"Episode 28" "I promised her." " That I'd bring you to the hospital." " I said I don't want to!" "I don't want to meet her." "I really don't understand why." "You've been worrying about her all this time." " So I finally go meet her..." " I don't want to." "Mom." "You've raised me for over twenty years." "Whomever might have given birth to me, I have only one mother." " What are you talking about?" " Mom..." "You love me, right?" "You do, right?" "So that does it." "It's all I need to know." "When did you find out?" "That I wasn't your real mother." "Mom!" "I said I don't need to know." "Why you're not my real mother, and had to raise me instead for all these years." "I don't want to know any of that." "Unless you plan on abandoning me, please stop talking about that." "All right." "I'll stop." "Fine." "I'll admit it." "I wonder what possessed him, but he must have thought of you as some peerless beauty." "So that must why he fell head over heels and has been on a frenzy ever since." "It's none of that." " If it's not, then what?" " The chief is just helping me." "What is he, crazy?" "Helping any woman off the street for no good reason?" "Do I look that pathetic to you?" "You don't..." "Yeah..." "I'm pathetic, all right." "For even bothering to sit here with a hick like you." "Fine, let's stop this." "Sit!" "I'm not done talking." "I'll tell you one more time." "Whatever you do with my husband, I won't say a thing." "Since he'll eventually come back to me, anyway." "But don't you think you should stop trying to ruin his life?" "Listen..." "What do you want me to do?" "Look at you..." " Because I just..." " What I want you to do?" "!" "So what, are you going to take a step back now?" "I won't meet him." "Even if he comes looking for me, I won't meet him." "Would that be enough?" "You think I'm here to grovel at your feet?" "Come here." "I said follow me!" "Why do you keep trying to rile me up, talking back every chance you get?" "Look at you..." "Not moving a finger and letting me drag you around." "You're gonna go cry to him that I grabbed your hair now, aren't you?" "Yeah..." "I'm sure that's how you seduced him." "Or else why would he even bother looking at you?" "Unless he was in the mood for horsefaced goody-two-shoes hicks." "So?" "What the hell are you looking at?" "This is trouble." "I'm so drunk..." "Shall I call a substitute driver?" "I'm having a date with my boy for a change..." "Don't want anyone else to barge in." "How about we just walk home?" "What about the car?" "We can just come for it tomorrow." "All right." "Careful, Mom..." "Thank God I've got you with me?" "!" "Where are you?" "It's a draft beer house." "A what?" "I was walking home with Minjae after eating dinner, and then we came here." "What are you telling him?" "I told him you were busy at work, so just go home." "I asked you what you were talking about!" "He's coming." "We'll see you later." "Mom..." "I called your father." "To go get the car." "Then..." "We'll have to spend the night drinking?" "!" " Think you can take it?" " I can handle the bottle, don't you worry." " Really?" " One shot, Mom." "All right." "You're a pro?" "!" "And I thought you got drunk right away." "Even drinking all night wouldn't make me drunk, this time." "Really?" "If you don't think you can take it, you can just surrender while you can." "Don't even dream about it." "I'll show you who you're dealing with." "Wow..." "You're no joke, either." "If you really can't believe me, go check for yourself at the hospital." "See it with your own eyes." " She's in Room No. 801." " Is it really Yang Insuk?" "Yes..." "But I don't really know if she can meet anyone." "Since she's about to go through surgery, and all." " Patient:" "YANG Insuk - NO VISITORS" "You'll have to fast from now on." "Look..." "I can still walk straight." "Mommy is not drunk..." "Minjae." "Sorry." "I should have told you earlier." "But I was just too scared to tell you, that's all." "I feared you'd hate me." "Mom." "One day, when you'd be older..." "When you'd be much older, and able to understand me and your real mother," "I was planning to tell you." "Because I felt that when you got married," "and had children of your own, then you'd be able to forgive me." "I told you, Mom." "There is only one mother to me." "Right." "I'm the only one for you, right?" "Come here to me." "Come to Mom, Minjae." "How are you feeling?" "I came to check whether they really hospitalized you." "Did Yoon Nayoung tell you?" "To come and see in what state I was?" "Yes." "Thanks to you, I was hospitalized and will get that surgery." "And if I'm lucky, they say I might get a few more years to live." "Are you satisfied now?" "You didn't come to Seoul to get revenge." "It must have been because you missed Minjae." "Because you were curious how he was doing." "Don't tell me you thought you could get Minjae back?" "!" "Why can't I?" "Because that wouldn't do anyone any good." "Missing Minjae..." "That, I can understand." "But you can't turn back time." "What do you mean?" "That you need to