“Moon in the Day” may have probably the greatest {couples} of the 12 months. Do Ha (Kim Young Dae) and Kang Young Hwa (Pyo Ye Jin) could also be riddled with extra baggage than an airport, however these two talk nonstop and work issues out collectively in one of the best of how. However, a sequence of main realizations this week threaten to deliver again the previous within the worst of how. History could also be about to repeat itself, however can Do Ha and Young Hwa cease it this time?

Warning: spoilers for episodes 9-10 beneath.

1. Do Ha is in love with Young Hwa

Do Ha has lastly caught as much as the truth that the remainder of us viewers already discovered: he can’t kill Young Hwa as a result of he’s in love along with her. She’s fairly actually who Ri Ta would have been if she’d been born in a greater interval of historical past. And any conflation of Young Hwa with Ri Ta isn’t silly or disrespectful to Young Hwa as a result of she’s reliving that life and vividly figuring out with Ri Ta’s emotions for Do Ha. In essence, she’s changing into each ladies, and he loves who she was and who she is now. And it’s for that motive that Do Ha tells her that she doesn’t should preserve making an attempt to recollect the previous. He doesn’t need her to appreciate how their story ended, and he’s satisfied himself that the explanation he was caught round her for 1,500 years was due to his lingering emotions. Part of him appears to be considerably conscious that this isn’t true as a result of he wished to enter the afterlife and stop being caught neither residing nor free in demise. But it’s wishful considering on his half as a result of he simply actually doesn’t wish to kill her. It’s too unhealthy that Han Min Oh (On Joo Wan) is on his strategy to do exactly that.

Soribu (Lee Kyung Young) in Seok Chul Hwan’s (Jung Woong In’s) physique has satisfied Min Oh that each one he must do to revive his brother Han Jun Oh (Kim Young Dae) again to him is to kill Young Hwa. He frames it because of Young Hwa’s karma in her previous lives and divulges that Young Hwa is aware of that Jun Oh isn’t Jun Oh. Min Oh notices the best way Young Hwa retains protecting for Do Ha and falls for Soribu’s scheme, hook, line, and sinker. Do Ha’s additionally realized that Min Oh’s appearing bizarre, and we get a terrific clarification for why Do Ha hasn’t been correctly appearing as Jun Oh (it could have been nice if we obtained it earlier although)—it’s as a result of he doesn’t really feel snug rifling by means of Jun Oh’s recollections although he has entry to them. At the top of the day, Do Ha was a Goryeo warrior and utilizing the recollections of his physique’s former inhabitant as camouflage looks like a horrible invasion of privateness, particularly since he thinks he’s not going to be right here for lengthy. And that’s the one factor that Young Hwa’s beginning to notice that she’s not okay with.

2. Young Hwa is in love with Do Ha

The extra Young Hwa desires of Do Ha, the extra she sees what an excellent man he was regardless of the horrible issues he was compelled to do throughout that point. At first, when she contrasted that with how free he’s now and the way glad he’s been on the few occasions she was in a position to give him on a regular basis experiences that others have, she simply wished him to have extra happiness in his life earlier than he has to die. But she realized that it was equally about her wanting him to stick with her because it was to see him glad. So when ever-honest Do Ha admits that his lingering emotions towards her may be what have tied him to her for 1,500 years, she instantly speaks up (I like this a lot about her) and asks if he can’t keep for longer, provided that she, too, desires him to remain and isn’t able to let him go.

But this pretty declaration is interrupted by Min Oh who’s gotten his plan going. He will get Young Hwa to deliver Do Ha to an remoted location on a “camping trip.” She thinks that Do Ha will get to take pleasure in his first-ever trip. Only, Min Oh medicine Do Ha and swears to kick him out of Jun Oh’s physique and lures Young Hwa to a cliff and pushes her off. Do Ha wakes up and panics, realizing that Min Oh should have gone after Young Hwa. But Young Hwa’s a tenacious one and clings to the rocks till Do Ha arrives and drags her to security. Both of them notice that they’ll’t let the opposite go. But first, Do Ha has to cope with Min Oh.

