Maestra: Strings of Reality: Episodes 9-10
by mistyisles
Our heroine’s worst fears seem like coming true finally, and she or he takes a step away from all the pieces to ponder the right way to transfer ahead. Or, a minimum of, that’s what she tries to do — however sure different individuals have their very own concepts about what’s finest for her and demand on getting in her manner, even after she expressly tells them to get misplaced.
EPISODES 9-10
Following Se-eum’s collapse onstage, she’s rushed to the hospital. For now, docs discover nothing severe unsuitable together with her, so the subsequent day she insists on going residence to her father’s home (Jung-jae, in fact, insists on driving her there, and he sits out within the automobile watching till her mild turns off that night time). In the meantime, detectives query Pil about Se-eum’s whereabouts on the night time of Bong-ju’s loss of life. Nonetheless taking part in the a part of involved husband, he earnestly confirms that she was drunk and appearing unusually that night time.
The following day, Se-eum resigns from the orchestra and goes off-grid to course of issues alone. She will now not deny that she’s experiencing the identical early signs her mom did, and she or he stands by a lake for hours, pondering again to when she’d heard about her mom’s analysis and tried to drown herself.
Pil, Jung-jae, and Ru-na all panic after they can’t contact her. Each Pil and Jung-jae attempt to acquire entry to her (now vacated) lodge suite, and when Jung-jae succeeds due to his connections, Pil remarks bitterly that cash grants entry that Se-eum’s personal husband isn’t afforded. I hate agreeing with something Pil says, however he’s acquired some extent right here — even the story itself permits Jung-jae to drive his manner into Se-eum’s life, regardless of what number of occasions she tells him to depart her alone.
Living proof: Jung-jae tracks Se-eum down and tells her to not ask him to depart as a result of he’ll refuse. They spend the day collectively going for walks and cable automobile rides, till Jung-jae finds her discarded makes an attempt at a suicide notice within the trash and realizes she solely went alongside together with his options as a way of claiming goodbye. He angrily confronts her and calls her egocentric (as a result of she’s ignoring how arduous he’s making an attempt), and Se-eum’s robust entrance cracks. She needs to stay, however she will be able to’t bear to place her father or anybody else by way of watching Remington’s do to her what it did to her mom. Jung-jae guarantees to verify she will get to do no matter she needs — so long as she does it with him.
Se-eum doesn’t give him a solution immediately. She meets with Pil and their respective legal professionals to rearrange a settlement for his or her divorce. She’s blissful to let Pil have no matter he needs so long as it speeds the proceedings alongside. Pil, nevertheless, solely needs the wedding to stay intact. However when he tries to threaten her with hints about Remington’s and her being a homicide suspect, she shuts him down. Any further, he’s solely to talk to her lawyer.
Ru-na, in the meantime, feels deserted by Se-eum, which in flip reminds her of how her personal mom deserted her when she was younger. Her confidant is Se-eum’s private assistant, KIM TAE-HO (Minkyu) — the 2 have been inching in the direction of a possible romance for some time now, and after he assures her she’s performed nothing to deserve being repeatedly deserted, they spend the night time collectively. There’s only one drawback: Tae-ho is Jung-jae’s cousin, and he’s been spying on Se-eum and reporting her each transfer. Having beforehand overheard Tae-ho speaking to Jung-jae on the cellphone, Ru-na now confirms her suspicions by slipping away from bed whereas Tae-ho sleeps and snooping by way of his cellphone.
As quickly as Tae-ho lets slip that Se-eum is 1) again and a couple of) planning to depart once more with Jung-jae, Ru-na rushes over to beg Se-eum to remain. Thus, she’s there when Se-eum will get the information that her signs may not be Remington’s in any respect — she’s been poisoned. Ru-na produces screenshots of Tae-ho informing Jung-jae he left snacks in Se-eum’s workplace, successfully breaking the tentative belief Se-eum had been extending to Jung-jae over the previous few days.
Jung-jae appears genuinely confused when Se-eum confronts him, and to be honest, loads of individuals have given her varied meals or drinks just lately. So she tosses the contents of her fridge and formally strikes again to Dad’s place in the intervening time. She additionally returns to the orchestra — after Ru-na organizes the opposite musicians to influence her simply as she persuaded them — however just for one final live performance.
A number of issues occur throughout this time. Pil tries to use for guardianship of Se-eum so he can imprison admit her to the hospital. Ah-jin admits to the orchestra that she’s pregnant, and Pil threatens to sue for custody if she gained’t quietly depart city. She vows to guard her unborn baby by any means vital. Se-eum breaks the information concerning the divorce, with such impeccable timing that it undercuts Pil’s “loving husband” act throughout an interview. And, lastly, Se-eum discovers that she wasn’t poisoned by way of meals or drinks, however by way of her fragrance… which Pil gave her, earlier than she caught him dishonest.
The detectives which have been investigating Se-eum change their tune as soon as they be taught concerning the poison. The blood on the homicide weapon doesn’t match hers (although it does match Ah-jin’s blood sort), so now they need Se-eum’s assist uncovering the reality behind all these incidents. Se-eum tells them she suspects her husband poisoned her, which Jung-jae overhears (as a result of he’s eavesdropping, as a result of he nonetheless refuses to take depart me alone for a solution). Not lengthy after, somebody waylays Pil after darkish and sticks a needle in his neck.
Is it unhealthy that I nearly wished Jung-jae had been the one who poisoned Se-eum, simply so it might be clear he’s not being painted as sympathetic and misunderstood? Many (not all) of the issues he mentioned to her when she ran away could be candy if that they had come from her finest good friend or her father — however not from an ex who retains making an attempt to strain her into taking him again and letting him make choices for her.
Which is why I appreciated that Se-eum made it clear that the problem wasn’t simply that she briefly thought Jung-jae had tried to kill her, but in addition that he assigned Tae-ho to spy on her. Even when he claims to be abiding by her needs, he nonetheless watches her home, eavesdrops on her personal conversations, and goes behind her again to assemble private details about her with out consent (one thing he and Pil have in frequent, however solely Pil is condemned for it). Whereas I query Ru-na’s motives for advising Se-eum to not go to the police concerning the poison, I can’t argue together with her reasoning that if Jung-jae have been accountable, he’d simply evade punishment.
However, Jung-jae apart, my greatest hope for this complete poisoning companies is that it’ll imply Se-eum hasn’t inherited Remington’s in any case. And that she will be able to begin over post-divorce, within the firm of people that truly care about her and never simply what she will be able to do for them, and eventually free from anybody’s makes an attempt to manage her life.
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