Would You Marry Me: Episodes 7-8
by DaebakGrits
With the main man’s emotions lastly revealed, the main woman should alter her mindset as she begins relationship her faux husband. Simply as issues begin to go easily, each shared and private secrets and techniques floor, forcing her to rethink her plans for the sweepstakes home.
Episodes 7-8
Upon discovering that Woo-joo has emotions for her, Me-ri is a combination of shock and cautious optimism. Her self-doubt and divorce make her cautious, and her overthinking sends her spiraling into questions of marriage — and whether or not Woo-joo is the thrifty saver she desires or (**eyes his outfit**) the sort to splurge on designer garments. Woo-joo begins assuring her he’s not a spendthrift, solely to appreciate his impulsive confession has flustered them each. It’s so unhealthy that he would fairly stroll away from the dialog and return to Woo-joo #2’s bedside than proceed.
Though he doesn’t present it, I think about Woo-joo immediately regrets his determination as a result of, as everyone knows, Woo-joo #2 is exasperating, however it’s a real measure of Woo-joo’s affection for Me-ri that he volunteers to take over caregiver duties when she’s referred to as away for work. Woo-joo #2 is as unbearable as a affected person as he was a boyfriend, however Woo-joo buys him meals and tunes him out like a mom of 5 at a crowded Chuck E. Cheese whereas he goes on a cocksure rant about how he didn’t cheat. He simply had chilly ft. You recognize, like all males earlier than they’re about to get married — besides Woo–joo can’t sympathize as a result of he’s not a person who identifies as a dishonest scumbag. Finally, Woo-joo #2’s mom and sister present up on the hospital, and Woo-joo makes a discreet however hasty exit.
The day after being subjected to Me-ri’s ex, Woo-joo is on a mission to indicate Me-ri what it’s prefer to date somebody who’s variety and thoughtful. He arrives in his new automobile (PPL), presents to drive her anyplace, and brings flowers symbolizing sincerity. However when he drops her off, he can’t fairly say goodbye. He pouts and suggests Me-ri ought to provide him some ramyeon (or water) to indicate she’s grateful, however both his time within the USA has made him oblivious to the innuendo or he’s acquired one hell of a poker face as a result of his motives seem genuinely harmless.
Woo-joo merely desires to spend extra time with Me-ri — and present her his detailed childhood journals that doc his in depth historical past of saving cash. As an alternative of being attentive to his outdated financial savings stability, although, she latches on to the repeated mentions of somebody named “Miso” in his diary entries. With some embarrassment, he admits that “Miso” is brief for “Thriller Woman,” and Me-ri laughs, utterly oblivious that she’s the woman he wrote about repeatedly in his journals.
After an evening of flirting and a few gentle ingesting, Woo-joo pretends he can’t match with a chosen driver so Me-ri will invite him to remain the evening. As he’d hoped, she extends an invite, however for some inexplicable purpose, he insists on sleeping on the couch regardless of there being multiple visitor room within the too-big-for-one-person house. Possibly Woo-joo assumed he’d be plagued with intrusive ideas all evening if he slept in a mattress or maybe he picked the couch as a result of it was nearer to Me-ri’s room. Both approach, Me-ri muses that his sleeping preferences make them appear to be a pair sleeping aside after an argument. (Yeah, positive, if husbands who’ve been regulated to sleeping on the sofa additionally textual content their wives to verify on them when the thunder and lightning will get significantly frightful exterior.)
Within the morning, Me-ri and Woo-joo resolve to make use of their sleepover to perpetuate their ongoing lie and decide to dine within the communal neighborhood cafeteria, the place they hope Sang-hyun will likely be having breakfast, too. Positive sufficient, he’s ending up his meal once they arrive, however — for as soon as — he doesn’t need to linger and ply them with questions and poke holes of their marriage facade. And that’s as a result of he additionally had an in a single day customer sleeping on his sofa.
You see, what had occurred was, Sang-hyun and Jin-gyeong met for dinner the evening earlier than. The girl from their operating membership that they’d saved earlier with their well timed chest compression was purported to have joined them, however when she bailed on the final minute, Jin-gyeong insisted that Sang-hyun eat and — extra related to future occasions — drink along with her. Jin-gyeong, even with out the help of alcohol, was excessively chatty, and the stoic Sang-hyun was not amused by her commentary — particularly when she confronted him about his uncharacteristic passiveness in terms of issues pertaining to his boss. She’s seen him in motion and is aware of he has sturdy ethical convictions, so why does he forgo them in terms of his work life?
