Eps. 21
Jin-a’s grandmother who had kept her eyes on the way Seung-ju altered her jeans for Jin-a, throws Seung-ju a box full of old jeans, and orders her to sell off the whole box. When Seung-ju gives her a questioning look, Jin-a’s grandmother only tells her when an old lady orders her to do something there is a reason, and demands if she plans to spend her whole life going from one odd job to another. Jin-a’s grandmother assures Seung-ju that she will discuss her reasons after Seung-ju manages to sell off the whole box. Meanwhile, Su-a’s parents set out to go mountain climbing, and Su-a invites Gern-wu and other guys from the university club to her house. She informs them her parents have gone on an overnight trip, so they can make themselves comfortable and even sleep over if they want to. Anguishing over Seung-ju’s refusal of his marriage proposal, Gern-wu drinks too much, and finally becomes completely drunk. His fellow lecturers try to carry him out, but he won’t even budge. Su-a takes this situation to be her opportunity, and tells the others to leave Gern-wu as he is, and to just let his family know that he is at her house.
Eps. 22
When Seung-ju sells all the jeans that she had altered, Jin-a’s grandmother claims that she only managed to do that because of the jeans’ brand name, and not because of her skills. Jin-a’s grandmother goes onto give Seung-ju another mission asserting that she should accomplish this if she feels she has been treated unfairly. Seung-ju goes to Gern-sae and Yu-sun to seek their advice on making a dress with just $10. Jin-a’s grandmother happily tells her son, Min Jun-ki that her instincts about Seung-ju had been right. Min Jun-ki is also surprised to hear that it was Seung-ju who persuaded his daughter to go back to school.
On the other hand, Su-a’s parents mistakenly thinks Gern-wu has proposed to their daughter, and goes to look around Gern-wu’s house. While snooping around the house, they are discovered by Gern-wu’s father, and end up sitting face to face with Gern-wu’s parents. Before leaving, Su-a’s mother takes out a pair of socks from her bag, and hands them to Gern-wu’s mother saying Gern-wu had left them in Su-a’s room. Gern-wu’s father is at a loss for words feeling disappointed and furious at his son.
Eps. 23
Su-a’s mother goes to Gern-wu’s mother and tells her that her daughter neither eats nor sleeps after Gern-wu slept at their house. At hearing what Su-a’s mother said, Gern-wu’s mother is positive that her son has done something wrong to Su-a, and tells her son to take responsibility for anything he has done wrong. Su-a’s mother tells her daughter to pretend to be sick, and that if she doesn’t go to the university there will be some news within the day for sure. Worried about Su-a’s condition, Gern-wu’s mother goes to see her at home.
Meanwhile, after seeing the public recruiting notice of Min Jun-ki’s company, Seung-ju applies for a job there. At the job interview, when one of the executives asks Seung-ju why she applied to their company, she answers she applied because she felt the company needed her help. She goes onto claim that the company hasn’t been able to catch the needs of young women customers, and that if it was up to her, she would immediately change the company logo to something more energetic. Then, Min Jun-ki tells the interviewees that he has a business dinner with a foreign buyer that night, and asks their advice for the kind of necktie that he should wear.
Eps. 24
Gern-wu goes to see Su-a, and asks her to forgive him if he has done anything wrong. But he also firmly tells her that he loves Seung-ju and that he can never break up with her no matter what happens. When Su-a’s mother attacks him demanding that he do something about turning Su-a into such a state, Gern-wu tells her that he has done all he can, and that she should stop being so unreasonable. Unable to control her fury, Su-a’s mother grabs him saying she won’t let him leave like this, but Gern-wu shakes her off roughly and leaves the house.
Meanwhile, Gern-sae mistakenly reveals his true feelings about Seung-ju to his mother and aunt, and in order to save himself from this unfortunate crisis, he heads straight for Yu-sun’s house. Taking Yu-sun by the hand, he goes back to his home and announces that the woman he loves is Yu-sun, and kisses her on the mouth.
