W Two Worlds Tập 6 - I Can Change The World

A gun goes off in Dad’s workshop, và outside, Su-bong immediately falls to the ground, convinced that he’s been shot. He hasn’t, of course, but inside Dad slumps to lớn the floor with a big gaping wound in his chest, and Kang Chul looks down at him, eerily calm about the whole thing. But! You just shot your creator!

Su-bong’s jaw hits the ground when the manhwa nhân vật he’s been drawing scenery for just walks out the front door holding a gun. Kang Chul pauses & says that if he calls emergency now, Dad might live. That’s it, and he walks away.

Yeon-joo can’t handle being trapped in the slowest cab in all of Seoul và gets out lớn run the rest of the way. She’s terrified because the last thing she heard was the sound of the gunshot, và by the time she reaches the front gate, it’s pouring rain and the place is surrounded by cops & paramedics.

She runs inside where Su-bong is wailing, his shirt covered in Dad’s blood. The paramedics are working on moving Dad’s body, và he looks alive… barely. Yeon-joo rushes to his side, screaming, “Dad! Daaad!” eyes filled with terror. Mom gets the điện thoại tư vấn from Su-bong, và goes numb from the shock.

In the ambulance, Yeon-joo takes over CPR when Dad’s pulse starts to drop, and she pleads with him to hang on and not be scared. They arrive at her hospital, where she barely holds it together as she updates Professor Crazy Dog, her hands still pressed on Dad’s heart.

She enters the operating room, and Crazy Dog is actually nice for once, kicking her out for her own good. He insists that it’s because he can’t handle the pressure of her watching, but Yeon-joo’s on the verge of tears the whole time, và as soon as she exits, she breaks down in sobs.

Su-bong comes up & says in a shaky voice that it was Kang Chul—Su-bong saw him in the flesh with his own two eyes. Yeon-joo’s hand closes up into a fist & she asks if anyone saw where Kang Chul went. Oh no, are you enemies now? Say it ain’t so!

Su-bong says that her father was right, and that he had a reason for wanting lớn kill Kang Chul all this time—he must’ve known this would happen. He asks why Yeon-joo saved Chul, sighing that if she’d only not saved him, this wouldn’t have happened. “He’s just a manhwa character,” Su-bong argues.

Mom arrives and holds Yeon-joo’s hand, & in the operating room, Crazy Dog takes out the bullet & says it’s a good thing it stayed intact. He puts it in the pan, và it’s a real bullet—no cartoon fakes here.

Down in the lobby of the hospital, Kang Chul walks up khổng lồ the front desk and leaves a letter for Yeon-joo, asking for it lớn be delivered lớn her. He says nothing else, and heads back out into the rain.

The next morning, news breaks of Dad’s shooting. He’s still alive, but still hasn’t regained consciousness. Dad’s editors at the publishing house see the news and wonder if they should gọi Yeon-joo, because something is going on with the webtoon—they stare at the screen và say it’s strange.

Yeon-joo sits by Dad’s bedside and clutches his hand, unable lớn hold back her tears. Seok-bum comes by & urges her khổng lồ get some sleep, and promises lớn stay here next to lớn Dad. You’re a good friend.

Yeon-joo gets a điện thoại tư vấn from Dad’s publisher, who hesitates khổng lồ bother her with the webtoon at a time like this. But he says it’s odd that he received a new issue in the middle of the night, when it couldn’t have been Dad who sent it. Wait, the manwha is still going? Does that mean Kang Chul got back to lớn his world??

The publisher says it looks like her father’s artwork though, & he wonders if maybe Dad had finished the issue beforehand & scheduled it to lớn send. He says the nội dung is odd too, so he wanted khổng lồ double check with her before putting it up online.

Yeon-joo asks if she can see it first, and hesitates before opening the e-mail from the publisher. When she finally clicks, she finds the newest episode called “Kang Chul’s Awakening.”

The issue details Kang Chul’s moment of self-awareness when he discovers that he’s a manhwa hero, và his journey across universes into the real world, where he found Yeon-joo in the hospital & shot his creator. Whaaat. The story continued in her world? This is turning my brain into mushy goo.

