I’m so ashamed of myself.”īok-ju spends the evening pulling a tire around the running track and screaming, while her friends Nan-hee and Seon-ok look on. She thinks about how lies produce more lies, “And I’m becoming a lying machine. He asks who Bok-ju likes, but Joon-hyung just says he’s hungry.īok-ju yells at herself all the way to the wishing fountain, and plops herself down for a good cry. Joon-hyung tells him about Bok-ju getting in trouble with her coaches, and Jae-yi feels terrible about his part in it. He says that she wanted to lose weight because she started to like someone, and thankfully, Jae-yi doesn’t pick up that he’s that guy. Jae-yi asks why she lied to come to his clinic when she’s a weightlifter, and Joon-hyung scrambles to think of an excuse. Jae-yi and Joon-hyung sit to talk, and Joon-hyung explains that Bok-ju asked him to keep her secret because she was desperate.
She admits that she lied about playing cello and studying abroad, and excuses herself. But Bok-ju is holding her weightlifting team jersey, giving lie to Joon-hyung’s story even as he tells it.īok-ju realizes that this has gone far enough, and she tells Jae-yi the truth - that she’s a student on the weightlifting team. Jae-yi asks Bok-ju what she’s doing here, and Joon-hyung thinks fast and pretends she came to visit him. Joon-hyung comes running up, moments too late to stop his cousin from seeing Bok-ju. He gets out and calls her name, and she can only stand in shock, caught. Unaware that Jae-yi is still on campus, Bok-ju walks right past his car. Luckily she has a good friend there to tell her that what makes her beautiful isn’t her physical appearance, but what’s inside - all she has to do is find someone who loves her for who she is.ĮPISODE 9: “The merits of a one-sided love”
She believes that she can’t have both, which is the source of so much of her recent heartache, and nothing will make her believe that it’s not true. Growing up is so painful, and it’s even harder for Bok-ju, whose dream of Olympic weightlifting gold and true love seem at such odds with each other. 227 DecemDecemWeightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-ju: Episode 9 by LollyPip