The love plot between Joo-man and Sul-hee is one that is worth special mention, however. Their love is one that the masses can relate to after all, not everyone is endowed with the good looks of Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won. Fingers crossed that they will be able to work through this together, but boy, they’ve got some hard work cut out for them. Nevertheless, it is, still, extremely unfair to poor Sul-hee. My heart goes out to Joo-man because it honestly does seem like the poor lad is just really kindhearted and circumstances just keep lending themselves to his detriment. The same could be said for Joo-man and Sul-hee - but unfortunately, love isn’t just about how much you care about one another, but also about making the daily commitment to choosing one another over everyone else, which can be challenging when you’ve been in a relationship for as long as six years. Similarly, for all of her prickly exterior, Ae-ra cares so much about Dong-man and would go to the ends of the world just to protect him. While he might be slightly dense sometimes, Dong-man truly understands Ae-ra, and always knows what to do or say to make her feel better. But at the same time, they both love one another so much, and in ways that are even more important than fuzzy feelings or butterflies in the stomach. With the benefit of having twenty years of friendship under their belts, neither of them are afraid to inform the other that he/she is being pig-headed at any point in time. It is wonderful to see Dong-man and Ae-ra finally get together because they truly are better together. After Hye-ran spectacularly stomps over Ae-ra’s pride once again by snatching the microphone almost literally right out from under Ae-ra’s nose, she gets all her bad karma back when Dong-man chooses – finally! – Ae-ra over her. But things take a huge leap forward a couple of days later when events conspire to bring the strangest mix of people together in Daecheon – Ae-ra’s father, Hye-ran, and the slightly-dubious sunbae, Kyung-koo. This is a turning point in their relationship as they begin to see each other in new light. He knocks his opponent out within an astoundingly 19 seconds, and a rather dramatic scene ensues: Dong-man symbolically (and suavely) breezes past Hye-ran, and crouches in front of Ae-ra to comfort her. Picking up from where we left off previously, Ae-ra goes to see Dong-man’s first match despite adamantly refusing him before.
Meanwhile, we get into the thick of things with a series of side-plots - our mysterious landlady, Ganako Hwang ( Jin Hee-kyung) shady sunbae Kyung-koo ( Kang Ki-dong) and who exactly is Nam-il? - that will hopefully come together to form a complete picture as we tumble into the second half of the drama. On the other end of the spectrum, however, six years of effort in building a life together pretty much come crumbling down in a day - or a night, rather - for Joo-man and Sul-hee. Dong-man and Ae-ra pretty much condense twenty years of yearning into these four episodes, making grand ol’ confessions of ‘I Love You’ seem like the most natural thing in the world. Things are moving along speedily for our favourite quadruplet - although not necessarily for the better in every case.