Was wondering too what the two remaining episodes would be! This episode is so satisfying notwithstanding some heartbreaking parts that I felt it is the calm before the storm. Hopefully I'm wrong!

First of all, thank you LolliPip for recapping this episode! :) Really appreciate all your hard work! :D

That said, I have to say I am not too hot for them using that recurring trope in dramaland that is the one year separation rule. I've honestly never understood why Korean dramas love making their leads not talk to each other for a year (or more. But nothing less than a year, God help them) and then meet up again for a sweeping declaration of love that erases the emptiness of the past year.

What is so wrong with a long-distance relationship? Can you really not get yourself together when you read your "lover's" text messages or hear his/her voice? LOL I've always found that funny when that just justifies cutting off all contacts without warning. Will you immediately quit what you do and buy a one-way ticket back, never to return from your studies/apprenticeship/army time/etc?

But my general dislike for unnecessary separations aside, I have to say that I especially dislike this drama's justification for a separation.

I understand that when you are sick, it hurts just as much to see the people you love to be in pain. But a relationship is more than just about the happy memories between two healthy people. Sure, happy times make way for happy memories and sad ones either make or break you. With that being said, of course there's always the chance that one bad event could transpire and be so severe as to just destroy a relationship completely but in the event that you manage to endure hardship together, you come out more mature and more stable. You change together. Together, here, being the keyword.

If one's solution of keeping a relationship happy is to run away every time something bad is to happen, big or small, trust me, that relationship is not going to work. It signifies a lack of trust on oneself and on one's partner, or just between them, in general. I hope that they address this in the upcoming episodes because this is just not sitting well with me.

Considering all that, I still love So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah - maybe not so much for their characters n this drama than their acting but it's still enough to want me to know what's going to happen next.

Here's to a good ending!

Awww.. finally the recaps before NY holiday is here.
Now i'm wondering too what is there for us on the last 2eps. I hope its goody good feelings.

Happy new year to you all DB team and lovely beanies.
Cheers to 2016 with lots of great drama to watch (or read).

Well, actually I am quite nervous that everything seems VERY NICE AND SWEET at this point.. is it the sign of the big storm coming?

For some reason i agree, this episode like a final episode..
But when i saw back prev ep, this episode maybe for our answer, what young ho did when joo eun missed him so badly.
Appreciate the writer for focus on joo eun story in prev ep and young ho story in this episode, they just made me understood they bond each other with different way..
Especially when young ho said about miracle while he watching her doing her job in her home and when he say sorry to made her wait too long, while she said thank you for coming soo fast.. the writer just give me some undescrible lovely moments..

I hope they address three issues:
1) Who was the stalker? And was he infatuated from the past or latched on recently? (I thought maybe he was the dweeb that treated Woosik cruelly because he really wanted JooEun).

2) Just because Sung Joon is in his mom's life, doesn't change that she is AGAIN a victim of domestic/spouse abuse. I want to see it addressed.

3) How does Yong Ho feel about Yong Joon?

I was cooking breakfast just now and had one in f thise "and another thang" moments

This story had more than enough to work with. In my opinion, it was a better story to have Yong Ho deal with his psychological similar to phantom pain and have Joo Eun help him. We could have seen him having to deal with getting over her looking at his scarred knee and what he perceives as weakness. We could have seen him reject JooEun, but only during those painful days, until she finally getting overruled the "tap, tap" to show him how family deals with hurt.

That's how you grow a strong relationship between characters.

Instead, it looks like we get a 100% healed hero and the phantom pain is gone. Maybe they'll still go there, but I doubt it. This episode dropped the 4 and 5 stars I've been giving the show down to 3.

I'm on board with LollyPip and those who think that this episode could have served as a finale. However, there are some loose threads that could be tied up in the next two episodes.

In addition to those already mentioned, I wonder if Soo Jin's dizziness/health is going to be a storyline.

Looking forward to a decent finale.

Happy New Year to all!

Why? why Young Ho, why the hints of melancholy in your face and body language? Hope nothing serious? You are just tired and jet lag.

So Ji Sub just won Top Excellence on KBS Drama Awards!!

I don't understand much Korean but I think he did mention that we can expect "comfortable and Racy night" :P

THANKS Lollypip as always, for diligently delivering these great recaps. Happy New Year! :}

^ Hope chief min doesn't come ringing the doorbell for their warm night together ... and that he gets hitched up with JE's bestie.
Poor dude (the sweetheart he's been for YH, and such a beautiful surrogate dad who does anything for him including dress up and sing!) has no life beyond YH and the family. I'd much rather see this happening, than more moments of CF Queen.

I have no ambitions for all the plots (and questions) that were introduced and went nowhere logical but will be content with the OTP growing together. YH learning to share his private pain so JE can also support him through any further health issues, as he did during her most vulnerable moments. That, will be sexy.

