Drunken to Love You Episode 10 Recap

This has got to be one of the best episodes of Drunken to Love You. From beginning to end, I was just hollering inside for the continued Song Jie Xiu brand of emotional pressure and breakthrough. This man takes no crap or bullshit from anyone. Not from ex-girlfriend Avril, stab wound guilt trip or not. Not from contract wife Xiao Ru, continued protests of lack of interest on her part or not.

He’s one of the smartest male leads I’ve seen in any drama, reading conversations, actions, and mood so well that it boggles the mind. DTLY throws in funny antics, but the core of the emotional development between the OTP is 100 percent sincere, mature, and thoughtful. It’s brilliantly done, and takes this drama into the last third of its run with so much momentum and excitement that I’m totally thrilled to see what surprises lay in store.

Cup 10 recap:

Jie Xiu tells Xiao Ru to go to bed, he’ll take care of Avril for the rest of the night. Xiao Ru goes back to her room and holds her two wooden wild boar carvings, making them kiss each other. She reminds herself that letting go of things that aren’t meant to be is how she’s survived for so long. She tells her wild boar carvings that its time here isn’t for much longer. She tells them to sleep with her tonight, and she cradles them in her arms.

Jie Xiu tucks Avril in and then gets a text from Tony, who’s not quite sure if he should send the digitally merged baby picture of Xiao Ru and Jie Xiu’s little bundle of joy since it’s quite…..odd. Jie Xiu opens the picture and mutters that Tony’s dead tomorrow. But then he looks some more and smiles, saying that the more he looks at it, the more it looks just very special. He talks to the baby that he’s really excited for the baby to arrive. Then he realizes he’s talking to himself in the way that Xiao Ru pointed out. OMG, Jie Xiu, how do you get even more awesome, I really am just flabbergasted. You wuv your fictional ugly baby with Xiao Ru, that is so sweet!

Xiao Ru wakes up the next morning, walking downstairs to eat some food and fill up the emptiness in her heart. She accidentally spills some orange juice so she quickly gets under the table to wipe it clean before OCD Jie Xiu wakes up. This is when Samantha, Jie Xiu’s mom, walks into the house and announces that “I’m home!” She sees Xiao Ru and mistakens her for the new housemaid.

Before Xiao Ru can clear up the mistaken identity and find out who this woman is, Samantha walks upstairs to see Jie Xiu. Xiao Ru realizes that Samantha is still wearing her shoes in the house. Samantha waltzes into Jie Xiu rooms and asks how her daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild is doing?

Jie Xiu explains that his wife is pregnant like Tony said, but said wife is NOT Avril. Xiao Ru suddenly runs in demanding Samantha take her shoes off. Jie Xiu helps her up, reminding her to be careful since she’s expecting. Samantha thinks Jie Xiu knocked up the household help, and Xiao Ru is stunned to hear that Jie Xiu described her as a pregnant housemaid to his mom. Mwahahaha.

Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru move the conversation outside and Xiao Ru laughs about how her recent actions lead Jie Xiu to mistaken her for being pregnant. She asks why he didn’t just ask her directly? Jie Xiu says people told him not to discuss the pregnancy during the first 3 months. Jie Xiu mutters that he’s changed so much because of her, being so concerned about her pregnancy. Since knowing that she was an orphan, and then how she got dumped by Yi Xian, he finds himself always worried about her now.

Xiao Ru thanks Jie Xiu for accepting this imaginary baby, since she thought he would ask her to abort it since the parents are not in love. But then she gets silent, and Jie Xiu says what she is thinking, that perhaps Jie Xiu is falling in love with her. Jie Xiu says he’s been confused since their resort trip. When Xiao Ru keeps denying that night, he takes out the button and says that he knows Xiao Ru and Avril made some sort of back room deal. He’s not that easy to fool, plus he’s getting snippets of his memory back.

Xiao Ru concedes that the button is hers and she lost it before she left. Samantha keeps eavesdropping on their conversation, muttering that it’s so boring they can talk about a button for so long. Jie Xiu asks Xiao Ru how she knew he got drunk if she claimed to have left the room before he returned? He demands she tell him the truth right now. Yes, push her to tell the truth, Jie Xiu!

Sadly, we see that Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru didn’t consummate their relationship that night. She actually came to her senses and pushed him off. Then Avril called and it was Xiao Ru who asked Avril to come to the room. Xiao Ru tells Jie Xiu not to keep looking for the truth. They simply have a contract marriage and that is it. Jie Xiu tells her that he got up his courage to tell her how he feels, why is she so scared right now?

