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In ‘Love Beyond You,’ Seo Kang-jun and Ahn Eun-jin begin a reboot of their “10-year relationship” to make each other’s hearts flutter again. Yet at that very moment, Lee Ju-an as the “other you” and Jo Ara as Cho Ara-ram hint at a new development charged with tension.
In the third episode of KBS 2TV’s new Saturday-Sunday mini-series ‘Love Beyond You’ (directed by Hwang Seung-gi and Lee Ga-ram, written by Yoo Soo-ji), which aired on the night of the 19th, Lee Mi-do (played by Ahn Eun-jin) is shown accepting Namgoong Ho’s (played by Seo Kang-jun) proposal: “Even if it ends in complete chaos, I want to go with you.” The episode drew a national household viewership rating of 2.5%, a drop of 0.3 percentage points from the previous episode’s 2.8% (based on Nielsen Korea data).
On that day, it was revealed that Lee Mi-do attended her father’s memorial service for the first time. The pain of losing her father at an early age had been profound. For Namgoong Ho, who had come to live in Lee Mi-do’s home since he was seven years old due to some circumstances, the absence of family carried the same wound. When he first saw Lee Mi-do, he instinctively sensed that she resembled him, which is why he confessed, “I may not know love, but I thought I wanted to protect her.” His mother Ma Suk-hee (played by Kim Mi-kyung) regarded Namgoong Ho as more of a son than her own child, putting on mosquito nets in summer and checking the boiler and installing anti-slip pads on the stairs in winter. Meanwhile, his older brother Lee Young-do (played by Kim Nam-hee) and younger brother Lee Wan-do (played by Lee Min-jae) felt about Namgoong Ho as if he were their own sibling. Thus, a bond deeper than that of a 10-year couple had taken root between Namgoong Ho and Lee Mi-do.
However, the promise of marriage did not solve everything. Lee Mi-do then poured out her honest feelings: “I want to feel excited about you again. And I hope you’ll feel excited about me again.” She and Namgoong Ho began working on their relationship. They dressed up as if for the first time in a long while, enjoyed a special date at an upscale restaurant, and even changed the way they spoke by ending sentences with the cute honorific “yeom,” softening intense emotions. This was the reality of love for a couple in their 10th year who refused to ignore the boredom that had replaced excitement and instead made efforts to rekindle it.
Meanwhile, a change occurred in the ill-fated relationship between Lee Mi-do and Han Tae-seung (played by Lee Ju-an). While clearing out the rooftop room filled with memories of Namgoong Ho, Lee Mi-do suffered a dangerous accident when she was pinned under a falling bookshelf. As fate would have it, just then, it was not Namgoong Ho but Han Tae-seung who called. The moment he rushed to the scene and lifted the bookshelf, he shielded Lee Mi-do from falling light fixture debris from the ceiling and injured his own hand in the process.
While receiving treatment at the hospital, Lee Mi-do learned that unlike what she had seen on the surface, Han Tae-seung had endured a difficult childhood and, bending and breaking himself appropriately, even cleaned up the dirty aftermath for clients. Unlike Han Tae-seung, who remained unswayed by an enticing offer to return as director, Lee Mi-do sharply retorted, “Work under someone who treats you like a human being.” This left Han Tae-seung strangely intrigued. The two, who had previously growled at each other every time they met, had begun to look at one another more closely. In the process, Lee Mi-do’s long-standing hiccups, which had persisted despite all of Namgoong Ho’s efforts, finally stopped.
Namgoong Ho was also hinted to have a past with his junior colleague Park Soo-ah (played by Cho Ara). When the bold Park Soo-ah investigated suspicions of irregularities involving the swapping of raw materials, Namgoong Ho scolded her like an older “kkan-da” (senior) colleague, warning that she could endanger the entire team. Yet while publicly discouraging her, he secretly checked the route of the raw material transport vehicles. Eventually, they ended up hiding together in a cargo truck after both chasing the same clue, leading to an intensely close situation. For the first time seeing Park Soo-ah’s face in detail, Namgoong Ho unexpectedly said, “Deok-soon-ah, you’ve grown so much.” This moment sparked curiosity about how two people who had first met as direct supervisor and junior colleague became entangled in such a connection.
And at the end of that day’s broadcast, coincidentally, the “other you” simultaneously entered both Namgoong Ho’s and Lee Mi-do’s lives. On a hot night when they held each other tightly in their arms, messages arrived on their phones side by side. The message to Lee Mi-do was from Han Tae-seung, and the one to Namgoong Ho was from Park Soo-ah.
Just as Namgoong Ho and Lee Mi-do, who had broken up after 10 years of dating and then chosen each other again with a promise of marriage, were striving to regain the excitement they had lost, Han Tae-seung and Park Soo-ah, now closer than ever, were about to stir unfamiliar emotions in the two. The episode hinted at a full-scale shift in the relationships among all four characters, heightening the tension of the calm before the storm.
The fourth episode of ‘Love Beyond You’ will air on the night of the 20th at 9:20 p.m. It will be released simultaneously with domestic broadcast to viewers in over 240 countries worldwide
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