Episode 1. Because This is My First Time Being Thirty

Every year, my wish was the same. Please help me become an excellent writer. – Yoon Ji Ho

Mom has always been on my side. – Yoon Ji Ho

The problem is I just know nothing about the world. – Yoon Ji Ho

The company can't break the algorithms of my life. – Nam Se Hee

I want to be a snail in my next life. They will never get kicked out of the house. – Yoon Ji Ho

Just don't make me a bad person. – Yoon Ji Ho

This isn't an opportunity. It's a fair transaction of this capitalistic country. – Yoon Bo Mi

Times have changed. There is no such thing as male and female preference. – Yoon Bo Mi

Come to think of it, I've never been a striker in my life. I've always defended myself and stepped back at the right timing. I have neither the courage to take the ball nor the experience to avoid it. I'm an amateur defender. – Yoon Ji Ho

I'm embarrassed of myself, not to you but to myself. I couldn't differentiate love from kindness until this age. I had a crush on him for three years. I kept it until I turned 30. I'm ashamed by how foolish I am. i'm not even 20, but 30. I don't know what I'm doing at my age. – Yoon Ji Ho

You mentioned your age is 30. It's the limit of your neocortex. It is located at the outer part of your brain and is in charge of the concept of time. Cats don't have neocortex unlike humans, so they don't get bored or depressed even if they have the same food or do the same things in the same house in their daily lives. Cats have neither a future nor a past. Only one kind of species on Earth lock themselves up in time. They're human beings. Only human beings use age to make others spend money and draw emotions. That's what humans got in exchange for evolution. – Nam Se Hee

Thinking that I'd never get to see him again, I felt a bit sad. – Yoon Ji Ho

I think I've already become a failure in this life, but I'll try my best. – Yoon Ji Ho

Going through this life is the first time for all of us anyway. – Nam Se Hee

I've forgotten for a while. This life, this moment, you only get one chance. – Yoon Ji Ho

I didn't imagine this is how I'd be living in my 30s, but considering it's my first time it's not so bad. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 2. Because This is My First Kiss

I can actually do it tomorrow, but I wouldn't feel at ease. – Woo Soo Ji

If it's something you have to do, better to finish it today. – Yoon Ji Ho

It's something I have to do. No one will do it for me anyway. – Woo Soo Ji

That's an offside. It wasn't a regular attack. It was like an offside when you attacked me when I was defenseless. – Nam Se Hee

This could be my last chance. I can make this happen. I will become the legend. – Yoon Ji Ho

Relationships cost you something whether its' money, time, or emotions. – Nam Se Hee

You'll be disqualified if we have at least the slightest possibility of falling in love. But we know it's not gonna happen, so it's safe for both of us. – Nam Se Hee

This house, Kitty, and myself, I'm willing to bear these three things only. – Nam Se Hee

What parents want is to fulfill their desires through their kids. – Nam Se Hee

You always looked so happy when you were writing something. Don't you feel happy when you write these days? – Yang Ho Rang

Not everyone can do what they want from the start. Only the successful ones can do what they want. People like us just have to do what we're told to do. – Gye Yong Seok

There's a side to you that you never wish to show others no matter how close you are to them. Sometimes, your family can become the least close people to you. When I decided to follow my dream I thought my life would be like walking through a dark tunnel, but I didn't know it'd be this dark. I didn't know it'd be this lonely. How much longer do I have to go? – Yoon Ji Ho

If you have some time, would you marry me? – Nam Se Hee

Back then I just wanted to fall into something. Whether it's a manhole or just a big hole, it doesn't matter. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 3. Because This is My First Proposal

In the end, humans and the universe are all connected. – Shim Won Seok

You have to have a strong mentality to date anyone. Otherwise, you won't be able to. Dating is a competition these days. – Woo Soo Ji

Marriage limits your freedom. In modern society, marriage is just a system to preserve your genes. It's nothing more than that. – Nam Se Hee

You're trying? You call this trying? It's like I've been struck by a rock and am bleeding now. You're forcing me to keep going my way, telling me that I seem alright and I'm not bleeding that much. You're dragging me by force. This isn't trying. I'm bleeding so much and hurting to death. – Yoon Ji Ho

When I go through a hard time, they never ask me what happened or why it happened like others do. They chat and laugh as usual. Truly, that's the biggest comfort I can ever get. – Yoon Ji Ho

You think everything will work out if I do things well? – Yoon Ji Ho

I'm satisfied with this young and pretty cat. – Nam Se Hee

You'll do well wherever you go. You're a very responsible person. You scored the highest among all the tenants who lived here. – Nam Se Hee