Xiao Ru turns it around and asks him why it’s considered being scared if she refuses to steal away something from another person. Xiao Ru just wants to continue the contract for the remaining time left, and she doesn’t think they have a past, present, or future together beyond that. Xiao Ru hates someone taking something from her, so she would never do it to someone else. Jie Xiu asks her why that is important? She will live her life refusing to fight for what she wants? Xiao Ru says that is how she’s always lived.

Samantha wonders how Jie Xiu got involved with such a realistic girl. Avril comes down and Samantha asks Avril what play they are putting on? Avril apologizes, saying that she asked Jie Xiu to do this. Samantha tells Avril that she’s so stupid to do this, and now Jie Xiu is falling for Xiao Ru. Is it fun for Avril to drop a rock on her own foot? Samantha doesn’t want Jie Xiu to keep falling deeper for Xiao Ru.

Xiao Ru walks to work but remains deep in thought. She thinks back to her childhood when she was adopted into a family. Her adoptive sister was upset that Xiao Ru put on her dress and in the ensuing tussle the other girl fell and hurt her arm. Xiao Ru was blamed for the incident and the family asked her to leave. Okay, those are some shitty human beings right there. Little Xiao Ru cries and reminds herself not to covet something that doesn’t belong to her. Then nothing bad would ever happen. Adult Xiao Ru reminds herself that Jie Xiu is not hers.

Rickie goes to the hospital and finds the bed empty. Everyone is worried about where Avril went, but Rickie immediately heads to Jie Xiu’s place to find her.

Samantha is meeting with people at the Farglory Hotel. She asks Meng Jun to bring Xiao Ru out, she needs to talk with her. Xiao Ru comes out and thanks Meng Jun for giving her little croissants (which we know came from Daniel). Xiao Ru walks over and Samantha asks for her input in terms of planning a travel holiday. Xiao Ru sits down and the guy next to her scoots closer and puts his arm around her.

Samantha says Jie Xiu is not going on the trip. Xiao Ru asks Samantha why she’s not spending time with Jie Xiu, since she’s been away for three years now. Xiao Ru says that Jie Xiu really cares about Samantha, but he’s always waiting for her and she’s never there for him. She explains how Jie Xiu pretends he doesn’t care, but it’s because he doesn’t think whatever he does will get Samantha to care about him. Xiao Ru cries and asks Samantha why Jie Xiu is so lonely even though he has a mother. Samantha thinks she’s given Jie Xiu a life that lacks for nothing, but Xiao Ru cries that Jie Xiu wants things that Samantha doesn’t seem to see.

The two ladies face off until the two models stand up and try and diffuse the situation. Xiao Ru pushes the guy off her when Kelly shows up demanding that Xiao Ru apologize to the guests. Kelly sits down and totally starts hitting on the two guys. Samantha calls an end to this project and takes off.

Rickie and Jie Xiu are having a stand-off of their own at his house. Rickie says he’s just here for Avril, and has nothing to discuss with Jie Xiu. Jie Xiu says he has something to say, and thanks Rickie for getting Avril out of the mess at the press conference. He knows Rickie cares about Avril. Rickie says that as a man, Jie Xiu must know that another man doesn’t just care about a girl without an ulterior motive.

Rickie asks Jie Xiu what is going on with Avril? Jie Xiu says he still has feelings for Avril, but it’s definitely not love. Rickie asks if he can pursue Avril, and Jie Xiu says that it’s up to Avril whether she wants to accept Rickie or not. He tells Rickie that it would be great if he can heal Avril’s past pain, but doesn’t explain what it is.

Tony calls Jie Xiu to remind him that a very prestigious interview has been lined up. Rickie tells Jie Xiu that he can leave for the interview, Rickie and the doctor will stay with Avril. Jie Xiu calls Xiao Ru out to attend the interview with him. Jie Xiu reminds Xiao Ru that based on the contract, she has a duty to attend couple events. He gives her half an hour to show up. Xiao Ru shows up a little late and Jie Xiu is already fuming.

He pushes Xiao Ru aside to give her clothes that he’s prepared for her. She thanks him, and he says he’s just doing his contract requirement that she’s not allowed to do anything to hurt his reputation. So if she’s poorly dressed for an interview that is bad for him. Xiao Ru asks him to stop mentioned the contract all the time, and he snarks that she’s the one who insisted on following the contract. Xiao Ru changes into a lovely outfit that leaves our Jie Xiu mouth open staring at her. Hee. He mutters that she looks decent finally.

