Head Over Heels- Episodes 5-6

Broken Trust, Crying Ghosts, and a Rain-Soaked Reunion

Episode 5 opens with a punch to the heart: Gyeon-woo catches Seong-ah mid-ritual, dancing with Yeom-hwa in full shaman mode. From his point of view, it looks like betrayal and he walks away without a word. Alone on the street, heavy with hurt, Gyeon-woo unknowingly becomes a beacon for wandering spirits.

Seong-ah finds him and tries to explain, but he shuts her out completely. No apology is getting through, not while he's still raw.

Meanwhile, the spiritual stakes are rising fast. General Dongcheon and her team of shamans are holding the line outside the cursed house, keeping the malevolent spirit sealed inside. But here’s the catch: the entire point of sealing the spirit wasn’t to destroy it, it was to transform it into a deity. A dark one. The final stage? A ritual sacrifice. The person performing it dies. And the spirit? It just needs to hit 100 kills. It’s almost there.

Back in the real world, Seong-ah is still clinging to hope. She’d asked Gyeon-woo for just five more days, to stay friends, to stay close, and to protect him. But, even as she uncovers the truth about Yeom-hwa’s secret agenda, Gyeon-woo remains suspicious. He thinks she used him. Played him. And he’s not hiding his resentment.

Things come to a head when Seong-ah finally takes Gyeon-woo and Ji-ho up to the rooftop and lays everything bare; her shamanic identity, the curse, the protection. But Gyeon-woo’s not ready to believe it. The damage is done, and the walls are still up.

Meanwhile, Yeom-hwa’s not done either. She’s quietly prepping to serve the evil deity and seems perfectly fine watching the body count rise.

Seong-ah and Ji-ho, trying to keep Gyeon-woo safe, agree to keep quiet about how long Ji-ho’s known the truth. But trouble isn’t done following them. During a group study session, the baby ghost attached to a classmate stirs awake and it’s not cute this time. It’s dangerous.

When the ghost starts crying, Seong-ah grabs Gyeon-woo’s hand to shield him, but instead of protecting him, a cup shatters in his hand. Blood, confusion, and panic.

Trying to figure out why the human amulet touch no longer works, Seong-ah visits her classmate’s home and finds the source: a doll the ghost had latched onto. But the classmate refuses to let it go, until Seong-ah warns her she might not survive if she keeps holding on.

Meanwhile, Gyeon-woo starts connecting the dots. Every touch, every moment, Seong-ah’s kindness was always linked to her role as a shaman. And it stings.

The ghost acts up again the next day, this time in the library. Seong-ah rushes to Gyeon-woo, desperate to shield him, but the charm still won’t activate. The shelves collapse. He’s injured. It’s chaos.

Though he recovers in the hospital, Seong-ah is shaken. She tells Ji-ho she’s done pretending and is fully committing to protecting Gyeon-woo... whatever it takes. Ji-ho helps by planting a hidden talisman on him.

We also revisit the woman haunted by the baby ghost, still unhinged, still obsessively looking for her “baby.” When Seong-ah returns to her classmate, she explains the haunting one last time. In an emotional breakthrough, the classmate lets go of the doll. The ghost’s grip loosens.

Elsewhere, Gyeon-woo is spiraling from guilt. His old friend, still blaming him for the fire, won’t stop calling. Ji-ho steps in, offering to be his amulet now. He even gifts Gyeon-woo a small action figure, something to hold on to when Ji-ho’s not around. It’s a quiet, heartfelt gesture that lands.

And then we get to the gut-punch ending.

Seong-ah delivers the doll to the ghost’s grieving mother, who’s been scavenging through trash for it. Among the garbage, Seong-ah finds something else: the lip balm charm she made for Gyeon-woo, tossed away.

That’s when it hits her. Everything she did, every charm, every attempt, it all meant nothing to him. And standing there in the rain, she finally breaks down.

Just as the clouds seem too heavy to bear, Gyeon-woo appears. Silently. He holds an umbrella over her as she cries.

No words. Just quiet understanding, and maybe the beginning of a thaw.

Episode 5 delivers heartbreak, high-stakes supernatural tension, and one of the most emotional finales yet. Trust is broken. Ghosts are restless. And love—messy, painful, real—is still trying to find its place in the storm.

Curses, Confessions, and a Possession Nobody Saw Coming

Episode 6 opens with a flashback that hits hard: Gyeon-woo remembers tossing out Seong-ah’s handmade charm. He goes back to retrieve it, but finds her instead, soaked in the rain and silently crying. Without a word, he brings her home.

There, things take a darker turn. Seong-ah notices old photos of Gyeon-woo and his grandmother, but something's off. She spots markings, part of a curse designed to trap his grandmother’s soul and prevent her from moving on. The only way to break it? Burn the photos.

