed at the level of detail in this dream and goes poking around his place. Myeol-mang’s causal speech irks her, but he argues she started it with her doom request. He gets up in her space, and Dong-kyung decides she needs to leave.

She opens the front door to find herself thousands of feet up – the house is built into a cliff. With a snap of his fingers, Myeol-mang transports them to a beach since she that’s where she wants to be. He says it’s a thank you for the cake.

Dong-kyung starts to entertain the idea that he is doom personified and wonders what he needs her for. Myeol-mang explains that there’s a system in place, and he needs a human client to bring doom upon the land. She’s the only one who made a doom wish when the star died.

He laughs at her assumption that he’ll wink out of existence like in fantasy novels if he doesn’t fulfill her wish. Myeol-mang says it’s a mandate that he becomes someone’s hope on his birthday. Her alarm goes off, so he snaps his fingers and wakes her up.

Dong-kyung is relieved it was all a dream. That is, until she finds Myeol-mang’s dirty shoeprints on her floor. She gets to the subway station where Myeol-mang pops up around every corner and offers to make her dying days painless and even grant her a wish. She ignores him and gets on the crowded subway only to find it suddenly empty except for her and Myeol-mang. “See?” he says, “You want it too.” The lights flicker, and the car is full again. At work, Dong-kyung learns from her colleague JO YE-JI (Song Joo-hee) that CEO Park fought with his girlfriend the previous day which made him extra touchy. She begs Dong-kyung not to quit.

They’re interrupted by KIM DA-IN who informs Dong-kyung that a writer named Siberia is here for a meeting. And who does Dong-kyung find in the meeting room but Myeol-mang, masquerading as Siberia. He reads Dong-kyung’s thoughts and assures her she’s not crazy. She’s naturally bothered by the fact he can hear her thoughts, so he encourages her to enter into a contract with him. He doesn’t listen to the thoughts of his clients.

Dong-kyung leaves in a huff, but she can’t escape the ever-present Myeol-mang. When she gets to a crosswalk, she sees him waiting on the opposite side. She narrates that abstract things like death and doom are hard to fear until they become tangible. Abruptly, Dong-kyung is hit by a terrible headache and drops to the ground in pain.

The light changes as she sits in the crosswalk cradling her head. Cars begin swerving around her, but a distracted truck driver heads right for her. Time pauses. Dong-kyung looks around in amazement, and her eyes land on Myeol-mang.

He walks toward her and says god is on his side. “It’s your choice. Will you die here or take my hand?” Dong-kyung hesitates and then slowly reaches up to grab his hand. The countdown to her death starts: Day-99.

Dong-kyung takes Myeol-mang’s hand and lets him help her up. As they cross the street, time rewinds to before the incident. Myeol-mang warns her not to let go of his hand if she wants to live.

They sit in a café, still holding hands, and Dong-kyung tries to find a polite way of asking what the heck he is. Myeol-mang reminds her of all the impossible things she’s witnessed him do, but Dong-kyung is struggling to accept the truth.

Myeol-mang sighs and causes a power outage. When Dong-kyung says it could be a coincidence, he powers off every cell phone in the café. "Ah, so is your identity related to electricity?"Ha.

He scoffs and pointedly looks out the window. Dong-kyung gapes as several comets shoot across the sky. Myeol-mang returns everything to normal when she asks, but he cautions that he’s not a good person.

Myeol-mang is alerted to the impending death of a man in prison and gets up to leave, but Dong-kyung is reluctant to let go of his hand after his warning. He covers her wrist with his other hand, leaving a bracelet made of red thread.

With this, he’s fulfilling his promise to make her dying days painless. But to ensure she doesn’t run away, she has to “recharge” it every day before midnight by holding his hand. He reminds her to choose her one wish and walks off.

At the prison, Myeol-mang arrives in time to stop the man who went on a stabbing spree from hanging himself. He’s been hearing voices of people cursing him to die and can’t take it anymore. Myeol-mang refuses to allow him that relief.