In flashback, we see that the night of Dad’s shooting, Kang Chul wandered the streets aimlessly, still holding the gun in his hand. He eventually dropped it on a pile of trash, and that gave him pause—it’s what his family’s killer did in the manhwa, & he winced lớn realize he’d become the same.

He kept wandering as the rain came down, & he stopped in front of a poster for W, calling him “this generation’s guardian of justice,” wondering if he’d finally catch his family’s killer. It was as if the words were mocking him.

Chul stepped inside a convenience store to buy a pen and paper, & sat down lớn write Yeon-joo a letter. As he writes her name on the envelope, the image turns into the webtoon frame that Yeon-joo is staring at in her office.

And then on cue, the nurse walks in và hands her that very letter. Yeon-joo stares at the matching envelopes in hand & on her screen, & then tears it xuất hiện to read. The whole thing isn’t visible, but in the latter half he writes, “And thank you. Now I can leave knowing the truth about my life. To a nhân vật who turned into a murderer while looking for a murderer, there isn’t a more fitting ending than this, is there? So… goodbye…”

Alarmed, she goes back to the webtoon and scrolls past the letter, & the next frame shocks her—it’s Hangang Bridge, where Dad made Kang Chul jump the first time.

The image fades into the flashback from the night before, as Kang Chul stood on the ledge of the bridge in the pouring rain.

His smile was bittersweet, and then he let go, his toàn thân falling in slow motion khổng lồ the river down below. He sank to lớn the bottom, & the screen fades back into the webtoon on Yeon-joo’s screen. She quickly scrolls down, và the next image shows him drowning… with “The End” stamped down in the corner. Nooooooo!

She gasps & runs to the bridge, terrified, but it’s morning now và there’s no sign of Kang Chul. She crouches khổng lồ the ground in defeat & lets the tears come.

Yeon-joo’s mom sits by Dad’s bedside spilling tears of her own, when suddenly Dad opens his eyes. Oh thank goodness.

At the same time, Yeon-joo and Su-bong speak with the detective on Dad’s case, who tells them that there are a lot of anomalies that he can’t account for. The CCTV in front of Dad’s house didn’t capture anyone going in or out, & they can’t locate the gun, or even the bullet that the surgeon pulled out of Dad’s chest.

While he says this, we see the gun in question turn into a manhwa drawing and disappear, và the same thing happens to the bullet. What.

Yeon-joo and Su-bong give each other the side-eye and keep their mouths shut, và they go khổng lồ see Dad in the hospital. They tell him that Kang Chul committed suicide on the bridge and that it became the manhwa’s ending, and the advertiser is waiting for their approval lớn upload the last issue.

Su-bong says that he and Yeon-joo have worked out the best possible cover story for Dad’s shooting and the manhwa’s ending, and the next thing we know, the webtoon goes online and the news broadcasts a story about W creator Oh Sung-moo’s suicide attempt, brought about by severe stress and depression over the series ending.

Naturally the manhwa’s ending has the public in an uproar, & fans are beyond upset at the story’s bleak finale and lack of closure for Kang Chul. Crazy Dog is so deflated that he forces Seok-bum khổng lồ drink with him that night.

A month later, Dad’s workshop is all packed away & cleaned out of anything having to do with W. Yeon-joo puts everything in boxes and then goes lớn meet with Dad’s publisher, và tells him that Dad hates hospitals so much that they’ve moved him back trang chủ and she’s staying there lớn take care of him.

The quảng cáo trên internet says that there are still protests being held by loyal fans, asking khổng lồ bring Kang Chul back from the dead. The director of the movie adaptation is sitting next to him and sighs that no one will want lớn see a movie about a nhân vật that dies that way.

They plead with Yeon-joo lớn ask Dad if he’ll consider bringing Kang Chul back and continuing the series, or even just rewriting the ending. The publisher says it would just take a few frames, but Yeon-joo is firm and says no—Dad is retiring, and he’s been through more bít tất tay than they could imagine.