During the interview, Jie Xiu is asked about what his philosophy about family is? He says it’s love and companionship, protecting the person you love. When asked what she thinks, Xiao Ru says that following the contract is the most important. She laughs that the contract is the oath before God about love, obey, til death do us part.

The interview goes well and ends with a photospread that requires Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru to act lovely dovey. Finally the last shot is of the two of them laying on a bed and they are told to look deeping into each other’s eyes. It’s so wonderful, the moment they stop kidding around and fighting, and just looking into each other’s eyes.

The doctor tells Avril to rest and she’s told that Rickie has arranged it so that she’ll be staying at Jie Xiu’s house for the remaining of her recovery period. Avril sincerely thanks Rickie, and he smiles and says it’s nothing. Avril notices that Rickie’s arm is odd and he confesses that he was also cut yesterday by the assailant. Avril worries about him and tends to his wound, which leads to Rickie joking that she appears to be very concerned about him. Rickie says that a wound needs to be exposed so it can heal. He will be like a doctor always waiting for her to heal her wounds.

Xiao Ru and Jie Xiu walk outside after the interview. Xiao Ru’s bag drops and one of her wild boar wood carvings falls out. She runs to pick it up, not noticing the car backing up right into her. Jie Xiu sees it and grabs her out of the way, yelling at why she’s so careless. She shouts that her wild boar almost got smushed, she was just saving it. Jie Xiu stops his yelling and asks Xiao Ru why she’s so protective of the wild boar carving if she claimed that she has no feelings for him?

Jie Xiu tells Xiao Ru that she has no more excuses. It doesn’t matter if nothing did happen between them that night at the resort. He has his own feelings, he’s not an idiot. He’ll find the truth by himself. He holds up the wild boar, saying that the wild boar wasn’t hers to begin with initially as well. Yet here she is protecting it with her life. He doesn’t want to play any coy games with her anymore. Right now, Jie Xiu just wants to be like this wild boar. OMG, Jie Xiu, your speeches just take awesome to new heights each and everytime.

Kelly is at the hotel spying on male employees through a CCTV feed of the locker room. Xiao Ru arrives and Meng Jun asks what happened earlier with that lady and those two model guys. They discuss whether Samantha knows the truth about the fake contract marriage, which Kelly overhears. Xiao Ru would rather Samantha found out and kicked her out of the house right now. Xiao Ru wants to end her ill-fated connection with the entire Song family.

The paparazzi Jack is dressed as a dog mascot to entertain kids. He gets yelled at for doing a poor job, and we find out he lost his job after the last Avril reporting fiasco. Kelly calls him and wants to give him a huge scandal. Jack goes to his editor and claims that he has the proof about Song Jie Xiu’s fake contract marriage. The editor tells Jack to use his brains to find out why Lin Xiao Ru would enter into a contract marriage. He tells Jack to get him a copy of the marriage contract before coming back here.

Samantha and Avril are discussing how to get rid of Xiao Ru, with Avril claiming that she loves Jie Xiu and she needs Samantha’s help. Suddenly Samantha gets a text from the temple that Xiao Ru visited in the last episode (it’s called the “Big Booby Temple” har har har). It asks Samantha to come and make a wish on love that will come true. Samantha calls the number back and asks the temple lady what they need to do to find love. The temple lady says that she needs a drop of blood from the target in question.

Jie Xiu is hitting a punching bag in his room and wondering why Xiao Ru keeps denying that she has feelings for him, when its clear that she does. He wonders if his confession about his own feeling wasn’t straightforward enough, or is it his tone of voice is too mean? Jie Xiu tells himself to just go ask Xiao Ru instead of staying here and talking to himself. Samantha claims fear of blood and tells Avril to get the blood herself.

Xiao Ru is being told that she needs to get a drop of Jie Xiu’s blood for the ritual that the temple will do to end her messy entanglement with Jie Xiu. Meng Jun thinks Xiao Ru is balking about getting the blood because she’s reluctant to end the fake marriage with Jie Xiu. Xiao Ru keeps insisting that it will all end in 3 months no matter what. Xiao Ru tells herself to think of this ritual as ending all her wrong thoughts about Jie Xiu.

Jie Xiu calls Xiao Ru and both of them mention they have something to say to each other. Jie Xiu hangs up the phone and goes into take a shower. Avril sneaks into his room. She sets up a romantic scene with candles, wine, and herself wearing only a white men’s dress shirt. She lays down on his bed and waits for him. Jie Xiu walks out of the bathroom and asks her what the heck she’s doing right now?

