Forget You Not – Season 1 Episode 8 Recap, Review & Ending Explained

The Review Geek

23-05-2025

If You Forget, I Will Remember It All For You
Episode 8 of Forget You Not starts this finale with Le-le struggling to find a caregiver for Kuang-chi. Yani is not here, so Le-le needs to take him to the hospital alone. She's barely sleeping, she's handling a lot and she's struggling to keep it all together.
Le-le continues to show up late to work at the Mart too and she's reprimanded by her boss. He's contemplating whether to let her go on given how unreliable she is and he doesn't want to hear about her personal issues either. For now, she's allowed to keep working but Le-le is not doing herself any favours here.
Le-le tries to put on a brave face and although she's not a mother, she has become one to Kuang-chi. This offer to move out to Singapore with Kai is still floating around in her mind but she can't go anywhere right now as she needs to look after her father.
How is Le-le feeling?
Le-le is feeling alone but she's also absolutely exhausted. She's dealing with overwhelming guilt as a result of all this too, which she vents to her father about. She likens her life to trying to hold onto sand, with the grains of her life slipping through her fingers without being able to hold onto anything substantial.
That night, things take a turn for the worst when Kuang-chi is brought into hospital again, this time with pneumonia from choking. Le-le is there with him but it's clear that his condition isn't getting any easier here.
Back home, Le-le shows off the old family photos to her dad and all these memories work well to recontextualize their relationship over the years. It's a nice way of showing Le-le embracing the good and the bad times from the past, but without the unreliable narration that she's been plagued with much of the season.
What happens after Kuang-chi's death?
When Kuang-chi does pass away though, Le-le seems to be handling it well but she's detached and very much coasting her way through the days. She closes the bank accounts, boxes up all his possessions and starts to work her way through the grief.
While sorting through the old gear, Le-le finds a camcorder Kuang-chi has and there's a video there for her. Turns out Kuang-chi has made a whole bunch of recordings as a way of showing she's not fully alone, especially after her mother left.
These videos works really well to help Le-le work through the list of acquaintances and friends that have helped Kuang-chi all this time. Interestingly, this also reconceptualizes her feelings about Kuang-chi and now that he's gone, she realizes how cold and standoffish she's been with him all these years.
From the blunt calls to berating him for not putting her first, Le-le lets her tears fall. Her dad's words strike a chord with her, especially when he does another video and tells her that one day he'll not be there and she'll slowly forget him. It's a sobering examination of how this man feels about his coming death, and something that Le-le also had to handle now too.
How does Forget You Not end?
Funnily enough, this entire ordeal has caused Su-fei to rethink her current campaign at the agency too, while Le-le gets back on stage and does another comedy routine. She mentions Kuang-chi's death but this time, she mixes it in with humour and sentimentality.
Le-le is also humble too, bringing up how she needs the Talk Show and points out how lucky she is to have the crowd hang on her every word. She eventually gets a round Of applause when she decides to keep her dad's wishes of searching for aliens alive.
It's something that I've not mentioned in these recaps but its been a running theme throughout these 8 episodes. Le-le is determined to keep his memory alive and wants to keep talking about Kuang-chi so his memory will never fade.
Le-le decides she's going to continue mining her father as a source of comedy and has now come to realize how much she does love her dad.
The Episode Review
It's hard not to shed a tear at the end as Forget You Not closes things out with a beautifully sentimental conclusion that wraps up our central conflict. Le-le finally comes to realize how much she's needed her father, who has always been this constant figure in her life that she's taken for granted until it's too late.
It's a sobering reminder of how we take our parents for granted and how, one day, they wont be there anymore and it can feel like the whole sky has fallen down on top of us.
The show captures that core essence beautifully and the characterisation has been on-point throughout. The show very much plays out as a slice of life drama rather than an uplifting or overly whimsical piece.
This could be one of the underrated gems this year, and as far as Asian dramas go, this one's definitely a great watch. It's a sobering reminder that our time on this planet is finite and we should take advantage of every second of it.
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