Well,
definitely not its male leads.
For one
who loves romance it’s almost impossible for me to fall in love with a drama
with unlikable/hateful leads. But how I love this little gem.
This is
one of the dramas where I think shipping wars could occur. Not that I’m hoping
for it to happen because for the first time ever in kdrama history there’s
nothing to fight over.
Let’s talk
about its despicable and annoying male leads, Park Tae Yun (노민우) and
Jo Eun Cha (배수빈) and be prepared to get your blood
pressure raised.
If you
read my previous post you’ll know that I’m rooting for Jo Eun Cha and didn’t
find Park Tae Yun cute at all.
Park Tae
Yun who first seems like a harmless boy just doing whatever he likes by episode
6 shows us that he is actually a time bomb that no women should ever have
misfortune to encounter.
I who
don’t love him in the first 5 episodes totally loath him by the sixth.
I
tolerated his childish actions and accepted them as part of his immaturity.
Telling myself that he’s just a silly boy. A spoiled child who is so used to getting
whatever he wants with his looks and money.
But enough
is enough.
If you’re
a regular on this blog you’ll know how much I hate a sleeping together scene
when it happens between the wrong couple. I only love the kissing and sleeping
together scenes when they happen between the right people (the ones I approve
of).
But I felt
absolutely nothing watching the kissing scenes between Cha Ki Young and Park
Tae Yun. I watched their sex scene with even more detachment. It’s like: okay,
let’s move it. Next.
And there
is no surprise either that the sleeping together scene between Park Tae Yun and
Hyun Myung Ki doesn’t drive me nuts.
It doesn’t
generate the hate reaction that I normally get when watching a cheating scene –
not that it could be called cheating when Cha Ki Young already told him to get
lost (and mind you she really means it) and she thinks that he is already sleeping
with Hyun Myung Ki thanks to that gold digger lie, but it’s because Park Tae
Yun loves Cha Ki Young.
So, from
his perspective, he cheats on her. Intentionally.
No decent
man would do that to the woman he loves. Particularly not when she’s pregnant
with his baby. Even without him sleeping with another woman her life has
already turned into hell.
I watched
that scene with a new understanding of how worthless this guy really is. His
nice package is just that a package that hides a rotten good inside. He is no
longer just a childish useless guy.
His true
colors have been revealed. And they are not pretty.
I feel
sorry for Cha Ki Young. She won’t blame him for all the hardships that she has
to experience for the rest of her life because she’s the one who makes all the hard
choices.
She is the
one who doesn’t want to marry him. She is the one who tells him to get lost.
She’s the one who decides to keep the baby. She’s the one who decides to
protect him knowing how useless and weak he is.
However,
although she doesn’t love him nor she wants him in her life, all his flaws will
hurt her nonetheless. Because like it or not he’s the father of her child.
All his indecency,
irresponsibility and weaknesses will be a glaring reminder of her mistake. Of
her failure in judging his character and for liking him enough to have a
relationship with him.
With his
every despicable action she’ll get a slap in her face. Another stab in the
heart. A bitter pill to swallow. A life time punishment for her mistake.
I don’t
care whether Hyun Myung Ki is really pregnant or not. I hope this time the gold
digger doesn’t lie. She and Park Tae Yun deserve each other. If only these two
could leave Cha Ki Young to live her already miserable life alone. Sigh.
One of the
reasons why Cha Ki Young doesn’t want a marriage is because she doesn’t believe
that the feelings between the marriage couple will last forever. That the husband
won’t cheat.
How right
she is.
It doesn’t
take long for Park Tae Yun to cheat on her. And he’s cheating on her while he’s
still in love with her. Just imagine what he would do when he no longer loves
her. Shudder.
Another
reason why she doesn’t find marriage appealing is because the woman is the one
who has to do all the sacrificing. She’s right again. Park Tae Yun is a perfect
example of that.
Even
knowing how difficult it must be for her to be a single mother, he doesn’t want
to experience any inconveniences that come with being a father. To restore his
life back he told her to get rid of the baby. Or to get married and lives as a
slave for his parents.
