I remember how it was when “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” had girls swooning for Paul Anka. Nowadays, “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” has fangirls feeling giddy over Gu Wei Yi.
I laughed at the way he scooted over to her side. It was smooth like butter.
credit: movielosophy’s tumblr
1. The Man-Flu
This guy is a scientist, a quantum-schwantum physicist. He does experiments in the lab the whole day. And he needs her now to check on his temperature.
Welcome to man-flu!
It’s interesting that he doesn’t mind bringing Situ Mo to the hospital when he panics at the thought of going to the hospital for his own illness. I guess he overrides his phobia because Situ Mo needs the hospital attention.
Gifs credited to kookmni’s tumblr.
He’s a sick burrito. When a guy hides in his blanket like a burrito, it’s best to leave him alone.
2. Jealousy again
Gu WeiYI meets her with a face like thunder when she comes home from buying the ingredient for his porridge.
Mo: Why did you come out? Are you getting better?
She reaches to feel his forehead and he moves away, just like what he did with Yu Yin in the lab in the other episode.
WY: Where is Fu Pei?
Mo: He left. Where is Shan Shan?
WY: She left.
Shan Shan left early because he made it clear that she wasn’t welcome in his house. “You might think that you’re great. But I don’t admire your spirit of self-sacrifice (i.e., your martyrdom). And your self-sacrifice affects me.” He means that Shan Shan is throwing FP and Situ Mo together again to make FP happy. But FP’s happiness meant his unhappiness. He wants Shan Shan to stop interfering.
Mo: Already? I was hoping to talk to her.
WY: About what?
He’s suspicious that they’re going to talk about Fu Pei.
Mo: Nothing. (switching topic) I bought the dried tangerine peel. Let me boil some porridge for you.
WY: No need.
Mo: You should eat something after the medicine.
WY: (standing up to return to his room) Situ Mo.
Mo: What’s wrong?
WY: Please tell me earlier if you’re bringing friends over.
Mo: Okay.
This is the first time that he lays down the law. He’s telling her that unannounced visits from her friends are an intrusion and inconvenience for him; he doesn’t like it. What he does NOT say however is that it’s only Fu Pei that he doesn’t want hanging around.
After that he gives her the silent treatment again. Sigh.
Centuries of sulking later, she makes him porridge and tries to strike a normal adult conversation with him. He resists her overtures and speaks only when spoken to. When he finishes eating, he gets up to rinse his bowl. That’s his way of saying that he doesn’t need her help.
Behind his back, she mimics his terse answers in exasperation, “Good,” “Thank you,” “No need. I’ll call the food delivery.” Then when he leaves the kitchen, she mutters, “Let your Senior take care of you.”
I would have just said, “Fine. Suit yourself.”
Situ Mo betrays herself here. Her jealousy is showing. There was no need to think that he prefers the company of the Senior Yu Yin, just because he’s giving her the brush-off.
But part of me sympathize with Situ Mo. I dislike the silent treatment tactic. In most cases, it’s a sign of manipulation. With Gu WeiYi, however, I think he’s withdrawing because he doesn’t know how to communicate his insecurity and jealousy to her when they’re even a couple yet.
If I were Situ Mo, this is what I would have sat down with him and told him: Gu WeiYi, I don’t understand what’s going on but I know something is upsetting you. When you avoid talking to me and hide in your room, it makes me feel like I’m in your way and I’m bothering you. Do you want me to stay with friends for a while and give you a breather? I’m ready to listen to you when you’re prepared to talk to me about what’s on your mind.
3. Senior’s visit
Of course anytime Yu Yin visits their apartment is a cause for celebration.
NOT!
Situ Mo’s working on her juice ad research when Yu Yin drops by unannounced with the lab microscope.
Ha! What about his rule earlier that he should be forewarned when her friends drop by? Doesn’t it apply both ways?
Situ Mo calls him and he walks past her without saying something. It’s as if she’s a ghost.
