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Head on Shoulder

LOL their different versions of Head on Shoulder. The very first time her head was on his shoulder was when they were not even properly friends yet and she slept on the bus. He kept pushing her head away until he gave up and kept his shoulder clean with a tissue, as he let her sleep on it.

So this scene of getting her to rest on his shoulder was kind of a coming around full circle. Not only was he more than willing and wanted her head there, he pushed her head onto his shoulder and got her to rest.

I like it too that Gu WeiYi didn’t complain that she had to work on a weekend (I’m assuming it was a weekend because GWY didn’t have any lab/school that day). He’s been supportive of her work from Day 1, accompanying her to her interviews, waiting for her outside the building, rearranging his schedule around hers, and waiting for you at home with a warm dinner (hahaha. THAT’s my ultimate fantasy: dinner waiting pour moi, instead of the other way around.)

That man-aegyo (which I deplore!!!) was another one of those things he looked up from the Internet on how to get out of doing something that a girl demands. I cringed and it would have worked on me to not get the guy to do the stuff, because I wouldn’t want to be the recipient of more aegyo!!!

Same here. The man-aegyo was kinda hard for me to watch as well. That’s one of the reasons I find noona romances difficult to watch. I’ll retch every time I see the guy do aegyo.

Like this one.

(rolling my eyes)

However, when I look at the men I find attractive, I realize that they also do “aegyo” but NOT physically but verbally. My husband, for instance, worms his way out of an argument or a household chore with a witty comeback. Wordplay, quips, jokes and teasing accomplish the same thing that an aegyo does.

I understand that the target audience of “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” is many years younger than me. Had Gu WeiYi possessed a little bit more of a deadpan humor, I would have found him irresistible. As he is right now, I find him very literal.

Coat – I felt the same about the coats. Looks like GWY in a turtleneck cannot go wrong with any coat. He just looked great. I wondered why the actor guy looked so drab by comparison LOL. Maybe his shirt was not right for that trench coat.

Before I started watching kdramas, I was unaware that girls fantasized about being wrapped in a guy’s trenchcoat, like this in Reply 1988:

Or engulfed in it like here.

Personally, this would feel weird to me…like I’m being bundled in a potato sack and abducted. lol.

But it isn’t just this trenchcoat that suited GWY.  He looked good in all the jackets he tried with plain white shirts.  🙂

Doraemon – I thought it was a pity they cut the Doraemon scene from the episode. It would have got us wondering if GWY was so insecure or needy that he couldn’t abide her going wild for a person (could have been a guy or girl) in a costume. We’d have concluded that he wanted her attention only on him.

I wondered about this, too.

If we saw the Doraemon scene along with the fitting room scene where GWY turned down all of the pretty outfits STM tried on, except for the conservative sweater and jeans, we might have been left with the impression that GWY is a controlling freak.

Clothes – I’ve seen this before in 2 other shows where the minute the girl becomes ‘his’ girl, the boyfriend is affected by how much skin she exposes. In a Gentleman’s Dignity, the guy said that he wished he could put her into his pocket, and keep her for himself and presumably keep her from other guys’ eyes. The females of course retaliated by dressing provocatively.

Situ Mo wore short skirts to work too. I think those shocked me more than the clothes she tried on for GWY. Most of the time I wondered what the dress code was in her office.

The Ball Pit – I liked how active GWY was in getting himself a child so that they could date in the ball pit.

If real-life couples were required to, at least once, “babysit” a child together and/or bring a child out on their date, I’m sure dating teens would be deterred from getting pregnant.

I like their visuals here.

One thought on this is that I wish there were also more opportunities for Mo Mo to do something for GWY written into the show. I know this show is aimed at young girls who swoon over such good boyfriend treatment, however I’ve found it a little one-sided with him doing a lot more of the work in being a couple.

Of course as females, we have the prerogative to sit back and be wooed, since it is the guy who is interested and we deign to allow him to pay us his attentions, but still…. 😄

Agree with you. I wish we saw more of STM reciprocating GWY’s romantic overtures and doing something as lovey-dovey for him.

Here’s a study that says men are generally more romantic than women.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-encounters/201408/whos-really-more-romantic-men-or-women