3. Jun Oh actually is useless

To give Min Oh some credit score, he didn’t actually wish to kill Young Hwa, however identical to Do Ha would do and has accomplished something for Ri Ta and Young Hwa, Min Oh’s the identical in the case of Jun Oh. Min Oh is shaken but additionally relieved that Young Hwa died and can also be heartbroken as a result of he doesn’t know how you can get Jun Oh again. Do Ha is livid but additionally has compassion for Min Oh’s place. He tells Min Oh that there was by no means getting Jun Oh again as a result of Jun Oh is definitively useless. Do Ha entered his physique hours later when it was within the morgue. I’m actually hoping that the present sticks to this as a result of it could be simply unusual if Jun Oh began to attempt to present up in spite of everything these declarations that he’s gone for good.

Min Oh asks Do Ha if it signifies that that individual was mendacity, and Do Ha realizes that there’s one thing that he’s missed. Something that he might have missed for 1,500 years in actual fact. Because if there’s somebody operating round telling Min Oh to kill Young Hwa and who is aware of that he’s a ghost, then there’s a 3rd social gathering to their curse.

4. Young Hwa has at all times died earlier than her thirtieth birthday

Young Hwa’s no fool and confronts Do Ha on what he’s hiding from her. He’d warned her that she was in peril and had predicted that Min Oh would possibly attempt to hurt her beforehand. She asks why he isn’t giving her the complete fact and why he’s one way or the other satisfied that he doesn’t want her to interrupt his curse anymore. Do Ha can’t deliver himself to inform her that she killed him, however he provides her the opposite half of the reality. All her reincarnations have died earlier than the age of 30. Not a single one has lived previous that age. He’s hated it and was damage at not having the ability to do something to cease her deaths whereas in ghost type, however he’s put it right down to 30 simply being her time to go. Yet, plainly one thing far more harmful is at work.

After recalling Do Ha giving Ri Ta the lotus seed prayer beads that ended up in Young Hwa’s safety bracelet over a thousand years later, Young Hwa goes to the monks on the temple to ask what she may need accomplished as Ri Ta for a curse to observe not solely her however the individuals she touched, like Do Ha. The monks inform her that it’s as much as her to recollect, however irrespective of how she racks her thoughts, she solely has one key realization: she’s in love with Do Ha, and he will not be lengthy for this world. Until, a well-recognized determine steps in.

5. Seok Chul Hwan is Soribu

Soribu has been having a blast manipulating everybody in sight, which signifies that this isn’t his first rodeo. He appears to be following the identical logic as Do Ha the place he thinks that killing Young Hwa will assist him however with a twist. He’s out to remain right here for so long as it seems. He tells a terrified Min Oh (who tried to confront him) that it’s provided that Young Hwa dies that Soribu’s stab wound disappears, presumably which means that he can dwell in Chul Hwan’s physique till it dies of previous age. Can this magic work on Do Ha, please? Stabbing Soribu saves Do Ha? Please, present! Do Ha’s sizzling on Chul Hwan’s path however hasn’t put it collectively that he’s Soribu. But Young Hwa has as a result of Soribu confronts her in the course of the road, and he or she hears him communicate and is aware of. And that’s the place we depart off!

This present is wafer-thin in the case of any character/plot that isn’t our essential trio: Do Ha, Young Hwa, and Soribu, however given how explosive the primary couple’s chemistry is, I’m not complaining. These two simply gentle up the display, and the Goryeo scenes at all times hit so onerous and are acted with super pathos. In the current, Jun Oh’s ex-girlfriend Jung Yi Seul (Jung Shin Hye) is threatening to break him. Soribu is insane, and that merciless grasp, destiny, has put a deadline on Do Ha’s current physique, so something might go both means with solely 4 episodes left. Next week exhibits Young Hwa realizing that she killed Do Ha, and we’ll in all probability lastly see why (or they’ll put it aside for the finale). There’s been an honest quantity of divergence from the webtoon, and Do Ha and Young Hwa deserve every thing, so right here’s hoping that we get some type of deus ex machina. Finding peace doesn’t should be demise, Do Ha! You can discover it in fried rooster locations right here too!

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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in more and more improbable worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be at liberty to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “My Demon,” “Moon In The Day,” “The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract,” “Vigilante,” and “A Good Day to Be a Dog.”
Looking Forward to: “Gyeongseong Creature,” “Ask The Stars,” “Queen of Tears,” and Ji Sung’s subsequent drama.

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