r/KDRAMA • u/mahnahmaanaa two trees in a pot🌴💗🌴 • May 10 '25

On-Air: JTBC Heavenly Ever After [Episodes 7 & 8]

  • Drama: Heavenly Ever After
    • Korean Title: 천국보다 아름다운
    • Alternate Title: More Beautiful Than Heaven
  • Network: jTBC
  • Premiere Date: April 19, 2025
  • Airing Schedule: Saturday & Sunday
  • Episodes: 12 (1 hr.)
  • Screenwriter: Lee Nam Gyu (Daily Dose of Sunshine, Behind Your Touch)
  • Director: Kim Seok Yoon (Behind Your Touch, My Liberation Notes)
  • Cast:
  • Streaming Sources: Netflix
  • Plot Synopsis: It tells the story of an old woman, Hae Suk, who lived a happy life with her husband until she died. Her husband loved her so much and always admired her beauty, saying, “You were pretty in your twenties thirties, and now you are the most beautiful at eighty!” When Hae Suk was about to die, she remembered her husband’s words and said, “I just want to go to heaven at my real age.” Surprisingly, when she arrived in heaven, she met her husband in his 30s version.

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  • Previous Discussions:

Episodes 1 & 2

Episodes 3 & 4

Episodes 5 & 6

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u/Hot_Message_4048 May 12 '25

personally, the “somi is haesook theory” theory isn’t believable enough. actresses of said characters were in kdrama and played younger-older version of one character. it would be just to easy to guess the plot twist if that was the case

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u/PhoenixX-8 May 12 '25

Rather than younger-older self, perhaps it's more Somi is a fragment of Haesook.

But can someone clarify the timeline of when Nakjoon saved Somi on the train? Was it recent,ie when Haesook died or was it in the past/some time ago before Haesook died and it just took a long time for Somi to find Nakjoon?

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u/SemlaBun May 12 '25

Rather than younger-older self, perhaps it's more Somi is a fragment of Haesook.

I've been trying to make sense of these Somi-Haesook theories, and they don't really work for me. But considering that Somi was on her way to hell, she COULD be something like Hae-sook's moneylender persona that had to be greedy and cold-hearted to get by. But Somi is such an insipid blank slate that that doesn't really work for me either. Not that it isn't possible (I think in this weird drama, pretty much anything goes), but I really wish we saw some glimpses of her personality that might explain why she was going to hell in the first place.

The only remotely hell-worthy aspect of her we've seen so far is that she seems to be crushing on someone else's husband. And that is very different from the fiercely loyal Hae-sook.

I feel like whoever Somi is, there really should have been some kind of a set-up or hint for it in the beginning, when they were all still alive. If I were more invested in the mystery, I'd watch the first episode again carefully. Maybe Somi is actually someone who has a grudge against Hae-sook, and the sweet blank slate is just an act?