I need you, not a marriage. – Nam Se Hee

I knew it was not the right moment to fall for him. But still, it was the first time hearing that someone needs me. Throughout my 20s, I worked hard to be a person who's needed for something. I thought there might be at least one place that needed me in this big city. For what did I try so hard to live when I'd go back to Namhae without any achievement? There wasn't any place for me from the beginning anyway. – Yoon Ji Ho

He's the first person who said he needed me. That's how our proposal began. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 4. Because This is My First Marriage

I'm on my way to marry my landlord. – Yoon Ji Ho

Love and affection aren't something I need for at least two years. What I need right now is a room. – Yoon Ji Ho

I decided to marry my tenant today. I know, it's not a choice an ordinary person would make. I found a very unusual woman as my wife. – Nam Se Hee

Honestly, I wanted to experience it once—marriage. – Yoon Ji Ho

I can hardly support myself. How can I date and love in this state? – Yoon Ji Ho

Girls never say what they want directly. They want to hear it from guys. To hear what they want to hear, they keep talking to their man but they keep beating around the bush. It can be strong sometimes. It can be cute sometimes. But in the end, it will make you go crazy. – Ma Sang Goo

You should work with whatever you have in your hands. – Ma Sang Goo

Why don't you make it easy for me to understand? Help me understand rather than acting crazy when I don't understand. – Shim Won Seok

Why should I be the only one who's always sorry? Why should I always care for your feelings only? I'm so sick of it. – Shim Won Seok

Ho Rang's dream has been the same since she was 17—being a good mother.

Is your fallopian tube your everything? Is your womb your identity? – Woo Soo Ji

Loneliness only comes when you have time. – Woo Soo Ji

In highschool, Soo Ji's dream was to be a CEO. She wanted to be a CEO in whatever field she chooses. She has always been the center of her life. She was always awesome. She wanted to be a CEO, but right now she's just an employee who answers to her boss. Ho Rang's only dream was to be married, but right now she's been dating the same guy for 5 years and living with him for 2 years. And I decided to marry my landlord to live in Seoul.

It looks like everyone's trying really hard, but no one knows whether they're getting closer to achieve what they want or not. – Yoon Ji Ho

Things are different these days. The market is either saturated or depleted these days. The world is not going to get better in that way, so there should be a new standard for the new generation. – Nam Se Hee

The world is not going to get better. That also means my life is not going to get better. I shouldn't be looking forward to a better future. I should be living to avoid the worst thing that could happen tomorrow. – Yoon Ji Ho

You don't marry someone for love anymore. That's for rich people these days. Now we just want to live normally. To do that, we have to do something. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 5. Because This is My First Promise

A relationship doesn't just rely on the time they've known each other. Although we met just recently, I felt that he was someone I need in my life. – Yoon Ji Ho

I think it might be fate. – Yoon Ji Ho

I thought he's been waiting for such words. I think he wanted to check if I'm the right person for his son. – Yoon Ji Ho

I guess he can't be changed. – Yang Ho Rang

We are quite a good combination. – Nam Se Hee

How can I get anything from them when I have nothing to give? – Yoon Ji Ho

If you don't have any money, all you can do is just sleeping. You can't dream of anything. – Yoon Ji Ho

According to the Sociologist Gary Becker, people only get married if it brings more benefits than being single.

Can you stop talking about stupid things to him? If you do that to him again, I'd be really upset. – Yoon Ji Ho

I wish you could have a daughter like you. – Kim Hyun Ja

I'm Ji Ho's mother. I don't know how to address you yet. We haven't met many times. I'm sorry for how I behaved at the first family meeting. She's my first daughter, you know. She's like my husband sometimes, and she's also like my friend. She's scared of her father and she had to give up a lot because of her younger brother. Because she met someone like me as a mom, she has gone through a lot. Thankfully, unlike me, she's really smart. I was relieved because I thought she wasn't going to live like me. I guess, being smart is nothing if you don't have a rich family these days. Se Hee, can you please do me just two favors? If Ji Ho says she wants to write in the future, can you let her do that? I will do the house chores if that will help. So if she ever wants to write again in the future, please don't let her give up on her dream. I don't want her to live like me. Please do that for her. Also, it's hard for her to stop crying when she starts. So please don't let her cry alone. Even though you make her cry, just be with her when she's crying.

