4 Elements : The Water EP 4 - UNCUT

Lada's brother is a complete stalker and an absolute creep. Lada's father is also a real piece of work. But besides that, I love the interaction between Nam and Lada this ep. Nam's dad is such a mence in the best possible way. This episode was so englot coded that for a few parts of the episode, I forgot I was watching a series.

The majority of this episode I was seeing "Englot," not Nam and Lada. The conversations they were having and certain situations were all straight from "Englot history.

Episode 5 starts with Nam arriving at Adisorn’s where her father, Lada and Fah are playing Jenga; Adisorn explains that he invited Lada because Nam did not dare to. Then, they all join for dinner, and Fah mentions this Nam’s chance has arrived, and she should not let it go. Adisorn wants to Lada more often and would do it if Nam ist too afraid to do it, but Nam thinks it’s rather Lada who feels awkward, yet Adisorn thinks that’s because of Nam ignoring her. Then, flowers come in, and it’s pretty obvious that Adisorn ordered them for Lada, but he pretends that Nam did. Nam gives them to Lada. Later, Nam drives her home, apologizing for her dad, and Lada claims that dinner was all his plan, and she lets it slide because of that. She mentions that Nam shouldn’t take it seriously either, but Nam cannot do it, and we get a flashback of Fah giving Nam the smartwatch for Lada, and explaining that it shows her heartrate which would betray that Lada has feelings for her, too. The silence is broken by her smartwatch ringing, and Lada want to go home, but Nam holds her back, wanting the flowers back. Lada gives them back claiming that she wanted to do that, anyway, then Nam bids farewell, and lets her return to her condo. The next morning, Lada is getting ready for work, and looks at the smartwatch that Nam gave her. Then, she returns to work, and Nam is waiting for her with a bouquet of her own containing pink tulips, because she likes them, as she has them on her lock screen, Nam mentions. Lada ignores her until Nam calls her back, then, she mentions that she can’t accept them, because someone might see them. Nam wants to know why she doesn’t want them to see them, and Lada reminds her about the rumor. Nam mentions she doesn’t care about that rumor anymore, but Lada explains that’s because she isn’t an employee and has nothing to worry about; but she does, and every day that they keep looking at her with suspicious eyes, she’s worried they might think she’s trying to seduce her. Nam proposes to make everything clear to them, if she fears that they might think Lada has a hidden agenda, then she’ll be the one to pursue her instead, will make it known how she feels about her, and she promises never to mix business with their relationship. Lada gets a text message, containing a photo of them standing in front of the hotel, and she denies that she has feelings for her. She asks her why she doesn’t wear the smartwatch she gave her, and she lies that she forgot it. But Nam rather thinks that it would betray that she feels the same way she does. But Lada doesn’t want to be forced to wear it, just like she doesn’t want to be forced to accept her flowers when she doesn’t want to. She explains that she chose to work at the “Monarch” because she wanted to be a daughter that her family can be proud of, she admires her and her talent, but if that admiration has led Nam to misunderstand how she feels, then she’s sorry. She looks up to her because of her talent, and that’s all there is to it. And she leaves her alone after crushing her heart. 💔 Nam goes back to being all about business after that, but she’s clearly not happy. At night, Lada is making dinner as she remember their time together at the condo eating noodles, as she gets a text message from Nam, and she wants to know where she got her LINE ID from. Nam explains that Preem gave it to her, and she didn’t want to call her because she didn’t want to bother her. She wanted to apologize for earlier, and she promises to be nothing more that her boss from now on. Lada wants to confess her true feelings, but she gets interrupted by a call from Pat. He accuses her of losing his hotel because of her refusal to help him, and mentions the Watin group is having a private event for their customers, and he wants to ruined, but Lada claims it wouldn’t do him any good, which makes him close the call by claiming that he will do it himself, then. Preem mentions to that staff that the event is to restore the confidence in their reputation after the cooking disaster, and Lada mentions all 25 guests have checked in and are waiting in the lobby. Lada is going to check the outdoor area where the event is to take place, and mentions the will make sure the staff is ready to move the event indoors in case of bad weather. Outside, she notices a suspicious man that runs away as she calls him. She tries to following but as unable to. As a thunderstorm starts, Preem tells her that Nam ordered the event to be moved inside for bad weather. As Lada hears that Nam is still outside she runs to her. Nam and Lada keep calling each other as they are searching for each other outside, but the rain is limiting their view. They eventually find each other, as someone is manipulating the garden lights, and Lada pushes Nam to the ground to save her. As they get up again, they find out they were looking for each other because they were worried. Nam tells her not to leave her if she’s worried about her, and she admits that she can’t see her as an assistant anymore as she cups her cheek with her hand. And she claims that no matter what happens, she will never leave her. And she kisses her with Lada returning the kiss. Afterwards, they hug still sitting in the rain on the ground. Later, they rush into Nam’s private guesthouse on the premises. She wants Lada to shower first, then change into PJs provided for her, but Lada just wants to quickly change her uniform, then help Preem at the event. Nam forbids her to return in the pouring rain as she sneezes once. Then, Nam sneezes too, and drops her glasses of the floor and they get broken as they both rush to pick them up. They are acting