Meanwhile, Dong-kyung ignores a call from her cheating ex and goes to her friend’s house. NA JI-NA (Shin Do-hyun) is curled on the ground, lamenting that it’s all gone. Dong-kyung covers her mouth in horror to realize the power outage made Ji-na lose all her writing for the upcoming episode.

Ji-na doesn’t see the point in rewriting it since her work hasn’t been getting a good response. Dong-kyung keeps the editing team’s criticisms of the webtoon to herself and gets Ji-na back at her computer to write. She can’t bring herself to tell her friend about all the crazy things happening to her lately.

Dong-kyung gets a call from Doctor Jung who’s worried she’s not taking her diagnosis seriously. He warns her the pain will be unbearable, but Dong-kyung muses that treatment can only slightly lessen the pain – she’ll die painfully either way.

At the hospital, a woman hands the goddess a flyer about the coming of doom. She claims God is angry, and the comets today were an omen. The goddess smiles and agrees when she sees Myeol-mang standing in her doorway.

He’s in a good mood since he found a human who wished for doom instead of the usual personal gain. If the “garden” disappears, there’s no need for a gardener or butterfly. The goddess says to do as he pleases, and she’ll do the same.

Myeol-mang wants to know why it has to be him, and the goddess vaguely answers it must be his fate. “How cruel,” Myeol-mang observes. She says fate is cruel to all and warns him he’ll be punished if he does anything bad. “I’m already being punished,” Myeol-mang responds.

Dong-kyung gets another text from her ex saying she’ll regret not taking his calls. He sends a picture of her workplace where he’s currently protesting with a sign and everything. Dae-han has the audacity to call her a homewrecker who made his wife leave.

Dong-kyung’s coworkers watch Dae-han with disgust. When Dong-kyung arrives, he has it out with her right there. The manchild blames her for inciting his wife to divorce him and accuses Dong-kyung of not having any manners. He then acts like he was doing her a favor by dating her since she’s not all that and doesn’t even have parents.

At this point, Dong-kyung begins contemplating whether it’d be a waste to use her wish on trash like him. When she says she really wants to kill him, Dae-han says she’s “making it obvious” she didn’t have parents to guide her.

Dae-han approaches CHA JOO-IK and tries to get Dong-kyung fired. Joo-ik instead roughly shoves him out the door, knocking Dae-han to the ground.

PARK JUNG-MIN returns from his lunchbreak right as Dae-han runs back in. Thankfully, Dae-han’s wife shows up. As she drags him out, she apologizes and announces that her husband’s words are all lies.

The atmosphere is tense and awkward as everyone tries to get back to work. Tae-in wants to gossip about what happened in the company-wide chat, but Ye-ji puts a stop to that. Understandably, Dong-kyung hands in her resignation, but Joo-ik refuses to process it; he says she’ll have to wait for CEO Park to return from his trip to Bali with his girlfriend.

That night, Dong-kyung walks home after another crappy day. She gets to the crosswalk and freezes, remembering her recent brush with death. Myeol-mang appears by her side and takes her hand for a “recharge.” He walks with her across the street and tells her she can call him when she’s scared.

Myeol-mang asks how her day was, hoping for something doom-worthy. Dong-kyung asks what happens if she doesn’t uphold her end of the bargain and dies without wishing for doom. “Someone else will die instead – whoever you love most,” he answers casually.

Dong-kyung is horrified at this penalty, but Myeol-mang says she already agreed to this contract. She calls him a scammer and starts to walk off, but she stops when he asks if knowing this would’ve changed her decision.

Suddenly, she’s back at the intersection with the truck barreling towards her. Myeol-mang says they’ll do this fairly and gives her another chance to choose. Echoing Myeol-mang’s earlier sentiment, Dong-kyung demands to know why it has to be her. When he says it’s fate, Dong-kyung replies, “How cruel.”

