[Current Drama 2024]She Is Different Day and Night, 낮과 밤이 다른 그녀- Jung Eun Ji, Lee Jung Eun & Choi Jin hyuk- Sat, Sun (2024)

Miss Night and Day: Episodes 3-4

by Unit

It turns out that last week’s car crash was a misdirection. Phew! The raincoat killer did not hit Mi-jin with his car — but he was this close to stepping out with his axe when Mi-jin approached the car to pick up the strewn pieces of investigation files that flew out of Ji-woong’s envelope. Raincoat Killer is forced to drive off when Ji-woong shows up, but Mi-jin is now on his hit list after he hears Ji-woong shout her name — although he’s not sure if the surname he heard was Lee or Im. But what does it matter? Our Lee Mi-jin is also Im Soon!

Speaking of Soon, our ahjumma goes viral after saving Won from the acid attack, and she receives a Brave Intern Award at work. She also receives a dozen thank you gifts from Won — including a car! But since Soon couldn’t possibly put down Mi-jin’s house address in her employee details, the gifts are delivered to the address she has on file: her best friend, DO GA-YEONG’s (Kim Ah-young) house. Not the delivery person mistaking Ga-yeong for Soon’s daughter. Loool.

By the way, Ga-yeong’s dad owns the building, and Ji-woong is the newest tenant — who moved into the “haunted” apartment upstairs. Cheers to an avenue for more run-ins between our leads. *Clinks glasses too hard and spills the champagne at the whole “haunted” stuff*

Soon rushes over to Ga-yeong’s house on hearing about the gifts, and we get another round of the “Ahjumma, who are you?” and “I’m your best friend, silly!” back and forth. Pfft. Soon literally has to transform in front of Ga-yeong at sundown for her best friend to believe that she’s really Mi-jin — but I worry about Ga-yeong’s recording of the transformation even though Mi-jin asked her to do it in order to clear her doubt. For one, Ga-yeong is a YouTuber, and these clips have a way of accidentally making it out of the phone and onto the internet. Anyway, I hope it’s just me overthinking things as usual.

Moving on, Soon returns all the gifts to Won because K-drama female leads are too modest to accept expensive gifts right off the bat. I’d have accepted a coffee shop in my name so I don’t have to worry about money and employment, but our heroine settles for daily coffee from Won. Then again, it’s in her nature to help others without expecting anything in return. Like her subsequent non-pity and Candy of Encouragement for Won after his trauma-induced panic attack on seeing a random man in a mask — which leads to an increase in our resident idol’s gratitude to the cleaner ahjumma. Hmmm.

As investigation into Raincoat Killer continues, Ji-woong learns that the victim was alive when her arm was severed. But that’s the only part of her body that has been found. The detective in charge of the raincoat case — who also put together the missing women’s investigation files — notes that there’s a similar case of dismemberment of a living person among the files he compiled for Ji-woong. But for some reason, the personal details section of the file was ripped out, and the detective in charge of the twenty-year-old case is retired. Yep. Not suspicious at all. (By the way, the dismemberment case in question is likely to be Ji-woong’s mom’s, based on his flashbacks.)

Back to the current case, Ji-woong needs Mi-jin’s help to identify Raincoat Killer’s car from CCTV footage, so he comes over to her house since his number is still blocked in her phone from when she mistook him as a voice phishing scammer. Heh. As the captain of the ship — or at least as a fan of kicking her daughter into the arms of an eligible bachelor — Mi-jin’s mom wastes no time inviting Ji-woong in. I mean, why take their business to a coffee shop when there’s tea and fruits at home? “You can make yourself comfortable [in Mi-jin’s room],” she says, and lol! Mom is so transparent, she might just as well have told them to make her some grandbabies.