Flower Boy Next Door Episode 10
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Facing the departure gate, it finally dawns on Enrique that he’s been grasping at straws for a reason to stay—someone who’d need him at the company, a deal that couldn’t be done without him. But now he knows: “I didn’t need those things. I can leave whenever I want.”
Seo-young argues that his stuff is already on the plane and it’s about to take off. She tells him that everything that seems so dire now will fade as soon as he gets back home.
Enrique: “No. The reason I can’t leave is with me—It’s still okay, I can stop here, I can leave anytime—I was fooling myself like this. But you know me. Once I start a game, I have to see the end no matter what. I can’t end it here.” She relents, telling him to follow his heart to that end then, and not to give up like she did. She boards the plane, leaving him behind.
Enrique rushes back, now armed with Seo-young’s phone. He tries calling Dok-mi, but she’s busy buying flowers and misses his call. He grows more and more incensed as he thinks about Do-hwi, and then Jin-rak, who is now a con artist and evil webtoon plagiarist in his eyes.
Jin-rak is still stuck at the meeting with his editor, who seems to have taken a liking to Dong-hoon. She wonders if he hasn’t slept because he looks so tired, and tells him that she’s not going to allow herself to sleep more than four hours a night until she’s 35. Ha, well that explains the constant dark circles and raging anger.
Jin-rak gets a call from Enrique, whose face darkens as he says he doesn’t really care that much about the plagiarism, “But why did you hide your identity? I don’t like people who can’t be honest. I can’t have someone who isn’t honest… by Ajumma’s side. So leave her side. Until you do, I won’t return to Spain.”
Jin-rak jumps up and rushes out to the party, frantic about getting there before Enrique. “Because I was first!”
Dok-mi arrives at the party, and we catch up to the scene that closed the last episode, as Do-hwi introduces their old teacher with a nasty smile. Dok-mi drops the flowers in her hand in shock.
The two boys arrive at nearly the same time, or at least appear to in split-screen, both muttering simultaneously about this sinking feeling of nervousness.
Inside, Dok-mi sits nervously as Do-hwi catches her up on what Teach has been up to. He turns to her and asks if she’s still writing, remembering the play they wrote when she was in high school.
She’s near tears and growing increasingly agitated, which no one seems to notice. She finally speaks: “You’re all… fine. You all ask me without a care. You’re all… so cruel.” It seems to jab at Teach, while Do-hwi just scoffs like the evil snake that she is.
Dok-mi blinks back her tears and gets up, staggering to the door. The room grows fuzzier with each step, and she starts to fall…
But Enrique is there to catch her. “Ajumma, ajumma.” A tear trickles down her cheek as she looks up at him and thinks to herself, “You left. Why are you here?” And then she faints in his arms.
Do-hwi then comes running up feigning concern… and then we see that it’s Jin-rak holding her up, not Enrique. Omo. Did she imagine him as Enrique? Omo.
Jin-rak screeeeeeams, “What the hell did you do?!” He carries her out and rushes off to the hospital, leaving the entire party standing in the street. Enrique arrives just then and demands to know what happened.
Do-hwi just wails that she doesn’t know why everyone’s blaming her. Uh, because you’re basically the one standing over the dead body with the knife in your hand and looking guilty? Hypothetically. For instance.
Enrique growls that he’s like a dog with a bone when he wants to get to the bottom of something, and demands to know what the hell she did, back then and now. “What did you do to make a person shut herself away so completely?!”
Dok-mi wakes up in the hospital, a little embarrassed and insisting that she’s fine. Jin-rak doesn’t let her off the hook so easily, and asks what happened back in high school. He says that Do-hwi’s version of the story sounded not quite right, and wonders if he hasn’t stood by and watched her long enough to merit that much trust.
Enrique arrives just then, and sees them together. He stands behind a curtain, as Dok-mi starts to tell Jin-rak (in vague terms) about waking up famous one day. She went to school not knowing what rumors were circulating about her and didn’t know how to handle it, or even how to run away.