The irony isn’t lost on Myeol-mang who repeats the goddess’s words that fate is cruel to all. With the truck almost on her, Dong-kyung yells for Myeol-mang to stop. The scene changes back to night, and the truck is gone.

“See?” Myeol-mang says with a satisfied smile. Dong-kyung marches over and slaps him hard in the face, calling him a jerk. Is it fun to toy with her? He reminds her he’s not on her side but will always respect her decision.

Once he’s alone, Myeol-mang drops the playful demeanor. He thinks back to asking the goddess why it had to be him and having his question thrown back at him by Dong-kyung.

Meanwhile, Dong-kyung gets a surprise visit from her little brother. As she stares at Sun-kyung’s smiling face, she thinks of Myeol-mang’s words that the person she loves most will die if she breaks her contract. Dong-kyung wordlessly grabs her little brother in a hug.

The next day, Dong-kyung expects to see Myeol-mang hanging around her, but he’s nowhere to be found. At the office, she meets with a sleazy writer who goes on about how “social stigma” shouldn’t be involved in “pure love,” which is why he includes things like a grown man hitting on a middle schooler in his webtoon.

“Love that extends beyond social stigma is called a crime,” Dong-kyung argues. Heh. The writer is stunned at being talked to like this, whining that she was never this way before. Dong-kyung is unapologetic and clearly tired of giving a damn.

Dong-kyung has lunch with Ji-na who’s decided to change her pen name based on a shaman’s advice. Apparently, it’s inspired by a guy’s name who she is no longer on friendly terms with. Ji-na wonders if she should quit writing.

Dong-kyung asks what Ji-na would do if she had 100 days to live. For her, she’d use those days to make sure Ji-na is successful. To Ji-na’s surprise, Dong-kyung suggests ending the webtoon within the month. Oh, and it’s no big deal, but her boyfriend turned out to be married.

Elsewhere, Ye-jin gathers the rest of the editing team to make sure they won’t make a thing of what happened to Dong-kyung. Jung-min is the only one who hesitates, but the others pressure him into agreeing.

They’re meeting in a café run by the building owner’s son LEE HYUN-KYU who seems to be the inspiration for Ji-na’s pen name “Lee Hyun.” When everyone returns to work, Dong-kyung reports that Ji-na agreed to end the series early.

Joo-ik wonders what Dong-kyung said to the sleazy writer earlier because he asked them to change his editor to “someone pretty.” Ugh. Joo-ik deadpans that he’ll take over since he’s the prettiest. (That’s fair.)

In his direct way, Joo-ik asks what Dong-kyung saw in Dae-han. It seems they had quite the meet cute. She was editing in a café when a spilt coffee almost ruined 80 pages worth of material. Dae-han blocked the coffee with his body, saving her work.

Dong-kyung looks at the blank pages in her planner and thinks of what she wants in her final days. She has no money, dreams, or love to speak of and wishing for those things for such a short time is meaningless. “The world I’m surviving in is no different than doom in the end.”

She wonders if everyone lives in this in-between, feeling neither alive nor dead. We cut to Myeol-mang at the hospital where he watches doctors doing CPR on the goddess. After she’s revived, she tells Myeol-mang it’ll be hard for her to live past 20 in this lifetime.

The goddess says someone must pay the price for the existence of the world. This time, that price is heart disease. She exists because humans asked for God. They created her, and she created Myeol-mang. It’s their job to pay the price.

She argues he can’t escape his fate, but Myeol-mang is determined to try. The goddess warns she’ll have to act, too. He stills when she tells him to go – it’s almost midnight. A god knows everything; they just pretend not to.

Myeol-mang arrives while Dong-kyung is having her funeral photo taken. She’s still mad at him for last time, but he walks home with her anyway. He thinks she’s wasting time. Why do humans bother with things they won’t be around to see?

Dong-kyung says it’s for others and accuses him of being selfish. He retorts she can’t imagine how much he lives for others. Even after she slapped him, he’s here to “save” her. He holds out his hand, and she reluctantly grabs it for a recharge.

