Episode 16 Plot Synopsis
Episode 1
After defending her client in court, Woo Lee-gyeong leaves the courtroom and competes for a taxi against Mr. Oh Young-tak, who snickers at her for being a former secretary at his law firm. Han Min-guk boards his private helicopter with Oh Ryu-dong and they pass over Seoul. Lee Ae-ri visits the prestigious law firm, Daebo Associates, and reporter Bae Soo-jin, who was tailing her, is prevented from entering the law firm’s building due to the security guards.
While eating Chinese noodles, Lee-gyeong notices the headline in a newspaper that says Lee Ae-ri and Han Min-guk have filed for a divorce and is astonished. Ae-ri tells Mr. Choi, the senior partner of Daebo Associates, that she wants his law firm to represent her in her estate suit against her ex-husband, Han Min-guk. She asks him to get her the best divorce lawyer that money can buy. After returning to Korea, Byun-hyuk goes the apartment where he used to live together with his former girlfriend, Lee-gyeong.
Episode 2
Han Min-guk asks Woo Lee-gyeong to be his lawyer but Lee-gyeong declines because Ae-ri is her best friend and she could not imagine herself fighting against her in court. Min-guk and Byun-hyuk meet in front of Lee-gyeong’s apartment and they lock eyes in a menacing way. Byun-hyuk is astonished when he sees Lee-gyeong’s certification for passing the bar exam. With a stern face, Lee-gyeong tells Byun-hyuk to leave the apartment where she lives.
Lee-gyeong gets upset when she is called to the police because her dad broke the law. To cheer herself up, she rides on the back of Jeon Lee-man’s motorcycle as they exceed the speed limit. A police car spots them and a hot pursuit begins. Hitching a free ride in Bae Soo-jin’s SUV, Min-guk goes to the precinct and posts bail for Lee-gyeong. Min-guk asks Lee-gyeong to be his lawyer again. Byun-hyuk walks confidently into Daebo Associate’s office on his first day at work. Min-guk visits Lee-gyeong’s office and brings a lunch bag with him.
Episode 3
Byun-hyuk and Ae-ri can’t take their eyes off of the TV when they see Lee-gyeong appearing next to Han Min-guk as his lawyer. Min-guk smiles at Lee-gyeong who is holding a lunch bag. Byun-hyuk approaches Lee-gyeong as she looks perplexed in front of the statue of Lady Justice. He tells her that he knows the lawyer who will represent Lee Ae-ri and that Lee-gyeong is no match to him.
Ae-ri demands to know why Min-guk chose her friend Lee-gyeong to be his lawyer and Min-guk says it’s a strategy. When Lee-gyeong learns later that Lee Ae-ri’s lawyer is no other than Byun-hyuk, she gets angry. Lee-gyeong tells Byun-hyuk to meet her on the rooftop later in the evening while giving him a dirty look.
Episode 4=
Han Min-guk goes up to the rooftop of the building and flings the door open, trapping Byun-hyuk behind it. Lee-gyeong, who was standing a few feet away from the door, is surprised to see Min-guk together with Ae-ri. She suggests that they all go downstairs. Noticing the backside of a man standing on the rooftop, Ae-ri rings up her lawyer, Byun-hyuk, and quietly turns around.
Min-guk and Oh Ryu-dong take the court summons papers to Lee-gyeong’s office. Lee-gyeong is talking with a school principal over the phone at the moment and she steps outside. While waiting for Lee-gyeong, Min-guk gets angry when the electric fan doesn’t work. He tells Lee-gyeong to write a reply concerning the court summons by tomorrow morning.
Episode 5
Lying on a bed in the emergency room, Han Min-guk calls for Lee-gyeong but she doesn’t appear. After explaining what happened to the police, Lee-gyeong remembers Min-guk telling her not to close her eyes. She then enters the emergency room. Byun-hyuk gets mad that Lee-gyeong didn’t come home that night and puts up the apartment where she lives for sale.
Min-guk and Lee-gyeong share the same room in the hospital and when Byun-hyuk and Ae-ri hear about their accident, they both head to the hospital to pay a visit to them. The four people meet at the same room and stare at each other in surprise. Ae-ri tells Min-guk to get well as soon as possible. While looking at a photo of Lee-gyeong, Byun-hyuk tries to put it back in the photo album and notices Lee-gyeong’s old, scuffed-up cell phone.
Episode 6=
When Byun-hyuk holds Lee-gyeong’s wrist as they go down a stairway, Min-guk also pulls Lee-gyeong towards her by holding her wrist. As Lee-gyeong stands in the middle between the two men in an awkward situation, Ae-ri tells the men to let go of her in an icy voice. When Ae-ri asks Lee-gyeong if she’ll be on her side as a friend, Lee-gyeong tells her that she’s going to stick with Han Min-guk.
