Genie, Make A Wish Episodes 9-10 Recap: Are Hunbish And Khalid The Same Person?

The mysteries keep multiplying—with more fantastical beings entering the scene with their own agendas. In the previous episodes of Genie, Make a Wish, more threads started weaving a past unknown to Iblis but which changed the course of history for him. The ownership of the lamp is important for Khalid, yet Shadi seems to be willfully enslaved by him despite not having his own agenda. As the mysteries intensify, more people get lost in the ludicrous maze of wishes. Episode eight ended on a cliffhanger; Iblis thought that Ka-young had made her last wish—to survive. That would be a wish for her own self, rather than being for the greater good, and mean that the lamp would still be around with the genie around it. However, the next couple of episodes change a lot of what we know about wishes and the forgotten memories.

Spoilers Ahead

What Happens in Episode Nine?

Iblis saves Ka-young and storms off to Khalid and his associates for a confrontation after strangling Khalid’s father mid-air. He finds Ejjajel present with the group and tells him that their motive of making Ka-young wish her last wish for herself has failed. It was not Ka-young’s selfish wish for survival that Iblis came for, but he came on his own accord to save her. Her last wish should be selfless and righteous, and as a result, Iblis would descend into hell as part of his deal with the god. It makes Khalid lose the chance of gaining ownership over Iblis and driving the world to chaos and madness by the power of his evil wishes. However, it is still unknown how Hunbish, who was originally the son of Shadi, now has mortal parents and is called Khalid. Iblis travels to Zahara’s garden and starts questioning him about foreign seeds of immortal flowers. Zahara says that he made one mistake of swapping the body of Hunbish with a boy with an immortal body named Khalid, and the flower has not perished ever since. Zahara was punished after that, and nobody else came to his garden anymore. 

Ejjajel visits Pangeom and tells her that she should prepare for her death; just because she has a youthful exterior does not mean that her body is not decaying. He says the next time the plum tree blossoms in her garden, her death is imminent. Meanwhile, Ka-young is visited by Khalid and his associates; Khalid tells her that he wants to die because he is tired of his eternity, but Ka-young can see through his lie and also reveals that the boy is healed almost instantly—slicing his throat would not make him dead.

In the world of wishes, Im-seon is back to being a store worker, which makes her mother-in-law happy. Ka-young asks for the money back from the bank in cash, putting Ms. Gu in a difficult position. The dog, or Daniel Henney, finds his family, who abandoned him, and requests his last wish—he wants to be a dog again so that the family can recognize him. Once he turns into a dog, he is stuck at the same traffic light. It looks tragic how these wishes are often self-destructive. Iblis goes back to Zahara once again and asks him if there had been another foreign flower; Zahara says that there was another, which withered after twenty-eight years, and not eight years as Iblis remembers. This information, coupled with their visions of the past, makes Iblis and Ka-young realize that there is more to their past than they can remember. Ka-young finds Arabic scrolling on the walls of Iblis’ chamber—mostly fragments of memory written to a certain “habibti,” which means “my love.”

At Ka-young’s request, Iblis travels back in time to give past Ka-young the diary of the present Ka-young and stops the murder of the blonde-haired lady by the serial killer. However, isn’t that against the rules? Preventing her death may be the same as bringing someone back from it, and this may alter a few events in the present, as we see in the next episode.

What Happens in Episode Ten?

Ms. Gu gets fired from the bank for losing the bank’s highest-earning client. The influencer couple who got famous by finding the dead woman’s skeleton (who was killed by the serial killer) is not so famous anymore. The wife asks for the remaining two wishes to be split between them, but the husband disagrees. The wife deactivates the account and asks for a divorce; the husband is desperately seeking a wish to reverse all this. Meanwhile, Iblis meets with Ejjajel to understand the writings on the chamber wall; he figures out he had written those with the truth feather and thus has lived the time to have fallen in love with Ka-young. He also begs to know Ka-young’s lifespan so that her wishes may liberate him. Ejjajel warns him about Shadi’s fate, and Iblis says that out of mercy he has not killed Khalid yet.

