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Yay I'm so glad the angst did not last long. Our couple is back together! Even better their feelings are now out in the open and most importantly they've developed a mutual understanding. I've read Reddit comments who said the break up was a trope for the sake of it. I beg to disagree, the short separation allowed our leads to realise just how deep their feelings were and how badly they want to be together. Not only that, post reunion YD finally opened up about his wound to DJ. Just as YD had been there for DJ previously, it is now DJ's turn to support YD as he finally says farewell to his painful memory. Kudos to the writer, this couple has got to be one with the best communications and mutual understanding I've seen in kdramaland in a long time. Realistically they have their problems but they're able to overcome them together and make progress. It helps that they have some of the most supportive friends ever. This drama has the most lovable supporting characters.

I'm also glad the childhood connection was wrapped up beautifully as a moment of recognition from both without the need for words. Not that it was necessary to solidify their affections because I'm fully convinced they fell in love from the experiences they've shared as adults. However I can understand if the writer felt the need to make everything a full circle as it was a moment of comfort for both our leads when they were kids.

The directing, cinematography and attention to details continue to leave me in awe. Some of the scenes I loved in this week's episodes:
- The reunion scene under the beautiful lights, in contrast to one of their previous scenes where the lights were half lit.
- DJ stood up and approached YD after his visit to mum's columbarium. This scene is a parallel to YD's approaching DJ as she got out of the police station.
- DJ playing dress up in YD's doctor gown as she tentatively prodded him to open up.
- Their car moving though the tunnel as the scene transitioned to the past and YD's touching closure with mum.
- The montage of YD telling everyone he comes across about his gf had me in stitches.
- All the scenes our leads are together, it's such a joy to watch them so genuinely happy to be in each other's presence.

YAMS is becoming my fave healing drama. Even the supporting characters' side stories aren't just there to fill time, they teach us a thing or two about life too. Now that a lot of couples are finding their way to each other I wonder if Ari and Cheol Do might too. Her quick wittedness makes up for his lack of haha. I'm dreading to final episodes next week already, it's going to be hard to have to say goodbye.

And they get an A+ for meddling and intervening.

In kdramaland, there is a formal grading system...

Honestly, I was disapointed by the 13th episode, everybody agreed about the fact YD took a bad decision, even himself, but it was all... His urge to run away from any relationship should have been discussed in this episode or explain. Even if I loved the scenes when he shared his childhood to DJ. But the 13th was more a filler than anything...

The 14th was great! I love how this couple goes from a humiliating moment to sharing their inners feelings to a confession!

For the mystery, it looks like Ian Chase was more guilty than his brother.

I liked the story of YD's secretary. She's so jovial now. I'm happy she found him.

Thank You @missvictrix for covering this wonderful drama everyweek! Also love how it's an open thread type because it does give more space to talk about our perspective and comments (in the article and the comment section) even more.

The 13th episode really is all about the amazing friends, to think that those people all works together in their own way showing to both Dajung and Youngdo that it's okay to be happy AND maybe be together (GO GAYOUNG SPITTING FACTS TO YOUNGDO AND practically became our vessel when she talks to Dajung). But I also love how different the friends' approach are (Gayoung and Seungwon are borderline aggressive but proven to be the most helpful; Eunha and Haneul were more calm and defensive to their respective friends).

On the other hand, i feel like the 14th episode shows what You are My Spring does best juggling these different vibe (genre?) to our plate. I feel like they peaked with these on episode 3-6 ish but it's back! And honestly, me too I didn't feel taken aback by the sudden turn to the mystery side of the story.

There's something that made me a little bit puzzled tho, so it IS confirmed that the twin that triggered the killing were Ian Chase? And the one taken to the US were also him. But how does this connect to the twin that met with Youngdo in that orphanage? Was that before or after meeting Dajung? And who met with 18 yrs old Youngdo??

I was confused by the twins' backstory. Wasn't Ian Chase the younger twin who didn't have a name? The one who has an issue with toothbrushes from his humiliating time sharing toothbrushes? The angry one who was hiding and called her a dummy? The same one who ran from his hiding place to a new hiding place under the Christmas tree? So then CJM would have been the older brother who was abandoned later, who patted her on the head and never forgot her (seriously?), and ... was caught and adopted to America? He said the older twin went to America. But that would make Ian Chase the older twin ... who was the one with a name and was abandoned second. Then how did he have the nightmare memories of being drugged in the night and waking at the orphanage?

