Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong Take Their Fake Engagement Public in ‘Spooky in Love’

Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong are taking their characters’ carefully arranged relationship into the public eye in the next episode of Spooky in Love. New preview material for the tvN series follows Cheon Yeo Ri and Ma Gang Wook as they try to make an unlikely engagement look convincing—only for their rehearsed dates to reveal an increasingly natural closeness.

The drama reimagines the 2011 film Spellbound as an occult romance. Cheon Yeo Ri is a hotel heiress who can see ghosts, while Ma Gang Wook is a prosecutor whose fear of them puts him at odds with the supernatural world around her. Their connection begins as a chaotic partnership, but the latest development gives them a new reason to spend time together in plain sight.

By moving the couple’s agreement beyond a single family conversation, the episode turns the familiar fake-dating setup into a practical problem. Every public interaction can become evidence for or against their story. That pressure gives the romantic premise a sense of consequence while keeping the drama’s ghostly world close at hand.

A pretend engagement becomes a public test

Yeo Ri’s family pressure has pushed the story into its current arrangement. Faced with expectations that she marry Kang Min Hwan, she presents Gang Wook as her fiancé instead. The declaration solves one immediate problem, but it also creates another: the two now need to convince the people around them that their relationship is real.

That challenge takes them beyond private explanations and into shared activities designed to leave a convincing impression. The preview places Yeo Ri and Gang Wook on a rock-climbing date, where their easy rhythm and post-workout conversation make the performance look less like a performance. The setting emphasizes the physical trust required of the pair while giving the series room for a lighter, more playful beat.

The choice of date also highlights an important shift in their dynamic. Rather than simply repeating a cover story, Yeo Ri and Gang Wook are learning each other’s habits in situations that cannot be fully scripted. Their ability to appear relaxed together may help protect the engagement fiction, but it also makes the emotional line between acting and sincerity harder to define.

Playful moments raise the romantic stakes

Later images move the pair to an arcade, where they pose with a stuffed prize and take photos of one another. These small gestures are familiar markers of a couple’s date, but they carry extra weight for characters who are actively trying to manufacture proof of a relationship. The playful setting lets the show balance its supernatural premise with a more grounded romantic-comedy atmosphere.

For Yeo Ri, the arrangement offers a temporary way to push back against the future others are trying to choose for her. For Gang Wook, it means stepping into a role that asks him to be present in a world—and a relationship—he may not be prepared to navigate. Their public outings could therefore become a test of more than whether their story is believable to outsiders.

Spooky in Love has built its central tension around the collision of ghosts, family expectations, and two people with sharply different instincts. The fake engagement gives all three pressures a new focal point. If the couple succeeds too well at appearing affectionate, they may have to confront what their growing comfort actually means.

The next episode airs on August 8 at 9:10 p.m. KST. Viewers will see whether Yeo Ri and Gang Wook can keep their invented romance under control—or whether the dates intended to protect their secret begin to change the relationship itself.