Here we recap and discuss episode 9 of Love Rain. Caution, spoilers below. Don’t read if you don’t want to know what happens.
Ha Na is completely caught off guard by Joon’s confession and finally says that it’s the first time that she’s heard this before when she finally gets her tongue back. The mood quickly reverses as an incredulous Joon asks her if she was really that unpopular in school to have never been confessed to. LOL, totally did not see that one coming. Sudden cocky Joon is back and he’s bragging about how many girls liked him. Ha Na says she knew that already and stutters out how she first saw him with a girl on the bed of his hotel room in Japan. Joon tells her to prepare herself for him liking him and they’re then spotted by Yoon Hee. She asks her daughter who’s beside her, and Ha Na says he’s nobody and runs off to meet her mom, leaving an annoyed Joon pouting like a kid.
When they’re inside their home, Yoon Hee says she’s prepared everything for dinner, but Ha Na keeps trying to come up with excuses to go out briefly to talk to Joon. Her mom counters everything though and Ha Na just has to say she’ll be right back. However, Joon’s nowhere to be found. She does, on the other hand, run into In Ha, and the two immediately recognize each other even though they’ve never met before.
We then cut to Yoon Hee meeting In Ha. He asks her why she lied to him about her husband, to which Yoon Hee can only apologize. He brings up how they promised not to say sorry to each other and how it breaks his heart that he couldn’t find her and be with her. All the feelings that he suppressed in the past come pouring out of his present day self and he confesses how much he missed her.
Meanwhile, Joon has gone back to his car, but decides he needs to at least get Ha Na’s answer and so goes in search of her. He sees his dad meeting with Yoon Hee and walks towards them, but is ambushed and dragged off by Ha Na. Since he only saw him from the back, Joon did not recognize his father and asks Ha Na who that was.
We then cut back to In Ha asking Yoon Hee what he should do now. Her answer to him is to remove her hand from his and tell him that she forgot everything. She lies and says she doesn’t remember very well and that why she’s sorry since he remembered everything. Yoon Hee says she just wants to continue raising Ha Na alone like she has been and asks him to let her cherish their memories.
We then cut back the kids and Ha Na is still amazed that her mom was able to meet with her first love like this. She swoons over how romantic it was and imitates how In Ha asked to see Yoon Hee. Joon, however, doesn’t care and asks Ha Na about her answer to his confession. Ha Na tries to avoid the question and asks if he’s talking about whether she’s moving in, but Joon clarifies for her. She’s trying to stall for time again and ties to run off when she sees her mom walking back to the house. Joon grabs her though and demands an answer now. Ha Na honestly admits that she doesn’t know anything about him and that they’ve only fought so far. Joon gets mad and pettily says that his confession didn’t mean much to him either and storms off. Rough night for the Suh family men.
Back at the home, Ha Na asks her mom who her guest was, but Yoon Hee is evasive and says it was just someone. Not quite the answer that Ha Na wants to hear and so Ha Na is forced to admit that she knows who he is from reading her diary before. She asks her mom if they’re going to start seeing each other now, but Yoon Hee says that he’s just an old friend. Ha Na is persistent, though, and says she even someone slow like her can see how much her mom misses him even now. Yoon Hee tells her that she has no regrets about leaving him and that’s why it won’t work between them now. Suddenly, she says she feels tired and retreats to her room where we see her testing her eyes.
In Ha has just finished a lecture when he sees Ha Na has come to see him. We see them talking on a bench before cutting quickly back to Ha Na packing up her belongings to move to Seoul. She tells her mother that she got a job as a gardener and that she’ll be able to live there for a while. In Sung and Cho Soo are surprised when she shows up with her stuff and plants at the cafe, but Sun Ho quickly greets her and shows her to her room. He tells her she can stay as long as she likes, but Ha Na says she found a place already and she’ll only need to be here for three weeks.
