Episode-15 (Part-2)

“I just need someone to blame”

Cho-Hoi comes to visit Hwa-Jeong’s restaurant asking for her porridge after getting her wisdom tooth pulled out. Later, Cho-Hui gathers her courage to finally bring closure to her feelings towards Hwa-Jeong. She slowly confesses that Yeong-Guk is not the person that she has been feeling for all this time. It turns out, Hwa-Jeong already knew all along. Cho-Hui is bewildered. Hwa-Jeong explains that she can feel her feelings and understand how hard it is to hide one’s feelings towards someone.

“I liked you back then and I still like you even now,” says Hwa-Jeong. Cho-Hui bursts into tears. It’s admirable how Hwa-Jeong respects her feelings and chooses to accept her for who she is. Cho-Hui reassures that she already let go of her feelings a long time ago and all she wants is Hwa-Jeong and Yeong-Guk to be happy. The two smile at each other. Meanwhile, there are still some nails to pull out.

The first one is Do-Ha. Sung-Hyun notices Do-Ha still persuades Do-Ha to pulls the nail and confront Du-Sik before it’ll hurt him more in the future and he did. Du-Sik finally brings himself out from his nest. He is surprised to see Do-Ha is sitting in his yard staring blankly into the view. Do-Ha starts to reminisce about the aftermath of his father’s cases. Du-Sik comes to visit Gi-Hoon at the hospital and meets with Do-Ha’s mother instead. He gives up everything to pay for his guilt. Do-Ha’s mother resents Du-Sik but takes after his money because he adamantly asks her to accept it. That’s the only thing he can do for him.

Do-Ha asks him the reason why he gives Do-Ha’s mother a large amount of money, “Do you think money solves everything?” He asks. Du-Sik recalls how the last conversation that he had with Gi-Hoon is that he wishes to buy Do-Ha a nice suit for a job interview. Do-Ha breaks down in tears and starts to loathe himself. Du-Sik reassures him that his father is always proud and boosts him wherever he can. “It’s not your fault. I know it’s not. I just need someone to blame,” Do-Ha cries in vain, blaming himself for everything that happened to his father. Du-Sik reassures him that it’s not his fault.

“You must forgive yourself, too”

Hye-Jin and Du-Sik plan to visit Jeong-Woo’s grave. He finally finds the courage to wear the suit that Jeong-Woo buys for him on his first day of being an intern. On their way to the car, they encounter Seon-Ah and her son, Ha-Rang. Du-Sik is bewildered. Seon-Ah gently tells Ha-Rang about Du-Sik and refers to him as an uncle. Ha-Rang runs toward Du-Sik and greets him. Du-Sik approaches him in the most fragile and longing eyes. His tears start to fall after listening to Ha-Rang smartly name his favorite dinosaur species.

Later, the two wounded souls sit by the beach while Hye-Jin accompanies Ha-Rang to play the sand. They both fondly talk about how Ha-Rang resembles Jeong-Woo a lot and how small the world is after knowing that Sung-Hyun is her brother. Seon-Ah opens up about how she won’t apologize for all the things she said back then. I know some of you might find her words harsh but it’s humane. The woman lost the love of her life, his husband, the father of her son forever. She explains how she loses the will to live after Jeong-Woo’s death but slowly regained her life once again because that’s how life goes for the remaining soul on earth, right? Time does not stop and we must continue to live. “I do not resent you anymore. So you must find it within your heart to forgive yourself,” she says.

Du-Sik can’t stop tears from falling and that’s when Jeong-Woo’s spirit comes to his side and reassures Du-Sik one last time that everything is not his fault. He reminds him that he needs to keep on living for the sake of himself and not for him. He’ll be waiting till the day they’ll encounter each other once again and go fishing together.

One simple message that saves Du-Sik

Hye-Jin and Du-Sik sit by the shore. There’s still one last story left to tell: The day when Du-Sik tried to kill himself after finding out that his beloved Hyung passed away. He ran away from the hospital and wandered around without realizing he is walking at the bridge of Han River. His step feels heavy and his soul is weary. His phone keeps on ringing but he ignores everything. He is on the verge, ready to jump until he slips his step and his phone knocks to the ground. Du-Sik picks up his phone and a message that contains a lot of typos filled with warmth appears. It’s from Gam-Ri. She misses him and wants to meet him to bring lots of delicious sidedish from Gongjin. After all the harsh realities and blame, that one simple message that contains genuine love is enough to save the wounded soul from falling.

We finally understand why Du-Sik decided to give up on being entitled to something especially jobs and only ask to be paid minimum wage. The way he keeps on getting himself busy to avoid his depression and the reason why he is so attached to Gongjin is because Gongjin saved him. Du-Sik says that his story ends there, marking the beginning of his inner peace. Hye-Jin later tells him that she’s been getting offers for a promotion job in Seoul.

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