Pangeom’s prolonged absence has sparked doubt and confusion in her friends’ circle, along with the strange girl’s arrival at her household. Her friends try to text her, but she responds that she is taking a longer trip than Hawaii; however, the death air has shaken her to her core, and she is at home making Korean condiments and leaving instructions for Ka-young to carry them forward. She also has her share of fun time with Min-ji, who sort of figures out who she could be. While Pangeom is living out her last days, Ka-young also decides to make some memories for herself and Iblis. They fly out to Dubai, and Iblis tells her he can now understand why his sword might have been stuck in the Dubai sword monument.

While in Dubai, Ka-young makes her own journey to meet Jinniya and asks her about the past. Jinniya says that Iblis destroyed an entire city for her by raining gold, since that is what Iblis’ wrath looks like; she also reveals the name of Ka-young’s killer in the past—Muttalib. Jinniya confirms that the “habibti” is not her, so it reinforces the fact that the writings on the wall were in fact for Ka-young. Ka-young and Iblis spend a romantic evening eating Rameyon and learning to waltz, but Iblis sees another vision from the past reflected on the water. Pangeom’s friend, who was suspicious of Pangeom not calling on her husband’s death anniversary, visits the household and finds out that it was Pangeom all along. She calls upon the lord and frets while Pangeom tells her she will confess to everything. 

Are Hunbish and Khalid the Same Person?

This bit is a little tricky—they are the same and different at the same time. Khalid was originally Shadi and a human lady’s son; while Khalid was suffering in the community and wondering about the limitations of human life, Shadi decided to change his body to one of an immortal being– who happens to be Hunbish. Hunbish lived on with Khalid’s soul inside of him.  Zahara helped with this transition upon Shadi’s request as a visual of two flowers being magically exchanged is shown; however, as a punishment his entire garden withered, leaving one immortal flower in bloom. This is resonant of Khalid’s desire to be the singular leader in a world that he does not care about whether it withers or blossoms. In the current era, Khalid has the soul of Shadi’s son, and he wants to get hold of the lamp to rule the world. It is still unexplained why Shadi feels tethered to him—is it because of father-son bondage, or is there something darker and deeper that dictates his fate? Khalid tries to get Ka-young to kill him; he wants to manipulate Ka-young into greed for her last wish, which makes him the true evil as compared to Iblis. This is reminding me of how the devil always wears the face of an innocent, while the things we mistake as evil may not be so much. It remains to be seen what Khalid’s plans are and how far they can unfold, since there is also a divine law at work that demands Iblis’ presence in hell. 

Were Ka-young and Iblis lovers in the past?

Ejjajel’s feathers only write the truth, and Ejjajel claims that Iblis stole one of the feathers before he was imprisoned. Ka-young confirms from Jinniya that she is not the “habibti” he writes about—this must mean that the two knew each other in a past life. The memory fragments and the callbacks—when Ka-young wears the traditional Arabian dress—give strong visuals to Iblis. The fragments read that Ka-young was sewing a dress every night to go back to Goryeo from Arabia. Ka-young says she is still fond of sewing, which raises the probability. However, Iblis is now wondering whether it was God who punished him and made the years disappear from his memory. However, they have still been unable to figure out the reason. If Ejjajel’s feathers indeed record absolute truth, then the confession carved into the walls of Iblis’ chamber cannot be dismissed as delusion. It becomes a trace of divine record complicating Iblis’ moral position: he is no longer just a genie bound to serve but a being punished for having loved beyond his station. Shadi’s trespassers have given birth to a Khalid. Does defying divine law bring on something sinister?

By the end of Genie, Make a Wish episode 10, the narrative leaves several crucial threads poised for convergence. Khalid’s true identity as Hunbish’s reincarnated form—now fused with immortality—threatens both divine and human worlds. Shadi’s inexplicable loyalty to Khalid hints at an unresolved curse or spiritual tether that may bind creator and creation in an unending cycle. Pangeom’s impending death and the withering of Zahara’s garden serve as omens that the balance between life and wish is collapsing. The next episodes are expected to resolve these interlocking mysteries through a salvation of memory, reconciliation with desire, and surrendering to, or defying, the divine laws.

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