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She says it’s not something she could ever ask of him, and makes it clear that Dad’s retirement is final. The publisher turns into a blubbering mess, whining that it’s such a deflating ending khổng lồ have a nhân vật just die like that without purpose or honor, not even in a cool or emotionally satisfying way.

But Yeon-joo finds herself saying the thing she never thought she’d say: “It’s a manhwa… It’s just a manhwa hero—don’t empathize too much. You’ll forget it soon.” Perhaps she’s saying it more to lớn herself.

Yeon-joo comes home and tells Dad that she made his position clear with the publisher, and he approves. Yeon-joo doesn’t seem so ready to lớn let Kang Chul go, but truthfully, neither does Dad.

Su-bong rushes over with news that the police have found a body toàn thân in the river that could be Kang Chul, & Yeon-joo is stunned. He rushes her out so they can go identify the body, & Dad watches them go with an inscrutable expression.

Yeon-joo is lost in thought the whole way there, while Su-bong worries about the fact that they can’t exactly identify the body, even if it is Chul. They arrive at the morgue và the police officer says it will be difficult to look at a toàn thân that’s been decaying for a month, but Yeon-joo assures them that she’s a doctor & can handle it.

Su-bong can’t though, and pukes as soon as they lift the sheet. Yeon-joo takes a careful look & breathes a sigh of relief when she confirms that it’s definitely not Kang Chul, because this man is wearing a ring.

At the dinner table, Dad probes about where she went with Su-bong today, và Yeon-joo tells him about the body. She wonders why they haven’t been able to lớn find Chul yet, và says with a bit of hope in her voice that he must’ve returned khổng lồ his manhwa world—that seems fitting since he’s a manhwa character, she thinks. Dad says he doesn’t really know.

She asks, “Dad, when a manhwa says ‘The End,’ what happens after that? Does that world just stop there, or bởi vì they live on and we don’t know about it? Fairytales always over that way: ‘And they lived happily ever after.’ But did they really live well until they got old and died, or did it just stop on that last page the moment the fairytale ended?”

Dad reflects on her question & asks if she wants him lớn bring Kang Chul back from the dead lượt thích everyone else, và Yeon-joo quickly says no—he has no reason to bởi vì that. Dad says that there’s a reason he can’t do it, and a reason he won’t vì chưng it.

He tells her that a week ago, the cops officially closed the case on his shooting & returned his tablet computer, the one that he smashed và left in the motel. They had collected it for evidence, but had no more use for it. Dad admits that when it was returned lớn him, he wondered if he should bring Kang Chul back. Yeon-joo’s eyes widen.

Dad tells her that he knows Kang Chul better than anyone, và he knows without a doubt that Chul could’ve shot him in the heart and killed him instantly if he’d meant to. Dad decided that since Kang Chul had left him the choice to lớn live, he’d bởi the same for Chul. In flashback, Dad had turned on his tablet lớn the closing frame of the webtoon, và began to erase “The End.”

Except it wouldn’t erase. Ohhhhhhh…

Yeon-joo asks why, & Dad says he doesn’t know. He wonders if maybe he & Kang Chul betraying each other severed their ties. Dad says that’s the reason he can’t draw Kang Chul back to lớn life, and the reason he won’t is: Yeon-joo.

Dad: “Do you know why you kept getting pulled into that world?” She doesn’t, but Dad says he figured it out when he saw that Chul left his final letter to her: “You’ve become a main character in the manhwa. You’ve become the heroine. That’s why we have to kết thúc it here. Because you’re a real person. & Dad’s daughter. And Mom’s daughter.”

She looks heartbroken, but nods yes. Dad says those are the reasons that W ends here. When she’s alone though, Yeon-joo’s thoughts linger on the idea of “The End,” & what it really means—did Kang Chul ever get a funeral, or is his toàn thân still floating in that cold river… forever?

A few weeks later, Dad is on the mend and even goes lớn New Zealand on holiday with his buddies, và Yeon-joo calls with last-minute instructions for him lớn take his meds và not drink a drop of alcohol.

