The episode starts with Wol Ryung and Seo Hwa staring at each other. Wol Ryung’s voiceover: Who is she- that woman? How come it hurts me so much just to look at her? Right off the bat, they are making me cry, dang it!!! He has a memory of her, smiling, with love in her eyes, saying his name.
Seo Hwa stands and Wol Ryung’s eyes narrow. She says his name and his eyes go wide. Cut to some of Kwan Woong’s men running with bows drawn. Back to them. She asks if it is him, Wol Ryung. The four men draw closer. Wol Ryung asks who she is. Does she know him? She briefly closes her eyes and a tear rolls down her cheek. Wol Ryung doesn’t know what to make of that. His eyebrows slightly quiver.
As Seo Hwa weakly says Wol Ryung’s name again, the view of her is blocked by Kang Chi. Wol Ryung is uneasy with this, too, and clenches his jaw. Kang Chi tells him that he can’t do this anymore, killing people. Kang Chi says that he will stop Wol Ryung. The pain is evident in Kang Chi’s eyes as he says this to his father.
Quickly, Kang Chi speeds forward and grabs Wol Ryung by the throat and then slams him backward against a tree. Wol Ryung returns the favor. Seo Hwa just has to watch as her loved ones fight each other. This is one time where I don't mind the girl watching the boys fight. They're super-human. She is not. Kang Chi tells Wol Ryung to stop, that he knows Wol Ryung is suffering and that this is not Wol Ryung’s real appearance. Aw, I love Kang Chi. He tells Wol Ryung that he knows that he is the only one that can make Wol Ryung stop. A fight ensues.
Wol Ryung is lucky and pins Kang Chi. He goes to strike and Seo Hwa cries out, “No, Wol Ryung!” which makes him stop. Again she cries, “No. Don’t be like that.” The tears are running down her cheeks. Wol Ryung looks at her and she tells him, “He’s your child. He’s our son! Don’t be like that.”
There’s a long pause where Wol Ryung does nothing. Kang Chi breaks free and they struggle some more. Now, both of them are grasping the other’s shoulder and Kang Chi won’t let go. Wol Ryung's resolve is weakening, although he doesn't know why. Kang Chi notices the soldiers, bows drawn, preparing to fire, and yells, “No!” Then he spins Wol Ryung around so that he can block the arrows from landing on their target.
Switch to Century House. Kwan Woong destroying a water-filled vase with his new musket. Pil Mok compliments him, saying that his skills are amazing. It is pretty amazing to be that accurate, etc., having never used a gun before. Kwan Woong declares that he used to be a military officer. Oh, not so impressive. Kwan Woong laughs, extremely pleased with himself and his gun.
Forest. The arrows landed in Kang Chi. He stands before his father, still trying to get him to stop, even as the pain is terrible. Wol Ryung visibly shaken. All he can do is look into his son’s eyes. Kang Chi mutters, “Darn it.” The soldiers redraw and Wol Ryung sees them. He snarls and goes and quickly dispatches them.
Kang Chi falls to his knees and Seo Hwa drops to hers, trying desperately to figure out what to do. She looks and Wol Ryung is gone. No! It seemed like Kang Chi was getting through to him. And he had to go and suck the life out of that guy. Man!
Back to Gon, Yeo Wool and Tae Seo. More ninjas have arrived. Tae Seo declares that there’s no end to this and proposes they escape. Gon nods. They break through their attackers and run. Shogun-shoulders orders the ninjas to stop pursuing them. I don't understand why he would do that.
Seo Hwa asks Kang Chi if he’s okay. He tells her not to worry. Just pull the arrows out of him, woman. He’ll heal. Yeo Wool, Tae Seo and Gon arrive and discover the arrows. Yeo Wool asks him how it happened. All he says is her name and she grabs him into a hug. But it’s not just to hug him, it’s to hold him still. She yells at Gon to do something quickly. Gon surveys the damage and tells Kang Chi to endure the pain for now. Holding onto Kang Chi, Yeo Wool nods for Gon to pull them out. Tae Seo is gripping Kang Chi as well. As they are pulled out, Kang Chi yells with pain, but Yeo Wool encourages him to stay strong.
