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[Cast&Crew]
Yoo Yeon-seok: Baek Sa-eon
Chae Soo-bin: Hong Hee-joo
Hangul Title Translation
The Number You Have Dialed
The Number You Have Dialed
Recapper: FanFanX
Recap Grade: A
First Impression: 4.06/5
First Impression: 4.06/5
Cast
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| Yoo Yeon-seok: Baek Sa-eon |
Chae Soo-bin: Hong Hee-joo |
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| Heo Nam-jun: Ji Sang-woo | Jang Gyu-ri: Na Yu-ri |
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Yoo Sung-joo: Baek Eui-yong Chu Sang-mi: Sim Gyu-jin Choi Kwang-il: Hong Il-gyeong Oh Hyun-kyung: Kim Yeon-hui Han Jae-yi: Hong In-a Park Won-sang: Na Jin-cheol Im Chul-soo: Kang Yeong-woo Choi Woo-jin: Park Do-jae Jung Ji-hwan: Jung Won-bin Yang Jo-ah: Han Jin-i |
Romcom / Romance Checklist
[In Progress]
How much of the plot is angst/romance?
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
The ML:
Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Tsundere / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General /The FL:
Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Depressed / Falls in Love First / Better Than ML / Noble Idiot / Describe the Relationship (the tropes):
Annoying Love (F/M) Rival+++ / Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Friends to Lovers / Harem / Hidden Identity / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / School to Adulthood / Star-Crossed Lovers
Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):
Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 # of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Ending:
Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad / Rushed+++FanFanX: Living out my past romance paperback fantasies. ðŸ¤
- Baek Sa-eon and Hong Hee-joo have been married (of convenience) for three years and don't talk much as she's mute. She works as a sign language interpreter, while he's the youngest presidential spokesman from an influential family.
- Hee-joo gets kidnapped and when the kidnapper calls, Sa-eon treats it as a prank call and even hangs up on him! Kidnapper calls back and says he’ll kill her unless he complies with the ransom. Sa-eon replies that he won’t deal with a ransom and hangs up on him once again.
- Now the kidnapper tries to choke her even as she's driving. He then cuts her on the neck before calling her husband again. This time Sa-eon tells him to go ahead and to call him when there’s a corpse. He hangs up on him a third time which truly infuriates the kidnapper.
- Kidnapper calls again but Sa-eon has been pulled away to deal with a work emergency.
- Hee-joo continues driving until the car hits a bump, spins out of control and manages to knock out the kidnapper.
- Her husband returns to his phone and decides to get the call traced. He speeds home like a maniac and finds her after she's showered, covered up her cut, and quietly seething as she's putting together her dinner. He’s secretly relieved to see that she’s alive while she’s secretly fuming.
- Three years ago. He gave her prenup terms on their wedding day:
1) She cannot initiate a divorce.
2) Especially not during the election period.
3) She’s not to publicly disclose her name or face as his wife.
Any violation results in a penalty of 2B won. So their wedding became a private affair as he’d known that she was sent to him as a hostage. - During their next work outing, Sa-eon receives a call from the kidnapper who tells him that he’ll hurt his wife, and vividly describes the venue. Sa-eon starts panicking and runs to look for the kidnapper now. Kidnapper goes on about who his wife should be (Hong In-a), versus who she (Hong Hee-joo) is… and how he’ll hurt her. He’s told to get rid of his wife and be with his intended wife.
- Heol... This time, the caller is actually Hee-joo as she's using the kidnapper's phone with its voicemod software. The previous day, she’d been so angry that she'd crashed the car and then stolen the kidnapper’s phone. She’s pretending to be mute?!
- She tries to goad him into agreeing to leave Hee-joo but he refuses as she’s “his person”. She asks if he knows what happened to his precious person yesterday – choked, grabbed by the hair and had a knife held to her throat. She suddenly hears a loud thud. He then quietly says “Forget about getting arrested, 406. I promise to catch you.” Her timer goes off and she quickly hangs up the call. Meanwhile… Sa-eon has a bloody fist from punching the wall.
- A visibly upset Sa-eon corners Hee-joo to ask if she was hurt. He then checks her body himself for the bruises and cuts as 406 mentioned.
- He later checks out her car. But she's much more concerned about the dashcam exposing her voice but there's nothing on the chip.
- Later, Hee-joo runs into a college friend, Ji Sang-woo and Sa-eon receives photo evidence of their interaction. (~22:00) Jealous husband mode unlocked. ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹
- Sa-eon wants the sign language interpreter position at the presidential office filled… CEO-esque behavior also unlocked. ã…‹ã…‹
- Hee-joo / 406 calls Sa-eon and then sends a photo of her own stockinged thighs. When he doesn’t recognize it, she taunts him about not knowing about his own wife’s unique [red] mole. He says it’s a fake photo… and she angrily tells him to check for himself and then hangs up on him. *snicker* She really didn’t mean for that to happen...
