Fluttering Alert: On Looking Beautiful

Remember this from Episode 6?

YH: The number of women you’ve dates so far is more than five or not?
WH: (glancing at her then drinks the champagne)
YH: Ah, you could just answer that! If you drink that, your wound won’t heal right! (ticked off) Gosh, really. I should have guessed it would be more than five.

Well, now we know he hadn’t dated before.

YJ: What’s this for? (seeing the clothes)
WH: They say girlfriends usually want to get these presents.

See that? He’s relying on second-hand information to know what girlfriends expect from their boyfriends. He has no previous experience to guide him.

WH: (continuing) But you never ask me to buy anything so I wanted to (get her presents).
YJ: (speechless) These are all presents for me? To begin with, I’m not good at asking people to buy me things. What’s more, I can’t ask you because we can’t go arm in arm shopping like others.

Awww…she’s interested in going on a shopping date with him more than she is getting a gift from him. She wants to peruse the stores together, arms linked together, like she typically does. Only when she sees something she likes while window-shopping together, will she ask him to buy it for her. She isn’t a “Material Girl.”

WH: Since you’re always dressed so nicely, I’m not sure you’ll like these.

He’s admitting that his fashion sense may not be up to the mark with her taste, but he tried to get her a selection: a summer frock, an elegant attire, a comfy hoodie and a wetsuit.

YJ: I think I’ll like them though. Should we see?
WH: Go ahead.
YJ: (the summer dress) It’s pretty. I’m going to wear this to a fan meeting. (a party outfit) It’s really my style. This, at the press conference. How’s this for awards ceremony fashion?
WH: Suits you (reaching for the wetsuit). I think the suit should be tight. Is it too big?
YJ: What’s the size?
WH: Size forty-four (Size XS or Size 2)
YJ: (stammering) Forty-four?
WH: I think this is too big. (she laughs nervously.)

lol. This is another give-away that she’s his first girlfriend. He has nobody to compare her size with.

YJ: (struggling inside the car) What the heck? Ugh!
WH: YooJung-ssi, doesn’t it fit?
YJ: No, it fits perfectly. (muttering to herself) I’m grateful that he thinks I’m so thin. But size 44??
WH: You’re so skinny that the clothes might be too big.

Grrr… he’s so stressful. He’s worried that he mistakenly got a big size for her when in truth, she’s wishing that he DID get the big size for her. Really, it’s flattering that he chose the smallest size and it would have been more insulting had he bought her a big size but…,  If I were YJ, I’d be screaming at him to shut up already so I could focus on stuffing myself in that catsuit without ripping a tendon.

YJ: It really suits well so don’t worry. (to herself) I mean, after middle school, I’ve never even looked at size 44. Oh, my. I wonder if I’m going to burst while surfing.

If WH had been a conniving man, I would have suspected him of paying her back for making him jog with her. But no, he really must think of her as skinny as a pole because all she ate was slices of honeydew for breakfast. lol

Anyway, why am I bringing up this issue? What’s my point here?

Remember what she told him before that as a young girl, she hated the fact that men would follow her around and it scared her that they’d obsess over her? Her unnie also described her as a very shy girl who was especially uncomfortable around guys?

Well, she doesn’t need to fear that WH obsesses about her body; he doesn’t even know her size. She may work in the entertainment industry where she’s paid to maintain her physical appearance and to manage her weight, but he’s one of her admirers who doesn’t sexually objectify her.

He once noticed her scar hidden on her back and offered to remove it. But he respected her choice when she shared her reason for keeping it as a remembrance. She doesn’t have to be perfect. She’s wary of men who like her only for her outside beauty.  But now, she’s finally found a guy she can be comfortable with.

She’s comfortable showing him this body in a skintight suit because

no matter how she looks, she’s pretty fine the way she is to him.

 

 

23 Comments On “Fluttering Alert: On Looking Beautiful”

  1. Crinkled nose..

  2. What makes me love the surfing scenes more is that most of it is probably just adlibbed…. or they were given instructions like, “CJM, give her surfing lessons… and YEH, learn”…

    So it was nice to see…. if those were just adlibbed, then I guess her giving him a high five and him clasping his hand to hers was also adlibbed….

  3. 👍 I saw that too. I was going to comment on that next. 😂 The actor CJM was giving her a high five but YEH wanted to hold hands with him in mid-air instead.

  4. Another give away was when WH asked his Hyung how to make a woman jealous 😉 I thought it was sweet of him to buy her not only one piece of clothing but a few.

    Yeah I thought his never had a girlfriend before but now his calling YJ ‘my person’. 😍

    I’ll comment more tomorrow. Another weekend gone! 😊

  5. My Sunday is just beginning here. Good night! 🌙💤 😴

    The dress he bought her had this heart ❤️ in the middle. I don’t think she could wear it to a fan meet now. Can you imagine the knetz’ criticisms?

    1. [+400, -25] Putting up a brave front, eh?