A light flickers near them, and Myeol-mang explains that things like this happen around him. An ambulance whooshes by, and Dong-kyung sees a sign with the number of car accidents in Seoul the past day. Myeol-mang admits that’s because of his presence, too.

She wonders how he lives like this. He brushes it off, saying he’s more existing than living. He’s just a “doom button” whose every action leads to doom. That’s his whole reason for existence. Even if he does nothing, hell breaks loose. We see him sitting in the dark, covering his ears as all sorts of disasters occur. Voices cry in desperation and curse him.

Dong-kyung stares at him thoughtfully and says she understands what he meant with his earlier comment that gain always involves loss. For light to exist, there needs to be darkness. The same with birth and death. “So you’re winter, darkness, and death.” Now she agrees that he does care only about others. She’s the selfish one. Myeol-mang studies her silently.

Realizing they’re still holding hands, Dong-kyung asks how long they need to recharge for. Myeol-mang cheekily says he thought she just liked it. Dong-kyung yanks her hand out of his grip and walks ahead in a huff.

Myeol-mang walks her to her place and asks if he should pick her up tomorrow. When he makes a comment about how he shouldn’t care if she’s in pain or not, Dong-kyung goes off. Why is he picking a fight when they were getting along so well and understanding each other?

Amused, he steps closer and clarifies, “I’m telling you to cling to me. To the fate that came to you.”

She’s speechless as he smiles and walks away.

Myeol-mang turns around when a thoroughly drunk Dae-han yells,

“Hey, Tak Dong-kyung!”

Dae-han stumbles toward Dong-kyung and drops to his knees. He whines about how he didn’t mean anything he said earlier and claims they were in love.

Dae-han starts drunkenly singing and clinging onto her despite her telling him numerous times to let go. While she struggles to push him away, her funeral portrait drops to the ground and shatters.

Myeol-mang makes his way over and grabs Dae-han by the jacket. He asks Dong-kyung if her wish is to make this man disappear from her life, but Dong-kyung doesn’t plan to waste her wish on the likes of him.

Myeol-mang decides to go a less severe route and pretends to be her boyfriend. Even that doesn’t drive Dae-han away. Instead, he takes it as a good thing since it means they’re both cheaters. The man is deluded enough to think they’re even and can start dating again.

Before she can address this latest insanity, Sun-kyung comes up with a mop. He’s ready to take out both men but decides to start with the married one and chases Dae-han down the street.

Myeol-mang watches Dong-kyung start picking up the shards of her photo frame. She cuts her finger and laughs humorlessly at the absurdity of it all. Myeol-mang crouches down and gently drags his finger over her cut to heal it.

He starts picking the shards off her photo and says he gets why she thought of him now – why she wished for doom. At that time, she was the only person with the same thoughts as him. Dong-kyung stares in surprise when he says he’s grateful to her.

Myeol-mang wipes off her photo and hands it to her before leaving. Dong-kyung calls out to him, saying this won’t do. “Let’s live together.” Myeol-mang is so surprised his cigarette almost falls out of his mouth.

Then, he grins.....

We flash back to Dong-kyung’s parent's funeral where her family callously discusses what to do with her and Sun-kyung. Soo-ja arrives and grows furious when one relative argues they’re best off in an orphanage. Pulling both children into her arms, Soo-ja announces she’ll raise them, even though she’s single. Dong-kyung narrates that luck and misfortune can be hard to distinguish.

We return to when Myeol-mang tells Dong-kyung he’s grateful to her and she surprises him by suggesting they live together. Dong-kyung wonders to herself whether Myeol-mang came to her as luck, misfortune, or neither.

Myeol-mang smiles in amusement and shocks Dong-kyung by immediately agreeing. Later, Dong-kyung hides in her bathroom and beats herself up for her impulsive suggestion. She steels herself for the embarrassment of taking her offer back and opens the door … right into Myeol-mang’s living room.