Avril does her sexy routine but Jie Xiu tells her to go back to her room immediately and stop messing around. Avril says no and gets up, telling Jie Xiu that he’s clearly interested. Jie Xiu suddenly gets a nosebleed and Avril pulls him down on the bed. We then see that this is Avril’s fantasy, and she thinks it’ll be a piece of cake to get Jie Xiu’s blood via her sexy routine.

Xiao Ru arrives at home and wonders how to get Jie Xiu’s blood. He grand plan is to pretend her arm hurts and then knock Jie Xiu out with a left hook.

Avril gets ready to so her sex goddess routine but her wound hurts so much she decides to get under the covers and wait for Jie Xiu. Xiao Ru opens the door to Jie Xiu’s room and wonders why he’s already asleep since he asked to speak with her tonight. She decides to heck with it and get the blood. She gets on top of Avril, and the two ladies punch each other in the face. Jie Xiu walks out of the bathroom and asks why the two of them are here?

Xiao Ru and Avril both have a bloody nose and they laugh at each other. Avril claimed she heard wild boar snorting noses from his room so came in to check. Xiao Ru claims she heard a giant rat making noise in his room so she came to kill a rat. HAHAHAHA. Jie Xiu has a cut on his cheek from shaving, and both girls lunge towards him when they see he’s bleeding. Jie Xiu screams and then pushes the both of them out. But they’ve both gotten a bit of his blood on their hands.

Avril goes back to Jie Xiu’s room and asks to go inside because she has something for him. Jie Xiu asks her to rest and closes the door on her. Avril has no choice but to knock on Xiao Ru’s door. She hands him ointment for Jie Xiu’s face, telling Xiao Ru that he won’t accept anything from Avril right now. She begs Xiao Ru to help her. Xiao Ru asks Avril why she made Jie Xiu hurt so much in the beginning if she’s so worried about him hurting right now. Avril says the person doing the hurting can hurt as well, but has no right to act hurt.

Xiao Ru wonders if she didn’t exist between them, could Avril and Jie Xiu heal each other’s hurt? Jie Xiu opens the door and lets Xiao Ru in, reminding her they need to talk. Xiao Ru puts the ointment on Jie Xiu because he’s not doing a thorough job. Xiao Ru puts her head close to Jie Xiu to apply the ointment, and he says that her hair smells nice. Xiao Ru tries to leave but he pulls her down asking they discuss the issue directly.

Jie Xiu asks Xiao Ru if she likes him? Xiao Ru doesn’t answer at first, then she laughs and says that she’s discussed this with him before. Jie Xiu says he doesn’t want any lame excuses, he just wants an honest and straightforward answer from her. Does she like him – yes or no? Xiao Ru thinks about how sad Avril was earlier and says no to Jie Xiu. She gets up to leave and he pulls her down on the bed, telling her that he doesn’t believe this is her real answer.

Xiao Ru says they have a contract and Jie Xiu says that he’ll pay her money right now to kiss him. She pushes him off and tells him that she can’t be bought. Jie Xiu says that if she had agreed to his offer, then it means they are just a contract relationship. Then he would give up on her. But now he knows how she really feels. He tells her that she can keep avoiding him and pushing him away. But she has no right to force him to change him mind. Jie Xiu says “I have decided to fall in love with you…….and to make you fall in love with me.”

OMO, who literally melted into a puddle of goo right now. That would be me and the entire female population watching this drama.

Thoughts of Mine:

What is the foundation of a marriage? It’s love, but what is love premised on? Not sexual attraction and not the meeting of the minds. Both are critical for developing interest, but love is predicated on caring. You start caring about another person, and that care coupled with attraction and mutual interest blossoms into love. Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru was a contract marriage that almost immediately made them care about each other. Because it’s two broken people finding each other at their lowest point in their emotional lives.

Jie Xiu’s girlfriend just guilt-tripped him into a contract marriage. Xiao Ru’s boyfriend just knocked up another girl and cruelly dumped her in a water fountain. Jie Xiu saw Xiao Ru’s pain, Xiao Ru saw Jie Xiu’s shame. From the very beginning these two people had no pretenses with each other. One was an OCD with a very sharp tongue, the other a wild boar with a very healthy appetite. It was like the fates took pity on them and at their lowest moment sent them a savior. Jie Xiu recognized this very early on (smart boy) and is trying his damndest in this episode to force Xiao Ru to acknowledge it as well.