    2. [+350, -70] Cha WooHyun-ssi, give her back her heart!

    3. [+300, -450] How shameless of her to ruin Kanghan girl’s engagement party with this photo-op!

    4. [+275, -15] Fighting, Unnie!

    😂

  6. Woo-Hyun and Yoo-Jung are so pure, it kills me. I am dead.

    YJ’s been in love and had crushes but if WH were in a Japanese drama, he’d be labeled an herbivore or grass-eater. Independent, single since birth, not interested in relationships.

    Random Thoughts:

    □ The private Truth or Dare game was so revealing. In addition to his not answering the question about his dating history, he answered “I don’t know” when Yoo-Jung asked if he the type to directly to the people he likes.

    □ His lack of dating or sexual experience is mitigated by his superb bedside manner. He is unfailingly warm and professional towards his mostly female clientele. He had soothed Yoo-Jung with these words: “Patients are patients. There’s only one person that I view as a woman. You.” (Followed by the double cheek squeeze that melted my heart.)

    □ As already discussed in @packmule3’s posts, Woo-Hyun’s deft handling the ex-boyfriend on the phone suggests experience gained by handling Mom’s lousy husbands and boyfriends. “Yoo-Jung is my person.” *tsutsuloo clutches heart*

    □ He unfailingly opens the car door for Yoo-Jung. Is that a thing in Korea or just in dramaland? He reminds me of my college classmate, T, who grew up in Garland, Texas. First boy gentleman I ever met. Always walked on the street side of the sidewalk. Opened all doors. I wasn’t the only one whose initial reaction was “Is he for real?” We all eventually succumbed to his charms and treasured our friend for his gentle ways.

  7. Woo Hyun is really a cute and considerate boyfriend and I love all his details for Yoo Jung, but when I read: Well, now we know he had not left before. My perverted side came to light and I thought he would be Virgin? .

    Thank you those beautiful moments take away the bad taste in my mouth that let me see episode 10.

  8. LOL! At those knetz comments !!!

    Seriously though, they are really starting to annoy me 🙁 I watch on VIKI now too and I wish they’d just go away if they don’t like the show or what’s happening to it.

    Just shut it if they have nothing good to say. 😒

  9. Hahaha…men and clothes shopping. Reminds me of the time when my friend’s hubby wanted to surprise her with sexy lingerie. He casually saunters into the lady’s wear section (or should I say covertly snuck in 😂)… as he was looking through some samples, he was mortified when a salesgirl sidles up to him and asks brightly, “Can I be of assistance? What size is she?” His mind blanked and he blurted out rather sheepishly, “Err…Small??” Her giggles sent him scurrying away empty handed. 😂

  10. hi there nrllee!

    I think my sons are the abnormal ones then. I was buying their gfs Xmas gifts, I texted them to inquire about their gfs’ exact sizes. And they knew even the bust measurements!

    lol. I shouldn’t be shocked but I am.

    hmmmm…. or maybe they WERE trying to shock me. My sons, like their dad, like to pull my leg.

  11. Attention to detail, you raised them well…#keepers. 🙂

    Personally I pull a Wondeukie on my brood. No raised eyebrows when daughter dear threatened to get a tattoo coz so and so did…Me with a deadpan face…dry and laconic retort, “So mainstream. I thought you wanted to be an individual?”

  12. Oh tattoos. 😂
    My older one would never ever get a tattoo.

    My younger one? I heard a GF was egging him to get one (probably her name??) and I told him bluntly that I don’t agree with tattoos.

    If he wanted self-expression on a certain view of life (like YOLO = You only live once), he could write an OpEd to be published by a reputable newspaper to elucidate me and his dad. Wider viewership, you know.🤓

    If he wanted self-expression of some art, then he’d better learn to do the tattoo himself. Otherwise his body is only the canvas for the self-expression of other artist, the tattoo artist. And I’ve yet to hear of a tattoo artist talked about as the next Picasso in the art world. 😂

    But if he wanted to express his love for his GF, he’d better make sure it’s hidden somewhere where his FUTURE wife wouldn’t see it because he’d have a whole lot of explaining to do every time they go naked. 😈

  13. We speak the same language PM3. Amen to that. 🙏🏻

  14. hahaha. Some people can say that I’m just sour grapes because it’s too late for me to get a tattoo. My skin is about to get wrinkly as prunes any time now because of aging. If I have a tattoo of a happy face, that face can very well change into a sad face in a month’s time — what with sagging skin and all.

  15. Oh I better remember this in case my boy’s would want tattoos one day 😀

    It will be an outright no for me too.

  16. 👍Our generation of parents are holding the line for you. 😈 It won’t be easier for you to stop them if they want to.

    I asked my son2 what his purpose was for getting one. To get a tattoo for self-expression is a weak reason. There are so other methods of self-expression more efficient, lasting, and beautiful to communicate one’s individuality.

    And my son knew that. By coincidence, we were coming home from visiting his uncle who lives in this house designed by some famous architect. The house, too, is a self-expression of the architect’s vision of functionality in harmony with breathable space.