Her query riled Sang-hyun up sufficient for him to name her out — in his quietly direct approach — on her privilege. It’s straightforward for her to speak about morals and ideas when she doesn’t must sacrifice that a part of herself, as he did, so as to survive and grow to be profitable. Appropriately chastised, Jin-gyeong continued ingesting, and by the point dinner ended, she might barely operate. She’d additionally entered the maudlin stage of her drunken journey, and her ideas inevitably turned to Woo-joo.
Bemoaning that her crush doesn’t return her emotions Jin-gyeong asks her unbiased dinner companion if she’s enticing, and Sang-hyun, who isn’t one for phrases of sympathy or skilled at soothing emotional girls’s egos, solutions: “You’re not that unhealthy.” (Pfft! Okay, I formally love him.) Surprisingly, he continues to supply his goal opinion, and involves the conclusion that her crush’s disinterest was probably shaped once they have been youthful and isn’t a mirrored image of the lady she is presently. Mollified, Ji-young drunkenly climbed her approach into Sang-hyun’s backseat, and with no different choices, Sang-hyun resigned himself to his destiny and let her spend the evening on his sofa.
Jin-gyeong wakes up the subsequent morning, appropriately ashamed of her drunken antics and scared of her personal mascara stained face, which she hides from Sang-hyun when he drops off a change of garments for her on his method to work. She freshens up so her stroll of disgrace is rather less shameful, and it’s a great factor, too, as a result of she predictably runs into Woo-joo and Me-ri, who’re returning house after breakfast (and a spontaneous meet-and-greet with fencing star Oh Sang-uk that made Woo-joo adorably jelly).
After uncovering their elaborate rip-off, Jin-gyeong appoints herself Woo-joo’s unsolicited protector and privately urges Me-ri to again off. Sadly, Jin-gyeong’s pettiness doesn’t cease there. She spills every part: that Woo-joo is likely one of the heirs to Myungsoondang, that Woo-joo and Me-ri have a childhood connection, and that Woo-joo is taking part in Me-ri’s rip-off as a result of he feels indebted to her.
Between Jin-gyeong’s drunken antics and her incapacity to maintain her nostril out of different folks’s enterprise, I used to be extraordinarily upset in her character this week, however at the very least she is aware of when she’s crossed a line. Instantly after her dialog with Me-ri, she confesses her actions to Woo-joo, and he hops in his automobile and drives to her hometown with the intention of setting the file straight.
Me-ri returned to her hometown as a result of it’s the anniversary of her father’s dying — to not escape Woo-joo whereas she processes his identification. So when he reveals up, she’s wanting to see him and set the file straight. After confirming that Woo-joo nonetheless has the toy she gave him and that she’s the thriller woman he talked about in his journals, Me-ri assures him that neither she nor her mom blame him for her father’s dying. Likewise, Woo-joo affirms that he genuinely has romantic emotions for her and that he’s not being good out of obligation or gratitude, as Jin-gyeong tried to recommend.
With the air cleared, Me-ri and Woo-joo share a kiss that might have been cinematic excellent have been it not for the automobile PPL, however extra importantly, they observe their kiss by being open about their respective traumas. Woo-joo shares that his grandfather ostracized him and blamed him for his mother and father’ deaths, whereas Me-ri fondly reminisces about her father and divulges that the placement of her and Woo-joo’s kiss was sentimental for her. The somberness of their alternate is ruined, although, when Woo-joo factors out that the “star” Me-ri likes to think about is her father is definitely a satellite tv for pc. (It’s best to have taken that information to your grave, Woo-joo.)