All the arrows are out and Kang Chi just clutches Yeo Wool. She hugs him back. As Kang Chi sags, the blue lights come and heal him. Tae Seo tells his pledged brother (Gon) – Aw, they’re all one big happy family! – that he did well.
In the distance, Wol Ryung is watching and he’s trying to make sense of what he’s seeing: Yeo Wool hugging Kang Chi with his friends and mother standing by him. He keeps looking at Seo Hwa. He grips the tree he is disguised behind and grimaces. Seo Hwa can suddenly feel him there and scans the trees for him.
The group returns to the training camp, with Kang Chi tenderly walking his mother. Pyung Joon, Gong Dal and the other students are standing in formation to greet them. Bows are exchanged and Seo Hwa and Pyung Joon look at each other. He bows to her and she bows in return. She actually has a slight smile on her face. Kang Chi and Yeo Wool share a smile.
Forest. Ninja Soh has found his dead men. And they are definitely mummy dead. Yuck. It’s an immortal 1,000 year old demon. Arrows are going to kill it? Really?
Century House. Kwan Woong is angry. What is Ninja Soh saying? They lost Wol Ryung? Not that he has gumiho powers like super-speed or anything. I would be worried that he was coming for some payback since you did *just* try to kill him. Ninja Soh says he left 6 men to look for any trace of him and they will report in the minute they find any. Like that really worked well last time. 3 months, nothing. And I’m just laughing because I’m expecting Wol Ryung to finish off those men, too. After all, they’re all wearing the same uniforms. Kwan Woong slaps the table in frustration.
Pil Mok arrives, although now they’re calling him Jae Ryung. He reports that his men have lost the Head. Kwan Woong yells at Pil Mok for not taking care of it. Pil Mok reports that Choi Kang Chi and his friends intercepted and took her. Ninja Soh starts to chime in about the training camp, but Kwan Woong screams that it’s not the problem. There’s also Soon Shin. Does Ninja Soh still not understand what that means? Pil Mok sighs as Ninja Soh hangs his head. Just what you came back for – to get belittled. Then Kwan Woong curses his frustration. I mean, *really* curses. I was surprised.
Soon Shin and his lieutenant arrive at the training camp. The students, Yeo Wool, Tae Seo and Gon are assembled and bow as he arrives. He mentions Seo Hwa and Tae Seo reports that she’s in with Pyung Joon.
Pyung Joon’s Meeting Room. Soon Shin enters to find Kang Chi with his mother. She actually looks happy, but a little nervous, to see Soon Shin. Kang Chi introduces her as his mother. Aw. She introduces herself as the head of the Goongbon (Inner Circle), Ja Hong Myung. He’s there because she has something to tell him. She tells Kang Chi to step out for a bit. He looks at her with a puzzled face and she says please, so he looks to Soon Shin. Soon Shin nods he should. Kang Chi leaves. Soon Shin asks Seo Hwa to sit.
Outside the office building, Yeo Wool, Tae Seo and Gon are waiting for the word. Tae Seo asks if they’ve finished talking. Yeo Wool asks where Seo Hwa is. Kang Chi tells them that it seems like Seo Hwa had something important to tell Soon Shin. Since she introduced herself that way, is she still plotting against her countrymen? Even though she was betrayed? Is she still loyal to them? They all sigh and then Yeo Wool’s stomach growls loudly. Everyone looks at her surprised, especially Gon. She’s petrified. Gon looks horrified. They let her squirm there for a minute and finally she declares that it wasn’t her. I guess they thought she cut the cheese rather than it just be her stomach. No wonder Gon was horrified. Although, wouldn’t he have heard a lot of those from her over the years? Kang Chi gently asks, “If it wasn’t her…” Yeo Wool says it was her stomach and then clutches it in embarrassment. The three men start to stifled their laughter and Yeo Wool uneasily chuckles.
Kitchen. Boiled chicken. Gong Dal’s cackling happily as he pulls off the lid and the four of them are excited about eating it. Well, Gon’s ‘gon’-excited. He’s got a wide teethless grin. Kang Chi pulls off a leg and gives it to the hungriest person in the group: Yeo Wool. She shoves it at him, saying he should take it because he bled a lot. And then she adds to the plate. I think Gon has started finding watching them amusing because he’s got a face on that says he’s waiting for what’s going to happen next. Tae Seo, on the other hand, is annoyed because his fiancée is fawning over his brother. Even though he knows that he’s just the fiancé because dad was being stupid.
