“Marriage should be decided by the parties involved.” That gets a nearly audible laugh out of Na-ri who’s impressed with Ji-an’s balls of steel. She’s ready to face the public to handle the issue in her own way, taking offense at the President’s comments that they should just get married. They tell Ji-an that no one will be any more forgiving for their public announcement. We’re back at the end of last episode and the entire company is abuzz from Ji-an’s staff to the higher ups. Tae-kang says, “Life is a do or die.” So they agree to face tomorrow head on together as long as marriage isn’t part of their solution. As soon as she does, the lid to that well will shut. Tae-kang takes out the shoes and at her insistence that they’re his, he tells her that she can’t lose these or give them away. She realizes that she’s been trapped inside the same well she’s dug for 15 years that facing the rest of the world frightens her. Making it would mean having the whole world in her hand. He corrects her that it’s the ceiling but to her it was an unattainable sky. He finds Ji-an staring upwards and asks what she’s looking at. He heads to the company loggy after he gets a text from Ji-an. Tae-kang goes through the box Ji-an prepared for him and catches his breath at the sight of Ji-an’s first redesigned shoes. It’s now just a matter of time before all three of them are fired.īut Tae-kang tells him that losing their jobs isn’t the issue, “To me, the worst is not being able to see you, Ankle, or Ankle’s mother.” In the same way that Dad doesn’t want his son to leave him neither does he want to be separated from his budding family. and we hear crashing sounds and shouts of chaos in the background.ĭad finds it absurd that Tae-kang has chosen to stay than taking the shot to advance his career. But then Tae-kang slowly grabs for the photo album…. Sitting down, Tae-kang starts, “Dad, loving Dad…” which makes Dad fidget. He’s surprised to see Tae-kang return from Ji-an’s place so early since he expected that the two would spend the night together. We backtrack to the previous night and Dad is looking through Tae-kang’s old photos. In our final hour of pregnancy, Ji-an pegs us with some lingering questions: What is the right path to take? How will we know it’s the right one? Maybe we can rest in knowing that we’ll never know what direction life is taking us but remain assured that once we take that step, that’s where real life begins. 158 JJanuI Do, I Do: Episode 16 (Final) by gummimochi