Surely Tomorrow: Episodes 7-8
by Dramaddictally
Our couple is officially back together, and acting lovey-dovey like nothing ever went wrong. With one part of the pair taking on a major role at her family’s company, and the other part happy to support her and follow her around, it seems like maybe the third time really is the charm.
EPISODES 7-8
When we last saw our characters, Gyung-do was leaning into Ji-woo’s car window, slyly telling her not to go home. And one word is all it takes for Ji-woo to slide over to the passenger seat and tell him to drive her to his place.
They enter the apartment, frantically kissing as they push each other against the walls, and then there’s some sexy carrying to the couch before they hit the bedroom and slam the door on us.
In the morning, they’re playfighting and tumbling onto each other like baby kittens, and it looks like not a moment has gone by since the last time they were in love. Without saying it, they both know they’re back together, and each of them has been waiting for this to happen. In fact, they’re so comfortable, and fall back in so easily, it almost makes you wonder what all the fuss was about. The past hurt has evaporated and it seems that all they needed was to know their feelings were reciprocated.
The other major thread this week is that Ji-woo is joining the company and Ji-yeon has started to show her the ropes. Ji-yeon still hasn’t told Ji-woo that she’s developing Alzheimer’s, or that Ji-woo will likely have to face off against her brother-in-law, KANG MIN-WOO (Kim Woo-hyung), at some point.
The scandal that’s been brewing in the background all these weeks is that Min-woo knows about his wife’s condition and he’s waiting for it to get worse so he can sell the company. Ji-yeon knows this and the two are pitted on opposite sides, while being pleasant to each other in person.
But what Ji-yeon doesn’t know is that her husband is actually causing her Alzheimer’s symptoms. This comes to light when Gyung-do is visiting Ji-yeon at the office and he mistakenly starts to drink her coffee. The secretary who prepared the drink starts shrieking that it’s the wrong one. Gyung-do knows this is an overreaction and gets suspicious.
He then takes the coffee in a thermos to have it analyzed at a lab (I love how he turned into a proper old-school reporter for this), and he learns that it’s full of a prescription drug known to cause side effects like memory loss and cognitive disturbances. Gyung-do takes this information to Ji-yeon, who’s truly shocked that her husband could do this to her. She visits her doctor and learns that the drug actually causes long-term damage over time, so her symptoms are irreversible.
At the same time, Ji-woo’s ex-husband has become obsessed with getting back together. He leaves a luxury ring at her apartment — with Gyung-do, since he’s the only one home — and the gift card says it’s his second proposal. Aside from making Gyung-do uber-jealous, it forces Ji-woo to see her ex in order to return the ring and reject him.
In a flashback, we learn that Gyung-do had also bought a ring for Ji-woo, back in 2015, and was about to propose right around the time his dad landed in the ICU. We know how the story turned out after that, and Gyung-do ended up throwing the tiny diamond in the garbage.
Now, he sees this massive rock that the ex-husband bought for Ji-woo and he realizes he shouldn’t try to compete. In fact, Ji-woo is rich, she can buy her own luxury items. Instead, he decides to do things to make her happy that money can’t buy.
And now that they’re back together and happy, Ji-woo seems anxious about what might get in their way — like, for instance, everyone in Gyung-do’s life who saw him fall apart the last time Ji-woo took off. First, she runs into Gyung-do’s boss/friend who sits Ji-woo down for tea and tells her that Gyung-do keeps messing up his life for her. He missed out on a promotion last time, and now he’s giving up his prestigious trip to Chicago.
Ji-woo is tense but says thank you for the information. And the next time she sees Gyung-do, she tells him that she won’t ask why he gave up Chicago, but she will say she’s happy he didn’t go. “I’m awful, aren’t I?” she says. But Gyung-do smiles and says he’s happy she’s happy. And the two walk on, holding hands and swooning.
The second run-in is with Gyung-do’s mom, who Ji-woo worries might hate her, given the events of the past. Ji-woo takes pastries to the mom and fishes for her feelings, but Mom says she doesn’t dislike her. The two end up laughing and Ji-woo seems relieved when she later tells Gyung-do that they have the same sense of humor.
It’s all smooth sailing on the relationship front, so Ji-woo gets serious about her new job. She makes some bold moves, along with some enemies, at the company, but Ji-yeon backs up Ji-woo’s decisions. Min-woo, though, views Ji-woo as the obstacle that she is, and the last we see of him in these episodes, he’s having dinner with Ji-woo’s ex-husband — where her learns the crucial information that Ji-woo’s birth father is not the former chairman of the company. Oh boy.
Meanwhile, Ji-woo is scouting a designer for a new line she wants to launch, and she excitedly drags Gyung-do into her work. He complains, but helps her discover that the woman she wants to hire — an international designer named Bella Jin — is currently in Spain on vacation. All they know is that she’s in Málaga, staying above an ice cream shop, and they set off to Europe to find her.
This means we get some lovely shots of Spain as the pair run all over town, eating ice cream and asking for this mystery woman. When they finally find her accommodation, it turns out she’s in Barcelona for the day, and Ji-woo is scared that she’ll never show up (like Godot). Gyung-do makes a joke of this and then tells her they should enjoy the time as tourists.
At a street fair, a woman recognizes Ji-woo from afar as the daughter of Jarim Apparel. She approaches and the two women get into an argument about a scarf, which forces them both to show off their fashion knowledge. It’s then that Gyung-do and Ji-woo realize this is BELLA JIN (Sang A Im-Propp), the woman they were looking for.
In the final scene, we get the backstory (with a fabulous cameo by Uhm Jung-hwa), which shows us that Gyung-do’s boss — who has been very passive aggressive ever since he started dating Ji-woo again — went out of her way to find someone who knows Bella Jin and tell her to get back to Málaga, today.
I’m skeptical about these episodes. Man do I love seeing them in love. They are gorgeous. But I’m holding my breath thinking about the last time they paired up — when they also just jumped back in without much conversation about their previous problems. When things are going good, they’re totally in sync, but that isn’t exactly the same as communicating well.
Still, Ji-woo does seem different this time. No, she hasn’t done any specific work on herself, but she does seem a lot less depressed. And I have to say, watching her take her job seriously and really put her heart into it, makes me think that maybe she just needed her own life. I remember a comment her mother once made about how Ji-woo has no reason to be depressed when she’s been handed everything — but maybe that was the problem.
Also, I’m sort of surprised that Gyung-do’s friends and even his mom are welcoming Ji-woo back. In the scene with his boss, when she tells Ji-woo in no uncertain terms that she thinks Gyung-do is messing up his life for her, I was okay with that. This is an overdone trope, where one half of a pair learns that the other half “would be better off without them.” It usually leads to noble idiocy and it usually comes about in a way that’s totally out of bounds.
But here, I understood why someone close to Gyung-do — who was there to help him back up after Ji-woo left — would be angry and distrustful of the situation. Yes, we know the boss also has a thing for Gyung-do, but I didn’t see it as vengeful on her part. I think it’s a valid concern.
And yet, Ji-woo did not leave. It didn’t lead to noble idiocy or even insecurity, which this character has a pattern of running from. And so, maybe she’s changed. Maybe she’s solid now. Maybe this was her test. Or maybe the last four episodes will be a lesson in why you need to put problems on the table or they’re wont to repeat.
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