Wedding Impossible (2024) K Drama Episode 7-8

Oh, if only I could bottle the last ten minutes of this week’s episodes. So much heat! From crying to clasping to kissing — sort of all at the same time. It’s a bit of a slog to get through all the seconds that the leads are not on screen together. But when they are — whether arguing or opening up — the spark is worth it.

After Ji-han gave his permission last week, Ah-jung can’t stop being bothered by it. She senses he’s lying — and it takes one to know one (“Why did you act in front of an actor?” she wonders). Their tumultuous tango is the central tension, as we move from Ji-han obsessively thinking about Ah-jung, to her unable to stop dwelling on him.

Now that the wedding news has been publicly released (and the conniving Choi siblings have given away Ah-jung’s whereabouts), the press is hounding our heroine to the point that she’s forced to go stay with Do-han. But, you know, he and Ji-han live in the same house, so now we’ve got our leads sharing an abode.

And what a first night it is. Following an extended bubble bath scene (not complaining), Ji-han saunters into the living room, bare chested, toweling his hair. Ah-jung, mesmerized startled, drops her banchan and they both stare. She quickly turns away, but her eyes sneak back in his direction (lol), and he unsuccessfully tries to cover his torso with his tiny towel.

Cut to the next scene, where Ji-han, Ah-jung, and Do-han sit in the living room trying to quell the discomfort, and Ji-han’s got his hoodie zipped to the neck — hood up — covering himself head to toe. Ah-jung tells a story about how her eyesight is bad and she’s not wearing her glasses, which might work if Do-han didn’t ask: “Didn’t you get LASIK last year?” Ha! Her look says she might actually kill him.

To create distance, Ji-han keeps calling Ah-jung “sister-in-law,” which annoys her to no end, but makes Do-han happy. The brothers share a smile with each other and seem to be getting along better than ever before. Of course, this is a setup because things are about to go down the toilet.

To get there, we get a series of confrontations. First, when Ah-jung and Ji-han are alone at home, she asks for the truth about why he gave permission when he didn’t mean it. He tries to wrangle his way out with a vague response and starts to walk away, and there’s a nice role-reversed wrist grab, with our girl Ah-jung pulling it off like a pro. Still, they don’t resolve anything, and go their separate ways feeling sad.

In a heartbreaking conversation later, Ah-jung does her best to confess, telling Ji-han that in this whole wedding equation, he’s the variable she can’t overlook. It’s obvious that she’s trying to give him the chance to stop her from marrying his brother, but Ji-han tells her to trust her decision to marry Do-han and he’ll trust his own decision (to let her go).

The next confrontation is between Do-han and his ex, JUNG DAE-HYUN (newcomer Shin Yong-bum). So far, Dae-hyun has filled the role of an antagonist and, even if the drama is trying to give him motivations for his actions, it’s disconcerting to me that it’s not at all nuanced.

Dae-hyun has been creeping around causing problems at Do-han’s studio, and even made himself known to Ah-jung, which sets Do-han off. Dae-hyun thinks that Do-han should feel guilty about what happened between them, and vows to make himself happy by hurting Do-han. To do this, he meets with Ji-han and reveals that he and Do-han were in a relationship — giving away the secret that Do-han is desperately fighting to keep contained.

Ji-han reacts by saying that he doesn’t care, his hyung is his hyung no matter what. But at the same time, he thinks that Do-han is being selfish and runs out to find Ah-jung right then. She’s trying on wedding dresses, and he literally pulls her out of there and into the street, where he’s clear: “Don’t go through with this marriage.”

But Ji-han is in a bind because he thinks that Ah-jung doesn’t know that Do-han is gay, and he still wants to protect his brother, so he won’t tell her. Ah-jung doesn’t understand his sudden change of heart and so she protests — thinking he’s the one being selfish now. She goes so far as to say that she likes Do-han so much it hurts, which just makes Ji-han feel for her more. (By this point, these two are driving me nuts with all their dancing around. Make up your minds!)

But good for Ji-han because he’s not going to leave her alone this time. He goes to watch her on set, where she’s filming a long action sequence, and afterward they take a break together. They’re melancholic and confide that they’ve both been acting — though neither says about what exactly. They agree to take a short respite from pretending, just for the moment, and they’re calm and easy together for the first time.

With Ji-han’s newfound gusto, he decides he has to be honest with Do-han. He opens up, saying that Do-han is self-pitying and never thinks about how his actions affect anyone else. This leads to an all-out fist fight between brothers, where — without it being said — Do-han realizes that Ji-han knows his secret. Ji-han leaves with the advice to stop thinking about how he’ll be hurt and to think about how others could get hurt instead.

Then our hero goes directly out to find our heroine. She wants to know why he’s taking this so far and he mimics what she said earlier about Do-han: “I like you so much it hurts.” He’s done acting. He tried to make her fall for him, but he fell for her in the process.

She responds by getting angry, calling him crazy, and storming off. He’s crestfallen, but when he starts to leave, she comes back. She’s crying, but also totally enraged. She’s hitting him repeatedly, shouting, asking how he can do this to his brother. He doesn’t say anything and she just keeps crying her heart out and demanding an answer.

Finally, he hugs her, holds her still, and says it’s not like that. She’s a puddle. She’s been trying so hard to hold back, but she can’t when he’s acting like this. She backs away, looks at him, controls her staggering breath, and pulls him in for a kiss. Afterward, she says, “I think I’ve lost it because of you.”

At that, he leans in and kisses her again — then pulls his head back to look at her and, OMG, his face. They kiss as the camera captures the long shot, and we’re left with that feeling of high until next week.

I love them. I love them together so much. Sorry, Do-han. Find another fake wife. I’ll admit that the kiss seemed a little misplaced right in the center of her hysterics (just too abrupt of a change), but by the time she said she’d lost it because of him, I was back on board. And that look of love on his face after he kissed her just sold the entire thing. We knew they had spark, since their witty repartee is what’s holding this drama together, but now they’ve got absolute sparkle.

I’m so over every story thread surrounding them that I can’t really imagine how we’re going to fill four more episodes. The meddling half-siblings are running in circles. Grandpa keeps repeating the same stuff. Ah-jung’s sister already found out about the marriage contract being a “three-year acting role” and she’s agreed to go along with it (which, thanks for sparing us that unnecessary drama). And Chae-won hardly makes a mark.

The only thing left on our plate is to sort out the truth about the mom’s death — which will hopefully resolve the issue of the heir — and for Do-han to follow our main leads footsteps and be able to stop pretending. In the interim, let’s hope for superfluous dating antics, happy flirtation, and a few more sensuous smooches to throw in the mix.

Source: Dramabean