The funny thing is she was telling Fu Pei just the other day that Gu WeiYi wasn’t really a scary person. His mom had said that “He’s terrible when he’s mad. Don’t make him angry.” She then told Fu Pei, who overheard the phone conversation, that “There’s nothing to be scared about when Gu Wei Yi gets mad.
And now she’s seeing up-close how angry Gu WeiYi can be. And he’s scary alright.
She offers to clear up the table so GWY and YY can set up the microscope. She asks him excitedly, “What’s that?” Awww. She wants to be part of this, too.
He answers, “A microscope.”
She answers back, “I know. But what is it for?” And he doesn’t respond. Ha! She’s really sweet. When he said that it was a microscope, I would have saluted, “Yes, Captain Obvious!”
But what it really takes the cake is he’s talking energetically with Yu Yin. Getting him to talk to her earlier was like pulling teeth; he barely said three sentences. And now here he’s chatting away nineteen to the dozen about his microscope.
lol I totally commiserate when STM gets in a snit. She bangs the table and hurries to the bathroom. As to be expected, he notices her every move.
I don’t get why he frowned. Does he expect her sit there happily while he and YY pore over the microscope? I’m not sure whether he’s oblivious or devious.
But what takes the cake is when he snubs her.
When Situ Mo returns from the bathroom she finds Yu Yin all alone so she asks where Gu WeiYi is. YY replies that he went to change because they’re eating out. YY then invites her to join them but one glance at unsmiling GWY makes it clear that he’s none too ecstatic about YY’s invitation.
Situ Mo declines despite being hungry and GWY walks out.
GWY must know that she’s hungry but he’s ignoring her because… well because he’s jealous, petty, and angry.
Just like what the mom says.
While in the restaurant, he checks up on her social media. He gets exasperated when she texts, “I just finished a pot of porridge. So happy. hahahaha.”
Part of me thinks he expects her to starve without food at the apartment and he’s merely upset that his plan failed. pwahahaha. But another part of me thinks he’s already regretting his decision not to invite her to eat with them.
Their food arrives and YY observes, “I thought you didn’t like spicy food?” He explains that he’s gotten used to it since STM likes to order it. He checks on STM’s social media again and reads STM’s conversation with her girlfriends.
Fatty has no future
(I think STM said this) No food, no future
I thought GWY was sick
Why did you finish the porridge? Still chatting huh?
Your thesis was rejected.
Quickly come back, we need to talk.
Help with translation please? Who wrote “Quickly come back, we need to talk?” Was it Shan Shan? And whose thesis was rejected?
Edited 5/14/2019: Thanks to kfangurl for the translation!!!
Meng Lu: Fatty has no future
Mo Mo: Can a future be eaten?
Shan Shan: Isn’t GWY the one who’s sick? Why did you eat it all?
Mo Mo (to Shan Shan): !!!
Hu Niu (to Mo Mo): You still have time to chat? Your thesis was rejected!
Shan Shan (to Mo Mo): Hurry back, I’d like to talk with you.
The last line gets him quickly on his feet and he hurries back to the apartment. Now he’s worried that Situ Mo is leaving him.
He meets her outside the apartment.
Mo: You returned so soon? You guys should chat some more.
She doesn’t really mean this. But she’s pretending that she doesn’t care how long he’s out with the Senior. The girl’s got some pride here! She isn’t going to show him that she felt sad when he left her.
WY: Where are you going?
I’m not surprised by his first question. He WAS worried that she was going back to meet her friends.
Mo: To the dumpster.
WY: Oh. (and he helps her with the trash) Tear off the address label. There’s personal info on there.
Mo: (reading the label) This shipment is to the lab in the new campus. Aren’t you working in the old campus?
He avoids her eyes because he doesn’t want to tell her that he’s been working in the NEW campus for quite some time now. It won’t make sense for him to stay in their apartment when his dorm in the new campus is a logical and convenient place for him to stay at.
