Ever feel like your life is a series of “inevitable” disasters you’re just waiting to trip over? Gigi is realizing that fate isn’t just a concept—it’s a ledger that demands to be balanced. From mysterious blue heart tattoos to a time-traveling CEO who was the only one at her funeral (ouch), things are getting heavy.
Catch up: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
“Mino must marry Sue?” Jay asks Gigi. The two haven’t left the rooftop, even though the sun has long set and the city lights are starting to pulse like a neon migraine.
Yes. It’s the only way. If he doesn’t, Gigi is stuck on a collision course with a life that ends in a hospital gown, a cancer diagnosis, and a final, fatal betrayal.
The inevitable is coming—unless she finds a body double for her own tragedy.
Jay didn’t know, probably because his own “second chance” timeline looked a bit different, like sending Ernie to the reunion to do the heavy lifting of clearing the air.
So that’s why Ernie showed up…
But how did Jay even know about the reunion? Gigi looks at him, waiting for the missing piece of the puzzle.
“Because I went to your funeral,” he says, looking her dead in the eye.
Ah, her funeral. Gigi takes a beat.
Since waking up in 2013, she’s been so busy sprinting away from her past that she never stopped to consider what happened after the lights went out.
How was it? She watches him closely.
Jay tries to tell her people had regrets, but Gigi isn’t buying the fairy tale. She scoffs.
She can see it now: a room full of people checking their watches, no real sadness, just the cold reality of a life that didn’t seem to matter.
Jay suggests they take the conversation somewhere less… public. They pull up to a building that can only be his house.
The second Gigi walks in, her mood shifts. She spots a cute tiger cat and almost pounces on it herself, but Jay intercepts the creature.
He warns her that the cat generally finds humans annoying, yet he’s visibly surprised when it actually seems to like her.
While Gigi pets the “cheesy” tabby, Jay plays the domestic hero and preps some tea. As he does, a flashback of his car flipping on a dark road flashes through his mind—all because he swerved to avoid an extremely similar tiger cat.
“Can it be avoided?” he asks, snapping back to the present. “What if you just ghost Mino or cut ties with Sue?”
“I tried,” Gigi admits. But Mino is the type to have a toxic meltdown if she tries to leave. If he’s capable of murder in ten years, who’s to say he wouldn’t do it now?
What about running away?
“I wanted to. When I first came back, I just wanted to delete my life and disappear. But let’s be real: you can only pick up and leave when you have financial freedom.” She’s being honest.
She can run now because he’s offering to help, but you can’t outrun a debt to fate.
“You see, I used to have a scar right here,” she says, pointing to her wrist. “I was supposed to be burned by a coffee pot.”
She draws his hand forward. He got the burn instead of her. The scar is an exact match.
Suddenly, a glass on the edge of the table hits the floor, shattering into a million pieces. Gigi moves to clean it up, but Jay holds her in place.
“If I didn’t get hurt, eventually you would’ve?” He’s not really asking; he’s confirming the ledger.
Avoiding it isn’t the answer. The inevitable will happen unless she transfers her fate to someone else.
“A wound for a wound; a marriage for a marriage; and a death for…” Jay trails off.
“…a death,” Gigi finishes for him.
His death flashes before his eyes. Hers flashes before hers. Jay doesn’t spill all the details of his own end yet, but the gears are turning.
Is his fate just as inescapable?
The man in the taxi
He remembers being there when they put Gigi to rest.
He was the only one in the memorial hall. It was a rainy, morose day that felt like the world was mourning with him.
Back in his car, his “calm” facade finally tore to pieces, and he lashed out at the steering wheel.
When his car wouldn’t start, he stepped out into the pouring rain, mostly angry at his own cowardice.
A taxi pulled up—a driver who admitted he didn’t usually work this area. It was a “feeling,” the driver said.
The driver caught Jay’s eye in the rearview. “You must’ve lost something precious,” he noted.
“I don’t even know if it was or not. We barely knew each other,” Jay responded, sounding like a man who’d realized he’d spent his life as a spectator.
Why? The driver pushed. A man should be daring! He should’ve seen it to the end.
“I should have. I regret it. I think I had a few chances,” Jay admitted.
“If you get another chance, what will you do?” the driver asked.
It was a loaded question, one that suggested the driver saw the “why” behind Jay’s choices. “Don’t regret it. I’m sure there was a reason. Or… will you grab your true chance?”
“I didn’t know how I felt. If I had, I’d have protected her. So, if I get a chance, I’ll take it,” Jay told the man.
”By the way, how did you come back?” Gigi asks, pulling him back to 2013.
She knows she died, but waking up ten years younger is a lot to process. What about him?
A car flipping in the air flashes through his mind. “I fell asleep and woke up in 2013,” he says.
Gigi sees the look in his eyes—there’s more to the story, a darker layer he isn’t ready to peel back yet. She doesn’t press.
He’s always been considerate of her space, and she’s returning the favor.
The corporate cold front
Helen calls Jay the next morning with a “heads up.” The Head of Strategic Planning—let’s call him Mr. Capable—has shown up in the office unexpectedly.
