More Than Friends is giving me quite a love problem these days, thankfully it is fictional, and not my own.
It’s quite amazing how my heart sympathized for both Lee Soo and Joon-soo in the latest episode of More Than Friends. But I will give this episode to Joon-soo for really giving more love and being a pillar to Woo-yeon. Not just a drunk-call receiver, but a shoulder to cry on – this time around.
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More Than Friends Episode 6 Recap
“Stop flirting with me.”
In her reverie, Woo-yeon (Shin Ye Eun) holds the compass Lee Soo (Ong Seong Wu) gave her in a confused mood. Meanwhile, Lee Soo looks for the meaning of “flirting” online. Heaving a big sigh, Lee Soo ponders if Woo-yeon misunderstands again.
Sitting beside him, Hyun-jae (Choi Chan Ho) also draws a big sigh, so Sang-hyuk (P.O) joins the parade of sigh of his two friends. Worried about his girlfriend, Hyun-jae still can’t make her share her woes with him.
The next day, Young-hee (Ahn Eun Jin) takes her money from the bank when it is just a month away from maturity to pay for the settlement money caused by his brother. But before she can transfer the money, she figured her mother already asked Hyun-jae for help because she received a thank you message that the settlement money was received already.
“Why? Did the destined drunkard’s first love return?”
Meanwhile, Secretary Min checks on his boss-friend’s date and learns that it didn’t turn out as an intimate one between the two of them.
When Joon-soo asks about the variable of her first love in the love story he is trying to set, Secretary Min honestly responded how Woo-yeon’s first love was intense.
Ever the positive, Secretary Min answered his own question if the first love returned by an encouraging pitch that “first love does not come true. He further cites how his first love became his sister-in-law.
Taking his secretary’s blunt words as consoling words, he returns its implied meaning by forcing him for a sparring inside the boxing ring. Satisfied with the heat he expelled, Joon-soo remarks how he is up to the love challenge he currently faces.
“What’s there to be ashamed between us?”
In high spirits, Jin-ju (Baek Soo Min) orders bubble tea for the prosecutor who gave her a hangover drink last time. Intending to strike a connection with her, she learns that he is dating someone.
Confronting Hyun-jae for involving himself to her family’s problem, Young-hee furiously rants about his action. Firmly standing on his thinking that Young-hee should not feel ashamed if he offers help to her family, the two engage in a heated argument.
Finally voicing out his frustration of how Young-hee never relied on him in her problems, Hyun-jae pours his grievances at that moment. Looking straight to her eyes, he says how he does not want the one he loves to suffer alone.
However, Young-hee responds that she is also in love with him, and she does not want to always be the one to rely on him. She tells him that she will pay back once her savings mature and leaves his apartment.
“How long will you keep whining like a baby?”
Meeting out to release each other’s stress, Jin-ju begins the parade of my-life-sucks stories by telling how she thought ahead of someone’s kindness.
Young-hee’s bad mood coupled with Jin-ju’s declared shallow problem caused the former to chide on Jin-ju’s recurring whining of her sad single life.
Jin-ju retaliates by saying straight to Young-hee’s face how she has been acting like she is the only person who is suffering in the world. She also tells her how her looking down on people is irritating just how her self-pitying habit is taxing.
Ranting exactly the same words Hyun-jae said about Young-hee’s attitude of keeping her problems on her own, Jin-ju hits Young-hee’s tipping point. She declares cutting the friendship with a rich girl who won’t understand her sentiments since she has everything.
Torn between her two best friends, Woo-yeon follows Young-hee and urges her to go back. But the latter replies she has to get up early for work.
At home, Young-hee finds her mother drinking and her utterly bad mood kicks in again. Feeling frustrated, she gripes on why she always has to bear the responsibility.
The next day, Young-hee’s phone is dead silent making her wonder if she was too much about the fuss she spurted to everyone the day before. (YES, you were!)
“I like you. Darn it.”
After Woo-yeon’s part-time work at the cafe, Joon-soo shows up and brings her to a book store cafe. While Joon-soo prepares their coffee, Woo-yeon spots The Little Prince book at the counter.
Finding a highlighted passage, she follows the subsequent directions left on each and every book to read on what Joon-soo highlighted as sweet notes in the books. Messages that are obviously what he feels about her.
“If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock, I will begin to be happy.”
“I miss him more than the number of times I blink my eyes.”