“Why do people hate other people? Why do they treat them differently? Why do they want to step on the weak? There must be people who aren’t like that. Where are all those people? I thought if there were just one person like that, it would be nice. Since then, being alone was always more comfortable.”
She cries while saying the words, and Enrique cries while hearing them from behind the curtain.
Jin-rak thanks her for opening up to him, and offers up a pathetically cute confession in exchange that he was a loser in high school too. It’s pathetic because it’s sort of like telling a person who got hit by a car that you have a paper cut, but it’s cute because he means well by it.
She starts to get up, when Enrique shows himself. Dok-mi immediately thinks back to her hallucination and smiles to see that he really didn’t leave. Aw. He challenges Jin-rak to confess anything else he’s hiding, and they exchange charged looks.
He rushes over to Dok-mi and apologizes for insisting she make up with Do-hwi, and speaking too quickly before even knowing the whole story. “But the one person who’s one your side… isn’t Oh Jin-rak.”
When it’s time to check out and pay the hospital bill, Jin-rak stands off to the side, pitifully emptying his pockets and sighing to himself, as Enrique pays the bill. Dok-mi promises to pay him back.
The two boys walk ahead as Dok-mi trails behind, and they finally have it out. Enrique says that he can’t leave Jin-rak by Dok-mi’s side, and Jin-rak in turn calls him out for liking her.
They go back and forth in a round of over-my-dead-body, and Jin-rak swears that even if it’s not him (to stay by Dok-mi’s side), it won’t be Enrique. Enrique of course says the same—he can’t let it be Hyung.
They’re so busy having their shouting match over Dok-mi that by the time they turn around, she’s long gone. Pwaha. Serves you right.
She walks home on her own, thinking back to the moment she saw Teacher tonight, and then back to high school, when he weaseled out and named her as the one who was obsessed with him and left the school.
She heads to a realtor to start looking for a new apartment, and says that it doesn’t matter where; she’ll go wherever the security deposit is cheapest.
Enrique finds her on her way back home, and she asks why he returned. He can’t quite bring himself to tell her the truth, so he puts on his happy face and says it’s because of his book… and then admits he came because he was worried about her.
She tells him that she played his board game and did what it told her to—she opened her door and stepped outside but this happened. “You don’t need to worry anymore, because I’m not going to throw the dice again.”
He says that her teacher was 28 at the time, (ah, so it must’ve been Teach who told him what happened) and that he was so scared of losing his job that he thought of himself first before protecting Dok-mi. Years later he realized how terrible that was and gave up teaching.
He tells her that her teacher came today because he wanted to apologize to her, and asked Enrique to tell her so. But Dok-mi counters coldly that she doesn’t want an apology—are those words supposed to make her feel better? I know, right? Even I’M angry at that measly apology. So you quit teaching, boo hoo. .
Enrique tries to get her to overcome the problem using another soccer analogy, but it has the opposite effect of making her shut down completely. She says, dripping with cold sarcasm, that he’s right and she’s all better now, and walks away. He sighs, knowing it’s a flat-out lie.
Jin-rak waits and waits in the hallway, and eventually goes home.
Inside, Dok-mi opens up Enrique’s board game and holds the dice in her hand. Enrique opens up the USB drive from Jin-rak and finds a picture of a notebook—proof that he didn’t plagiarize Zombie Soccer. And Jin-rak puts away the notice of his debt case.
Dok-mi writes more of her work in progress:
That woman’s door did not open for a long time. Invitations began to pile on her doorstep, two, then three. A person who came close like a new breeze, a person who blocks a gale like a shelter from the wind. For the first time, that woman grows afraid of her own desire to open her door.
Dong-hoon is still moonlighting as a flower boy designated driver, and has an unfortunate accident when he backs up into another car. Suddenly his webtoon editor arrives at the same club and barges her way in.