I lovelovelove how he just keeps pushing her, he doesn’t listen to words that say no, he looks at actions and her eyes that say yes. God is this man wonderful or what? I get Xiao Ru’s childhood trauma about coveting something that doesn’t belong to her, and I allow that she’ll need more help to overcome this emotional barrier. What’s amazing is that Jie Xiu sees it, he doesn’t take her denials and rejections and then go stew because he had his romantic confession rejected and his pursuit denied, he just keeps soldiering on. OMG, how refreshing is this to see?

Avril really doesn’t annoy me anymore, especially knowing that Xiao Ru told Avril to come to the room that night. So Xiao Ru got exteme cold feet and found a replacement for Jie Xiu. I just pity Avril, a woman who literally dug her own grave. She knows she did something wrong, but she’s been banking on Jie Xiu’s forgiveness one more time, only to finally discover it’s never coming again. Ouch. Rickie really is the sweetest (though not terribly bright bulb) boy, even if Tom Price’s acting makes me cringe still. But he’s adorable, and together with Avril they’d make gorgeous Super EuroAsian babies.

Don’t get me started on Samantha. I know most dramas like to throw in a terrible parent of two, and she definitely fits the bill. She’s self-absorbed and painfully dead inside. Ugh, I hate that she’s been hurting Jie Xiu his entire life. I hope once Xiao Ru and Jie Xiu start the rest of their lives together, they change the locks to the house and ship her ass off to Easter Island. In the end, it’s not really the side characters or the plot of DTLY that makes this drama so delightful, it’s the characterizations of Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru and their every interaction that makes me smiles from cheek-to-cheek. Sigh, just thinking about Jie Xiu looking at that ugly as heck composite baby picture and cooing to it, claiming that it looks “special”, that was simply priceless.


Comments

Drunken to Love You Episode 10 Recap — 42 Comments

  1. Sooo Lucky!!! Just Woke up…hahahah..and look what surprises me!!! RECAPS!!!!so excited already!!!!thanx sooo much ockoala!(on the process of reading)

    • kyahhhhhhhhh!!!I’m dying right now!!! tomorrow is sunday right?hahahahah…darn! i should have waited until this tw-drama ended!!!right now i’m soo excited to watch the next ep:)

  2. thanks for ur awesome recap. i have to agree readily with u that jie xiu is one smart guy who wont take nonsense from anyone and thats something VERY DIFFERENT from the usual dramas we always watch.

    u know what, i want a song jie xiu in my life (im sure u want as well, hehehe)!!!

  3. aw i love it… thank you so much! i cant wait for ep 11… wonderful!!!! hahaha… yes i melted straight away… this JX is a man worth dying for!

  4. Ockoala.. thank you for the recap.. your comment here is very true.. the storyline seems usual, but the character of Jie Xiu and Xiao Ru is unusual, and how they deliver.. how the actor and the actress deliver their role, as soon as they knocked out the role then we wouldn’t see their looks again, we can only see their strong character.. this drama makes me believe in love again, that we can be heal after get hurt with an unexpected thing.. And thank you for your beautiful words and your lovely thought about this drama.. love it so much ockoala..

  5. LOL!!!!!!! I love your recaps!!! this drama is just hilarious! I hesitated at the beginning but once I watched the first 10 min I was addicted! I get drunk every sunday!!!! LOL
    Thanks for the recap!
    xiexie

  6. Did anyone saw how tight Ricki’s pants is? He was standing kinda funny by the pool w/ jie xiu. I thought it was rainie @ first.

  7. *Currently melted by the last line of Jie Xiu*

    gosh, i really dun mind this being a daily drama with just JX and XR on screen all the time interacting, they’re just so adorable together (i don’t mean sizzling chemistry but this is so adorably realistic that it’s so irresistible!)

  8. Seriously I’ve been blessed to see 3 incredible love stories this year : Sunny Happiness, Drunken to Love You and Greatest Love. But out of all of them there is nothing like Song Jie Xiu! He is completely wonderful and refreshing. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for Xiao Ru. And she deserves every last bit of it 🙂

  9. boohoo hoo… can any kind soul help? I need my sweet OTP! I can’t dl from MU anymore and I need torrent. I found Asia Torrents.com but I can’t sign up as its by invite only. Sucks that after following for so many weeks and anticipating this sweet ep. 🙁

  10. Drops of Wisdom:

    1. Samantha
    Wins the first place of Bad Parenting Award! Second place goes for Xiao Ru’s adoptive parents, (people, kids needs to learn to share!! If they not, they grow up as “emotional terrorist” and fuck everyone they cross path in life). Send her to Eastern Island? I would send her to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, and let her ass freeze to death!!! LOL or just drop her in Mount Etna Volcano! Do you order, original recipe or extra crispy!! Dang, that would be awesome!!!

