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I tried my best to run away 1

As Joon-young hides alone on the island, he thinks back on the night before, when he'd watched over Eul as she slept. As it turns out, he'd brought her here to take her to that island, but he decided to go alone instead. "If I take you, I'll want to hide you there so that you won't be able to go to anyone else. So don't ever appear before me. If I ever see you again, I'll take you away."

When Eul had shown up on the island and started yelling at him, Joon-young hadn't been arrogantly dismissing her — he'd been so overcome to see her there he hadn't been able to move. He'd stood and tried to walk away, thinking to himself, "One." But Eul had stopped him again, telling him it's not a dream, and he'd thought, "Two."

She'd waved her hand in his face when he hadn't responded… "Three." Then he'd told her to go, and never show her face to him again. He'd left her there, wondering what she did so wrong, swearing she'll never drink like that again.

But Joon-young hadn't gone far, and Eul joins him again and offers him a yogurt drink. Heh, she's so nervous she accidentally pokes him in the mouth with the straw. She apologizes for the night before, telling Joon-young that she can't remember what she did, and he thinks, "Four." Eul whines that she really wants to apologize but she has no clue what to apologize for, and Joon-young gets to "Five."

Eul picks up when Ji-tae calls, and Joon-young's expression grows wary even though he doesn't move a muscle. Eul lies that she's not with Joon-young, then immediately admits that she is. She tells Ji-tae that she made a huge mistake she has to make right, just as Joon-young sees the ferry and heads down to meet it.

Ji-tae is calling from work, so he shakes off his disappointment (with effort). But his assistant hands him some photos of himself with Eul and Joon-young after the concert, and the assistant says that he's sure Jung-eun saw the photos. It's a problem, especially since Ji-tae lied to Jung-eun about being at the concert, and because the assistant adds that it looks like she's ordered a background check on Eul.

Joon-young is still ignoring Eul on the ferry, while she keeps complaining that she can't remember anything about the night before. He thinks, "Six," and walks away from her again.

Before he gets to his car, Eul jumps in front of Joon-young and admits that okay, so she does remember getting drunk and throwing a fit. She berates him for holding a grudge, but Joon-young holds his tongue, and thinks, "Seven." Eul braces herself and invites him to hit her, anything to make him talk to her, but he just pokes her in the face. "Eight."

Joon-young just rolls his eyes when he finds Gook-young sleeping in his car, and Eul jumps in quickly before he can lock the door. At his glare, Eul says it's his fault she got drunk in the first place, and straps herself in stubbornly when Joon-young mutters for her to get out. "Nine."

So Joon-young gets out of the car instead, prepared to take a taxi back to the city. Eul follows and says that she really really doesn't remember much, and she has no idea what she did to make him this angry. As she lists the things she does remember, Joon-young counts, "Nine and a half. Nine and three quarters. Nine and a half and a quarter and an eighth." Eul admits that she even remembers him helping her change clothes, but Joon-young manages to hail a taxi and drive away.

Eul wakes Gook-young and the two drive back to Seoul. Gook-young asks Eul what in the world she did to Joon-young, but she's still wondering that herself. It must have been terrible, but she really doesn't know, and Gook-young bops her in the head to help jog her memory.

In his taxi, Joon-young only now remembers that he threw his phone in the ocean to prevent Eul calling Ji-tae again. He lowers his scarf to ask to borrow the driver's phone, and the driver recognizes him.

Ajusshi catches Joon-young's mom stress-eating and takes the food away, knowing she has a sensitive stomach. Despite herself, she's visibly relieved when Joon-young calls her from the cab driver's phone, though she yells that he has the wrong number and hangs up.

Mom lies that it wasn't Joon-young, so Ajusshi calls the number back to check. Awww, Joon-young's wide happy smile, thinking his mother is calling him back, falls painfully when he hears Ajusshi's voice instead. Ajusshi fusses at Joon-young for worrying his mother, and in the background Mom yells that she wasn't worried at all.

But Joon-young smiles, and says that he knows his mom is worried about him. Ajusshi asks how he got tangled up with a gold-digger (what everyone in the press is calling Eul), reminding him how Gook-young got hooked in by a gold-digger, lost everything, and went to jail. That's when Joon-young bailed his friend out with his front money from the agency.

Joon-young says Eul isn't a gold-digger, and Mom snatches the phone back, asking how he could have such bad taste in women. Joon-young smiles beatifically and tells his mom that he likes that girl, that he recently realized that he loves her.

Mom is stunned silent, and Joon-young continues that that's why he's running away. He didn't know what he'd do if he kept seeing her, so he's running away from her.

Gook-young tells Eul that from what he's seen, Joon-young sincerely cares for Eul — he wasn't joking when he confessed. Eul has a hard time processing this, thinking Joon-young must be insane to like her. Ha, Gook-young is all, I know, right??

Looks like I’m in this one for the long haul after all, and I’m glad because for a show that’s light on plot,

Uncontrollably Fond still has me captivated with its sweet, melancholy storytelling style. Everyone’s emotions are becoming more confusing and entangled, causing some to become blunt and others to run away. But Joon-young is quickly running out of time, and he’s going to have to step outside of his comfort zone if he’s to get what he wants while he still can.

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