Here we recap and discuss episode 5 of Love Rain. Caution, spoilers below. Don’t read if you don’t want to know what happens.
Now in the present time, we see In Ha’s son Joon taking a train to a snowy region in Japan. As he gets off, he’s bumped by a girl who’s running to meet her friends: Yoon Hee’s daughter, Ha Na. Joon is apparently a professional photographer and we see him directing the photo-shoot for a model. As he talks with his assistant, Joon says that he’s never had his heart flutter for a girl. Instead, making girls go crazy for him is what he’s good at. Which seems to be true as we see the model he’s working with, who’s apparently pretty famous, try to flirt with him, but he coldly ignores her. She doesn’t take no for an answer though and chases after him in the snow.
Joon has retreated to his car to work and the model has followed him. She tries to put the moves on him and asks him if he knows he has a reputation of making girls fall in love with him in three seconds. He tells her that he knows and that he wants girls to think he’s a playboy so that they’ll keep their distance from him. Joon says he’s uncomfortable with girls and starts spinning a story about how his first love hurt him too much. Uh huh. The model falls for his lie, which amuses him, and he continues spouting more cliché lines about how she’s different and that he’s never felt like this before. He leans in for a kiss, but is interrupted by a strange ringtone on a phone he doesn’t recognize that’s in his pocket. Seriously? Fine, let’s ignore whatever laws of physics it would’ve taken for Ha Na’s phone to get transferred to him by their bump.
He answers the phone and the voice on the other end, Ha Na obviously, is surprised to find out he’s Korean. She doesn’t know how his phone ended up in his pocket either and asks to meet so she can get it back. Ha Na quickly gets her friends to come with her and they board a bus to go to where Joon is. As they ride on the bus, her friends ask Ha Na who she has to see so urgently before going back to Korea, but she just smiles and says it’s a secret.
Now that that interruption is finished, Joon continues his little game with the model, who is completely head over heels for him. However, they’re interrupted again as his assistant comes up to the car and tells him the advertiser wants to stop the shoot. They setup a web chat and Joon demands to know why they’re stopping all of a sudden. The advertiser says that the concept of the snow queen is overdone for the model, something that Joon himself said earlier, and holds up a magazine which shows a completely different image. Joon can only shake his head in disgust and asks why they want him to plagiarize someone, but the advertiser says it’s just paying homage. He can’t take it anymore and starts to walk away, but his assistant stops him. The advertiser says that Joon might have been famous in New York because of his “dirty pictures” but now nobody wants to work with him. As he rambles on, it’s the last straw for Joon and he slams the laptop shut, ending the call.
His assistant runs out after him and says that they have to do this photo-shoot or else they’re out of business. Joon has complete confidence in himself, though, but his assistant shoots back that while Joon might have a family inheritance, he has family debt. The advertiser calls his assistant and Joon tells him not to answer, but in the end the assistant ignores him and answers the call before running away.
Ha Na’s phone rings again and Joon angrily answers the phone. Ha Na asks him where he is, but Joon says he left already and if she really wanted her phone back she should’ve come sooner. She thinks he’s being rude, but when Joon threatens to throw the phone away, Ha Na calms down and asks him, while pouting, where he is now. And looking especially pretty while doing it, I might add.
Joon then hangs up just as his assistant runs up to him and tells him to pack up because they’re leaving. As Joon is driving back, he’s talking on the phone to someone saying that he’ll handle the situation. His assistant is still a little annoyed about him just leaving the shoot like that and asks him if he has an idea for the concept if they’re not doing the snow thing anymore. Joon just glares at him and says he’s thinking.