    2. Avril
    She is just pitiful! The practically 8 years she is being with Jie Xu, she just step of him, like a useless carpet. She was so sure, that she has him, wrapped around her little finger, that he will always be “hers”, that she doesn’t realize, that she was killing him. She remind me of “Elmyra”, from the Tiny Toons (she was the one, who suffocates the animals, saying that she loved them so much, that she can’t let go of them) Avril is the human incarnation of Elmyra, she suffocate Jie Xu, so much, that she literally kill his love for her. I pity Ricki, who is falling for Elmyra!! Honey, (talking to Ricki,) get your lovely ass, out of there, run like hell!! Save yourself!!!

    3. Jie Xu
    You are the most wonderful man; I have ever laid eyes on!! Every episode, you show me how a man, should behave. Not only being sure of what you want, but having the balls to go after it. And the thing you do with your mouth, you know, every time, you say something so smart, is a super duper plus!! You are a great professional, an emotional man, (despite the fact you always try to hid it), protective, loving, caring, passionate human being!! OMG, where in heaven I found someone like you!! I want my personal Jie Xu!! God please, make one for me!! You have my address, Fed Ex has overnight, please make sure they delivery him!!!!!! LOL

    4. Xiao Ru
    I understand your freaking traumas, and don’t wanting something that wasn’t yours, but baby, you have to learn, that people, doesn’t belong to anybody, only to themselves. Secondly, Avril, was giving Jie Xu, to the best bidder, since the beginning of time, it was only natural, that Jie Xu, finaly realize it, and walk out of their “sick like hell relationship”! She says once, “I play around, but in my heart, there is only Jie Xu” That wasn’t very smart to say, to begging with, so Xiao Ru, please, let go of the fear that paralyze you. “You don’t understand the true fear of losing someone you love, because you haven’t overcome your personal fear nor you made a move to do so” (Nakahara Mine “Aunty” in Yamato Nadeshiko)

    • I love reading your comments after Oackoala’s recaps. They always leave me with a silly grin on my face. After watching one miserable episode a week, reading them in the middle of the week lets me survive the next few days until the next episode is aired.
      P/s I wonder when that Xiao Gui (u know, the guy which i think you described as having an UFO landed on his head for a hairstyle?) will really come into the picture/love triangle or is it quadruple? Or maybe its heptagon/septagon with so many parties/sides involved now?

      • UFO guy, I don’t know really, which part, he plays, I only, know he have a freaking UFO in his head, and a landing strip!!

        I don’t know which geometric figure use in this case:

        –Xiao Ru —

        Xiang Yi + Peggy = one night stand/pregnancy/almost abortion /awful break up, fountain throwing!!!

        +

        –Jie Xu —

        Avril + Ricki = the most selfish woman on the planet/I love her, because she reminds me of my x, Run, baby, Run/ a new shot at love, perhaps?

        —————-

        Jie Xu + Xiao Ru = True love? If they are willing to set aside, their own fears!!! Xiao Ru, I’m talking to you! Damn it!!

        ? UFO guy = what the hell is he doing there? I dunno!!!

        *scratching head*

  11. O koala,of what stern stuff r u made?Despite ur impaired hearing after the U2 concert,some unforeseen complications,hectic n busy schedule,u still managed to pull off 2 First impressions on two new TW series,faithfully pen ur recap n reviews of ur favorite baby,LTM,so I wasnt expecting this recap n review on DTLY till later..then,OMG, it was such a pleasure to find it here,so brilliantly recapped n ur tots,SUBLIME!!! U have articulated everything we felt n tot of this adorable episode.SPOT ON!I agree that it was one of the best,heart melting epis ,evoking a gamut of emotions as we watched the warm camaraderie JX n XR share ,unfold into love n sexual attraction and one which had us grinning at n enraptured by SJX ‘s every move,word n action.What a dreamboat, SJX personifies the perfect man n Joseph Chang is so convincing in his character that one wonders if he is like his character in real life! Rainie,go in for the kill!o,how I adored this episode,any idea what the rating was?

  12. “It’s love, but what is love premised on? Not sexual attraction and not the meeting of the minds. Both are critical for developing interest, but love is predicated on caring. You start caring about another person, and that care coupled with attraction and mutual interest blossoms into love.”

