Back to WEDDING IMPOSSIBLE and before the next episode will air let me just say I found the FL-SML friendship engaging – because it’s not perfect and absolutely harmonious, and the show does not shy away from this.

*spoilers. Duh*

Do Han (SML) asked his best friend of many years, A Jeong ( FL), to fake marry him for three years. Thing is, he’s gay and would rather not hurt and lie to a stranger, and he HAS to marry because his family is typical chebol drama family.

To this, the A Jeong initially refuses, and does not hide her discontent with the request. At some point, she says he should just TELL his family about his sexual orientation, and let it be “a family drama about a family accepting their son’s differences”; to that, Do Han says – “when has there ever been a family drama with a gay son?” which was the most cutting line of the show thus far, and part of an ongoing meta commentary. This effectively shuts A Jeong up, because she accepts her own ignorance on the subject: you can’t just tell someone “out yourself and it’ll all be fine :)”, it’s not that simple, ESPECIALLY if the family is conservative and hyper demanding environment like Do Han’s family is.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, Do Han shows ignorance of his own. Listen, asking someone to fake marry you is a LOT. even if it’s “”only”” for three years. A Jeong that while Do Han is weary about lying to someone else, he has no issue essentially asking his friend to lie and compromise her own happiness for him. Marrying him means compromising her ability to date and find romantic fulfilment (which even though we don’t know if it’s something she’s after currently, she might be, and Do Han asks her without bringing this into consideration). Marriage is a time commitment, and would also require her to change her lifestyle, where she lives, require her to lie to her OWN family and friends, etc. Not to mention the FAMILY he asks her to marry into, which she only recently discovered who they actually are (and AFTER he asks her to marry him, btw). Marrying into a high profile chebol family is A LOT. A Jeong frames it as the chairman would “come after her” but I’m more worried about the media which is a big issue seeing how she wants to work in show business. SPEAKING OF WHICH, it’s very pretentious to describe it as an “acting job” and “getting to do the acting she loves so much”. She doesn’t like acting because she gets to lie to everyone, dude. More than anything, Do Han sprung this whollleee thing on her without asking her for permission first. It started as an innocent joke, but Do Han seems to think she’s gonna go with it and had the nerve to be upset with her for telling the chairman she’ll “break up” with him. HELLO, she never agreed to this, and so fart the situation led to your weirdo jerk brother bothering her like, five times or so – and that’s a family member that actually LIKES you.

Now obviously by the end of ep 2 A Jeong is up to the plan (if only for SPITE, which is SO HER), and I suspect (hope!) we’ll get a resulution of Do Han coming out to his family and being accepted, but at first it’s just two friends not understanding the position the other is in, getting scolded for it, apologising for it, and ultimately overcoming this. It’s pretty rare to see male-female friendship in drama, and I’m glad we gotten one and I’m SUPER GLAD it’s not perfect but mature enough to grow from it’s hardship.