Eps. 25
When the loan sharks come bursting into Su-a’s house, and ransack the house, Su-a’s father finally realizes that his wife has stolen Seung-ju’s father’s money. Raging with fury, Su-a’s father gathers up all the gold bars and cash, intending to return the money to Seung-ju, and to ask for her forgiveness. However, his wife points out that Su-a is the one who made up the story about winning the lottery, and scares him saying that their daughter could go to jail for this. She also adds that the house and the car are in his name, making all three of them culprits of the crime. Su-a’s father trembles with fear at hearing this, and starts to have second thoughts about going to Seung-ju.
Gern-sae summons his family to meet in a restaurant, and his parents leave grandfather in Pink’s care in order to go out and find out what their son wants. Gern-sae declares that he and Yu-sun want to get married, asserting that they intend to save their energy for dating, and direct it to doing business together. The family debate over Gern-sae’s marriage, but his mother is nervous about grandfather being alone in the house, and suggests they talk about it back at home.
Meanwhile, grandfather stands around nervously, and shouts for Pink to open the door. However, Pink refuses, telling her great-grandfather that he must not come outside.
Eps. 26
Jin-a’s grandmother visits Seung-ju’s place, and looks over their room. When her eyes fall on the picture of Seung-ju’s father, Yeong-ju tells her that he is his father, and that he believes his father to be alive somewhere. At that moment, Hyeok-ju comes home from work carrying some sweet stuffed pancakes, and Jin-a’s grandmother looks at the two boys with compassionate eyes. Later, she has someone investigate whether Seung-ju’s father is truly dead.
Waiting for Seung-ju to finish work, Gern-wu feels bad about Seung-ju working without even being able to take a bite to eat. He suggests that they go out and get something to eat quickly, but Seung-ju says she can’t go out alone when others are working. She tells Gern-wu to go home without her, and kisses him suddenly in the elevator. However, when she gets out of the elevator, she meets Min Jun-ki. Min makes a comment about the senior staff making the newcomers do all the cleaning on the pretext of training, and takes Seung-ju to a Gimbap (rice rolled in dried laver) house after discovering she hasn’t eaten yet. Min Jun-ki asks if Seung-ju is angry about what happened at the store in the morning, but tells her that’s the way for her to learn one thing at a time. Then he goes onto encourage her, saying he recognizes that she has sense for style.
Meanwhile, instead of going back home, Gern-wu buys some Gimbap and Spicy Broiled Rice Cakes, and goes back to see Seung-ju. When he can’t find Seung-ju anywhere, he hands over the food to one of her colleagues and turns to go. However, he can’t help being startled at seeing Min Jun-ki walking out of the elevator and Seung-ju following him.
Eps. 27
On Jin-a’s birthday, her family and Seung-ju have dinner together, and Gern-wu also celebrates with his university colleagues because his paper has been nominated as the best paper of the quarter. Gern-wu asks Seung-ju to come right after having dinner, but Seung-ju tells him she can’t because she doesn’t want to hurt Jin-a’s feelings. Waiting at the village corner for Seung-ju to come home, Gern-wu sees her getting out of Min Jun-ki’s car, and demands why she keeps taking rides in Min’s car.
On the other hand, Su-a’s father secretly takes the money bag while his wife is asleep and leaves the house. Going to the house where Seung-ju and her brothers are staying, his heart aches to see how small and shabby their room is. As he talks with Gern-wu’s uncle, Hyeok-ju comes home, but he only ignores his uncle and tries to go back out again. Su-a’s father grabs Hyeok-ju and wails for him to forgive him, but Hyeok-ju just shakes him off and leaves the house.
Eps. 28
Seung-ju waits for Gern-wu, holding the tickets to a musical that Min Jun-ki gave her to go with her boyfriend. However, with his paper being selected as the best paper, Gern-wu has to attend the dinner that has been arranged suddenly in his honor. With his department head and other professors attending, Gern-wu is unable to keep his date, and Seung-ju has to watch the musical alone. After drinking Soju (Korean rice wine) out of anger at a convenience store, Seung-ju goes to the place where Gern-wu’s dinner is being held, and causes a commotion in front of all the professors, demanding for her boyfriend to come out.