Kang Chi and Yeo Wool start shoving the bowl back and forth, telling the other that they should eat it. Finally Tae Seo has had enough and grabs the bowl, declaring if they’re not going to eat it, he will, and he digs in. Gon smiles a ‘ha!’ face at them. Kang Chi mutters about the chicken leg and Gon reaches in an takes the other one, just to stick it to him a little more. Gong Dal is in the background enjoying the show. Yeo Wool goes for the wing and Kang Chi tells her a woman shouldn’t be eating the wings. He tells her to eat something else. She starts arguing with him over that, telling him to eat *the red ginseng.* Tae Seo and Gon start laughing outright at the two of them. They are oblivious, fighting over the chicken wing. Gong Dal says to himself that it’s good to be young.
Seo Hwa tells Soon Shin that Toyotomi Hideyoshi will start a war for sure. Whoever that is. But Soon Shin’s worried about how far the influence of the Inner Circle reaches into Korea. Seo Hwa says that for the last 20 years, Jo Kwan Woong has been funded by the Goongbon to expand his political influence. How did she ever not have a problem with that? What he did to her family, he did to others? How did she not kill him off? I will never understand that one. A total of 11 members of the court are on Goongbon’s payroll. Seo Hwa’s going to give Soon Shin the names. She does have a request, though. And her annoying diction is back.
Tae Seo finds Kang Chi outside, looking at the puzzle Soo Ryun gave him. Tae Seo’s planning on going back to Century House and Kang Chi’s worried about it being dangerous. Tae Seo feels it’s necessary as long as the merchants of the Goongbon are there. Kang Chi tells him to send Ma Reum if there’s trouble and he’ll come running. Tae Seo smiles at his brother.
Then Tae Seo asks about Kang Chi’s puzzle. Kang Chi explains and asks Tae Seo if he has any ideas. Tae Seo surveys it for a second and then tells him that in order to turn the wood into a house, he has to start cutting from the bottom. Kang Chi is still clueless – and so am I – so Tae Seo draws his sword and slices the paper. What does Kang Chi see? The character for root (bon). He asks if this is another riddle about the essence again. Tae Seo says that without knowing his true essence, a man cannot truly know himself. Once Kang Chi finds out what his essence is, He’ll also appreciate who he is for real. That’s a lesson for all of us. So true. And yay, Tae Seo is not just skulking in the background today. Those pillars. Kang Chi has all four of them helping him. But why would Soo Ryun give him such a strange task? What motivated her to do it?
Kang Chi is setting up his mother’s bed, making it nice for her. He tells her to rest and not to sit but to lie down and sleep comfortably. Aw. That’s super sweet and a way of telling her again that’s she’s forgiven. She smiles, feeling the love, and asks about his wounds. He tells her that thanks to being part gumiho, he heals rather quickly. She gently takes his hand again and caresses it and says that even though his so-called mother did not have a good life, he grew up well. She’s very proud of him and she’s grateful. And all three of us are blurry-eyed. Kang Chi says that it’s a relief (that she’s proud of what she sees) and that he got a compliment from her. She smiles.
After a moment, Seo Hwa says that she went to find him. As soon as she woke up, she went back to get Kang Chi, but she couldn’t find the path back to the Garden of the Moon. She tried for over a month, but couldn’t get back to him. She tells him that she didn’t mean to abandon him and that not a single day since then did her heart forget him. He calls her mother and caresses her hands and they stand and smile at each other, with tears in their eyes. And I’m telling them to HUG. Why aren’t they hugging? Yeo Wool has heard the entire conversation through the door and thinks to herself: so having a mother is a good thing.
