Gu Family Book Ep 3 Eng Sub Drama3s
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Gu Family Book: Episode 3
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At present that our hearts have been thoroughly cleaved by the beautifully sad love story of our story's prologue (seriously, I was pretty wrecked over it, having grown so invested in their human relationship), information technology'due south time to start mending them with the introduction of our actual principal characters.
I was so sucked into the globe of the parents that I wondered how the "real" storyline would lucifer information technology. I wasn't afraid that it would be bad, just curious to know how much the tone would shift. I'chiliad happy to report that while the mood lifts, information technology retains that sense of romantic whimsy that I loved virtually the opening, as well as that line of pathos running through the show.
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EPISODE 3 RECAP
Backtracking from the river scene that saw our baby hero's adoption by a nobleman, we render to the scene of his birth. Every bit Seo-hwa goes into labor in the cave at Moonlight Garden, our friendly monk So-jung sees the blue lights in the air.
This sign of Wol-ryung'due south existence sends him dashing for the cave, just it'south Seo-hwa and her newborn that he finds instead. She sits in lifeless silence, and when he comments on the boy resembling his father, she answers dully that she doesn't know; she inappreciably remembers Wol-ryung'due south face.
At that, And so-jung hands her the wooden dagger that was to be Wol-ryung's rescue, if only he'd thrust it into her center. She asks why he didn't, and the monk replies that this was the extent of Wol-ryung's love for her—immense and whole-hearted , and without desire to kill her and spend the rest of his days alone. Seo-hwa takes the dagger in tears.
Seo-hwa returns to the hamlet, thinking about the weakness and foolishness of humankind, and how one only realizes the value of what is lost after losing it. She arrives at the estate of Jo Gwan-woong and emerges from the crowd with the wooden dagger.
She thinks, "Don't forgive me" as she raises the dagger to strike. She slashes him across the face, a nonfatal wound, and he looks upwardly at her in shock. She adds, "This foolish adult female who dropped her beloved down a bottomless cliff and idea to kill his kid—do not forgive me."
In rage, she raises the dagger over again to strike a deathblow.. and gets cutting down by his many guards. She falls dead at his feet.
Ah, the narration comes from the contents of the letter she has left backside with the baby, asking monk And then-jung to look after her child, knowing she'southward on a suicide mission. She pleads for him to spare the child a lone life like his father's, and permit him to abound up among people like an ordinary person.
Hence the riverside outing, where So-jung strategically floats the baby to be discovered by nobleman Park Mu-sol. I have to say, either And so-jung did his research or we got awfully lucky, because nosotros can surmise that Lord Park is a decent man from the mode he just jumps into the water to retrieve the infant, and how he accepts him as his own. Sure, there's a flake of fake fortunetelling by the monk to assure him the boy is a luck magnet, but it seems safe to suppose he's in expert hands.
Then-jung puts a beaded bracelet on the infant's wrist and makes Lord Park promise not to remove it before the boy reaches the age of twenty. Information technology's similar to the bracelet he had once thrown onto Wol-ryung, which had blocked his supernatural powers—insurance that the male child will have equally normal a life every bit he can every bit a one-half-spiritual existence, I presume. So-jung's explanation is that the bracelet is a charm warding off evils, and equally long as he raises the child with the bracelet until he's xx, he will receive much good fortune.
Lord Park is, naturally, skeptical. And so-jung declares that the forest, wind, and trees will provide proof of his words—and so a sudden gust of wind blows through the area.
Thus begins the life of Choi Kang-chi.
Some fourth dimension after, this tale has become a myth unto itself, recounted in the marketplace to a crowd of rapt listeners. The storyteller assures the crowd that the man did indeed raise the child, and everything he did prospered, and he became the richest of rich men. His estate grew to deluxe proportions, his coffers flourished, and he fifty-fifty set his own establishment housing strange ambassadors and travelers, called Hundred Year Inn.
Furthermore, Park Mu-sol was a benevolent man who treated even thieves with understanding, helping rather than punishing, and the people grew to respect him as a great homo.
A question comes from the crowd—it's DAM YEO-WOOL (Suzy), request what became of that baby. The storyteller hems and haws: "Well, well-nigh that…"
Cut to: Hundred Year Inn (the Park manor), where Lord Park's faithful servant bursts into the yard shouting for Kang-chi, who has caused yet some other accident.
In the main courtyard, an angry man stands with two beat-up underlings, demanding Kang-chi to present himself. Ha, did those three bruisers get pummeled by a teenage pretty boy?
It's a dissimilar beau who steps forward to take charge: PARK TAE-SEO (Yoo Yeon-seok), Mu-sol'southward serious and competent son. Tae-seo diplomatically agrees to look into the thing, but the victims aren't willing to be pushed bated another minute. Kang-chi! Here! Now!
