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Love Under Mask Episode ENGSUB LGBTQ Romance Drama
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00:12everyone echo is here today we only discuss the exhibition no personal questions welcome
00:18back to the city i'm eli walker curator of this exhibition i've heard a lot about you
00:27likewise this piece silent night will be placed in the center of the main hall
00:32that is if our mysterious artist is willing to cooperate with basic publicity honestly talking
00:38about sincerity behind a mask is ironic my work speaks for itself my face is irrelevant or is it
00:44that your face can't be shown damien we are discussing the exhibition not staging a provocation
00:52echo wait have we met before no that's strange your voice the way you look at people
01:03it all feels familiar maybe you're mistaking me for someone else
01:09was that person important to you you don't remember someone this long if they didn't matter
01:27bad news someone posted photos of you and eli at the elevator last night damien's people
01:34who else would be this eager to start a fire i've heard a lot about you
01:39you've been off since last night i'm thinking about the exhibition you'd better be
01:47this isn't a public piece and it wasn't in the catalog your team sent me probably a discarded
01:52sketch that got mixed in during packing but it doesn't look discarded i've seen this place
01:57a lot of people have seen rooftops and stars but not many people can paint that cracked cement wall
02:03exactly like this sorry to interrupt but i'd like to remind everyone that our promo still lacks a proper
02:08frontal shot of the artist the contract is clear no face reveal the public has a right to know
02:14especially when an artist's story feels more like branding than art that's enough
02:19are you protecting him or your own curiosity if this gallery needs a face more than an exhibition
02:24we can terminate the collaboration right now
02:28it won't be terminated at least not for that reason i'm not here to push you then why are you
02:36here
02:37i just want to know why the things you paint feel like they're stealing my memories
02:42and your eyes they really remind me of someone
02:47two centimeters higher on the left no the starlight is crushing the figure's breathing space
02:52you see it well because i feel like i know the people in your pictures why are they always
02:57turned away from the viewer because one of them still isn't ready to turn around some reporters
03:02coming tonight are already asking whether ego play trees his own persona you're setting fires and
03:06pretending to be the firefighter i'm just clearing the smoke damien out you're sounding less and less
03:12like someone protecting a project
03:24you almost slipped today he remembered that wall
03:30the issue isn't whether he remembers the issue is how long you plan to keep hiding
03:35i'm not afraid he'll recognize me i'm afraid the answer i never got 10 years ago will be the same
03:40now
03:45keep digging i want every address school record and family file
03:48eco had in the last 10 years especially why he vanished 10 years ago
03:55i stared at this painting for two hours last night it reminds me of someone i lost
04:02strange part is i'm starting to wonder if he came back in his place to find me
04:07an artist's job isn't to return in someone else's place
04:10then what is your job to leave behind the words that were never said he's watching you and he's
04:17watching eli i think he's digging into your past my past is already all over these paintings but
04:22your identity isn't if you get exposed by force it won't just ruin your love life the art market will
04:26tear you apart echo are you in there don't forget you didn't come back here to die in front of
04:30him
04:30you need to attend tonight's media premiere fine and if that person really matters this much to you
04:36you owe him an explanation what if the explanation comes too late it's still better than never coming
04:40no public identity his team scrubbed the records clean but there's one opening echo keeps
04:45dodging questions about the town like he's avoiding someone from his past he's not avoiding someone
04:49from his past he's afraid of an old lover then dig that person out for me i changed the opening
04:54sequence why because your work doesn't tell its story by chronology but by emotional wounds these
04:59works weren't originally about fame loneliness or mystery they've been waiting for an answer do you
05:04always read paintings like this no only yours echo the two boys repeated in your work are they from
05:11your own romantic history no personal questions today then at least answer this are these paintings
05:16dedicated to someone yes they are for someone i couldn't hold on to what you said out there
05:25was it true what do you think i think every time you say things like that you're not answering the
05:31press
05:31you're speaking to one specific person echo why do you affect me like this
05:40you can read this i don't know why but i can't walk away from your work then don't
05:46double the fee move faster i want his real identity and i want it now eli are you curating him
05:51or are you
05:51falling for him this wall has to stay empty a blank wall will break the emotional flow for the audience
06:07that's exactly what i want why because some people stop right there and never move forward
06:15the audience isn't here to experience your personal paralysis they need a complete narrative
06:23complete you think everything gets a complete ending
06:28you always sound like you're trying to provoke me
06:33maybe i just want to see whether you'll finally say something real
06:36are you two done at this rate the first thing to explode won't be the exhibition it'll be the two
06:40of you
06:46melita heli i like you not the kind of life between friends
07:03you came you said you had something to ask