It turns out he called her, not wanting Jin-rak to know about any of this, and begs her to co-sign the contract that he’ll repay the cost of damages to the other car. She hems and haws, but eventually signs, and they share a cute little moment looking into each other’s eyes.
Dok-mi heads out the next morning and hands the security guard ajusshi an envelope. He’s in the middle of catching the neighbor ajumma from falling, which Dok-mi mistakes for a public display of affection and leads to awkward looks all around.
Enrique gets all riled up watching his team lose at soccer, screaming that he can’t trust a soul in this world, like they personally betrayed him or something. He furiously draws a sketch of Jin-rak’s plan (to woo Dok-mi), which basically involves watching her from a distance for a long time.
He declares that he’ll just do the opposite then, and say that he was the first to take her to the beach and the first to storm into her apartment… and then buries his face in embarrassment: “Why does it all sound so childish?” Because it is?
But then to his utter surprise, Dok-mi shows up at his doorstep. She’s here to repay him for the hospital bill, but he looks at it with an evil eye, knowing that the second he takes it, she’ll zoom away. Hee. But she asks to come inside. His eyes widen and he nods eagerly.
At the same time, the security guard and ajumma knock on Jin-rak’s door to tell him that Dok-mi returned the settlement money from their protest because she’s moving. The ajumma says everyone in the neighborhood knows that Jin-rak likes 402 (aw) and they all sigh in sympathy as the news sinks in.
He thinks back to the only request he ever made—for Dok-mi to just remain where she is.
Enrique rattles off this story about how he ran out from the airport, and then stopped at a Chinese restaurant. (That’s why you were late? Pffft.) He says he always racked his brains choosing between jajangmyun and jjampong, and so decided to try the dish that combines the two flavors.
But what he found was that it didn’t taste the same at all—he likes each separately, but not together. Was it because of the lost anticipation of choosing one and missing the other? He says resolutely that from now on, he’ll think about it carefully and choose one or the other.
Dok-mi interrupts his rambling to say thank you, which we know is a goodbye. She thanks him for everything he’s done for her, and says that when she thinks of the ocean, it’ll make her smile and give her strength.
She says she feels bad that he’s only ever done nice things for her and she’s never done anything for him. He pouts that it’s like she’s saying thanks but it sounds more like I’m sorry, and tells her to be nice to him from now on.
He thinks of something right away, and asks her to come with him to his book signing tomorrow, and wear a dress on the red carpet. He giggles to himself in excitement, but realizes it’s asking a lot of her, so he just asks her to come along.
She says in response: “[He's/You're] a good person…” Enrique blushes, thinking she means him. But she finishes: “Oh Jin-rak-sshi.” *gasp* What?
She says that she feels comfortable enough with Jin-rak to tell him about herself. His face falls, “So you chose… between jajangmyun and jjampong. You thought about it carefully, right?” She doesn’t answer.
She leaves the envelope of money and heads to the door. He reaches over to open the door for her, and they end up face-to-face. He raises a finger to touch her forehead and their eyes lock.
Enrique: “When I looked at you, I strangely used to think I could hear your voice. But now… I can’t hear anything. I don’t know. I really don’t know.” Augh, puppy. He opens the door and she walks out.
Dong-hoon checks their webtoon stats online and gapes to see their average rating as 1.5, with a total of 11 votes (including the two of them, sadly). Jin-rak barely hears him, he’s so depressed about Dok-mi moving away.
The doorbell rings and he flings the door open angrily, jumping in shock to see Dok-mi at his door. She asks him to go to a Van Gogh exhibit with her (like a date?), and he beams. “I love you! I mean, not you! I love Van Dok-mi! I mean, Van Gogh!” Hahaha. You’re such a spazz.
But around the corner, Enrique has overheard the whole exchange and pouts that he likes Van Gogh too. Waah, I don’t think I can handle it if his heart gets broken.