Meanwhile, having made up his mind to marry Yu-sun, Gern-sae tries to take care of everything as soon as possible. Suspecting that Gern-sae is only marrying Yu-sun because he pities her, his mother asks whether he really has to marry Yu-sun. But Gern-sae only says he thinks his mother also became his father’s second wife because she pitied Gern-suk and Gern-wu living without a mother, and adds that he takes after his mother. His eyes well up with tears, as he tells his sad mother that he will earn lots of money and lead a happy life.
Eps. 29
Gern-suk tells Yu-sun in an ordering voice, all the things she should bring as wedding gifts including a mink coat. Feeling a little irritated, Yu-su hands over to Gern-wu’s mother an account book and the signature stamp, asking her to take care of all the wedding gifts. Gern-wu’s father happens to enter the house at that moment and becomes furious at what he sees. Gern-wu’s mother also scolds Gern-suk for bringing up the issue of wedding gifts when no one asked her to, and putting her in an awkward position. Fuming with anger, Gern-suk runs straight to Yu-sun, and tells her to give up Gern-sae because such a narrow minded woman like Yu-sun is not suitable for her brother. Yu-sun then goes to Gern-sae and bursts out crying, telling him she won’t marry him. Meanwhile, Seung-ju is humiliated in front of others for the documents she writes out. She confidently tells her supervisor, that even though she is not good at paper work like translations, she can excel at anything that requires aesthetic qualities. However, her supervisor only tells her that the kind of staff the company needs is someone who is thorough enough to do anything from production planning to actual production without making a single mistake. He goes on to make her feel ashamed by asking her if she thinks this company is some kind of a village clothes shop. Unfortunately, Gern-wu comes looking for Seung-ju at that moment, and Seung-ju loses her temper at him.
Eps. 30
Seung-ju looks at the balance of her bank account book and sighs again. While walking in the streets, she stops in front of a clothing store, and stares for a long time at the men’s clothes displayed in the shop window.
The newly weds, Gern-sae and Yu-sun, eat together with the rest of the family, and share some good time. However, Yu-sun feels Gern-suk is being mean when she starts picking on her eating habits in front of the family.
In the kitchen, Gern-wu’s mother packs a heap full of wedding food for Gern-wu to take to Seung-ju’s family. As she goes out into the garden to take out some kimchi from the garden jar, she sees Seung-ju leave a present secretly. Gern-wu’s mother slowly starts to read the card that was placed with the present. Receiving a text message from Seung-ju, Gern-wu goes out into the garden to pick up the present, when his mother hands him Seung-ju’s present.
On the other hand, Yeong-ju and Hyeok-ju buy a pair of expensive sneakers, and Seung-ju scolds her brothers, but her heart aches when she sees the sneakers.
Eps. 31
When Su-a comes to visit Seung-ju, telling her to go and live in Jin-a’s father’s house, and try to catch the wealthy guy, Seung-ju slaps her. Seung-ju screams that she doesn’t ever want to see her again, and Su-a leaves the house shouting as well. Seung-ju throws out the plastic box full of side dishes that Su-a brought. Seeing Seung-ju crying of humiliation in her room, Gern-suk tells her brother everything that happened. Seung-ju confesses to Gern-wu that she feels agonized because Jin-a’s father and grandmother are among those investors who were the cause of her father’s bankruptcy, and that they approached her on purpose.
Gern-wu goes to visit Jin-a’s father.
Eps. 32
While studying at an academy in order to transfer to a university, Hyeok-ju bumps into his old friends. After class, he ends up having drinks with them, but feels humiliated by the mean things one of them says. However, he suppresses his anger and managers to control himself, but finally explodes when the guy suggests that he go out to work as a gigolo to make some easy money since his looks aren’t so bad. Having completely lost his head, Hyeok-ju continues to beat and kick his friend, who collapses, bleeding.