Yeo Wool sits up on the hill above the camp. Gon is next to her. She muses that the relationship between parent and child is really strange. You’re telling me! No one hurt the feelings of a parent more than a child and vice versa. Gon asks if Pyung Joon has ever hurt her feelings. She says that whenever he’s mean to Kang Chi it hurts her, especially when Kang Chi’s singled out. Gon says that he can understand Pyung Joon’s feelings, since he’s heard that them staying together might get one of them killed. It’s not surprise that Pyung Joon is scared. And Gon’s saying he’s scared for them too. Yeo Wool says that she’s not afraid of a future that hasn’t happened yet. After all, isn’t future just the moments right how, later? If she changes because of the future, what’s the point of living in the present. He smiles at her. She stretches and asks him to spar with her. He smiles and laughs at her and I think he’s finally getting to the point where he’s okay that she’s with Kang Chi.
The lieutenant bursts in on Soon Shin at his desk. An urgent message has come: all the villagers of the town of Goonjung have been killed. Another man enters and declares that all the people of Hakbongri and Youngdaeri have all been killed.
We switch to a village where a man is pleading for his life. No! It’s Wol Ryung doing it! I was so hoping it was Kwan Woong. Wol Ryung is surrounded by tons of dead. But the deaths aren’t satisfying what’s driving him.
Ninja Soh is reporting to Kwan Woong that Wol Ryung is killing anyone he sees as he makes a path toward Century House. It’s faster than Kwan Woong expected. And yet he’s still sitting there instead of leaving. You know he’s coming for you, dude.
Soon Shin says that it will only be a matter of hours before Wol Ryung makes it to Century House. He sends word to the magistrate to evacuate everyone around Century House to the naval base. He adds that the lieutenant is to take 10 skilled men to help the local authorities contain Wol Ryung. Soon Shin sends the other soldier to get Kang Chi.
Wol Ryung thinks, “Someone, stop me.” No matter how many he kills, his thirst won’t be quenched. "Please! Someone please stop him!" He begins screaming in frustration and torment.
Seo Hwa gently strokes Kang Chi’s head as he sleeps; his head is in her lap. She is happy. But sad as she thinks of Wol Ryung. She takes the hawthorn dagger out of the folds of her dress and looks at it. How it hasn't poked either one of them, I don't know.
Yeo Wool and Gon have worked up quite a sweat, sparring. She scolds him for going easy on her. He says that if he doesn’t, she’ll lose and she hates losing. She tells him that fake wins are worse. He worries that she’ll get hurt. She laughs. Is he looking down on her? Besides, they have Kang Chi’s healing blood to help out. He quickly defeats her, telling her that she just received a wound that pierced her ribs. A few more moments of fighting and she just got stabbed in the back with his sword. She goes to swing again but his sword (practice, of course) reaches her throat. She groans that it would have been a clean hit if she’s just been a little faster.
Gon suddenly gets really uncomfortable. He lets go of Yeo Wool’s sword and steps backward, clearing his throat. He doesn’t make eye contact as he tells her that she’s just out of shape because of being under house arrest. She says she’ll have to start doubling her training tomorrow. So I guess she’s not grounded anymore. Yeo Wool notices Seo Hwa watching them; there’s a smile on Seo Hwa’s lips.
The soldier arrives with Soon Shin’s message. Pyung Joon reads it, with Seo Hwa there. She nods.
Yeo Wool enter’s Kang Chi’s room. He’s asleep. She sits beside him and gently stroke his hair. Voiceover, Seo Hwa: She asks Yeo Wool to take care of her son.
Flashback to their conversation moments ago. Seo Hwa tells Yeo Wool to take care of Kang Chi and to treasure him. Yeo Wool asks why she’s suddenly saying these things. Seo Hwa declares that she’s going to stop him. She can’t burden Kang Chi with this. Yeo Wool argues against it since Wol Ryung has lost all of his memories and Kang Chi is so happy to have her back. Seo Hwa says that seeing Yeo Wool with Kang Chi helped her to realize that Yeo Wool makes him more happy that she does. Even if she’d always had him, she’d still have to let him go. He's become a great man and met a beautiful woman. It’s everything Seo Hwa could wish for. Yeo Wool begins to protest again but Seo Hwa takes her hand and tells her to protect the love (between her and Kang Chi) that Seo Hwa wasn’t able to (between Seo Hwa and Wol Ryung). You don’t need to worry about that one. She’s got that covered over and over.