The Senior calls again and WY answers her. STM rips the address label and bangs the lid on the trashcan. She leaves him without saying a word and he instantly panics and follows her. He’s worried that she’s going to return to the dorm without telling him.
He continues to be on the phone with the Senior while being tied to an invisible leash to Situ Mo. Wherever she goes, he follows.
She stops at the lobby to dispose of the label after tearing it to small bits. WY smiles beside her probably because he sees her obediently following his word.
Ha! If I were him, I wouldn’t be smiling. She could have been ripping that paper to pieces because she imagined it to be his neck. She could have been taking out her jealousy and anger on the paper. hahaha.
After ignoring her the whole day, WY now sticks to her like glue and follows her. His separation anxiety magically cured him of his angry with her for going with FP yesterday to the store.
4. Doraemon mug and Circle
She breaks her precious mug and he rushes out to see if she’s injured. Awww.
WY: What happened?
It would have been better if he had asked, “Are you okay?” After all, his first concern is her. He already made sure she wasn’t hurt.
Mo: I broke the mug.
WY: Let me clean it.
Mo: No need.
Ha! Now he knows how it feels like to be rejected with a “No need.” He’s been brushing her off like that for the past couple of days. Nobody wants to feel superfluous. Everybody likes to feel needed.
Mo: What are you doing?
WY: Checking to see if it’s clean.
No. Actually he’s checking to see that she doesn’t get injured as she’s handling the broken mug but he isn’t going to say that after she rebuffed his offer of help. But then STM flies off the handle. She thinks WY is keeping an eye on her because she’s incompetent.
Mo: I can’t beat your Senior. She can clean very well.
WY: What? (he doesn’t understand how YY entered the conversation)
Mo: I mean… (whoops! She realizes that she sounded jealous)
WY: She does clean the lab perfectly but how did you know that? (he’s saying something factual here.)
Mo: Go away. You’re disturbing me right now.
He’s about to leave when Circle got caught in the broken pieces of mug.
WY: Circle is injured!
Mo: So? Do you want to take my life?
pwahahaha. That’s too dramatic to ask if he wants her head on a plate for damaging a non-sentient object.
Later though she puts a bandage on Circle. I think that’s her way of apologizing. WY sees the Doraemon bandage on Circle, too.
Meanwhile, he’s googling, “A girl suddenly gets mad” and “collector mania for mugs.” While I approve of his internet search, he really should have googled earlier, “A GUY suddenly gets mad” and “best microscopes for beginners.” Just my two cents. 🙂
“Fatty has no future
(I think STM said this) No food, no future
I thought GWY was sick
Why did you finish the porridge? Still chatting huh?
Your thesis was rejected.
Quickly come back, we need to talk.
Help with translation please? Who wrote “Quickly come back, we need to talk?” Was it Shan Shan? And whose thesis was rejected?”
There’s a chat room happening?
MengLu – Fatty has no future
STM replies to MengLu – No food, no future
WangShan replies to STM – I thought GWY was sick? Why did you finish the porridge?
STM to WangShan – ! !!
HuNiu – Still chatting? Your thesis was rejected.
WangShan – Quickly come back, we need to talk.
Some of the names are full names (including surnames so I imagine WangShan (Wang is the surname) would be ShanShan to her friends and potentially MengLu would be LuLu?) Meng is a strange surname – potentially it’s a moniker. Meng literally means ‘Dream’ so it could be Dreamer Lu instead? Or “Appears like a dream”. HuNiu is another weird one. It doesn’t sound like a proper name (too crude), it’s more like a moniker? Literally it means Tiger Lady or Tiger Woman/Girl so probably someone in that group who has a temper, fierce or is a slave driver?
I thought that first few gifs was sweet. He just really wanted to see her and he went and even lent his shoulder just so she could rest. Points for GWY there! 🙂
Hubby won’t ask for his temperature to be taken but he will complain of his sickness and I will have to make sure he takes the right medicine. 🙂 GWY wanted STM to take care of him alright.
