So I watched the final episode of VIP. It was a lovely, lovely ending, quiet and just – sad. The flashback to the past, where he held her hand for the first time. A beginning, and an end…😭😭😭😭
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    The most poignant lines: “I saw the parts of you I wanted to see. You were the most precious thing in the world to me for ten years.”

    And the saddest line: “You broke my heart.”

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      I loved her line “I want to be happy with myself first ” as an answer if she is seeing someone, the best.

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    i liked that they repeated the ‘walking under the umbrella scene’.

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      Yes, me, too. The umbrella that they shared at the beginning, now two, the umbrellas separating, his wavering, waiting, hers moving first, and then after a while, his umbrella moves, slowly, in the other direction. He was waiting for her to turn around – still hopeful, perhaps? – and I was so afraid her umbrella would stop, but it didn’t. She kept on moving, further and further, and away from him. I loved it. That they made it so real, and didn’t spoil it with the happily-ever -after- forgive and reconcile scenario. I loved that ending.

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        yeah. Bittersweet, part of you wished for a reconciliation but some broken things shouldn’t be put back together

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          I think part of the brokenness was not only the affair, but she discovered he was also willing to do some shady, less than legal things to get ahead. Glad she caught herself before going down the same path in the name of revenge.

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            And that he hid important parts of his life from her, it hurted her for real.

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            I think the first, big crack in their marriage was him lying to her about his background and his father. His reason for hiding it didn’t make sense to me.
            That marriage wasn’t so happy and successful even before Yu-ri’s appearance.

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            yeah i can’t believe he never told her about his father! trust issues right there. Also in general i really hate it when a child that is the product of an affair gets shamed/blamed for what their parents did. helloo..they weren’t even there when it happened, they’re victims too.

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            @parkchuna @shach @carmen

            He said that he couldn’t tell Jung Sun because of what happened with her mother, and I remember when his mother told Jung Sun that she had been a mistress, Jung Sun recoiled. I think it showed how repulsed Jung Sun felt about cheating, but still. He was married to her, he should have told her everything. And what was sickening to me was the day of the funeral when he cried and sought comfort in the other woman’s arms and told her everything. It was just hard for me to watch, especially at a time when his wife was hurting so much – she just lost her baby, for crying out loud.

            And in the last episode, he broke down and cried at the montage of pics of his wife, shots he took of her when she was sleeping, and having time out for herself – he obviously loved her so to take those impromptu shots – so many of them – and the fact that that roll was left in the camera, forgotten, obviously meant the miscarriage happened after the pics were taken. Terribly sad to see him cry, my heart hurt so, even though I hated him so much in the earlier episodes. I felt sad for the past and for the life he threw away, like his wife said, for what? Was it worth it, in the end? The passion really burnt itself out, didn’t it, and, on an aside, the pan to the bed with the empty pillow lying next to the mistress’s pillow was an obvious indication that they were intimate. I read some comments where some believe that theirs was a non-sexual affair. Which, to me, is beside the point. Sexual or not, he abandoned his wife for her. Period. I may feel sorry for him in the end, but I am happy Jung Sun never took him back. What he did was unforgivable. I can’t decide who I blame more, him or his mistress.

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            I liked that she was able to pull back and look at what was happening objectively. Her anger gave the show an undeniable energy, but I’m glad she let it go,.it would have ruined her.

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            @yyishere, I think at that moment she was more shocked that there was something this big in his life that she has no idea about all this years, it must really hurt. But in their relationship the biggest factor leading to this disaster was losing the baby, it was obvious that they were grieving very differently and have trouble communicating during this period.

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        @yyishere Thanks for having tagged me. I second all you wrote, especially “He was married to her, he should have told her everything.” and “I read some comments where some believe that theirs was a non-sexual affair. Which, to me, is beside the point.”
        For some reasons, the scene that was the toughest for me to watch, was the umbrella one, when he was walking towards Yu-ri. He could stand still and wait for his colleagues to help both the women, without hurting and humiliating his wife.
        I had wondered why he never had developed the film, and you gave me the obvious and sad answer.
        I felt sad for him at the end, too. Still, during the episode that showed the Tifone exibit, when he seemed he could kill the fake waiter that hurt his wife, I was sure he wasn’t cheating, because he seemed to care for her so much.
        On another site, somebody wrote that Yu-ri that first time made him drunk on purpose, but I don’t think so. She had to stop, knowing that he was married and she was very selfish, but at the end I felt sad for her, too. Not only because it was obvious that her father didn’t love her much, but above all because of that scene in which she broke up with SJ. The fact that she underlined so much that SHE was dumping him, showed that she knew that he would soon break up with her.

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