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EPISODE 9-10🔥Dear X - Moon Do-hyeok’s true identity finally revealed… Will one more person die_!
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00:00Did you watch episodes 7 to 8?
00:02Most dramas start to sag in the middle,
00:04but this one barrels forward so hard there isn't a second to feel bored.
00:09As in the original, the grandmother dies, and Heo and Gang dies too.
00:14Shall we talk through what diverged from the source,
00:16what felt regretful, and the moments that blindsided me?
00:20Beck Ajin eventually gets found out for having approached the grandmother on purpose.
00:25The grandmother is furious at first,
00:26yet in the end she gathers Ajin into her arms and says,
00:30You're my child too, and holds her close.
00:33Then the grandmother falls on the stairs and passes away,
00:37after being taken in for surgery.
00:39In front of the operating room,
00:41Ajin prays with a desperation that's almost painful to watch.
00:46What was that, exactly?
00:48Maybe I'd expected something that would let me feel righteous guilt.
00:52Yoon Joon SEO presses Ajin hard,
00:54and Ajin freezes over, snapping that he can think whatever he wants,
00:58but then comes the twist.
01:00It was the most shocking scene in these two episodes.
01:03Ajin didn't push the grandmother.
01:05The grandmother really did slip on her own,
01:07and Ajin actually reached out to catch her.
01:10That prayer outside the operating room
01:12was the most earnest plea to spare the grandmother's life.
01:16When Joon SEO learns the truth,
01:18he's driven mad by the fact that he doubted her.
01:20Honestly, I twisted up inside too.
01:23I was sure it was Ajin.
01:25Her heart.
01:26I think Ajin truly liked the grandmother.
01:29I think she truly liked Hyo and Gang as well.
01:32Maybe that's why even after more than a year,
01:34she didn't leave and just stayed.
01:36Maybe she wanted to rest by leaning on and gang for a while.
01:39It felt like the sincerity of those two people moved Ajin's heart.
01:43Then, with both of them gone at once,
01:46she snaps back to her original operating mode.
01:49She decides her softness was complacency
01:52and reigns in her focus on the goal.
01:55Joon SEO, who once said they'd date for only a year,
01:58now pesters her.
02:00If that's the rule, why haven't they broken up?
02:03SEO Miri, the agency head, also pushes,
02:06saying this is exactly when Ajin should be working even harder.
02:10The whole setup gives Ajin no room to breathe.
02:13Perhaps you wondered if Ajin isn't a sociopath.
02:16I wavered for a moment too, but the show already said it in episode one.
02:21Ajin is a sociopath.
02:23That doesn't mean she can't feel.
02:26It means the quality of the feeling isn't the warm, cozy love we imagine.
02:30There are cases where someone like her softens only toward those who acknowledge her existence.
02:36So the way she wavered before the grandmother and Hyo and Gang
02:39is precisely the fragile part of her.
02:41Let me touch on what frustrated me this week.
02:45Hyo and Gang's death felt ungenerous.
02:48Having him choose death because Ajin confessed she approached him on purpose is disappointing.
02:53In the original, we watch him crumble gradually under the violence of the breakup.
02:58Here, that arc is so condensed it's nearly skipped.
03:02He had thrown away pills and alcohol.
03:05He looked like he might stand up again.
03:07And then suddenly, he chooses death.
03:10It stung.
03:10And Sio Miri's behavior doesn't fully track either.
03:15She hounds the timing.
03:16The sooner the better.
03:17Yet after Ngang dies, she decides it's Ajin's fault and tries to bury her.
03:23But earlier, she told Ngang that Ajin had to work more and oppose their relationship.
03:28And she kept pressuring Ajin to break up.
03:31For her now to proclaim that Ngang died because of Ajin feels unconvincing.
03:35Even if we accept the premise that Sio Miri thought of Ngang like a kid brother, that sudden pivot doesn't sit right.
03:43Will Ajin ever be happy?
03:46Sim Sung, he slips back into being awful.
03:49Yoon Junesio's mother, too.
03:51She both scolds and wheedles Ajin while complaining that Junesio won't hand over money.
03:56On top of that, the obsessive psycho, Moon Do Hayock, appears.
04:01In the original, he shows psychopathic tendencies.
04:04In the drama, he's framed first as an obsessive man, less sociopath than simply psycho.
04:10On her way to Kim Jo, Ajin nearly gets hit by a car.
04:15That car is Moon Do Hayock's.
04:16And in that instant, he falls for her and starts digging into her background.
04:20In the source, he's the head of a company and Ajin approaches him deliberately.
04:25He knows and still uses her as a tool to expand his private empire.
04:30Here, just looking at his eyes, he's definitely one of the unhinged ones.
04:35Now, the teaser for next week.
04:36Let's watch it and dig in.
04:38How high do you want to climb?
04:40Why did you deceive me?
04:41I didn't deceive you.
04:43Ajin looks dangerously frayed.
04:45Her voice sounds like it's drained out of her.
04:48She drives off as if nothing matters, like even a crash wouldn't bother her.
