That’s what Yumi intended: a quick errand to drop off the rice cooker to the buyer.
Babi: Yumi, let’s go together, then. I’ll give you a ride.
Yumi: (thinking) No. Let’s not be pathetic in front of him, Yumi. (aloud) No. No. I’ll be right back. It’ll take less than 30 minutes. I’ll be right back.
Sigh. Famous last words, “I’ll be right back.”
She didn’t expect to meet up with Woong and the past.
Sigh…judging from her stunned reaction, this errand is going to be anything but quick. It’ll have a lasting impact on her.
You know my romantic suspicious heart: I wondered if Woong knew she was the seller from the start.
What are the other highlights in this episode for me?
1. The couple moments
I like the couple moments although I have this niggling doubt since Yumi has yet to tell Babi that she loves him.
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2. Yumi’s resignation
Resignation is a big decision, and her failure to include Babi in her decision or to give him a head’s up about it is a red flag. He had to find out from their colleagues.
If the tables were turned, and Babi just decided to leave for a job elsewhere, I doubt I’d look at Babi favorably.
Also, I thought it was rather irresponsible of her to quit her day job without finding an alternative source of income (a part-time job, maybe?) or having a sizable nest egg to dip into.
She needs to learn to play chess and think three moves ahead.
3. Is BaBi a decent guy?
@Growing_Beautifully and I talked in passing about this in the Open Thread. In my opinion, BaBi often does things which can cause misinterpretation.
For instance, giving her the mint candy in Episode 3. I don’t know about you, but when he offered the mint candy to her, I took that as a signal of his intention to kiss her. In that moment, BaBi looked like a smooth operator to me.
Then, giving her just the pajama top in this episode. I don’t get why he handed her the pajama top without the matching bottom. Like, who does that? If I were BaBi and I was in a hurry to hand her nightclothes, I would have handed the top to her AND told her to wait a second while I go looking for the bottom in the dryer (or some excuse).
By the way, @WEnchanteur, of course, Yumi was wearing underpants under the pajama top! Why would she be naked underneath? She was most likely wearing the camisole that she brought her, too. lol.
Last, telling her that he’d take short shower next time. What’s that supposed to mean? I don’t think they’re ready to be bed partners, so what does it matter to her if he takes a short or long shower? And if they’re ready to be sexual partners, why tease her about taking a short shower? Just head straight to bed.
But the problem is, @GB, just when I’m ready to peg him as a player, he does sweet, innocent things like this:
Compared to Woong, I think BaBi is less horny. He’s more sensitive, caring and attentive to her needs. But I do get that he sends mixed signals and appears to be a player whenever he tries too hard to make her like him.
4. Yumi’s decision to become a full-time writer
In my opinion, this was rushed. One scene, they were in the book café, talking about writing. Then, in the next scene, Yumi was back home with her parents, looking for her writing samples back in middle school. Huh?
To me, her decision to become a writer is similar to her decision to date BaBi. She has FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”). She thinks she’s about to miss her chance to become a writer so she ditches everything.
Have to go on an errand now. 🙂
2. Yes, it’s shocking isn’t it? Besides, her job is fun and she gets along with everyone. No reason to leave. She might even ask for part-time work so she has time to write.
3. Underpants??? Oooops. I had a dream. 😂 😜 🤤
I wonder… Is Yumi a decent girl?! 😅
“Smoth operator” mint candy, that is so it!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAmno8icDM
I can understand… He’s met other girls before. Maybe bad memories… a kiss at the end of the day, while the girl has stinky breath. 😖 🤢 🤮
Why he gave the top without the bottom. Maybe he didn’t see that the bottom was missing, certainly. But whatever the reason… more than ever, the plot absolutely requires it!!! How can you pass up something so fun?!!! It’s forbidden!!!!! Any plot hole is allowed. 😎
He says he’s going to take a short shower…. 🙂 … that sounds like a “smoth operator” thing. 🙂
Otherwise, this is a quick explanation for the mini plot-twist and why he says “let’s do it together”. Just to have a minimum of consistency.