07:09a lot of the places from the town where i grew up are gone now
07:13only rooftops like this still bring me back you know what's strangest
07:21i don't even know you and yet every time i stand next to you
07:25it feels like i'm back 10 years ago
07:30echo did you know noah
07:33the places in your paintings the way you speak even the way you look at me
07:37they're all too much like him
07:48why did you stop some answers shouldn't be spoken where the wind is too loud
07:53you're just like him always pulling back right when the truth is within reach
07:57if it were you would you disappear without a word too i'm coming down now
08:01you pull me in then say nothing do you know how cruel that is
08:11you can't face the press like this so you're just gonna walk away again
08:15eli this is not the time i'm not talking to you
08:19what exactly do you take me for a collaborator you paint my past drag back the person i lost and
08:29then
08:29tell me i'm just a collaborator what do you want to hear i want the truth some truths even if
08:37i told
08:38you you might not be able to bear them it's not that you can't say it you won't
08:44the one who looks most like him is the one who refuses to admit him
08:52at this rate eli won't recognize you first he'll hate you first
08:59major identity turning point
09:02so that's what this is filter through all of his public activity over the past 10 years
09:07how deep do you want us to go deep enough that i can peel that mask off layer by layer
09:26yes i know someone's touching our private server damian
09:33do you recognize this
09:39i did write one even though i never sent it why are you showing it to me now
09:43because you make me feel like i'm about to lose the same thing a second time
09:47sorry to interrupt your early morning heart to quaint
09:51what are you doing here i'm getting more and more curious how many old acquaintances our eco really has
09:59too late
10:13so that's where you've been hiding
10:17don't touch the email it's a phishing attack
10:20noah grayson
10:33which one is waiting in this painting
10:37which one is waiting in this painting
10:42the one who never turned around
10:44then who's the one that keeps being too afraid to turn around
10:48maybe they're the same person
10:51this isn't just a memory painting
10:52then what is it
10:53it's one person staying where he was
10:56waiting for the other to finally face him
11:00who are you waiting for
11:04someone i thought would never answer
11:13someone is deliberately steering the narrative
11:17who put this here
11:18you'd better not know
11:19i need it faster
11:20i don't care about the process
11:21i want the result
11:22i'm trying but i can't hack into the system
11:23then find another way
11:24after opening nighting
11:26i want to know everything about you
11:27what if you regret it once you know
11:29it feels like someone hung his heart on the wall
11:31and forced another person to recognize it
11:36just give me a little more time
11:41noah grayson
11:42found you
11:52the key light is too cold
11:55a little colder feels more like loss
11:58loss isn't cold
11:59it's when the light is still on
12:01but it no longer reaches you
12:06you always say the things i don't dare to say
12:09maybe you just project yourself too easily onto my work
12:14and you
12:16who are you projecting into every painting
12:19someone who should never have been forgotten
12:21why does every painting feel like it was made for the same person
12:26because they were
12:27because they were
12:28do you realize what you just said
12:30i'm talking about the work
12:32but what i heard wasn't just about the work
12:35the media confirmed tomorrow night's preview live stream
12:37echo you need to leave
12:40got it
12:45that didn't look like curating
12:47it's a strange feeling
12:48it's a strange feeling
12:49i've started envy the person he has painted for 10 years
13:01you're still here
13:03i still have things to revise
13:07you've been strange lately
13:10ever since echo showed up
13:12you haven't looked at me the way you used to
13:13damien there was never a that way to begin with
13:23enviving the person he has painted for 10 years
13:27you said too much last night
13:29i know
13:31i didn't come back just to retreat again
13:39i'm in love with you
13:41so i can't keep watching you get this close to him
13:46that's my business
13:47you don't get to tell me what to do
13:48then stay away from eco
13:55fine
13:57i hope you won't regret today's choice over a man in a mask
14:15sorry
14:15have we met somewhere before
14:17no
14:18but your eyes really look like someone i used to know
14:22a lot of people say that
14:25right this way
14:26the media area needs one more photo of you
14:31what are you hiding from
14:34i just don't like being studied by strangers
14:36but that didn't look like fear of a stranger
14:39the investors would love to meet our star artist
14:45if he finds out it's me
14:47will he still go silent
14:53you've been off all night
14:55you're overthinking
14:56if you really have nothing to do with my past
14:58why do you look ready to run every time someone mentions before
15:02so this is where you've been hiding
15:04something you need
15:05just a reminder
15:06the press is looking for echo
15:08of course
15:09some people may be looking for more than just echo
15:17this series should move a little deeper inside
15:23why?
15:24because this shouldn't be the first place people see
15:27you say that like you've actually been there
15:29of course i've been there
15:32east district of the old town
15:34behind the abandoned water tower
15:37through the alley
15:38barely wide enough for one person
15:39up three flights of rusted stairs
15:42and there's a cracked cement platform on top
15:50how do you paint this place exactly as it was
15:54art doesn't need to explain every source
15:56stop hiding
15:59that place
16:00other than me
16:02only one other person knew
16:10who are you?