I didn’t like that he left her to eat out. I was glad STM posted something that she had the porridge. She cooked him the porridge and he goes with the Senior. I would have said, ENJOY!!! 🤨 But my anger wouldn’t last long because he returned straight away. LOL!
WY: Circle is injured!
Mo: So? Do you want to take my life?
I laughed out loud at this when I watched it. ☝️ 🤣
I thought it was STM’s thesis that was rejected but I’m not sure now. hehehe
Hello! I’ve been occasionally lurking around your blog and enjoying your detailed breakdowns of scenes, after one of my readers pointed me in your direction 🙂 And, since I’m able to volunteer some translating help, here’s the SNS convo as depicted in the screenshot:
Meng Lu: Fatty has no future
Mo Mo: Can a future be eaten?
Shan Shan: Isn’t GWY the one who’s sick? Why did you eat it all?
Mo Mo (to Shan Shan): !!!
Hu Niu (to Mo Mo): You still have time to chat? Your thesis was rejected!
Shan Shan (to Mo Mo): Hurry back, I’d like to talk with you.
Hope that helps! 🙂
Yes, that whole “Circle is INJURED!” “So?? Do you want to take my life?” dialogue is so over-the-top.
But what can he say after that? There’s really no good comeback for him.
My husband tells me when he’s about to come down with something so I make one trip to Costco/Wegmans/Whole Foods and get him all the things he needs. It’s like I’m stocking for a bomb shelter: soup, fruits, tea, lemonade, ginger ale, Orangina… He believes in “drowning” the fever with plenty of liquid. He’s pretty good, too, with taking medicine. He does sleep in a separate bedroom so I don’t catch whatever he has. 🙂
I just finished Abyss Eps 1 and 2. Am making the review right now.
Thank you! This helps a lot.
So…that last line WAS addressed to Momo. I thought that was the only logical explanation why he suddenly left the table and returned to the apartment.
Happy to help! 🙂 I think he left so urgently coz he was afraid she would leave and go back to the dorm, coz her friends were giving her reasons to go back, ie, your thesis got rejected, I want to talk to you – and he just really didn’t want her to leave.
Also, just to maybe add something to the discussion about the dialogue around Circle being injured, what Mo Mo said was more like, “So? Do you want me to make up for it by paying you with my life (ie, a life for a life)?” Which makes the connection between his exclamation, and her response, less random, I think 🙂
That’s true for us too, drowning fever with fluids 😊
Hubby is actually good in drinking fresh veggies mixed with fruits. He blends it and asks me if I want some too but I can never drink it , I’m like no thanks 🙅♀️😂
Speaking of not passing on sickness, my 3 & 4 year old niece bumped their heads at each other and while I was trying to comfort them, one of them coughed directly on my mouth 🤣🤦🏻♀️ Her Dad said sorry, hopefully you won’t get sick as she had a cough at that time. 😂 Lucky I didn’t 😉
Thanks @kfangurl and @packmule3.
GWY being afraid that she would run away does give him the compelling reason to ditch poor senior Yu Yin and run home. I was actually hoping and wanting to interpret his running off to be also due to his feelings of guilt that he’d left Mo Mo at home with his porridge and that she’d had to eat it all herself, while he was out with spicy food that she likes.
I’d have liked to have attributed it to his devotion to her, rather than in his self-seeking desire to keep her with him regardless of how she was fairing in her thesis and how she also wanted to talk to Shan Shan. But I think, you’re right. He ran home to ensure she did not leave. 😒
The other thing that occurred to me when I was watching Mo Mo tearing the consignment note to bits … she was probably imagining it was GWY’s attachment to Senior YY that she was tearing apart.
I agree with you.
What made him rush back to her side? His separation anxiety or his concern for her? For us, true romantics, we prefer that he went back to console her and not just to ensure that she stayed. I think THAT would reflect a healthier perspective on their relationship: being able to put the other person’s needs before one’s own.