Is it hard to stop crying? If that's the case, we should go together. It's okay to cry. Let's go together. I'll be right next to you. I'll be with you. – Nam Se Hee

I thought getting married was going to be Shimple. This is where we meet our needs. Maybe, it could be where our hearts meet. Something that's not that Shimple just started. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 6. Because This is Our First Time

I was still a snail chasing her dreams. I may be a little slow, but I continued to believe that if I work hard, my dream will come true. – Yoon Ji Ho

Ji Ho is a woman with determination. I may not know her that well yet, but when she decided to wtite scenarios, when she decided to quit writing, and when she decided to get married, she made all those choices for herself. She may seem weak and shy, but she's a very determined person. Her heart is really strong. She doesn't do anything that makes her unhappy. Therefore, she will eventually take the path that makes her happy and I'm not going to be in her way while I'm married to her. That's all the promise I can make. I'm sorry. I can't make promises to make her happy or protect her. – Nam Se Hee

Just because you're married to her doesn't mean you have to make her happy. Who can make anyone else happy? It's hard to be happy these days. The best thing you can do is not be in the way of others. – Kim Hyun Ja

It's not just your concern; it's ours. – Nam Se Hee

I wish he could understand things better in his next life, because I don't think he can in this life. – Yang Ho Rang

I don't do real relationships with guys. I just make memories with them. – Woo Soo Ji

Having someone is better than being alone, having someone who understands me unconditionally, having her by my side all the time. – Ma Sang Goo

If you want more to the landlord-tenant relationship, it's very uncomfortable for me. – Nam Se Hee

I love you so much. I always want to be with you, that's why I'm living with you now. However, I don't know what it is like to get married yet. You know I can't live without you, but I don't know if getting married is the same as loving someone. – Shim Won Seok

Love and marriage are separate things. – Shim Won Seok

We were born in the heyday of our country, but we were also going through the worst recession. We experience both prosperity and poverty. That's why we are called the unlucky kids born in 1988. Nothing is easy for us. Getting married, dating someone, and being ourselves are all difficult to have.

Being romantic and having a relationship are something you can't dream of without spending money and energy. That's why I misunderstood this time. Because of what you said, I thought I finally got something easily this time. I thought I found someone I can be called "us" with. – Yoon Ji Ho

Actually, it's been so long since I heard words like we or us. It's been a while since I felt like I belonged somewhere. That's why I overreacted. I thought you and I belong together. That's why I made a mistake. So from now on, don't easily say we or us anymore. – Yoon Ji Ho

It's because I got the wrong idea. I hurt my pride and was embarrassed. There may be many reasons, but I'm sure of one thing. Now I want to hurt you. Our gravity is gone. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 7. Because This is My First YOLO

If you have a husband, can't you have a boyfriend? – Yeon Bok Nam

I've only trained him to be a boyfriend until now. I'll have to turn him into a husband material. – Yang Ho Rang

Should I not get married? I don't think I've experienced the world enough. – Yang Ho Rang

You don't have to think they are pathetic. Everyone has a different goal. You want to believe you are enjoying every moment of your life. YOLO is a nihilistic spending pattern. You know you can't earn much and you can't save at all, so you want to spend it all to forget your miserable situation. – Nam Se Hee

Girls sometimes like their men getting jealous. – Yoon Bo Mi

Why do I have to choose one when there are two? I will sleep with both. – Woo Soo Ji

"We are slaves. If they pay us, we'll do everything!"

It's more important to be good at your work than just working hard. – Ma Sang Goo

If I don't make my friend a decent human, I think I'm going to regret it all my life. – Ma Sang Goo

I always care about you, wonder what you're doing, and I always want to see you. This is me being professional. – Ma Sang Goo

We often misunderstand others. We can't say we get how others feel. Instead, you have to say, "I can't understand what I say either." If we don't try hard, we won't understand each other.

Episode 8. Because This is My First Husband

I said I wanted to sleep with you. I didn't say I wanted to date you. – Woo Soo Ji

If the relationship ends, it always badly affects the woman. People will blame the woman. – Woo Soo Ji

Marriage seems like nothing. It's like a part-time job, a trade between labor and capital. – Yeon Bok Nam

Won Seok: I have nothing. Why do you want to marry me?

Ho Rang: I want it because it's you. Do I need more reasons?

I married him because it's him. I'm not going to say his job and his house didn't play a part, but if it was someone else, I wouldn't have married that person even with the same conditions. – Yoon Ji Ho

I'm more interested in you than you think. I'm not a stranger. – Yeon Bok Nam

We can't understand each other if we don't try. Even though the world is like this, still, love exists.

