I have always said that I’m not one who minds age gaps–even large one. Noona romances are my most treasured catnip for pities sake, so that was never my dislike with the Yoon/Meahri romance. My issue with that romance stemmed from the fact that Meahri had no personality outside of “loving” Yoon. In the first ep before she’s ever on screen (she doesn’t show up until the next ep, or even the ep after that. I don’t quite remember) she calls YiSoo and tells her to tell Yoon the next time that she sees him that she (Meahri) has gotten really pretty. Not anything about her as a person—just that she’s attractive now.
Every time we see Meahri after this she’s either a) begging Yoon to love her or b) begging whoever she’s in the scene with to tell her something about Yoon/Pass something on too Yoon. Even if the other character has something bigger going on in their storytline, it will get touched on briefly so that she can go on obsessing over her “oppa”.
She’s told separately by her brother and by Yoon and I think even by YiSoo in her capacity as friend/former teacher that if she really wants to be with Yoon–a 41 year old man with his own law firm, who is settled in his life–she needs to work on herself and bring something more to the table than being pretty and being the daughter of a wealthy family. He’s wealthy enough on his own and if he just wanted “pretty” he could have had that a dozen times over. In spite of this–in spite of being told this by her object of affection himself, she never takes it to heart. Instead she bursts into tears and sobs about how much she loves him and how she literally can’t focus on anything else to do or be anything else because she loves him so much and that maybe she’ll work on herself after they get together but until that happens–she can’t do anything.
Yoon has a scene after the two of them get together were he takes his wedding ring to the memorial site for his wife and he leaves it there. He seems so lost and heartbroken, but he says that he’s determined to follow this path to the end. He apologizes to his dead wife and says that he’s determined to be with that child. Every single character on that drama refers to her, often as a child. Not in a mean or insulting way, but as a fact. She’s 24 by the time drama ends but for all intents, purposes and actions she’s a child. She feels more organic in the long lost son plot than she does as the love interest in her own story.
What does this have to do with the lovely I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day? Actually, not much. But I was looking at the character Hwi. I love her. I love her vivaciousness, her energy. She’s kind and encouraging and loyal and confident and a bit bratty, a lot sassy and an all the way around great character. We see her interact with–I’m blanking on his name (of course I am) but Eun Seob’s friend, YW (I think, I’ll just call him that for this post whether its right or not). And even though he’s a solid decade older than h