She’s both bewildered and happy to explain as well as just plain confused when he says he’s on his way to pick her up. It’s extremely polite and ridiculously formal. And the way he does it is so swoon-worthy too. Ji Ho is huffy at first, but takes the advice to heart and calls Sang Eun to point-blank request if he can have an explanation. Yet, he’s chastened after hearing one of his colleagues note that men who internalize everything like that just tend to spin wheels in their own heads, jumping to conclusions and imagining the worst instead of just talking it out with the other party ( yes!). However, Ji Ho doesn’t know any of this, and given his history with women cheating on him, he can’t help but wonder if Sang Eun is doing the same. In reality, this is because she found him sick in the garage, and he couldn’t return to his room because his mother could barge in at any given moment. After his wonderful casual-talking date with Sang Eun, he’s dismayed to see paparazzi photos of her at a hotel with Hae Jin. I love mature heroes, and Ji Ho proves himself to be just that. He seems to think that having her can fix his life for some reason without realizing that it’s a temporary Band-Aid on a problem that won’t go away without him making a difficult decision. She brushes it off as just flirting but it only makes him more determined to have her. So when she finds him sick at heart and physically ill, and she takes care of him, he’s just smitten and makes a move. ![]() Torn between duty and a yearning to live life the way he wants, Sang Eun feels like an oasis in the desert to Hae Jin. He admires that and keeps trying to replicate it, but unlike her, he knows that his mother will be torn apart by the rest of the family if he goes no-contact. And she left it without looking back once. ![]() Part of Sang Eun’s allure to Hae Jin is that she’s managed to leave a life that he has been trying to ditch for years. But they keep trying to drag him back into the fold. Hae Jin wants nothing to do with conglomerate life and has tried to prove to his family and his brothers that he is no threat and has built something of his own. Despite growing up in the lap of luxury, he’s cynical beyond his years after seeing his mother scheme her way into marrying his father by using him as collateral, not to mention the fact that all his half-brothers see him as a threat. We finally dive deeper into Hae Jin’s psyche, and it’s enough to make him quite pitiful. And this time, he may not be the only one who goes under. Hae Jin’s lies are catching up to him big time. But as far as personas go, she isn’t the only one wearing a mask. She once mentioned that her ideal partner would be one who loved her even without makeup (without the persona she puts on, really), and it’s unclear if she realizes that he has always been doing that. Sang Eun even dresses down for the date, and he doesn’t care one bit. It’s lovely to see them bonding and being themselves without worrying about external pressure. And perhaps that’s why Ji Ho says just that. She jokes that she won’t if he says not to, but there’s an undercurrent of seriousness there. ![]() Sang Eun ruefully asks Ji Ho whether she should go abroad. They’re determined to run her out of the country because she’s a failed product to them. Her former family at Ina Group has found that she’s in Korea and trying to partner with businesses who are partners with them. Meanwhile, things aren’t going too well in Sang Eun’s life. And who can blame her? Everything is hot in that deep voice of his. But he adorably cannot seem to speak to her informally and slips back into formal language, while she swoons at him speaking informally. But he really wants her to! When she suggests a bit of role-playing for their next dinner date where they’ll be longtime friends of 20 years, he’s all for it. In fact, Sang Eun is under the impression that she’s the only one who confessed and tells him not to worry and that she won’t burden him with her feelings. Ji Ho is certain that he’s confessed in the above scene but is quickly brought to reality after his anonymous office bulletin board tells him he has done nothing of the sort.
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