When she hangs up with Dad, Crazy Dog suddenly comes into her office và smells her hair. Huh? He notes that she washed it and orders her khổng lồ come with him lớn lunch. Well, your nickname is certainly apt, sir.

He takes her lớn a fancy restaurant, & explains offhandedly that he’s supposed lớn set his friend up on a blind date today, but the female colleague canceled at the last minute, so Yeon-joo has lớn be the substitute. He argues that she was the only one in the hospital who’d washed her hair today. LOL.

Yeon-joo curses her clean hair, especially when she so often doesn’t wash it, though she seems to change her mind when she spots a handsome, well-dressed man approaching their table. But he goes in another direction, and ha, She Was Pretty’s Ahn Se-ha comes over khổng lồ them instead.

Yeon-joo cringes, và Crazy Dog talks up his friend, saying that there’s no such thing as a man who’s tall, good-looking, and smart anyway. Yeon-joo immediately thinks of Kang Chul, of course, và says that they bởi vì exist. Crazy Dog: “Who, me?” Pff.

Even funnier is the fact that Ahn Se-ha is playing his She Was Pretty character Poong-ho. His eyes turn khổng lồ saucers when he sees Yeon-joo, và Crazy Dog misinterprets her incredulous laughter as happiness.

Seok-bum texts Yeon-joo khổng lồ ask if having washed hair turned out to be lucky or unlucky, and she excuses herself to go khổng lồ the bathroom và tells him it’s a big ol’ fail. Yeon-joo decides that she’s been ignoring her love life too much lately, & that it’s time to lớn meet new guys, a new one every week, she decides.

Suddenly the line goes dead on both sides, and Seok-bum và Yeon-joo kiểm tra their phones thinking that the reception cut out. But as Yeon-joo looks around her, she’s immersed in water, which rises rapidly up to her chin, all the way up until she’s completely submerged. Aaaaaaah, is it the Han River?! It came khổng lồ her?! This is crazy và cool.

At first she tries swimming up, but then she looks around & spots him in the distance: It’s Kang Chul, just suspended there like he hasn’t moved in all this time.

She starts swimming towards him, but it’s so, so far. It takes all her strength lớn get close to lớn him and she reaches out a hand to lớn his, but just before they can touch, he starts khổng lồ sink further & further away from her. She tries lớn reach out again, but she’s losing air, & she’s forced to go back up lớn the surface.

She swims up, và suddenly reappears in the bathroom, sopping wet from head to lớn toe and gasping for air. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?

Yeon-joo is completely shaken up after seeing Kang Chul like that, and marches back khổng lồ the table dripping water everywhere. She asks for a phone (she dropped hers in the river while trying to swim lớn Kang Chul), & checks the webtoon. Right before her eyes, “The End” disappears from the last frame & gets replaced with “To be continued.” YESSSS!

Without a word of explanation, Yeon-joo walks out on the blind date and runs to lớn Su-bong, who’s now working as an assistant for She Was Pretty’s Hwang Suk-jung, a crazy lady who demands that her manhwa characters get eyes the size of saucers.

Yeon-joo grabs him và says they have to go save Kang Chul, & Su-bong looks at her like she’s got a screw loose. Yeon-joo says they can save him, because time hasn’t passed for Chul—he’s suspended in that moment, where the manhwa ended.

She says he’s still there in the river, and she saw it herself because she was there. Su-bong finally notices that she’s drenched in water and gasps.

They rush back to lớn Dad’s workshop và Su-bong fields a điện thoại tư vấn from the publisher, who says that they didn’t alter the webtoon on their end. The online response is immediate, and people everywhere start lớn leave comments in anticipation of Kang Chul’s comeback. Dad is still on his flight lớn New Zealand, so Su-bong says he’ll check in và call the quảng cáo online back.

Yeon-joo brings out Dad’s tablet và says it’s been fixed, & she thinks maybe they can use it lớn save Kang Chul. Su-bong is still shocked & asks if Dad wasn’t the one lớn change the webtoon, but Yeon-joo reminds him that he’s on a plane, & couldn’t alter it even when he wanted to.

