Recap
Chu Ying thinks she’s giving an alcohol test but she’s actually helping out at an orphanage. This gets her scolded for her lack of focus. Then she insults a volunteer’s baking on accident. Worse, he’s a baker. But he doesn’t seem too bothered.
Yi Yong now thinks the apparitions are responsible for his grandfather’s coma and possibly the accident. He works a food delivery job and spends nights in Guang Yan’s bed, waking up to look out the window at a young girl with hair pins but doing nothing to help her.
Later, while doing delivery Yi Yong sees the young girl as a life-sized window doll. He starts to leave but comes back and knocks on the glass in front of it.
That night he waves it in but struggles to draw it because it keeps changing in age and clothes. He draws the oldest version that he saw in the window. When Guang Yan sees her he’s confused as to why Yi Yong was hiding from her in his bed.
Yi Yong tries to skip to the end and have Window Doll pick out a character to write in exchange for the burnt calligraphy, but she refuses. Guang Yan wants to know why Yi Yong is being so mean to her when she’s cute. Proving his point, that night Yi Yong sees her crying and says nothing.
Guang Yan pushes Yi Yong to help the next morning but instead gets forced to help with food delivery. It all works out anyway, as Yi Yong ends up back at the storefront where he saw the Window Doll. A neighbor saw him tapping on the glass and ordered food to get him there so the shopkeeper could talk to him.
The doll looks like her daughter who was kidnapped and never returned 7 years ago. She hopes Yi Yong knows something, but he says he was just interested in the doll. He realizes he saw 7 versions and asks if there are 7 dolls, the owner says yes, each year she’d sculpt her as a new age.
Chu Ying brings the cupcakes and Guang Yan likes them but Yi Yong also finds them too sweet. Window Doll shows up, and when they share the missing child poster she’s upset at the woman for making her and tries to throw away the hairpin. It just reappears in her hair. She wants them to find the missing girl to free her.
Chu Ying is excited to solve another case for her career and Yi Yong is appalled. She sneaks the files from work and puts together the classic whiteboard + pictures + red string combo to show them. The girl went missing one day and the parents paid the ransom but never got her back.
Window Doll recognizes the father’s colleague from a picture, she’s seen him stop by.
Yi Yong and Guang Yan meet with the shop owner while Chu Ying meets with the colleague and father. They learn that the couple split up because of the doll, and the colleague was standing there because it wasn’t supposed to be in the window. The father didn’t like it but the shopkeeper put it back out.
The colleague told the father because they were close. The father even introduced the colleague to his wife, once an employee of the shop owner.
Chu Ying assigns Guang Yan to talk to the daughter of the former employee. Meanwhile, Yi Yong goes home and runs into Window Doll. She wants to know why he hates her but he explains he hates all of them for hurting his grandfather. He’s only helping because of the real girl, which upsets Window Girl.
Guang Yan is uncomfortable as a honey trap for the daughter while Yi Yong goes to find the former employee.
Thoughts
The show switches back into the mystery of the week mode but is good about keeping the character development and pacing going. In this episode we see Yi Yong continue to try and find his way in the world, now delivering food. He’s also newly angry with the apparitions because of what he saw on that tape last episode and it shows in how he treats Window Doll. He still can’t stop himself from helping though.
He and Guang Yan sharing a bed is cute. Because of Yi Yong’s new reluctance, Guang Yan gets to be the one more interested and excited about the mystery of the week. It’s nice to see him enjoying being out of his comfort zone, he’s loosening up and warming up.
Chu Ying is the weakest character of the three. I like her disillusionment with her job and desire for greater glory, but personality-wise she overlaps with Yi Yong a lot. This makes them cute together but also makes her less distinctive.
Window Doll hits the uncanny valley nicely. I can see both sides as far as the shopkeeper and her husband’s fight over it. The doll is creepy and the fact that it represents their missing daughter makes it worse so I can understand the father not wanting to see it. But everyone mourns in their own way and it’s also a clever way to get her daughter’s face out there.
The first time I watched this I got a little confused with the characters involved in the missing child so if you’re a little lost on that, I get it. I’m hoping to track it better this time through.
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