Tell me would you believe that an alien can understand a modern Korean woman? Do Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun) is playing an alien in the form of a perfect human being who arrived on Earth 400 hundred years ago during the Chosu Dynasty. Apparently he arrived on Earth by accident and he couldn't get back to his home planet because the only way he got to earth was on a meteorite/asteroid. Anyways during his stay on Earth he lived under four different lives. His first life he was an ancient Korean commoner who sought for love and then his love died because of protecting him. Next he was playing a rich man who always went to casinos to gamble his money away. Then he was a study student who finally began to make friends on Earth and learned many different life lessons from his professor friend. Finally in the current day and age he became a university professor. While he lived among the inferior human species, Do Min Joon had always been cynical towards his human neighbors.
But once top actress Cheong Song Yi (Gianna Jun) moves into the same building...like on the same floor...more like next door he begins to fall in love with her and vice versa. But there is a little part I forgot to mention is that Cheong Song Yi has a lover named Lee Hwi Ki who is the son of a wealthy business owner and she also has a best friend named Yoo Se Mi who has a crush on Lee Hwi Ki but keeps it a secret from him. Then there's also Lee Jae Kyung who is the heir S&C group and brother of Hwi Ki. He seeks to silence Song Yi about a secret she knows about him.
As the story progresses Do Min Joon soon begins to figure out that his time on Earth is coming to an end and when he tries to avoid making Cheong Song Yi heart broken he instead tries to push her away so that she doesn't have to accept the fact that he will soon be gone.
When he does eventually tell her the truth that he is an alien, she's shocked and doesn't believe it. So he proves it to her by bringing her to a museum late at night and shows her pictures of the past few hundred years he's been on Earth and showed her some of his great achievements prior meeting her.
When it finally is time for him to leave Earth, he and Song Yi do whatever is possible to make their memories last, even if it goes to the extent of her making a marriage proposal video for him. A few days later when they're on the balcony he leaves her without a trace and she basically looses all her sanity and goes crazy pretending he's still here. Finally after a long time he appears to her in short periods of time and she think she's gone delusional but really she has been seeing him.
At the conclusion scene he ends up staying for longer periods such as a few years at a time, but when he leaves he leaves as quiet as a mouse disappearing into thin air. But when they enjoy time together they would just sit on the balcony talk and when they would talk he would read and in the last scene he leaves but the book he leaves behind is The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I think my favorite quote in that book was "and the rabbit arrived safely back to his destination." So let me ask the question that left me pondering throughout the whole drama, "Do you think the cross-species couple can have a future together?"
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