Part 19

Night of the sports competition, after the DongJae Victory

[DongJae wins, and there is a grand party, along with the Gisaengs from MoRakGahn (including Chosun). There are many women and Gisaengs surrounding each member from the JalGeum Foursome.]

The night comes, and they light the place, and all the people are now looking at Chosun, who is dancing as she approaches Sunjoon and Yoonhee, who are sitting next to one another. Yoonhee is sure that Chosun is coming to her (Chosun, prior to this, has been very blunt about her affection for Yoonhee, who she thinks is a man) and is contemplating on what to do, but to everyone's surprise, she goes to Sunjoon, and lures him to the dance floor. Sunjoon, who's been pushing away all women the whole night, follows Chosun without hesitation, and everyone is so surprised that the crowd splits to make way for the two.

Yoonhee can't believe her eyes (first, because of Chosun, then because Sunjoon followed her so willingly), but she's not the only one so shocked. Chosun hides the fact that she is really surprised; she thought that if she tried to seduce Sunjoon to dance, Sunjoon would struggle, and that Yoonhee would get jealous and try to pull Chosun to him/herself. She didn't think that Sunjoon would follow.

She doesn't have the time to be flattered, because as she leaves with Sunjoon to dance, another handful of women surround Yoonhee. And Sunjoon's eyes are cold, and he does not move to the music. Chosun asks him what he was thinking, in following her, and he replies, "that's what I want to ask. Why did you approach me?" Chosun hesitated in answering, and Sunjoon is fast to say,

"Even a Gisaeng's loyalty spans at least one night. Because you danced with me, you shouldn't go the scholar sitting next to me, isn't that right?"

Chosun is baffled, and stops dancing. She doesn't understand. "You did this for that reason? Why? Aren't you a man?"

Sunjoon thinks to himself, I am a man. That is actually the reason of my misery.

"You and I both know I am a man."

"Then why?"

Sunjoon thinks, don't ask that, because it pains me that I can't answer. He makes up an excuse saying that he wants to protect Yoonhee and Yoonhee's name, to which Chosun doesn't accept. And then Sunjoon cuts her off, saying,

"Let's make this clear. I didn't approach you tonight, you approached me. You are the one who betrayed Kim Yoon Shik!" Then he turns his back to her, and sees Yoonhee approaching the dance floor, still surrounded by women. Yoonhee evades his gaze, and he interprets it as anger for taking Chosun away from him (he thinks that Yoonhee likes Chosun). As Yoonhee and her crowd of women pass Sunjoon, Sunjoon grabs her wrist and drags her away from the dance floor to underneath the canopy. And Yoonhee (who is a little tipsy from drinking) says, "I know all the women must love you, but isn't this too much? And with my woman.. to my woman.."

Sunjoon feels a stab in his heart as he contemplates, he likes her so much as to call her "my woman"? Without showing any expression, he grabs her shoulders and forces her to sit, and Yoonhee struggles, trying to break free. When she calms down, he sits next to her, and says "don't get up." And with his words, she folded her knees and buried her face in them, unable to explain what had just happened.

Chosun is speechless watching the two. She thinks that Yoonshik (Yoonhee) is definitely a man, but Sunjoon is treating Yoonhee as if she was his woman (ha!). She seems to have picked up that that the two aren't your normal friends. She's sure that there was something going on between them.

To quell her feelings, Yoonhee keeps drinking, and thinks stuff like, there are so many women clamoring for Sunjoon already, and now I have to worry about Chosun too? (so cute). Sunjoon is suffocatingly silent, and Yoonhee looks around for Yongha, who would usually find them and break the mood, but alas, Yongha has disappeared with a Gisaeng.

A man comes looking for Sunjoon, and Yoonhee recognizes him as Hyo-eun's servant. The man tells Sunjoon that Hyo-eun is waiting outside Banchon (The marketplace you saw in the drama right outside the actual walled SKK Campus) and that she asks to see him. Sunjoon tells the man to go back first, that he would soon follow, and Yoonhee, having heard this, is not very happy. She is drunk, and when Sunjoon gets up to leave, she stares for a while, and decides to follow.

