Ep. 2

From a young age, our heroine knew she wasn’t pretty based on how others treated her. Her relatives would criticize her for taking after her mother HONG HYUN-SOOK instead of her handsome father IM JAE-PIL.

They made snide comments like “She’ll need plastic surgery,” or “She must’ve been adopted.” Amidst the laughter, Mom had whispered that she just needs to do well in school.

While she once dreamed of transforming into a beautiful fairy like the cartoons on TV, the neighborhood kids ridiculed her for it. She then decided that characters from horror manhwas were far more relatable, for she believed that she was born with a cursed face.

We open with an adorable shot of a baby. This is a baby girl but everyone thinks she’s a boy. The mother is pushing the baby in the street and has a lot of interest from street mamas. Though people think her sister is prettier.

JOO-KYUNG:- Ever since I was little, I sensed it, that I wasn’t pretty.

Time jump to a family meeting. Ju-kyung is nerdy with bad skin. The father side is all handsome so hey tell her that she takes after her mothers side. The Grandpa says she looks like she is an outside marriage kid. All the other family members chuckle and comment. Her mother tells her to study hard, that is all you have to do.

OMG this girl is adorable, she watches a cartoon on TV as kid.

JOO-KYUNG:- I dreamed of a cartoon where a normal girl becomes a fairy (this is hilarious, this show they are showing is a new show, but the flashback should  be like 5 years ago).

She imagines that she is the fairy in the cartoon and decks herself out in her princess gear. But everyone laughs at her at school because she dresses like the Princess in the fairytale. They start to spray water at her from their water guns. Poor thing!

She runs home and turns off her TV show that is the princess show. 

JOO-KYUNG:- Rather than the heroine in a romance cartoon….

She picks up a horror book

JOO-KYUNG:- ..... I realized that I am closer to a horror cartoon character with a cursed mask.

...# PRESENT DAY...

Im Ju-kyung runs to school. She drops her horror book (the same book she picked up as a little kid) so she runs back to grab it and then runs up to the school.

Inside, the teacher tells the class that class ended. So all the girls run to the mirror and puts on their makeup.

But Im Ju-kyung is not. She is sitting at her desk and reading her horror book. Her skin is splotchy and pimpled. She tries to get the girl in front of her to read the book, she is another ugly duckling, but the girl doesn’t want to.

So Ju-kyung plays her heavy metal music with her head phones and has a good time reading her book.

The girls occupied with their looks start to talk about who is the prettiest and all that. One of them say that no matter what they do they will not be the prettiest in the school.

So of course they decide to pick on Im Ju-kyung. They call her dumpling and tell her to leave to do something for them. So she runs off to do it. The other kids laugh. She bites her lip and goes back inside, almost as if she will tell them off. But she doesn’t, she just confirms their order and smiles.

So she runs to the school cafeteria and gets the stuff for the bullies. The person selling it knows her order, that is how often she gets it.

On the way back, she looks for one of her oppas. He walks right up to her without her noticing. She is super happy to see him. They share earbuds. He tells her that they are the same, they have super same music preference.

He starts banging his head to the music like it’s going to pop off. Meanwhile, Ju-kyung is about to go crazy because he is her really big crush. She yells at her heart to stop acting up. He thinks she is yelling at him so she has to say nothing.

The bully kids look out the window and see Ju-kyung and the oppa dancing and having fun chatting. So of course something is about to happen.

Later during lunch, Ju-kyung stands in line with all the other kids and tells the other ugly duckling kid that oppa is cool and she wants to confess. The other ugly duckling is not that into this conversation. She notices that some bullies might be targeting her so she tells Ju-kyung that she will eat later.

Ju-kyung stands in her oppas line to get her food and asks him if she can see him after lunch Monday. She says yes. The bullies look at that and sneer.

...# HOME...

That night, Ju-kyung cooks a lot of super cool looking cookies for her oppa crush. They are pretty adorable cookies. She also packs them really adorably too.

Her mother tells her to study more, your grades went down at your last exam. Ju-kyung yells that she will and takes off to her room. The mother wonders who she takes after and looks at her husband. But then she shakes her head annoyingly and tells him to massage her shoulders.

The appa gets a text message that looks kind of bad. Perhaps a failed investment?

Then the sister runs in, she is gorgeous and has to poop (because it would not be a Kdrama is someone did not have to poop in a hurry). The parents tell her to use their room because the son is in the bathroom.

In Im Ju-kyung’s room, which looks like The Nightmare Before Christmas  and Coco had a baby that exploded all over it, she is looking at a scary cute doll and pretends to kiss it. Her brother barges in right in the act, with lips puckered, so she kicks him out.

...# MONDAY...

The next day, while waiting for the school bus, Ju-kyung tells an online support group that she is going to confess to her crush and that she is super nervous. They wish her luck.

Ju-kyung gets on the bus and tries her hardest to protect her cookies amidst all the shaking and rattling that the bus does.

The bus stops and the pretty trio gets on the bus. Everyone gets out of her way as the pretty bully sits at the spot she wants to sit at in the back.

In class, Ju-kyung accidentally bumps into the full of herself bully so she says she will go buy mandu. She runs off. The bullies see her cookie package and look inside it and laugh. Then they go to the cafeteria and ask the cafeteria oppa if he is dating Im Ju-kyung.

The bully tells cafeteria oppa that he is fresh water and the other girl is dirty sewer water, you are too different. You are too nice of a person, that is why she is hitting on you. When I heard the rumor that you were dating, I was so mad!

(She says this in a little kid way like Kim Ji-won did in Fight My Way.)

The cafeteria oppa tells her not to cry or worry, I will text you about it. The girl says okay and then turns away talking bad about Ju-kyung.

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