At the revelation that Gun was the face behind Lee Young-ja, Mi-young asks how he could think of pulling such a mean prank on her. Does he know what it took for her to forget him after all these years?
A long, silent moment passes before Gun gives his answer, minimizing his intentions as mere curiosity about his now-successful ex-wife, and as interest in buying a painting he liked. It was Mi-young who made things complicated when she contacted him about it.
Although astounded by his audacity to blame her for this situation, Mi-young swallows back her tears as best she can to ask if he meant the comforting and supportive words he told her. Gun apologizes, laughing — that was all fake.
“Do you know who Young-ja was to me?” Mi-young returns, looking thoroughly hurt. “I thought, ‘I met someone who completely understands me,’ ‘I met someone who understands my paintings.’ How consoling that was… how thankful I was.”
But Gun says the only thing he has to apologize for is his fake identity. His laughter that follows spurs her to remark how he’s become the worst in these past three years, which he affirms in a whisper. “You’re quite pathetic, Kim Mi-young,” he continues with a heavy sigh. “How could you not have changed at all in the past three years? You’re deceived by others easily and trust them so well, like a fool. When will you correct that habit?”
Those words sound so hurtful at face value, and yet the cadence in Gun’s voice also holds some genuine wonder of how Mi-young hasn’t changed in his eyes. Still, he points to that painting of his silhouette in heart-shaped lollipop as evidence of her lingering feelings for him.
He’ll give back the Keddongie painting before he goes, though: “I don’t know how precious or how much this painting means to you, but to me… it’s just one painting.”
And that’s the last straw for Mi-young, who snatches back her painting. She orders him to get out (in banmal, at that), and he obeys without another word. Her knees buckle under her after he leaves. She clutches the Keddongie painting tightly, then takes down the painting of Gun and turns it away.
Gun reflects upon Mi-young’s words on the staircase outside her studio, but little does he know that Daniel, who has come by to check in on Mi-young, sees him sitting there and leaving.
It rather seems like Gun isn’t paying attention during his company meeting, given how his eyes are closed during the PPL presentation. But it’s apparent that Gun hasn’t missed a word when he’s prompted for his opinion, and he approves of working with an online beauty site in China.
Daniel arrives at Mi-young’s studio the next day, surprised at seeing her packing up her things. She apologizes for not keeping her promise to stay in Korea until her art exhibition is over because she wants to return to France. She reveals that the buyer of that “le soupir” painting turned out to be none other than Gun.
Gun is well into his fourth bottle of sake at dinner with Se-ra, where he informs her how her mother recently came to see him. She apologizes for that, and he asks with a sigh, “It’s hard for you, isn’t it? Being friends with me?”
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