Jay rushes in. Since when does a heavyweight like Mr. Capable transfer to HR?
“I’m just a salaryman, I do what I’m told,” the man says with a stone-cold face.
But Jay knows his grandfather’s fingerprints are all over this, especially when Mr. Capable pulls up Gigi’s employee file.
They’ve been digging. They know about her seven-year relationship with a coworker, and they find her “involvement” with Jay suspicious.
“You left work together and went to your house. Was that overtime?” Mr. Capable asks, his tone dripping with corporate judgment.
Is Jay giving her this project as a professional move, or was it decided after a very “improper” night?
Mr. Capable informs him that HR is launching a full investigation. Until then, Gigi is sidelined. She can stay on the team, but Mrs. Y will spearhead it.
Jay is fuming but keeps his cool. He tells Mr. Capable that if he’s really unswayed by gossip, he’ll eventually see that Gigi is the only person for the job.
But Jay isn’t okay. There’s something he didn’t tell Gigi: his death.
He’s struggling to connect the dots between the blue heart tattoo on his chest and Gigi’s father. It’s a lot.
He heads to a restaurant to drown the noise in his head. Naturally, Ernie is the chef.
Ernie sees right through Jay—he knows the guy has a thing for Gigi and can’t quite figure out his angle.
“You get to live a smooth, long, happy life. Congratulations,” Jay says, pouring another drink. “I think you have a lot of time left.”
Ernie just stares. Is this guy dying?
Even though they’re strangers, Ernie stays past closing.
Helen comes charging in after Ernie finds her number at the top of Jay’s call list.
“I call him like crazy! This is my crazy brother and boss,” Helen explains. She’s baffled. Jay is never wasted.
“Maybe it’s puberty… or a quarter-life crisis?” She erupts into laughter.
Ernie is bewildered by this bubbly human, but her voice triggers a memory. He remembers calling Gigi about a cake he’d sent—a cake this same woman had called “love in itself!”
“Do you, by any chance, know Gigi?” he asks Helen.
She spots the restaurant name and points at him. “The Basque cheesecake made with milk from a New Zealand mountain goat… unbelievable!”
The next morning, Grandfather summons Jay. He wants Jay to handle the breakup with Arya, the heiress from the arranged marriage.
“I thought you wanted that marriage,” Jay points out.
“I can’t force you to be happy,” Grandfather snaps, though he’s clearly annoyed that Jay is clashing with his people and coming home wasted.
He reminds Jay that a promise is a promise—he needs to handle the dissolution sincerely.
“When can I see this girl?” Grandfather asks.
“I don’t think you can. I want her to be happy, and right now, that means keeping her away from this,” Jay says politely before leaving.
He won’t run away this time. He won’t regret not acting.
Even if he isn’t her “happiness”—his mind flashes to Gigi smiling at Ernie—he will be her shield.
The weekend “date”
Gigi, Sue, and Mino go on a picnic. As Gigi and Mino set the stage, Sue twirls around, acting like a “weather fairy.” Mino looks at her like she’s the sun.
Then he turns to Gigi with a “helpful” critique. “Stop working so much. Men don’t find a girl aiming for CEO attractive, you dummy!”
They lie down, Sue sandwiched right between them. “We’re family,” Sue says with that manipulative, charismatic smile.
Gigi looks at her “best friend” and remembers finding her in bed with her husband in the last life. Maybe I’ll take her out for some air and push her off a cliff.
That’s the level of “friendship” we’re dealing with.
Gigi ditches them, claiming work. She meets Ernie instead. He’s waiting in front of her office with a massive bouquet.
Jay, pulling weekend hours in the office, watches the exchange from the window like a scene from a movie he wasn’t cast in.
Gigi heads inside and finds Jay. She admits she ditched Mino and Sue to force them into a date.
Jay comes clean, too. He explains that Mr. Capable is the reason she was stripped of the lead role.
“I’ll help with everything. Whatever you need. Everything,” he tells her.
Jay later goes to Ernie’s restaurant for dinner. He’s “scouting” the competition, trying to see if Ernie is “solid land” or just a player.
“I hope you drink in moderation today,” Ernie tells him.
“I won’t drink anymore. There’s something I must do,” Jay says, leaving an expensive bottle of wine untouched.
They don’t like each other, but they don’t dislike each other either.
The workshop trap
Time to prep for the marketing workshop. Gigi and Mrs. Y let Helen run with a radical camping idea to cheer her up.
Helen hides a flag in a stream. Sue, true to form, refuses to get her feet wet and asks Gigi to “borrow” Mino so he can fetch it for her. “Just ask for help instead of doing everything yourself,” Sue advises.
Walking the path alone, Gigi ruminates. Sue got everything she wanted in 2023 by just “asking.” Is that the secret?
She runs into Jay. He offers to find the flag for her, but Gigi stops him.
“Can I just be honest with you? Then don’t think of me as someone strange, don’t hate me, and just listen to me. Be that person for me,” she prompts him.
