Kim Young Dae is again! It’s all the time a delight to see him, and after his final electrical outing in “The Forbidden Marriage,” he’s donning sageuk put on once more as a Silla-era noble. Joining him is the stunning Pyo Ye Jin in a drama that takes the bodyguard trope and flips it on its head with ghosts, homicide, and angst a loads. Here’s every thing we beloved in regards to the premiere episodes of “Moon in the Day” and why you need to completely examine it it out!

Warning: spoilers for episodes 1-2 under.

1. Do Ha and Ri Ta’s doomed love story

There’s one thing magical about two souls who’ve already crossed paths and fallen in love as soon as, doing so once more. It looks like love might be inevitable between the identical individuals regardless of the time and place. But the story that begins all of it doesn’t go nicely for Do Ha (Kim Young Dae). A younger Silla-era normal, he was essential to the seize and homicide of traitor Gaya nation’s normal, ending a battle that had lasted between their individuals for a while. After defeating the final, Do Ha has the final’s spouse and daughter rounded up and publicly hung. To him, it’s all a part of battle. He takes no pleasure in any of it. But that’s not how Han Ri Ta (Pyo Ye Jin) sees it.

She’s the lifeless normal’s daughter, and her mom and maid gave their lives in order that she will be able to survive. She sees Do Ha execute them and vows revenge. She’s fast about taking it too. We see her present up in his bed room at night time able to plunge a sword into his chest. Only, he’s awake. He sensed her coming. He wounds her however sees her face. And this Silla battle hero out of the blue simply stops and stares at her. He doesn’t damage her. In truth, he retains her alive and presents her a selection. Death or servitude, with an opportunity to kill him once more at any time. She chooses the latter. It’s superb as a result of there’s no subterfuge. He is aware of who she is from the beginning and desires her anyway. We glimpse scenes that allude to Ri Ta and Do Ha in one another’s life, rising inexorably drawn to one another. So a lot so, that on the finish when Ri Ta kills him, Do Ha by no means noticed it coming.

What’s worse, she takes her personal life proper afterwards, and that’s when Do Ha’s curse begins. Locked to Ri Ta, he’s doomed to observe her reincarnate again and again and over, and he watches every of these lives play out whereas being unable to cross over to the opposite aspect himself.

2. Do Ha turning into Jun Oh

And that takes us to the current. Kang Young Hwa (Pyo Ye Jin) is Ri Ta’s present incarnation and the primary to really seem like her. She’s a firefighter famend for saving many lives and by no means having misplaced anybody in her care. That fame will get her on a business with prime star Han Jun Oh (Kim Young Dae). If I had a greenback for each time Kim Young Dae has performed a petulant prime star, I’d have two {dollars}—which isn’t a lot, however the coincidence is uncanny. Jun Oh is an idol-turned-actor who’s head over heels for his noona actress girlfriend Jung Yi Seul (Jung Shin Hye), who couldn’t care much less about him. He’s spoiled, egocentric, and thrives off consideration however has a childlike sweetness to him that Yi Seul steps throughout on. And he additionally has incurable coronary heart most cancers. Yikes. 

Young Hwa meets Jun Oh and is repulsed by how little respect he has for others. Yet, when Jun Oh has a medical episode on the wheel of his automobile and drives it into the ocean, she jumps proper in to avoid wasting him, almost at the price of her life. And that’s when one thing unusual occurs. When the ghost of Do Ha (who’s all the time at her aspect) sees her dying, he in some way offers her air and saves her life. Both Young Hwa and Jun Oh are transported to the hospital the place Jun Oh passes away. And hours later, he wakes proper up. But he isn’t Jun Oh anymore. Do Ha’s ghost noticed an opportunity and took it. A ghost that’s about 1,500 years outdated has simply turn into one in every of Korea’s most well-known males. And he has just one factor on his thoughts: homicide.

3. Kang Young Hwa

Kim Young Dae is killing it as common between stoic, laborious Do Ha and bratty Jun Oh, however Pyo Ye Jin is simply as spectacular. There’s a hearth to her eyes as Ri Ta melded with the stoicism required of ladies at the moment. Young Hwa has that very same hearth however much less tempered. She doesn’t have to carry herself again the best way Ri Ta did and lives life with gusto. She’s well-liked and revered by her coworkers, truthful to everybody round her, and offers credit score the place it’s due, and that’s gotten her far in life. Then Jun Oh reveals up.

Young Hwa has no concept that that is Do Ha in Jun Oh’s physique (henceforth, he’ll be known as Jun Oh whereas he’s in Jun Oh’s physique to keep away from confusion). All she is aware of is that the actor whose life she saved is fixated on her. He reveals up in her hospital room and outdoors her dwelling. He brings her to his new drama press convention and praises her in entrance of everybody. He waits for her in darkish rooms and out of the blue begs her to turn into his bodyguard. She’s unaffected by Jun Oh’s stardom and simply desires a quiet life. She’s simply been accepted for a really prestigious switch to Antarctica, a long-held aim of hers, and he or she doesn’t need Jun Oh ruining issues. He dares her to make a wager with him. If she wins, she will be able to depart for Antartica, but when he does, she’ll be his bodyguard. Young Hwa accepts, however we’ll see the outcomes of that wager subsequent week.

4. The tangled net that stands within the current

There’s fairly the tangle of mystical shenanigans right here as a result of Jun Oh and Young Hwa are on utterly completely different pages at current. Young Hwa appears to recollect elements of her life as Ri Ta. She’s used to drawing ghost Do Ha following her as a toddler, this unusual man in a purple hanbok. That resulted in her father taking her to a monastery the place a younger monk Hae In (Shin Yu Ro) gifted her with a protecting talisman that forestalls spirits from harming her. Young Hwa’s father can be lifeless, and there’s possible some thriller related to that. But whatever the talisman, Young Hwa continues to dream of her life as Ri Ta, however she forgets the goals as soon as awake. To her, reincarnation and ghosts are simply fairytales.

On the opposite hand, that’s Do Ha’s whole existence. He simply desires to cross to the opposite aspect, however one thing has been tying him to her for lots of of years, and the one conclusion he’s arrived at is that he should kill her with the intention to break away. The better part is that Do Ha isn’t poisonous! He doesn’t appear to hate or resent Young Hwa/Ri Ta. He simply desires to finish his struggling. It’s additionally a little bit of a “no one kills you but me” state of affairs. But is his time numbered on this life as nicely? The bruises on Jun Oh’s physique fade when Do Ha enters it, however apparently the center most cancers remains to be there. Does that imply that Do Ha remains to be doomed to die? No!

That face needs to be unlawful.

There’s a number of aspect characters that can undoubtedly be pertinent as we go on. There’s Jun Oh’s considerably shady brother and leisure CEO Han Min Oh (On Joo Wan), who appears to have completed one thing sketchy to the earlier CEO Seok Chul Hwan (Jung Woong In) to get the job. And there’s the psychotic Goo Tae Joo (Jung Heon), who nurses a grudge towards Jun Oh for stealing his lead function. But all of that pales compared to the wealthy tragic backstory underpinning this present and the rollercoaster we’re stepping on. Is a cheerful ending within the playing cards for our lovers this time on? Fingers crossed!

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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 unbelievable worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be at liberty to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “My Dearest,” “Moon in the Day,” “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” “The Killing Vote,” “Song of the Bandits,” and “Twinkling Watermelon.”
Looking Forward to: “Gyeongseong Creature,” “Ask The Stars,” “Queen of Tears,” “Vigilante,” and Ji Sung’s subsequent drama.

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