On the other hand, Seung-ju goes to work with a letter of resignation. She tries to give it to Min Jun-ki, but he only hurts her pride telling her the only thing she should be doing now is to stop being so hotheaded and to learn about the industry.
Eps. 33
Taking on a second job as an essay lecturer at a private academy, Gern-wu frequently arrives late for his lectures at the university. Observing his situation, Su-a goes to visit Gern-wu’s mother. Showing her the leaflet with Gern-wu’s photo, Su-a tells her Gern-wu could have problems being appointed as a professor. When Gern-wu’s mother questions Gern-sae about why his older brother is teaching at the academy, Gern-sae ends up telling his mother the truth. When Gern-wu comes home from work, Gern-wu’s father confirms the truth, and shouts for his son to disappear from his sight.
Gern-wu’s mother goes to Seung-ju, begging her to stop getting in Gern-wu’s way, and to let him go. She tells her she will get on her knees if she has to. Having no idea about what’s going on, Seung-ju is thunderstruck when she finds out about the situation. She tells Gern-wu that she is only a hindrance to him, and asks him to break up.
Eps. 34
Seung-ju agrees to act as Jin-a’s grandmother’s personal secretary, and moves into Jin-a’s house. Even though she has broken up with Gern-wu, getting her heart in order is easier said than done. She visits the department head at Gern-wu’s university to tell him about how Gern-wu ended up working at the academy, and pleads for his reconsideration. Overhearing the conversation outside the room, Su-a rages over Seung-ju’s attitude. However, Seung-ju asks Su-a to hand in Gern-wu’s professor appointment application forms, and informs her that she and Gern-wu have broken up.
On the other hand, when Yu-sun starts waking up in the middle of the night to eat, Gern-wu’s mother suspects that Yu-sun might be pregnant. She asks Yu-sun to go to the hospital with her the next day.
Eps. 35
Yu-sun becomes sensitive with her pregnancy, and asks Gern-sae what he would do if she dies after giving birth. She also wonders who will look after the baby if they both die, and starts to cry. She creates a commotion around the house claiming that the baby will end up being neglected, going from one relative to another, just like her.
On the other hand, while investigating the disappearance of Seung-ju’s father, Jin-a’s grandmother discovers that the area where he disappeared is the very place where a Chinese ship ran off. Her son, Min Jun-ki teases her that she’s read too many mystery novels, but tries to confirm such possibility anyway. In the process, he also finds out that Seung-ju’s father’s bill of exchange circulated around the market.
Eps. 36
Having quarreled with Gern-wu over Seung-ju, Gern-wu’s mother cannot sleep throughout the night. She then leaves the house leaving behind a note saying she is going away for a few days for some fresh air to clear her head. With the mother gone, the whole house becomes a disaster area, and on top of it all Yu-sun suddenly feels ill while washing dishes and tottering around the kitchen. Min Jun-ki tells Seung-ju to contact anyone who used to work for her father, and find out about the process that was taken to dispose of her father’s company. So Seung-ju meets with the former Managing Director and asks about the whereabouts of her father’s cash and notes. But the man only declares he doesn’t know anything about such matters, and that she should ask Su-a’s father. When Seung-ju arrives at Su-a’s house, she finds Su-a’s mother just about to leave the house. When she asks about the whereabouts of those people who took part in disposing her father’s company, Su-a’s mother is taken back and can only hesitatingly react by asking why she wants to know that. When Seung-ju accuses Su-a’s mother of hiding something, Su-a’s mother changes the subject by asking if Seung-ju knows where her brother Hyeok-ju is right now. She starts to agitate Seung-ju by claiming what a terrible sister Seung-ju must be to let her brother go around looking like a beggar.