Kang Chi’s Room. Yeo Wool sighs and says his name to wake him. He’s half awake as he realizes that she’s there and asks what’s happened. He notices Seo Hwa is gone and asks if she went somewhere. Yeo Wool tells him that she went down to the village… to stop Wol Ryung. Seo Hwa wanted Yeo Wool to keep it from him, but she didn’t think she should. Because you are a good woman and this is why your love is successful and not a repeat of Kang Chi’s parents. Kang Chi is understandably freaked.
Evacuation of the villagers. It’s pandemonium.
Century House. The magistrate is urging Kwan Woong to leave. Kwan Woong arrogantly says, “Did you think I was the kind of person to run from a demon?” The magistrate starts to sputter and Kwan Woong adds: “He may be an immortal, but even that wouldn't keep him alive without a head.” Seriously? Seriously? There’s no way you’d be able to cut off his head. No way. No way. Kwan Woong walking with his musket. Really? You’re not going to be able to hit him. The arrogance.
Pil Mok and Kageshima are watching the hubbub and Pil Mok says that events might work in their favor. Because of the 10 men that the naval base sent, it’s “practically empty.” Ten men? A garrison is way more than that, dude. Wow. Kageshima understands and says he’ll have their maps back tonight. Tae Seo’s got his mask on and is ready to follow. One of the ninjas senses him and Tae Seo is caught. Pil Mok smiles as his man has a sword to Tae Seo’s neck.
Kang Chi’s off to stop his mother from doing something stupid. Yeo Wool’s one step behind him. Gon asks him where he’s going. Kang Chi demands to know what they’re hiding. Gon doesn’t want to say but Kang Chi protests that it’s his mother. Gon looks over at Yeo Wool for a moment, sighs and tells him that Wol Ryung is on a rampage. He's killed village after village. Seo Hwa’s gone down to the village to stop him. Yeo Wool says that he’s heading toward Century House, making this all the more urgent because it’s not just his mother but everyone else he cares about.
Kang Chi’s going to go, but Yeo Wool grabs his wrist and tells him to wait so she can go get her sword. As she goes to leave, he grabs her arm and they look at each other. She repeats her request that he wait a moment and runs off. Kang Chi watches her leave and turns to Gon, telling him to take care of her. Gon nods grimly, knowing what this means for both of them. I don’t think he actually expected Kang Chi to do that.
Yeo Wool’s Room. She’s got her bow and her sword. Teacher Yojoo is asking what she’s doing. I was wondering if she was still going to be around, since there’s no more house arrest and Yeo Wool having to act like a woman. That sounds weird… rephrase: acts like a woman who’s not a soldier. Yeo Wool tells her an emergency came up but doesn’t specify, other than it’s to protect someone. Yeo Wool opens her doors and Gon is in the doorway, looking grim. He clenches his jaw as he looks at her. She tries to pass by and he steps in her path. She tells him to step aside and he tells her that he received a request from Kang Chi to deliver this message: “I’ll be back.” The meaningful music plays as Gon says that Kang Chi is the Terminator. No, he says that Kang Chi is true to his word, so, this one time, listen to him and wait there. It’s not a fight for mortals.
Yeo Wool protests that he can’t do it alone. Kang Chi might lose control. She needs to be there by his side. Gon tells her that Kang Chi can do it with his own strength. Kang Chi can now control his transformation without the bracelet or her being around. Gon says that Kang Chi may be stronger than they thought or he even knows.
Outside the training camp, Kang Chi takes off his bracelet and does one of those flying leaps that Wol Ryung did at the beginning of the series. Pretty awesome. Kang Chi is determined.
The Village. Kwan Woong and Ninja Soh are standing with the magistrate and the soldiers as they wait for Wol Ryung to arrive. Black mist precedes Wol Ryung, like the kind that came to him in So Jung’s library. The soldiers are visibly shaken. Wol Ryung slowly walks forward. Wind swirls around him. He looks hungry. He locks eyes with Kwan Woong and if they could, his veins would be popping out. He hates Kwan Woong. Maybe killing him will satisfy your hunger. After all he’s got a lot of blood on his hands.
Soon Shin’s lieutenant yells at the men to keep their wits and draws his sword with determination. I don’t know why Wol Ryung is waiting to attack them. Ninja Soh passes Kwan Woong the musket. Kwan Woong steps to the front, with Ninja Soh right behind him, ready to light the musket powder. Before the action really starts, I just have to say I have a bad feeling of how things are going to end up. Seo Hwa’s going to be able to get Wol Ryung to stop, and he’ll stop being a demon, but Kwan Woong’s going to kill them for his revenge. I can just see it coming. A tearful reunion and bam!