    So true… how you describe LOVE.

    When you stop caring… then that’s the end of love.

    And these two souls just keep caring for each other.

    JX is the epitome of a man in love… he feels it… acknowledges it… chases it and fights for it. I hope they have more of this kind of men in dramas, not the ones who vacillate.

    I enjoy reading your recaps. They fill in the gaps and clear out the confusions from incomplete, sometimes not so appropriate subs. I also love to read your insight into the characters and the story… icing on th delicious cake we’ve been partaking in your site.

    Shi – shen or Thank You!

    • Yeah, the wishy-washy man, like Samshik, (MNIKSS), ugggghhhhh!! Disgusting!! But the scene in the bathroom, was priceless!! I still hurt for choosing begin with “stick girl” knowingly, he loved Sam Soom! But that was part of the “Master Plan” (Plan, Plan, Plan) *echo* LOL

      • Oh dear, i love MNIKSS when i watched it many moons ago. Now you mentioned it here, i have the itch to go watch again… But i do think JX’s character (as a life partner) is so much better than those lead actor’s character in Korean dramas – Zero in on your target and do not let others change your goal. No wishy-washy guys…

      • Yeah, Jie Xu, is how a man should be!! No wishy-washy, all balls, all action, no half-hearted things or going back!! No is NO!! Damn it!!!

        LOL

  13. Thanks for the recap
    Samantha has me fooled I feel like she is testing XL’s feelings for JX she gave me the impression she was pleased when XL turned down the guy who was tryin to flirt with her then she looked disgusted when XL supervisor was hittin on the guy. Or samantha is jealous of how well XL knows her son while she forever remains clueless
    Samantha may not be good mum but am hopin she will aleast trying to help her son get with the right woman who loves.him unconditional

  14. Avril doesn’t annoy me anymore. I just wish her storyline would end because it’s clear to everybody and their mothers that Jie Xiu is over and done with her. Even she knows it so, come on, Show, let’s put her and and all the viewers out of their misery!

    NGL, Xiao Ru is starting to make me roll my eyes a bit too often even if she is still awesome (the scene at the hotel with Samantha? Wonderful!). I get her childhood trauma which is painful and, well, traumatic was reinforced when Yi Xiang cheated on her or, if you will, when Peggy stole him away from Xiao Ru, but….BUT if she keeps harping on about “not stealing someone’s boyfriend” etc I may start twitching.

    For starters, it’s not a “I don’t want to steal him for his sake…because he’s still in love with Avril and I wish them to be happy forever and ever and yada yada yada” but it is, as Jie Xiu pointed out, an excuse with a touch of “I don’t want to steal him because otherwise I’ll feel bad” which kinda smells a bit selfish if you ask me. I know she’s scared, I know that, okay? It’s just that I can’t believe that all the women Jie Xiu meets, one way or the other, think it’s their right to decide who he should be with. Isn’t he allowed to make his own choice? Dammit, he’s a grown man, not a kid! Besides, he doesn’t “belong” to anyone but himself and if he so chooses to be with XR, or with Avril or with Miss X or Mr Y or Alien Al, he should be allowed to be with that person (provided the other party likes him and all that). Okay, I know I just lumped together Avril and Xiao Ru and that’s unfair as the reasons that pushed them to act are soooo wildly different and their past shaped up the persons they are now, but still, it’s the principle of the thing. Let the man decide for himself!

    What I don’t get is this: Xiao Ru saw how Avril kept hurting Jie Xiu and she saw what that did to him (repeatedly!!!!!) and she felt bad for him. And yet, now she gets cold feet and wants to push him to Avril? What the? See, that’s why I think her excuse of “not stealing someone’s boyfriend” is more about her than about him. Because if she stopped one moment and thought the whole thing through, she’d accept Jie Xiu. He made it abundantly clear he and Avril are history -he said it with words, he showed that with his actions- so there is no way she could still think he was still a little bit in love with Avril.

    JSYK, I like Xiao Ru, but the writers OUGHT to speed up her growth so that her feelings can match Jie Xiu, who’s sooo much ahead of her in the OMG-I’m-in-LUV contest. ^^’ I want to see them date, okay? I want more sweet moments between them! *iz shallow*

    • [quote] Sere Dammit, he’s a grown man, not a kid! Besides, he doesn’t “belong” to anyone but himself and if he so chooses to be with XR, or with Avril or with Miss X or Mr Y or Alien Al[/quote]

      LOL, like me you analyze every aspect of this drama!!! Lurve it!!!

