EDIDIONG'S PUBLIC DIARY

As the rest of the guys aren’t taking this
seriously, they find Jun-pyo unusually
fixated. Yi-jung suggests that Jun-pyo act in
their “usual way,” and Jun-pyo’s gleeful
reaction gives us our first glimpse of his, uh,
not-quite-bright tendencies.
The next day, Jan-di gets the red card, but it
doesn’t really mean much to her and she
just tosses it away.
She finds out what the effects of red-
carding are when she walks into class and
her desk is gone. One of her notebooks is
lying on the ground, graffiti’d with hate
words, and when she bends down to pick it
up, it jumps out of reach — someone’s tied a
string to it.
Jan-di follows the leaping notebook out into
the hallway, where her equally defaced desk
is parked. Students start pelting her with
eggs — and then a bucket of flour is dumped
over her from above.
It’s the despoiling of her uniform that gets
to her — she remembers how her father so
proudly ironed it — and Jan-di shouts at
them defiantly, “Go on! Keep going!”
When she looks to the crowd around her,
Min-ji rushes off, too scared to show her
support.
Meanwhile, F4 watches the proceedings on a
television in their lounge. The other two (Yi-
jung, Woo-bin) figure that’s the end of story,
but Jun-pyo corrects them — it’s over when
Jan-di comes begging on her knees.
I admit this is the scene when I totally fell
for Lee Min-ho’s dunderheaded charms,
because he’s absolutely convinced Jan-di
will come through the door any minute now.
He counts down, and his consternation when
she doesn’t is hilarious.
Jan-di retreats to her shouty stairwell (“Do
you think because my name is Jan-di [grass],
you can trample all over me?!”). Again, she’s
interrupted by Ji-hoo, who’s relaxing on the
landing below.
Oddly, he asks, “Do you know how to make
pancakes?” Confused, Jan-di lists the
ingredients. Taking in her appearance, Ji-hoo
peers at her closely, then wipes the flour
from her face and uniform with a
handkerchief. Surprised and touched, she
promises to return it later; he answers that
he won’t be coming back, since the
stairwell’s gotten a lot noisier recently.
Jan-di’s mood lifts when she goes back to
the now-empty classroom and finds a set of
gym clothing and a stuffed animal on her
desk. The toy has a voice-recorded message
from Min-ji, which tells her, “I’m sorry.
Forgive me for being a coward.”
When she goes for a swim, Jan-di finds the
pool littered with trash — it’s Jun-pyo’s next
phase in the Jan-di Tormenting Regimen.
In fact, Jun-pyo’s so into his plans to ruin
Jan-di’s life that even his friends are
surprised he’s still so fixated on them, a
week later. Yi-jung muses, “Isn’t she the first
to really stand up to F4?”
(Ji-hoo isn’t with them because he’s off
sleeping in a new location, although how
anyone can sleep with legs crossed like that
is a wonder. Way to go, Ji-hoo.)
All the while, Jan-di cleans out the pool,
picking out all the empty bottles and soda
cans. By the time she’s dressed in the
locker room, she’s visited by more of Jun-
pyo’s minions, who grab her, ignoring her
screams, and start to carry her off.