I want a hot chaebol to cook me birthday soup in the middle of the night
Honestly, by now, I am about ready for Damo to take a lesson from a Thai lakorn and kidnap Saran until she sees sense. According to lakorns, locking up a pissed-off woman somewhere always seems to work and lurve blossoms. They usually throw in some raping too, but that would probably be going just a tad overboard. :P
Seriously, woman! You still love him, you don't enjoy being a gisaeng (duh!), he is hot and rich and madly besotted, and you are finally beginning to believe that he's serious. So WTF are you still doing in the freaking gisaeng house? I mean, are you enjoying being a martyr or something? I mean, if he knows you are a foundling with no birth family who gets groped by drunks for a living and still wants to marry you, what's with the whole "oooooh, lots of people will suffer if we hook up" routine? You won't suffer. Your creeptastic adopted family certainly won't, and clearly your wannabe hubby will be happy as a lark. Yeah, his parents will most certainly be mad, but putting possible rage fits of two people you've never met over your own happiness and happiness of the other party in the proposed marriage is sort of willfully masochistic. Yes, I know that family and status and respectability are all crucial in the culture/society but come on. *rolls eyes*
Her little "but what if you divorce me later" reasoning to him is also psychotic. As he points out (because by that point he's realized telling her he won't is pointless), if they get divorced, she's going to get enough alimony that she will never have to work for a day in her life. Seriously - what is your deal, woman? Argh.
Grrrrr. Saran. Snap out of it, woman! I am not even getting into the whole "I shall get devirginized by gross old dude so guy I am actually into will dump me" territory. That's taking "dumping him/her for his own good" drama cliche into hitherto unknown territory of insane dysfunction. What next, making a sex tape of the event and sending him a copy? Now, that would be pretty entertaining.
Yeah, he's getting tips from a guy who's getting his OTP drunk. Honestly, by the time they finally end up together, they are going to need to be in couples' counselling forever.
He's making her birthday soup! In the middle of the night! Himself. Awwwwww.
She wakes up to an enormous bunch of roses and yummy soup and fish. (I am pretty entertained by how Damo's notions of gendered behaviors and roles are changing drastically - I mean, he's cooking!)
Contemplating the roses. It's beginning to sink in he really means it.
She tells him she's a foundling who knows zip about her family. Personally, I think that's a minor point compared to the whole gisaeng thing, but in a culture so obsessed with blood-lines and family, this is a huge deal. She's all "of course you won't want to marry me now" and tells him she doesn't resent him any more for the break-up because he's been so sweet to her in the gisaeng house. And basically we also get confirmation it was love at first sight for both of them. Mmmm.
Any kdrama has got to have angsty driving! She also asks him to give her a hug and he declines and tells her if he hugs her in that deserted place, they are not going back to the gisaeng house tonight. RAWRRRRRRR.
They are back and she's all "so, you are packing your bags tomorrow?" and he says yes, and then adds "and you are coming with me, I am not leaving without you." Ahhhhhhhhhhh. And she asks if it's from pity and he looks at her and says "love. It's for love. What else do you have to offer?" Well, yeah, there's that, seeing she's about the most undesirable bride on earth except for not having leprosy.
But she still won't agree because she's insane.
You know, to think that I only checked out Gisaeng because the lead guy looked hot. I mean, I've never seen another one of this writer's dramas or the actors and the story description was something like 'life in modern gisaeng house' which is vague enough to be dull. But so glad I did. It's like all my guilty-pleasure romance novels rolled into one. I am not as emotionally invested into this as I am into CYHMH (which is a superior drama and is going to get its own post) but I do love it so.
Seriously, woman! You still love him, you don't enjoy being a gisaeng (duh!), he is hot and rich and madly besotted, and you are finally beginning to believe that he's serious. So WTF are you still doing in the freaking gisaeng house? I mean, are you enjoying being a martyr or something? I mean, if he knows you are a foundling with no birth family who gets groped by drunks for a living and still wants to marry you, what's with the whole "oooooh, lots of people will suffer if we hook up" routine? You won't suffer. Your creeptastic adopted family certainly won't, and clearly your wannabe hubby will be happy as a lark. Yeah, his parents will most certainly be mad, but putting possible rage fits of two people you've never met over your own happiness and happiness of the other party in the proposed marriage is sort of willfully masochistic. Yes, I know that family and status and respectability are all crucial in the culture/society but come on. *rolls eyes*
Her little "but what if you divorce me later" reasoning to him is also psychotic. As he points out (because by that point he's realized telling her he won't is pointless), if they get divorced, she's going to get enough alimony that she will never have to work for a day in her life. Seriously - what is your deal, woman? Argh.
Grrrrr. Saran. Snap out of it, woman! I am not even getting into the whole "I shall get devirginized by gross old dude so guy I am actually into will dump me" territory. That's taking "dumping him/her for his own good" drama cliche into hitherto unknown territory of insane dysfunction. What next, making a sex tape of the event and sending him a copy? Now, that would be pretty entertaining.
Yeah, he's getting tips from a guy who's getting his OTP drunk. Honestly, by the time they finally end up together, they are going to need to be in couples' counselling forever.
He's making her birthday soup! In the middle of the night! Himself. Awwwwww.
She wakes up to an enormous bunch of roses and yummy soup and fish. (I am pretty entertained by how Damo's notions of gendered behaviors and roles are changing drastically - I mean, he's cooking!)
Contemplating the roses. It's beginning to sink in he really means it.
She tells him she's a foundling who knows zip about her family. Personally, I think that's a minor point compared to the whole gisaeng thing, but in a culture so obsessed with blood-lines and family, this is a huge deal. She's all "of course you won't want to marry me now" and tells him she doesn't resent him any more for the break-up because he's been so sweet to her in the gisaeng house. And basically we also get confirmation it was love at first sight for both of them. Mmmm.
Any kdrama has got to have angsty driving! She also asks him to give her a hug and he declines and tells her if he hugs her in that deserted place, they are not going back to the gisaeng house tonight. RAWRRRRRRR.
They are back and she's all "so, you are packing your bags tomorrow?" and he says yes, and then adds "and you are coming with me, I am not leaving without you." Ahhhhhhhhhhh. And she asks if it's from pity and he looks at her and says "love. It's for love. What else do you have to offer?" Well, yeah, there's that, seeing she's about the most undesirable bride on earth except for not having leprosy.
But she still won't agree because she's insane.
You know, to think that I only checked out Gisaeng because the lead guy looked hot. I mean, I've never seen another one of this writer's dramas or the actors and the story description was something like 'life in modern gisaeng house' which is vague enough to be dull. But so glad I did. It's like all my guilty-pleasure romance novels rolled into one. I am not as emotionally invested into this as I am into CYHMH (which is a superior drama and is going to get its own post) but I do love it so.