Here we recap and discuss episode 8 of Love Rain. Caution, spoilers below. Don’t read if you don’t want to know what happens.
*Writer’s Note*
Sorry this is so late. Was out of town for the weekend so I wasn’t able to do this until today. Enjoy the recap just in time for tomorrow’s episode!
In Ha catches just a glimpse of Yoon Hee and immediately recognizes her. He chases her in the rain and confronts her. Yoon Hee doesn’t recognize the soaking wet crazy person in front of her at first, but quickly realizes who it is. She slowly walks forward and covers him with her yellow umbrella just as it was during one of their meetings all those years ago.
Meanwhile, Joon and Ha Na are taking cover from the rain under the canopy of a food cart. Joon says that they should end their current relationship, but only so that they can start over. Ha Na doesn’t quite understand his meaning, and Joon asks her why she kept calling him. She tells him that she didn’t like how their conversation ended last time and was confused by what Joon said about it being over between them. Joon takes this to mean that Ha Na didn’t want to end their little love-hate relationship. Ha Na just scoffs and says there’s no point in talking to him. She pulls out an umbrella to walk away, but Joon stops her and says he’ll be nice to her from now on. Ha Na asks him why, but before Joon can respond, both their phones start ringing and it’s their parents telling them they’ll be late.
Speaking of In Ha and Yoon Hee, they’ve decided to go into a cafe to catch up. In Ha is so overcome with emotion that he reverts back to his old self can just stares at her without saying anything. He finally does speak up and says he always thought she was dead and why she never looked for him when she came back to Korea. Yoon Hee says she kept up on news of him through the newspapers and found out that he married Hye Jung. He seemed happy without her, so she decided not to bother him for fear of ruining things again. She comments about how it always seems to rain when they’re together and then apologizes for not telling him she was alive all this time.
We then take a break from the emotional side of the story and hear Joon complaining to Ha Na about how the apartment she’s going to check up is up a hill. She asks if why he’s following her then, and he says it’s because he’s being nice. Ha Na then points to her wet shoulder to show he’s been hogging the umbrella, and Joon just complains that it’s okay for her clothes to get wet but not his. He starts complaining about the rain again, but Ha Na says she loves them because she has a lot of good memories of going on walks with her mom in the rain. Joon then asks her if she managed to see her mom’s first love in Japan after all, and Ha Na asks him whose fault it is that she missed out. Since her mom is sick, she wanted her to meet him one last time. She tells him to keep this a secret and runs off with the umbrella when she finds the place, leaving Joon to chase after her in the rain.
As In Ha and Yoon Hee leave the cafe, he’s found himself an umbrella and asks if they can see each other again. Yoon Hee shakes her head, but says it’s been nice seeing him. She says that it’s enough to her to know that they’re both happy, even though her face doesn’t show that. In Ha watches her walk away and then slowly turns around to go his own way. Of course, there was no way he was going to give up on her that easily and he quickly changes his mind to chase after her. Unfortunately, as he scans the streets for her, she’s nowhere to be found.
There’s a simple reason for that: Yoon Hee’s in a drug store applying eye drops, with In Ha frantically searching right outside the glass doors, of course. She says that her eyes felt weary all of a sudden, and the pharmacist is concerned because it seemed like Yoon Hee couldn’t see when she first walked in. Yoon Hee assures her that she’s fine now though and that she just left her meds at home.