I agree that I would rather have seen joo eun and young ho work together for his recovery. I even have a favorite moment where he should have flipped and let her in and let her be a part of his struggle. It was just after taptap when she declared her love for him from behind the hospital door and he lost it but could barely move.

That said I still was moved by last two episodes despite weaknesses and i do think young hos actions were in character based on how he grew up and how he learned to survive his terrible childhood challenges on his own.

Because of chemistry of two leads i really love this show despite agreeing with many of criticisms cited here regarding secondary story lines of supporting characters. My hope for ending would be a wedding. Also an ending scene including uncle Henry in marine uniform, playing with his new baby niece next christmas. I would like for grandmother to become more enlightened about how much pain she has caused. And i would like stepmother and stepbrother to be brought into this little circle of family that young ho and joo eun are building.

One final thought. Both leads are just wonderful actors.

I'd like too see all you want to see next week too!
More cute please!
I know this show is just full of fluff, but it still has it's own flavour and story. Just to bad that there are a lot of things missing. Like Yijin and Min's development or more story line...idk
Anyways thank you show and reca!

First time I've ever clicked on one star, "I want my hour back". So he comes back after a year and everything is hunky dory? No, no, no. Some hard questions need yo be asked. Some justifiable answers need to be given.

I do hope that the next two episodes deal with that dysfunctional family. We need our Venus to knock some sense into them.

Yes. You are right. It did show inspiration coming to young ho from joo eun. It showed it coming from the book she left him and the words she wrote in it. And I think the other other part of that same scene. Where he imagines she is there with him and is so embarrassed by his leg that he tries to cover it up with a blanket and then he breaks down weeping shows how much this injury has hurt him and he has become almost like the child again. For me that small character moment made me believe in the truth of young ho's choice. Like it was the only one he could make. And i will be honest. it just about broke my heart.

Better episode than Ep 13 anyway, and should be watched in conjunction.

Though what purpose this second accident/recovery process-miracle => Merry Christmas 2015 rehashed celebration serves is still ?!???

I can't stop wondering... AIRBAGS! These folks drive state of the art autos, so where were the airbags? Why does every drama have to put the leads in hospitals for emotional cheap thrills? The story mostly felt real until the multiple near-death accidents. So unimaginative on the part of the writers.

I was downloading this series to keep fa-EVa but now, I'll finish watching because I love SJS but the episodes I've saved so far are getting deleted. They're not worthy of the precious gigs space since I'll never rewatch this.

I REALLY hope that the show takes the last two episodes to address what happened during the year-long separation. Like many of you, I understand why Young Ho completely cut himself off from Joo Eun because it was in his character. He grew up being ashamed of his weaknesses (and especially with his family turning him away because of it), and he resorted to what he has know for all of his life. His actions make me think of the saying that you cannot fully love another person until you love yourself. If I continue along that train of thought, however, I become disappointed because it means that Young Ho is not quite ready for Joo Eun's love. There's a sudden disparity in their relationship that seemed so perfect before. Joo Eun was able to be healed by Young Ho, but Joo Eun can't do the same for him? Yes, she became his inspiration to be healed, but I wanted her to be always there for him, just as he was there for her. That unbalance just doesn't sit well with me.

As malintentioned as this seems, I kind of want Young Ho to go through some kind of hardship within the last 2 episodes, but let Joo Eun help him get through it. That will help ease my mind about not only his character growth, but also his and Joo Eun's relationship. I get that he wanted to try to heal by himself, but I also want the satisfaction in him knowing that he can't just push Joo Eun away whenever he goes through a crisis. It's not fair to her.

Here are a couple of other things I want to happen in the last two episodes:

- Soo Jin's character development. I have almost forgiven Woo Shik fully, but I am still unsettled by her character. The show cannot end with her accepting Woo Shik and being all happy without addressing (and resolving, perhaps) all her other personal issues. If they do, it would be counter-productive to the messages about self-worth and beauty that the show worked so hard to convey. I have hope though because they did show Soo Jin struggling with a headache.
- Dad and Young Ho reconciling. There's progress, but they're beating around the bush too much!
- Addressing and resolving the issue regarding Joon Sung's mother and her abusive husband
- Young Ho and Joo Eun having a happy ending that is satisfying. Flaws and imprefections are fine, but I just want some equality and reasonable character growth!

I am so invested in this drama it's ridiculous haha. Sigh. All of the plotholes and inconsistencies are driving me mad. But I just LOVE So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah. And I have really grown to love Chief Min, Ji Woong, and Joon Sung.

Thanks LollyPip! And Happy New Year from over here!!

I have read most comments here and agree to the lists of what we'd like for the next two episodes. For a change, we have a show that did not drag out conflict endlessly in order to kill time, so that it could just round up some main stuff in the last episode, without giving more resolution for side issues and side characters.

If this drama can fill in the holes and give us more resolutions I'd like to congratulate the writer.