Time to actually see Kang-chi, who's busy playing… Peeping Tom? Oh, y'all. He sneaks up to the firm where a young girl sits with her maidservant—it's PARK CHUNG-JO (Lee Yubi), Mu-sol's daughter and Tae-seo's lilliputian sis.
Kang-chi creeps into the room, grinning to himself as he anticipates scaring Chung-jo like a little boy out to play a prank… but she but turns to him and doesn't bat an eyelash. His face falls hilariously.
He'south also nursing an obvious crush on her, and when she mentions her upcoming nuptials, he overcompensates with forced laughter.
They all freeze up to hear that Chung-jo's mother is outside with an important invitee, and the music turns dire. Chung-jo urges Kang-chi to slip out the back window, because information technology would look pretty bad in front of time to come mother-in-law. Kang-chi turns serious, realizing that she's actually because the wedlock set up by their families, looking aggrieved.
Mom is Lady Yoon (Korean women proceed their surname upon wedlock, then she isn't Lady Park) and she knows something's fishy even though Kang-chi'due south gone when she enters. She asks, "Was information technology Kang-chi again?" They may take been raised like siblings, but Kang-chi is of low nascency and it'south important that Chung-jo remember that, she warns. These union arrangements (to the son of a government minister) are very important and she tin can't hazard whatsoever venial to ruin those plans.
Kang-chi sits on the roof, having heard the exchange, and heaves a sigh.
Tae-seo finds him on his way out, stern and disapproving. Kang-chi lies that he wasn't actually within, he was totally just passing by. But there'due south a more pressing issue at hand, and he takes him dorsum to deal with the men in the courtyard.
Tae-seo mutters under his breath for them to take care of this quietly and cleanly, but Kang-chi the hothead just stomps up and growls, "HEY! YOU! Who d'you call back you are?" Words are exchanged, tempers flare, and Kang-chi ends upward kicking the leader downwardly.
Tae-seo struggles to go along order, worried that a disturbance will ruin things for their very important event today. He chop-chop offers to pay off the brawlers, and the leader tries to extort a few more coins out of him, which gets Kang-chi even madder.
Tae-seo agrees to the exorbitant 30 nyang offer, ordering Kang-chi to shut upwardly when he protests the indignity of being made to pay up. But Kang-chi tin't stand for that, and he increases the amount to 50 nyang—with a catch, of grade.
He grabs a wooden broom and SLAAAAMS information technology down—his beaded bracelet glows ruddy—through the stones paving the footing. Take hold of him and he'll pay up, and throw in an apology on his knees while he'south at it.
Tae-seo glowers in frustration as the ruffians accept the deal and offset the hunt. Aie, this isn't going to end well is it?
The melee travels across the property and toward the pavilion where Chung-jo sits with her mother and serves their guest tea. The fight comes crashing correct into their courtyard, and although Kang-chi evades deftly, he ends upwardly crashing correct into the tea table while the thugs yell, "Get him! Fifty nyang!"
Even in the midst of the furor, when Chung-jo asks if he'southward okay he looks up at her dazzled for a moment: She'due south preeeeetty. Ha, boys.
But then Tae-seo leads a retinue of armed guards into the courtyard, followed by his stern father, and the sight of Lord Park has everybody on their all-time behavior (fifty-fifty the thugs).
Nether Lord Park'south center, Kang-chi kneels in the courtyard and the gang of thugs is given their promised greenbacks. Kang-chi stews to encounter them get what they want, merely his shame in front of his surrogate Dad is greater and he bows his caput penitently.
Lord Park asks "which side" drove him today—Kang-chi simply always fights for two reasons, either when somebody troubles the household or when he sees the weak and underprivileged being tormented. Kang-chi answers miserably that this was all his own fault for being bad-tempered and inadequate and apologizes for it.
But Lord Park responds open-mindedly, saying that a young man exerting some physicality is no great flaw—but he is an developed now and ought to take dealt with the fuss in a more responsible manner. He tells Kang-chi to remain kneeling and reflect on his wrongs quietly.
So already we can tell that Dad is awesome, although his wife is a little less awesome in that she's itching to kicking Kang-chi out for expert. Lord Park reminds her that in that location's only a calendar month left until he turns twenty, which barely placates her. Y'all tin can't actually blame her for it since he is a rabble-rouser, but her dislike goes back to Day 1 when her husband brought home the infant while she was pregnant with Tae-seo.
In a flashback, we see that twenty-four hours when Lady Yoon objects to raising the child. Her fears grow when the child is accidentally injured—and when his bracelet falls off, they see the wound heal over right before their eyes.