    When compared to the lofty goals and principles showcased in architecture, the tattoo, as a form of self-expression, suddenly looked banal, trite, and gaudy. 😂

    That’s why I told him to put his thoughts down in writing, NOT on his body where he’s limited by his tolerance to pain 😂 but in PRINT like the Wall Street Journal where his dad and I, and a host of other people can read them and be enlightened.

    I think he was getting it for the GF. 😒
    I was annoyed with THAT above anything else, but you know how it is with puppy love…

    That’s why I get the Unnie too in this kdrama. YH only rebels when she’s stopped or hindered.

  17. “I think he was getting it for the GF. 😒
    I was annoyed with THAT above anything else, but you know how it is with puppy love…”

    Ala Edward Scissorhands Johnny Depp for Winona Forever? 😂 We all know how that ended… Yeah tats are a no for me… She may yet rebel and do it just to assert her “independence”. I did tell her that I would much rather she not whilst she’s still living under our roof, she can wait till she moves out. This is the same child who wanted at one time to be a pop star – all the glory but none of the hard work though 🙄 ! Eldest son has had no such grand delusions, thank goodness.

  18. I like that comparison to the house built by an architect and a tattoo on one’s body. It will definitely be harder for me to convince them especially these days but I pray we won’t go there.

    They’ve actually seen one man who ‘erased’ his tattoo all over his arms and it didn’t look nice. 😬

  19. Have you thought about earrings and other body piercing?

    That was another thing I would have said no, too. (see??? I’m am old-fashioned.) One of my nephews, that sneaky rascal tricked my sister-in-law into agreeing to an earring in lieu of a tattoo. He really wanted an earring so he asked for a tattoo first then negotiated down to an earring.

    My boys didn’t think of earrings because they play sports year-round. Football, lacrosse, hockey, basketball, baseball, tennis, swimming…. Name a sport and one of them probably played it at one time or another… (oh wait! except for curling! lol) You couldn’t enter our mudroom without tripping over some sort of stick, bat, ball or cleats.

    Anyway, it was too much of a hassle for them to sport an earring because none of the sports allowed them to have jewelry while playing. A jewelry would have been another thing for them to worry about aside from their jersey and equipment. By the time they finished college and athletics, they were over the earring phase, too.

    So yes, think about your policy on earrings and tattoos before your child comes to you asking for them. 😀

  20. My son was in college when I heard about the tattoo and he could have gotten it because a) he could pay for it with his own money, and b) he was living on his own. I couldn’t argue “Not while you’re under our roof!” … although I could have used a NEW argument for parents nowadays: “Not while on you’re on our family PHONE PLAN!” lol.

    In a two-children family, I think the older child is closest to the “ideals” of the parents while the younger one is more the wishes, dreams, and flights of fancies of the parents. 🙂

  21. “In a two-children family, I think the older child is closest to the “ideals” of the parents while the younger one is more the wishes, dreams, and flights of fancies of the parents. 🙂”

    Yeah. Doesn’t help that she’s left handed (right brain dominant) so her rationale is kinda out there. Don’t get me started on piercings. She had the normal ear ones for earrings then wanted another. I consented to one more but she then went ahead and did the others on the rest of her ear lobe (by her own hand)… I said nothing… didn’t need to. They regularly get infected which she bemoans… so I feel vindicated. 😊. She did ask about a belly button one to which I recounted the story of how one boy had his ripped out accidentally coz it snagged on clothing… thus far no advancement in piercings in other parts of her anatomy… not that I can see anyway. I hope it stays that way. 😑

    @agdr03 Hold on for the ride that is adolescence. It’s terrifying but it can be rewarding. We are all Works In Progress anyway so take heart. I am still learning (at least I hope I am). Ain’t over till fat lady sings…whenever that may be 😂

  22. What?? A DIY ear piercing?? Ouch!!!

    When my niece had her ears pierced, I LOANED her a nice pair of earrings from this very nice jewelry store associated with “Breakfast.” lol. I TEASED her that she could keep them as long as she didn’t get any other piercings. I don’t know if she got a belly button one, but I know she didn’t add any to her ears, nose, lips, tongue, eyebrow….

    Sometimes, it’s like playing chess with these teenagers. You have to think three, four moves ahead. And then hope for the best.

  23. Definitely no to earrings or body piercings too ☹️ I am conservative. My boys are not much into sport (we bike, play badminton, go walking) but for now I know they don’t like tattoos and earrings. But I will prepare myself with the policy on it. Better prepared than not. Thanks. I will hope and pray for the best. 🙏🤞🏻

    @nrllee Thank you. Yes, I’m riding that now, adolescence. I’m getting those little bumps already but like you said it’s a work in progress. Those changes are scary but I just need to make sure that they’re always open to me and their Dad. I’m not sure how I’d handle this stuff if I had a daughter 😬

    That DIY ear piercing literally hurt me 😱

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