Episode 9. Because This is the First Time I Belong Somewhere

Thank you for coming running to me, for walking down with me, and for calling it our home. – Yoon Ji Ho

Were you upset because I drew a line? – Nam Se Hee

It was a mutual agreement, but after the contract ends, the damage might be bigger for you than for me. You're a woman and you're younger than me, that's why the society might look at you more harshly. – Nam Se Hee

I promised your mother I wouldn't make any trouble for you. I still want to keep it. – Nam Se Hee

I liked being part of this house. – Yoon Ji Ho

Don't draw a line between us on purpose. – Yoon Ji Ho

For the next two years, you belong to this house along with me. – Nam Se Hee

I just want to live an ordinary life like everyone else, a life as a married woman with a husband and children. I want to talk about in-laws and raising kids with my friends. I want to wear black coats that fit in everywhere. I want to be like everyone else who doesn't stand out. I want to do what everyone else does and share Shimilar stories we can all laugh about. That's my dream. To me, marriage is something that proves that I'm alright and that I have a value as a woman. Marriage is like that black coat. – Yang Ho Rang

When did we begin to feel shame for wearing a different color? – Yoon Ji Ho

It felt good to belong somewhere. – Yoon Ji Ho

Remember my favorite mathematician Kurt Godel? His theorem of incompleteness is the basis of today's computer system. There's a saying that there's a mathematical proposition that cannot be proven even if it's the mathematical truth. I think, all this time I wanted to prove myself to you. But what I realized is that our love will never be completely proven. It's because our love is a perfect truth. Do you get what I mean? I'll never make you feel insecure. So Ho Rang, will you marry me? – Shim Won Seok

Love matters to me, but my work matters too. – Ma Sang Goo

Unless we try hard, we can't understand each other. Love exists in this kind of world. As long as you love someone, you have to try hard. Trying hard for someone makes life something worth trying at.

Se Hee: I think having just one friend is enough in life.

Ji Ho: I think one love is also enough in life.

Se Hee: I agree. Having one love is more than enough in life.

The one and only love in my life has begun. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 10. Because This is My First Time Having In-laws

You only live once. How can you live under someone's orders forever? – Woo Soo Ji

My dream is love. I want to have the love of my life. I want to meet someone that's like a fate. – Yoon Ji Ho

Actually, I still don't know what marriage is. However, liking someone is... Something he said keep replaying in my head. Even the back of his head looks charming. – Yoon Ji Ho

It's just that I can't say no to that man. – Yoon Ji Ho

I know I should think like this. I know I'm not the one in his heart. I'm just someone who guarantees him the steady rent income. I'm his tenant. I'm just here to keep his faith about no-marriage life. I'm the great defender for him. – Yoon Ji Ho

I just want nothing to happen in my life. – Nam Se Hee

Ma Sang Goo, what did your mother teach you? She told you not to meet bad girls. – Ma Sang Goo

I can compare it to getting immediately infected by a ransomware. You can never go back once you catch that, and your life will be ruined. – Shim Won Seok

Isn't one-sided love tough? – Yeon Bok Nam

The way you look at him is different from how he looks at you. – Yeon Bok Nam

Love is reciprocal. You can't just give it. – Yeon Bok Nam

I thought you were a good defender. – Nam Se Hee

Married women tend to think they should be nice and obedient to their parents-in-law. That's what they call it—Good Daughter-in-Law Syndrome. – Yoon Ji Ho

I want to make the person I like happy and comfortable. – Yoon Ji Ho

There's no more defending in my life. I'm going to play as a forward to protect my heart. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 11. Because This is My First Beach

There's an old saying, "Give easy dishes to your daughter while giving the hard dishes to your daughter-in-law." Daughter-in-law that's like a real daughter? She should've just adopted a daughter then. – Yoon Ji Ho

It's a social illness created by Korean parents. They exploit their kids' partner by calling them family. – Nam Se Hee

We all have different ways to live our lives. – Nam Se Hee

It takes a long time to decide something, but when I do I hardly regret my decision. – Yoon Ji Ho

Your marriage is not something you count as nothing. – Woo Soo Ji

There must be a way to reach someone's heart. If there's a way, there must be where it starts. There must be somewhere we should meet at the end. Will there be a different way that starts from where our hearts meet? But the thing I'm afraid of the most is not that we have different ways nor that we'll never meet on the way, what I'm afraid of the most is that there's no way to reach your heart. But for now, I can't do anything about it. I don't know the way to reach his heart. But for now he knows where to go to make kimchi. And I like him. For now, that is enough. – Yoon Ji Ho

You know how I hate when other men look at my woman and imagine weird stuff. – Ma Sang Goo

In truth, one's visit is a tremendous thing

For he comes with his past, present, and future

For it is because he comes with his whole life

The heart is fragile

Therefore, it might have been broken

That heart is coming, too.