4. I also got that “rushed” feeling. I hope this is developed further. I just can’t seem to accept it!
Heh! Somehow I did not get the email notification for this post. Still, fortunately I mosied along to check and saw that something new is up.
Yes @pkml3… Babi (it means pig in Malay, hence I prefer Bobby) is sooooo charming… he rubs me the wrong way. His curve ball and strong bashing to enter Yumi’s heart or cells’ village also bothered me. His niceness may have a twist at the end, the way the ball spins and takes on a different trajectory, than expected. His bashing seems to me, to mean that he’s in too much of a hurry… he knows that Yumi is just out of a relationship but he gives her no time to settle before his ‘attack’.
I was also suspicious of Woong. Is he pretending that he did not know it would be Yumi who’s selling her rice cooker. Was he good at prevarication before? I only recall that he kept too many things from Yumi.
The whole becoming a writer so suddenly and quitting her job seemed really strange. I agree with @WE that she had a nice job, nice colleagues and boss… she was doing well and should have at least tried to keep ties with the company, rather than cutting them off. It was an incomprehensible life-changing move from someone who was taking so long to make smaller decisions before. Her Reason cell must have taken a vacation.
LOL @WE… yes good question. Is Yumi a decent girl? What would a really decent girl have done? Hard to say… she could have come out of the bathroom without changing, to ask for the pants bottom before emerging with only the top. Yumi does so much thinking and vacillating, with fear of creating a ‘wrong’ impression, that she prefers to avoid asking/speaking plainly. She caused that misunderstanding over the hotel with Woong in the last season, in about the same way.
I would like to see that she gets over this lack of confidence or unfounded fears situations, to become someone who dares to say what she hopes and wants without fear of losing a friend or making a ‘bad’ impression. I guess, maybe it comes with more hard knocks and maturity?
@Packmule – agree with so much what you highlight here.
Yes, where is Ba Bi’s equivalent of the Naughtysaurus?
Just a thought – because I was wondering too about all the ambiguous behaviours like the pyjama top and the ‘let’s wash up together’ bit etc etc These bits do throw shade on Ba Bi and overlay his character with playerish vibes.
@WE’s point about the dramatist not wanting to miss an opportunity here – pyjama bottoms etc – made me think of a comment by the writer/director about Season 2. He said in an interview they wanted it to have the feel of ‘Sex in the City’.
A lot of the writing in SitC was about close encounters of the awkward kind… with our heroines trying to navigate sexual etiquette with men they didn’t know that well!
This episode had a lot of that vibe about it from the face mask, to the pyjama bottoms to the misunderstandings.
It may be a weakness in the writing that for us it reflected on Ba Bi’s character.
Perhaps it was meant to be situational comedy with a more modern edge where both protagonists are in a situation where misunderstandings naturally arise with comedy/slightly farcical impact.
After all they had Ba Bi looking shocked when Yumi appeared from the shower in the pyjama top without trousers. He wasn’t depicted as smirking happily to himself when she went back into the shower room with the pyjama bottoms.
@Packmule3, @GB and @WE,
I don’t get this leaving work thing either! For me it’s a pretty lame move for Yumi and doesn’t line up either with her character. Perhaps it worked better in the webtoon as a plot development??
@GB – I found what you said re Yumi and her lack of boundaries really helpful and interesting. New situations throw her into reactive chaos! An introvert in emergency to Babi please or to be awkward re the pyjamas? Naughty of course is reassuring her inner propriety that the pyjama top is long enough. She’s wanting to fit in with Ba Bi here.
And finally … agree re the mint candy… too intentional for my liking and something you might do with someone you know very well indeed not a new date!
Again … SiTC vibes here – ie intentional ‘awkward moments’sexing up of the plot by the writers?