The shock sends her into painful early labor, and Lord Park contemplates the "evil-warding" bracelet. He asks the kid whether he's truly good fortune, or a cursed being. As he places the bracelet back on Kang-chi's wrist, a wind blows through the firm. Almost immediately, he gets good news: He has a healthy son, and his married woman is safe. Hot on the heels of that fortune, he receives word that his ships that were believed sunk at body of water take returned prophylactic and sound.
Another fierce wind blows through the business firm to confirm that his suspicions are right: Kang-chi is good luck, not bad.
Out in the yard, Kang-chi kneels all night, his tummy growling just every bit Chung-jo appears to offering an apple tree.
She asks why he did it, telling him that kick upwards that fuss wouldn't be enough to break her engagement. Ah, and so his fighting wasn't driven by selfless or heroic desires today.
There are things in life y'all accept to just take and endure, she tells him, and this wedlock is one of them. He grumbles that she shouldn't ally if she doesn't want to, but she points out that protecting something requires cede and patience. He asks what she'due south protecting. Chung-jo: "Family." She knows she has no power as an aristocratic lady, just if she can help her family through marriage, it's worth information technology to her.
Kang-chi offers to practise all the protectorin' around here, reminding her how strong he is. She answers that there are things creature strength tin can't solve, like politics.
He asks point-blank, "And so when you lot accept away all that politics, what are your feelings? Do yous like me?" He does his trademark count-to-three maneuver to become her to respond, and looks adorably dislocated when it doesn't piece of work on her. Aw. He starts counting to iii once more, and that'southward when she leans in to kiss him on the cheek.
Kang-chi freezes in shock, disbelieving, and then it sinks in and he leaps up to howl in victory. He'due south so beautiful.
But standing in the shadows to ruin this sugariness moment is Lady Yoon, looking incredibly displeased. A flashback to her last conversation with Lord Park tells united states that she was worried about this very thing, even though Lord Park had told her she was worrying for no reason because the kids grew up as siblings. You can't contend with a woman's intuition on this one. She vows to herself that if her hubby won't cast Kang-chi out, she volition.
In the village, Yeo-wool gets her palm read by a grandma fortuneteller who gives her a disapproving once-over and cluck-clucks that Yeo-wool is doomed in dearest because (s)he is a weak footling stick-man, not broad and potent like all the girls like. Yeo-wool has to correct her by proverb she's female, and granny clucks even harder—what man volition like her, looking all manly like she is?
Yeo-wool's silent bodyguard GON (Sung Joon), suppresses a smirk, and it'south to him that she complains afterward, worried that she'll die alone. Are arrow-shooting, sword-wielding women really and then unappealing to men? Gon hesitates a moment too long and she assumes that's a yep, though from the way he tries to explain himself I'd say Gon's nursing a big fat crush on her.
So-jung happens to exist drinking at the table over and he pipes up that everybody's got a mate somewhere, and that's plenty encouragement for Yeo-wool to thrust her mitt in his face and ask for a reading.
But the moment he sees her mitt, he sobers up and says that although she is destined to run across her mate soon, information technology'southward a match that she'd exist better off escaping if she can. She doesn't understand how she's supposed to avoid a match fated for her by heaven, and Then-jung sighs that fate involves selection—she can cull not to pursue that match, and the relationship tin stop there.
She grumbles that he'southward just telling her to dice old and lone, then, and turns to get. So-jung leaves her with one terminal warning: The 1 she meets under the peach bloom tree with a crescent moon is an incompatible match—she must avoid him at all costs.
Lord Park receives a letter stamped with a bow-and-arrow design; the bulletin inside has him looking alarmed. He rushes out immediately on an overnight trip. I reaaaaally don't like the shrewd look that comes into Lady Yoon's heart the moment her husband is gone…
Tae-seo sits Kang-chi down to go through mounds of inn records, which has Kang-chi moaning and groaning. It's all, Punish me with physical labor instead! Make me clean! Anything! Don't make me employ my encephalon!
Lady Yoon has her maid evangelize Kang-chi a note. He reads it, his face darkening immediately.
Lord Park arrives at a mountain stronghold, where warriors are trained with war machine precision. The leader of this establishment is Dam Pyung-joon, the same skilled soldier who once led the manhunt for Seo-hwa and the gumiho. The men greet each other equally longtime friends.
Tae-seo chuckles to think of all the brain-pain Kang-chi volition have endured with the inn books, only to find the room empty. He just sighs, thinking Kang-chi shirked piece of work.
Kang-chi is actually outside, thinking he'due south been called by Chung-jo for help, and he looks for her about a dark shed just as we encounter shadowy figures advancing from afar. Ack, so Lady Yoon didn't just want Kang-chi away-gone, she wanted him dead-gone?! That takes her from pissy mom figure to evil, as far as I'm concerned.
