Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (LN) Episode 12

This is one of my favorite episode which is why I am taking to long to write:) Like my cover picture,  Shan Shan and Feng Teng are just so cute and sweet from the radish field to them reading books at home. Oh, after finis.h.i.+ng this drama I may end up getting diabetes:P  Phong, you must not miss this episode. Also, I want to thank bongsd again for her wonderful screen captures and being able to work around my schedule as I take forever to finish a post. I’ve never posted daily before so this is hard as I am such a perfectionist and I’ve a full-time job:(

Zheng Qi and Shan Shan chatting amiably about Shan Shan’s worries when Feng Teng went missing previously. At the same time, Li Shu is chatting with Feng Teng that Shan Shan doesn’t look like the type of woman who he’ll like. Then, all of them start fis.h.i.+ng.

Feng Teng: Do you know how to fish?

Shan Shan: Don’t know.

Feng Teng: Then you go pick radishes.

Shan Shan thinks: This is really too much. Just concentrate on your fis.h.i.+ng, why you bother about me? Ask a little woman to pick radishes in the cold wind!

Shan Shan thinks: At last, I manage to successfully pick a radish. Forget it, I am currently a freeloader at Boss’s home. Even the money for the plane ticket is paid by Boss. I will treat these radishes as repayment. No, I am actually destroying the radishes.

Feng Teng:  You only managed to pick these few radishes in such a long time.

Shan Shan:  The radishes are too hard so I don’t have energy to pick them.

Feng Teng: Xue Shan Shan, you are the one who said you don’t know how to fish.

Shan Shan: I can learn.

Feng Teng: Didn’t you say, you’re not interested in using a long fis.h.i.+ng line to bait a fish?

Shan Shan: Now, I am interested, okay?

Feng Teng: Do you want to send a signal to others who are fis.h.i.+ng?

Feng Teng: Hold this. Let everyone knows this fish pond has been reserved by you.

Wah such a romantic scene but why didn’t stamp the special seal on the reservation contract??? The novel is much cuter with Shan Shan losing her first kiss  in a radish field. Whereas in the drama, the first kiss was during Feng Teng’s love confession under the Christmas tree which is too typical and not special enough. I want more more scenes in the radish field since Shan Shan is a rabbit:P

Fast forward that jealous woman’s part who confesses to Feng Yue that she has always liked Feng Teng but her mother forbids because she used to work for the Feng family. Oh great, food again. So nice to have steamboat with the Feng family fresh radishes that Shan Shan had picked, during such cold weather.  After finish eating the Lunar New Year’s Eve reunion dinner, Li Shu suggests they dance probably because she knows Shan Shan cannot dance.  The three guys try to teach her but end up having their feet stepped on. Ouch, so painful, LOL. Yan Qing is very nice to recommend his dancing teacher to her but she declines, thinking it’ll cost money. What a cheapskate, just like lidge:P All these scenes are extra to the novel.

Haha, Shan Shan is so funny. After Feng Yue and Yan Qing left with the baby, Shan Shan thinks, “Even if you are not worried that Big Boss will bully me, you should be worried that I may not be able to control myself not to touch Big Boss.” LOL While sitting in the leaving room with Feng Teng, Shan Shan makes her courageous love confession, so touching……

Shan Shan thinks: It is Lunar New Year’s Eve, yet he actually doesn’t have a family member around him. Even someone inhuman, such as Big Boss, will also feel lonely.

Shan Shan:  Big Boss, what shall we do on such a festive day?

Feng Teng: What do you want to do?

Shan Shan: I.. I…Watch Spring Festival Gala.

Feng Teng: Here.

Shan Shan thinks: Very good, the program has begun. With Spring Festival Gala, even if I don’t say anything, we also won’t feel awkward. It is really great to have Spring Festival Gala in the world. Oh ya, fruits! With a plate of fruits, while busy eating them, there is even less chance for us to talk. Xue Shan Shan, you are getting smarter.

Shan Shan: I am going to get some fruits.

Shan Shan: The fruits are here.

