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Again, these past few days have been about me catching up with shows, and Semantic Error is one of those shows. It’s been a literal month since I wrote about the previous episode, where Sangwoo kissed Jaeyeong for the first time. Let’s see how things progress from there!

Sangwoo and Jaeyeong are at the restaurant where Jaeyeong works at the start of this episode, and Jaeyeong is lightly reprimanding Sangwoo for not walking him up. I guess he doesn’t know that Sangwoo kissed him while he was sleeping!

Conveniently, it’s only Jaeyeong and Sangwoo at the restaurant, which leads to the two of them drinking quite a bit. And as the oft-quoted…uh…quote says, “In vino veritas.” They engage in a bit of yaja time, and Sangwoon lets it slip that he thinks Jaeyeong is handsome, all while Jaeyeong is calling him “hyung” with just the right amount of suggestiveness. Sangwoo tries to push him away, but Jaeyeong insists on ~clarifying~ Sangwoo’s statement about his handsomeness. When Sangwoo finally admits that yes, Jaeyeong is very handsome, Jaeyeong warns him that he’s going to kiss him, and if he doesn’t want that, he should run away now. But Sangwoo is ahead of him already.

Also, did sombody say Run Away?

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After getting taken aback for a bit, Jaeyeong gets his bearings back and kisses Sangwoo back, and so much better than in most heterosexual K-dramas, I gotta say. Or at least the past K-dramas I’ve watched. No chaste peck on the lips here!

Unfortunately, that second kiss snaps Sangwoo out of his drunkeness, and now he’s having issues with the whole like another guy and kissing another guy thing. I’d sigh in exasperation, but I’m trying to keep in mind that LGBTQIA+ rights and issues aren’t exactly progressing over there in South Korea. Jaeyeong is at least ~nonchalant~ about it, and reasons that since they’ve already kissed, why not date and take it all the way. Right?

Sangwoo runs away, or at least tries to, but Jaeyeong’s long legs catch him soon enough, and Jaeyeong kabedons him and tells him not to ignore his heart. Or at the very least, try out being with him for two weeks or something. He’s logical and everything, so why not ~experiment~? And Jaeyeong at least makes some progress, because Sangwoo asks for time to think about it rather than outright rejecting.

While we wait for Sangwoo to come to a ~conclusion~, we find out a bit more about Jaeyeong’s buddy Hyeongtak, who I haven’t really written about, I think, because he’s heterosexual. He thinks Jihye is into Jaeyeong, not knowing that Jihye is into Sangwoo. Maybe there’s something wrong with the translation, or maybe Jaeyeong misunderstands, but Hyeongtak says he’ll confess after the exam. I think Jaeyeong misunderstands it and thinks Jihye is going to confess to Sangwoo, so he tries to ~nip it in the bud~ by confronting her.

Turns out I’m the idiot, because Jaeyeong thinks Hyeongtak is right, and asks Jihye if she does like him. AND THEN I AM REMINDED I AM AN IDIOT AGAIN BECAUSE HE IS TRYING TO STOP HER FROM CONFESSING TO SANGWOO. And he tells her to her face that he likes Sangwoo, which, to Jihye’s credit, she isn’t immediately homophobic about. Jaeyeong says she’ll have to go through him to get to Sangwoo.

And what about Sangwoo? Sangwoo’s asking Jaeyeong’s girl BFF about his dating history. Unfortunately, she may not have been the right person to ask about this because she lists all his male and female exes — go bisexual rep! — and shares that she doesn’t think Jaeyeong is serious about love. That’s not going to help with Jaeyeong’s plan to be with Sangwoo!

OR MAYBE IT IS, because Girl BFF tells Sangwoo that Jaeyeong wasn’t that affectionate with his exes and that since getting to know Sangwoo, Jaeyeong’s changed. But even after that conversation, Sangwoo’s still resisting his feelings, and tries to act like he always does when Jaeyeong arrives, and they work on their game again. He does notice Jaeyeong’s tattoo, leading Jaeyeong to draw the Veggie Man character they’ve been working on on Sangwoo’s arm. And boy does Sangwoo like it. Even makes him smile a bit.

As they’re walking back home, Sangwoo asks what the two of them can do during the two-week trial, and since I am a pervert, the first thing that comes to mind is sex. But Jaeyeong is purer than I am because he just takes Sangwoo’s hand and gives him a hug. And Sangwoo is wet, but he still refuses to accept that he wants to ride Jaeyeong’s joystick.

The next day, Sangwoo finally decides to give that two-week trial a go, but there’s an unexpected roadblock. Jaeyeong gets accepted to a prestigious game studio… but he’ll need to move to France.

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