- Na Yu-ri and Sang-woo meet-cute: He saves her from a fangirls’ stampede as her heel gets caught on the sidewalk, and she accidentally spills her hot coffee all over his arm. He’s also the guest appearing on her show.
- Hee-joo visits her father at the nursing home, and he seems to be living in the past. When he talks about her dream of being an anchorwoman, she starts sobbing about how miserable she’s been living in In-a’s shadow, pretending to be mute, and not even knowing who she is anymore. T_T
- Sa-eon won’t let 406 lead the calls and answers the call just to hang up on her. She angrily calls back and he tells her to wait for him. She calls back but there’s no answer. After waiting a while, she calls again but still no answer.
- She goes home to wait for him... and when she wakes up in the morning, it appears that he never came home last night. So she turns on the news and learns about his workplace explosion. Just as she’s fretting about when she did this, a filthy and bloody Sa-eon barges in. He backs her onto the dining table and then sets her down. He then reaches down to lift her skirt…
- Epilogue: Three Years Ago. In-a had told him to call off their wedding or else she’d expose all of his family’s secrets. He’d asked about Hee-joo being engaged to another man, which In-a confirms as being true as Hee-joo's mother would sell her to that piece of trash. So he’d asked for the wedding to move forward with Hee-joo as his bride. O_o
- He wants to know who the real Hee-joo is and tries to return to trying to check out her thigh. He grabs her and dumps her onto her bed and he tries to continue...But she shoves him off to ask what he’s doing right now. They’re interrupted by a call from his right-hand man, Hong Do-jae.
- This amazingly awkward lunch with Sa-eon, Hee-joo… and their “love rivals.” Jealousy meter elevated.
- Sa-eon and Hee-joo have known each other for 20 years. But now he thinks that he doesn’t know her as well as he’d thought as he didn’t know anything about this Sang-woo.
- Later when he returns home, he grabs her the beer and ice cream she wanted. And then tells her that he won’t divorce her as he won’t let his name be dragged through mud.
- And he’s sleeping in her bed with her tonight as he’s worried about their safety.
- Flashback. Young Hee-joo was in a car accident with her sister and brother. She wakes up and her mother tells her to not make a sound as her husband’s biological son is now dead and his daughter is deaf. So if she makes a sound, they’ll both get kicked out...“[as] not every life holds the same value, Hee-joo. We can only stay if the Chairman feels sorry for us.” O_O
- Kidnapper calls her and wants her to keep using his phone to get the divorce she wants. He then shows her her father's freshly pulled teeth and warns her that she can’t back out in the middle of this. She rushes to the nursing home and her father delivers a message from the kidnapper: “Call, call, call him. Eonni a.”
- While in the squad car to give her statement, Hee-joo starts dry-heaving at the thought of the kidnapper being so close to someone she cares about. She manages to get out of the care and falls in a heap to sob on the sidewalk. (~1:03:27)
- Suddenly, Sa-eon arrives loudly with his police escorts. He then gets out of his car to stalk towards Hee-joo… (~1:04:00) *fans self*
- He tells them to leave and he'll give them the statement later. When the officers ask who he is, he says that they’re family. He then helps her stand and further clarifies that she’s his wife… She stares up at him.
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Remarks
by FanFanX
Trigger Warning: Abuse, Assault, Cruelty, Kidnapping, Violence
[First Impression (Ep1-)] Big fan of the very versatile Yoo Yeon-seok, who has such expressive eyes (and "angry birds brows" his words. xD) I've watched Chae Soo-bin before but this is actually the first time I've actually enjoyed her performance and can sympathize with her character.
[Cast&Crew]
→ Yoo Yeon-seok: Baek Sa-eon
→ Chae Soo-bin: Hong Hee-joo
→ Heo Nam-jun: Ji Sang-woo
→ Jang Gyu-ri: Na Yu-ri
→ Yoo Sung-joo: Baek Eui-yong [Sa-eon's father]
→ Chu Sang-mi: Sim Gyu-jin [Sa-eon's mother]
→ Choi Kwang-il: Hong Il-gyeong [Hee-joo's stepfather]
→ Oh Hyun-kyung: Kim Yeon-hui [Hee-joo's mother]
→ Han Jae-yi: Hong In-a [Hee-joo's sister]
→ Park Won-sang: Na Jin-cheol [Hee-joo's father]
→ Im Chul-soo: Kang Yeong-woo
→ Choi Woo-jin: Park Do-jae
→ Jung Ji-hwan: Jung Won-bin
→ Yang Jo-ah: Han Jin-i
→Director Park Sang-woo's previous works: Terius Behind Me (2018) and Never Twice (2019).
→Screenwriter Kim Ji-woon's previous works: Doctor John (2019) and Melancholia (2021).
[Behind the Scenes]
[Spoiler] Per interviews with Yoo Yeon-seok and Chae Soo-bin, the first half will be thriller and second half becomes more romance. 🙌
[OST]
[Ending]
[A Highlight]
[Footnotes]
[Review & Rating]
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Rating: /5
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