Fortunately, she had the happiest ending of them all!
A Korean woman, Paul, on Twitter @un_u_u has gone mega-viral after sharing the most surprising ending to her flight to Korea!
In a series of tweets, Paul recalled what she dubbed a “f*cking embarrassing” experience at the South Korean airport on November 16. She explained that when the airport saw her temperature reach 38°C (100.4°F), she got pulled aside—considering potential health risks, especially since the coronavirus pandemic.
The “fever,” however, was caused by “none other than” her emotional connection with a BL novel!
아, 개쪽팔려.. 게이소설 읽어서 검역 걸림…한국으로 오는 비행기에서 다른 것도 아니고 1935년, 경성 읽으니까 존나 눈물나는 거…손수건으로 입 가리고 오열하다 내렸는데 눈물범벅인 내 얼굴과..38도의 체온으로 잡힘. 분위기가 넘 심각해서 이러다가 엠뷸런스에 격리돼 실려가겠다 싶어서
— 폴𐂂 (@un_u_u) November 17, 2022
Ugh… How f*cking embarrassing. I got quarantined because I read a BL novel… On the flight back to Korea, I read none other than 1935, Gyeongseong and I couldn’t f*cking stop crying… I bawled with a handkerchief over my mouth. When I got off the plane, I was a mess; My face was covered in tears and my temperature reached 38°C. So I got pulled aside.
Things got a bit serious and I got scared that the airport might ship me off in an ambulance or something. So I whispered to one of the employees that it might be because I cried on the flight. Then they said I could sit and wait for a while.
— Paul @un_u_u
While Paul waited for her BL-fueled fever to cool, she couldn’t help but laugh at herself for becoming “K-Drama female lead-like.” Paul said she desperately wanted to explain herself, but—in what seemed to be a collective effort to give her space—no one asked her why she had been crying.
There were a lot of employees there. And when they found out that I’d been crying on the plane, they all looked at me with sympathy in their eyes. I mean, I almost wished they would’ve asked what happened. I could’ve told them that I watched a sad movie or something. But none of them—not a single one—asked me why I cried.
Like, I’m so grateful that they were trying to give me space. But they all looked at me as if I was a K-Drama female lead going through something big… when all I had gone through was a BL novel.
And I didn’t want to make it weird by oversharing that I ‘watched a sad movie’ or whatever when no one asked. So I simply sat there until I was checked again and let through.
— Paul @un_u_u
Eventually, Paul set on her way home…
The novel is set in Korean during the Japanese rule. And I’d heard it has a sad ending. So I got emotional whenever the main characters would interact… even if the interaction wasn’t necessarily sad. I cried over the two of them eating soup. I cried over one of the leads calling the other ‘babe.’ I even cried over them having sex.
Anyway, I got my luggage and struggled home.
— Paul @un_u_u
…where yet another surprise had been waiting for her.
캐리어 끌고 힘겹게 집에 왔고… 버스에서 내리자마자 어깨가 무거워짐… 역시 사랑은 이렇게 사람의 어깨를 무겁게 하는구나…
….근데 이건 너무 무겁지 않나 했는데 https://t.co/TqhUIdYqW8— 폴𐂂 (@un_u_u) November 18, 2022
As soon as I got off the bus, I felt a sense of weight pushing me down. I thought, ‘This must be how a heavy heart feels,’ because I’m holding so much love in it… But then I realized:
— Paul @un_u_u
Fortunately, after a long flight of an emotionally-draining read, a hilariously embarrassing stop at the quarantine, and an unexpected personal escort from a lone pigeon, Paul got the happiest ending of them all: At the end of her tweets, Paul mentioned that she was looking for a paperback version of 1935, Gyeongseong. The novel’s author, Dunarae @sable15121, ended up reaching out to Paul and promising her a copy.
안녕하세요, 선생님.. 작가 두나래입니다. 제 친구가 일화를 읽고 감동받아 책 한 권을 선생님께 선물로 드리고 싶다고 합니다. 멘션 한 번만 부탁드리겠습니다.. 감사합니다 감사합니다.. https://t.co/I7xVl8E9UF pic.twitter.com/gVyhYKb89D
— 두나래 (@sable15121) November 18, 2022
Hello, ma’am… This is author Dunarae. A friend of mine read your tweets and has been so thoroughly impressed that they would like to offer you a copy of the paperback version. Please @ me when you get the chance. Thank you, thank you.
— Dunarae @sable15121
What a rollercoaster ride!
- “What the heck, LOL. Everything about this is SO Twitter-material. Haha.”
- “HAHA WTF, this is f*cking hilarious. What a sitcom!”
- “What is going on with the pigeon?! LOL. I couldn’t predict the flow of these tweets at all.”
- “Wait, where the heck did the pigeon come from? LMAO.”
- “Before I got to the clip, I would’ve never expected an actual pigeon ending.”
- “What’s with the pigeon?! LOL. At least she got the book? I’m glad this has a happy ending.”
- “HAHAHAHAhahahaha.”
- “LOL! The pigeon is definitely the most unbelievable part of the plot.”
- “I can’t stop laughing at the pigeon, LOL.”
- “What the f*ck??? This entire thread is TWITTER in real life.”
- “Hey, the pigeon looks like it’s having a good time. Groovy, baby.”
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