SHE'S THE ONE

"I found you" he said with a smile...

Later , Ji-ah treated Yeon's wounds at his place, since he probably shouldn't go to a hospital(because he is a gumiho).

She popped a strawberry candy in his mouth like her mom used to do for her when she'd get a shot.

He asked her to keep talking, so she tells him about the time when her parents were killed, and she spent in the pediatric mental health ward after saying her parents' abductors were non-human.

Her doctor wouldn't discharge her, so when she caught him pilfering medicine, she blackmailed him into letting her out. Pfft. Her uncle drove her home, but she didn't want to go inside the empty home.

She sat on the stoop, taking comfort in the two fireflies that hovered around her. They felt like her parents. Yeon listened in silence, and remembers , the night when he watched little Ji-ah playing with the fireflies from across the street.

After Ji-ah dressed his wounds, she sits by his bedside as he fell asleep. Yeon wakes in the morning and smiled lovingly at Ji-ah's silhouette sleeping form in the chair next to him.

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Meanwhile, In the home of Rang's human companion, there ia a room plastered in talismans.

The "baby" was now an elementary school aged boy studying advanced mathematics for some reason. Only seeing his back, it looked like there are scales on his face… like a snake.

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Yeon's peaceful morning stare was brought to an abrupt halt when a hysterical Shin-joo arrived.

He was too tired to do more than wave dismissively and nodded in response to Shin-joo and Ji-ah's questions as they both realize who the other is.

Shin-joo is ecstatic (and emotional) that Yeon finally found Ah-eum's reincarnation . He cheerfully congratulates him for finding his first love.

Ji-ah reminded him she's still there, so he formally introduce himself as Yeon's loyal servant since his guardian mountain spirit days. Now, he's Yeon's bodyguard, doctor, and housekeeper.

Ji-ah realised that he's also actually a gumiho and had deceived her all this time.

Meanwhile, Rang goes to a mall for shopping and enters a watch store , he overshares with the salesman about how nothing made him happy.

He seems to momentarily find his fun, though, when the salesman says his cheap watch is a keepsake from his dead father.

Rang offered him a trade, interested to see his choice:his family keepsake for Rang's incredibly expensive watch.

Rang hops in Yoo-ri's car, feeling broody and melancholic. He drops the salesman's cheap watch out the window. Like him, that man now has lost what's most precious to him..

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Shin-joo hovered and babied Yeon, blowing on his hot food. Yeon self-consciously looks over at Ji-ah and insists he can do things himself … and proceeds to burns himself on his food.

Shin-joo complimented Ji-ah's first aid skills and asked her to look after Yeon while he recovers over the next month.

Ji-ah is incredulous as the vet says "the power of love" is the best medicine.

According to Yeon, Shin-joo is that family member that embarrasses and infantilizes you in front of your crush, making you as uncool as possible.

Yeon tries to shoo him out, but the damage is done as Shin-joo manages to slip in that Ji-ah shouldn't forget Yeon's favorite rubber duckies when he takes a bath.

(A/N: Poor Yeon😂)

Yeon eats his beloved mint chocolate chip ice cream and looks like he's even more smitten when Ji-ah likes it too.

Yeon smiled as he noticed Ji-ah enjoying his ice cream, he looked at her such unexplainable tenderness,

Ji-ah asked about Ah-eum, so Yeon explained how they met.

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Hundreds of years ago

Yeon was wearing a red hanbok, as little Ah-eum pet his head, wearing a yellow hanbok with golden design on it, and persistently asking questions in the face of Yeon's grumpiness.

He displayed his awesome power by summoning thunder, and telling her to get lost. Instead, she offered him a life of luxury if he agreed serve her. HA!

She left crying but came back later that day. Yeon praised his generous nature, claiming he let Ah-eum win in the end.

He had no idea what to do with the precocious, unintimidated child who pretty much did whatever she wanted.

For years, he had helped her learn archery at her insistence. Finally, she told him why: she was going to kill her father, the king. Which explains the entitlement.

Yeon told Ji-ah that there was an evil being masquerading as the king. The people called him the "earth dragon". Ji-ah realized thr he's talking about the imoogi.

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Rang's associate hires a nanny for the imoogi who is still a kid, and sends her up to give the kid his meal. Practically speaking,  she is the meal. She entered the child's room and freaked out when she saw the scales on his face and hand. The creepy child grabbed her arm, and it seem to wither and die as she screams.

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At Yeon's, no matter how much Ji-ah pestered him to tell her how Ah-eum died, he remained silent. He thought of Taluipa's warning that Ji-ah could get hurt because of his obsession.

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In the car,

Yoo-ri self-consciously covers her scars – Shin-joo's sympathy still bothered her.

She told Rang he looked at her with pity instead of lust. He advised her that Shin-joo can't look at her like that without his eyes. (Because why be subtle when you can be extra.)

Rang hears yelping at the junkyard and urgently instructed Yoo-ri to stop.

Three 'disgusting human' , who were wearing a basketball uniforms, were using a dog as target practice for their pitching. The poor thing was in abad shape by the time Rang and Yoo-ri get there to put the humans in their place.

The dog was severely injured on his leg and was whinning.

Yoo-ri took out two of the men with some vicious hair comb clip action, while Rang painfully twisted the other's arm. They covered his head with a bag, indicating that they're not nearly finished.

At the junkyard with the animal abusers, Rang and Yoo-ri line the bound men up in front of the car crusher. Rang made them pick a card to determine their fate. Yoo-ri clapped excitedly when the first victim picks a "talent donation" card.

Rang was happy to hear their talent is baseball since he likes the sport.

From now on, they'd be donating that talent to him and will no longer be able to play. Rang instructs Yoo-ri to break each of the victims' hands. She laughed delightedly as they begged for mercy...