Yum Jung-ah and her daughter Choi Yoon-ji welcomed spring in 'First, For Love.'
In the 10th episode of the tvN drama 'First, For Love' (directed by Yoo Jae-won, written by Seong Woo-jin), which aired on the 2nd, the romance blooming in Cheongha village was depicted. From the middle-aged romance between Lee Jian (played by Yum Jung-ah) and Ryu Jeong-seok (played by Park Hae-joon) to the youth romance between Lee Hyori (played by Choi Yoon-ji) and Ryu Bo-hyun (played by Kim Min-kyu), the pink excitement was amplified. The 10th episode had a viewership rating of an average of 3.6% and a peak of 4.9% based on metropolitan households, and an average of 3.7% and a peak of 4.9% based on nationwide households, ranking first in its time slot, including both cable and General Programming Channels (Nielsen Korea paid platform).
The story of Lee Jian and Ryu Jeong-seok spread overnight throughout Cheongha village through Mimi Halme (played by Kang Ae-sim). Amid playful jokes and teasing, the villagers sincerely congratulated the two. Ryu Jeong-seok remained unfazed by the reactions around him. Instead, he boldly passed in front of the villagers wearing couple helmets, saying, "Let's go show off." When Lee Jian felt shy and embarrassed, he said, "You've waited too long. Let's enjoy this moment and live happily without hesitation. " They relished in the happiness of their public relationship.
Lee Hyori and Ryu Bo-hyun embarked on a secret trip just for the two of them. Adults turned a blind eye to their clumsy acting and cute lies, but the two fell into a delightful delusion of a successfully executed plan as they left home. Watching her daughter, Lee Jian regretted not having told her to live more comfortably earlier. Lee Hyori confessed to Ryu Bo-hyun, "Bo-hyun, seeing you next to me and witnessing my mom living her own life now makes me... want to live. I really want to live well."
Thus, Lee Jian spent a romantic one-night, two-day trip with Ryu Jeong-seok, while Lee Hyori enjoyed a similar experience with Ryu Bo-hyun. The mother and daughter, who met again after a day, spent the night chatting. Lee Jian reminisced about the happy moments spent with Ryu Jeong-seok and said in a youthful voice, "If I had known dating was this good, I would have done it much earlier. Is this what it feels like to hold back and finally experience something this good?" A glance at her mother made Lee Hyori unexpectedly emotional. Then borrowing Ryu Bo-hyun's words, "If you hang a romance after an regrettable memory, that memory eventually remains as a romance," she expressed her gratitude for having her mom beside her by saying, "Thanks to your choice, we are continuously building such romantic new memories."
Above all, Lee Hyori's remark, "Thank you for not giving up on me," notably brought back memories of the long and cold winter that the mother and daughter endured, stirring emotions. However, the spring for Lee Jian and Lee Hyori was fleeting. The date for Lee Hyori's brain tumor surgery, which she had been waiting for indefinitely, was approaching. Starting with Jeong Moon-hee (played by Kim Seon-young), who learned the news first, the complex expressions of Lee Jian, Lee Hyori, and Ryu Bo-hyun were met with, "Having endured the cold and lonely winter until reaching spring, we know well that winter and spring touch each other, and the lingering memories of winter still linger at the edges of spring, so we come to understand that even that is a part of spring, and we choose to believe in love and that it will be 'spring, and then again spring,'" adding to the curiosity about the remaining two episodes through Lee Jian's calm narration.
Meanwhile, in that day's broadcast, Yoon Tae-oh (played by Yang Kyung-won) met his mother and brother, whom he had been out of contact with for a while, thanks to the help of Kim Seon-young (played by Kim Seon-young). Behind Yoon Tae-oh's sorrowful story of giving up his athletic career due to an unfortunate accident and subsequently abandoning his family due to alcohol addiction was another secret. On the last day Yoon Tae-oh faced his family while wandering for quite a while in the past, his mother had suffered a stroke but had hidden that fact. The emotional reunion between the mother, who worried about her sensitive son, and Yoon Tae-oh, who learned all the truth too late, moved viewers to tears.
[Photo] Captured from the broadcast of tvN 'First, For Love.'
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