THOUGHTSRAMBLE

 

 
 

 

This is how Xiao Feng finds herself having a conversation with Ah Ji. Ah Ji keeps on stuttering, while Xiao Feng feels really trapped because the one that she likes is Da Ye, not Ah Ji! Da Ye pretends that he has something on, and leaves. After that, Xiao Feng leaves, with Ah Ji hot on her heels. Xiao Feng starts to ‘cry’ because she doesn’t know what she should do, and Ah Ji doesn’t know what to do with her. Ah Yi sees the scene from on top.

Xiao Feng buys a drink from the vending machine and Ah Yi joins her, asking if she has a new love (Ah Ji.) Xiao Feng tells him everything, and Ah Yi asks why she didn’t clear it up from the start, or lie that the photo was washed for her friend, not her. Xiao Feng realises that she should have lied, but it’s all too late. Da Ye walks to them, and gives Xiao Feng a pair of tickets from Ah Ji. He harps on about how he’s very willing to help the both of them to get together, until the point that Ah Yi gets so irritated that he snaps at Da Ye and walks away. Xiao Feng, having no choice, tells Da Ye that it’s all a misunderstanding, and that she doesn’t like Ah Ji. Da Ye asks how come she has the photo then, and she takes Ah Yi’s idea, telling him that it’s for her friend. Little does she expect that Da Ye wants to play cupid for her friend and Ah Ji, and wants her to invite her friend out. Xiao Feng hastily pulls out a complicated flowchart of relationships that she has with this friend of hers, and convinces Da Ye that it will be very complex to invite the friend out. 

Xiao Feng’s friends learn about this whole matter, and conclude that the most unlucky person out of this whole matter is Ah Ji, because he thought that Xiao Feng likes him, even though she doesn’t. They start to laugh at how unlucky he looks just from the pose he makes in the photo, when Xiao Feng realises that he’s just standing behind them. He strikes the same pose, with the same face —

and asks if it looks very unlucky indeed. Xiao Feng’s friends have no idea how to react, so they run, leaving Xiao Feng to fend for herself. Ah Ji overheard the truth just now, that the person she likes is Da Ye, not him, and he’s very sad because he falls out of love within 12 hours. Xiao Feng offers him a drink and he says that he might have just fallen in love with her, causing Xiao Feng to be in a fluster and clearing things up that he’s.not.in.love.with.her. 

After she goes home, she realises that there’s just a slight possibility of Ah Ji telling Da Ye that she likes him and she tries to find his number to call him. However, they’re in different faculties so there’s no way that she would have his number. She rushes upstairs, and upon finding Da Ye not at home, she happily asks if Ah Yi will help her out — to steal the phonebook of the business faculty so that she can find Ah Ji’s number and call him. 

Ah Yi flatly refuses, and Xiao Feng whines. Ah Yi tells her that she can just caution Ah Ji again the next day, since she has already told him not to tell Da Ye. "Or do you think that he’s a big mouth?" 

Xiao Feng knows that Ah Ji doesn’t look like the big mouth kind, and runs back to Ah Yi’s side, saying "I always seem to get scolded by you… you’re like my mother:D" Ah Yi gets uncomfortable from the close proximity, and asks her to quickly go home and dry her hair (aww so sweet!) but Xiao Feng says that she likes her hair to dry in a natural way. She swings her hair in the manner of a shampoo commercial, and Ah Yi recalls a scene of his first love doing the same thing. 

Xiao Feng starts to joke and says that her shampoo smells really great, asking if Ah Yi wants to have a whiff of her shampoo. Ah Yi catches her wrist and asks her to stop doing that — "Have you forgotten… that I’m a man too?" -intense stare-

Xiao Feng runs back home in shock, and when Da Ye returns home, Ah Yi gets very angry at him again. He mutters "Idiot" at Da Ye and goes back to his room. Xiao Feng asks the next day if they have quarrelled, and Da Ye nods. Then, they see graffiti on the wall and get an idea. They lead Ah Yi to somewhere, and it turns out that the both of them have used spray paint to write "Ah Yi, sorry sorry" on the ground. It’s really quite sweet to see them dancing the song to Super Junior, and apologising ( even though I’m pretty sure Da Ye has no idea why Ah Yi’s angry with him). Ah Yi accepts their apology and they get back on good terms.  