It’s the day of his book signing, and though he puts on a happy face, all he can think about is Dok-mi and Jin-rak making time with Van Gogh. He finishes the signing and takes his camcorder on a tour of the city, and picks up two stalkers in the process. One looks like his ajumma stalker anti-fan, and the other looks a lot like Seo-young from behind.
He’s bobbing along down the street when suddenly the ajumma stalker jumps out and pushes him down, into oncoming traffic. What the?
The car comes to a screeching halt. Eep, did he get hit?
At the art gallery, Dok-mi grabs a pamphlet and gets a paper cut, drawing blood in the same spot where she had pricked her finger trying to close her curtains and keep Enrique out.
Enrique lies in the street as people start to gather around him. Suddenly he sees Dok-mi looking down at him, crying with worry. Is it really her? Is it a vision?
He smiles as he looks up at her, and the realization sinks in. He thinks to himself: “I’ve fallen in love.”
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Recap 2.
source: Enews
He’s been looking for a reason to stay behind in Korea, but no one held him back because he was a person who was ready to bolt at any second.
Seo Young doesn’t understand what the problem is, until Enrique says there’s a reason why he can’t leave Korea yet.
Seeing Enrique’s determination, Seo Young hands Enrique her phone and tells him not to give up like she did. She walks away, leaving Enrique behind.
Enrique hops into a cab and calls Dok Mi, but she misses his call, since she′s too busy buying flowers for Do Hui. In the car, Enrique pieces everything together on why Jin Rak changed his name.
“I can’t have a shady person by Ajumma’s side. So stay away from her. I’m
not returning to Spain until then.” Oh snap.
Jin Rak bolts up at Enrique’s ultimatum and leaves the building.
Dong Hoon doesn’t understand what the rush is, and Jin Rak explains that Enrique
knows everything and is only his way to Dok Mi.
“But, I’m going to get there first. I was first from the beginning!”
A cab finally arrives and Jin Rak hops in, leaving Dong Hoon bumbling behind.
Do Hui picks up the flowers, asking if Dok Mi remembers their teacher – their first love. The teacher says he wanted to meet Dok Mi at least once.
Meanwhile, both Enrique and Jin Rak both hop out of their cabs and rush, wondering why something feels so uneasy.
reminisces about how Dok Mi was a great writer and asks if she’s still writing.
As Do Hui and the teacher chit chat, Dok Mi fumes in anger.
“All of you are completely fine,” says Dok Mi. “All of you are asking how I am. All of you are cruel.”
With tears gathering in her eyes, Dok Mi gets up and makes her way out, her vision getting hazy.
“But..you already left,” thinks Dok Mi. “Why are you here?”
Dok Mi passes out as Do Hui jumps up from her seat calling her name.
But holding onto Dok Mi isn’t Enrique. It’s Jin Rak, who angrily yells, asking what they did to her.
He carries her out of the apartment and rushes into a cab as Enrique arrives at the apartment.
Enrique angrily demands that someone tell him the true story – the story of why Dok Mi locked herself in like that. Just then, Enrique meets eyes with the teacher, standing in the back.
Sometime later, Dok Mi wakes up.
Jin Rak straightforwardly says that there must be more to Do Hui’s story and carefully asks Dok Mi tell him what is causing her so much pain.
Jin Rak adds that he feels that he′s somewhat deserving of hearing her story and asks her not to avoid it.
Enrique arrives to the hospital just in time to hear what Dok Mi has to say.
“Why do people hate others? Why do they discriminate and want to step over the weaker person? There must be people who aren’t like that, but where are all those people at? I just needed one person.” asks Dok Mi, tearing up. “Since then, it just became more comfortable being alone.”
Sniffling, Jin Rak thanks Dok Mi for telling him the story and confesses that he had a lot of (lady) issues in high school too.
“But…you already left.”
“Do you have any other confessions to make?” sneers Enrique, glaring at Jin Rak.
