A Good Day to Be a Canine: Episode 10
by Unit
It’s a great day to journey again to Joseon! Our modern-day romance takes a backseat as we dive into the previous life story this week, and our brooding agent of gloom (a.okay.a. the tiger mountain spirit) lastly will get his place within the highlight.
EPISODE 10
We resume with Bo-gyeom holding a sword to Search engine marketing-won’s neck, and naturally, Search engine marketing-won is dazed as a result of WTF is happening right here? However go away it to Bo-gyeom to talk in parables as regular — “A chunk of iron that has as soon as tasted blood retains eager to style blood once more, so it frequently attracts blood” — and to slice off a leaf hanging from a close-by department for added impact.
Bo-gyeom retrieves his sword and tells Search engine marketing-won to depart. And I’m considering: why all of the theatrics? If he so badly desires to get revenge, why not simply kill Search engine marketing-won proper there and be executed with it? Why postpone the revenge solely to be aggravated with the vice principal — who cautions him that mountain spirits are supposed to observe over people, not punish them. Bo-gyeom insists that he has left the mountain, therefore, he’s not a mountain spirit. However he’s nonetheless utilizing his mountain spirit powers to trigger chaos. Tsk.
I’d have gone to the police immediately if somebody pointed a sword to my neck, however Search engine marketing-won merely recordsdata away the incident within the “Bo-gyeom hyung has been appearing unusual lately” folder. You suppose!? However that’s not the one unusual incident taking place round our OTP. Not like their earlier attraction to Hae-na, canine have begun to actively keep away from her. Search engine marketing-won and Hae-na chalk it all the way down to a facet impact of her curse being lifted — and talking of which, there are such a lot of courting actions to embark on now that there’s no curse!
Sadly, Hae-na comes down with a chilly earlier than a date with Search engine marketing-won. Hmmm. Does Bo-gyeom management the climate, too? I truly don’t thoughts this as a result of it results in the nursing the sick girlfriend trope which I really like. We don’t get a spoon-feeding porridge scene, however we get the snuggling collectively and falling asleep scene — which is even higher! And Search engine marketing-won finally ends up contracting Hae-na’s chilly as a result of there’s love in sharing. Heh.
The varsity goes on a area journey to the museum, and it’s an effective way to take us on a visit down reminiscence lane to Joseon — as seen from Ji-ah’s eyes. The Joseon story begins with nobleman and authorities official, SOO-HYUN (Joseon Search engine marketing-won), assembly MAK-SOON (Joseon Hae-na) for the primary time as one of many servants in his instructor’s home. An already married — and pregnant — Cho-young was the younger miss of the home, and that’s how all three of them have been related.
It was kinda love at first sight for Soo-hyun and Mak-soon. However Mak-soon would somewhat Soo-hyun deal with her coldly in public as a result of Cho-young was as soon as scolded for treating her like a good friend somewhat than a servant. (It was fairly hilarious when Mak-soon cosplayed the modern-day tsundere male lead together with her “I picked up the ointment on my means right here” phantasm of how coldly she expects Soo-hyun to behave in direction of her.) These two make shameless flirting with one another cute.
Issues went south when Cho-young’s husband was executed for plotting treason, and Soo-hyun was tasked with arresting Cho-young. Soo-hyun disobeyed the order to assist her escape to the mountains together with Mak-soon. With a promise to Mak-soon that they’ll meet once more, Soo-hyun stayed behind to struggle off the troopers, giving the women time to flee. However within the strategy of fleeing, Cho-young misplaced her footing, hit her stomach (nooo!), and it was lights out.
Bo-gyeom discovered the unconscious Cho-young and nursed her again to well being, however she misplaced all will to reside when she woke as much as the unlucky information of her miscarriage. “Why did you save me?” Cho-young requested, when Bo-gyeom pulled her again from — her first of many — soar makes an attempt on the Cliff of Doom. “Should you want to soar to your demise, do it elsewhere. There’s nothing I hate greater than the scent of a rotting corpse.” Ah!
Bo-gyeom might need been curt and abrasive, nevertheless it labored as a result of Cho-young didn’t off herself. Afterward, Bo-gyeom gave her a pet which he claimed contained the soul of her lifeless baby, and in elevating this pet, Cho-young regained the need to reside. A pet, huh. Now the canine curse is making sense.
Three months glided by with Mak-soon, Cho-young, and the pet hiding out within the mountains. And whereas Mak-soon popped into the village sometimes in search of Soo-hyun (who had been captured and tortured to disclose Cho-young’s location), Cho-young and Bo-gyeom developed a friendship.
As a mountain spirit with an extended lifespan, Bo-gyeom had watched the folks he cherished up to now develop outdated and die — which is why he naturally grew to become so jaded. Afraid of forming a brand new attachment, Bo-gyeom informed Cho-young to depart the mountains, however she insisted on staying. “Even when somebody dies, the reminiscences stay.” Recollections are nothing to Bo-gyeom, however Cho-young promised to depart him with good reminiscences of her. So from hanging out collectively, they grew to become associates. And from associates enjoying home, romance snuck in on them. Bo-gyeom didn’t even notice that he was in love with Cho-young till she kissed him. Yunno, whereas enjoying home.
However within the midst of all the things occurring, Bo-gyeom and the vice principal — who’s truly a fox mountain spirit — had reservations about Mak-soon. They thought she’d finally rat Cho-young out to the authorities to avoid wasting herself, Soo-hyun, and their child. Sure, Mak-soon simply so occurred to be pregnant. Quickly, the mountain spirits’ ideas manifested, and the troopers caught as much as Cho-young within the mountains. Though, we don’t know but if Mak-soon or Soo-hyun have been those who snitched.
Do not forget that scarf within the wood field at Bo-gyeom’s lair within the present-day timeline? Bo-gyeom gave it to Cho-young in preparation for a pair’s journey. Sadly, it ended up being the landmark to sign that she was at risk. On the Cliff of Doom, Bo-gyeom witnessed final week’s ending flashback scene the place Soo-hyun wielded a sword at Cho-young. The shock was distracting sufficient to make Bo-gyeom overlook his environment, and the close by troopers used the chance to stab him. By the point we panned again to Cho-young, the sword was already thrust into her abdomen, and he or she fell off the cliff.
Beneath the cliff, Bo-gyeom mourned a lifeless Cho-young — whose final ideas have been for him to overlook about her within the occasion of her demise. However belief Bo-gyeom to retrieve the sword from her stomach, and swear revenge on Soo-hyun and Mak-soon. We finish the week again within the current, with Bo-gyeom lastly making good on his revenge oath. What does he do? He steals into Woo-taek’s vet clinic, and places Hae-na’s canine uncle to sleep. Completely. Woosh!
I can nearly wager that the Cliff of Doom incident was an unlucky misunderstanding. A misunderstanding which may have been cleared up if Bo-gyeom, Soo-hyun, and Mak-soon had a roundtable dialog afterwards. However no, the mountain spirit needed to lay a curse and preserve malice for tons of of years. *Rolls eyes* We lastly be taught why Bo-gyeom is lifeless set on revenge, however as “touching” as it’s, this backstory doesn’t curiosity me one bit. Actually, it’s somewhat annoying that Bo-gyeom didn’t channel his anger on the overlords who executed Cho-young’s husband and despatched her into hiding within the first place.
A minimum of we received Hae-na and Search engine marketing-won crumbs this week, however what about Yul? It’s unfair to relegate his character to the background now that we not have the Dogvengers hijinks. Come on, Present! Yul is my ray of sunshine amidst this curse nonsense, and I’d recognize it if you happen to can take Bo-gyeom away and provides me again my Yul.
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