It’s late when Me-ri and Woo-jo return, and Mother is brimming with questions that she largely retains to herself when she escorts Woo-jo to a spare bed room. This time, although, they don’t keep aside throughout their sleepover. Woo-joo summons Me-ri to his room to maintain the cicada hanging out on his wall, and when Mother knocks on the door, they leap into mattress, the place Woo-joo defend’s Me-ri from Mother’s sight along with his physique. When she leaves, Woo-joo can’t appear to let go of Me-ri, and after placing up a half-hearted combat, she stays to canoodle with him and mattress — a reality Mother is effectively conscious of and doesn’t draw back from the subsequent morning over breakfast. And now that their relationship is out within the open, she tells Woo-joo in no unsure phrases that she gained’t enable her daughter to marry right into a household that doesn’t approve of her. After breakfast, Woo-joo joins Me-ri and Mother once they go to Me-ri’s father on the columbarium so he will pay his respects.
Coming house and clearing the air with Woo-joo makes Me-ri notice she should confess and relinquish her declare to the sweepstakes home. At first, she clung to the home as a result of it felt like the one strong factor in her life after her divorce, however now that her life is wanting brighter, she’d fairly be sincere and keep away from a harsher punishment for her deception. It doesn’t assist issues that when she meets Woo-joo’s grandmother — as an prolonged member of the advertising staff, not his girlfriend — the load of her guilt comes crashing down on her when CEO Go explains to her workers how deeply she values honesty. Already feeling unworthy of Woo-joo’s affection, she’s subjected to the advertising staff’s gossip, as they speculate that Woo-joo is in marriage talks with Jin-gyeong.
Fortunately, regardless of the gossip and her long-standing unrequited crush, Jin-gyeong has come to her senses and lies to CEO Go that she’s realized she solely views Woo-joo as a brother. I’m nonetheless a bit affronted by Jin-gyeong’s conduct this week, however at the very least she regrets her determination and is exhibiting progress — not like Woo-joo #2, who gained’t depart Me-ri alone.
After his mother and sister see Woo-joo and Me-ri wanting cozy and purchasing collectively, Woo-joo #2 decides he’ll destroy Woo-joo professionally. Jokes on him, and when he realizes that Woo-joo is the inheritor obvious to Myungsoondang, he practically provides up on her. That’s, till tries to file a declare on the insurance coverage Me-ri purchased for him and discovers they’re nonetheless married. He menacingly arrives at her entrance door, and never for the primary time, I’ve puzzled if his character will take a darkish flip and bodily hurt her.
And whereas we’re on the subject of characters who’re as much as no good, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out our drama’s true villain: Han-gu. It’s been some time since he’s killed somebody, however it feels prefer it’s solely a matter of time earlier than he units his murderous sights on CEO Go and/or her secretary, as each of them have now seen the deceased worker’s information and know that somebody throughout the firm is embezzling cash. Sadly, CEO Go doesn’t appear to suspect her son-in-law and tragically seems to carry him in increased regard than her personal daughter.
This week, I legitimately felt slightly sorry for Mi-yeon. She’s nonetheless exasperating and inconsiderate, however quite a lot of her conduct probably stems from her personal inadequacies and her mother and father ’favoritism of Woo-joo’s father. Though CEO Go denies Mi-yeon’s allegations that their household is sexist and attributes Mi-yeon’s perceived marginalization to her personal shortcomings, like poor grades, I query the reliableness of CEO Go’s reminiscences. I don’t doubt that CEO Go tried to be honest when elevating her youngsters and grandchildren, however given how poorly her husband handled Woo-joo after his mother and father’ deaths, I can simply see him enjoying favorites in a approach that might trigger Mi-yeon to behave out and counter her father’s neglect by changing into self-absorbed. It was fairly heartbreaking that she attributes Eung-soo’s shortcomings as being one thing he inherited from her and, subsequently, her fault.
Eung-soo, like his mom, can be exhibiting a caring aspect. Though it’s not sufficient to make me forgive him for his earlier malicious incompetence on the firm, I’m beginning to surprise if he’s not as dumb as I’d initially suspected. He’s seen that Han-gu neglects Mi-yeon, and out of his love for her, he’s tried to subtly level to Han-gu that he needs to be a greater husband. Maybe given the character of a few of his questions, he’s even suspicious that his father is likely to be having an affair. If not, I’d wager cash that his English research — those that Mi-yeon talked about and the plot appeared to recommend was an vital element — will make him the primary to find both his father’s affair, his embezzlement, or — contemplating how carefully the 2 are associated — each.
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