      • I usually squee about the dramas I like. I tend to nitpick and analyze when there’s something that catches my eye or makes me frustrated. ^^’ And yesterday, while I was watching the ep, it really jumped at me how it looks like Jie Xiu seems to have no say in whether he wants to be/can be with Avril or Xiao Ru, like, neither of them gives him the space and opportunity to make that choice. I LOVE Jie Xiu cos he knows who he really wants and he’s not going to give up. *g*

    • I get the same feeling whenever I hear XR repeating her excuse – but instead of twitching, i was REALLY hoping JX will shut her up by kissing her senseless. ha, ha, ha…

      • Kissy-Kissy LOL

        He have a set of balls, so HE NEEDED to used them!!! LOL, If I was him, I sit them down, and tell them:

        Avril: I loved you, so many moons ago, that today, I dont even feel nothing anymore. So, I dont want you in my life, or interfering in it, so goodbye!!!

        Xiao Ru, I love you. If you accept it or not, that is your problem, nothing is gonna change that fact. So, if you love me, I know you do, and if you want to be by my side you are welcome, but if you don’t, then walk away. Stop giving me lame excuses, of why you don’t want to steal anything from anyone, because, first things first, I am NOT a thing, I am the man, who fall in love with yo. If you want me, come and get it, if you don’t, baby, you are gonna regret it, but if you decide, to walk away, don’t dare to come back, this is one in a lifetime opportunity. You know me, I don’t give second chances!! The ball is in your court, you decide!!

        BAM in their face!!! LOL

      • Angelitocurioso : I want JX to say that to Avril & XR, but sure hope he won’t really give up if XR is still wishy-washy. Cos I’d want my dream man to be persistent & don’t give up on me even if I’m being undecisive in accepting his love. Ha, ha, ha… u know women, some tend to be over analyse things. A kiss to shut me up is still better – cos if i don’t welcome it, i’d kick him in the balls 😀

  15. Thank you so much for the recaps.You have kept me happily occupied for several hours today.I went to viki and watched ep 10 because of this.

    Then I am just starting your recap for Sunny Happiness.I am so totally happy to have my mind occupied.I was too into LTM and tired from working dramas.This is like a breath of fresh air. The best part,I totally forgot I understand Mandarin.My Korean is pretty poor that it’s so good to finally understand what I am watching.

    Thanks again.

  16. Yep, I was a puddle of goo at the end. Dang, I love this show. Why can’t it be on twice a week?!

    Thanks so much for the recap!

  17. When DTLY and LTM ends… I think we need a separate DAA meeting (drama addicts anonymous meeting)…. make that an allnighter with coke, ice-cream, soju, tteobokki…. and some fancy chinese takeouts with ice-cold beer.

    Is there some pool out there too to chill in for the summer too???

  18. Thanks so much for the recap! Waited all week-end for your comments starting Saturday morning. Even when you said you were super busy and recapped LTM and baby recap, I checked multiple times, hoping against hope that your precious input would appear! And Hurrah! You did not disappoint!
    Thank you OcKoala for all you do to keep us addicts going from week to week.

  19. Thanks for the recap!
    Is there something in the water in TW coz their dramas have been very watchable lately, which is oh so awesome! Can’t wait till next Sunday!

  20. All the wonderful things that can be said about this episode have already been said 🙂 🙂 This is definitely a TW styled idol drama still but I’m glad that they can make it work still cause I love my tw idol dramas 🙂 First drama where Rainie has impressed me again since DYB. Also the 2nd TW drama I’ve actually followed weekly this year (the first being The Fierce Wife). Ms. Samantha – blah!!! I recognize the actress so I can’t help think of her in the other roles. What a piece of work this mom is. Poor JX. It’s a wonder he turned out so well.

    So I wonder if there is going to be a really huge hoopla in regards to anyone else (if anyone) discovering that its a “contract marriage” etc etc… I guess there has to be??? Since Avril is in the entertainment industry and that crazy paparazzi (play by Bu Xue Lang – forgot his character’s name) keeps following them. Goodness, I have really just no idea where this drama is going plot wise, but I’m enjoying it nonetheless. I do really want XR to show some growth. It’s not that I think she’s really immature but she seems to be holding onto a lot of stuff. And what about XG’s character… more on that and less on mommy dearest and Avril. LOL

  21. how refreshing to see the male lead so bright, smart, intelligent, and he saw what we saw! the true feeling of xiao ru.

    that man definitely the perfect balance of the brain-heart harmony!

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