Kang surprises Ji-hyun with a hug, moved to do something to help her and frustrated that he can't do more. A few seconds later, Ji-hyun recalls herself and pushes away, asking what he's doing. Kang plays dumb, but in the cutest way ever: "Did I just do something? I was sleepwalking, so I don't remember." LOL. If you think that's gonna work...
It doesn't, so he tells her she looked so lifeless that he acted out of encouragement: "It's a comfort hug!"
He adds that he lived in the U.S. for a decade, where hugs are eeeeverywhere! "Ah, you must not know since you haven't lived in America." HA. Use America as an excuse for everything.
Ji-hyun's still suspicious, so he reminds her that she'd called herself an orphan with nobody to count on. That makes Ji-hyun pout inwardly that he's smitten with Yi-kyung, and she tells him that a guy with a girlfriend shouldn't go around hugging other women. He clarifies that he never said he had a girlfriend, just that there was a woman he liked.
She retorts that he took someone that big bouquet of roses, and he replies that it was to lift her spirits and give her energy. She yells, "But you just hugged ME to give me energy!"
Two...plus two...is...? Sigh, Ji-hyun, our endearing little dummy.
At a distance, Min-ho's lackey finally has some evidence to take back to his evil boss, having snapped a photo of the hug.
The not-couple heads back to Heaven, where Kang orders a full meal for the two of them. But they're still maintaining appearances, so he pretends it's all for himself - but he only wants a taste of everything, and the rest will go to waste...so...
That's enough excuse to get Ji-hyun eating. To continue with his whole motivate-Ji-hyun-secretly plan, he tries to work in some encouragement by telling her, "Why are you eating right now?" Ji-hyun: "Because you told me to." Kang: "No, it's because we eat to live.To live. LIVING is more important than anything."
Not surprisingly, his crypticness just puzzles her; she's basically tells him that she understands the words coming out of his mouth, but has no idea what he's getting at.
Kang explains that love, revenge, and eating are all pointless once you die. But now we're getting too close to the truth, so to ward off her suspicion that he's on to her, he reminds her that she'd told him she had a limited time to live.
Later, Kang puzzles over the details with Manager Oh, about how Ji-hyun hid her seal on the day she was supposed to be married. Kang is now looking into the Haemido project, tapping contacts at other companies for info. Manager Oh thinks Kang should be concentrating on the whole how-to-keep-Ji-hyun-alive issue, but Kang is afraid he'll endanger Ji-hyun by mishandling her secret. Right now, he decides, the priority is getting Ji-hyun's father into surgery.
Manager Oh's wife has been trying to come up with ways to "prove one's true feelings," and suggests that the key is in one's gaze, since the eyes are the window to the soul. (Or, in Korean, the mirror to your feelings.) Kang thinks she's on to something.
Thirteen episodes in, and finally the Scheduler gets his music-video moment as he basks in the sunlight listening to music. Naturally he's grumpy when Ji-hyun interrupts, worried that Kang's on to her secret. The Scheduler replies that from a logical point of view, nobody would believe her secret as true, and in any case, as long as nobody finds out as a result of Ji-hyun's own behavior, she's in the clear. (Loophole being: People are free to find out on their own.)
Another nugget of info he drops: Even if Ji-hyun lives, she won't remember her 49 days. If she did, that would upset the balance of, like, the world.
Horrified that all her newfound knowledge would fly out the window, Ji-hyun realizes that she has to take care of the Min-ho situation before the 49 days are up, so that she won't go back to her trusting ways and marry him. The Scheduler says cryptically: "You might, or you might not."