Su-bong, ever the slow one: “So you’re saying that ‘The End’ changed to ‘To be continued,’ all by itself? Why?!” Yeon-joo looks at him wide-eyed: “I don’t know!”

He can’t understand it, especially when it’s not lượt thích they tried to kill him off for no reason lượt thích before. The nhân vật killed himself, và it ended… so why isn’t it ending, he asks. Yeon-joo thinks on it & says, “He must’ve found a new reason that it couldn’t end.” Su-bong asks what, but Yeon-joo doesn’t know.

At the same time, two bicyclists come upon a hooded figure standing on the ledge of a bridge. Whoa, it’s the killer from Kang Chul’s world! But… is this Yeon-joo’s world? How did he get here?

The bicyclists call out to lớn him and say that it’s dangerous, and suddenly the hooded figure turns on them và swoops down lớn attack them. As he flies down toward them, we see his face flash—it’s made up of pixels that spark in & out, the way the webtoon frame did when Kang Chul stepped through into this world. What… are you?

Back at the workshop, Su-bong still doesn’t understand why they’re supposed to lớn save Kang Chul when the manhwa ended, & Yeon-joo yells that Chul can’t save himself, and doesn’t have the will lớn live, which means that they have lớn save him.

She says that no time has passed in the manhwa, which means they can draw a boat with divers passing by, and they can save Chul in the very next frame. Su-bong is aghast when he realizes that she means for him to draw this, and he cries that W is her father’s work, not his—there might be a miniscule difference in the artwork, but it will be noticeable.

Yeon-joo shouts that Dad won’t vì it, because he’s afraid that she’ll get sucked back into the manhwa world. Su-bong runs with that, pointing out her wet hair. But… isn’t that proof that she has no control over that anyway?

She knows he’s right—that Kang Chul shot Dad, that it’s going to lớn be hard for him to lớn be forgiven, that this cursed manhwa ought khổng lồ end, và that she can’t keep getting sucked into that world. She knows all that, but she says that Dad is alive & well, and they’re all going on as if nothing happened, and people will move past it because it’s just a manhwa character.

“But Kang Chul is in that cold river, feeling guilty that he’s become a murderer… for over two months all alone… That’s too much,” she cries. Su-bong softens a little, và Yeon-joo breaks down as she admits that she thinks it’s all because of her. The tears totally work on Su-bong, and he caves and agrees khổng lồ try. Yeon-joo says that everything started on Dad’s tablet, so it should work khổng lồ save him now. Su-bong braces himself & picks up the pen…

But hours go by & he gives up in the middle of drawing the rescue boat. The story doesn’t make any sense because there’s no linking narrative, and he says this is outside his capabilities because he’s just the assistant—W isn’t his.

Su-bong suggests waiting for Dad khổng lồ land in New Zealand & breaks for a snack, & Yeon-joo hangs her head knowing that Dad will never start drawing this manhwa again. But Su-bong suddenly has a light bulb moment in the kitchen (with a light bulb overhead, heh), và says he heard something once years ago from her father, about W và Yeon-joo…

Cut to: Prison visiting booths, where guards suddenly discover Yeon-joo lying on the ground in her prison jumpsuit, right where she’d disappeared from, the last time she was in Kang Chul’s world.

We rewind to lớn the moment that Chul jumped off the bridge on that rainy night, but this time a rescue boat sees him và divers bring him up lớn the surface right away. Kang Chul wakes up with a start in his bed, as if it’s all a dream. But his hand still has the scars from his fight with Dad. & he’s back in his world…

And in the prison, Yeon-joo opens her eyes & looks around, và breaks into a huge smile. Awwww yeah, we’re back!

COMMENTS

What did Su-bong tell her?! Gah, these cliffhangers! My guess is still that Yeon-joo will turn out to lớn be Kang Chul’s original creator, at least on a conceptual level. It probably never occurred lớn her or Dad because she was young at the time, và he was likely inspired by one of her drawings. But maybe if she drew Kang Chul first và then he spun the character into a story worthy of a manhwa series, it’s possible that Yeon-joo really IS the key khổng lồ Kang Chul’s life, in a way that he never even imagined. I don’t know if that’s where they’re going, but I know I would love it if Yeon-joo had creator-god nguồn over Kang Chul’s world.