“If I must go through all of this again, in order to meet you, I’d gladly do it.”
“I want to make this person happy. That’s what I was thinking. For the first time in my life, I wanted to make someone else happy. And I believe that their happiness will also make me happy.”
Finally, Woo-yeon gets the final instruction and finds the three words highlighted on the book – “I like you” About the same time, Joon-soo was also done with his prepared coffee. Their eyes meet and he completes the passage with “Darn it” – as written on the book.
Handing the cup of coffee, Joon-soo declares that he just made a confession making the moment stop for Woo-yeon. He sits beside Woo-yeon on the stairs and mutters how he is not usually impatient, but her presence interestingly leads him to it.
Telling her not to feel forced in responding to his confession, Joon-soo gives her time to answer his proposal at her own pace. He hopes to get her answer when they go on a date on her birthday. Joon-soo drops Woo-yeon in front of their house and they decide to watch a musical on her birthday.
“I’m just going to sit here with you.”
Just as Joon-soo’s car leaves, Lee Soo arrives looking dejected. Over dinner he argues with his parents again. He bluntly tells what they have been doing won’t just make all his heartaches caused by them go away.
He finds himself in front of Woo-yeon’s house and tells her he was not there to flirt and was just reminded of her. They head to the nearby convenience store to grab some food.
Offering the food kindly, Lee Soo sulks on how she’s only nice when something bad happen to him. Sensing his sullen mood, Woo-yeon understands that something not nice happened to him so he asked if he will comfort him. But she responds how she’s going to just sit with him.
It reminds Lee Soo of the time when he saw his already divorced parents looking chummy together years ago. He also chanced upon Woo-yeon that time and she comforted him with food and warm words, exactly how she was doing at the present moment.
Back then Woo-yeon told him how she doesn’t know the level of frustration he currently had, but to avoid him getting deeper, she has to at least help him not go deeper.
Realizing how Woo-yeon has not changed at all, he asks why she did not keep her promise of telling the score with Joon-soo. She clarifies that they are not dating yet. If something big happens to her to stop it, she might not date him.
In consideration of her probable future, Woo-yeon tells Lee Soo how they might not meet anymore if she eventually dates Joon-soo.
“I realized that whenever I was alone, you’re there. You were there.”
Lee Soo calls Woo-yeon as she was about to enter their house and stops her on her track. He says how they have been apart after he moved to another country, but she has always been in his thoughts. Confessing he also don’t know why, but he always wondered what she was up to and hoped that she was well.
He also said how he looked forward to going back to Korea because of her. Opening up how he realized she was always there for him, he honestly voices that he will be lonely if she disappears for good. While he understands her situation, he also can’t just let her go easily.
Feeling her heart swaying again, Woo-yeon stops herself from saying something and opts to enter their house. Inside her room, Woo-yeon succumbs to Lee-Soo-induced mental stress and punches on the poor compass he gifted her.
“You’re so simple. Look at how happy you are now, just because you won a few games.”
The next day, Woo-yeon and Lee Soo continue their photobook project and visited Bukchon hanok village. Bothered on how Woo-yeon seems to be going her way as if he was not there, Lee Soo asks her problem. He inquired if she did something wrong to him making her respond how their situation should ask what he did wrong to her.
Boasting there’s nothing to be hated on him and even his physical appearance, Woo-yeon disagrees and lists down his face, hair and piercings as something she dislikes.
Spotting the nearby arcade house, Lee Soo drags her inside to let off her steam. She does so well, and totally beat him in the game they played. Feeling happy, Lee Soo mutters how she easily gets happy to which she respond how whiny he is and always suggesting to do things he’s not even good at.
He remarks how someone can’t be good at all things and how he has way too much going on for him. The moment reminds Woo-yeon of the exact same words Lee Soo told her on their Christmas date before.
“So, if I ever take a picture of a person. It means that I like that person a lot.”
Staring at the village from a terrace, Woo-yeon mumbles how she loves going to the village in different weather and seasons. There’s something about its vibe that gravitates her immensely probably because it is a protected place. Lee Soo suggests going for the theme of an emotion someone wants to protect which Woo-yeon also liked.
Noticing Woo-yeon beaming happily at the sight of a cat, Lee Soo finally captures the first person on his camera. Adoringly gazing at Woo-yeon through his camera lens, he affirms how much he really likes her.
“I’m going to check something. Can you give me three seconds?”
