OH TO HAVE A GWAN-SIK IN YOUR LIFE. Must be nice, huh? Ok I am now at introspection and therapizing territory here so pardon me with the yapping: I am not a father, and will never be a mother, but I am a son of a mother (a single mother, to be exact), and the message this episode is trying to tell me right now is a message already too familiar with me and I have learned the hard way at therapy. Our parents, at the end of the day are just humans trying their best to show our love to us. They were also once, like you, fixating on things you cannot have while them fixating on things they cannot give to you. We are all just vulnerable humans doing our best to support each other in life, because that’s love and that’s what family is. And with this, despite Ae-sun and Gwan-sik scraping bottoms of desperation barrels just to provide for their daughter no matter what it takes just so she could have the life they dreamed for themselves - is a story all too familiar to any parent, because every parent, no matter how rich, fulfilled, or accomplished they are, will always want better for their child. And the way they made extra efforts to work for someone abusive or even approach their wives, was their way to extend their arm longer for their child. And that’s something admirable, even if that isn’t exactly something we would usually want for anyone to go through. —— SO YEAH, as you could tell, definitely invested in this series at this point. I do love my tidbits of introspection. I like dramas that make my brain wire like this.