Twinkling Watermelon Ending Explained & Spoilers: Does It Have a Happy or Sad Ending?
15.11.2023 - 12:43
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Popular K-drama aired (final episode) on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 8:40 p.m. KST on tvN and Viki. The series follows the story of a gifted CODA (child of deaf adult) student who travels back in time to meet a few high schoolers and creates a band – Watermelon Sugar. While at it, he also meets his parents from the past and sets things straight with them.
of Twinkling Watermelon ended on a bittersweet note. Eun-Gyeol () couldn’t avoid his father, Yi Chan’s () accident. However, the latter ended up graduating and leading a well-known guitar band. Yi Chan has Cheong-Ah () by his side, who also graduated, as well as his band members. Eun-Gyeol became popular in the music industry and reconciled with Eun-Yu () in the present. As for Eun-Yu, she started living a better life for herself with Eun-Gyeol.
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Episode 16 of Twinkling Watermelon begins with Eun-Gyeol taking his father, Yi Chan, to the hospital after the accident. He feels apologetic for not being able to protect Yi Chan when it was needed the most. In the operation theatre, Yi Chan dreams of graduating college and fulfilling his promise to his grandmother. He is also surrounded by his friends Cheong-Ah, Eun-Gyeol, and Eun-Yu.
Meanwhile, Eun-Yu meets Grandpa Viva while sharing details with the police. Grandpa Viva discovers Yi Chan’s cassette and enquires Eun-Yu about it. He, however, thinks that his daughter Choi Se-Kyung has returned from the past. Eun-Yu asks him a question that her mother has longed to ask him, “Why did you abandon me?”
Grandpa Viva explains how he though Se-Kyung was happy with her adoptive parents. However, Eun-Yu confesses that wasn’t the case, and that Se-Kyung always had to compete with her step siblings to prove her worth. She asks Grandpa Viva to burn the cassette in hopes of that changing the events of the time. Eun-Yu also leaves, promising that this is the most she could do with her time travel journey.
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Both Eun-Yu and Eun-Gyeol receive a call from the Master. The latter asks them to wrap up their journey and reach the same destination they arrived after their time travel. Eun-Gyeol isn’t ready to leave Yi Chan, but the Master explains that his existence in the past can have severe repercussions as he doesn’t belong in this world.
Meanwhile, Yi Chan’s surgery was successful. As he rests, Eun-Gyeol apologizes for his behavior in the present. However, the following day, Eun-Gyeol discovers that Yi Chan has lost his hearing. The latter’s grandmother breaks down after the diagnosis, and Eun-Gyeol leaves to find out who caused the accident. Eun-Yu arrives in time to tell him it is Cheong-Ah’s stepbrother,