Would You Merry Me Choi Woo-shik and Jung So-min's romance ripened like rice cooking, exploding with excitement.
On the 24th, the SBS Friday-Saturday drama Would You Merry Me (directed by Song Hyun-wook, Hwang In-hyuk; written by Lee Ha-na) episode 5 aired, in which Kim Woo-ju (played by Choi Woo-shik) deepened his affection for first love Yoo Merry (played by Jung So-min), greatly raising the excitement index. At the same time, Would You Merry Me recorded a peak rating of 9.1%, a Seoul metropolitan area rating of 7.8%, and a 2049 peak of 3.1%, setting a new personal best. In addition, it achieved the feat of ranking first among Friday miniseries for three consecutive weeks and maintaining first place in ratings among all programs across all channels in the same time slot, and ratings rose nationwide, in the Seoul metropolitan area and in 2049, demonstrating the confident box-office power indicated by the ratings. (Based on Nielsen Korea)
Woo-ju met Baek Sang-hyun (played by Bae Na-ra), a client who visited Myeongsoondang, but he avoided the crisis with quick thinking. When the elevator doors opened, Merry, who was standing there, immediately called out "honey" and approached Woo-ju, and Woo-ju returned the "honey," creating a natural married couple moment that made people laugh. Using Sang-hyun as an excuse, Woo-ju set a daily-sharing strategy, saying, "Call me three times a day no matter what," and he overindulged in the fake newlywed role by saying, "Usually newlyweds even contact each other 12 times a day." When someone questioned whether Merry was overindulging in the fake newlywed act, Woo-ju flared up for no reason and showed a playful charm. Watching Merry's back, Woo-ju couldn't help but burst into a smile, making viewers' faces light up.
Woo-ju couldn't contain the corner of his mouth after learning he was Merry's first love. When Merry recalled her first love by saying "the back of his head was pretty," Woo-ju lightly touched the back of his head. Merry said, "If we met again I think I'd recognize him right away. He was really handsome. He was totally my type... he must be very handsome even now," and Woo-ju couldn't hide his excitement. Woo-ju looked at a wedding photo photocard taken with Merry and smiled sweetly, raising the excitement index.
Woo-ju thought of Merry even while eating with Yoon Jin-kyung (played by Shin Seul-gi). Woo-ju revealed to Jin-kyung that Merry was the keyring girl who was his first love. He also confessed that after learning the keyring girl's father died in an accident while on his way to the police station to give additional testimony about the accident involving Woo-ju's parents, he deliberately did not look for the keyring girl.
Attending his parents' memorial service, Woo-ju was overcome with guilt as he recalled the moment his parents had their accident. He thought his conversation with his father while driving had caused the accident. But it was revealed that the person who orchestrated the accident that killed Woo-ju's parents was his uncle, Jang Han-gu (played by Kim Young-min), which created a chilling effect.
Plunged into panic by guilt over his parents' deaths, Woo-ju found comfort in Merry's message. Using birthday congratulations as an excuse, Merry invited Woo-ju and prepared a birthday table herself. Moved by Merry's birthday table, Woo-ju confessed, "On my birthday my parents died because of me," revealing that birthdays were difficult days for him. He said he ate a lot of rice instead of seaweed soup and fell asleep because he wanted the birthday to pass quickly, and Merry offered gentle comfort on his side, saying, "When it's hard, the best thing is to run away." Woo-ju tenderly wiped food from the corner of Merry's mouth to express his feelings, and Merry's heart fluttered at Woo-ju's action, tickling viewers' hearts.
Discovering a double rainbow, Woo-ju and Merry made wishes in their hearts. Woo-ju's secret wish for Merry was "that Merry's wish comes true." His narration, containing Woo-ju's heartfelt feeling—"May this woman who becomes my emergency exit at every dead end have her wish come true"—reached the pinnacle of the salvation narrative and left a poignant aftertaste.
Above all, Woo-ju and Merry's unexpected, ultra-close embrace exploded the romantic tension and induced heart-fluttering. Woo-ju pulled Merry, who was about to fall, into his arms, and the two grew so close that the sound of their pounding hearts could be heard, creating a subtle tension between them. Woo-ju then leaned in as if to kiss Merry, exploding the romantic tension. In the final scene of episode 5, Merry's ex-fiancé Woo-ju (played by Seo Beom-jun) watchfully observed the close embrace between Woo-ju and Merry with a meaningful look, heightening the tension.
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