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Chapter 14 - HIS PUNISHMENT

she learned it after losing her parents.

Yeon resolved to find her parents and encourages her to live "boringly and warmly" like everyone else. Ji-ah asks if, maybe, his first love …

Yeon hastily interrupts her and say to stop dreaming – his first love was like a lotus flower.

Ji-ah playfully smacks him with a pillow, saying she knows she's a weed. Yeon laughs and observes this weed grew up well.

Rang meets with his associate – the man he gave the crying baby to – who thanks him for his help on the island.

Rang waved it off since he was the one to save Rang after Yeon almost killed him. A fiery band appears on the man's finger, and he says it was fate.

Rang asks after the baby, which is asleep. He's impressed by the man's fortitude in serving for 600 years, extending his normal human life.

It sounds like the man plans to raise the baby as part of their plan. Rang said that he can't wait for the day, when Yeon watches his lover die again in a repeat of their tragedy.

Yeon tries to talk Ji-ah out of going to a funeral hall while he's not there to protect her from his world. He has to leave Seoul for a few days. But Ji-ah won't be dissuaded, so he buys her a pouch filled with red beans as a sort of talisman.

As she walks away, he worries about leaving her alone in this world . She knowing Yeon's thoughts , text him to ask his favorite movie. It's Toy Story 3, unexpected choice. He smiled at her text that, she wanted to know more about him. She turned back to wave one last time.

Next day

Ji-ah attended Sae-rom's mother's funeral and consoles her grieving co-worker. Meanwhile, Yeon listens to Taluipa read out his sentence. Taking into consideration how many people he's saved – Yeon does a double fist pump – he's put on a seven-day probation in hell.

The caveat is he's to be human during that time to fully experience the pain.

At the funeral, Ji-ah is unpleasantly surprised to find Rang there. He threatened to kill Sae-rom if Ji-ah doesn't sit with him. She calmly sits opposite to Rang.

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

He mockingly asked, seeing Ji-ah all calmed and relaxed ,

"I am. I've learned that a man with an inferiority complex is like a time bomb."

"Why do you hate Yeon so much?"

She asked,

Rang tried to play it off, but Ji-ah hit his weak spot by guessing it must be because he liked Yeon too much before. There was a sudden change in Rang's expression.

Rang offers Ji-ah to tell her a story.

"There was once a god who abandoned his mountains, so the people set them on fire. Every living creature died, including a little boy's (Rang's) puppy companion"

he becomes, all teary of remembering that horrible experience.

Ji-ah guessed it was because of Yeon's first love.

Rang shared that Yeon believes Ji-ah is his first love reincarnated. That's why he killed the shaman despite the consequences.

Ji-ah's eyes fill with fear as she asks where Yeon is now.

Ji-ah demands to know where Yeon is, but Rang just warn her to stay awake tonight,

if she wants to live. He surreptitiously slits the bag of beans in her coat. Unbeknownst to Ji-ah, the room is filled with children, two of whom follow her out.

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Yeon was chained shirtless in a freezing cave high in the snowy mountains, without his powers.

Taluipa narrates that seven days equals, seven years in hell. Yeon looks on the verge of collapse as she states you can't eat, sleep, or die.

While Taluipa polishes her precious Leslie Cheung VHS from her 80s collection, she thinks of Yeon's "foolish" willingness to suffer for Ji-ah.

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Ji-ah tried to call Yeon, but his number was not available. As she walked down the hallway, all the lights go out.

Two little girls appeared out of nowhere, wearing , pink skirt and mix-matched shoes, and ask if she's seen their dad.

In a funeral portrait room the pictures of those little girls are hanged, which Ji-ah doesn't notices..

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At Shin-joo's clinic, Yoo-ri enters right as he was reading up on her. She said, she wants to "play" and scandalizes Shin-joo, if he wants his necklace back , he has to play with her,

then she removes her coat, wearing little underneath.

Shin-joo realizes Yoo-ri's story of being smuggled in are true, judging from the scars on her body.

She didn't like the turn of this conversation and said that, she won't return his necklace.

He asked her ,whose orders she's following to which she replied that she'll tell him once he finds his necklace.