Enrique walks up to Dok Mi and apologizes for forcing her to make up with Do Hui without knowing the entire story. “But the one person that you need by your side is not Oh Jin Rak.”
Ouch.
But Do Hui’s certain of that.
“Did you do a background check?” asks Dong Hoon.
Do Hui flinches. Haha. She would do a background check.
Either way, Dong Hoon replies that he’s on Do Hui’s side because she’s mean. The world is too vicious to live kindly like Dok Mi.
The boys bicker about why Enrique is not going to Spain and how Jin Rak lied to Enrique.
Jin Rak asks since when did Enrique realize.
Enrique replies that his stalker fan told him about the webtoon, zombie soccer, and Oh Jin Rak.
Jin Rak stops Enrique in an annoyed tone. “No. When did you realize your own feelings? That you like Dok Mi enough not to return to Spain!”
“But this is exactly that,” retorts Enrique. He explains that he has failed and been rejected. “But is it bad to think of myself as special? Is it worse than lying? Or being shady?”
Jin Rak yells at Enrique to stop messing with Dok Mi if he’s just going to leave soon. “Even if it’s not me, it can’t be you either.”
Enrique scoffs, saying Jin Rak is the one that cannot be with Dok Mi.
They have a stare down for a few seconds until they finally realize that Dok Mi is nowhere to be seen. Good job boys.
On her way home, she meets Enrique, who worries that she’s avoiding people again. Dok Mi cuts him off asking why he’s back. Enrique can’t give a good answer until he brings up his book as an excuse.
He carefully asks if he should go back and finally admits that he came back because he was worried about her.
Dok Mi brings up the board game and how she sincerely tried it out, but it failed on her. She tells him not to worry, because she’s never going to roll the dice again.
“I don’t think of it as hiding.” Dok Mi walks past Enrique, when he suddenly turns and says the teacher was 28 years old at the time. Dok Mi freezes. Enrique knows what happened.
The teacher worried that he wouldn′t be able to stay a teacher, and made a selfish move, blaming it all on Dok Mi. However, unable to live with the guilt, he quit being a teacher. Enrique adds that the teacher came to apologize and asked Enrique to pass on the word.
Dok Mi asks if an apology would make everything better. “I liked it better when I was alone in pain.”
Enrique brings up another soccer analogy. When a star player gets interviewed after a win, he says the team helped bring the victory, but when the team loses, the player blames it on himself.
“Whether it’s sincere or not, that’s how people deal with painful memories.”
Once home, Dok Mi looks over the board game and picks up the dice before setting it back down. She closes up the board game.
Enrique looks through Jin Rak’s USB and finds photos of Jin Rak’s notebook about Zombie Soccer from 2000, proving it wasn’t plagiarized. Jin Rak puts away the notice of his debt statement.
In front of the dust-covered door of that girl were invitations to two worlds.
A person who came as a refreshing wind.
A person who blocks off the strong wind.
The girl grows afraid with the desire to open the door for the first time.”
Before we know it, we see the extremely lifeless editor heading towards the club. The guards tell her she doesn’t belong there, but no one can fight off the editor, and before we know it, she’s inside, dancing away, stiff body and all.
She pushes her way through the VIP lounge, where Dong Hoon is being held by the car owners. The purpose of her visit? To sign a promissory note, promising to pay back the damage fees of 5,800,000 won. Dang.
The editor grabs the pen, but she’s unable to do it, cursing Dong Hoon and the world. Dong Hoon’s frustrated as well to live in this wretched world, and the editor asks for some time to think this over.
He cringes, but the editor returns and signs the document coolly and leaves without a word.
Dok Mi witnesses a semi-romantic moment with Soon Chul and Jung Im and avoids it, but there’s something she must do. She hands Soon Chul a yellow envelope and leaves for the bank, where she breaks her savings account.
Enrique stuffs his face, while watching a soccer game, when new messages pop up on his SNS feed.