Oh Young-tak swipes a letter that is addressed to Byun-hyuk. The letter states the legal arguments that Lee-gyeong will present to the court to claim ownership of Byun-hyuk’s apartment and contains private details. While eating lunch with Lee-gyeong, Min-guk keeps asking her the definition of three particular characters. Koh Gyeong-hee shows the pre-nuptials that Ae-ri signed before she married Min-guk. After hearing that Ae-ri signed a pre-nuptial agreement, Byun-hyuk goes to Min-guk and punches him.
Episode 7=
Lee-gyeong offers to treat Min-guk to dinner after he gets off work. Lee-gyeong offers barbecued pork to Min-guk but he refuses to eat it because it is not to his liking. Reporter Bae Soo-jin reads the pre-nuptial agreement signed between Lee Ae-ri and Min-guk when somebody faxes it from Woo Lee-gyeong’s office. Bae is startled when he reads the last clause.
While talking with Woo Seok-ho, Min-guk finds out that Lee-gyeong is single. Head Partner Choi of Daebo Associates advises Lee-gyeong to drop her countersuit but Lee-gyeong firmly refuses. When meeting with Reporter Bae Soo-jin, Ae-ri is shocked to learn that her pre-nuptial agreement was faxed from Woo Lee-gyeong’s office. Byun-hyuk and Ae-ri go meet Lee-gyeong and the four of them go to a restaurant together to eat barbecued pork.
Episode 8=
After putting on his jacket, Min-guk starts talking about the Hangukmin Mutual Fund in bullish terms to a group of journalists, who look at him in disbelief. Lee-gyeong brings up the fact that Min-guk spent the night with Ae-ri but Min-guk tells her that nothing has changed about their divorce proceedings.
Byun-hyuk tells Ae-ri that the judge has set a date to hear her case and asks her if his services are no longer needed. Ae-ri tells him to handle the case as planned. The four of them look tense as they sit before the judge and there is an air of tension. Oh Ryu-dong learns about the past relationship between Lee-gyeong and Byun-hyuk and goes to see Ok-hee to confirm what he has learned. Ok-hee proposes to Oh Ryu-dong to go on a date with her to stop him from telling that information to Min-guk.
Episode 9=
Min-guk angrily calls Ae-ri after he finds out the truth about the past relationship between Lee-gyeong and Byun-hyuk. He tells Ae-ri to come over Lee-gyeong’s home. Ae-ri looks surprised when she sees Lee-gyeong, Byun-hyuk, and Min-guk altogether at the apartment. Telling everyone to leave, Lee-gyeong also tells them that she’ll end her friendship with Byun-hyuk and Ae-ri and her client relationship with Min-guk. Ae-ri tells Byun-hyuk that she lost the only lawyer she could depend on and her best friend in one day as she gets up and leaves first.
Min-guk goes to see Oh Young-tak and learns that Lee-gyeong and Byun-hyuk are fighting each other in the courts to claim ownership of the apartment. Lee-gyeong tells Byun-hyuk that she wants to be reinstated as Min-guk’s lawyer and Min-guk drops by and tells Lee-gyeong to read the lawsuit filed by Byun-hyuk over the apartment with a wry smile.
Episode 10
Lee-gyeong heads to her office in a hurry with her heart fluttering and finds herself happy to see Min-guk as he walks towards her. Byun-hyuk presents Lee-gyeong’s old cell-phone to her but the phone falls into a stew when Lee-gyeong tries to swipe it out of his hands.
Lee-gyeong asks Ae-ri to put aside the fact that they’re friends and just frankly tell her what she wants from Min-guk as a plaintiff talking to the defendant’s lawyer. Min-guk and Lee-gyeong go to a park and walk along the stone cobbled trail together. Reporter Bae Soo-jin watches them while hidden from their view. When Ae-ri reads about the scandalous relationship between Min-guk and Lee-gyeong, she gets enraged at being betrayed by them and goes to see Byun-hyuk.
Episode 11
Leaving the court together, Min-guk and Lee-gyeong don’t say a word to each other as they drive along a quiet road. Lee-gyeong gets upset that Min-guk did not tell her about the pre-nuptial agreement beforehand. Min-guk leaves Lee-gyeong alongside the ride and drives away in his car. Lee-gyeong looks on with disbelief as he leaves. Ae-ri tells Min-guk not to get involved with Lee-gyeong because she’s about to rekindle her relationship with Byun-hyuk.