Wol Ryung’s started growling. Not a good sign. Flashing back and forth as Kwan Woong and Wol Ryung stare at each other. Kwan Woong draws. Wol Ryung smiles slightly and starts forward. Ninja Soh lights the fuse. And Seo Hwa steps in the way. Man! I wanted Wol Ryung to smack Kwan Woong at least. Wol Ryung stops and stares at her. Kwan Woong lowers the musket; he wants to see what’s going to happen.
Wol Ryung’s face doesn’t look so hard now, but he doesn’t know what to do with Seo Hwa standing before him. Her face is calm, almost pleading for the man she loves to come back. She says that it’s enough. He needs to stop. Please. She says his name twice. He rushes forward and grabs her by the throat. The black mist swirls around them. There are tears in her eyes. They fall and she whispers his name. That shocks him. The tears fall on his hand.
Kwan Woong’s drawn again. Wol Ryung’s eyes grow wide with understanding. As Kwan Woong starts to fire, Wol Ryung hears it and dives to shield Seo Hwa with his body.
Kang Chi arrives at the village and stops, Soon Shin in his path. There’s a gentle look on Soon Shin’s face.
Wol Ryung and Seo Hwa’s theme plays. There’s blood. Lots of blood coming from Wol Ryung’s back. He groans. It’s coming from his front too. She starts to cry and cry his name as she tries to stop the bleeding. The red eyes go and so does the demon. He starts to cry as he remembers her. He says her name and that he missed her so much. They embrace and cry and I am bawling hard. She thinks, “Let’s go back to where we used to be in the Garden of the Moon.” A strong wind starts to blow, so much that everyone has to hide their faces. When it stops, Seo Hwa and Wol Ryung are gone. Take this as a sign of things to come, Kwan Woong.
Kang Chi tells Soon Shin that he can’t let his mother go like this. Soon Shin tells him he must. He tells Kang Chi that she’s doing this for him.
Flashback to Seo Hwa’s meeting with Soon Shin and Pyung Joon. Her request. She goes and kneels before Soon Shin. Her request: that Kang Chi may live the life he wants. She asks for Soon Shin to give him guidance and care. She says, crying, that she doesn’t want her son to watch her go down the last path of her life. She’s begging them.
Present. Kang Chi is crying, shaking his head, He finally got to meet her. He can finally look at his mother’s face. I’m crying again as he says: “I can pour my heart out and call her, ‘Mother.’ ” Kang Chi begs Soon Shin to let him stop her. Although, all that’s stopping him are Soon Shin’s words and his respect for Soon Shin. Soon Shin asks him not to let his mother’s wishes be in vain. Understand the heart of a parent wanting to protect her child. Kang Chi falls to the ground and beats his chest as he cries. Soon Shin kneels and tenderly takes Kang Chi’s hand, rubs his cheek and then holds him as Kang Chi sobs, patting Kang Chi’s back. And Soon Shin cries, too, which makes me cry more.
The next day at Century House, Kwan Woong thinks of his last meeting with Seo Hwa, where he gloated about her failure and offered to forget everything and accept her, if she came to him. This man, seriously. He does not understand how absolutely slimy he is. Dude, you murdered her father and brother and you’re a rapist. Why would she want to let you touch her? Your breath disgusts her, don’t you remember? She replied that this exactly would be his punishment. He’ll get the money, power, but he won’t ever be satisfied. He’ll just be more hungry, desperate. And he’ll never get what he really wants. Kwan Woong thinks and glowers and screams her name.
Garden of the Moon. Seo Hwa wakes. There are candles and lanterns lit. It’s the home she remembers. She goes outside the cave and remembers the blue lights. A voice behind her asks if she just woke up. Wol Ryung. He’s behind her. And he’s back, really back. And I am bawling. He looks so happy. He found a change of clothes. But then the vision is gone and it’s just him dressed in black. She asks if he’s all right. He says that in the end, he could only remember her name, her face. He tells her to go back to the humans when morning comes, because he doesn’t know how long this memory will last. He starts to walk away.
