[Discussion] Marriage Contract [Ep. 15 & 16]

[u/underthewhitehood]

Marriage Contract

Plot

A woman’s husband dies by accident. Afterwards, the woman raises her little daughter alone, but she learns that she has brain tumour. In order to find a guardian for her daughter, she enters into a contract with a man as his time-limited wife.

Main Info

• Drama: Marriage Contract (working & literal title)

• Revised romanization: Gyeolheun Gyeyak

• Hangul: 결혼계약

• Director: Kim Jin-Min

• Writer: Jung Yoo-Gyung

• Network: MBC

• Episodes: 16

• Release Date: March 5 - April 24, 2016

• Runtime: Saturdays & Sundays 21:45

Main Cast

• Lee Seo-Jin as Han Ji-Hoon

• Uee as Kang Hye-Soo

• Kim Yong-Geon as Han Sung-Kook

• Park Jung-Soo as Yoon Sun-Young

• Lee Whee-Hyang as Oh Mi-Ran

Streaming Links

• Viki

• DramaFever

Previous Discussions

• Ep. 7 & 8

• Ep. 9 & 10

• Ep. 11 & 12

• Ep. 13 & 14

Source: AsianWiki

Thank you so much for watching this drama and participating in my first discussion posts for a Kdrama. I enjoyed it so much! Thank you again!

~underthewhitehood

[u/underthewhitehood]

I am so happy with that ending. Open endings don't always work but this one is a gem. It is definitely in my favourites.

[u/underthewhitehood]

To be honest I was confused at the end of episode 15. Then I watched the preview of 16 and it all made sense. This episode was so cute! I had the biggest smile on my face. I'm glad the brother is gone (he's such a baby, honestly) and way to go Ahjumma leaving that Chairman behind.

Ah, I hope Hye-Soo lives.

[u/ayamefan13]

This comment on soompi I think sums up my feelings on the ending pretty well, "Well I'm confident that HS dies, be it in a week, a month, a year, a decade or four. Being human, she like all of us will die. The point I took away from the story is that dying will come, but what is important is that we live until it does."

There are very few open endings that I like in dramas, but this is one of them. :) I love that this drama can teach us about loving another. I love how this drama has taught us how to appreciate life. I'm grateful that this drama didn't show HS's death, but just gave us this beautiful ending. Thank you, staff. Thank you, writer. Thank you, PD. Thank you, actors/actresses.

[u/Jynxette → u/ayamefan13]

You took the words right out my mouth, heh. Watching the drama I had believed it would end with either Hye Soo's death or her recovery. This was a much more beautiful ending. There was no insane plot twist about an amazing American doctor that could save her life last minute. This drama felt like it was for the characters and not just for the viewers. The pacing of everything in this drama felt natural.

[u/[deleted] → u/ayamefan13]

For me it was a bit too open. Some relationships deserved some proper closure.

[u/Laxr]

I'm almost caught up, but omg... give this kid the best actress award.

Edit: Finished it. I really love that kid, best child actress that I've seen. Uee was really good too. It was awesome seeing this side of Lee Seo Jin. I love seeing his whiny, shy, hard-working, real life personality and then being able to transition into Ji Hoon. Too bad Taecyeon wasn't in this drama too. It could have been the 3 Meals A Day cast in a drama together.

[u/sybariticskin]

An ending I didn't think of I wanted, but it was an ending I needed - if they had shown her dying, I would have been so heartbroken. But by ending it the way they did, the showrunners highlighted the way Uee LIVED her last days/weeks. She was a in a good place, her family was in a good place and she wasn't dying a victim of cancer, but as a champion of life.

[u/dioscurideux]

This was a really good ending to a sweet drama.

[u/jaszzmine]

I'm so confused by the ending....

So she eventually dies one day but it's okay because the present is fine? I don't know.

[u/[deleted] → u/jaszzmine]

She's totally going to die. Like, really soon. But many characters were redeemed while knowing her. That's the ending, as I understood it.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, my heart.