"Lihat, Kesalahan Kau Boleh Buat Orang Terbunuh,"

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Aku rasa sebab utama mengapa aku terlekat kepada drama Cinderella's Stepsister bukanlah Moon Geunyoung, tetapi kerana jalan ceritanya yang berkesan. Mungkin bagi yang menonton secara suka-suka, tidak akan tahu apa yang aku maksudkan, tetapi drama ini punyai citranya yang tersendiri. 

Dalam episod 13, terdapat satu babak yang menarik hati aku. Kronologinya begini, setelah ditimpa pelbagai masalah: adik tiri yang cuba menghalang cintanya, ibu yang tamak serta penipuan di kilang arak keluarganya, Eunjo didatangi satu masalah baru apabila kekasih lama ibunya yang juga seorang kaki botol, Jang Taegun mengalihkan beban hutangnya kepada ceti ke atas bahunya. 

Eunjo melangsaikan hutang, dan seterusnya membawa Jang ke tempat terpencil, berdekatan sebuah tasik. (Ulasan berikutnya dalam Inggeris):

 

 (eh Kak Lina Kama, kereta putih?)

And then — shocker of shockers — Eun-jo kneels before him, asking, “Save me, ajusshi.” She addresses him with halting, low words that are alternately pleading and brimming with quiet anger.

“Save me. I feel like I’m dying. Every day, I feel like I’m going to die. I’m just barely hanging on. I live because I can’t die. I… I… am my mother’s daughter. Song Kang-sook’s daughter Eun-jo. Tough bitch Eun-jo. When you slept drunk, there was a time I wanted to kill you — you don’t know that, do you? I even held a knife. Every time you got drunk and raised a hand to my mother, I sharpened the knife to cut off this hand. That young teenage girl fantasized all sorts of things about cutting off that hand. Do you know that?”

 

 

Needless to say, her words freak him out, and he starts to apologize. But her voice turns hard and she tells him to shut up. If he’s really sorry, he ought to quit acting that way — but he always says sorry and does the same thing all over again. 

With ominous intent, Eun-jo tells him, “Look at me. I’ll show you that your mistake can kill a person easily.”

With that, Eun-jo turns and walks down the hill, trudging down to the shore, not stopping when she hits the water and continuing on until she’s knee-deep, waist-deep, chest-deep in the lake. All the while, her face wears a look of resolve.

Shocked, Jang ajusshi hurries down the hillside and splashes in after Eun-jo, pulling her back and grabbing her around the waist. She screams her protests, but he carries her out of the lake and back to the car, where he puts her down in the grass, where she shrieks and sobs.

Ulasan diperoleh dari Dramabeans.

Haa, sekiranya kau orang semua mat emo seperti aku, pasti minat punya drama ini. Ha ha.

Wallahua'lam.
p.s: bila fikir semula, sebab pertama ialah Moon Geunyoung, bukan plot cerita. He he.