reading by candle light

Please help me, Grandfather.

and it somehow extra works because seo ri doesn’t instantly become the adoring girlfriend. she’s wary af still so when he does some romantic shit she’s not automatically swooning. she’s similarly going “what am i doing falling for this guy” but can’t help herself, either. so then there they both are, pissed off at themselves and each other for feeling the way they do, and it brings them closer together every time.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a weirder FL than Kang Dan-Sim/ Shin Seo-Ri. She’s like a really fucking strange bird. Not like the ‘bit weird but actually really sexy and cute’. But seriously nuts without any vanity that prevents the batshittery from coming out.

Her dowdy outfits that mix toddler with granny chic. Her rage and her freakouts. Her strange walk. Her stage-y performative laugh. Her (mostly misplaced) smugness. Her egocentrism. Her superstitions.

And that’s how you know it’s real love.

A secretly status-conscious chaebol heir falling for what seems to be an unemployed 24/7 method actor who perpetually shows up as a Joseon royal consort, always tries to close weird nonsensical deals, doesn’t know what a credit card is, who has embarrassed him in public numerous times, and will with 99% likelihood absolutely not be an asset to his business which means meant everything to him?

10/10 adore.

Cha se Gye - you the man