Yoon Hye-jin (Shin Min-a), an intelligent and pretty dentist living in the big city, loses her job after she righteously accuses the corrupt head doctor of profiteering. She embarks on a trip to the idyllic seaside village of Gongjin, where she meet...
We open up with the same painful scene between Hye-jin and Doo-shik — she confronts him on why he won’t open up to her. She says he’s changing and drifting away (is he though?) and that she doesn’t know him anymore. All of a sudden it’s put up an iron wall between them; Hye-jin leaves upset. Doo-shik stands there in shock with his eyes welled with tears.
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The upsetness hits Hye-jin once she’s outside. She runs into Hwa-jung and can only keep on her happy face for so long. She weeps openly. Hwa-jung is kind and encourages her over breakfast.
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However, Hwa-jung is nobody’s fool and knows there’s a lovers’ spat going on. She offers to be Hye-jin’s confidant, and shares what she knows about Doo-shik’s past. She relates how when he returned to Gongjin after college and military service he was broken. Hye-jin says that Doo-shik has told her nothing about himself; Hwa-jung counters that she’s never seen him happier and very maturely explains that it’s not easy for him to trust and open up to others.
Doo-shik is distressed; he calls Hye-jin, but gets no answer. Instead, he heads out to help in the village, walking past a woman who’s driving into town — it’s the same woman in his hidden photo
The woman is JI SUN-AH (Kim Ji-hyun), Sung-hyun’s older sister. She’s brought her adorable son for a visit, and he clearly adores his uncle. The two catch up with some good old-fashioned sibling banter. We learn that Sung-hyun missed her wedding all those years ago because he was working out of the country, and that Sun-ah has long been meaning to visit Gongjin because “someone she knows” always talked about their hometown. Uh-oh.
Hye-jin’s taken a nap and wakes up to see the missed call from Doo-shik. He apologizes and wants to meet up with her right way to finish their conversation, but Hye-jin says she doesn’t want to see him and they need some time apart. Not to break up — just because she says they need time to get to a place where Doo-shik no longer says “Sorry” as a replacement for opening his heart.
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