They are playing with kids and playing with firecrackers, when Xiao Feng gets down about how Da Ye isn’t laughing because of her. He’s laughing because of kids and playing with them makes him happy, but when will she ever be the one that bring the smile to his face? Upon noticing her pensiveness, Ah Yi sits down by her side and tells her —

"I think you’re really a good girl… in my heart, you have a lot of charm."

Xiao Feng asks what he’s saying but the fireworks interrupt his reply. Later, Da Ye tells Ah Yi that he can use the bathtub already, but Ah Yi says that he only wants to have a shower. Da Ye doesn’t understand why he’s so angry with him, and asks if he’s in love with Xiao Feng. Ah Yi stops, and answers, "Who on earth will like that chicken?" He walks off and slams the door in Da Ye’s face. Da Ye discovers the drawing(of a princess and a prince in love) that Xiao Feng puts inside the crevice years and years ago. He deduces (wrongly) that Xiao Feng gave it to Ah Yi and that Ah Yi hides it, because since young, he has the habit of hiding things that’re important to him. 

Ah Ji tells Xiao Feng that she’s really good at hiding, because Da Ye knows nothing about her crush on him. "As your ex boyfriend, I’m very worried for you. Love should be spoken aloud courageously… Unless… you don’t mind seeing Da Ye falling in love with someone else, and be with someone else?" 

Even Qiu Ying tells her that at least she dares to take responsibility for her own love… "But you didn’t succeed as well…" "At least I can account for myself… not like you… you’re the coward… you’re scared that you will hear the answer that you don’t want to hear, so you keep this ambiguous relationship going on… you’re quite smart.. an ambiguous relationship will indeed add sweetness to the relationship, but the pre requisite is there’s a relationship in the first place."

Ah Yi comes along, and asks if she knows what Da Ye’s feeling. Xiao Feng answers that she definitely has more courage than he thinks she has. They have a softball/baseball ( I can’t really tell:P) competition. Xiao Feng’s the pitcher while Da Ye’s the batter. Xiao Feng throws the ball, and Da Ye manages to hit it, but the ball hits her ankle. It hurts terribly since the force is so great. Da Ye rushes up to her and carries her off the field. 

Xiao Feng’s ankle has all swollen up, but Da Ye is very sweet and tells Xiao Feng to hold his hand while the first aider tries to make the swell go down. One thing leads to another, and Xiao Feng confesses to Da Ye. However, Da Ye rejects her as he doesn’t know what’s the feeling of love, and he doesn’t want to have that burden. Xiao Feng apologises and runs off. Ah Yi comes and punches Da Ye. 

Da Ye sits there and becomes very sad. He asks why Ah Yi is so angry with him, and Ah Yi replies "Do you know how it feels like to love someone and yet, you can’t?" "It’s precisely the fact that I don’t know that I rejected her… Do you want me to accept her and then tell her that oh I got the wrong notion of love?" Ah Yi says, "I just want you to remember you were the one who rejected her." 

Xiao Feng looks at the stack of photos that she has collected over some period of time, and starts to cry. She has no idea that a rejection will bring so much heartbreak, and she throws the stack of photos into the dustbin. Qiu Ying brings Xiao Feng to a physical therapist. Qiu Ying jokes that she’s really so stupid as to confess to Da Ye. Xiao Feng replies that it’s all because of Qiu Ying’s agitation, and she suddenly shrieks because the physical therapist presses very hard on the swell. The therapist tells her that all suffering will pass, and when this pain is over, you will realise that it’s all worth it. Qiu Ying tells him that Xiao Feng will not understand what he’s talking about, but Xiao Feng says that she’s not stupid. Qiu Ying laughs and says that " Maybe it’s like that that no one can stop noticing you…" Xiao Feng laughs and asks if Qiu Ying can be friends with her; they’re really in the same boat now. They aren’t even love rivals anymore. 

In school, Xiao Feng can’t help but look out of the window and across to Da Ye’s block. While she’s doing this, her friends AND Ah Yi notice.

Her friends want to cheer her up, so they booked a karaoke room. Ah Ji wants to cheer Xiao Feng up and so he tags along. Xiao Feng wants Qiu Ying to come along as well, since they’re suffering from the same kind of heartbreak. It was quite funny when the song they chose was a sad break up song, and Xiao Feng, Qiu Ying ( suffering from Da Ye’s rejection) and Ah Ji ( technically suffering from Xiao Feng’s rejection) all stare at the screen in stony silence. Very soon, they start to hug each other and cry together. 