However, I think the writer wants the other option. It’s more dramatic that way; it feeds the “Don’t leave me” begging, groveling trope that viewers delight in.
But as long as we can see the flaws, we can refrain from following them in our lives. See? That’s why we analyze things here. I see the comments on YouTube and my eyes glaze over. They’re falling in love with the character Gu WeiYi without reservations, without discernment. Sigh. Do they really want a clingy guy? 🤪😂😈 It’s cute … up to a certain point.
Yes. 😂 She was tearing something more than just the paper here. Could be Senior YY, GWY or both. She was annoyed and she transferred or “displaced” her baser and more aggressive emotions onto the paper.
It could also be that she was following GWY’s instructions to a T. 🙂 She didn’t want to be told off by GWY that she wasn’t doing a job well in comparison to Senior YY.
This would link in with the mug scene when she exploded bec GWY was hovering around. GWY blundered by telling her that he was “checking” to see that she cleaned up the mess properly. Welllll, after he found fault with her earlier with the package disposal, it seemed to her that she could do nothing right. That’s why she exploded. He sounded like he was nit-picking at everything she did. 😂
You’re like my husband! He hates veggie 🥤 juice.
Hey! That’s what aunts are for, right? Germ catcher. But catching germs from your coughing niece is so much better than catching germs when a pet kisses or licks your mouth. Ewww. I love dogs but nope! it grosses me out when dogs lick their owners. 😱
I wonder what the Chinese word for “circle” is. It must sound endearing the way STM and GWY talk to it.
Our irobots have interchangeable names: Spud, Buddy, and Shark. You can tell that I didn’t name them. I would have gone with much more old-fashioned feminine names like Emily, Winifred and Prudence. 🤪
It’s not exactly a role I want to play 😄 But yes I’d rather that than a dog licking or kissing me and giving me germs on top it. 🙅🏻♀️ I don’t like seeing it too. I’ve seen it with my cousin and her dog and really it super gross.
That vacuum robot was their first child wasn’t it? 😄
I prefer the first names than your ones 😄 My boys named their Dad’s pet lizard Spikey because he had it on his body 😄 But we only had him for 6 years. He died already a few years ago.
@packmule3 Circle’s name in Chinese is Yuan Yuan, which literally translates to “round round” – so yes, it’s much cuter in Chinese! 🙂
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Hi Guys,
Can anyone tell me what kind of tea GWY is always drinking. Thanks you
What do you think of us? Tea geeks? 😂
My guess, judging from the appearance of the leaves and how they floated down, is he was drinking the famous expensive yellow tea called “Jun Shan Yin Zhen” or Jun Shan silver needle tea.
https://youtu.be/Pp9YSmgo-QM
The real one is very expensive because it’s produced in small quantities from the Junshan island. But hmmmm… I don’t even know it’s available for purchase because it’s reserved for state use and for diplomats. 😂
But there are “fake” ones which are produced off the island — but around the lake surrounding the island.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junshan_Island
The tea is very very light and has a sweet side. “Elegant” is the word often associated with it. Considering that GWY and his family were into refined things, I thought tea was fitting for the characters. It’s definitely a whole lot refined than that stinky snail soup that the girl liked. 😂
That’s my guess. I really wouldn’t know since I’m basing my assessment just on looks, not taste.
And I’m not a tea geek.
I only read your reply to this now 😂 I was going to say maybe Rice Tea? 😂🤷🏻♀️ I really don’t know.
I love rice tea but I wouldn’t mind tasting that yellow tea though. 😄
😂 we’re giving Jenny options here.
😂 should we make a list of our tea favourites?
Anything but Lipton tea. 😂😈
😂 I haven’t had one in years 😱
Such a quick response you guys, I was expecting may one month or so. Still I kept the page open, just refreshed it now.
I am watching the show again, first watching the tea bugged me. This time I really wanted to know, so I did some search. I thought it might be : En Shi Yu Lu Tea. Not really sure telling it based off on the google images.
Keep posting if any of you know the authentic one 😉