Like a tall tree on the hill, your memory was a comfortable shade for me when I rested.

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    I love you.

    It’s the only three words they need to tell each other, why is it so hard to utter?

    They both have an inability to express themselves (one is too proud to do so, another is simply hard to express in words), that’s obviously why their relationship is so difficult to maintain.

    And (again) obviously Woong really have a hard time to have that abandon feeling again and again from Yeonsu, that’s probably why he settles as just friends. However, they both have a hard time (again) to maintain just friends, and they feel insecure to go one step ahead to be lovers again.

    These questions is pretty difficult to solve, probably too difficult for the number one student in the class.

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      Spot on, three simple small words that are so so hard to utter by these two especially the number one student.

      While the ‘dating’ scene of NJ and Ung is quite cute to watch (but not dissimilar to other run-of-the-mill romances), it would always be the YS-Ung scenes that tug my heart and give me butterflies. Kim Dal-mi is so great to portray the self-inflicted pains and the confessing of her sins to grandma is a mammoth step – but more is needed to reclaim the day.

      And why, why I have to wait for another 7 days for the next two episodes.

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        It’s okay to be alone from the start, You’ll be used to it. But being alone after being with someone isn’t something I want to experience again.
        –Woong, Ep.9

        I didn’t cry for a drama for quite a long time, but this week I did twice (and watch both scenes numerous times), both because of Kim Dami being Yeonsu collapses for the fear of Woong, first thinking their kiss “is just accident”, and second thinking he will be settled to be “just friend” with her.

        The scene between NJ and Woong is more about the difficulties of facing fame (which Woong need to know more about from NJ) and how to understand oneself (which something they can explore together), but from the onset Woong has decided not to falls in love with her. I think that’s the reason why he in the end even get off the car and reject NJ’s suggestion to come to her home in an awkward and official manner. He is actually very considerate, and has already put NJ in his “just friend” category.

        But it may possibly Woong makes NJ an escape route, if she does confess her real feeling (which she still hold back, but don’t know how long she can). For Yeonsu, NJ has become a real threat. Before she wants Woong to tell her “I love you”, I guess she need to address his childhood fear of being abandoned (which for the time being, Woong still keep that to himself), because Yeonsu for now is his walking nightmare of being abandoned. She may need sometime to figure it out, let alone solving it.

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