dangermousie | "I am also happy when she smiles, so for the first time I am actually afraid"

OK, I am getting mildly annoyed by College Hottie (while feeling sorry for him) - Dan Ah may not be in love with Kang Suk but she has clearly inidcated she doesn't want you. Stop bugging her.

Love that Hye Joo is standing up more and more for herself and actually expressing herself - though since some of that expressiveness resulted in her telling Kang Suk she hates him because he took Dan Ah away from College Hottie and made him miserable - ouch. That family is effed up.

Love that Dan Ah is actually enjoying herself. I think the bizarro 'fake dating' charade is actually allowing both her and KS to come out of their shells because they can pretend it's all fake (even if KS suggested it in the first place because he was drawn to her without admitting it and needed an excuse). But the lines are getting blurrier and blurrier - he's totally getting jealous that College Hottie knows her better:

When he tease/lashes out that the reason College Hottie liks her because she gave him an opening because she's not hot and she says yes, she did give him an opening - KS' face. Yeah. Or the bit where his parents tell him about an arranged date for him in front of Dan Ah and she is not affected one bit and that pisses him off so badly. He's completely abandoned all logic when he is all "aren't you supposed to be dating me? why aren't you mad?" and she points out they are not trying to fool his parents. And then he wants her to hit him to show she cares (I am beginning to wonder if he's some sort of masochist),

And then there is the karaoke which made me lol and lol, with her horrific singing and his amusement and his trying to teach her how to dance sexily (ahahahahahaha).

Also, everything is blending in my head due to marathonning - he knows her husband died but does he know it was in a car wreck she was in as well? Because he seemed worried but puzzled as to why she freaked out when a car cut in front of them and slammed on the breaks.

I really love watching these two utterly shut-off, damaged people slowly become human. When Dan Ah told the book she keeps the pic of her dead husband in that somehow she can't look at his face today, I cheered. Because it's a tiny but crucial step on the road to letting go. And when Kang Suk acknowledged to himself that he loves to see DA smile and that he's scared because of it - that is huge too - he's actually falling for someone, for the first time ever, making himself emotionally vulnerable but also open.

In other news, I finally warmed up to them: