“Serendipity’s Embrace” is working on the quick tempo it promised within the premiere week. Lee Hong Joo (Kim So Hyun) and Kang Hoo Younger (Chae Jong Hyeop) have turn into seemingly nearer. Regardless of Hoo Younger’s lack of ability to admit his 10-year-old crush to Hong Joo, she is already falling for him. However most significantly, 4 secrets and techniques have been unveiled in episodes three and 4, revealing beforehand unknown info about the principle leads and their relationships with one another.
Warning: Spoilers for “Serendipity’s Embrace” episodes 3-4 forward!
Hoo Younger’s unhealthy relationship together with his mom
Within the premiere episodes, not like many of the different brooding Okay-drama fundamental leads, Hoo Younger didn’t appear to be a man with a darkish previous. Nevertheless, new details about his relationship together with his mom has since been revealed, difficult viewers’ preliminary assumptions about him. Although he nonetheless doesn’t have an especially darkish previous, Hoo Younger’s relationship together with his mom doesn’t seem wholesome.
In one of many scenes in episodes three and 4, Hoo Younger’s uncle tells him how his mom is a perfectionist and the way he has all the time adopted that trait from her. At first look, this interplay doesn’t appear misplaced, as being a perfectionist will not be inherently evil. Nevertheless, later within the episode, Hoo Younger’s mom sends him a brief message asking him to return again dwelling. With none additional dialogue between them, Hoo Younger packs his bag and will get a taxi to the airport.
This small scene signifies that Hoo Younger’s mom doesn’t have to repeat herself; he follows her each order. It makes one surprise if the explanation he by no means confessed his crush to Hong Joo was due to his overbearing mom. Moreover, his mom might have been the explanation he reduce off all contact together with his highschool mates for nearly a decade.
Nevertheless, within the very subsequent scene, he cancels all his plans and rushes to Hong Joo, foreshadowing how the management Hoo Younger’s mom has over him is weakening and the way he’s turning into extra unbiased.
Bang Joon Ho’s secret
Ever since Bang Joon Ho (Yun Ji On) was talked about within the drama, the viewers knew he’s a strolling purple flag. Years in the past, when Joon Ho and Hong Joo have been relationship, he left her with none rationalization. There was no correct breakup, not even a textual content; he packed his baggage and left, leaving a heartbroken Hong Joo behind. Then he has the audacity to return again and act like there may be nothing improper? There would possibly by no means have been a personality simpler to hate than him… till we find out about Joon Ho’s story.
In a single scene, Joon Ho is watching an animated film. The credit roll, and he sees Hong Joo’s title, which brings a smile to his face. There’s a flashback that exhibits how they began relationship, and so they look in love. Lastly, the key is revealed: Joon Ho truly left due to his panic assaults. He couldn’t write anymore and thought that since Hong Joo fell in love with him due to his creativity, he couldn’t present her this facet of him.
It’s straightforward to discredit Joon Ho by saying communication is essential. Nevertheless, everybody’s manner of coping with melancholy and nervousness is completely different. Some individuals need help, whereas others cease interacting with everybody as a result of they really feel like a burden on others. So, Joon Ho’s refusal to speak with Hong Joo whereas going by way of a troublesome time doesn’t make him a villain, only a human.
Nevertheless, Joon Ho instantly loses everybody’s sympathy when he acts like he did nothing improper in entrance of Hong Joo and shouts at her for being absent from work regardless of her being in an accident. It doesn’t matter what he does sooner or later, proper now, he appears fairly unredeemable.
Hye Ji is the BEST finest buddy
Throughout the highschool flashback scenes, we see that Hong Joo’s finest buddy, Kim Hye Ji (Dasom), had a crush on Hoo Younger. Viewers have been anxious about the way forward for the perfect mates’ relationship after this revelation. Hong Joo seemingly doesn’t have any family members, and Hye Ji seems to be the one individual she will name household. Dropping that sort of friendship over a romantic relationship would have been unhappy.
Nevertheless, in episodes three and 4, Hye Ji wins the award for being the finest finest buddy when she doesn’t give Hoo Younger her blessing to pursue Hong Joo, but in addition actively creates conditions the place the couple must be in shut proximity, giving Hoo Younger alternatives to admit his emotions for Hong Joo.
Hoo Younger and Hong Joo’s particular connection
Irrespective of how nonchalant Hong Joo tries to appear in entrance of Hoo Younger, it’s evident that she is creating a crush on him. Nevertheless, after episodes three and 4, it looks like our fundamental leads all the time had a particular connection, or at the very least Hoo Younger was by no means simply “classmate #3” to Hong Joo as she tries to fake.
In a single scene, Joon Ho even says that Hong Joo obtained into her present firm as a result of she needed to adapt his guide “My Avant Garde Love.” That declare is confirmed after we see a newly graduated Hong Joo at a job interview along with her “My Avant Garde Love” animation concept proposal. Nevertheless, what appeared like a hyperlink between Joon Ho and Hong Joo seems to be a connection between her and Hoo Younger as an alternative.
She did get into her present firm with an animation proposal of Joon Ho’s guide, however she had by no means considered turning into an animation producer till Hoo Younger gave her his animation producer profession dream in alternate for 5 % of her month-to-month revenue. Although he has now given up on this 5 % fee, it seems to be like he will certainly be profitable her coronary heart as his reward quickly.
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Trying ahead to: “Squid Recreation Season 2,” “Love Subsequent Door,” and “Unhealthy Reminiscence Erasure”
