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That’s one of the many tearjerker lines I’ve heard (or read) from the Kdrama Cruel Love.

I started watching this last Sunday, and I’m now on Episode 10. I’m currently at work right now, but my eyes are still hurting somewhat from too much crying. I was surprised at how dramatic the pilot was — last time I cried at the first episode was with “Stairway To Heaven”.

The scenes were just all too familiar. At one point I had to send this to a few of my LMHPH clanmates:

Konting maneobra na lang sa plot, pwedeng ako na ang gumanap kay In-jung.”

The female protagonist, Na In-jung, was a famous cellist who was caught with a whirlwind romance with a married man named Lee Soo-hwan. Of course she doesn’t know this until Soo-hwan breaks up with her one day, which is the only time that he admits this to her. They try to make it work, until they’re caught by Soo-hwan’s wife.

In-jung loses her career and goes into hiding with her family. During this time, she is pregnant with Soo-hwan’s child, but she doesn’t tell him. Soo-hwan’s wife stalks her and after a major confrontation, In-jung miscarries. A day or two after, her parents get into a car accident. Her mother dies, and her father slips into a coma.

Five years later, In-jung meets Kang Yong-ki. Just when she starts to open up her heart to him, she discovers that Yong-ki is Soo-hwan’s brother-in-law. Soo-hwan is still in love with her after all these years, but for the love of God, I don’t understand why it was such a big deal to him. I can’t understand for the life of me why he had to ask In-jung to leave Yong-ki. What’s getting me more exasperated is that In-jung thinks that this is the best thing for her to do, to run away from Yong-ki.

Poor Yong-ki. I really feel for him. The last episode I watched last night, In-jung meets with Yong-ki’s dad and tells him her past with Soo-hwan. The teasers for the next episode show Yong-ki daring her to leave him. Ugh. I really hate In-jung, as much as I should be empathizing with her. Double ugh.

Since Lady Castle only airs twice a week, I’ll have a lot of time to focus on Cruel Love. Of course I know it’s going to be a happy ending. I’ve found a site which has an episode recap of the finale, and I’m really really itching to read it, but I’m keeping myself in check.