To continue where I left off yesterday.

Put Your Head on My Shoulder: Ep 11 Highlights

6. Persistence

Can we just applaud this guy’s persistence? He’s indefatigable! His love confession bombed not once, not twice, but three times that night but he gets back to doing the sweet behind-the-scene things we’ve come to expect of him.

When the electricity comes back on, his first thought is to raise the temperature in Situ Mo’s room so she’s comfortably in her sweet.

I’m trying hard not to compare it with the way Situ Mo flung the comforter on him when he slept on the couch. hahaha.

Gu WeiYi is winning on “tenderness”. He’s reserved and even curt and brusque to other people like his lab colleague, Yu Yin, and his mom. But he saves his gentleness for Situ Mo. This appeals to me because I find it dubious whenever the guy is charming to everyone.  It makes him look like a player. And a narcissist because he wants everybody to love him. Remember Fu Pei?

I rest my case.

Gu WeiYi  notices that snow keeps falling so he goes downstairs to make the snowman Situ Mo wanted to see. In the middle of the night!

But how many of us here thought he should have taken a proof-pic of the snowman when he stored that snowball in the fridge? It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

Like this one:

Confession time! I secretly threw out the snowballs my sons stored in the freezer to make way for ice cream and frozen dinner. But I told them that sublimation happened. (Sublimation = when solid turns to gas without liquefying first)

The following day, his Physics Team is excited to hear how his proposal went. They have vested interest in his success.  But he shakes his head almost imperceptibly, as if to downplay his failure, and he repeats Situ Mo’s answer to Prof Jiang’s poetry. “Winds of Autumn…Yummy crabs” with a resigned expression.

He clearly doesn’t want to talk about it.

If this drama happened in real life, STM’s “yummy crab” answer was the kind of hilarious story Gu WeiYi would be sharing with their grandkids. She thought only of food while he was declaring his love.

7. The Senior Yu Yin

Can we applaud Gu Wei Yi again for his professionalism? He’s made it clear over and over again that he isn’t interested in his Senior Yu Yin romantically. He keeps her at arm’s length and he’s given her zero “feelers.”

He ignores her presence. She enters the lab and the other guys begin talking to her. He says not a word to her and sticks to his job.

He avoids physical contract with her.

He doesn’t want her  concern.

He refuses her medicine.

I’m not surprised anymore that he lies to Situ Mo about not having medicine.

WY: (sighing, he sounds grotty) Hello?
Mo: What’s wrong with your voice?
WY: Fever.
Mo: How come? Did you take medicine? See a doctor? Where are you?
WY: I didn’t see a doctor or take any medicine. At home.
Mo: Do you have medicine at home?
WY: (he looks at the medicine on his bedside table) No.
Mo: (jumping into action right away) Wait a moment. I’ll be right there.
WY: (accepting her help) Okay.

After that, he hides Senior’s medicine. He doesn’t want them.

He isn’t happy to see the Senior knocking on his door to check on his condition. He probably thinks it’s an intrusion on his privacy. He asks her, “How did you get my address?”

When she tells him that the Math guy gave it and adds, “What’s wrong? You don’t want to see me?” his lack of response IS a response. Confirming that he doesn’t want to see her would have been rude and unkind.

Poor girl. Because he had shown her kindness and helped her once with her homework, she thought that she had a chance with him. She doesn’t know that her feelings for him has a snowball’s chance in hell of being reciprocated.

8. Staking her claim

I see what you did there, Situ Mo.

She gives him his medicine and tells him to take it.

He continues working on the mat problem. She hears the Senior telling him to drink water first and saying that she gave him medicine in the morning. “Will it harm you if you take it again?” He says, “I forgot to bring it home.”

He still doesn’t take his medicine so she just stomps in there and tells him to take his meds.

To me, it’s a power move. She’s establishing her relationship with him, and her dominance by showing that he listens when she insists on something. SHE doesn’t have to beg or reason with him. She can boss him around, unlike the Senior.

He really has no choice because she’s already ORDERING him to take it. lol. He sighs but he still takes it. She’s got him whipped.

See her smile her? She knows she made a point here.

But IF she knew that he hid the Senior’s medicine all along in order to get her to come running home to him, she’d realize that SHE was the one who got truly “whipped” there.

Moreover, to me, disclosing that their mothers were classmates is a power move. If I were the Senior, I’d assume that she already has HIS mother’s approval because she’s the daughter of a classmate. His mother approves of their “cohabitaton” so Situ Mo definitely has an advantage over an unknown colleague in the lab.

9. The mystery of the snowman

WY: (nagging) Why did you buy so much juice?
Mo: Testing. Give it to me. You want to take a rest, don’t you?
WY: Where do you want them?
Mo: In the fridge.

lol. It’s too funny that she quickly changes her tune. That would have been my reaction, too, if my husband offered his self. “If you want to help me and do it yourself, I’m not stopping you.”

Then, he stops and side-eyes her. He smiles. He’s plotting and scheming every time he smiles.

He reminds me of Muttley who’s up to no good when he laughs.

WY: Do it yourself. (laying the bags on the table)
Mo: So strange. Open the door for me.
WY: Open it yourself. (resting an arm on the fridge, trying to act nonchalant)

Mo: (she opens the fridge and he slams it shut) What’s wrong?
WY: Put it in the freezer.
Mo: How do I drink it if it’s frozen?
WY: There’s no more space in the fridge. (he begins to smile in anticipation)

Mo: (opening freezer) What’s this? A branch?

The change in his expression is priceless because he knows that his plan failed again. Fourth time unlucky.

WY: I don’t know. I’ll go to bed first.

And he stalks off.

Mo: (muttering) Branches, berries and a leaf. What’s this? I bought these? I can’t remember.

I really like Situ Mo’s puzzled reaction here. She thought it was her fault and absent-mindedness.

But of course this is only drama. In real life though, I wish Gu WeiYi came clean. Like what @growingbeautifully said, sometimes walking away in frustration isn’t the right answer. So what if the snowman melted? Situ Mo would have appreciated the gesture.

He could have adlibbed a lot of things, like  @growingbeautifully suggested, and said, “I melt without you.” Or he could have dumped the freezing water on his head and said, “I took the ice-water bucket…errr…puddle challenge for you.”  Or he could have started singing, “Do you want to build a snowman? The one I made last night melted.”

Or he could have just said the plain truth. “I went outside to make a snowman for you. But it melted. Would you still accept this liquefied snowman as a token of my affection for you? I promise to make you another one the next time it snows.”

In times like this, the heartfelt emotion counts more than anything.

Overall, I like watching this episode because of the many times Gu Wei Yi attempted to propose and failed. For me, what makes a love confession especially meaningful is what he says AFTER the surprise gift. The surprise gift, like the mathematical problems, the poem and the snowman, is only to suppose to get the confession rolling so he has her undivided attention when he actually confesses to her. This best part of the love confession is when he tells her exactly how she’s changed him and how he thinks their life will be changed moving forward. It’s the meaning or the significance of the gift that makes it precious.