Episode 6 of Boyfriend on Demand begins with Mi-rae excited to meet her perfect match. After answering all those questions, she steps onto that fantasy road and bad boy Kyeong-nam is there to greet her. He sports red hair, a leather jacket and holds her dotted scarf in his hand.
However, Kyeong-nam in this reality is called Yeong-il, and her dating manager is certainly not changing his looks on a whim. This is Mi-rae's perfect guy and there are "no returns allowed." Mi-rae takes off her ring and tries to find a solution.
Back in the real world, Mi-rae is completely dumbfounded in Kyeong-nam's presence. She continues to cast little glances his way at work and tries to figure out if she's been wrong all along and she's staring at her ideal man right now.
This time, in their work meeting, Mi-rae takes her time to properly look at Kyeong-nam and finds herself starting to like parts of his physique. All of this is compounded though when she realizes that a lot of good men are already in relationships or with other people.
Naturally, instead of actually indulging in Kyeong-nam, she decides to try this custom-relationship with Yeong-il. The pair end up at a bar drinking cocktails, where Mr. Ko is here as the bartender. Yeong-il is a free-spirited guy and precisely what Mi-rae wants. It's basically a mix of both a bad boy and a nice guy rolled into one. However, is this really what Mi-rae wants, I wonder?
Anyway, back at work she realizes her heart is actually not fluttering when she looks at Kyeong-nam, and she's confident it's because Yeong-il is a very different person.
At work, Kyeong-nam and Mi-rae are called in to talk to the Director. He discusses the appliance commercial that Hwany is going to be taking part in, and there's a bit of awkwardness because Mi-rae hasn't actually told Song about this yet.
However, the real reason for bringing these two into his office is that both will be attending the BCF Awards. It's a prestigious webtoon award ceremony and the Director is confident they'll win something. Yun-song and Hwany will both be attending as they're nominated for awards. It also means Kyeong-nam and Mi-rae will be spending more time together.
On the way out the office, Kyeong-nam tells Mi-rae not to avoid him quite so much, given it's hard for him too after the rejection. Anyway, the award show goes ahead and Yun-song wins the Popularity award. Hwany wins the Best Work award for his webtoon, PlanC. It's a really big award and Mi-rae offers some praise and encouraging words to him.
Yun-song though is absolutely seething with anger. She sees this as a way of playing second fiddle to Hwany and the pair wind up arguing outside. When she pushes Mi-rae, Kyeong-nam is there to catch her… just as fireworks explode behind them. So much for those heart-fluttering moments right?
Speaking of curveballs, when the celebratory dinner and drinks go ahead afterwards, Song rips into Hwany, telling him that he's not over her from before, when he used to leave little presents outside her door. Song saw him running down to the basement a few times after leaving them and running off.
In reality, it was nothing to do with Song and he was actually interested in her assistant, So-yeong. Song is shocked and obviously embarrassed. She claims she has a boyfriend and although everybody shrugs it off, in reality she does.
The guy's name is Jjong, and that night he rings her phone while Mi-rae takes her home. She picks up, explaining that Song has been brought back and thanks Mi-rae for looking after her.
Mi-rae is pretty drunk though and as she heads over to the beach, drinking beer, Yeong-il rings and asks whether they should meet. Mi-rae scoffs at the idea of it but continues talking… just as Kyeong-nam stands in front of her. The thing is, Mi-rae thinks this is Yeong-il and reaches out to touch his face, smiling.
The Episode Review
So it now becomes clear that Mi-rae's perfect guy is very much Kyeong-nam and she's slowly starting to understand that. It'll be interesting to see how she handles the virtual boyfriend malarkey going forward though because right now, she's obviously torn between both realities.
Speaking of boyfriends, it seems obvious that Song's boyfriend is a virtual reality guy right? After we saw her a few episodes back picking up the headset, I reckon she's indulged in a virtual romance of her own.
Outside of that, the show has done a pretty good job so far of separating these two realities out but it's interesting that they're starting to blur together in unexpected and amusing ways.
Mi-rae is clearly hiding how she truly feels but that ending does feel like a bit of a turning point. Hopefully Mi-rae can open up and admit how she really feels before it's too late!
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