You and Everything Else Ending Explained: Do Eun-jung and Sang-yeon Remain Friends? What Was Sang-yeon’s Request?

You and Everything Else Ending Explained: Lifelong friends and rivals Eun-jung and Sang-yeon find themselves at odds throughout their lives. However, years after staying no contact, Sang-yeon arrives at Eun-jung’s doorstep with a surprising request that makes them reevaluate their life choices.

The series has 15 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 60 minutes.

You and Everything Else Ending Explained

The episode opens with Ryu Eun-jung telling a friend that her childhood friend, Cheon Sang-yeon, stole an extremely popular show’s script from her, for which she won an award. She’s miffed about it, and then we see how their friendship started. From the moment Eun-jung met Sang-yeon, the two butt heads. Sang-yeon had everything that Eun-jung didn’t, and it was a mixed bag of inadequacy, admiration and jealousy.

In the present, Eun-jung gets a surprise call from Sang-yeon out of the blue and asks her to meet. When they do, she gets right to the point – she wants Eun-jung to travel with her to perform euthanasia as she is dying of cancer. Eun-jung is shocked and taken aback, and tells her on her face that she will not be taking part in this. However, Sang-yeon writes a property over to Eun-jung out of the blue, which opens up several wounds for Eun-jung.

In the past, Eun-jung, now grown up, reconnects with Sang-yeon and she, too, feels jealous of her. As Eun-jung starts a relationship with Sang-hak from the same college, she is reminded of Sang-yeon’s brother, who died during his military enlistment. However, thanks to Sang-hak’s patience and unending charm, Eun-jung gets over her heartbreak at losing her first crush and has a happy college life.

However, when she runs into Sang-yeon again in college, she is shocked to learn that after her brother’s death, everything changed for her friend, whom she once envied.

What’s Sang-yeon’s connection with Sang-hak?

Although it seems at first that Sang-yeon doesn’t know Sang-hak, it eventually comes out that he was her brother’s friend after she went through his old chats. She eventually started conversing with Sang-hak, pretending to be her brother, and formed a connection with him. When she came to share the same college with Kim Sang-hak, she had hoped to date him, but when she realised that he was dating Eun-jung, she was left completely heartbroken and dejected.

Sang-hak eventually learns the connection between Cheon Sang-hak and Sang-yeon, which leaves him absolutely shocked as well, and he immediately confronts Sang-yeon. However, she plays it off as a coincidence, although when Eun-jung learns the truth, she is left heartbroken.

Who is M?

From one of Cheon Sang-hak’s friends, Dylan, Sang-yeon learns that her brother wasn’t romantically involved with her as they initially thought. Sang-hak, her brother, was actually transgender, and Dylan was the only one who knew that and respected that. Sang-hak wrote letters to his own self, hoping to one day come out and live their life freely instead of hiding the truth from everyone.

Why did Sang-yeon and Eun-jung’s friendship fall apart?

Sang-yeon and Kim Sang-hak gradually fall for one another while they try to figure out the truth behind Cheon Sang-hak’s suicide. When Eun-jung realises this, she immediately breaks up with him. The friends eventually stop talking when Sang-yeon, in a fit of rage, decides to pay back all of the money that Eun-jung had spent on her in some way or another and blames her for making her feel inferior. Since Eun-jung did all of those things out of love, she is immediately left insulted and decides to cut things off for good.

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The two meet again at work years later, and although things start out well, albeit awkwardly, they soon spiral out of control once again when Kim Sang-hak joins their work team and Sang-yeon attacks Eun-jung verbally, asking her to stay away from him. When she proposes to him and he turns her down, she begs Eun-jung to stay away from Sang-hak, much to her confusion.

Does Eun-jung go with Sang-yeon end up going to Switzerland together?

Years later, when Sang-yeon arrives at Eun-jung’s doorstep out of the blue, she is left baffled. However, things soon change when she reads her autobiography about their lives and how jealous she was of her growing up – she wanted to be liked just like Eun-jung, but alas, she was never that person. So, she resorted to destroying Eun-jung and, in turn, herself, to alleviate the heartbreak of not being good enough.

Reading her words leaves Eun-jung heartbroken, and she decides to go with Sang-yeon to Switzerland, but, at first, tries to change her mind and fight for herself. When she realises that Sang-yeon will not budge, she decides to go with her and enjoy the time before saying goodbye to her friend.

In the end, Sang-yeon peacefully dies in her sleep, and Eun-jung, heartbroken but at peace, bids goodbye to her.

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