16:12echo
16:12the media vans arrived early
16:14looks like i came at an interesting time
16:18finish what you were about to say
16:22the harder a man hides
16:24the more valuable the face behind the mask must be
16:31echo
16:32is your refusal to show your face part of your artistic philosophy or are you hiding something?
16:37a real artist usually doesn't need to hide a mask
16:39this is an interview
16:41not a personal provocation
16:42unless what some people are selling was never the work but the secret
16:51that's enough
16:53did i say something untrue?
16:55the contract permits anonymity
16:57the curation supports anonymity
16:59if you can't tell the difference between professionalism and humiliation
17:02leave the floor now
17:04you humiliated me in public for him?
17:07you crossed the line first
17:08you really are protective of him
17:15don't pay attention to him
17:17thank you
17:22if you're so determined to protect him
17:25i want you to move tonight
17:27hack Maeve's private email
17:30i'm not asking for a risk assessment
17:32i want the truth
17:47lift the left side a little
17:52i keep dreaming about him lately
17:57who?
18:02that boy who disappeared
18:05in the dream
18:07he's still 17
18:08standing on the rooftop
18:10looking at me like
18:11he's waiting for me to say something
18:13maybe he really is
18:15if he came back
18:17would i still have the right to explain?
18:21some people aren't waiting for an explanation
18:23then what are they waiting for?
18:26courage
18:29so it really is you
18:31that line?
18:33it sounds like something he would say
18:35maybe you just miss him too much
18:38echo
18:38i need you backstage right now
18:43what did they get?
18:49not everything yet but enough
18:53damien
18:53no one else would do this right before the opening
18:57some people aren't waiting for an explanation
18:59but
19:00courage
19:03where did you get that line you said earlier?
19:07it came to me so i said it
19:08but it sounded like it was meant for me
19:11maybe some words were always meant for you
19:19you two look deeply engaged
19:23don't look at me like that
19:25i'm in a very good mood tonight
19:26stay away from him
19:31too late
19:38Noah Grayson
19:41no need
19:42on opening night
19:43i'll make everyone watch the show together
19:48if anything happens tomorrow
19:50you leave immediately
19:51this time
19:52i don't want to run
20:00we can still cancel your public appearance
20:05no
20:07you know how high the risk is tonight
20:09i've already run once
20:10i'm not running again
20:13then at least promise me this
20:14whatever happens
20:16don't carry it alone
20:23it's not the mystery
20:24it's that there's someone in those paintings
20:26who has been silent for a long time
20:28but never truly left
20:37when tomorrow night is over
20:39i want to know everything about you
20:43what if you regret it once you know
20:44what if you regret it once you know
20:45then that should still be my choice
20:53don't leave me outside the door again
21:02after the opening i'll tell you
21:15i guess you'd still be here
21:20for the first time since this was hung i feel like it's finally complete
21:25because the exhibition is finally complete
21:28because i finally know what i need to do after tomorrow
21:34what
21:37tell you the truth
21:40why after tomorrow
21:44because some answers should be spoken
21:46after everything is over
21:49what if i say i don't want to wait anymore
21:52just one more night
21:54okay
22:01tomorrow night
22:03everyone will see it with their own eyes
22:07is there an issue with the back down access
22:11damn it
22:14after tomorrow night ends
22:15i'm coming to find you
22:18i'll wait for you
22:22the countdown has started
22:38welcome to echo's opening night
22:43who is noah grayson
22:53get the shot
23:10this isn't how it was
23:17looks like the secret revealed itself tonight
23:24don't touch him
23:29it's him we got him
23:30eli
23:33so it really was you
23:48mr grayson
23:49why did you hide your identity
23:51what exactly is the relationship between eco and noah grayson
23:54was this a carefully staged deception
24:07eli
24:09why
24:10i wasn't trying to deceive you
24:12not trying
24:14you stood in front of me every day
24:16heard everything i said
24:19watched me chase my own past like a madman
24:22you'd rather wear a mask than say my name even once
24:24when i came back i thought you didn't need me anymore
24:28so you made that decision for me
24:32back off
24:33everyone back off
24:36do you know what's most ridiculous
24:37i almost believed you again
24:39leave now
24:40right now
24:41the car is waiting at the side exit
24:43i ruined everything again
24:45our collaboration ends here
24:47the artist behind the million dollar echo masks
24:50has finally been unmasked
24:56effective immediately
24:58the gallery is terminating all collaboration with noah grayman and the echo brand
25:04this is the only way to contain the damage
25:09go make the announcement to the press
25:16eli signed the termination
25:17okay
25:19you're not even going to fight it
25:21the way he looked at me last night said everything
25:25the gallery respects art and it respects the public's right to know
25:29as for eco's hidden identity
25:31we had no prior knowledge
25:34he's washing his hands clean
25:36let him
25:46you look like you didn't survive the night
25:48i was deceived by the one person who should never have deceived me
25:52or maybe it was someone most afraid of losing you
25:54didn't know how to return
25:55if that's the reason why not say a single word
25:58i'm not leaving
26:03why didn't you say a single word
26:04you left for 10 years
26:06and even when you came back
26:07this is what you do to me
26:18you've only remembered that he left
26:19but you never really looked at what he left behind
26:27when was this
26:28after graduation night
26:30he came by the house the next day
26:31you weren't there
26:32he left this behind
26:34he came back for me
26:37some people don't leave on purpose
26:39they just believe no one would ask them to stay
26:47i don't want the mask anymore
26:49then what do you want
26:51i want to answer once
26:53with my real name
27:02if you don't hate me come find me
27:15this time
27:15i won't leave you waiting alone
27:21call the print workshop
27:23did you name it?