stop trying to mess with Minjae!" "Who are those tears for?" "For Minjae?" "Or because you can't turn back time?" "Which one is it?" "You promised you would take care of me." "That you'd protect me, and make sure Yoon Nayoung wouldn't hurt me." "Then you should have kept your promise, that of leaving Minjae alone!" "But I didn't tell Minjae a thing." "You just gave him enough hints to make him realize it on his own!" "But that's enough." "If the surgery is a success, start a new life." "Let me ask you just one thing." "After we broke up, have you thought about me even once?" "And I'm not talking about curiosity or simple pity." "All I want to know is if you ever missed me." "What's that supposed to mean?" "No..." "I just..." "I just want to know if you've ever loved me." "What's with you?" "And you said you could beat me..." "Turn, let me take this off." "Mom..." "What?" "You know how much I like you, right?" "Stop it, I can't breathe." "What you feel for Minjae is not love." "You're merely using him to become a tycoon's wife." "And what do you know about Minjae, anyway?" "His favorite dishes, sleeping habits, the toys he liked..." "The fact that he sleeps with the lights on, afraid of the dark." "That he only laughs to conceal sadness." "That a single slice of watermelon will mean hives all over his body." "You know nothing." "Do you know a single thing about him?" "Every breath I took, every single day I lived was all for Minjae's sake." "I could have done the same for him." "If only I was given the chance." "No..." "If only you hadn't taken that chance away from me." "It turns out that you're even scarier." "I was so naive to reserve all my resentment for Yoon Nayoung." "What did you expect?" "If the surgery succeeds, go back to the States." "I'll take care of all the rest." "So that wasn't what you spent that night at my place for." "What would that be?" "What you and I shared in New York." "Wasn't it?" "There was no love between us in New York, either." "Since all I needed back then was any woman." "I see..." "I thought at least those moments were sincere..." "The times we spent together, that is." "Did you take a DNA test?" "Because, actually, I don't know who the father is, either." "Although I do believe you're the one." "You're treating me like that kind of woman!" "The kind who would seduce a tycoon's son just for the money." "And how is Yoon Nayoung any different?" "What's so different about her?" "When did you get here?" "It's been a while." "It's cold..." "Why didn't you go wait inside?" "I just like standing out here waiting for you." "What happened to your face?" " Let me..." " No..." " Let me take a look." " It's all right." "It's cold." "Let's go inside." "Youngjun didn't come here." "Did he say he would come here?" "I can't take this anymore, Mother." "He keeps insisting he won't run the company." "What are you saying?" "Only if he runs it we'll be able to reunite the two companies later." "And that will also calm down the chairman." "Tell me about it." "Where are you?" "Where are you calling from?" "I'm in Ulsan, too." "He wasn't at home, either." "All this is killing me, Mother..." "Enough with that nonsense and come here." "Come and let's talk." "All right." "We've been closed for a few days, so it'll be even colder." "Things still haven't been settled?" "No..." "It's been settled." "Is that so?" "I found another place already." "So you're moving?" "Yes." "Where to?" "Is it... far from here?" "Chief." "I apologize." "I should call you president, but I got used to it by now." "Didn't we agree you'd keep calling me chief?" "I moved all the elders who lived with me to the nursing home." "How about you?" "I'll have to open a business and make a living." "I thought that nothing would happen to me until the day I died." "And I wasn't expecting otherwise, either." "I'm the problem, really." "I never even contemplated the idea of meeting someone else." "I've been reflecting these last few days." "I'm not the kind of woman who will fall in love." "Relationships just scare me." "So I'll move my restaurant and have a fresh new start." "I shouldn't live beyond my means." "Jeongsuk." "You should go now." "It's too cold in here, so I can't really ask you to stay." "Did my wife come to see you again?" "No..." "Why would she come looking for someone like me, and twice at that?