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dangermousieOMG, I really do love their interaction post the reveal. Because Sun Joon is his quiet self (but when isn't he?) but you could totally see him shine inside and out at finding the truth. Mmmmm.
Oddly, I don't mind the deviation from the novel in that there is no naked sexing but a little quiet joy and a lot of awkwardness and eye-fucking. I haven't read the novel except for Yogurtu's exerpts so I can't say whether sexing would have been in or out of character for book YH and SJ but even from my limited knowledge, drama YH and SJ seem rather different and, more importantly, impulse sexing would be out of character for them - I can't see drama!YH being forward enough to basically initiate it and I think she would have to do a LOT of pushing (way more than in the book) before drama!SJ would agree to go along with 'dishonoring' her.
Plus, if they don't start sexing like bunnies the moment the secret of her gender comes out, this solves one of my big problems - the same one I have with any period novel where characters engage in premarital sex without any thought for pregnancy. Because, as far as I know, 18th-century Korea did not have either condoms or The Pill. And yet Sun Joon and Yoon Hee, two brilliant individuals who know the theoretical underpinning of birds and bees, blissfully continue to have sex without even thinking once that if they keep doing it Scholar Kim Yoon Shik is going to start get suddenly fat around the middle sooner rather than later.
Still, I want SOME smoochies before the drama is over. Also, it looks like Hong Byuk Seo-related speculation is on track. Wheeeee!
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:57 pm (UTC)OMG I can't wait for subs already...
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Date: 2010-10-18 02:06 pm (UTC)Tears start coming out of Yoonhee's eyes. His thumb touches her lips. Sunjoon's hands slowly run down her neck, past her collarbone, into her clothes, and to her breasts. They are still there. Yoonhee and Sunjoon kiss. Sunjoon's lips follow his hand's path down her body, but he stops when he reaches her breasts.
"What's wrong?"
"Being together before marriage makes us no better than beasts. It's no matter to me, but I can't do that to you."
His breath is warm. Yoonhee pulls his head to her and says,
"If being with you right now makes me a beast, then I'll choose to be a beast. If I don't now, I will die forever regretting that I didn't become one."
How can she ever dream of marrying this man? It's better to just become a beast. Sunjoon is trying hard to hold himself back. Yoonhee breathes into his ear, "A man and woman's lust is the will of the skies("gods" is a more appropriate translation, but Koreans usually interchange "Sky" and "God"), whereas propriety and discretion are the teachings of man. Man can disobey man, but he shouldn't disobey the sky."
Her whisper kills all the reason in him. His lips move once again and they land on her breasts. She leans back to lie down on the rock. She looks up at the sky, and rain droplets fall between tree branches onto her face. The drops aren't cold, not because the rock is warm, but because of Sunjoon's mouth. Yoonhee doesn't close her eyes, because she's afraid that she'll wake up from this dream.
Sunjoon pulls her clothes away and looks at her small, pale waist. He is about to pull down her bottoms but stops. He is scared: what if he pulls them off to find a man's object waiting to taunt and scare him awake?
He looks at her face, and even though he's felt this way before, she looks more womanly than ever. He can't even believe he saw her as a man until now. It doesn't matter anymore. Man or woman, he doesn't care. Having someone that he love so much in front of him, like this, is enough.
He quickly pulls off the rest of her clothes, and puts his face between her legs. There isn't anything. There isn't a trace of the famous Daemul (Daemul means "big thing/big wealth/big object/big treasure"...you can guess what that means, if you don't know already.), nor is there even a Sohmul ("Soh" means small--you can make the connection). Grateful, he kisses where it should have been, and drinks her body.
After a short while, Yoonhee raises her waist. A cold pain penetrates her body. She closes her eyes. It's not a dream, because she doesn't wake up. She takes in the pain because it means that she is taking Sunjoon's body into hers. Amidst the rain, the two share their bodies. Sunjoon's personality is calm and reserved, but his body is not. Sunjoon, unaware of Yoonhee's pain, doesn't stop, and he goes on for a long, long time.
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Date: 2010-10-18 03:31 pm (UTC)Thanks for posting this snippet, I'll look for more at the link you gave. :D
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Date: 2010-10-18 03:34 pm (UTC)I wish I wish I wish this stuff got translated and published :P