Without looking up from his book, Myeol-mang explains he can’t live at her place. Dong-kyung rambles at him until he’s forced to pay attention to her. He thinks she’s either fallen for him or, more problematically, is willing to move in with just anyone.

“I suggested we live together because you’re not just anyone,” she responds. Myeol-mang looks up in surprise, but Dong-kyung reminds him he told her to cling to him. When she saw him walking away after being so nice, she worried he’d disappear on her.

Dong-kyung nonchalantly says that people who are nice to her always leave, making Myeol-mang marvel at her causal depressing comments. Dong-kyung wants Myeol-mang around so that she never misses a recharge and has him nearby when she decides on her wish. As if she’s his captor, she promises to release him once he grants her wish.

Myeol-mang has his fun teasing her, refusing to let her have any of his many rooms and making each door she opens lead back to the living room. Dong-kyung stops when she hears Sun-kyung ringing her doorbell and calling out to her. She opens Myeol-mang’s front door and is baffled to find herself staring out at her own rooftop.

Dong-kyung joins her brother while he video chats with Soo-ja. Sun-kyung whines about Soo-ja sending Dong-kyung money instead of him, and the siblings bicker to their aunt’s amusement. After they hang up, Sun-kyung chides Dong-kyung for her men troubles.

He vows that he didn’t beat Dae-han up – he didn’t need to. While Dae-han was running, he got hit by a car. He’s not critically injured, but he’ll be hospitalized for a couple of months.

Sun-kyung doesn’t even have to ask to know his sister must’ve been deceived by Dae-han. He’s told her before not to trust everyone who’s nice to her. Sun-kyung marches into her apartment to deal with Myeol-mang next.

Dong-kyung is relieved the door leads into her apartment this time and insists Myeol-mang isn’t there. Sun-kyung still searches every room, and they’re both stunned to find Myeol-mang posing lounging on her bed. He argues he did his best to hide, but her place is too small.

Myeol-mang amuses himself by flustering Dong-kyung, calling her “honey” (term of address between spouses) and playing up their relationship. They all sit and Dong-kyung explains that Myeol-mang pretended to be her boyfriend to get rid of Dae-han.

Sun-kyung plays the tough guy, trying to figure out why someone like Myeol-mang is hanging around Dong-kyung. That tact would work a lot better if he didn’t have to ask his big sister for money to buy beer.

He gets drunk and is amazed when Myeol-mang seems to read his thoughts. Sun-kyung is so moved by Myeol-mang’s perfectly targeted assurances that he announces he’s passed and asks him to take care of Dong-kyung. Myeol-mang happily plays along and calls Sun-kyung “brother-in-law.”

Once they’re alone again, Myeol-mang decides to conjoin his and Dong-kyung’s houses so they each have their space. Dong-kyung gets riled up when Myeol-mang guesses that Sun-kyung is the person she loves most, and she tells him not to touch her brother.

As she lays on the couch, Dong-kyung asks why Myeol-mang cares so much about having her doom the world. He responds that doesn’t believe the world needs to end, but he also doesn’t see why it needs to exist. Based off fantasy stories, Dong-kyung assumes supernatural beings must pity humans.

Myeol-mang argues there’s no reason to pity trivial humans who are all the same, but Dong-kyung argues pity comes from the heart, not the head. When Myeol-mang says he has no heart, Dong-kyung calls bull. He’s the one who told her that he chose her because she was the only one whose thoughts matched his. He has no retort to that.

After she falls asleep, Myeol-mang turns off his light. He lays on his couch, facing Dong-kyung. That night, Dong-kyung dreams of happier times with her parents before it shifts to their funeral. Across the hall, she sees a man who resembles Myeol-mang from the back.