Feng Teng: I have just received a sms.

Shan Shan thinks: Why are you telling me?

Feng Teng: Someone wished me a Happy Lunar New Year.

Shan Shan thinks: This is very normal. I also received a lot of sms during new year. More over you are a Big Boss so many people will want to suck up to you. Wait, wait …… I seem to have forgotten something ……

Shan Shan: So?

Feng Teng: Didn‘t you lose your mobile phone?

Shan Shan: It is the mobile phone sms timer.

Feng Teng: Did you send this to everyone?

Shan Shan: No, you’re the only one.

Shan Shan thinks: What is the matter? Why he makes it sound like I spam his phone? Is he interrogating me?

Feng Teng: Xue Shan Shan, is this also to captivate me?

Shan Shan: You are the one who tried to captivate me first. Although you look cold, I can feel your warmth for me. You are the one who kept on giving me hope. Why you suddenly turn the table and ask me all these?

Feng Teng: You…. I tell you, I am enticing you to penetrate deeper.

Shan Shan: I don’t understand what you are saying. Feng Teng, I…I have never been in love so I do not know how it should feel like. Before the company’s annual party, I clearly have never thought about this, but later I found out I felt very loss when I don’t get to see you. When you were waiting for me outside the police station, I felt very embarra.s.sed. When you brought me to your home to celebrate Lunar New Year by eating reunion dinner together, although I felt rather uneasy, I still felt very happy. I do not know how to dance, but I can learn. I do not have your pa.s.sword, but I can tell you mine. I think I like you, so you look clearly if I am the type you like.

Shan Shan:  Well. Then, I wish you a Happy Lunar New Year!

Feng Teng: Xue Shan Shan, we will give it a try.

Oh, abundance of cute & sweet moments here. It is mentioned in the  that Feng Teng wants to teach Shan Shan how to play chess but they both end up reading books. However, seeing them in motion is so much more enjoyable and I’ve to admit the drama has done this part very well. See, I can also praise when it is deserved:P Initially, they play Chinese chess but Shan Shan makes a bad move. Hence, she wants to play chess which she feels she can win over Feng Teng since she plays it often on her mobile.  Needless to say, she is put into checkmate by him so she wants to play another type of board game.

However, Boss says “Let’s read books”. Sorry, my Mandarin is not up to scratch so I don’t understand what is Feng Teng reading and the meaning of the idiom/ poem? But I understand Feng Teng complains: “Why Shan Shan has a big head?” Shan Shan answers: “You are the one with the big head.” LOL At that moment, Feng Teng reminisces about his childhood with his parents. Peanuts complains: “Why the young Feng Teng has such a mushroom hairstyle? LOL. I am glad he has grown to become better looking:P

Then, both of them busk under the moonlight to sweet talk:)

Shan Shan: Can I ask you a question?

Feng Teng: Say it,

Shan Shan: When did you start to like me?

Feng Teng: When I started to realise you are not that silly. It should be on New Year’s Eve when we watched the fireworks together.

Just like in the novel, on the morning of Lunar New Year day, Shan Shan is eager to get a red packet from Feng Teng. She didn’t get one in the novel but got one in the drama which is nice. Feng Teng cannot send her to the airport due to an appointment to go fis.h.i.+ng with Zheng Qi, so he asks Xiao Zhang the driver to drive her.

Shan Shan gets a new mobile phone from Feng Teng.  He is more generous than the novel Feng Teng because the mobile is brand new:P While waiting for her flight, she opens the red packet and finds a medical ID tag similar to the one she gave Feng Yue in episode 1 inside. She is rather surprised and touched to see Feng Teng’s name instead of her dad’s name had been written as the contact person on the blood type ID card. Feng Teng tells her to start getting used to it, heehee….When Feng Teng is fis.h.i.+ng with Zheng Qi, he asks Feng Teng if he doesn’t know Li Shu likes him. Feng Teng replies, he only treats her as a younger sister. At last, Shan Shan arrives home for Lunar New Year and they celebrate with a late reunion dinner.