Oh My Venus (Korean Drama)

Episode 14

We go back to February 2015, with Young-ho still in the hospital after his debilitating accident. His dreams are full of Joo-eun's face and voice, but when he wakes, he's always in the same hospital bed.

In the present, he thinks to himself that during this time, his heart hurts worse than his body. But more than that, he would hate seeing Joo-eun cry because of him. He'd gone to her door then left again several times a day.

While recuperating, he'd knit a pink scarf to give to Joo-eun when he saw her again, a skill he'd learned while in the hospital as a child. In fact, he'd knit a scarf for his mother while she was away for work, but she'd never come home for him to give it to her. Now we see adult Young-ho knitting next to the memory of himself as a child, with the same hope in his heart — to give this scarf to the woman he loves most, the next time he sees her.

Stepmom recovers enough to be recharged from the hospital, and she comes by Young-ho's room just to ask Manager Min how he's doing. She asks Min to relay her gratitude and goodbyes to Young-ho, Dad, and Grandma.

Young-ho takes a break from his knitting to read the book on dating that Joo-eun gave him when she moved out of the villa. Now he takes the time to read it, with a sweet little half-smile on his face. He reads a line that says that after breaking up, time just becomes a matter of endurance, and sighs to himself.

It's Young-ho's turn now to see a phantom of Joo-eun sitting in front of him, and he reflexively covers his injured leg with the blanket. Joo-eun's memory hugs him as he shakes, telling him that it will be okay and he'll be better soon. Young-ho seems comforted, but once she disappears, his leg begins to act up and he whimpers in pain.

Young-ho starts to cry in earnest, and we see that the words Joo-eun said, "It's okay, you'll get better soon, everything will be better soon," were only in her book. Now his pain seems more about missing her than anything physical.

A few months later, Young-ho is allowed to go home in a wheelchair. He stops when he sees a bandage stuck to the outside of the door, the same way Joo-eun stuck her bandages he gave her to the post in her house.

We see that she left it there the night she told him she'd wait for him, and Manager Min made sure that nobody removed it, all this time. Young-ho takes it down and puts it on his hand, getting all choked up but looking hopeful.

Dad meets with Young-ho's doctors, who credit his good health with his quick healing. But his muscles have atrophied since he's been bedridden, so they warn that he may never walk normally again. Dad only says that his recovery from osteosarcoma was a miracle, so he has hope for another.

Young-ho thinks about the nature of humanity as he's wheeled out of the hospital, musing that all people are sick in one way or another. Everyone lives while enduring it, so there's no use in crying about it.

Manager Min takes him to the airport, where he remembers his grandmother dropping him off when she'd sent him to the States. He hears Joo-eun's voice telling him to come back to her handsome and sexy, as he's wheeled to his plane.

Back in the States, Young-ho endures months of high tech, excruciating physical therapy to regain his ability to walk. Though both of his legs were badly damaged, he does make good progress. After this much time, he has nearly one hundred unread text messages from Joo-eun, but he resists reading them, though not without difficulty. He knows that if he does, he'll want to see her right away, but he's not ready yet.

Joon-sung and Ji-woong travel to visit Young-ho, and show off Joon-sung' s shiny new wrestling title. Aww, Joon-sung looks like an insecure child, hoping for Young-ho's approval. Ji-woong just climbs in bed to cuddle with Young-ho, as he does, and Young-ho congratulates Joon-sung with all the pride of a father.