[[Drama 2021] The Road: The Tragedy of One, 더 로드: 1의 비극]

Something does not quite add up to me.

 

We are shown that Eun Soo and Soo Hyun cares a lot about each other.

 

In Ep 8, Soo Hyun acted like a jealous man who refuses to accept that his wife has betrayed him.  He would don’t let himself hear the explanation/confession of his wife.

 

He is trying to protect his wife.  He should know, at least on the surface, Jan Ho neither has the ability or the motive to kill these 3 people?  The only  thing Jan Ho cares about is his Eun Ho/Eun Soo.   Soo Hyun knows that Jan Ho doe snot care about his son, and he is just using his son as an excuse to get to Eun Soo.

 

On the other hand, his wife has the motivations  and what it takes to kill the 3 people, to “protect her family.” - the slush fund for his dad, the kid out of jealousy and the reporter for seeing things he should not see.

 

I think he is going after Jan Ho to protect his wife.  Like he was suppressing the truth to protect his mom when he was young.

 

On the question of Eun Soo, why does she want to maintain relationships with 2 men?

 

Her love and care for SH seems very genuine.   She knows that she has been caught lying multiple times by now but she is going out of her way to keep the relationship together.  What is odd is that she does not know very much about her husband, given how smart and perceptive she is.  Something not adding up.

She knows who JY really is.  Her dad too when they were watching the interview on TV.  She seems OK to let it goes, and I don’t see any signs of bitterness for the betrayal.  Perhaps she knows that it is one mistake and there may be extenuating circumstance to it.   

 

To me, her attitude towards Jan Ho is more out of pity and guilt.  She is not afraid of him, but is in total control of him.  Even Jon Ho said that she could use him.    She is not under a threat that she could not get rid of and she is probabaly not a victim in this relationship.  She is not in this against her will.    Why?  

 

Her father knows that she is seeing Jan Ho, but sees no irony when she said that she is the side of her husband, when it comes to the conflict between her father and husband in ep 1.

 

My working theory is that Eun Soo is really Eun Ho.  She feels indebted to Jan ho, but who she really loves is SH.  But why would she does this?  Anybody shares the same thoughts?