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REWATCH: Personal Taste - Ep 6 - Part 2 of 2
Where the heart goes, the lips too
Drained from a day of pretending marital bliss, JinHo and GaeIn collapse on their butts as soon as they get home. “Aigoo,” GaeIn huffs, much like an old ahjumma. JinHo also gathers his energy, although more quietly. GaeIn looks on the bright side, “Because of our part time gig today, looks like we’ll have enough side dishes for a month.” JinHo glances at her but says nothing, too tired to converse. GaeIn rattles on, “In all the 10 years I’ve known YoungSun, this is the most food she’s ever packed for me. It’s all because of you, JinHo-sshi! What a difference from her usual!” She’s oohing and aahing at the colorful array of pickled, marinated and egg-fried banchan. JinHo rolls his eyes, pretending to be annoyed, but he’s half-smiling, pleased that she’s pleased by all the food. He’s also amused by her child-like glee over the edible payment and her over exaggerated noises of delight. This girl likes food—a lot. She tries to get him to try some of it and holds it out for him between her fingertips. Of course, he complains about her unsanitary ways, “Uh, so dirty…without even washing your hands first…” She ignores his complaints and keeps insisting he sample. As always, he gives in and accepts the bite from her fingers. “It’s good? Right?” she asks eagerly. He mumbles, “Hmmm.” Focus still on being clean, he asks if she wants to wash up first, to which she replies she can’t for a few days anyway. He mutters as he gets up, “It’s not like you’re normally so diligent about washing to begin with.”
Now, at a house not built upon dreams like Sangojae but on a series of shattered ones, Casa del Conceited is alive with angry yelling (unsurprisingly). ChangYul is pleading with InHee to accompany him on a visit with one of his mothers; it’s her wish to have a meal with her son and her new daughter-in-law. “I don’t want to!” InHee screams like a banshee. “Why do I have to do something like that? I’m not that old lady’s daughter-in-law!” She has a point, of course, as she isn’t married to ChangYul and the predicament is his own damn fault, as he won’t tell his mothers the truth. On the other hand, a nice person wouldn’t find the thought of one measly meal with an elder as hugely an Herculean task as InHee does.
ChangYul tries to appeal to the goodness within, apparently under the mis-impression that InHee had found time to visit the Wizard and has been told where to find her heart. “When we end it between us, we’ll end it properly, but right now, I’m asking you for this favor.” Not only is InHee completely uninterested in offering even a crumb of kindness to ChangYul but she also takes the opportunity to tell him how subnormal it is for him to cater to his string of ex-stepmoms. “It’s not like there’s only one or two of them but seven,” she snarks. ChangYul doesn’t like her demeaning his mothers, because to him, each and every one of them are special.
Disgusted, she tells him this yet another example of his weakling ways, just as he can’t completely cut GaeIn out of his heart, he can’t cut out all these other women either. “I’d rather die than pretend to be a daughter-in-law so don’t bother me with these kinds of things ever again!” ChangYul shouts after her, “Hey! Kim InHee! Kim InHee!” It doesn’t matter how long or how loud he calls her name, the simple fact is, InHee couldn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone’s feelings but her own. On the phone with his mother, ChangYul can’t get out of the promise he made without InHee’s consent. He says into the call, “Of course we’ll be there…what’s so difficult about having one last meal with my mother…?”
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