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Awwwww… JiHo’s ring has a star on it because he’s the best husband she’s had.
It’s obvious that she likes JiHo more than anybody. She’s usually in her best behavior when she’s with him. You could say that he brings out the best in her.
Unlike when she’s with the Second Male Lead, she acts like a diva.
Let’s enjoy the show.
Thank you, @packmule3.
I have a query about episode 5. Why did Ji-ho expose Sang Eun as his wife to the reporters? I was surprised. It seems to me that it could make all of their lives more difficult. Was it a misstep he blurted out because of jealousy, or does he have a clever little plan?
@fern
That answer is also explained in the episode 4 keep calm post. IIRC, #2 points e and f
She was likely to be spotted by the Paps anyway so he was able to disguise her, stop the gay rumors, help her financially etc…
Annyeong 🌼
@PM3 finally JiHo is following his heart or letting his heart lead him. same diff haha. but ya, truly, she is such a diva with Kang HaeJin *KHJ. i love that side of her though. esp when they had to meet outside coz of the Jamie cat. KHJ keeps saying she’s like the Jamie cat. or is Jamie cat like SangEun, the original cat haha? i like that she’s different with the two husbands. obviously, she’s more connected with JiHo emotionally, coz her heart is there. ahhhh. so funny when SangEun says it’s the cat or me? and JiHo didn’t want to help him catch the cat haha.
did MiHo finally use the bank account SangEun gave her? can’t believe she’s so quick to treat SangEun like the old days, like a kid again. aughghg.
JiHo shows up at her place on a sunday… and confesses? whaaaaaa? 💗
A BOD is back! Hi @packmule and everyone. I miss joining on drama discussions here. I haven’t watched any kdramas (or at least the kdramas featured here recently) for months. Love in Contract brought me back and thank God it is featured and discussed here.
So excited for the upcoming episodes as SE and JH have finally acknowledged their own feelings! Also I’m so happy HJ is beloved here. He’s a great 2ML.
I just love it that the OTP is settled from the get-go, it erases unnecessary anxiety on the love triangle. I don’t know, I just find comfort with this drama. Sometimes cliches are good.
I hope you guys here in BOD are doing well. It’s been months and I have no idea how everybody’s holding up given the recent events and natural calamities and everything that’s happened. All I could do for now is send prayers and wish that all is well.
Can’t wait for Ep 7 and 8!
Hi everyone! Will pop in here and then. I can be quite sparodic with my commenting, because life is busy. But I am really drawn to Love Contract, in a I-gotta-watch-it-right-when-it-comes-out kind. I just finished ep.6 and it is my favourite of all the episodes so far.
Firstly, that now JH is trying to connect to his feelings, he is talking more. Even though he is still stating facts:
“Why didn’t you come to work on Friday? Choi Sang Eun, you’re more professional than that.”
But the fact that he went all the way to her house to find her, followed her trekking up the mountain to ask her to continue to contract. He could have given up, but I guess he is following his heart.
“I need you, Sang Eun.” And even though that you can see that in a emotionaless way and a matter-of-fact way, I’m sure SangEun is a little affected by it. She professionally deals with it but she always goes home and laments to her ‘brother’ about it because it affects her so much.
Secondly,
that scene at the stair well is like a struggle between this two guys. Rolling stone and embedded stone? lol…I’m still trying to figure what deeper meaning that could hold. Plus those motion sensor lights turning on and off is like a pesky mosquito.
Plus why did they pan the camera to SanEun’s waist line when she was going to give them up? Why was JH looking there?
Thirdly,
I loved their shopping trip and their photo taking time. She is really coaching him to like her..in a way isn’t it? This is also a kind of ‘some’ relationship @pm3 mentioned in a post? Offically not in a r/s but then acting in a r/s that becomes holds notes of liking one another. SangEun has all the clauses and rules so that the lines of liking one another will not be crossed. But she crossed it. Did JH break any? I can’t remember but..he is such a stickler for rules.
Lastly,
The kiss. I sense jealousy…
Hahaha. Great perception, @grace! Now, you’re getting why I posted about the “some” relationship, even before I posted anything on “Love in Contract” Eps 5 & 6, and my first impression on “Love is for Suckers.”
I wanted to get some concepts cleared and out of the way and to establish a “yardstick” when it comes to romance. I thought @GB and @OAL did very well to elaborate the ideals that I’m looking for.
Annyeong 🌈 & Happy Friday, BODz
awww i’m loving this show…
so JiHo renames KHJ’s cat to AMY? The cat is so adorable. JH knows his power. even CSE is putty? in his hands? hmmmm Jamie the cat and CSE – so alike. foreshadowing?
CSE is a great host! Daebak. and I love how they went shopping together and she thought that JH is new to this. coz he was tired? such a typical guy? they’re revealing more private info now. hmmm. breaking boundaries. esp with that crazy party. hilarious games. koreans can house party. that kiss * ay yay. @ grace, yes, jealousy on JH’s part when he saw them at the park. and CSE remembered the kiss. wahahah. can’t wait for the next episode. when KHJ got to wrap his arms around CSE and he said “thank you neighbor” haha.