really awkwardly to each other as Lada is preparing to shower, then Nam gets a text message which worries her. And she goes outside to talk to Fah, asking her what she found out, and claims the man is not part of her staff. So, they chef Ian event wasn’t an accident, Nam argues, and Fah is sure that she’s already figured out who is behind this. Nam asks her to look into it some more, and find out if there’s any staff who secretly works for the Wachara group. Lada is out of the shower looking at some photos of Nam with her parents, then, she notices a document about a project the Monarch is bidding for at the ministry of Tourism. But a shattering sound interrupts her and she finds Nam at the terrace having dropped a flower pot by accident. She wants to pay for her glasses as that must have caused her to drop the pot, but Nam claims she doesn’t need to pay her anything. Then, she asks her to spend the night there, and Lada reacts by wordlessly retreating into the guesthouse and retrieving her uniform, wanting to leave. She mentions that just because she kissed her she isn’t allowed to do anything with her, but Nam didn’t mean to sleep with her, but only wanted her to stay there because of the storm. Then, she proclaims to sleep at her dad’s to keep Lada decent, but she trips over her feet and nearly drops, and Lada claims that she cannot drive without glasses – and if she just wants to sleep there, it’s no problem. But what it it’s not just a sleepover, Nam asks, and Lada deflects by claiming that she should shower soon, or she will catch a cold. After the shower, they fight a little about who will take the bed and who will take the couch. Nam wants her to stay by her side as payback for the glasses and to be her glasses. They finally fall both to the ground a decide to sleep there, with Lada snuggled against Nam. ❤️ In the morning, Nam wakes up first and finds a note by Lada promising to always be her glasses. She kisses her on the cheek… … and Lada wakes up in the bedroom, unsure how she got there. Lada finds a breakfast ready with a note wanting her to eat more as she’s light as a kitten. At the hotel, Nam is still sick, so Lada offers to take care of her while she’s recovering, and Nam accepts – but she keeps workings as Lada brings her porridge and meds, and Lada promises her a gift if she finishes it. Nam claims she is not a kid who can be lured by this, but complies anyway. Lada leaves… …only to return with a sunflower for Nam. She only started to like them recently, but will like them forever because she gave them to her. She also wants to know her birthday. Later, Lada is sitting outside thinking about recent events as she is deleting the spy photos (presumably) her brother sent her. But she gets a new one showing her sitting outside, so he’s currently watching her. She eventually find him and tells him she is going to tell Nam everything. But he thinks she will not accept her if she tells her the truth, but tells her to go on anyway, as he wants to know how she will react when she finds out she’s his sister. She flees only to run into Nam, but claims she was just taking a walk. She’s notices that Lada is frantic and asks her whether she’s done anything to upset her, because she worried that she doesn’t feel the same way as her, and is only going along because she can’t refuse. Lada hugs her as a response and admits that she likes her and has liked her for a long time. She doesn’t know since when exactly, but she feels she’s always liked her, and can’t help but feeling Nam likes her, too. But what Nam wants between them is impossible, she argues, but Nam asks why don’t they make it possible, then? And then she asks her to be her girlfriend, and they hug – with Pat observing them. They announce that they are girlfriends to Adisorn and Fah, but Nam doesn’t want her father to hug her girlfriend. Adisorn welcomes her to the family, and asks her if Nam hasn’t only imagined it. But Lada confirms that Nam and her are dating, and Adisorn wants her to call him “dad” for now on. They should not be so formal to each other as well, and Fah argues that Nam has never been in a relationship before, so she doesn’t know about nicknames. At dinner, Adisorn lets it slip that Nam’s nickname as a child was “braised pork” because she was so chubby that her mother use to call her Mootoon. Lada admits that was called “Ducky” when she was little, because she was afraid of ducks. Adisorn then tells her to call Nam “Palo” because she was afraid to eat it as she feared the dark sauce contained a ghost. Then, Adisorn tells her daughter to peel some shrimps for Lada, but Lada joins in so that she doesn’t have to peel them alone from now on. After dinner, they are thinking about nicknames for each other, and they write them with fingers on each other’s back – they choose Lada and Nam. But Lada want them to use those names only after work hours because she’s afraid Nam’s authority might suffer. She’s fine with that, as long as she remembers that Nam isn’t her boss anymore, it’s Lada who the boss now. She then asks Lada for her plans on her day off the next day; and Lada want to return to Bangkok to take care of some things, Nam wants to drive her, but she declines and tell her not to worry. Nam also wants to be part of her family, and Lada agrees (I wonder how that will turn out…). And that where this ultra-long episode ends. ___ That was an episode focused solely on Lada and Nam’s relationship – and we now have a relationship, because both parties set their worries aside and admitted their feelings for each other. This was high time, because in the next episode Lada’s family will act up again and try anything to force Lada into a marriage she doesn’t want. This is going to be 100 times more of a nuisance than Pat was for the last two episodes. Another episode is done where Fah mostly played the roles that the cousins had in the novel, so much that I wonder if they created that character to fix any scheduling problems with the more prominent actors playing the cousins. But we shall see if this trend continues. So far, it’s still a good adaptation of the novel, though they took more liberties with it than with the “The Earth”.