Xiao Feng tells Ah Yi not to return to his house first because everything’s going well between Qiu Ying and Da Ye. Ah Yi calls her stupid, and wants to walk back to the house, but Xiao Feng stops him. He turns around and says, "Are you going to give up just like that? You haven’t even joined in the war, why are you giving up?" 

Is it just me, or does she look like she has false lashes on one eye, and none on the other?

Turns out that it was all a misunderstanding — Qiu Ying saw tissue shreds on Da Ye’s face and wanted to take them off for him. Xiao Feng realises that she hasn’t interpreted things correctly and apologises. Ah Yi looks at Qiu Ying and asks who she is in a very cold way. Qiu Ying introduces herself and says that they have actually met before, but he might not remember. Xiao Feng assures Qiu Ying that Ah Yi is always like that. While Xiao Feng is TRYING to help them to cook, Qiu Ying mutters "Lousy" under her breath but she turns around and helps Xiao Feng. Xiao Feng hears the word, but suspects that she has hallucinated because she doesn’t think anyone would have said she’s lousy in such a sarcastic tone. She joins Ah Yi at the sofa, and she thanks Ah Yi for encouraging her.

Qiu Ying keeps behaving like she’s the lady of the house, and it gets Ah Yi very irritated, especially when he sees how inferior Xiao Feng feels. This shows that he’s slowly liking Xiao Feng, even though he hasn’t realised it yet. The next day, Xiao Feng witnesses someone confessing to Qiu Ying, and she accidentally hears Qiu Ying murmurs, "A toad wanting to eat swan’s flesh", something that the Qiu Ying she knows wouldn’t say. Qiu Ying realises that Xiao Feng hears her, and tells her the truth — that she has been acting all this while. She’s just trying to get Da Ye to fall in love with her, and she has purposely touched Da Ye’s face as well. Hearing that, Xiao Feng’s all the more determined to win Qiu Ying in getting Da Ye’s heart. She starts to behave like Qiu Ying, and practising in front of the mirror to say in a very demure way "Da Ye -sweet smile-"

Ah Yi realises that something is wrong with Xiao Feng, as she doesn’t squabble with him like she usually does. Instead, she goes in soft tones and keeps smiling. Ah Yi thinks that it’s very amusing and lets her be, until she spots Da Ye a few floors up. She runs up to him, and is in the mode of sweetness, when she realises that Qiu Ying has gotten there first. However, Da Ye tells her that "I think that your face is so cute" and she believes that she wants to make Da Ye like her in her true self, and not like Qiu Ying who simply puts on a front. 

Later, Qiu Ying has a sprained ankle that’s caused by Da Ye, and the guilt stricken Da Ye offers to fetch her to and from school every day. Xiao Feng reveals to her friends the two-faced Qiu Ying, and her friends say that they’re not surprised because their previous experience with her has also showed that she’s very double faced. 

(okay I forgot where this screenshot came from, but who cares(:)

Qiu Ying comes to find Xiao Feng in her class, and Ah Yi notices how terrified Xiao Feng is ( because Xiao Feng and her friends think that she’s super scary. She admits to faking the sprained ankle, and that she wouldn’t mind acting for her whole life if it will make Da Ye likes her) Qiu Ying tells Xiao Feng that she wants to confess to Da Ye, which she does, but she gets rejected. As she unravels her bandage and thanks Da Ye for taking care of her all these days, Xiao Feng doesn’t know what to feel. Qiu Ying walks away, and that’s when Xiao Feng realises that Qiu Ying isn’t faking the injury at all — she’s really limping. This whole episode causes Da Ye to feel really down, and he asks Xiao Feng to accompany him to the beach.

-the end-

AH YI:D I think this is so far, quite a successful adaptation of the manga… what I mean is that it feels right so far. I didn’t read the manga, so I wouldn’t know if it’s a good, or suitable adaptation, but at least, it doesn’t give the vibes of it being a doomed flop right from the start. I was really, really interested in Momo Love, but then right from the first episode, a lot of interest was lost. Even though I persisted all the way till the end, I didn’t have much memories of it, probably because I didn’t really like Cindy. However, Love Buffet is quite convincing in a sense… the girl that’s supposed to be cute is cute, the guy that’s supposed to be cool is cool…. the guy that’s supposed to be happy go lucky is happy go lucky.. though I would think it’s a tad too much. To be fair, it might be easier to act cool than to act nice. 

