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KDramaHQ AdminJuly 3, 2025

Head Over Heels: Episodes 3-4

by Unit

While our unfortunate hero mourns his loss, our shaman attempts a variety of unique techniques to ward off his misfortune. The duo grow close and our hero starts to lower his guard. But what do Spiderman and our heroine have in common? They both have to hide their alter egos from their crush — even though keeping secrets almost always backfires when you least expect it to.

EPISODES 3-4

I was afraid Kyun-woo would blame himself for his grandmother’s death, but the reality is worse. His aunt and uncle blame him for their mother’s death, and for making her spend all her money in a bid to find a solution to his misfortune. Sung-ah — as a shaman — tries to stop the family from ripping into Kyun-woo, but she makes things worse for him because how dare he invite a shaman to their mother’s funeral? The family takes over the wake, and Kyun-woo is asked to leave before his parents arrive. Sigh. How do I isekai into this show? Because someone needs to beat up these adults!

Sung-ah makes up an excuse to visit Kyun-woo, and she’s alarmed to see a suicide ghost in his house. This is an indication of his suicidal thoughts, and Dongcheon tells Sung-ah that Kyun-woo needs to have a reason to live, in order to get rid of the ghost. Soon, Kyun-woo’s uncle-in-law asks for Grandma’s pictures to place beside her urn in the columbarium — because for all his aunt and uncle’s display of mourning affection for their mother, none of them have a single picture of her. Smh. As Kyun-woo picks out pictures of himself and his grandmother, he cracks a reminiscent smile. It’s his first smile since the show began, and even the suicide ghost has to take a step back to celebrate this momentous occasion. Now, the ghost ain’t completely departed from him yet, but it’s a start.

Dongcheon goes on to tell Sung-ah about the concept of a human amulet to ward off misfortune. Human amulets require physical touch with the object of misfortune, and Sung-ah is only too happy to surrender herself as a human amulet. “I will save Kyun-woo with my skinship!” She declares. Lol. Unsurprisingly, Kyun-woo is not the easiest target for skinship, but a determined shaman will always find a way to touch her crush. It’s all harmless skinship, though, and it’s more effective on the suicide ghost whenever Kyun-woo inadvertently initiates the touch.

Sung-ah follows Kyun-woo to the columbarium to drop off the pictures, and she points out that Grandma only smiled in the pictures where he won medals. Kyun-woo realizes his grandmother was genuinely happy in those moments, and he’s thankful that his archery was a bright spot in her life.

Speaking of archery, the school’s coach, YANG JOO-SEOP (Park Jung-pyo), is one of the few decent adults in this show. Coach Yang clears Kyun-woo’s arsonist rumor by insisting the only thing Kyun-woo sets fire to are the girls’ — and his! — heart. LMAO! And not only does Yang ensure that Kyun-woo gets a key to the team’s locker room, he even prepares a practice kit for his future team member. Although Kyun-woo is still undecided about whether or not to resume archery.

Sung-ah probes Kyun-woo about his feelings for archery, and he admits that it feels good to see his arrow overcome the wind. After giving him an “I’m proud of you” stroke on the hair, Sung-ah tells Kyun-woo she’s nice to him because he protects himself when he should be protected by adults. She asks if she can keep following him around, and he asks if she feels pity for him. “It’s friendship,” she replies, and he smiles. This time, the suicide ghost departs permanently. Yay! An excited Sung-ah goes in for a high five and Kyun-woo interlocks his fingers in hers and pulls her close. Ouuuu. ~Smooth like butter, like a shaman undercover…~ Cue: Sung-ah combusting into fragments of delulu, and Kyun-woo catching the love bug. Hehe.

But lest we remain in romantic bliss, trouble rears its head in the form of a haunted house which holds a deadly spirit. Apparently, someone offered themself as a living sacrifice to strengthen the spirit. Ha! On one of their many attempts to rid the house of the spirit, Dongcheon and Sung-ah come across a vlogging duo on a haunted house tour. The duo are warned to stay away from this house, but they stubbornly return after the shamans’ leave — and get attacked (and killed?) by the evil spirit. The vloggers’ video goes viral, and Sung-ah’s classmates note the similarity between her and the masked shaman in the video. They gang up on her to prove that she’s not the shaman, and Kyun-woo angrily calls them out because the innocent and friendly Sung-ah is anything but a shaman.

We know Kyun-woo has an extreme dislike for shamans, but we soon learn that his dislike goes beyond just seeing them as con artists. On this note, we meet YEOM HWA (Choo Ja-hyun). What do we know about this latest shaman on the block? For starters, Yeom Hwa is a popular — and very stylish — shaman-influencer. She’s infamous in the shaman community because she will do anything for the right price. It appears Yeom Hwa used to be Dongcheon’s spiritual daughter — and Dongcheon knows she’s connected to the haunted house after spotting her signature earrings outside the house.