I can be most invested in Step Mum and Young Joon who appear so sporadically, almost as teasers. Perhaps that was meant to be a hint that we should expect them to come back in the last 2 episodes to augment Young Ho's 'family'. If friends can end up as family, step-family are even more family.

There's YH's dad's cancer still to be properly dealt with and if Young Ho wants to fulfill his grandma's wish, the Directorship to take up, plus the big hoo-hah over his choice of wife against granny's wishes.

I don't think the show was able to get us to care all that much for Soo Jin or that 2 episodes will be enough for that, but she seems to be having headaches and dizzy spells so we might be getting another health message in this end part of the show.

And of course I'd like to see if Sung Joon can get his mum out from her abusive home and get to live with her, preferably without the self-styled girlfriend whose pursuit of him makes me cringe. Yi Jin would have come off as a more sympathetic character if she'd been shown to be more sensitive and less spoilt in her attitude towards getting a boyfriend.

So on to the last 2 episodes and my our New Year be bright with better shows!

Thanks for the recap! And Happy New Year all! It's a wonderful thing to see Young Ho and Joo Eun back together. 2 more ep i think it will be more of a relationship healing

as i am watching the show... the one thing that YH keep bringing up.. is for JE to be healthy... i wonder...

I could have done with the last 2 episodes. They were pretty worthless, didn't advance the plot much, and weren't very entertaining to watch.
We did escape amnesia but got stuck with noble idiocy. I guess 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

Too much doesn't make sense...
what's the deal with the ex? Did the writer let him off the hook? Ok, but it needs to be EXPLAINED better...
did dad just leave step-mom?
what about the poor younger brother....
ok...I'll stop now...

I love watching the characters but there isn't much of a story....

So . . . this drama is cute and all, but I have no idea what the story is about. It was advertised as one thing and I'm not sure where it's going.

I just think its so strange that although Young-Ho claims to have a soft spot for the weak and "in-danger" people but he doesnt seem to care so much for his half brother who tried to commit suicide and his step-mom who has been obviously suffering under his snotty grandma. Maybe that is what is left for the next two episodes but it always bothered me that he can take in other people but not even spare a thought for his own half brother. If he grew up with such a lonely childhood due to his father inability to show emotion and his over bearing grandmother, surely he would know that his half brother is probably just as lonely and he would try to make sure that doesnt have to suffer the same fate? Young-Ho has a polite enough repertoire with the step mom but has shown zero interest in his brother.

Will Joo Eun's stalker re-appear in this last 2 episode? I don't think the problem settle yet between them.

Even though I hv some rage inside of me to let out because of the plot holes in the writing, I'll refrain as So Ji Sub and Shin Min-A are soooooooo damn cute!!! I mean I hvnt seen a couple like this in any kdrama... Bt I do hv some doubts over as why in the world Young Ho dint let Joo Eun help him back to health.... It would hv strengthen their relationship while hving me crying and smiling and pinching my cheek all at once....

SJS's speech at KBS award, LOL.

GOD, please let SJS and SMA dating and married In real life. *shy

Watching the show without subtitles is so hard, so thank you LollyPip for these great recaps.
I loved the rom-com aspect of this show, so I was not happy when it suddenly took a dramatic turn at the end of episode 12. Then in the next episode they magically skip an entire year only to have Young-ho reappear happy and healthy, which made it seem they put in the car accident just to mess with viewers. This episode helped a lot in that it at least showed some of Young-ho's struggle over the course of the year. He should have had Joo-eun by his side, but that would have been the opposite of everything else he's done in the show.
As everyone else has said, despite all the "obstacles" watching these two is so much fun. Only two episodes left! It's not fair...guess I will just have to go watch "My Girlfriend is a Nine-tailed Fox" and "I'm Sorry, I Love You".

Soo Jin's dizzy spell.... she didn't pregnant right? Hehehehe...
And I'm glad that SJS face were a little more filled out in KBS Drama Awards though I kinda awaited what would he wore last night and disappointed that I didn't see So GanZi....

thanks for the recap°°°°°°Happy new year err'one•

These past 2-3 eps have exemplified the WORST in K-drama writing - rehashing tired, not very well fleshed out tropes and basically being FILLER (previous ep - mostly of JE crying and this ep mostly of YH crying).

And the problem w/ all that crying is that it just felted artificial and forced - supposedly the viewer supposed to feel the same feelings, but not much but rolling eyes from my end (contrast that w/ the real emotion felt in AM88 when Bora and Dad meet and both try not to cry - and that was just over Bora MOVING OUT temporarily).

Basically the writer had abandoned all the interesting aspects and basically DUMBED down the writing to the level of "Secret Garden" "Rooftop Prince" and that Hong sisters drama which shall not be named (all examples of unimaginative, lazy writing) - where ridiculous situations are used and loose ends are either abandoned or lazily tied up.

The saving grace is that the writer avoided the typical tropes re JE and YH's relationship until this past couple of eps.