Ji-ah jabs the injection in his neck....
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'Yeon stands at the top of the gorgeous Baekdu Mountain, his domain as a god of wind and rain. He, one day was sleeping peacefully and was awaken by a little girl – the spitting image of Ji-ah – petting his head as she does her dog's.
He was angry but in a cute way,
"Little girl, who are you and what are you doing here? Do you know who I am?"
"You are a nine tailed fox and the mountain spirit of this prestigious mountain."
He was surprised that a human knew about him, and he grumping-ly puffed his chest.
"So do you have a death wish?"
Unperturbed by his grumpiness, she introduces herself with a smile: Ah-eum.
He wished he could go back in time and stop her from finding him...
After that day she'd visit Yeon regularly and gifted him his original red umbrella. As the time went by they blissfully spend time together and had their first kiss in the rain.
But it all ended in tragedy when she was murdered. Unwilling to lose her forever, he abused his powers and froze the lake on which Taluipa was guiding her to the afterlife. He asked Ah-eum to reincarnate, promising her that he would find her again. He breathed a golden bead into her and kissed her one last time before letting her go..
Over the centuries, he gad seen several women with Ah-eum's face, but none possessed the 'fox bead' he gave her. Just like Ji-ah hadn't.
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He now, was regretting his decision to save this stupid girl....
Yeon wakes up on his own couch with a massive headache and finds Ji-ah offering him tea .
Wasn't this his house? why is he being treated like a guest...
He agrees to hear her out, but if he's unhappy with her explanation, she will have to pay a price. Yeon menacingly says he'll take her eye since it's seen forbidden things. Ji-ah simply smiles and says, "Deal."
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Elsewhere, Rang and Yoo-ri giddily make a trip to a funeral parlor to watch Rang's victims' families grieve.
"Yoo-ri if you pay more money you can stay there as long as you want"
" Really?? then I will give them a lot of money to see them cry"
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Yeon is still unsettled by Ji-ah's excited response to hearing he's a fox.
Like he's a fox for god's sake...people are supposed to run away from him but thus stupid girl...
She states that she started her TV program just to catch them particularly him...
Ji-ah patiently asked what happened that night when her parents died on the Fox Ridge. She was surprised to hear that Yeon intentionally saved her because she looked like someone he knew. He coldly guesses her parents died and isn't particularly keen to help her find out more.
In turn, she hold the USB over his head and says that she plans to air the footage of him this week. He was not happy with her explanation, and true to his word, he blinded her in one eye with a wave of his hand and said threats only work from those who are powerful.
Ji-ah corrects that she was gambling, not threatening. She dropped the USB in her tea and states that she heard
''Foxes must repay debts, right?''
She makes a deal with him and offers that she'll get rid of everything she has on him after she finds out about her parents death . Yeon scoffed, but it looks like she won... for now.
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Back at the funeral, Rang grins as Yoo-ri "pays her respects" to the grieving family. One of the mourners recognizes Rang from Moze, the department store where Yoo-ri is a director. Rang had shared some coins with him at a wishing fountain where Rang wished for Yeon's life to fall apart.
With a smile, he says that he plans to stick around until one of them dies since staying away didn't ease his mind. The mourner had wished to marry his girlfriend, lamenting that his parents disapprove. Rang offers to help him. Yikes... At the funeral, Rang congratulates him on being able to get married now as he knows that his parents were dead now...Ahem, he was the one who killed them.
Meanwhile, Yeon meets with Shin-joo at his regular ice-cream parlour, who is up in arms over Ji-ah's "attempted murder." He promises to keep his stock safe. That's how she got the sedative injection which she earlier jabbed in Yeon's neck.
(A/N:Hehe...XD)