After developing Woo-yeon’s photo, Lee Soo waits for her outside the cafe where she works. Surprised to see him, she asks why he was there and he replies that he wants to check on something and to allow him three seconds to do that.
She agrees and he goes for a quick embrace. Thinking he is either crazy or sick, Woo-yeon decides to choose him being sick for the reason of his action after confirming his feverish temperature as well. Woo-yeon bought him some medicine and even drove him back home.
“Go on a date with me tomorrow.”
Confused at Woo-yeon’s sudden kindness, Lee Soo asks if Woo-yeon likes him, but she shuts him up and explains that she is just particularly helpful to people not feeling well. Reckoning his actions towards her before when they were young, Lee Soo realized the starting point of when Woo-yeon grew in his heart without him realizing it.
As promised, Woo-yeon drove him home and motions to leave, but Lee Soo stops her. He asks if she already answered Joon-soo’s proposal. When she answered not doing it yet, Lee Soo tells her that something big will happen to her so she should not answer him.
He asks her to go on a date with him tomorrow. She responds watching a musical with Joon-soo tomorrow, but Lee So replies he’s willing to wait in front of Namsan Tower. Baffled at his request, she remembers mentioning what Namsan Tower is for her to Lee Soo.
Lee Soo says goodbye reminding her that he will wait tomorrow against Woo-yeon’s permission.
“I’m not too late, am I?”
It’s D-DAY to unveil who Woo-yeon’s date will be for her birthday. Lee Soo and Joon-soo prepares to meet the girl they like. Woo-yeon arrives at the musical hall and meets Joon-soo’s gaze. She apologizes and leaves, answering his confession with a subtle no.
Unfortunately, Lee Soo meets an accident after parking at Namsan Tower and wakes up to a resounding disappointment that he let Woo-yeon down for the nth time.
He calls her, but Woo-yeon denied waiting for him. Thinking she is with Joon-soo, he did not explain the accident he had. Both wallowed in the misunderstandings they are also both prideful to confront.
Feeling dejected, Woo-yeon sees Joon-soo waiting in front of their house. She asks why he was there and he replied he was waiting for her. He thought he could see her if he waited.
Unable to understand why he is stupidly clinging on a bad girl like her instead of hating her. Joon-soo responds that he did not wait because he wants to resent her, but to say the words he failed to tell her earlier. “Happy Birthday, Woo-yeon,” he said.
She confirms that she’s not too late and Joon-soo replies, she’s definitely not. She seeks for the warmth of his embrace. Unknown to them, Lee Soo who realized another pain he caused Woo-yeon, forces himself out of the hospital to meet her.
A step too late, the sight he saw pierces his heart. He can only look back to how a tiny incident prior to his accident should have changed, so as not to hurt Woo-yeon again.
More Than Friends Episode 6 Musings
What an apt reference for how this episode opened to. Aligning the message of the boy who cried wolf to Lee Soo, we can’t help but feel sorry for him, yet understand that he deserved it too.
In his case, his constant denial that he does not like Woo-yeon back, snowballed big time.
We know his knack of saying not the right thing at the right time and I literally screamed when he didn’t say what happened to him when Woo-yeon would definitely understand.
Now, this makes the pain for Joon-soo go deeper in the future. Probably, why he was given time to be with Woo-yeon. The girl’s nature tend to relent and understand whatever excuse Lee Soo has. If she learns the accident on his way to meet him, she sure would have second thoughts again.
More Than Friends pictured characters we know and might be who we’ve been when we fell in love at some point in our lives. Those times when we can’t process our emotions well. Those times when we are unreasonable and kept clinging to the idea of love when it is just hurting us in the process.
This series has made me so emotionally invested to a level that I have to remind myself to keep calm, less I will succumb to depression and won’t be able to write. *chuckles
I am struggling to come up with a perfect closure for the love triangle pictured in this drama because I equally love Lee Soo and Joon-soo. Their love expression might be different, but it does not mean less special.
While Woo-yeon’s situation of being torn between two lovers is not something new in K-Dramaland, it draws an interesting flavor. Because she is a reminder of a woman’s most memorable love phase. The kind that is beautiful, confusing, painful and worth fighting. Those are the tastes of love she currently gets from Lee Soo and Joon-soo.
Let’s brave ourselves for more resonating drama moments in More Than Friends! The series airs on JTBC every Friday and Saturday.
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