Gyeon-woo is gutted. Destroying the last memories of the one person who truly loved him feels like losing her all over again. He lashes out, compares Seong-ah to Yeom-hwa, and accuses her of playing with his pain. Seong-ah, torn between her duty and her heart, walks away.

As Gyeon-woo heads to his parents’ house to beg Yeom-hwa to lift the curse, one of the alternatives Seong-ah had mentioned, Seong-ah visits the columbarium herself. There, she finds a curse laced around the urn and takes it back to purify it. With General Dongcheon’s help, she burns the curse and sanctifies the remains.

Meanwhile, Ji-ho is trailing Gyeon-woo for their school project when he spots him with Yeom-hwa. Just as she’s about to curse Gyeon-woo, Ji-ho’s trusty action figure lights up, triggering a protective spell. Yeom-hwa notices the magic and fakes lifting the curse to get inside his house, looking for the source. Seong-ah swoops in just in time and takes the amulet back.

Outside, Seong-ah calls Yeom-hwa out, exposing her deception. Gyeon-woo overhears everything. Finally realizing the truth, he chooses to burn the photos himself, setting his grandmother free.

But the fallout isn’t over.

Seong-ah and her spirit mother confront Yeom-hwa directly. As punishment, General Dongcheon curses her with a death spell, a reverse curse. The price? She’ll take on the burden herself, offering penance to her deity.

Cornered and desperate, Yeom-hwa flees to the sealed house and does something horrific, she breaks a blood-soaked wooden doll’s head, sealing her pact with the evil spirit. The body count is now at 99. Only one more death, and the spirit will rise as a full-fledged evil deity.

Back at school, Seong-ah continues to protect Gyeon-woo from a distance, guiding Ji-ho like a remote-control amulet. Gyeon-woo starts to piece it together. All the weird touches. The talismans. The sleepless nights. It wasn’t manipulation, it was protection. Every step of the way.

During basketball practice, a surge of faceless ghosts swarm the area. Seong-ah senses it and runs to her spirit mother. Together, they fight to re-seal the haunted house. These ghosts, we learn, are waiting for the spirit’s ascension, hoping it will grant them faces and form.

That night, Gyeon-woo and Ji-ho crash at his place to finish their project. It’s a quiet moment, but meaningful. Gyeon-woo admits he knows Ji-ho’s been looking out for him. He also learns the truth about Seong-ah’s past, how her birth parents sold her out for TV fame, how she was bullied in middle school just for being a shaman. It’s a turning point. Sympathy replaces suspicion.

The next morning, things spiral again.

Seong-ah catches the school bully being beaten by his father. The boy runs and disappears into the sealed house. The evil spirit wastes no time and possesses him. His loyal ghost dog races to Seong-ah, begging for help.

She knows she’s not supposed to enter the house. But she does.

Gyeon-woo, always one step behind but never far, follows.

Inside, everything goes cold. The final shot? Gyeon-woo standing before Seong-ah, but something’s wrong. His expression. His eyes. The eerie silence.

He’s possessed.

DramaZen's Opinion

These two episodes? Absolutely unhinged in the best way. Head Over Heels has officially crossed into “drop everything and scream at the screen” territory.

Let’s start with Episode 5. Gyeon-woo walking away from Seong-ah mid-dance like it was the betrayal of the century? Brutal. And then Seong-ah finding out his grandmother was cursed, and trapped as a ghost? I was not emotionally prepared. Watching Gyeon-woo beg her not to burn the photos, it broke me. And just when I thought he couldn’t twist the knife deeper, he compared her to Yeom-hwa. That one hurt.

Meanwhile, Ji-ho deserves a medal. That action figure moment? Iconic. He’s out here deflecting curses with toys while everyone else is losing their minds. And Yeom-hwa? She’s not even hiding her villain arc anymore. She’s out for power, and she’s not subtle about it.

Episode 6 was even more chaotic, in the best way. Seong-ah’s solo mission to cleanse the curse at the columbarium? Power move. The face-off with Yeom-hwa? Satisfying. And the twist with General Dongcheon cursing Yeom-hwa andtaking the penalty herself? That’s the kind of spiritual drama I tune in for.

Gyeon-woo finally seeing Seong-ah for who she really is and realizing she’s been protecting him all along, was such a payoff. His slow realization, plus learning about her trauma, felt earned and honest. The way this show balances supernatural stakes with raw human emotion is unreal.

And that ending. That ending. The school bully gets possessed. The spirit hits 100. Seong-ah breaks the rules to help. And then, bam, Gyeon-woo appears in the house, clearly not himself. That blank stare? Those vibes? It’s giving possessed.

Episodes 5 and 6 were a turning point. Everything’s unraveling, and no one is safe. The romance is aching, the ghosts are restless, and the final boss just woke up. This show is out for blood, and I’m 100% here for it.