The maidservant emerges and tells him that Chung-jo's waiting for him inside. He enters the dark shed and makes his way through it, and finds Lady Yoon glaring at him. She accuses him of daring to harbor base feelings for Chung-jo.
Kang-chi apologizes, but assures her that his feelings are honorable. That doesn't make her whatsoever happier, and she calls forth her guards.
Meanwhile, Dam Pyung-joon briefs Lord Park on the reason for calling him: a rash of brutal murders. His investigators were also killed while on the task, and Dam Pyung-joon warns that Lord Park may exist next.
Elsewhere, a large and armed entourage travels along a road, and arrives at its destination. The nobleman inside the palanquin looks out, revealing his face up: Jo Gwan-woong, our mean rapist-murderer, out for more evil-doing.
Back to Kang-chi, who is tied up and beaten. Lady Yoon gives him the choice to voluntarily leave and never return, or be fabricated to never return. The guards are reluctant, but she gives the lodge and they have to obey.
Just Kang-chi manages to use his strength to knock them aside, and as his bracelet glows red, he bursts complimentary of his ropes. He runs abroad, with the guards chasing.
A short distance away from Jo Gwan-woong'due south entourage, Yeo-wool and Gon continue lookout man, having been sent out every bit scouts. They caput back home later getting the info they need, but hear a audio in the woods nearby and split up.
It's Kang-chi, pleading with his hyungnims non to keep attacking—he doesn't desire to injure them. They toss pulverization at him and wonder whether he's a beast from the way he'south so difficult to take downwardly, and their leader (Park Joo-hyung, aw, playing a dainty guy for once instead of Gakistal and Jeon Woo-chi's antagonists) gives the order to subdue Kang-chi without harming him. Hm, and so they're non robots under Lady Yoon, good to know.
Kang-chi keeps fighting, and then a veiled figure flies in to challenge the coiffure. Information technology'southward Yeo-wool, who chides them for fighting an unarmed man. The tell her to footstep out of information technology, just she wonders whether this is her troop of serial killers and won't back down.
Yeo-wool takes them all on easily with her sword skills, and Kang-chi can but picket in his drugged daze. She holds them off, and then grabs his manus and leads him away, while Gon jumps in to finish off the fight.
As they run, Yeo-wool's hat falls off and Kang-chi gets a glimpse of her face, blurry in his daze. He wonders, "Chung-jo… is that you?"
Just then they're stopped by i of the guards, who charges with sword raised. In a flash, Kang-chi whirls them around, protecting Yeo-wool with his body and catching the guard with the blunt hilt of his sword.
They stand up there staring intently at each other, and Kang-chi assures her non to worry, because he'll protect her. So he passes out in her arms.
Blue lights ascent in the air surrounding them, and as she looks up at the sky, she sees a crescent moon, suspended over a peach flower tree. The monk's warning echoes in her ears.
COMMENTS
As I said, the evidence keeps that touch on of romantic pathos, which hits a actually wonderful balance of emotion. Nosotros've just just met these characters—it most felt like watching a second airplane pilot—just already I like them and experience for them. Nosotros've barely even gotten to the problems that'll crop up in the future (given that our hero doesn't even know annihilation most his true nature) just what we've got is a firm foundation for him equally a normal guy who feels the full range of human emotion (every bit his mother wished for him)—and information technology's always that humanity that gives usa our emotional groundedness, despite all the fantasy/supernatural/whimsical elements besides in play.
Kang-chi's unknown parentage is both a boon and a stigma in his electric current globe, because while he has to bear the burden of being low-born (and therefore unfit to marry Chung-jo), at least he's spared the ostracism that would come up with being a known half-breed. People whisper that his superhuman strength can't exist normal, but it would be so much worse if they knew he really was (to employ their term) a monster.
I like that while Kang-chi feels fully human in this mode, that doesn't immediately brand him accepted; he's got his ain barriers to overcome even as he has to bargain with the biggest one of all. You know, one time he finds out there's a whole other procedure to get through to be fully human. And Lee Seung-gi does a really overnice job of adding a layer of yearning to his expressions that really gets me; there'southward depth to his reading of the grapheme. I mean, nosotros're all already on Kang-chi'southward side, merely it's e'er rewarding to get more than layers.
The setup with Kang-chi being taken in with the Park family unit totally tugs at my heartstrings, and it's a great 1 because he's been given this amazing life and a corking best friend in Tae-seo, and a sweet starting time love in Chung-jo, and a wise surrogate father in Park Mu-sol. Really, that should outweigh the bitterness of Lady Yoon, murder attempt notwithstanding.
So while I can come across where sure dear triangles/squares are beingness prepare and how conflicts are being planned for the time to come, the evolution of these characters feels full of plenty existent emotion that I'yard in information technology for their journeying.
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