As it turns out, Kyun-woo was taken to Yeom Hwa’s shrine when he was much younger, and it is not a happy reunion when she comes to see him after Grandma’s death. Yeom Hwa dumps all the pictures from Grandma’s columbarium at Kyun-woo’s feet, and she implies that Grandma may have trouble crossing over to the afterlife because she stayed beside her grandson for a long time. As opposed to abandoning him like the rest of the family? Tsk. Yeom Hwa also mentions that Kyun-woo’s dad is worried that he’ll show up, and she tosses salt at him like he’s some pesky insect. “How much longer must I protect your family from you?” She sneers at Kyun-woo. And now I’m thinking she’s the one who branded him with misfortune and made his family isolate themselves from him.

Back to the shaman allegations at school, Kyun-woo redirects his annoyance at Sung-ah for smiling while everyone was accusing her. Ji-ho is upset at the turn of events, and he tells Kyun-woo that he taught Sung-ah to smile like that. Via a flashback, we see that Ji-ho noticed Sung-ah was too timid to approach people first, so he encouraged her to smile whenever she felt intimidated, and to fake confidence until she became confident. In the present, Ji-ho informs Kyun-woo that he has a crush on Sung-ah, and he might play dirty if he grows to like her more. Uh-oh. Should we be worried? Show, please don’t make our Ji-ho a twisted second male lead.

Kyun-woo spots Dongcheon and Sung-ah returning from a shamanic assignment, and he asks to take a picture of Sung-ah’s face so that his classmates won’t bother his friend. A downbad Sung-ah almost takes off her mask, but Dongcheon tells Kyun-woo to leave her spiritual daughter out of his issues with his friend. Kyun-woo texts said friend to meet up with him, and our shaman’s phone beeps as the messages are delivered. Heh. In panic, Sung-ah scares Kyun-woo off — and then cries about it minutes later because she just reinforced his negative assumption about shamans. Loool.

To cheer Sung-ah up, Dongcheon buys her a new dress to meet up with Kyun-woo at the park. How sweet! Kyun-woo apologizes to Sung-ah for getting angry with her at school, and the genre switches from romance to horror when the surrounding lights go out. Admittedly, darkness can be romantic in a sense, because people in the dark are more aware of each other’s presence. But the ghosts lurking in the shadows are equally aware of humans’ presence, so… boo! Sung-ah shares that she used to be afraid of the dark as a child, and Dongcheon held her hands throughout the night. Sung-ah then does the same for Kyun-woo, and the ambience is no longer spooky as they share warmth through their hands. Awww.

Kyun-woo explains that doesn’t like when Sung-ah forces a smile because it reminds him about his past. He did the same thing whenever Yeom Hwa subjected him to her shamanistic rituals. “Bad people treat you worse if you smile. They keep at it until you cry,” Kyun-woo says, and Sung-ah gives him a “forget about the past” hug. She promises to ward off bad things from him, and the lights come back on when he hugs her back. Coincidence? The power of skinship? Love? Either way, Kyun-woo and Sung-ah become even closer after their park date, and Kyun-woo gains back some much needed light in his life.

In other news, poor Ji-ho is further stuck in third-wheel territory.

Kyun-woo officially joins the archery team — and he’s sent on a team hazing mission to get to the haunted house and back within an hour. Oh no! Of all the nights for someone whose misfortune attracts ghosts to go to the haunted house, it had to be the night Yeom Hwa is summoning all the most dangerous ghosts in the world. Sigh. It also had to be the night Sung-ah goes for her usual cleansing rituals at the haunted house. Sung-ah assumes Yeom Hwa was also invited for the ritual, and Dongcheon isn’t around to correct this assumption. Yeom Hwa takes off Sung-ah’s mask, and the story writes itself. Kyun-woo arrives at the haunted house to see his shaman nemesis with his crush who also happens to be a shaman, and this is where we cliff for the week!

Aigoo. This is a classic recipe for misunderstanding, and my heart breaks in advance for next week. Poor Kyun-woo was just starting to believe that life was smiling down on him! Betrayal hurts more when it comes from people you trust, but in Sung-ah’s defence, she genuinely has Kyun-woo’s best interests at heart. I’m curious to see how our shaman and her crush will handle the fallout of this reveal, and I hope Show doesn’t make us wallow too long in angst. We’ve only got a handful of days left to save Kyun-woo from his misfortune cycle!