Dong-kyung wakes up to find Myeol-mang in her house, marking off days on her calendar so she doesn’t lose her sense of urgency. Dong-kyung decides to put their contract in writing and clarify the terms. To sum it up, she needs to wish doom upon the world before she dies, but she gets 100 pain-free days and one wish in return. If she breaks the contract, the person she loves most will die in her place.

Dong-kyung has the epiphany that the person she loves most will die no matter what, then. Even if she upholds her end of the agreement, the world will be doomed. Myeol-mang points out that she’s the one who wished for doom without regard for her loved ones. She argues she didn’t mean it, but Myeol-mang says he wouldn’t have heard it if she the wish wasn’t genuine.

After she leaves for work, Myeol-mang wanders around her apartment. He picks up her funeral portrait in its now broken frame.

Throughout the day, Myeol-mang drives Dong-kyung crazy by making messages appear on whatever is available – her laptop, an ATM screen, a restaurant menu. He can’t turn off the boiler, so she rushes home only to find a note saying he figured it out. Before she can head back to work, Joo-ik calls with the alarming message that she should head to the funeral hall.

At the office, Joo-ik meets with the disgruntled sleazy writer who whines about his ratings dropping. Joo-ik mockingly offers him a contract under the table to help him raise his rankings, and the writer actually wants to take him up on it.

Meanwhile, Hyun-kyu’s friend pesters him to attend a reunion, recalling how popular Hyun-kyu was back in his swimming days. When his friend mentions that Ji-na is coming, Hyun-kyu changes his tune and agrees to go.

At the hospital, Myeol-mang cosplays as a doctor and diagnoses a woman with the same condition and prognosis as Dong-kyung. The woman gives the expected response, crying and begging him to save her life.

Myeol-mang can’t fathom why Dong-kyung’s response has been the opposite. He snaps his test subject out of it and erases her memory before sending her on her way to her actual doctor. Myeol-mang then goes to visit the goddess, but she’s not in her room.

Dong-kyung pays her respects at a writer’s grandfather’s funeral. On her way out, the goddess passes by and bumps into her shoulder. Dong-kyung has a flash of memory and sees Myeol-mang at the funeral hall the day of her parents’ funeral.

The goddess appears at the bus stop by Dong-kyung and strikes up conversation. She compliments Dong-kyung’s bracelet and reaches for it. Before she can touch it, Myeol-mang comes up and pulls Dong-kyung away from her.

Dong-kyung shares that she saw him long ago crying at a funeral hall. In a flashback, Myeol-mang kneels and sobs at a woman’s funeral. Dong-kyung calls him out for pretending not to have emotions, but he denies that was him. The goddess watches, amused.

At home, a worried Myeol-mang encourages Dong-kyung to stay home from now on. She can wish for money so she doesn’t have to work anymore. Dong-kyung thinks that’s a waste of her wish. Myeol-mang chides her for being trusting and cautions her not to show her bracelet to just anyone, calling it her “weakness.” Now Dong-kyung is the one questioning if he’s fallen for her.

Myeol-mang just gives her a look and says he’s clearly warned her, so it’s not his problem if something happens. He continues to deny it was him crying in that memory, but Dong-kyung smugly observes that his huffiness is a sign of emotion, too.

Laying on his couch with his eyes closed, Myeol-mang offers his hand when Dong-kyung points out it’s almost midnight. Myeol-mang doesn’t respond while Dong-kyung rambles, so she assumes he’s sleeping and leans in close to stare at his face.

Myeol-mang startles her by opening his eyes and saying he never sleeps, even when she’s sleeping and vulnerable. Dong-kyung hops back over to her side of their joined house where she asks who he lost that day. It was his mother, or at least the equivalent.

The next day, the goddess pops up in the backseat of Myeol-mang’s car, smug about the fact that he cried at her funeral. He changes the topic and says to leave Dong-kyung be – she’s dying anyway. The goddess observes that they seem close; she’s the first human to remember him. But then, how could she not when he was crying so pitifully? Heh.