Is anyone really envious of Xiao Feng right now?(:

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Xiao Feng admits to her friends that she might be crushing on Da Ye, and her friends tease her about it, while encouraging her on. Brimming with love, she feels like she can fly, and even those kids that she is playing with get so tired after playing games with her. She happily tells them that it’s because of love, when Ah Yi appears and tells her not to teach stupid things to kids because they will become stupid as well.

Xiao Feng informs him that she doesn’t have the words "give up" and "fear" in her dictionary. "If there’s going to be fear, why have a relationship?" Ah Yi ponders for a while, then smiles. 

He asks, "You never have a relationship before do you?" Xiao Feng hrumph him, doesn’t answer and bring the kids to somewhere else to play. Ah Yi smiles again behind her back, but after they walk away, his face sorta falls. In his bed that night, he thinks about his ex girlfriend again. Xiao Feng dresses up the next day and Da Ye thinks that something has changed with her ( I think she put on make up). She asks in a cutsey way, "So what’s different about me?" and suddenly Ah Yi appears to say, "You have become fatter." Haha!

On the way to school, Da Ye jokes that he will join the tennis club because of the short skirts that the girls wear. Some girl approaches Da Ye, obviously wanting to confess to him. Ah Yi says that he doesn’t want to be late, and continues walking. He asks if Xiao Feng wants to come with him, ( aww so sweet!) but Da Ye pulls Xiao Feng back into his embrace and tells the girl that "The ambiance right now is so good…is it okay if you don’t disturb us?" Xiao Feng is very happy, even though she knows that Da Ye was just saying that to reject the girl.

Xiao Feng’s good friends find a photo of a guy, but the guy isn’t the main point. The main point is that she and Da Ye were in the background. Xiao Feng is so excited, because she always wants a photo that has her and Da Ye together. Her friends promise that they will help her print the photo so that she can go to the library to find her research. The senior that Da Ye saw last time in the lecture room invites him to join the tennis club, and Da Ye accepts. Ah Yi helps Xiao Feng find the books that they need, while asking "Don’t you feel suffocated in such a literary and artsy environment?" Xiao Feng admires Ah Yi’s courage in choosing to take up social sciences when he should have gone into the business faculty. Ah Yi recalls his grandfather scolding him and he looks down. He tells Xiao Feng that he doesn’t want to do something that goes against with what he wants, and Xiao Feng tells him that he looks very cool while saying that. Ah Yi smiles and tells her that she must have known her strengths and interests very well — since she always ties her hair in different styles everyday and she hangs out with kids a lot. Xiao Feng laughs and says that he must have been noticing her even though he has been feigning indifference. Ah Yi looks uncomfortable, and retorts that it’s because she’s such a nuisance to the eyes that he can’t help but notice her when she’s in his vision. 

Later, Xiao Feng is sad to find that Da Ye really entered the tennis club. At night, her sister asks her for help because she cannot come up with the last ten pages of her draft that she has to submit the next day. Xiao Feng gathers the forces of her neighbours and this is how Ah Yi and Da Ye end up helping her sister as well, even though Ah Yi wants to sleep. Xiao Feng teaches Da Ye how to erase properly, and has a lot of body contact with him, but quickly jumps away when Ah Yi points that out. The next day, Ah Yi returns first while Xiao Feng looks at a sleeping Da Ye. Da Ye suddenly opens his eyes, but it turns out that he’s still dreaming. Xiao Feng wonders what’s in his dreams, and when she goes back to sleep, she dreams of him instead. She’s so happy and jovial during her meal, that her mother goes to ask her sister if there’s anything wrong with her. Her sister replies that "Her autumn is here(:" which actually means that her love is here. 