“Enrique is getting Korean citizenship for his son.”
“Enrique is getting kicked out of Sola Studio.”
And a new message from the publishing company, asking him take their calls.
He turns his anger towards the soccer players, and then draws out an action plan to get closer to Dok Mi, but he cries because it’s too childish.
Enrique goes to the door, and whaaaa? It’s Dok Mi! Well, this is a first.
Dok Mi hands Enrique a white envelope to pay back for the hospital bills, but Enrique doesn’t take it, knowing she’ll just disappear if he does.
Quietly, Dok Mi asks if she can go inside.
Double surprise. Enrique lets her in.
Jung Im and Soon Chul felt it was necessary to let Jin Rak know, because everyone knows that he likes Dok Mi.
Heartbroken over the news, Jin Rak replays what he told Dok Mi: “All you have to do is stay right there.”
But the taste was not satisfying at all.
He wonders if it’s because there was no anticipation of having to choose one over the other and saving the other dish for later. He decides that from now on, he will think carefully on whether to choose one of the other. He adds that he doesn’t regret his decision to stay in that empty apartment.
After listening quietly, Dok Mi thanks him for everything Enrique has done thus far. She tells him that whenever she thinks of the ocean, she’ll remember him and smile and feel better.
Then he happily suggest that she can do things for him now.
He asks if she’ll accompany him to all the book signings, and giggles at the thought of having a red carpet and Dok Mi in a dress.
Dok Mi replies, “[You’re/He’s] a good person...” Enrique smiles, until Dok Mi ends the sentence with “Oh Jin Rak.” Oh shoot.
Enrique freezes, as Dok Mi says Jin Rak is a comfortable person that she can say things about herself to him.
Disappointed, Enrique replies that Dok Mi’s made her choice between jajangmyun and jjampong, and asks if she thought this through carefully before deciding. She doesn’t reply.
Despite being sad, Enrique escorts her to door and goes to open the door for her, when he finds himself face-to-face with Dok Mi.
“When I saw your face, I strangely used to think that I could hear your voice, but right now... I don’t hear anything.”
HEARTBREAK.
Enrique replies that he doesn’t know what’s going on as he opens the door for Dok Mi to leave. She silently exits and Enrique closes the door, completely defeated.
Getting ready to visit Rui, Dong Hoon has a hard time deciding between two backpacks and puts one on Jin Rak to see. Just then Dong Hoon receives a playful, yet slightly threatening text message about how much Dong Hoon has paid back out of the 5,800,000 won.
Dong Hoon stresses out, when the doorbell rings.
Jin Rak angrily goes to the door and flings it wide open, startling Dok Mi and Jin Rak.
He lunges forward to make sure she’s all right. When she is, she starts to say something.
“Do you...want to go to the Van Gogh exhibit with me?”
Jin Rak’s face completely changes as Dok Mi mutters that she wanted to show it to him.
“Do you like [Van Gogh]?”
“I like you.” What?
Still dazed, Jin Rak spazzes, “I love you. Oh, not you, but Van Dok Mi - I mean, I love Van Gogh.”
Yea, okay Jin Rak. We see why you had problems with the ladies in high school.
Crazy stalker anti-fan ajumma is on the web, searching about Enrique’s book signing.
She’s just bad news.
At the same time, a girl with a guitar case and a suitcase walks towards the apartments, but runs to hide when Enrique is spotted. That’s not Seo Young, right?
The crazy anti-fan stalker ajumma, dressed in black with her face covered, watches from the back.
After the signing, Enrique is touring Seoul. He sees another ad about the exhibit and his good mood is spoiled once more. The guitar girl hides behind the wall.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the crazy ajumma pushes Enrique into the street. An oncoming car screeches its breaks and Enrique stares with wide eyes.
Enrique stares at her a bit dazed, when a smile starts to appear on his face.
“I’ve...fallen in love.”
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