Love, Now OST - "Let's Go Running Together" by CosmosPeople
EPISODE 6 - 7 RECAP
Dad, mind sending me the recipe? I LOVE sesame paste soup. Dad is making Yi Ru's favorite dessert in hopes that it'll cheer her up, because she has been out of sorts lately. Dad thinks that it has something to do with that ring she's been looking at all day, the one she wears on her forth finger... what does it mean? But lil' sis is quick to cover up for big sis, by saying that it's just a cheap old ring, the fakes look more genuine that the real thing these days.
THE EAGER AND THE RELUNCTANT
Speaking of fate, I like how the six degrees of separation is quite believable. Yi Ru's at the mall to meet Shi De's aunt (who likes Yi Ru a lot, both professionally and personally), while he was there to make good on the promise to pick up grandma's birthday present (which Aunt offered to take for him because he was busy). Well it looks like he made it after all.
Just when she thought she had escaped safely, she knocks into someone and once again ends up in Shi De's arms. Aww, a classic OTP pose! They are re-enacting the scene when she nearly got hit by a van, only this time without him growling afterwards.
"Let me up," she says, all distant. Oh, my achy breaky heart - he looks like a puppy who has just been abandoned and don't know why. Tell him, Yi Ru, TELL HIM. She's about to spill the beans when a call comes in. ARFGH!! Needless to say, I'm not happy that the show is planning to drag out the cancer scare plot. Now it just looks like she is in cahoots on the cancer. You just dug your own grave, woman.
Look at the pallor of your face. Are you going to the hospital? Was that the doctor calling just now? He's so worried for her; she takes this opportunity and pleads with him to drop the lawsuit on Qi Ming's company. (How low can you go, woman?) He frowns, in recollection, and says he remembers the name. Okay, he says. Let's find time to talk about this. Yi Ru cannot believe her ears - just like that? She hands her name card and quickly makes the getaway.
Looks like it's not only him who's happy, but the whole household (Aunt saw everything). The ladies are giggling in glee that Shi De has found his soulmate. Says the fistpumping grandma: "I've found my great-granddaughter-in-law!"
At home, Yi Ru is still very much emo (is that the shirt she wore for THE SCENE? Ah, good times). Dad's worried for he has never seen her this down before. He thought she's mad at Qi Ming, but the one she's mad at is herself.
"Why don't you just tell him the truth then?" the wise dad says. She says she wanted to, but when she thought about the lawsuit she just... Dad looks at her disapprovingly. She admits that she's wrong for using his pity, but she couldn't bring herself to do it when she thought about Dumbledore grandpa. "I'm despicable, aren't I, dad?"
But dad brings her in for a hug, and says she's being too strict on herself. She'll just have to find a suitable time after all this mess (yeah, something tells me that time's not going to come). This guy she mentioned sounds like a good guy, surely he'll come to understand. Well I'm glad dad has the conviction I don't.
The OTP meet up. His explanation of her whole get-up during the presentation? "You didn't want call in favors, right?" Dude is putting her on a pedestal here. She smiles sheepishly.
In fact, not only is he dropping the lawsuit, he is choosing Feng Hua's proposal above the rest (hey, what happened to No Cronyism?) Yi Ru starts to decline, but they (Aunt is here now) wouldn't take no for an answer.
He then tells her to take leave from work, because he's taking her out. Ooh, on a date? Alas, no squeal-worthy amusement park dates here. He has signed her up for numerous testing at the hospital. As the doctor introduces himself, I'm dying of laughter. Is it bad that I don't feel bad for Yi Ru?
She then declines everything, because she already her own doctor. Uh-huh, already did those tests. So thank you, but no thank you. (Lordy, this is getting worse. If it's a pit hole of lies before, it has now morphed into a black hole of no return.)
THE STAR AND THE STALKER
Hate them or love them, you can't deny that their presence glues you to the screen. Why? Stuck between bewilderment and horror, of course.
Stalker Act of the Day: So Shi De's older sis, Shi Yun has got a date, courtesy of Aunt. Seems like the two hit it off, with Stalker Boy lurking in the background, watching.
Turns out that Perfect Date has a girlfriend, worse still he just stands there while his girlfriend tries to instigate a cat fight, and slaps... Stalker Boy who swooped in to play the knight in shining armor. He tells her that he has never hit a woman before, but she'll be sorry if she continues. "Hey, boy toy!" he tells Not-So-Perfect Date to take his biatch of a girlfriend away. And they really left together in a car, hahah. Talk about a match made in heaven.
"Why the need to choose?" he asks Shi Yun. Just pick him, he's way better than that guy! He's young, faithful and he has a bright future ahead of him. It will be the best choice she has ever made. He leaves her with, "I won't let any other man get close to you!" You'd think this would call for a restraining order, but she smiles at that. I don't get these two.
Before you think me some kind of master body language reader (I'm no The Mentalist), I must say that all these projections are based on something I read about his character description: His long time girlfriend (they were even planning to get married) dumped him because she deemed them to be incompatible after reading Shi Yun's book. What do you think, revenge?
This hunch of mine seems to be confirmed in Episode 7 when a friend of his asks him, "You've started?" To which he nodded with a casual, "Yeah."
Friend: "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Stalker Boy: "Why? Can't I?"
Friend: "I won't be stopping you, but I just want to remind you not to go overboard."
Stalker Boy: "Overboard? She's the one that started all this, not me."Just how will this "love story" turn out? Stay tuned.
THE UGLY TRUTH
Paging Shi De, Ronald Mcdonald wants his shoes back.
That whole conversation was heard by Shi De, who managed to steel himself to intrude the ladies' loo.
Chloe Says
It's sad to see Yi Ru going down this road, for if she had told the truth, he would have agreed to drop the lawsuit anyway, because he's that enamored with her. But I guess that's the burden of being the all-knowing viewer. She underestimated his love, and that's understandable, because she doesn't know the whole story like we do. To her, he's just the kind stranger that helped fulfilled her dying wishes.
Let's just say I'm treating this arc as a necessary evil for now. Although I've never been a fan of such shenanigans, I am anticipating that it will bring a change of dynamics between our one true pair. Up until now, the feelings they have for each other have been fairly one-dimensional - he still thinks her the goddess from his university days, while she thinks he's a kind and gentle soul (the latter which we know, cough, cannot be further from the truth).
That's not to say they're wrong about each other, but it's only one facet to their personality. Which brings up an interesting point, because the norm in twdramas is to have them bickering, hatin' and seeing the flaws first, before the inevitable fall into love. Whereas with this couple, they start off on the perfect footing, so there really isn't anywhere else to go but down. I want him to know that she's not perfect, and her to see what everyone at his company sees: cold city man (which btw, I think is a plus point. His glare is up there on the sex-o-meter).
Therefore I am okay with them not being together and making babies as cute as they are, for now. Let's bring on the ugly, because I want them to fall for the other, warts and all.