She is super tipsy and keeps falling over as she follows Sunjoon (at some point, Chosun helps pick her up, but she pushes her away by going through the cafeteria, since Gisaengs cannot enter). After a while, she catches up to him, and says "I caught you!" She's still very tipsy. He says that she drank too much, to which she replies, "don't act like you're worried about me!"

"Are you going to her? She is a very pretty woman, and such a great family background! You must be very in love, to leave a victory party so fast!"

And Sunjoon thinks, this looks like I am going for the woman? No, I was just trying to run away from you.

Yoonhee keeps trying to pick a fight, saying "you're gonna give Yeorim (Yongha) a run for his money! going from one woman to another..." And she falls to him, and he tries his hardest not to catch her (because he is afraid of what he would do) and she does not fall because she hugs his waist to stand back up. Sunjoon thinks that it might be easier if he did just move from woman to woman so easily. Yoonhee says,

"The wish! My wish, there's a wish I can use, right? That wish, I want to use it now. My wish is that you don't meet that woman..." and as she says this, she is knocked unconscious and faints, and both of them fall to the ground. And Sunjoon says, "if that's your wish, I won't meet her."

And he says it genuinely, but she's completely knocked out. He's saddened and angry, and shakes her, yelling, "Make that your wish! Please, make that my excuse!" (He means that if yoonhee does wish that, he doesn't have to meet Hyo-eun, since all this time he's so conflicted as to why he is not in love with Hyo-eun, who is a beautiful woman and a wonderful catch, wants an excuse as to not love Hyo-eun). Yoonhee murmurs something. He sticks his face really close to her to see what she was saying, and he's entranced by her face, and he is overcome with the desire to kiss her.

He stops when Jaeshin calls out to the two of them (Jaeshin has been looking for Yoonhee). He notices that Yoonhee is passed out, and jokes, "You guys were doing the unspeakable at a place for saints and their relics?" (They were near a temple) (also Jaeshin does not know as of yet that Yoonhee is a girl)

Sunjoon knows it's a joke, but it hurts a lot more this time, and yells, "how can two men do such things?!" and Jaeshin jokes, "If two men want to, they can do whatever they want. If you're curious as to how, just ask me." [Blogger's Note: Wow, Jaeshin, how do you know such things?]

Then Jaeshin checks on Yoonhee, and as he tries to pick her up to take her, Sunjoon takes Jaeshin's hands off of her, and clutches her to himself. "Why? you think I'll do something to him?" And Sunjoon says, "no, it's not that..." And Jaeshin replies, "I'll take him to the room. You were going somewhere, so go on ahead." Sunjoon says that he will take him, and Jaeshin takes Yoonhee away by force, and says, "it's not that I'm taking him for you; Your hand will start bleeding again (Sunjoon hurt his hand during the sports competition) so go_on."

Sunjoon watches them goes and thinks that if Jaeshin did not come, he was sure to have met his lips with Yoonhee's. He is now more conflicted than ever and asks himself what he should do.

As Jaeshin is carrying Yoonhee, Yoonhee murmurs, "Garang (Sunjoon's nickname) Hyungnim, don't go..." and starts crying. Jaeshin spits out, "I know you follow Garang everywhere you go when you're awake...but to look for him even in your dreams? Why am I so angry? Dammit, I should just throw you to the ground." But he doesn't, and thinks to himself that Yooshik is very light, and carrying him doesn't feel gross, it feels actually very nice. Jaeshin catches himself, saying "if this goes on, I may really become gay."

                                                                                  

Jaeshin sets Yoonhee down in the room and decides to  undress her. His heart starts racing as he starts undoing  her clothes (to which he is baffled as to why) and he is  startled to find the cloth that is wrapped around her  upper body, around her breasts. Even as she is unconscious, Yoonhee clutches to her clothes as to hide  what's inside, and Jaeshin jumps up from the shock,  backing away from her towards the door. He stares for a  long time, and then paces around the room, and he becomes  sure that she's a woman. He says, "how did I not know?"  and Yoonhee murmurs, "Garang hyung.." and Jaeshin says,

"Why are you calling for him?! What are you thinking? Why  did you come here? Do you know what would happen if..."