- Visitor, a poem by Jung Hyun Jong

I was curious to know what kind of paths your heart went through. – Yoon Ji Ho

Live your life as though nothing happened. Don't ever love someone. You don't have the right to love.

Do you have any idea why people talk a lot about food? It's the best way to get closer to each other. – Ma Sang Goo

He knows exactly what love is. That's why he's more scared. – Ma Sang Goo

There are a lot of things you can never do again when you actually know about them. – Nam Se Hee

Even though you've seen a sea before, the sea you are looking at now is a different one. Even though you know it well, even though you've done it before, having the moment with that person is the first time for you. – Yoon Ji Ho

Like some waves keep on flowing while the others break, it just happens that way. So don't worry. It's not like you know all about today just because you've lived yesterday. – Yoon Ji Ho

Now I know why people go to the sea when they feel suffocated. You can face your heart here. – Nam Se Hee

His fragile heart, the heart that might have been broken before, his heart came to me. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 12. Because This is My First Desire

If my sister gives her heart to something, it lasts forever. – Yoon Ji Seok

In dramas and movies that filled my childhood, kissing represented a happy ending. However, I now understand why the kiss had to be the ending. The real story starts after it. And people don't want to watch the truth. The real story could be painful and dark. A kiss or a marriage doesn't mean it's a happy ending in real life. The drama between me and him only just began. And my desires only just began too. All the romantic cells inside of me woke up. – Yoon Ji Ho

I realized through this marriage that my heart allows there to be a room where I find myself at peace. – Nam Se Hee

You need to be honest to each other. Humans are selfish beings to begin with and marriage is one of the systems in which their selfish desire shows up most clearly. – Nam Se Hee

Won Seok: I simply like to see Ho Rang smile. I want to make her happy. And most of all, I can't live without her.

Se Hee: What you just said all starts with you as the subject. Your sentences don't start with the other person.

If you don't want to go further and further, don't even think about starting anything. The first desire is the biggest one, especially when you've never dated anyone. It's like opening Pandora's box. – Woo Soo Ji

Cats can choose to remember only things that are important to them. They can just forget things that are not pleasant to them easily. That's the reason why I like cats. – Nam Se Hee

I like snails. They always have homes. – Yoon Ji Ho

He makes my heart flutter at strange timings, but when is that all there will be? I'm not into platonic love. – Yoon Ji Ho

My life is full of trouble as is. I know very well about my place. I don't intend to ruin someone else's life as well. – Woo Soo Ji

Don't say anything about your dad to me. Don't tell me anything about your family. Don't say "us" to me. I don't want you to be happy. – Go Jung Min

As you told me, I wasn't happy for a while. As you told me, I didn't love anyone for a while. But today, briefly, I was happy. Briefly, I forgot about everything. I do adore this woman. However, at the same time, I'm afraid of myself. I'm scared of myself for hurting someone again. But now, I want to be happy. – Nam Se Hee

Episode 13. Because This is My First Time Visiting Your Room

I'm not confident I can make you happy. – Shim Won Seok

Ho Rang: You told me to wait 5 years more even after dating for 7 years! And now you're telling me you're not confident?

Won Seok: So don't wait for me! You're not the only one who dated for 7 years. I did too. I was in the relationship for 7 years too! But why do you always have to talk as if you're the victim? Why do you talk as if you're the only one who had to wait? Because of that stupid marriage, I had to give up what I wanted. I gave up on my dream. Every day is suffocating for me!

I don't think I ever thought about being lonely. More than tolerating others, I thought it would be better to be alone. That's how I lived until now. – Nam Se Hee

I wanted to ask him if that one love has already passed in his life. And if it did, will love eve r start again for him? – Yoon Ji Ho

Maybe it's not love yet. It's alright even if it's not love. – Yoon Ji Ho

If you want to tell me the truth instead of a sad excuse, call me anytime. – Go Jung Min

Soo Ji: Do you know how to live in such a world?

Sang Goo: That's why we should live it together. I'm saying I'll be next to you in that world.