And… the more I reflect the more I think the writers are playing with our perceptions of Ba Bi, amongst other things … throwing us off balance, smoke and mirrors style, to to throw us off the trail of where this story is going.
They know they have an intelligent audience and a lot of the webtoon readers watching this show. So they are cleverly avoiding us being ahead of them.
Respect to the writers! I like the fact that I for one can’t guess where they are taking us. I do have my hopes.
But Babi only kissed Yumi because he noticed she wanted it tho? He gave the mint actually because he wanted to give mints lol
The scene when BaBi asks Yumi if she’d like to wash up is designed to be read two ways: from Yumi’s overheated imagination, and from her reality.
The prelude to this was Yumi laying in bed, unable to sleep, while Naughty shows Flowy books to raise Yumi’s libido and make her hair grow faster. Because she couldn’t sleep, Yumi got out of bed to put skin treatment pads on her face. In quick succession the electricity goes off in Yumi’s apartment (but not in her whole building because the entrance still has electricity), BaBi texts Yumi, Yumi calls BaBi, and BaBi invites Yumi to stay overnight at his apartment because she won’t have heat or hot water as long as power is out at her place. This invitation flusters Yumi. The suggestive music and sound effects @WEnchanteur mentioned in another thread is heard here first, then later in the tie-removal scene. Naughty says, “Ba Bi is always straightforward. I can’t keep up with his pace. This is really bewildering.” Yumi puts up resistance, but Ba Bi is decisive and she acquiesces.
We know Yumi is overwhelmed. She tells us. We see it, too, because she was completely unaware she was parading around with skin treatment pads still stuck to her forehead and cheeks.
Naughty keeps in the front of Yumi’s mind the fact that she’s in BaBi’s apartment. Woong lived with Yumi, so she knows of the intimacy that can come with cohabitation. A bit earlier, Love had said, “You’re an experienced Naughty cell!”
Because Yumi says she didn’t bring night wear, BaBi loans some of his, but only hands her a pajama top. Yumi, not wanting to appear prudish, puts it on and comes out of the bathroom just as BaBi brings her the pajama bottoms. Once he realizes her legs are on display, he gentlemanly turns his head. Yumi goes back into the bathroom to put on the PJ bottoms.
Y: I’m going crazy.
[BaBi knocks on the bathroom door. Yumi opens it.]
Y: Yes? Oh, the pajamas are comfortable.
BB: I’m glad. [Clears throat.] Oh, are you going to wash up? [If I know from watching Kdramas for 2.5 years that washing up can be a precursor to sex, certainly Yumi is also aware.]
Naughty: How could he say a line like that without hesitating? Then we should also act without hesitation!
Y: Oh, y-yes.
[We see BaBi come into the bathroom with Yumi and firmly close the door behind him. Dreamy sound effects start.]
Y: W-why?
BB: I also need to wash up. [Sound effect like electronic cat’s meow.]
Y: Huh?
BB: Should we do it together? [Takes off his outer shirt and sets it on the sink.]
Y: Uh…I…That…That was so sudden. W-wait.
[BaBi leans in on Yumi as she shrinks back over the tub. At the moment BaBi grabs Yumi’s arm, we see he’s only wearing a tee shirt.]
[We hear the cat-like electronic sound again, then background music and sound effects stop. BaBi, still wearing his outer shirt over his tee, leans past Yumi to point out the shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel. Behind him and Yumi, the door to the bathroom is wide open.]
From BaBi closing the bathroom door to his taking hold of her arm was all in Yumi’s imagination.
@Welmaris… that is interesting because it explains the shut bathroom door in the racy scene and the door left open in the calmer version of the scene.
I thought at the time it was a continuity error.
The fact that this was Naughty-inspired imagination wasn’t very clear to the viewer. I know they don’t want to be clunky in the way they signal shifts from the imagination to reality but I watched a couple of times and noticed the door inconsistency rather than the intended shift of framing.
Glad that is clear now.