Byun-hyuk calls Lee-gyeong but she doesn’t answer her phone. After discovering Lee-gyeong’s cell-phone in his car, Min-guk drives back to the spot where he left Lee-gyeong by the side of the road with a grim expression on his face. Seeing that Lee-gyeong left Byun-hyuk, Min-guk secretly rejoices. The judge presents a figure to Lee-gyeong and Byun-hyuk to mediate the divorce settlement.
Episode 12
After speaking her mind, Ae-ri walks out and Lee-gyeong is shocked. Waking up from his sleep, Min-guk gets surprised when he sees that Lee-gyeong is not in her room. He hurriedly goes to her office but it is vacant as everything had been moved out. Lee-gyeong urges Min-guk to have a heart-to-heart talk with Ae-ri.
Byun-hyuk tries to tell Lee-gyeong why he left her while they’re having a drink but Lee-gyeong passes out cold after having too much to drink. Byun-hyuk gets upset when he learns who Lee-gyeong is really in love with. Ae-ri tells Min-guk that they should drop their divorce suit but Min-guk refuses. Ae-ri leaves the pre-nuptial agreement with him and asks him to think it over.
Episode 13
After waking up from his sleep, Min-guk is shocked to see Lee-gyeong sleeping next to him and asks her what she is doing with him. Lee-gyeong wakes up when she hears Min-guk’s voice. Lee-gyeong grabs Min-guk around the collar and confesses her feelings for him and Min-guk is confused on whether she really means it when she said she loved him. Byun-hyuk arrives at the court late and tells the judge that an apartment can only be seen as joint property if the couple is married. Lee-gyeong watches him in disbelief.
Min-guk decides to go to the press conference of Ae-ri’s new movie after taking heated calls from the banks. During the press conference, Min-guk asks Ae-ri out loud what she will do with the money from her divorce settlement. The cameras focus on Min-guk. Min-guk tells Ae-ri that he will wait to hear her answer in the place where they first met each other and then promptly leaves.
Episode 14
Min-guk is surprised to see Lee-gyeong wearing a different fashion style from her usual bland look. When Lee-gyeong asks him to return her lunchbox, he tells her that he didn’t eat the lunch she packed for him. Min-guk says mean things to Lee-gyeong to make her change her feelings towards him but Lee-gyeong tells Min-guk that he’s growing fonder of him. Ae-ri calls up Byun-hyuk and tells him to come see her at the hotel.
Lee-gyeong and Ae-ri bump into each other at the wedding of a mutual friend and they look at each other awkwardly. Min-guk is at the same hotel where he is holding a shareholders’ meeting for his Hanminguk Mutual Fund. Min-guk frowns when he sees Lee-gyeong and Ae-ri wearing the same dress. The shareholders’ meeting begins and when Min-guk becomes speechless after the people ask him a barrage of questions, Ae-ri steps onto the stage...
Episode 15
Min-guk and Lee-gyeong are unable to meet eyes they act awkwardly around each other. Min-guk asks Lee-gyeong to stay at his side until the end. Min-guk ignores the ringing sound of Lee-gyeong’s cell-phone during the meeting and Byun-hyuk is surprised to hear Min-guk on the other end when he was expecting Lee-gyeong to answer the cell-phone. Min-guk confronts Byun-hyuk and asks him why he didn’t tell Lee-gyeong the truth about what happened in America. Tears well up in Lee-gyeong’s eyes when she recognizes Byun-hyuk’s voice on the other end of the line.
Eventually, Min-guk relinquishes the president position and when Lee-gyeong learns about this, she calls Min-guk who doesn’t take her calls. When Lee-gyeong tells Min-guk to give her some more time to think it over, he tells her to make a selfish decision, which means he wants her to pick him.
Episode 16
One year later, Min-guk and Lee-gyeong bump into each other in the lobby of a building and look surprised. While riding the elevator, Min-guk grins. Min-guk tells the former general manager to keep managing his company as the president. Min-guk and Lee-gyeong enter their respective offices and recall the memories they had.
With Byun-hyuk’s help, Lee-gyeong is able to win a crucial decision in court and while she beams happily, Senior Partner Choi and Mr. Oh Young-tak approach her and Byun-hyuk. Min-guk tells Oh Ryu-dong to have a chauffer drive Lee-gyeong to his office. Koh Gyeong-hee gets nervous when Min-guk and Lee-gyeong enter the office together. Lee-gyeong had told Koh Gyeong-hee glowing compliments about Min-guk before but she never mentioned an interest in marrying him.