Soo Ji: I don't know a world like yours in which the family lives in a happily built house and live normally. My mom has only me to rely on. That's the world I have to live in. So don't give me false hopes. You being sweet makes me want to be a part of your world.

It's easier to be crazy than explain something that people can't understand. It's more convenient that way. It's better to be crazy than pathetic. – Woo Soo Ji

You kept asking me to get married. I was always running away. You always pressured me. I couldn't satisfy you. That's the fact that's how it is. – Shim Won Seok

Ho Rang: Don't go. How can I live without you? How can I live alone? I can't. How can I go inside the house without you? I'll die if you're gone.

Won Seok: You won't die if I'm not there. You'll get over me soon. You'll be fine soon.

She was strong in a way that she doesn't hurt others but protects instead. – Yoon Ji Ho

I changed the subject in my sentences. Ho Rang smiles because of me. Perhaps she and I are like the parallel lines that never meet. Ho Rang is happy because of me. Ho Rang can't live without me. When I replaced the subjects, the answer was quite simple. The initial formula to get the answer was wrong in the first place. For the past 7 years, I have been choosing the paths that made only me happy. – Shim Won Seok

Sometimes marriage can be a good shield in society, a shield so strong that it can't be penetrated. – Woo Soo Ji

There are times when you just want to be like others. Sometimes in life, you'll need a shoulder to depend on. – Woo Soo Ji

Men are all selfish. It's a greed to not let go of someone. You like it when you're with her. You want to make her happy. You feel like you can't live without her, right? But she doesn't feel the same way. She's not happy with you anymore. Her life is bearable without you. That's why she left you. – Ma Sang Goo

Maybe I like you very much. Your sharp words hurt me here and there and it's so painful, but if you could feel much at ease by hurting me, I'd be glad. – Ma Sang Goo

I won't act like I know everything about your world, but I hope you face the world properly. The way I see it, you've never faced the world properly. You've always ran away or fought back. Using your company and mother as excuses, you've always blamed the world. I believe that you have to face the world and say what you want at least once in your life. And when you start doing that, I'm ready to support you by your side. – Ma Sang Goo

Everyone has a Room 19 in their life. No matter how close they are with others, they don't want those people to find out about that room. No matter how comfortable they feel around others, they can't invite those people others to that room.

By any chance, if this marriage is in the way to your future, I hope you don't hesitate because of it. – Nam Se Hee

You're right. I should be honest to myself. I'm going to try that from now on. – Yang Ho Rang

It's time to be honest to myself. – Yoon Ji Ho

We each have our Room 19. It's each other's own space. It can't be invaded. – Yoon Ji Ho

I thought I would get married one day. There was no doubt. – Go Jung Min

My painful experiences are just memories now. – Go Jung Min

Maybe I knew it already then, that this person is his Room 19. Maybe he knew it too, that he would have to face his Room 19 one day. – Yoon Ji Ho

Relationships are so sad because we don't see them coming, his Room 19 and mine have opened. – Yoon Ji Ho

Episode 14. Because This is My First Confession

This man is torn. He's afraid. He's nervous. – Yoon Ji Ho

Even if I beg him, he won't come back to me. – Yang Ho Rang

Sang Goo: He seems to think he's making you unhappy. That's why he decided to let you go.

Ho Rang: It's not because he wants to let go?

If one thinks they're making their loved one suffer, it makes them hate themselves. – Ma Sang Goo

I don't want to ruin it by telling her my past. – Nam Se Hee

I thought I could meet her maybe once in my life. I even thought of what I should do when that happens. But as soon as I saw her, I was worried about the other person. When did it start? I thought the only things remaining in my life are the autumn leaves that are solid dry. I thought the rest of my life would be a time I would spend by myself waiting for those leaves to fall down. I didn't want to do anything that could decide the other person's life. I thought I would never make someone cry again. – Nam Se Hee

How can time heal everything? Time just passes, that is all. – Young Hyo

I would have waited for Se Hee's heart. Even if we were married without a contract, I would have done the same. A married couple doesn't always win each other's heart. it's my first time getting married. It's my first time loving someone too, so I don't know much about this. I know one thing for sure: Winning someone's heart is not a game. It rather comes naturally. – Yoon Ji Ho

A rabbit is the king when the tiger is not around.