In school, Xiao Feng either stares out of the window lovesickly at Da Ye (who is directly opposite her in another block ) or sleeps. Her friends lend her their notes to copy, but halfway through, she decides to gain mental strength by running to Da Ye’s classroom and sitting there, touching the desk, laughing to herself. (Crap, am I making her sound a little loony?) When she gets back into the class, Ah Yi’s standing there looking at her notes. He tells her that she makes a lot of mistakes in her notes, and asks her where she has gone to. Xiao Feng insists that she has gone to the toilet, but the dubious Ah Yi takes a look out of the window —

and asks, "You mean the toilet is at Da Ye’s seat?" He says that he will tell Da Ye, but Xiao Feng jumps up and says, "Orhhh why are you spying on me? And why do you have to tell Da Ye this kind of trivial things? You are so bad. Hrumph" and she looks away. Ah Yi laughs and says, "Idiot." Xiao Feng tells Ah Yi that he should smile more often so that people won’t think that he’s hard to get close too. Suddenly, a gust of wind blows, and Xiao Feng falls over. ( LOL. How on earth can a gust of wind blow people over? But whatever, I’m not going to complain since it’s going to lead on to the next scene ) Ah Yi reaches out to steady her —

and they look into each other’s eyes. (AHHH no matter how ridiculous this situation is, it’s forgiven(:) This moment is broken by Ah Yi himself, but it’s too late. Some classmates already saw them. By next day, rumours are flying around that Xiao Feng and Ah Yi have shared a passionate kiss in class. Xiao Feng explains to Da Ye that she really didn’t kiss Ah Yi, but Da Ye doesn’t understand why she’s so worked up about it since "A kiss is like fries with ketchup, a pizza with coke.." However, to Xiao Feng, "A kiss is a promise of love." While on this topic, Da Ye reveals that he probably can’t love anyone… because he doesn’t know what’s the idea of love. He doesn’t know how the feeling of love should feel like… and this is why he can’t accept anyone yet, at least not until he figures his own heart out. Xiao Feng returns to the classroom and tells the class that she really didn’t kiss Ah Yi. After hearing what Da Ye said, Xiao Feng gets down and Ah Yi asks if she wants to eat with him. 

Xiao Feng reveals that Da Ye says that he has no idea of what’s love, and to Xiao Feng, that’s like rejection because then, how will Da Ye ever fall in love with her? Ah Yi pushes Xiao Feng off the slide, and tells her that if she really wants it, then she must fight for it! Since she doesn’t have the word ‘give up’ in her dictionary, she should not be afraid of putting in her best. After saying that, he offers her fries, but she doesn’t want it as she recalls what Da Ye says about how a kiss is like fries with ketchup. Xiao Feng purposely drops by tennis club after lesson and Da Ye invites her to his house to watch DVD. Excited, Xiao Feng puts on lipgloss but everyone thinks that she has eaten oily chicken. Even Da Ye asks her to wipe the oil off since it’s so dirty. Later on, Xiao Feng puts on a dimmer lipgloss, and Da Ye realises that it’s lipgloss. He says, "It looks really yummy." and Xiao Feng recalls what he says about the kiss, thus she replies, "Would you like to eat it?" Da Ye goes nearer and nearer to her, until he remembers her saying that a kiss is like a promise. A call breaks the silence, and Da Ye moves away, pretending that he’s just pulling her leg.

They go to the place where Ah Yi has a part time job, and the lady boss comes back from some errands. She starts to make jokes about how she thinks the three of them are in a triangle relationship and how "If I’m the girl and two such handsome guys like me, I wouldn’t know what to do!! HAHAHAHA"

everyone in shock. Lol. Xiao Feng is joking and laughing with Da Ye, when she accidentally flips her food the wrong way. In a frenzy to clean up, she knocks over a cup of water onto the stove, and naturally a lot of steam comes up. Da Ye protects her face with her hand, and when it’s over, Ah Yi walks over, saying "Idiot." It sounds harsh, but you know that Ah Yi’s really shocked and worried about her. When Da Ye and Xiao Feng go back home, Xiao Feng feels guilty for the wound on Da Ye’s hand, but he’s fine about it. He makes shapes out of the shadows and Xiao Feng laughs. 

The next day, Xiao Feng joins the tennis club so that she can shorten the distance between her and Da Ye. The senior, called Qiu Ying, knows that she hasn’t bought her racquet, and gives her her old one. While walking home with Ah Yi, Xiao Feng sees the stray dog that has already grown so much. She rushes up and coos to the dog, but realises that Ah Yi has a fear of dogs. She starts laughing and singing songs because she realises that he’s like a human too — with fears, and not always as cool as he seems. 

 Xiao Feng tries to stand up from her squatting position but her legs have pins and needles, so she stumbles. Ah Yi catches her in time —