"Love In Sync" star Kang Min-ah and Kim Myungsoo went from a kiss to an embrace.
On the 5th, the Saturday-Sunday drama Love In Sync (written by Jeong Yeon and Kim Seong-rae, directed by Kim Chil-bong), released through Lifetime, U+tv mobile and Disney+, showed in episode 2 the reunion of Cha Eun-hwan (played by Kim Myungsoo), who was wracked with guilt after a client's knife rampage, and Yoo Ji-an (played by Kang Min-ah), who had collapsed under a string of setbacks including a power-abuse controversy.
Yoo Ji-an attended a meeting for the new film by master director Moon Kyung-sik (played by Jo Hyun-jae), where rival Han Yi-jin (played by Kwon Sohyun) was present. Director Moon made disparaging remarks about Yoo Ji-an, and Yoo Ji-an stormed out. Immediately after, Ji-an's agency CEO Kim Jun-sik (played by Jeong Hee-tae) received a mysterious call from Yoo Ji-an's mother, Choi Jeong-mi (played by Son Ji-na), and his expression hardened.
But director Moon Kyung-sik noticed Yoo Ji-an's bold charm and star quality and picked Yoo Ji-an for the lead instead of Han Yi-jin. When she heard the news, Han Yi-jin asked her stylist Shin Mi-jung (played by Park Chae-won) pointedly, "Are you still struggling because of your mother's hospital bills?" Afterwards Shin Mi-jung exposed Yoo Ji-an's power-abuse controversy online and then vanished. Yoo Ji-an, who saw the video, denied it as if she did not remember, but advertisers could not be prevented from cutting ties.
At the same time, Cha Eun-hwan's reputation suffered a backlash at the counseling firm that had made him famous, "Sangsang Boksoo." His client Lee Young-ji (played by Kim I-hyun) was arrested for a knife rampage, and he was even questioned as a witness. Cha Eun-hwan sought to understand the truth and requested a meeting with Lee Young-ji but was refused.
Those at their worst met by fate at a convenience store. Feeling Cha Eun-hwan's self-reproach through emotional transference, Yoo Ji-an looked around and found him drunk, and she soon began to cry. When Cha Eun-hwan asked if she was crying, Yoo Ji-an replied, "It's not me crying; it feels like you're the one crying." Full emotional transference had begun, though they had not yet realized it.
Yoo Ji-an, engulfed in the power-abuse controversy, fled after her agency contract was changed to her detriment. Despite news that her renewal had fallen through, no other agencies contacted her, and to make matters worse she was told to leave her lodging. Desperately looking for a place to live, Yoo Ji-an, unfamiliar with the ways of the world, hastily signed a contract and was even a victim of real estate fraud, driving her to the edge.
Meanwhile, Cha Eun-hwan, who had heard by chance at the police station about Yoo Ji-an's fraud victimization, grabbed the phone of the person secretly filming her and rescued her from the crisis. After leaving the police station, Cha Eun-hwan asked the weakened Yoo Ji-an, who had collapsed, if she was all right, and she said, "You keep asking if I'm okay, and it really feels like I'm not," and burst into tears she had been holding back. The ending featured an embrace that captured Cha Eun-hwan's conflicted feelings at not being able to pat the grieving woman's back.
[Photo] Love In Sync
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