Eps. 37
Discovering that Gern-sae had caused a commotion at Seung-ju’s workplace, Gern-wu visits Seung-ju to say he wants to apologize to Min Jun-ki. Seung-ju, however, tells him that Min Jun-ki fully understands the situation and there is no need for him to do that. Unable to look at each other straight in the face, the two of them talk while staring down at the table in front of them. Finally bracing himself, Gern-wu raises his face, and tells her resolutely that they are no longer lovers, and being unable to look at each other like this is not the right thing to do. He declares that he will get a hold of himself, and live his life as best as he can. He then stands to leave without looking back. Seung-ju feels confused at Gern-wu who has become so cold and unfamiliar. Gern-wu also goes to the country village in search for his mother, and sincerely asks for her forgiveness. His mother’s eyes fill with tears as she tells him about the first time she met his father. Meanwhile, Su-a’s father and Hyeok-ju join forces to sell Tteokbok-gi (Spicy Broiled Rice Cakes) on a mobile covered cart. In order to test their business potential, they sell the dish in their apartment complex. Neighborhood housewives swarm to taste their Tteokbok-gi, saying that it is delicious. However, Su-a’s mother sees her husband and Hyeok-ju’s mobile cart on her way home, and overturns the cooking pan demanding to know what on earth they are doing. She declares that she can’t live with her husband any longer, and asks for a divorce.
Eps. 38
Seeing his son feeling tormented, unable to forget Seung-ju, Gern-wu’s father goes to meet Seung-ju. He tells her if the two of them really care for each other, they should think again about what is truly right. When he asks if she now intends to lose Gern-wu also after losing her mother and father, Seung-ju loses control and bursts out crying. Gern-wu’s father also tells his son that he will regret anything that he does out of anger, and that if he intends to marry, he should do so after Seung-ju gets married. Meanwhile, Su-a’s father, while quarrelling with his wife declares that he has nothing more to lose, and that he intends to tell the whole truth because he cannot go on living like this in guilt. But Su-a’s mother, brimming with confidence, retorts back telling him to do anything he wants but to sign the divorce papers first. Watching her parents fight, Su-a angrily shouts that they are driving her crazy, and tells them to stop. Waking up from his sleep, Hyeok-ju overhears Su-a’s father say, “What if Hyeok-ju finds out the terrible thing we have done to him?”
Eps. 39
Hyeok-ju hears from Su-a that his sister has broken up with Gern-wu, and plans to marry Min Jun-ki. He rushes to Seung-ju, and after finding out the real situation, he asks his sister to never give up or break down. Discovering that Su-a has been talking and lying about her, Seung-ju goes in search for her. When Su-a approaches her, she whirls around and slaps Su-a hard. Gern-wu’s aunt arranges a marriage meeting for Gern-wu, and tells Gern-sae to inform his brother of the time and place of the meeting. Worried that his brother might decide to get married out of anger, Gern-sae goes to the meeting place instead. He acts like a lout in front of the potential bride who is shocked by his behavior. On the other hand, an acquaintance of Yu-sun spots Gern-sae with another woman at the coffee shop, and tells Yu-sun of what she has seen. Yu-sun causes a commotion asserting that she’s going to leave because Gern-sae is fooling around now that she is pregnant.
Eps. 40
Even though she is envious of Yu-sun’s pregnancy, Gern-wu’s aunt keeps on buying things for Yu-sun out of her love for her nephew and his wife. One day, she tells Gern-wu’s mother that she seems to have lost all appetite, and asks for some well fermented kimchi. Watching his wife munching on over-fermented kimchi, Gern-wu’s uncle wonders if she could be pregnant. When he mentions his thoughts to Gern-wu’s mother, she drags her sister-in-law to the hospital. Seeing Seung-ju tormenting herself over Gern-wu, Min Jun-ki contacts Gern-wu. When they meet, he tells Gern-wu that their claims for breaking up because they care for each other when they are still in love, is ridiculous. He tells Gern-wu to get back with Seung-ju before it’s too late, but Gern-wu leaves without saying anything.
