The day after Reply 1988 broadcasted their last episode, Ryu Junyeol came back with a live broadcast on his personal account via v-live app.
This live was meant for all of his fans and eonamryu supporter to get to know him and Kim Junghwan more and deeper, as well as a medicine for our heartaches the night before.
He said it was the first time he did a live broadcast and also said he once watched Hyeri did her v-live and he thought heâd done it at the Ramyun shop near Han river like her, so he was surprised to see the staff prepared everything for him indoor, he said heâd do his best on his live.
First, the staff asked him to ranked all of his best scenes based on three categories ; love, friendship, and family in a graph.
The first scene was alley scene from ep. 3, at first he didnât what does it mean by âalley sceneâ but when he knew it, Junyeol said âJunghwan didnât have a kiss scene with Deoksun but he got this scene and the bed scene.â indirectly stating that this alley scene was his romantic kissing scene with Deoksun.
He also revealed that he really liked this scene and that it was taken on a cold night and they put many hot packs on top of their feet (It was supposed to be a summer night in the drama but they took the scene in winter). The alley wasnât really that thin when they first entered it, there are a lot of spaces between Junyeol and Hyeri but the producer and director asked them to be closer and even pushing the wall (it was a fake wall) to get them really close with each other. Junyeol felt really close with Hyeri and was really shy when it happened, he also said at this point Junghwanâs feeling for her intensified more.
Next, the bus scene on the 4th episode.
(my favorite! T_T) Junyeol put this sceneâs rank higher than the last one, he said when he recorded this with hyeri the weather was really hot he felt like heâs in a sauna and sweat a lot. He emphasized that the veiny arms was his and felt sad when some people didnât believe it.
The next scene was their âCome home earlyâ scene where Hyeri revealed about his affectionate toward her on her interview :
âWe filmed the scene where Deoksun was caught in the rain on her way back from the library and Junghwan gave his umbrella and told her to come back earlier first before the wall+bed scene. My clothes were wet and cold from the rain in the previous scene and we filmed the wall scene while I was shivering. It was so cold that I had no other thoughts at all then. Ryu Junyeol oppa was really considerate and used his hands to stroke and warm my arms because it was cold.â
Junyeol said the relationship between Junghwan and Deoksun was getting deeper in this scene and even though it was a short scene, they took it for almost 3 hours under the cold night.
The next scene was Taekâs confession on ep. 10 where Junghwan was really distraught and torn between his feeling for Deoksun and Taek. Junyeol said he wanted to skip that scene (hahaha!).
The last one was his confession scene to Deoksun. He ranked this scene higher than any scene!
As we can see, he looks really sad after writing for the graph. He and Hyeri often talked about the progress of their charactersâs love life, even wondering whoâs actually Deoksunâs husband before Hyeri knew who. The two wondered if their kiss scene will happened in the 4th episode (the two of them were eonamryu supporter as well since the very beginning, Hyeri really liked Junghwan even from the first time she got the script), when it didnât happen they wondered if the kissing scene happened in the next episode and so on.
Junyeol said it was the hardest scene for all of the Reply 1988 crew including the stars on the table. Donghwi and Kyungpyo were also nervous when they took that scene, Hyeri cried a lot because he felt sad for Junghwan to let Deoksun go and sheâs also sad she wouldnât have anymore interaction with the said character (Imagine rooting for Junghwan even way before us and then had to let him go without communicating their charactersâs love for each other 5 years ago). Everyone were really tensed and said, Junyeol also felt really exhausted, he didnât go home for a week to film the said episode.
After that he moved on to Friendship and Familyâs scenes, stating he love every scene he took with his family.
When they asked if heâd do the same with Junghwan in real life (letting go of a girl for the sake of friendship) he told us no, he wouldnât give up and will keep pursue her and choose love over friendship. âFriendship is about understandingâ he continued. Then he laughed and said, âDid i still into my character?â he also continue playfully with, âDeoksun-ah, did you hear this? Can you see this? I hope you saw that.â
Junyeol also gave his advice for Junghwan and Deoksunâs love story, he said that Junghwan shouldâve confessed to Deoksun at the 3rd episode when they were trapped inside the alley together.
The next segment was a fanart segment for Kim Junghwan, Junyeol showed his affection toward them and praised all of them with wide smiles.
After that he talked about his and Deoksunâs love scenes again, including the âHajima sogaetingâ, and his favorite stair scene âThink about why i came.â. He really like that scene because Junghwan had said what he felt for Deoksun but the girl was too stupid to realized his feeling (Junyeol said that).
He also said what he felt about the confessing scene in ep 18 and that he thought a lot about it when they said heâs not Deoksunâs husband. He was sad when it happened especially when heâs not the love candidate anymore, his scenes are getting more and more shorter in ep 19 and 20, it seems like he was the cameo of the drama to me.
The last segment was his instagram posts. The most hilarious one was the picture of him and the director, Junyeol said he didnât ask for his permission to post that one and jokingly said âMaybe thatâs why iâm not Deoksunâs husband.â.
After that he even called his best friend : Byun Yohan!
He was very happy when they talked and Yohan said Junyeolâs pretty busy these days so they couldnât meet each other. At the end of the call the two males shared their love to each other and Junyeol giggled when Yohan was too shy to say âI love you too.â (LMAO).
At the end of the v-app (Itâs about 2 hours long), he said heâs really touched and actually cried when the eonamryu supporters flooding his stair post with âsaranghaneun Junghwanaâ (lol i cried too) and he said heâs really thankful of us, that we kept staying by his side even when he didnât get the female lead etc (we are very thankful too!). He said heâs sad that all the medias talking about was the husband hunt and not the family and friendship content (donât blame me, blame yourself Junyeol, your character is too lovely) and even said the director was really mad.
At last, he said he hoped all of the fans liked his live and he thanked everyone who watched it until the end. He bowed 90 degrees to us and the live ended :)
Right after he finished his v-live, Junyeol went to the after party of Reply 1988 together with the rest of the crew and casts. Hyeri was spotted at the party too.