Once again, Seo Hyun-jin took my breath away. The range of emotions she has conveyed over the course of this drama is nothing short of extraordinary: heart-rending anguish when opening up about her childhood and her mother; soul-shattering despair after the breakup; and here in episode 14, an all-encompassing and radiant and flooding joy. The most amazing thing of all is that each time, I felt it, too. She makes me feel right along with her, and it's nothing short of an immersive experience for me. Someone give her the Daesang now.

Every Kdrama has certain tropes. It's standard for the main couple in a romantic drama to break up close to the end, and then, eventually, to get back together. The good dramas have actors and directors who upend those tropes through commitment to their craft. I became hooked on these shows because of actors who brought sincere human emotion to scenes based on utterly absurd plot devices and repetitive tropes. What makes this a great drama is, the writers were also committed to finding something fresh in accustomed plot devices. The breakup in episode 13 actually made sense for a change! It fit with what we already knew about these two characters. The getting back together scenes also made sense. It often feels like the female lead is making a mistake to get back together. What really got me right in the feels was the scene where Young Do runs around to open the car door for Da Jung. I was tearing up even before Da Jung actually said what I had said to the screen, "You must have always wanted to treat me like this." It's like they know when to have the actors say the thing out loud and when having them just make it clear non-verbally will work better. But it has to be a combination of the writing, the acting and the directing that is turning what should be a totally cheesy plot into something so satisfying.

I watched this whole series, ep 1 to 14, in 2 days - this just shows how good it is. I love the shots, especially very widescreen ones. And it's such a good healing drama 😭 Love the leads and also the side characters, though I gotta say I'm pretty confused between the 2 twins, esp in their younger days

"I love you"
- that pretty much summed up everything

I do have some concerns about what will happen next week. This seems too neat for the penultimate week of the drama. Is Ian Chase going to try to kill one of our leads? Are they both going to die in a car accident? I still can't get over my suspicions that there is only one brother with multiple personality disorder from trauma. (Though then, who died in the forced suicide?) We know that these are people who won't allow us to finish the drama without more tears.

I can’t with Young Do telling the whole country he has a girlfriend!The last scenes were so emotional and beautiful...

Bit torn with wanting Ian to have more screen time just to have more understanding of the mystery. Ep 13 left me a bit confused though Ep 14 made up for it with the flashback on the twins. I admit I'm still confused about what happened when they're 18.

Little details like the pillows, crossing the road when you have a green walk signal, Eun-ha dating and smiling, Nurse Oh holding back on the salt shower, Ga-young's co-star helping her out are all making me smile.

I just can't like how there was a significant emphasis on Young-do potentially hurting Da-jung because he nearly got into a car accident and ran over someone. Yet there he is still driving around when alternative means to travel exist.

Who is this creepy chaebol lady? I know she wants some surgery shenanigans, but where did she come from?? Is it possible she's Ian Chase's bio mom?

I so love the drama about the princess, lol, and I need to watch such a drama! I love Ga-Young, I love the female friendship. I like the non-traditionnal route they took with her character, I like how every pairing is unexpected, like I thought it would be Eun-Ha and Ha-neul, I even like her relationship with her co-star, lol. The storytelling is very beautifully executed and I love it!

I realise what the problem is now.

Half of this drama is a van Gogh. Like Sunflowers. It's vibrant and colourful and artistic but also real. It's like a hyper realistic rendering of reality but it's still reality.

The other half is a Dali and, while it's provocative and interesting, it's nonetheless surrealist. It's bits and pieces of an image representing something that's just out of mental reach. Melting watches drape dead flesh and you're supposed to spend an hour staring at it trying to glean its meaning and even if it has a meaning at all.

I don't know how this show can go from a finely rendered, nuanced and emotionally very real conversation to strange, disconnected brush strokes of something, but you're never sure what. Just that most of it involves Ian Chase with an enigmatic look on his face.

Which is to say, I'd enjoy both these dramas just like I enjoy both these artists. Just not in the same frame.