27:26answer
27:30no one hasn't released any public statement
27:32what is he planning?
27:33maybe this time
27:34maybe this time
27:34he doesn't want to rely on explanations
27:40this isn't a commercial job
27:42this is a 10 year late answer
27:53are you sure about this?
27:56yes
27:57this time i won't use the name echo
28:01i'll answer as noah grazen
28:16i'm asking that question again with my real name
28:1910 years later
28:30mr grazen
28:30is this your public response?
28:32who are you speaking to?
28:33do you realize this could cause even more controversy?
28:39but some things shouldn't stay hidden anymore
28:51i'm asking that question again with my real name
28:5310 years later
28:54mr eli?
28:56cancel everything on my schedule
28:57but the board meeting
28:58cancel all of it
29:23step back
29:24give them space
29:26step back
29:32so you weren't forcing an answer from me
29:37i just wanted you to know the question is still there
29:39and so is the choice
29:48that night
29:49it wasn't that i didn't want to answer
29:51i simply couldn't believe someone could love me like that
29:58i thought you deserved someone better
30:09noah
30:10this time you don't have to wait for me
30:13this time
30:14i'm not running
30:17no matter what your answer is
30:19my silence back then wasn't rejection
30:23i was afraid
30:25afraid i didn't deserve a love like yours
30:31will you still take it?
30:33that answer is very very late
30:36i will
30:37damien hall?
30:39yes
30:39what is this about?
30:41you are suspected of illegally obtaining private information
30:44hacking private email accounts
30:45orchestrating public defamation
30:47you need to come with us for questioning
30:50surprised?
30:55it was you
30:56i told you not to touch what wasn't yours
31:03this is a misunderstanding
31:06i've been Terry Lee
31:07a misunderstanding?
31:09you illegally obtained noah's identity records
31:11hacked my private email
31:13manipulated the opening night control system
31:16and orchestrated a deliberate public humiliation
31:19i gave you time to stop at every step
31:22you chose not to
31:24you're not seriously taking their side are you?
31:30it's not their side
31:32you crossed the line a long time ago
31:35as of now
31:36all your permissions at the gallery are revaked
31:39that includes management authority
31:40financial access
31:41and all project attribution rights
31:44so the gallery is officially cutting ties with damien
31:46mr. eli do you admit the gallery mishandled the eco situation?
31:51i admit the real mistake wasn't that someone wore a mask
31:54it was that someone used another person's wounds as chips to win
31:57if it weren't for him
31:59you would never have walked away from me
32:01i was never on your side to begin with
32:05mr. grayson
32:06will you continue working under the name echo?
32:13yes i guess that's a mysterious sex sir
32:19no
32:21but for the road ahead
32:22i want to walk it under my real name
32:26what is the relationship between the two of you now?
32:29we're the people each of us found far too late
32:32but last
32:33not too late to lose each other
32:46welcome back
32:50not back
32:53it's a new beginning
32:54for my silence
32:55ten years ago
32:57i should apologize too
32:58for keeping you outside the mask for so long
33:01and for the hesitation
33:02anger
33:03and hurtful things
33:07congratulations you two bosses
33:08you don't sound very congratulatory
33:11because i know the real challenge isn't the media
33:13it's the two of you finally making decisions together
33:16so you finally admit it
33:19i'll admit that
33:21what are you painting this time?
33:25two people
33:30but not from the back this time
33:33then where are they looking?
33:40the same direction
33:44this time
33:46will you run again?
33:48no
33:50because this time
33:51you're finally by my side
33:53thank you for hanging out with me
33:57and to see you
33:57you
33:57now
34:00you
34:01you
34:01you
34:02you
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