Are you worried I might ruin her work because of the grudges from my old love? – Go Jung Min

Words are born from people's mouths and die in their ears. But some words don't die; they go into people's hearts and live there. These words survived in my heart for 12 years. When did they disappear so suddenly like this? I couldn't get rid of them from my heart no matter how hard I tried then. – Nam Se Hee

Do you know words can survive only when they reach people's hearts? You have to say it out loud for them to reach other's hearts. – Go Jung Min

Her warm words piled up in my heart. Her words have survived in my dead heart. – Nam Se Hee

I realized it when I found love. The reason our marriage happened easily was because we were not in love. Marriage should happen when you're in love, but why am I hurting more when I am in love with him? – Yoon Ji Ho

Words are always slower than the heart. – Nam Se Hee

Episode 15. Because This is My First Intermission

Her voice is shaking. Her eyes are tearing up. She is crying because of me. – Nam Se Hee

I'm a very lousy guy right now. I'm mad at myself, but I took it out on you instead. – Shim Won Seok

After that day, I couldn't live as I wanted even for a second. She was the person I chose for the first time in my life and my decisions were denied by the person who I trusted and loved the most. I liked you so much. I loved you so much. But you ignored the life that I chose entirely. Do you realize what door you made in my heart? – Nam Se Hee

Hee Bong: Even if we go back in time, my choice will be the same. My son was about to throw himself into a fire pit. I couldn't just sit and watch.

Se Hee: So to save your own son, you threw someone else's daughter into the fire pit? Just because she was a woman and poor, you made her take all the burden alone.

Hee Bong: That's because my child is more important. No matter how childish and deceitful is, that's my heart and love as your parent.

I want to love him with all my heart, but I don't know how. It feels like I'm locked inside Room 19, grounded by marriage. – Yoon Ji Ho

All their feelings are truthful. Their feelings are sincere and lovely. However, things that are lovely lose their original shapes if those are too attached to each other. Then you just never know what love originally means. – Go Jung Min

I told you to stand tall. I didn't tell you to drag your feet carrying my legs. – Soo Ji's Mom

Why wasn't I happy? It could have been something that I was waiting for. It could have been something I wanted to hear. But why was I scared? – Yoon Ji Ho

I think he himself doesn't know how he feels about things. Perhaps he doesn't know how to open up. – Yoon Ji Ho

I thought about it and realized I spent my 20s, a quarter of my life, with you. I'm glad that it was you. I'm glad that I got to spend the best time of my life with you. So if there's anything I can help with or if you're going through a hard time, call me. We were once lovers, but we're good old friends too. – Yang Ho Rang

Sorry that I couldn't be responsible for the time we spent together. – Shim Won Seok

I'll be happy only if you are happy. My sweetest girl, now fly high for your mom. – Soo Ji's Mom

The heart that has passed, the heart that has come, the clumsy heart, and this aching heart. In the end, they're all beautiful hearts that wish for your happiness. Will I be able to protect all those beautiful hearts?

Hee Kyung: All guys are like that. They are little kids even when they are old. That's why we should take care of them. It's difficult if we don't try.

Ji Ho: I do not agree with you. Marriage should happen between two grown-ups. Se Hee is already a grown-up. He just has been hurt a lot... I don't want to take care of Se Hee to keep my marriage. I don't want to be the bridge between two families. I don't want to serve as a buffer that lessens Se Hee's wounds. You already hurt him once. Even though it happened a long time ago, it happened and the wound remains.

I don't think marriage is sacred. Love is the sacred thing. – Yoon Ji Ho

I didn't know my words could reach your heart and actually stay there for a long time. I'm sorry. – Go Jung Min

I'm glad that you've found your path. You've found what you want to do. Now, you et to do what you've never done before. You've found a path that will make you happy, so I'm glad. – Nam Se Hee

I wanted to say that I have a gift that I bought for her. I wanted to say that there are still many soccer games to watch with her. But if I say these things now, they would go inside her heart and stay there for a long time. – Nam Se Hee

Ji Ho: During the intermission between the 1st and 2nd half, what would the players do?

Se Hee: They'd evaluate the first half or plan for the second half. Or they would eat bananas, I guess.

For both of us, getting divorced is the first time in our lives. – Yoon Ji Ho

I became alone again. – Nam Se Hee

What do I do? I miss her. – Nam Se Hee

Today, I lost what would have been my one and only love. – Nam Se Hee

Episode 16. Because This is My First Life

Ji Ho: It's such a nice thing to have a new family member.

Hyun Ja: It's the biggest gift you can get in life.

Ji Ho: Mom, we're getting a divorce. We thought too lightly of this gift.