Dad made it clear that his ties to lớn the manhwa had already been severed, which he assumed was caused by his & Kang Chul’s mutual betrayal. But now I wonder if the root of that change is something different, và if it has to vì chưng with Yeon-joo. Clearly Dad had control over Kang Chul’s story khổng lồ some extent, but is it really that Chul’s will overcame his own, or does it have to vì chưng with what Yeon-joo wanted for the story, và for Kang Chul khổng lồ get what he wanted? Does he actually have less miễn phí will than he thinks? It was so interesting to see that Dad has affection for Chul too, despite only showing abject horror at his rogue creation up until now. But he does have a soft fatherly devotion khổng lồ the character, & I found that fascinating & realistic. Dad ultimately still can’t be trusted when it comes khổng lồ Kang Chul, since he would throw Chul under the bus (literally) the second he proved himself dangerous, but I really enjoy the complexity of this character that loves and despises, fears and understands his creation more than anyone.

The more that Yeon-joo starts lớn take over the storytelling, I keep thinking of W the manhwa as a daddy-daughter bedtime story. Despite the scale of the manhwa, at its basic cấp độ W is not that different from a bedtime story Dad tells to lớn his daughter, where he gets to trang điểm all the rules as he invents the story, and she gobbles up the fantasy world with delight. I love that Yeon-joo represents the innocent child—she asks him all the things a child would ask, like what a happily-ever-after really means for the characters in that story world, & whether their lives go on even if the story ends. But the part that’s interesting is that she’s an active participant in the storytelling, lượt thích a father saying, “Once upon a time, there was a princess in a pink dress in a castle,” and the daughter goes, “No! A xanh dress! In a penthouse!” và Dad goes, “Okay, a xanh dress in a fancy penthouse then…” The story is Dad’s, but it’s also the daughter’s, và it’s as if Yeon-joo is changing the story by interjecting to say that she doesn’t like the direction things are going in. & because the story is ultimately hers—he invents it & keeps it going to lớn make her happy—she has that power.

I don’t know what it’ll mean for Yeon-joo now that she’s become, as Dad says, the heroine of Kang Chul’s story—that’s a complication that’ll surely have dire consequences down the line. But there was a distinct shift in this episode to Yeon-joo being the main storyteller who drove Kang Chul’s narrative. Whatever she does at the kết thúc of the episode successfully restarts his entire world và brings him back to lớn life, & I’m pretty sure she didn’t sit there và draw all that out. It has to be tied to lớn her will somehow. But then, was she also the one who caused the bathroom lớn flood & turn into the Han River? Or was Kang Chul calling out lớn her? Maybe he was about to lớn walk towards the light when he heard her say that she’d be going on a blind date every week?

And how come no one knows that W’s villain is different from the rest of the characters in that world? How come he didn’t freeze like everyone else? Did he cross over into the world via Kang Chul’s portal… or does he have a portal of his own? Ack. Please don’t tell me he can just move freely between worlds—I don’t know if I can handle a faceless assassin just showing up wherever he pleases. Is he human? Is he a glitch? Is he faceless because Dad doesn’t know what he looks like?? Ohmygah, please just draw him a face already—it’s creeping me out that he doesn’t have one! If he looks that way because Dad never bothered lớn decide his identity or give him a face, my mind is blown. Lưu ý to any writers out there: Everyone deserves a face!

I have so many questions about the gun & bullet suddenly disappearing from Yeon-joo’s world, và Kang Chul returning to lớn his world despite dying & being suspended in the river. But I’m sure that stuff will be unraveled soon enough. I have to lớn say, I’m excited for the return lớn Kang Chul’s universe, because things get wackier over there, and now Yeon-joo will have a whole new set of narrative rules to navigate—whatever power it is that sent her back there. The only downside is less screen time for Yeon-joo’s friends, but I’m hoping we cut back & forth often. Because I can never get enough of Su-bong’s shock-face, probably because it mirrors mine as I watch every episode of this show.