Go Eun Chan (played by Yoon Eun Hye) is hired by Choi Han Kyul (played by Gong Yoo) to pretend to be his boyfriend to get him out of the blind dates his grandmother has sent him on. What he doesn't know, is that Eun Chan is actually a girl. After the failed blind dates, Grandma makes him re-open a coffee shop to make it profitable. Eun Chan goes to work for him, still pretending to be a man. Eventually (and predictably) she falls for Han Kyul, and he for her, even though he thinks she's a man.
In episode 10, Han Kyul confesses his love for Eun Chan and kisses her, despite still thinking she's a he.
Now, on to episode 11. Han Kyul finally finds out that Eun Chan is actually a girl, because his friend can't keep his mouth shut. One would think he'd be ecstatic. He isn't gay after all. But no. Just like every other main guy in a genderbender drama, he throws a bitch fit, says a bunch of really mean things, storms away and ignores her for days. He even fires her, despite the fact that she is the "breadwinner" (their term, not mine) for her family. Long story short, for an entire episode he's a total douche.
That is the kind of thing I don't understand about those kind of situations in dramas. Sure, she lied and had no good reason to pretend to be a man, that doesn't mean it has to be a big deal. It wasn't in You're Beautiful. Just accept that it's a girl and move on. You should be happy, Han Kyul. Eesh!
Anyway, this episode also features the demise of poor Han Seung's (played Lee Sun Gyun), Han Kyul's cousin, relationship with the artist Han Yoo Joo (played by Chae Jung Ahn). She decided to leave him and go back to New York because Han Seung developed a little crush on Eun Chan (he knew she was a girl from the beginning). Well, he did kiss her too, but that's another matter. So of course he's heartbroken and begs her not to leave. And of course she won't listen, because this wouldn't be a drama if there wasn't, well, drama. Now everyone's all alone because no one can play nice.
As for episoede 12, it's mostly a continuance of the main characters torturing themselves over their relationships, or lack thereof.
On the Han Kyul/Eun Chan front, there is another episode of turbulence, until Han Kyul finally gets with the program and admits that maybe, just maybe, he was wrong to get all pissy and that maybe it isn't all Eun Chan's fault. By the end of the episode, they're back together, happy as can be.
For Han Seung and Yoo Joo, it's a different story. She makes a big show of leaving, Han Seung begs and yells on the side of the road and gets all depressed and mopey. Turns out though it was all for nothing. Yoo Joo doesn't leave, not to New York at least. She takes off to somewhere unknown, possibly never to be seen again. Which does make me a little sad. She wasn't a bitch, like most side character girls are (case in point: Yoo He Yi in You're Beautiful)
So that was 11 and 12. Pretty basic. And if you were wondering, I do like this series. I give it five stars.
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