All choices that led to the kind of love that beats in Woo-yeon’s heart sum up the 11th episode of More Than Friends!
I know I’m not supposed to celebrate yet because we still have five more episodes, but I literally cried after episode 11 of More Than Friends. That’s because of what we’ve been through in the last 10 episodes.
I didn’t have any bawling mess moment in the entire series so far. But, all those confrontations and true, but painful lines consumed my emotions, the way that I can only pause and be in utter shock because it literally pierced my heart.
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More Than Friends Episode 11 Recap
“I don’t know how to stop. We met too rashly and broke up too suddenly.”
Snapping back to her reality, Woo-yeon tells Lee Soo to regret missing the opportunity he created and walks away. All the while, Joon-soo follows her so she finally shifts her attention to him.
She tells him to stop coming. But Joon-soo is resigned to the idea of not knowing how to stop because of the circumstances that led to them being together. So he pleads for her to give him time since opportunity seems not to be going his way.
Honestly voicing out how standing in front of him felt like a punishment, Joon-soo remarks how he is the one being punished.
“That isn’t her boyfriend. That isn’t a date.”
Answering to the door buzzing, Lee Soo’s father appear and invites himself in for some drink.
Sensing Lee Soo and the girl he likes is getting bleaker, his son quickly refutes that it was not a date nor her boyfriend. His dad is quick to point out how his statements felt like he was convincing himself.
Advising him to believe what he wants, he told him not to let misunderstanding torture him.
“If you like someone, then listen to everything they say. Trust them no matter what. That way, you won’t have any regrets later.
Dear Dad, where were you in the last 10 episodes?😅#MoreThanFriends #ONGSEONGWU #ShinYeEun pic.twitter.com/BLDWr6ibX7
— kdramadiary (@kdramadiarylogs) November 7, 2020
“I know the face she makes after being hurt by you.”
Undecided on whether to contact Woo-yeon or not, Lee Soo surprisingly calls someone to meet. At a batting range, Lee Soo and Joon-soo quell their emotions.
Joon-soo tells Lee Soo that he wants Woo-yeon to be happy and does not care if she dates anyone but him. He rants how he has hurt him before so he can hurt him again and he knows very well the face Woo-yeon make after being hurt by him.
Mentioning all the painful faces he witnessed caused by Lee Soo on Woo-yeon’s face, he knows best that he is not good for her.
“I never did anything for you.”
Young-hee’s mom has settled in the hospital with her children taking care of her. Mom reminds Young-hee to get married and stay with Hyun-jae since he is a good boy.
Regretting not being able to do more as a mother to a daughter like her who grew up independently, she apologized for that. Young-hee responds that she should hurry and recover so she won’t leave her on her own.
Finding Young-hee at Sang-hyuk’s restaurant, Lee Soo sits with her albeit worried since the trauma caused by Jin-ju. He asks why they don’t like him and gets a response how they saw Woo-yeon’s 10 years of painful one-sided love.
Pleased with how Lee Soo was a good listener to her woes, she gifts him with what he needed at the moment: her coffee coupon card to where Woo-yeon works. Beaming, he asks her to order more and gets shocked when she ordered another case of soju.
“I’m not crazy. Why would I date you?”
Armed with a lunchbox, Sang-hyuk visits Jin-ju and properly confess that he likes her in broad daylight. Thinking he is just pitying her, Sang-hyuk declared that he really has feelings for her and asked her to date.
She asks why she should date him and Sang-hyuk responds with a heartfelt promise.
“I know you didn’t live this hard to date someone like me. But you know I don’t have to be your final stop. I can be a station you pass by or where you transfer. When you meet a good guy, you can go to him.”
Promising he will let her go without regrets, he even offers for her to just play with him, and think it over.
At her desk, Jin-ju marvels at the food Sang-hyuk prepared, but still has reservations entertaining his suggestion to date.
Later, when Jin-ju encountered a problem with her blind date, she still turned to Sang-hyuk to rescue her situation.
“He keeps getting opportunities even after he loses them.”
Going for another day of his winning-back-Woo-yeon life, Lee Soo goes to the cafe and waits for her. When he sees her almost getting hit by an absent-minded customer, he blocks him and got scalded by his hot coffee.
At the hospital, Lee Soo feels his injury is no biggie since he gets to see Woo-yeon looking out for him.
