Kim Hye Yoon as Eun Dan Oh
Rowoon as Haru
Lee Jae Wook as Baek Kyung
Kim Young Dae as Oh Nam Joo
Lee Na Eun as Yeo Joo Da
Jung Gun Joo as Lee Do Hwa
Lee Tae Ri as Jinmichae
Kim Ji In as Shin Sae Mi
So this story is about Eun Dan Oh, an 18 year old highschool student with heart problems. One day, she became aware of herself and found out that she was just a character in a comic book. What’s worst is that she’s not the female lead but just an extra with a set-up. Her role is to be the bridge between the two main leads and the fiancée of Baek Kyung who she have unrequited love for 10 years. She decided to escape what the writer intends for her future and to create her own fate. In the end she found out that her number 13 classmate can change her stage. In stage, that’s where happens what the writer wants to show in the story, while the shadow is like the behind the scenes. Only those characters who are aware of theirselves can remember what happened on the shadow. When Dan Oh saw the storyboard that she would be on an accident, she immediately decided to change it. She tried to put helmets and some sort of protection, but, she was a character with set - up. So the when the stage happens, all of her prepared measures are gone and she cannot move on her own. Luckily her 13th classmate was there to save her. Eventually, she named him Haru. From Haru’s perspective, he didn’t know where he begin. All he know is that his eyes is all on Dan Oh. Like he was always prepared to protect her. His first word was her name. He didn’t even know his own name. Haru is a namesless extra so he can freely move on his own. He can move on the stage since the writer is not “seeing” him. Dan Oh tried a lot of things to change her fate so she would have not died in the end.
In this drama, there was two manhwas that was involve. First, they show the “Secret” where Joo Da and Namjoo is the lead and Do Hwa is the supporting character. This is where the whole story currently set - up. The “Secret” here is that Namjoo loves Joo Da.
Second is the “Trumpet Creeper” which sets on a historical time. The main lead on this story is Dan Oh, Haru and Baek Kyung.
The drama actually became more interesting when they showed this manhwa on the storyline. Everything on this part is so great!!! The costume, the storyline and the plot twist! Hope they made a mini drama centering the “Trumpet Creeper”. I love how they put the flashbacks of this story. And at first, I though only Haru was aware of himself. It’s good to think that Dan Oh was also aware of herself and she truly loves Haru. Sadly, they are the main characters. They cannot escape what the writer wants. I cried so much when Dan Oh was stabbed and Haru keep on calling her “my lady” then her name before she died. AND THE PROMISE HARU MADE AT THE LAST PART. Their story parallel with “Secret” because the writer reused their characters but it feels like they are reincarnated as highschool students. IT WAS GREAT. Haru will always find Dan Oh and they are each other’s beginning and fate.
Parallel of Secret and Trumpet Creeper:
I would like to express my love to this lovely trio: The Three Musketeer who wants to change their stage and fate.
Sadly, since Haru keep on changing the stage, and he was just a nameless extra, he was deleted first when the writer was about to wrapped up the whole story. He was not on the last stage. The last stage was them graduating. Dan Oh put Haru’s name on her diploma like she’s remembering him. She wrote a letter on his desk just like what he did on hers. And in the end, Dan Oh decieded to visit the 300 years old oak tree. She found the last gift from Haru. Drawings of them together. Then cut.
The drama moves on the last part. It was another manhwa that sets in college. Dan Oh is just a nameless extra here and it seems that Saemi is the female lead. The gangsters and bitches in the Secret manhwa is now the nerds and the nerds is now the gangsters. Namjoo is now the worst dresser and opposite on Secret where he was love by everyone, here, they don’t like him. But, Namjoo still like strawberries. I read somewhere that Baek Kyung, Joo Da and Do Hwa is not part of this manhwa because they already know the Secret. That’s why the writer put them on sleep.
Then, when Dan Oh was in the library, they keep on showing the back of a man that was look like Haru. But him and Dan Oh keep on avoiding each other. Then, Dan Oh pass by to a wall with frames of artwork. There, Haru’s drawing was hung. Then, she heard Saemis and her friends saying about the 300th birthday of the tree (same line in Secret). So, Dan Oh went to the tree. When she was walking on the stairs, Haru pass by. But she didn’t see him. A blackhole appeared and it seems like the blackhole connects the different manhwas. When Dan Oh reached the tree she waited there. But nothing comes up so she just left. While walking, she suddenly remembered her memories of Haru so she came back again to the tree. She found Haru there but it seems like Haru doesn’t remember her so she just walk away. But Haru followed her and back hug her. Finally, they are together!!! And they are both nameless character so now they are free and can do whatever what they want.
To ADD: FACTS I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE STORY!!
The amulet connects the Trumpet Creeper and Secret while the drawing of Haru was the connection between Secret and the new manhwa.
Both Haru and Dan Oh remembered what happened in Trumpet Creeper because the both lose their self awareness and became aware of it again in Secret. Kyung only remembered that he killed Dan Oh.
Haru probably the one who buried the amulet in Dan Oh’s quarters when she died in Trumpet Creeper. It is the same place where Dan Oh and Haru found the amulet in Secret.
The amulet’s string became black in Secret while it is green in Trumpet Creeper. It’s because it was already covered with Dan Oh’s blood.
There’s a korean folklore about the Trumpet Creeper. It’s about the court lady who loves the king but the king did not return her love. When she passed away, vines creep into her quarters signifying that she’s waiting for the king. The court lady’s name in Sohwa. (I though at first that it is the same name as Dried Squid Fairy’s gf).
This drama was aired last 2019 and has 32 episodes-30mins each. And honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing that time and why I did not watch this drama. THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!! I love every bit of it and it seems like it will took me long before I can finally move on. Rowoon and Hye Yoon is now on both historical drama. And I keep on thinking of Haru and Dan Oh. :<
Some pictures I found on the internet. I searched for Extraordinary You contents but its difficult because the drama was aired last 2019.
