Jinxed at First: Episodes 5-6
by mistyisles
As our leads spend more and more time together, love is in the air… but so is danger. There’s an awful lot our heroine is keeping to herself, and the number of people pursuing her is multiplying fast.
EPISODES 5-6 WEECAP
While Seul-bi and Su-kwang enjoy their road trip to Busan, our friendly neighborhood loan shark, WANG YOON-HO (Kim Dong-young), gets orders from gang overlords to capture a fugitive for their unnamed client. Yep, it’s Seul-bi, and Yoon-ho tries to throw them off the scent by claiming he saw her somewhere far away. In Busan, to be precise. Oops.
He calls Su-kwang to warn him as soon as he realizes the mistake. Fortunately, the only gang members who cross their path in Busan don’t recognize Seul-bi, as she’s practicing silly-face selfies with the new phone Su-kwang has just bought her.
The warning does make Su-kwang ponder his growing suspicions about Seul-bi. He finally confronts her, asking if they should meet with the people who are looking for her. Seul-bi says no, but won’t explain why. She does, however, confess that she likes him and wants to stay with him forever.
Su-kwang is definitely smitten with her, but can’t bring himself to say so, too frustrated with her lies and too afraid of losing her like he’s lost everyone else he cared about. He lets her question of “Do you not like me?” go unanswered.
Upon returning to Seoul, Seul-bi mopes to her new shop owner friends about being rejected. They coach her on how to win Su-kwang’s affections, which turns out about as silly and unnecessary as most of their scenes, especially considering she already has his affection. And anyway, there are much bigger problems to deal with.
Turns out, there are multiple people after Seul-bi. One of them is Min-joon’s cousin, SUN DONG-SIK (Choi Jung-woo). He’s miffed at being left out of big family secrets, and he’s picked up from eavesdropping that Seul-bi has special powers.
Wanting to see her in action, he launches an elaborate plan to force her hand. First, he lures Su-kwang to an abandoned building with a fake delivery order. Then he has loan shark Dae-sik (the one who tried to sell Seul-bi to traffickers before) kidnap Seul-bi.
Once they’re both tied up, Dong-sik watches via hidden cameras as Seul-bi jostles Su-kwang awake and they struggle to free themselves. Eventually, Dong-sik gets impatient and remotely switches on a bomb he’s mounted on the wall in front of them.
Seeing the countdown commence gives Seul-bi and Su-kwang the burst of adrenaline they need to extract themselves from their bonds. But they’re still locked in the building, and they’ve used most of the ten minutes just getting untied.
With only seconds left, Su-kwang turns to Seul-bi in despair. Taking his hands, she promises everything will be okay. Then she closes her eyes and, for a moment, time stops. When it resumes, the bomb has frozen with one second remaining – but Su-kwang only gets about that same amount of time to celebrate before Seul-bi collapses unconscious in his arms.
That’s when Yoon-ho again comes to their rescue. He’d coincidentally been on the phone with Seul-bi at the time of her capture, and followed the clues she left to the abandoned building.
Finding it locked, and Min-joon engaged in a scuffle outside with Dong-sik’s lackeys (Dong-sik lured him there, too), Yoon-ho jumps into Su-kwang’s truck and crashes it through the side of the building. Then he drives them to safety almost before Dong-sik has time to react.
To be fair, Dong-sik wasn’t actually trying to kill them – the “bomb” wouldn’t have harmed them even if it had gone off. What he really wanted was confirmation about Seul-bi’s power. And he got it, even if he couldn’t see what she did.
Aside from scraped wrists and a sudden overnight fever on Seul-bi’s part, both she and Su-kwang are largely unharmed, but Su-kwang is more disturbed than ever about what Seul-bi isn’t telling him. Again, he asks for answers, and again, she deflects. And then there’s the matter of her necklace.
When Dae-sik kidnapped her, he also stole the necklace, hoping to pawn it off. But the jeweler dismisses it as a worthless rock, and when Dae-sik tries to wear it, it literally attaches itself to his neck and makes him break out in rashes all over.
Desperate, he returns to the fish shop and begs them to get it off him. To everyone’s fearful astonishment, it comes off easily in Su-kwang’s hand, and immediately the rashes disappear.
Yoon-ho further secures his spot as my favorite character by decking Dae-sik and then dragging him up to a rooftop to interrogate him and toss him into a dumpster, warning that this is his final chance to leave Seul-bi alone. Then he tasks Dae-sik with getting to the bottom of exactly who is after her.
The thing is, though, the answer to that question keeps changing. Chairman Sun is going through a weird phase where he decides Seul-bi’s mother is a person after all and that he’s in love with her again. After rescuing her from the oddly murderous caretaker, he starts eating meals with her and letting her out into his office area.
Seul-bi’s mother alternates between resentment and pity, hinting that Chairman Sun might have been a kinder person once, before his father’s influence and greed corrupted him. If it’s supposed to make us feel sorry for him, it doesn’t work, but it does keep me hoping that maybe Min-joon can be the one to break the cycle and willingly let go.
Chairman Sun goes so far as to call off the search for Seul-bi and offer to let Min-joon run the company his way instead of relying on “talismans.” But, of course, as soon as he hears his brother (Dong-sik’s father) is looking for Seul-bi, he wants her back in his own possession again. Min-joon also doubles down on wanting to bring her back and “protect” her, though Seul-bi’s mother ominously warns that he’ll be in danger if he does.
And the final person looking for Seul-bi? Her father, newly released from prison. He gets a tip on her whereabouts and goes straight to the fish shop. He’s so speechless with emotion that he just lets her and Su-kwang believe he’s here to apply as a delivery driver.