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "Youngjun had an affair?" "!" "Haven't you heard?" "I haven't." "I could let it slide if he'd just cheated on me with anyone else, but not this time." "Who did he have an affair with?" " You really haven't heard?" " Just tell me and get it over with..." "With Yoon Nayoung's sister!" "Minjae's mother?" "!" "You must know already that it was her sister who was supposed to marry Youngmin." "Good lord..." "Listen to that." "Are you telling me that Youngjun and Nayoung's sister had an affair?" "Yes, Mother." "I'm so embarrassed I can't even talk about it." " What is there to be embarrassed about?" " Chairman." "That's what they call having an affair." "If you worried about the consequences and your future together, it wouldn't be an affair." "It'd be dating." "How convenient..." "Then again, you surely would know by experience." "Did Youngjun ask for a divorce?" "And how could he find the guts to say that to my face?" "You really..." "Then he's not really fallen for her." "It's Nayoung's sister we're dealing with, Chairman!" "Wait a moment..." "What did she look like again..." "Ahh!" "Right." "She was quite a pretty young damsel." "Damsel?" "!" "Calling some hick like that..." "So, what, did he say he'll quit his job?" "What?" "Why, if you dated some hick selling raw fish after gaining half the group on a silver platter, shouldn't you have the decency of quitting your job?" "Some hick selling raw fish?" "!" "I can't believe it." "What is the chairman talking about?" "Isn't it obvious he knew everything and still did nothing about it?" "He's really gone too far this time." "No matter how much he might resent me, how can he do that?" "Where are you going?" "Let me talk to Youngjun." "I was mad." "I even begged my uncle to get him half his company back." "Hey..." "Are you going to Youngjun's place?" "Hey!" "Look what happens to my son, just because we picked the wrong in-laws." "Is she gone?" "You've said the right thing, for a change." "You took the words out of my mouth." "Why are you laughing?" "Because it's funny." "The idea that Youngjun had an affair." "Chairman." "Let's just go back to Seoul." "I need to be there to keep them in check, otherwise things will become serious." " Same goes for Youngmin's wife." " Enough with the prattling, and give me the phone." "If this keeps up, they're going to create a rift between the brothers." " Mister Hong?" " Yes, Chairman." "They just issued an arrest warrant for Youngdae." "Yes, I will." "What did he say?" "How can you do this to us?" "Didn't the two of you just set up my husband?" "Say something, will you?" "Then again..." "What could you possibly say?" "!" "You should be ashamed of yourself." "Even if not blood-related, you're still brothers." "How can you deny everything just to save yourselves?" "Come on in." "I said all of you, what are you waiting for?" "Listen well." "Pack up and go to Ulsan right away." "Live with your grandparents until they release your father." "You really think that Grandpa will even blink at us?" " He'll just laugh at us." " Laugh or not, go there and beg him." "To save your father." "Mom, you just stay put." "The more you try to mess things up, the worse it'll get for Dad." "What?" "!" "Mess things up?" "Is that how you talk to your mother?" "I don't expect anything from the Kim clan, so just leave me alone!" "Youngjae, come back here!" "Mom..." "Why don't you ask Aunt?" "She's got all the power anyway." "Aigoo, what's the use of having children..." "I feel pity for your father!" "And imagine how much better off his children are!" "Fine..." "Just do as you wish." "Go out there and have people point fingers at you for being abandoned by your clan." "I've had it with this." "Do as you damn please." "Who called at this hour?" "Youngdae's wife." "What did she want?" " They issued an arrest warrant." " That fast?" "I barely managed to calm Minjae down." "I'm sure she's disappointed, since they issued that warrant the moment he entered the prosecutor's office." "You reap what you sow." "His greed is what caused all this in the first place." "And that's what made him lose your father's favor." "All the better." "Now you're all he's got eyes for." "Turns out that Minjae already knew?" "!" "That Yang Insuk was his real mother." "The moment he told me that, I thought my heart had stopped beating." "But on the other hand, it also reassured me." "I went to the hospital." "You did what?" "I thought I should meet her at least once." "You really..." " Why bother meeting someone who's about to die?" " What's that supposed to mean?" "You didn't know?" "Yang Insuk's brain tumor is malignant." "Cancer cells have spread all over her brain." "But you said that she could survive if the surgery went well!" "When did I ever?" "Then you should have told me the truth." "I thought you knew already." "I went there knowing nothing and told her terrible things." "To never see Minjae again, if the surgery was a success." "That's right." "I'm the only villain here." "And you always seem to know nothing after all is said and done." " I'm going to sleep." " How dangerous is it?" "Why don't you go ask the doctor yourself?" "Speak to me." "How dangerous is that surgery?" "Couldn't we let her die on her own terms, then?" "Don't you even think about Minjae?" "Think about it." "There's a big difference between finding out on his own and being told the truth by her." "She would have just told him the truth, and completely messed him up." "Go ahead..." "Always make me look like the bad guy, if it makes you feel any better." "It turns out that you're even scarier." "I was so naive to reserve all my resentment for Yoon Nayoung." "Where are you going?" "I asked where you're going!" "What's the