Gang-Hwa’s Truth
With just two episodes left, Hi Bye Mama returns with more revelations as Min-Jeong realizes who her pick-up helper really is and we see exactly why Gang-Hwa blames himself and refused to go back to doing surgeries. The drama has definitely been an emotional roller coaster so far with some great performances from its actors too. Remembering Gang-Hwa’s words, Min-Jeong decides to head towards Yu-Ri’s parent’s house. There, she sees Yu-Ri and Hyeon-Jeong coming back from their day together and greeted by her family which makes her realize that her husband has been telling the truth. We then see Yu-Ri and her family having a good time while eating and drinking. Meanwhile, Geun-Sang calls Mi-Dong and asks her to come over. As soon as she arrives, she sees Sang-Bong and asks him what he is doing here. Geun-Sang wants to know too so the ghost replies that he is the only one that can do something for him which is to tell his mother he didn’t kill himself. The next day, Min-Jeong speaks to Gang-Hwa about Yu-Ri and tells him he should have told her sooner. He tells her that she looked so happy and didn’t want her to get hurt. She then asks why he keeps torturing himself all the time while Yu-Ri finds out that Seo-Woo is not coming into school today which makes her very sad. In hospital, after thinking about the words of his wife and Yu-Ri, Gang-Hwa decides to tell Doctor Jang that he will come and observe his surgery as he can’t carry on living like this. Yu-Ri takes her mother to hospital for her check up and sadly notices that her heart starts racing whenever she sees a crosswalk. While in hospital, Yu-Ri overhears nurses talking about Gang-Hwa who attended a surgery but rushed out 10 minutes after it started. We then see him on the stairs having a panic attack and struggling to breathe. Yu-Ri rushes over and finds him in time to help him regain his breath. He then collapses in her arms, asking her why she left him all alone We then see a flashback of the day Yu-Ri had the accident. The doctors were unable to reach Gang-Hwa in time to see her and say goodbye as he was in surgery and had the doors locked from the inside. When he finally came out, he rushed to his wife. This explains why he has been scared to go back to doing operations as he thinks things may have been different if he hadn’t been doing a surgery. In the evening, Doctor Jang and Gang-Hwa have drinks together. The latter tells him he needs to let go while we see Yu-Ri looking at pictures of her evening with her family and deciding that she wants to live too. In the restaurant, Hyeon-Jeong and Geun-Sang discuss the situation again. As Hyeon-Jeong reveals that Yu-Ri is going to die again soon, Gang-Hwa arrives and overhears what she just said. The episode ends with a flashback in 2015 as Gang-Hwa tells his family that he has signed a petition to stop prioritizing VIP patients’ surgeries before jumping forward to a day after her death as Gang-Hwa blames himself for being in surgery when she was brought in. With Yu-Ri now determined to live, Hi Bye Mama promises to offer some tense and emotional episodes as we reach the finale next week. The best ending would be Yu-Ri being allowed to live while finding a new place in her daughter’s and Gang-Hwa’s life. Poor Gang-Hwa has been very torn since his late wife came back from the dead and perhaps this solution would allow him to finally move on as he tried to in this episode. Seeing what happened to him that fateful day was very harrowing to watch too while poor Min-Jeong has to deal with the difficult revelation of Yu-Ri being back. Just what will happen exactly next week remains to be seen but for now, Hi Bye Mama continues to deliver some great drama.