Meanwhile, Su-kwang’s feelings for Seul-bi are only getting stronger in spite of himself. He hits a breaking point one stormy evening when he rushes home to find her doing her absolute best to keep his books dry from the leaky roof. They’re his old business textbooks, and when she says she’s protecting them because they’re his hopes and dreams, his heart visibly melts.
Pulling her close for a kiss, he declares her more precious to him than anything else, deciding to focus on the here and now instead of worrying about losing her someday.
And Seul-bi has no intention of leaving, either. A few days later, she surprises him with a renovated apartment and a promise to stay together forever. But the moment their hands touch, her face falls. “Don’t go, Su-kwang,” she begs in her faraway, future-seeing voice.
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Tags: Jinxed at First, Ki Do-hoon, Lee Ho-jung, Na In-woo, Seohyun
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1 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️ Underpants buddies for life. 😎
July 2, 2022 at 4:20 PM
I dropped this last week but was on the fence whether to read the weekly wee cap or binge watch when it comes off air. This weeks update has helped me to choose to just stick with the weecaps. Thanks @mistyisles.
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debbie
July 3, 2022 at 5:37 AM
Same here. I dropped it but I decided to read the weecaps.
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Kurama
July 3, 2022 at 7:15 AM
I think there are 2 ways to see this drama : very cute or very creepy.
I fell in the second category and dropped it after the first week. The recap didn't make change my mind like the fact they already are in couple when she's just a child...
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️ Underpants buddies for life. 😎
July 3, 2022 at 12:30 PM
I think they missed a chance to change that dynamic as she was a child the first time they met in the webtoon. I think they tried to use her mum also being joyful in the past and the fact the misfortune of others landing on them is what robs them of that upbeat persona. If they did child for first contact and more matured for later contacts that would have worked much better.
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2 lapislazulii
July 2, 2022 at 6:47 PM
I quite liked this show’s premise but the lack of real momentum, plot wise and character wise, is starting to get to me a little bit. Right now the only characters I’m actively attached to are Seulbi and Yoonho, because everyone else is either a little cartoonish or has no real character development outside of their connection to Seulbi. That said it's only episode 6 so maybe things will pick up the deeper we go into the plot.
I'm also confused with that they're trying to do with Evil (?) Dad and the market-people are becoming a tad repetitive and boring with their rather flat characterisations. Even Minjoon - I was cheering for him when he was calling his dad out until he followed it up with ‘I’m going to find Seulbi and bring her back for sure’… uh wHY? I guess you could argue it's for her protection but the road to hell is paved with good intentions so eek.
Seulbi has really grown on me a lot though, she might be a bit naive and childish, but her sunshine persona is really infectious and hard to not be charmed! At this point in time, I’ve more or less lost interest in the chaebol politics and am only here for the FL and cutesy lead couple and nothing more.
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3 Ren / Gong Seung Yeon Fan ♡
July 3, 2022 at 3:45 PM
I have mixed feelings about this show…I’m on episode 6 right now and feel like the romance is a bit rushed, which I suspected might happen since there’s not much of a plot otherwise. I love both our leads individually but I think they could use more development to be a pairing I’m crazy about. I will say that Seulbi being so childlike has me hoping they’ll keep the romance light and innocent, which so far they have, so there’s that. If they were to change that, the one draw to this couple would probably be lost for me.
I also agree with others who find the market people a bit repetitive/annoying, and I wish there were more real characters and relationships in the show period. And then there’s all of the creepy/problematic parts (like slavery, abuse, and trying to sell off young girls for money, just to name a few) that I’m not even going to touch lol. That being said I love the main actors and the pace is pretty good so I’m not dropping it (quite) yet. Mostly I feel like I’m still waiting for it to get off the ground (which it probably should have by now)….
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4 Toodlepip
July 4, 2022 at 1:31 AM
I agree with comments saying that the romance seems rushed. I found myself asking how did that happen so quickly after these episodes. Seul bi is so childlike, and Yoon Ho has seen so much of the harder/unfair side of life, I felt things would take longer. I'm also tiring of the evil chaebols story, and Min Joons cousin is so spoiled he's annoying. Don't think this show has lived up to it's potential yet.
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5 sakuradaydream
July 4, 2022 at 7:27 PM
I have to agree with yall here. This weeks ep's felt so weird and off. The romance plot was completely rushed (not to mention SO forced) and had no feeling/meaning or substance behind it at all. I sat through all that wincing as I watched it. It was as if the writer just gave up.
Apart from that, I had no idea wtf the Min-Joon's dad was going on about with the "bring her back/dont bring her back" switch I was so confused? Like decide on one plan and stick to it please? I couldn't really take their dialogues so it resulted in me FF'wd through most of the ep.
I was also pleasantly surprised at SB being able to stop time and that made me wonder wtf was the extent of her powers as I only thought she was able to see the future through touch. Also mad love for Mr Wang, its so random how he's helping them.
By the looks of the next eps, I'm hoping the story would pick up from there
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6 LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
August 16, 2022 at 12:10 AM
Female lead and dog stick heads out the window of the car and yell, "I'M EATING THE WIND" and I decide to drop.
Don't get me wrong, it's adorable behaviour in a toddler. She is not supposed to be a toddler. I haven't been this offput by a female lead's weird infantilising since the Forest's female lead jumped on the back of a bike and yelled, "Wheeeee!". Oh wait, Seul-bi did that too...
What Dramaland really needed was another creepy romance with a literal child.
...Except for some reason I didn't drop and now I think I'm stuck in this for the long haul just out of some kind of morbid curiosity.
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