And when
she doesn’t want to obey his orders he decides to hurt her by flaunting a new
girlfriend in her face and who knows perhaps if he could have arranged for her
to see him making love to his new girlfriend he would also do that.
Cha Ki
Young is the one who has to suffer all the scorns from other people. She is the
one who has to lost her position and status. She is the one who has to swallow
her tears and stay strong. She is the one who is sacrificing everything to keep
her baby and pride intact.
What right
does Park Tae Yun have to demand her to sacrifice even more for the worthless
him?
He is
weak. He is not admirable. He is not trustworthy. Yet, he expects her to marry
him? Really?
Now, let’s
have a look at the other male lead Jo Eun Cha.
I think
the perfect word to describe him is that he is an ass. But unlike Park Tae Yun
who looks good on the outside but rotten inside, Jo Eun Cha really looks bad.
He is the
kind of a colleague that you wish would disappear the next day you come into
the office. Or you might wish for a day that they would miraculously find
somebody else to torture.
Cha Ki
Young is not the type to be bullied for she is more than capable to slay a
dragon herself but being a pregnant famous anchor without a husband put her at disadvantage.
Society,
offices, and the world are unkind to unmarried but pregnant women. Working places are never a friendly place for
working women, let alone unmarried women who got themselves pregnant.
Things
wouldn’t have been that bad for Cha Ki Young without Jo Eun Cha as her
opponent. An ass he might be but not a stupid one. Too bad he uses his brains to
trample on a pregnant woman.
But, despite
being an ass I don’t find him as repugnant as Park Tae Yun. It’s true that he
treats Cha Ki Young horribly but it’s nothing personal.
I think he
considers her as a worthy opponent. Not a woman. Never that. Not even once.
He tells
her that despite being cleverer than practically everyone else in their station
and being able to predict things ahead of time, he is never able to predict her
moves. That in
itself is a compliment.
It is an
admission that as a person he respects and admires her capability. Unlike Park
Tae Yun he doesn’t hurt her on purpose for him it’s just business. A competition
that he has to win.
And that’s
why I long for a day when he starts to see Cha Ki Young as a woman.
I want him
to fall in love with her and unlike Park Tae Yun who sulks and goes on a
shooting rampage when he is rejected I think Jo Eun Cha will regrets all the
things that he has done to Cha Ki Young, things that make her life hell.
Unlike
Park Tae Yun who finds a woman to sleep with whenever he is upset and
displeased, I think Jo Eun Cha will mend his way once he falls in love with Cha
Ki Young.
Although
he acts childishly Jo Eun Cha isn’t childish.
He perfectly
understands the cost that Cha Ki Young has to pay for keeping her baby. He
would also understand what it would cost him if he wants to win her over once
he falls in love with her.
And unlike
Park Tae Yun who resorts to hurting Cha Ki Young when she says no I think Jo
Eun Cha will treat her as the most precious thing on earth regardless of the
fact whether she accepts him or not.
Marriage
doesn’t have an appeal to a woman who can take care of herself. It completely
lost its attraction to one who already has an adorable child to keep her
company.
The only
thing that would make that woman changes her mind is when she falls head over
heel in love with a man. So much so that she’s willing to give up all her happiness
and risk unhappiness with him.
But for
some women even that is not enough. They need to know that the man they are
going to marry is willing to sacrifice everything for them. They need to know for
sure that to him nothing is more important than her.
Not his
career, not his parents, not his pride. Nothing.
I don’t
know where this drama is going. But, having a greatest marriage for a woman who
doesn’t want one is a tough call. It’s a mission impossible for the men in this
drama to make her want to marry them being what they are.
If I were
Cha Ki Young nothing can make me marry Park Tae Yun, not even the fact that he
is my child’s father.
She is far
too good for him. She deserves a much better man. Someone as good and strong as
she is. Someone who appreciates her and loves her just for her.
This is
why I think Jo Eun Cha has the potential to be that someone. When he isn’t busy
with office intrigues this is how he looks.
I love the
genuine happiness that he feels when he sees the picture of her baby.
ps. It’s a
pure torture having to wait a week just for an episode. But so far the waiting
is worth it.
