I really did go back and rewatch all four eps of Extraordinary You for clues. Observations:

Dried Squid Fairy is mostly smug. He only dropped his smug attitude three times. First, when he saw Haru from the window. Second, when Dan Oh named Haru. Third, when he found Haru’s drawings in the library.

Haru was Dan Oh’s protector from early in the story, but it seemed like he was moving in a dream until he read the writing on Dan Oh’s rock. Was he trapped inside his nameless character? After that scene, he seemed to come to life. He found the pool in the woods, then he found Dan Oh and brought her there. (So he knew the storyboard ahead of time, too, because he knew where she would be.) He seemed to have a reason to think she would remember that place. The next day, he seemed startled when she said the palace was familiar and she must have been a princess in a past life. Then he knew the path to the house where no one else went. And the flower pendant burned his hand. Somehow he’s connecting the flower keychain with the flower pendant, even though the flower is different. It seems like Dan Oh is teaching Haru, but Haru actually knows much more than Dan-Oh. He knows how this manwha works, but he also knows about their shared past and how they are connected before they got to this manwha. Whatever the name of that red flower is, I bet that was the name of the manwha they came from before they arrived in this one.

The fact that Dan-Oh’s actions could make her past with her mother change and cause the flower garden to disappear suggests to me that it was all scripted, not real. That was not her real life. If she dies in this manwha, I think Haru may take her through the black hole to another manwha world. I think they came that way, and they can move on that way. He won’t be missed in this world, and she won’t either once her character dies.

Kyung is not aware yet, but I think he is confused and upset by the role he has to play and the words he has to say vs. his real feelings for Dan Oh, which came out a little the morning after the night trek.

Secret, the title – there are so many secrets. Dried Squid Fairy is keeping secrets. Haru knows secrets. Nam Ju told Ju Da what he wished for was a secret. I think the real secret is that their romance and their manwha is actually the backdrop, not the main event.

So much to think about after only four eps. I can’t wait to see what will happen this week.