Seo Hwa calls after him, “I’m sorry, Wol Ryung!” Which makes him stop. She says that back then, she was too young. Her heart was not big enough to bear his love for her. She begs his forgiveness for hurting him and causing him pain. She takes out the hawthorn dagger. Somehow he senses it and turns to looks at her. She says that she always kept it as something important. Someday, if she met him, she kept it in case it could help him return to what he was, if that was possible. She says that she’ll put everything back to the way it was. He asks her what she’s saying. And I have a feeling I know what’s coming. And I am crying. In his life of eternity, she may only be a passing wind, but she wants him to remember her. She tells him he was her everything. And before he can stop her, she stabs herself in the heart.
Wol Ryung runs forward, catching her and cradling Seo Hwa in his arms, calling her name. She doesn’t say anything, just looks at him. And she become the Seo Hwa he knew. He begs her to let go of the dagger, so he can pull it out. But she won’t. Labored, she tells him she loves him, that she’s sorry and this is all her love can do. She reaches up and cradles his face in her hand. His hand cradles hers. She smiles at him and as he starts to cry, she dies. He cradles her, crying , ‘No!’ The blue lights come as he weeps. All the memories of her come flooding back – him saving her, the butterflies, their marriage, their love – and Wol Ryung’s finally back. As he cries, “No, Seo Hwa!” he thinks: “I didn’t hate you. I just missed you so much. I wasn’t blaming you. I just loved you so much. I love you, Seo Hwa!”
As he weeps, rain begins to fall. So Jung is in his library and notices.
Gisaeng House. Oh Mom presents Soo Ryun with a piece of paper. Chung Jo is there, too. Oh Mom says that Kang Chi just left it, the answer to her challenge. One word: Mother. Kang Chi’s voiceover: “When I fell the tree, I saw the character for root, bon. The house that is the root for me is the one who gave birth to me. My mother.” Soo Ryun notes that it’s raining and Chung Jo says that the monsoons must be starting. They watch the rain.
Rain falls on the training camp. Kang Chi slowly returns home. He is soaked. Yeo Wool sitting outside, at the base of the steps, under an umbrella, waiting for him. Kang Chi just sits and looks at her, since she hasn’t seen him yet. Finally she sees him, but they don’t speak. She eventually says his name, he says hers and she notices that the bracelet is missing. She remembers what Gon said. Then we hear Pyung Joon say, “Now you should stop and let him go, Yeo Wool.” He thinks that for Kang Chi to find the Book of Nine, he has to go and he won’t unless Yeo Wool makes it possible for him to leave. I’m sighing because I’m thinking he’s telling her to break up with him so that he’ll go, making them both miserable. And it’s her love, their love, that makes Kang Chi’s control possible. Why doesn’t Pyung Joon have a wife to explain these things? And why do they keep following the old people’s advice, when it’s so wrong for their relationship? Life?
Yeo Wool walks over to him and covers him with the umbrella. She says that he’s back. He grunts his yes. She asks about his mother and he can’t say it. He hugs her. And even though he’s wet, the water on his face is tears. He says that she left. All he can do is cry and say “My Mother left.” She pats his back to comfort him, saying, “I see.” He whispers her name and hugs her tighter. Yeo Wool starts to cry as she thinks of her father telling her to let him go.
Thoughts
I feel drained. A lot of crying this episode. Wol Ryung is back, which makes me very happy. But I am very sad, because in order for him to be saved, he had to lose his love, Seo Hwa. But at least, as far as Kwan Woong knows, Seo Hwa and Wol Ryung are somewhere happy. Which will make him absolutely miserable.
So much of this episode was happy – Kang Chi spending special time with his mom. Fighting over chicken. Bro time. And then rampaging Wol Ryung which ended up with Kang Chi weeping bitterly because his mother is gone. He hasn’t had any dad moments, yet, so he doesn’t feel that love, but I hope he gets that next episode.
I am not happy that they are telling Yeo Wool to let Kang Chi go. She’s the whole reason he wants to find the book, so he can grow old with her. Pyung Joon. You are constantly stupid!
And Tae Seo is in danger. He can’t die, though!!!
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