A Storm's on the Horizon
Working-Class Mr. Ahn's Unscheduled Visits to Dr. Yeon's Clinic continues...
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Warning: this post deals with some heavier psychological topics and dark fictional elements. Everything here is totally fictional.
Running Commentary — The Sofa Ritual
Jennie:
I. Blue Light from the TV
Personal experience intrudes again. But isn't there something profoundly soothing about late-night conversations with someone you love, whisky-drunk, blue TV light washing over everything? That sofa the pups nearly fused into must've been small for Suho's frame — his long legs probably dangled off the edge. You think he didn't imagine squeezing onto it with Si-eun when he bought it at IKEA?
II. The Fist Pumps of Ecstatic Baseballers
The image of a baseball game's remnants murmuring through the quiet — so romantic it hurts (crying.) One of my delulu bricks: Si-eun has zero interest in sports (especially team sports), and Suho would never go to a stadium. He'd rather watch TV at home with Si-eun. This extends from canon — Baku is Eunjang's centre and heart, while Suho (per Director Yoo) "only moves for Si-eun." I never imagined Suho as socially expansive. That's why, when deluluversing his career, I landed on tile specialist — solitary, focused work. My headcanon: Suho dislikes crowds.
III. Hotteok
The actor's actual face does this too. His cheekbones make him round like hotteok when he smiles. Unbearably cute. Our favourite photo, him with braces, pearlescent flush near those cheekbones. Looks exactly like soft, warm hotteok. And now it's pressed against Dr Yeon's thigh? My delulu fragments, assembled by your prose, form a cathedral's stained glass (crying).
IV. His Lips
Did their lips touch at the mountain summit too? Reason tells me to calm down, but emotion spirals the imagination.
V. A Small Pillow
Another brick somewhere in the delulu pile — Suho, buying a house in his early 30s, would care about interior design for his second-floor space (and for Si-eun returning from Iraq). IKEA furniture, bedding, cushions — all from IKEA. Why does the image of these two "suspicious friends" shopping at IKEA together feel so persuasive? I can see them seriously deliberating over lighting hahaha. (Evidence: Suho's Apple Watch has a square protective case… any man who protects his Apple Watch like that enjoys shopping hahahaha.) This time too, Si-eun probably just went along — not particularly interested, but Suho wanted to go.
VI. Suho's Head
Every mention of Suho's "head" makes my heart clench. Imagining how carefully Si-eun would transfer that potato onto the cushion. As a doctor, Si-eun probably obsesses over Suho's neurons, ready to take up the knife himself if anything goes wrong. (Sexy…)
VII. Surgery
See? Just mentioned surgery… The Michelin chef and her devoted repeat customer remain connected hahaha. What I thought was a side dish turned into a full-course meal — your "2nd Floor Suho's House, Pre-Dawn Happenings" chapter (just coined that). Reading it after receiving your email today, the ladies chasing young potato were probably all needy. Who wouldn't want to devour that potato? Monopolise him, engage him. But the potato stays impassive. How pissed off they must have been. Before the hurricane hits, these reunited adult dogs live in near-newlywed bliss. What lets this "suspicious" friendship maintain such harmony, beyond their shared history, is that neither wants anything from the other. They've never gauged who loves more. Never will. Don't even register the need.
VIII. Fall Out
Just imagining Suho falling keeps Si-eun awake — trauma from the past, stubbornness about treatment breeding paranoia. It's deeply romantic, yes. But also, it's young Si-eun's pattern — only feeling secure when he's perfected the environment, ensured total safety. Didn't know it would lead to this beautiful arc back then, but that mechanism, needing perfect control (perfect circles on exams, perfect grades) to feel stable, transferred entirely onto Suho. In my analysis posts I called it "unhealthy friendship dynamics"… but the deluluverse is another matter as always. If Dr Yeon heard Suho's next project involved high-rise exterior work, he'd immediately drown himself in emergency trauma protocols.
IX. The Ritual
Wrote extensively above about Si-eun's safety-formation rituals, and Chef names it exactly that — "ritual."
X. Si-eun Traced Suho's Eyebrows
Asuka hahaha. I mentioned this casually once, zero ulterior motive, and it manifested!!! So romantic. And I love Suho's classicism — keeping it locked in his heart rather than voicing it, worried Si-eun might feel shy. (Si-eun's milkshake volume is in there too, right?)
XI. Eyebrows Nose Forehead Lips
Friend, do you know a vocalist named 'Taeyang' from Big Bang? He has a classic song called "Eyes, Nose, Lips" — probably in my top 10 K-pop tracks. Your lines felt exactly like those lyrics. Now I understand why Suho perpetually malingers as a chronic patient — he loves the treatment too much. If I had a "beauty" like that treating me (actually, I think Si-eun leans handsome while Suho leans pretty — Suho's face has cheong-sun/청순, which means young and pure, but finding the perfect English equivalent for video captions was difficult), I'd never want to wake either.
XII. Hyung. Suho Hyung
Had to stand up, drink water, subdue the chills. It sounds like whining, like sulking. And Dr Yeon does this nocturnal whimpering not even in front of Suho, but when he's asleep…
XIII. His Best Not to Smile
If it were me I'd have bolted upright and smacked a hundred kisses on him.
XIV. I Love You So Much
Could almost hear Si-eun's husky voice as BGM.
XV. The Price of Yeon Clinic Visits
Dr Yeon never charged Mr Ahn a dime, but the transaction completes here.
XVI. Si-eun Always Wanted Suho to Have the Sort of Deep Rest That Eluded Himself
Sadly, the channel owner removed it but there was a brilliant video cross-editing Si-eun watching sleeping Suho while unable to sleep himself. Lyrics: "Sleep well, for my share too." I can't sleep, but I want you to. So many WHC fans share nearly identical interpretations, swimming together in this delulu ocean across the Pacific.
XVII. TV On
Si-eun would absolutely be this considerate. So many men are Neanderthals about thoughtfulness, but Si-eun can manage it. Not quite Beomseok-level (remember? Oh Beom had Suho's part-time schedule memorised… though that was because it was Suho), but delicate and considerate. Now imagine those delicate hands holding a knife.
XVIII. He Hoped Suho Would Follow Him In
Buried my face in my hands at the final line. Read it hastily commuting — couldn't properly absorb it… This chapter alone stands as an exquisite short story. The patient receiving treatment was the foreshadowing. Dr Yeon knew all along — the patient's desperate twitching to suppress smiles. As a doctor, he'd be expert at reading pulses. How could he miss Suho's accelerating heartbeat? Breathing distance apart? Even non-doctors can tell when their beloved feigns sleep. How could a professional miss the signals — trembling lips fighting laughter, flushing face, laboured breath, rising and falling chest? So romantic it's agonising.
Who is Jennie?
Bricklayer. Local correspondent for the Yeon Clinic deluluverse. A sous chef who checks whether the soup actually tastes like Seoul. A specialist who designs this kitchen to hold more than Suho's coma — philosophy, history, society, culture, stacked one recipe at a time.
Who is Asuka?
Head nurse and main chef of the Yeon Clinic. A Scheherazade who sings the Song of Achilles she found shelved next to a book on Zen Buddhist masters. Fluent in several languages, conversant in single malts and the precise emotional damage of Weak Hero Class 1. Signs off as ASL. (Always starch linen.)
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This post was originally published on Jennie's blog in the autumn of 2025. The original blog has since moved to Blogger due to hosting changes — welcome to the new home.
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