The goddess gets a good report from the doctor but to herself calls it a lie. She talks to her potted plant (or seeds) and smiles as she says they should bloom soon.

Dong-kyung arrives at work and is told the CEO is back, although he seems a little different. She looks over, and Myeol-mang gives a little wave. Dong-kyung marches into “his” office and asks if this is payback for making fun of him about the crying.

Myeol-mang, as usual, is highly amused by flustering her and just smiles infuriatingly. Joo-ik interrupts awkwardly and agrees to go see Ji-na in Dong-kyung’s place since she’s busy glaring at Myeol-mang.

While Ji-na waits at a café, she learns that Hyun-kyu is back from Japan and running a (different) café. Ji-na catches Joo-ik reading her work and overhears him say it’s boring. When she sees him, we cut to a scene of them kissing in the rain, which I’m guessing is her imagination rather than memory.

Joo-ik is brutally honest about Ji-na’s work and criticizes her habit of making her male leads run after a woman confesses. He cuts to the heart of it and guesses her pen name is inspired by Hyun-kyu who serves as the model for those male leads.

Meanwhile, Dong-kyung camps out in the CEO’s office and makes Myeol-mang help her by flipping pages while she types a manuscript. They bicker back and forth, both too stubborn to give in. Dong-kyung laments that for all the things he claims he can’t do – eat, sleep, cry, type – he can speak.

They’re back to the crying thing with Myeol-mang insisting memories can be false. Dong-kyung finds it fascinating that she had completely forgotten but remembered after that girl from the bus stop bumped into her.

Myeol-mang storms over to the hospital to confront the goddess. He demands to know if this was her plan. “I just made her forget what happened. You’re the one who got close to her,” she responds. The goddess supposes he understands sympathy now, that he smiles often and pities Dong-kyung. It’ll only get worse.

“Can you just let her die?” The goddess challenges that he could change Dong-kyung’s fate. Myeol-mang scoffs at the idea of him pitying Dong-kyung, and the goddess fires back that he always finds himself the most pitiable.

“Do you know what sympathy is?” Myeol-mang retorts. The goddess says she’ll be the one to find someone to die in Dong-kyung’s place when Myeol-mang breaks the contract.

When Dong-kyung returns home, she finds Myeol-mang on her rooftop. She nags him for stirring up trouble and taking off but stops when she notices Myeol-mang is unusually quiet and serious. He says that he remembers her from that day too, the little girl who smiled while everyone else cried.

He’s not sure when this was all planned or how, but it doesn’t matter. “I don’t plan on making you smile.” Dong-kyung tries to lighten the strange, tense atmosphere and apologizes if he got offended when she made fun of him crying.

It’s almost midnight, but Myeol-mang says he won’t hold her hand tonight – he’s been too uselessly kind to her. Dong-kyung is hit with a massive headache before she can even respond. She drops to the ground, gasping in pain, and begs for his hand.

When Myeol-mang asks if it’s her wish, Dong-kyung glares at him wordlessly. He finally relents and touches her hand, reminding her that he warned her not to trust so easily and that her bracelet could become her weakness.

Myeol-mang explains that he’s not human and decided long ago not to indulge in emotions like sympathy or love. Dong-kyung stares daggers at him and calls him pitiful. Myeol-mang retorts she’s the pitiful one. “You’ll end up crying because of me. You will want to bring doom upon the world since that’s the only way you can kill me.”

Dong-kyung asks if that’s his plan. She steps up on the railing and faces him. “Because this is mine.” She lets herself fall backwards off the roof. Myeol-mang grabs her arm and pulls her back, looking shaken.

Myeol-mang yells at her for acting crazy, but Dong-kyung was confident he’d hold onto her.

“You’ve been caught by me.” Even if he can’t feel things, she can.

“So I plan on loving you. Then, without losing anything, I can live.”

Myeol-mang stares at her and then pulls her close. “Then let’s do it properly,” he says,

“until you want to bring doom upon the world for my sake.” They stare at each other, determined.