We were like Romeo and Juliet. We were desperately in love. We said we'd die without each other. It was tough getting married, but even after a while we decided to separate ways. I had made up my mind to divorce him and looked at him while he was sleeping, then I was suddenly reminded of our dating days. If I had broken up with him then, I would have missed him all of my life. He would have stayed in my heart and I would have ardently missed him. Once I started to think that way, I decided I should just live with him. – Kim Hyun Ja

Everyone lives similarly. There's not much difference. However, it's important to take care of your star pocket. Although our lives are about the same, sometimes there are moments that sparkle. Whenever that happens, don't let it get away. Save them in your star pocket. That way, when things get tough or when you get tired, you can take out a star at a time and get through it. – Kim Hyun Ja

Marriage is something that sparkles. Marriage makes you look back even if you hate them. We took marriage too lightly. For the first time, I'm embarrassed by it. – Yoon Ji Ho

Since our relationship started with a handshake, I thought it would be right to end it with a handshake. The first half of our relationship was marriage, but I want our second half to be love. – Yoon Ji Ho

I understand you might feel like you're recognized if you act big and make sexual jokes to other men. But shouldn't you end those things in middle school? No, middle schoolers don't do such stuff these days, because they're smart enough to know what's lousy. – Ma Sang Goo

Mongolians don't bury people or cremate them when they die. Instead, they carry the dead bodies in a cart and leave them somewhere they don't know. Later, they go to that place and check the bodies. They mourn if the bodies are still there, but if only white bones remain, they come back in happiness.

It's really hard to get over someone who you often had meals with, right? – Shim Won Seok

Soccer is not only about watching it. What matters is whom you watch it with. You get to remember the ending of the game depending on whom you watch it with. – Yoon Ji Ho

You're leading at the start, but you get wavered in the way. Then you lose your pace. You should have let the front car pass you and put on a spurt to overtake that car at the end. – Yoon Bo Mi

I wanted to leave that room and walk around Seoul for months to see what gets left in my heart. Honestly, I hated him sometimes. I have been hurt a lot, too. Do we have our own star pocket that can hold us together through the night? I was curious. Honestly, I doubted it. But when I looked back, what was left in my heart was neither hatred nor pain, it was longing. – Yoon Ji Ho

Was it nice to leave me behind? Was it fun without me? – Nam Se Hee

You're so bad. I know you won't be by my side. You won't be here when I wake up, so why say you love me? – Nam Se Hee

How could you not call me even once? You were that close by, so how could you not visit me even once? Do you realize how much I missed you? Do you realize how hard it was for me? – Nam Se Hee

I'm sorry that I left you when you were having a hard time. – Yoon Ji Ho

Won Seok: You're like Mac OS to me. You are new, interesting, and intuitive. I do feel comfortable around you. But even though things can be a bit complicated and difficult, I still miss Windows. Rationally Mac OS is very ideal for me, but my mind and body still remember what Windows is like.

Bo Mi: That's the most romantic rejection I've ever gotten in my life.

For how long are you going to be stuck in that old-fashioned OS? You might want to update yourself before getting formatted. – Yoon Bo Mi

I don't give up easily. I'm one of the unlucky kids born in 1988. Chances are very precious and hard to get, so I can't give those up easily. But love is one of those chances. I can't give up love. I didn't give up anything. Love is what I chose. Falling in love is not something you can experience in this world that I'm living in. It's difficult to do it even once. So if our marriage is just a system that's hurting our love, I don't think I'll want to marry you even in the future. – Yoon Ji Ho

I missed those lame jokes of yours. – Nam Se Hee

Can I ask you why? Your honest reason. That way I can get over it completely. – Young Hyo

I realized I can't move my heart just because I try. – Yang Ho Rang

Ho Rang: It's no use anyway. It's already too old. It has scratches here and there, so it can be fixed.

Won Seok: No, because it's old, because it has scratches, we have to cherish it more.

I'm sorry. I'll try harder from now on. I'll bring things back to where they used to be. Can't you give me one more chance? Please? – Shim Won Seok

Why did you think I'd take a ring from someone else? How can I take a different ring? How can I get rid of this ring? This ring is enough for this life. – Yang Ho Rang

Goethe, the writer, said, "There's no such thing that's fundamentally based on happiness except marriage." He also said, "Marriage is the beginning of a relationship."

Why does it matter what it's like in Korea? Our feelings are more important. – Nam Se Hee

We revise our contract every year, but the most important condition never changes. Our love is the first priority.

To those living this moment, with all of my sincerity, I wish you all good luck because this is everyone's first life.