While You Were Sleeping

Don't Believe Her part 1

Hong-joo sleeps fitfully as she has a dream: She's lying in a field wearing a broadcast station jacket, looking dead or unconscious as the rain falls. She narrates that she's having that dream again—it hasn't happened yet, but it feels like she's already in that time.

As Hong-joo wakes up covered in sweat, she continues in voiceover, "A dream that feels like I'm still dreaming when I wake up. A nightmarish night, like morning will never come."

She narrates that the only thing that wakes her from this nightmare is the sound of her mother cooking breakfast, telling her that night has gone and dreams have hidden behind the future. "To me, my mom is the morning that wakes me from the night," she says.

On cue, Mom comes into Hong-joo's room to open the curtains and nag her about the state of her room, and Hong-joo mouths all the words along with her and then hugs her tightly. Right away Mom guesses that she had "that dream" again and comforts her quietly.

As Jae-chan gets ready for work, he thinks back to the dream kiss and shakes his head, calling himself crazy. Little bro Seung-won asks if he's leaving so early to meet someone, and Jae-chan says it's to avoid meeting someone.

Just as Seung-won asks who the someone is, the doorbell rings with a food delivery from Hong-joo's house. Jae-chan flails and tries to send Seung-won out to the door, insisting that he can't do it because he looks too good right now, which would lead to a misunderstanding. Pffft.

Seung-won ignores his crazy talk and Jae-chan is forced to go out, but he breathes a sigh of relief when it's Mom outside, not Hong-joo. She hands him a whole tub of fish she's prepared for easy breakfast cooking, and he's so smiley about her not being Hong-joo that she assumes he loves mackerel.

But when he gets to his usual coffee shop, the Cupid Barista says his coffee's already been ordered. She says that he and Hong-joo have been missing each other for days, so she helpfully told Hong-joo to come earlier. Hee.

Jae-chan hides out of sight as Hong-joo takes her usual seat by the window, and he sits there watching her crane her neck and get excited every time she thinks she sees him approach.

He finally goes over there and asks if she's his stalker and has nothing better to do, and why she isn't going back to work. She says she'd rather look at his face than return to work, and he quips that she just doesn't want to work.

Hong-joo turns pensive at that and asks seriously whether she should go back. She says it's fifty-fifty, and leaves it up to Jae-chan to decide for her. He just asks if being a reporter is that difficult that she doesn't want to return, but she says it's because she wants to return that much.

When Jae-chan walks into work, Yoo-bum locks step with him and says he's looking good. Jae-chan: "I was born that way." Lol. Yoo-bum asks if he's dating, and Jae-chan says he is... "with my cases."

Yoo-bum insists that Jae-chan ride the crammed elevator, and then in front of everyone he purposely asks with double meaning, "How far have you gone? When it was me, I was fast—in just one month..." Jae-chan cuts him off, but Yoo-bum finishes by saying that he was awarded for being a top prosecutor in his first month.

He makes a big show of saying that Jae-chan must've misunderstood, only to out Hong-joo's name in front of everyone and brag that he was faster with her too. Ugh, you are disgusting.

After Yoo-bum gets off the elevator, everyone starts whispering that it must be true that Jae-chan stole Yoo-bum's girlfriend, and he awkwardly tells them that he can hear everything. They advise him to defend himself now, hoping to get more information out of him, but Jae-chan refuses to say anything about it.