While walking back home, Woo-yeon looks back at the time when she shielded Lee Soo when a ladder almost hit him. Upon reaching their gate, she is greeted with a familiar sight of Joon-soo waiting for her.
He explains learning about what happened to Lee Soo and asks if they made up already. Feeling jealous, he expressed how Lee Soo always gets the opportunities even those that he lost already.
Saying he wants her to feel punished, Woo-yeon tries to shake some sense to his relentlessly understanding heart. Painfully, she tells him how he is punishing himself and yet at the end of the day, she will still end up liking Lee Soo. That even if he will throw away his opportunities and her feelings, she keeps wanting to put it back on his hand.
“Just call if you need me. Don’t fake being sick like earlier.”
Answering a call from Lee Soo sounding weak, she gets surprised seeing him happily munching meat. She tells him to just call her without making an excuse because she got scared from his call earlier.
Warning she will regret it, she surely did because he starts dragging her at places with lousy excuses that just basically intended for him to spend time with her.
“I know the back of my head is also handsome.”
Finally having a meal with her, Lee Soo is alert on getting brownie points from Woo-yeon. He keeps checking every now and then if what he’s doing is right. Unaware that he inadvertently made her sad when he reveals his plan to still travel for work.
She tells him that she’s not the same girl who would willingly wait for him. Not letting her wash the dishes, he asked her to buy milk tea for them and uses the time to apply ointment on his wound.
But he gets halted when Woo-yeon arrived and figured out what he has been doing. Asking him to take off his clothes, Lee Soo jokingly quips for her to take it slow. Like an obedient boy, he drinks his bubble tea while Woo-yeon takes care of dressing his wound.
Quick to realize Woo-yeon was bothered to his early comment of leaving for work, he gives her a hanging question if she will love him if he stays. So that he can decide and think about it.
“We were apart more than we were together.”
Lee Soo brings Woo-yeon to Jumunjin to give the promised photos he captured when he visited the place recently to heal. Warning him that they are running out of gas, he drives back while Woo-yeon sleeps. His car suddenly stops, and without gas, Lee Soo takes another opportunity.
Happily stranded in the middle of nowhere, Lee Soo coaxes Woo-yeon to go out. Faintly sulking on their situation, she obliges to what he wants her to do and marvels at the sight of the stars.
Staring at the girl he likes beside her, it dawned on him how he does not know a lot about her, but Woo-yeon corrects him that she’s not someone he know for a long time, but someone he knows a long time ago.
They start talking about their preferences with Lee Soo not knowing how all the things Woo-yeon likes and what she has done so far were influenced by him.
“My unrequited love is over now, right?”
Thinking Lee Soo is asleep, Woo-yeon looked back on how he has let him become a part of her life subconsciously.
“You taught me what I like and dislike; and when to be bold and when to back off. I must have liked you a lot.”
Lightly brushing the hair on his forehead, her indirect confession was apparently heard by Lee Soo who caught her hand. He gazes on her and asks if his unrequited love is over and if he does not need to wait anymore.
Unable to answer, Lee Soo gets the answer by sealing it with a kiss. Holding her hand, Woo-yeon kisses him back with all the love she had for him.
More Than Friends Episode 11 Musings
I was happily chatting with one of my favorite unnis about how More Than Friends has been traversing the kind of love where romance and friendship are equally served. That has been one of those things this series gifted us. It did not go to impossible lengths and harrowing love problems.
Since episode 1, we had joined Woo-yeon in her on-and-off love fixation on Lee Soo. We admired her bravery, got tired on her indecisiveness. However, right now, we are still happy that she is finally where she’s supposed to be.
All the three pictures of love presented in the series describe the kind of love where memories and being there for each other matter. Come to think of it, the three girls have been tackling the same problem from day 1.
Woo-yeon tackled a love that is hard to move on; Young-hee kept going back and forth whether she will get married or not; and Jin-ju just want to have boyfriend.
Such typical problems that all women can relate and have gone through the course of their lives. Thus making More Than Friends such a consoling and familiar watch.
When Lee Soo’s dad gave him a pep talk, I really want to ask where he was in the last 10 episodes? *wink Who knows maybe if he was there, we would have not gone into all those emotional torments.
If the girl hinted to be coming in between Lee Soo and Woo-yeon will be what we think she will be, it better be fitting. Because we had 10 episodes of heart-shattering confrontations already, I was expecting two weeks of fan service. *chuckles
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