@grace, i also love their photo booth time. i was smiling ear to ear. so cute. even though JH looked awkward most of the time. during the house party, funny how even JH was looking at the pictures and he couldn’t believe he’s been to china as well. cracked me up!
i feel like MiHo is up to something trying to meet with the EEna group chairman. hmmmm i smell trouble for CSE.
is KHJ really in love? funny when he was calling CSE mid-shoot and CSE hanged up on him haha. just like Jamie the cat haha.
@grace to answer your question in the Secondly paragraph. It showed a scratch on her arm which I and likely JH assume is from the cat..so he accepted babysitting duties for her sake.
I enjoyed the stairwell scene and the pettiness. And how SE understood why JH wouldn’t come a step closer..and his smile as he walked to his apartment. I hope there’s a fun friendship that develops between the neighbors. And even though I was grossed out by the glove and didn’t understand why he touched his doorbell camera with the bloody glove instead of taking it off, I did LOL at the humor of 2ML frantically searching for the car after seeing blood and then the cat answering to the new moniker.
When SE was belly dancing with his office worker, I just felt cringe — the funnier part to me was their fake smiles and eye contact whilst taking whiskey shots. I wish she would’ve kissed him to shut him up when he starting yapping about first place.
SE is very self absorbed but still, I feel bad for the roommate who is now jobless and it seems like she isn’t aware.
I don’t want to double post but I think my last comment got sent to spam
Let me check, @birdie007.
Here you go, @birdie007. I’m sorry. I tightened the parameters earlier because I expected a lot of weird spams from my naked torso posts. But your post got blocked, too.
EPISODES 1-6
I’ve watched all 6 episodes. It was only from the 3rd episode onwards that I began to care a bit about our main protagonists. The set up is pretty interesting in that how they get entangled with each other feels quite fresh. I expect that this will be what is termed a light but ‘healing’ show, because both SE and JH continue to suffer from old wounds, and are likely to be each other’s ‘bandaids’.
It’s funny how SE is surrounded by a bunch of husbands, ex-husbands or husbands to be, but has never dated. It’s even more mind boggling because she’s concurrently in a BFF r/p with ‘current’ husband, ‘some’ r/p with soon to be ex-husband, and in a love triangle with future husband. She does not seem to have any female friends.
Now that they are in an additional protracted couple arrangement, JH and SE are finally in a ‘some’ relationship, laughably made complicated because she’s still to be ‘married’ to HJ.
While I deplore the way marriage is bandied about so casually as a commodity that one can just buy or throw away, it does raise the thought about what dating and marriage should be. It’s been an empty life for SE, when marriage (with divorce) is merely unemotional business.
What is strange is that SE is such an expert in portraying a person in a romantic relationship, but that she cannot recognise that she has a crush or more than a crush on JH. It goes to show that she has disconnected the cognitive aspects of being in a relationship from its emotional roots. While for most of us humans, it’s the attraction and falling in love that draws us into relationship, for SE that is a new experience. Her version is closer to the kind of marriage made by a matchmaker, which ultimately pans out well, because the couple (as in the case of SE and JH) complement each other, and fall in love later.
Ultimately, the one relationship that SE does not even admit to wanting to have, is the mother-child relationship. Her best healing can happen if she can obtain the acknowledgement of her worth, outside of being merely good marriage material, by Madam Yoo Mi Ho. It will be nice to see if by the end of the series, she gets to call Mdm Yoo ‘mum’ once again.
Hello, @Growing Beautifully. Yes, this show shows us different concepts behind marriage, particularly the pressure by society to be married at a certain age and what some people do to conform including faking marriage to avoid entanglement with someone undesirable (for whatever reason).
SE’s relationship to Madam Yoo is the most strained, competitive and bull-headed. As an adoptive mother myself, it’s very hard to watch. I’m waiting to see if and how they can patch it up.
Hi @Fern, that’s true. We do get to hear all the reasons/excuses/justifications for why those men hired SE to be their bride/wife. So much pressure. I’m not sure, but I have the impression that Asian society exerts more pressure to get singles married, than other societies.
In patriarchal societies, the senior folks really want the man to get married and have sons quickly so that they know that the family name will continue through their grandson(s) before they die. Every family gathering gets stressful for some singles once they hit their late twenties. The question always is whether they have a boyfriend/girlfriend are getting engaged, etc. Once married, they are asked repeatedly when they’ll have their kids. LOL.
I particularly feel for those forced into unwanted marriages for the family business/political reasons.
Yes, I’d like to see the two women loosen up a bit when together. I’m guessing some big event has to happen to scare them into showing that they care for each other. At least the imprisonment of Mdm Yoo has started the ball rolling so that they are now living under the same roof. 🙂