04:53When someone is cornered to the limit, they tip into that forsaken, nothing to lose state.
04:58And then we hear Junesio's voice, resentful, asking why she lied.
05:04But wait, Junesio, what lie?
05:07You were the one who wouldn't believe her.
05:08Not just you, didn't we all get fooled?
05:11I believe she'd done it too.
05:13We see Junesio running.
05:15He's in a black suit and grieving.
05:17It looks like his grandfather has died.
05:19Why is it that Ajin, Junesio, and J.O. have no true adults around them?
05:25If even the grandfather is gone, Junesio may have no one left to lean on.
05:30I hope you'll live your own life now, says Luna.
05:33Perhaps to Junesio, who is struggling after Hio and Geng's death.
05:38Something in her seems changed.
05:40There's a card that reads,
05:41Beck Ajin and Moon Do Hayok's wedding, which suggests Ajin is pulled back to the surface through this marriage storyline.
05:48C.O. Miri tries to bury Ajin by feeding a reporter a damning dossier.
05:54But Moon Do Hayok finds it odd that the agency sits idle while Ajin is being dragged over the coals after Ngang's death.
06:01He senses there's some hidden business between them.
06:04So this obsessive psycho decides to win Ajin's favor.
06:08And because the woman who will be his must be spotless, he moves to save her.
06:12Thanks to Moon Do Hayok, that hit piece looks like it's going to be killed off.
06:17In the original, Ajin is already successful and meets Moon Do Hayok to climb even higher.
06:24Here he's framed more like the white knight who rescues a princess in peril.
06:28Have you ever done it?
06:29That shot feels like Ajin's nightmare.
06:32The knight she killed her father returns in full.
06:35She's the one who raises her hand a second time and brings the death herself.
06:39Not merely a bystander like when her mother died.
06:43That memory, blood on her hands, still grips her.
06:47In the last episode, every time she drifted to sleep, she heard her mother calling,
06:52Ajin, Ajin.
06:54Now it feels like she even sees the apparition.
06:57The trauma is deepening.
06:59And Moon Do Hayok asks,
07:01Have you ever killed someone?
07:03Doesn't it sound like he already knows?
07:05Just as Ajin killed her father, perhaps Moon Do Hayok killed his ex-wife after the divorce.
07:11Officially, she's missing.
07:13That could be the real reason behind his question.
07:16I never liked that bastard from the start.
07:19Kim J-O says it, and this is probably why.
07:22There's a shot of a bloodstained knife falling.
07:25If we connect that with a shot of J-O injured and being wheeled into surgery,
07:28It looks like Moon Do Hayok isolates Ajin completely, and J-O gets hurt enough to require surgery.
07:35On the other hand, Moon Do Hayok's obsession could come with bursts of violence.
07:41Ajin, seeing it up close, could suddenly overlay his face with her father's and trigger the trauma.
07:47In that instant when fear and old memories flood together, she might strike on instinct.
07:53Still, I suspect it's a bait-and-switch.
07:56It isn't clear who stabbed whom, or whether what we're seeing is real or a hallucination.
08:02Remember the line earlier in the series,
08:04Someone says Ajin plans to kill one more person.
08:07I'd long thought Sio Miri was the likeliest target.
08:11Is that target about to flip to Moon Do Hayok?
08:13As people around Ajin, Jun S-O, J-O, start getting hurt, maybe something dawns on her.
08:21If so, this sociopath setup might begin to crack, but that might just be my private hope.
08:26It isn't in the original, but at least in this drama, I want Ajin to find some happiness,
08:31to atone, and to live decently with J-O and Jun S-O.
08:36That wish keeps rising in me.
08:38There's a rooftop confrontation, likely Ajin and Sio Miri.
08:43When the expose is about to drop, Ajin threatens,
08:46Fine, then I'll die.
08:48Wielding it like a half-threat, but Sio Miri shouts back,
08:52And will that bring Ngang back?
08:54As I said, Sio Miri still doesn't make sense to me.
08:58If Hio Ngang mattered that much from the start,
09:00when he said he was going to date back Ajin,
09:03she could have leveled with him about her doubts.
09:06Ngang isn't the type to blab anyway.
09:08And when he said he wanted to retire,
09:10She kept trying to work him.
09:12In any case, this scene doesn't land for me.
09:15The grandfather dies, most likely having donated all his assets.
09:20That's why Jun S-O's mother is throwing a fit.
09:23She needs money.
09:24Jun S-O won't give her any, and the inheritance is gone.
09:28Of course she's going to lose her mind.
09:30And who is Sim Sung he trying to stab?
09:33I can't get a firm read on that cut.
09:36Could she be aiming for Kim J-O?
09:38Last episode, J-O laid down a brutal threat on her.
09:42If anyone would target him, it might be Sung he.
09:45And that could be how J-O ends up bleeding out on an operating table.
09:49Only four episodes remain now.
09:51As the end approaches, the ache grows.
09:54I want to be reborn on the highest peak.
09:57Let's watch Dear X next week and talk again.
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