The newest teaser for To My Hae-ri continues the artsy streak of previous promos, all while sharing a little more insight into the romantic relationships of our leading lady with DID and her two personalities.
The teaser opens Eun-ho, played by Shin Hye-sun (Welcome to Samdal-ri), a depressed announcer who is in the process of calling it quits with her boyfriend Jung Hyun-oh, played by Lee Jin-wook (Sweet Home 3). Despite their eight-year relationship, it looks like neither of them could deal with the growing emotional distance (underscored by their physical distance in the breakup scene), with Eun-ho closing the chapter on their relationship in voiceover: “I hate Hyun-oh… because I can’t have him.”
Meanwhile, love has just started to bloom for Eun-ho’s alternate identity, the bubbly Hae-ri, who boldly confesses to the stoic news anchor Kang Ju-yeon, played by Kang Hoon (A Time Called You), “I like you Ju-yeon. So I’ve started to think about you. I’ve started to wonder what you’ll do tomorrow.”
We cut away from the puppy love back to Eun-ho who asks if Hae-ri seemed happy, since her own life seems so dark. But it looks like things aren’t really over between her and Hyun-oh either, since the next few scenes are of him longingly looking at their relationship mementos. We’re told that Hyun-oh is a man with quite some baggage himself, so hopefully through healing they can both reunite toward a shared happiness.
We end on Eun-ho’s remarks harkening back to the start of the teaser: “Do you know how much you have to hate something in order to give up what you’ve always wanted?” And we’re left to wonder who she means by that. Hyun-oh? Or Hae-ri?
Written by Han Ga-ram (I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day) and directed by Jung Ji-hyun (Lies Hidden in My Garden, Twenty Five Twenty One), ENA’s To My Hae-ri will premiere on September 23 on ENA and Genie TV.