point of meeting Yang Insuk now?" "You haven't been able to protect her all this time, and now what?" "Minjae." "It's me, Minjae." "I'm prepared to lose everything I have." "Except for you." "What you said is right." "I was never able to protect her." "And the same goes for you and Minjae." "What are you saying?" "Where are you moving to?" "It's not that far from here." "And what about this house?" "It's your father's inheritance, after all." "I'll leave it to my sister." "Aigoo..." "You foolish brat." "You let her steal it, after all." "As if marrying a tycoon wasn't enough." "For the time being, keep this to yourself." "I'll tell everyone when I'm ready." "Do you have the money?" "I've been saving for a while." "Isn't your sister giving you any money?" "Take it!" "It's not like she'd need it." "How can I accept money from my sister?" "Jeongsuk!" "You've made up your mind to leave, then?" " Step aside, let me do it." " I'm almost done." "Worry about your room instead." "It was so cold I had to grab everything I could find to cover myself." " It's because the boiler is broken." " You could have called someone to fix it." "You didn't even realize this place has turned into a fridge?" "Then again..." "I guess you didn't even feel it." "Let's not even go there." "I wonder why I'm embarrassing myself this way." "Imagining such filthy scenarios and all." "I'll go to Seoul after breakfast." "What are you going to do?" "Ask her to move in, while you're there..." "Everyone knows already, anyway." "You'll have to give my uncle an answer by the end of the day." "He said that if you're not taking over, he'll sell his half of the company." "Your beloved Chairman Kim Taejin must have collapsed under all that rage by now." "He always thought you'd eventually take over, but if the group goes through a spin-off, how would that make him feel?" "What will you do?" "If he leaves management to me, I was going to give it a try." "I'm sure he will..." "Why would he bother interfering with that?" "Go back up to Seoul and meet my father, for starters." "What's there to worry about?" "There are a few factories in Ulsan, you can use that as an excuse to go back and forth." "If you put your heart into the company, I'll forgive you this much." "What's wrong with that anyway?" "Your father did much worse, back in the day." "If one brought up divorce after every little affair, half the men would separate." "Or maybe more?" "How naive..." "But I guess that's one of Kim Youngjun's charms." "Last night, an arrest warrant for Atlantic Group vice-chairman Kim Youngdae was issued." "With rumors of political lobbying connected to Atlantic's plans to establish a shipyard..." "That's just great." "Hyeonpil." "Tell Ingi to hurry up, she'll be late for the shoot." "What are you doing, Ingi?" "Let's go." "Just a moment." "What's with the sudden change of mind?" "She looked ready to kill you." "Ingi." "Stop trying to take advantage of Yoon Nayoung's weak spot." " Did you look into it?" " What?" " Incheon, what else?" " Ahh..." "That?" "Hurry up." "If President Yoon learns of that before we do, it's over for Ingi." "Would she... try to dig up her past?" " She's more than capable of it." " All right." "I'll go get the car." "Hyeonpil." "Keep your mouth shut around President Yoon." "We need to protect Baek Ingi." " Come to the entrance." " Come with us, we'll choose the costumes." "I'll have a cup of coffee before we go." "Just hang in there for another month, Ingi." "When we're done with this film, I'll meet with President Yoon and settle the score." "But I still have three years left in my contract?" " Going all the way will just kill you." " Why would you worry about it?" "Making money is all you need." "I have no intention of getting any money from Yoon Nayoung." "Director Jang, can you do me a favor?" "What?" "Give money to someone on my behalf." "To whom?" "Ahh..." "To that foster mother who raised you?" "If you tell her it's company money, she might even accept it." "If she doesn't want it, why bother?" "I've treated her like crap all this time." "I did." "It's the woman who raised me, after all." "All right, if I have time." "Should I just tell her to come live with me in Seoul?" "With your personality?" "!" "I think we'd get along." "If we lived together." "Go to that shoot." "Thank you, President." "So do as you're told, and stop trying to create trouble." "Let's get along from now on." "Got it, Ingi?" "She still doesn't get it." "Can't you be a little more gentle?" "If you start acting submissive with her, she'll just eat you alive." "Remember at the orphanage?" "No matter how often I made a scene, they always treated me well." "Look at what I have to endure..." "What's all this about?" "!" "And at my age, at that." " Vice-chairman." " What?" "!" "Don't forget what the chairman told you." "I'm not going to trust what he says anymore." "They'll release you on bail, but then you'll have to deal with General Nam." "Right." "What did he want me to do, again?" "Ehh...." "How can that work?" " So that's the key?" "!" " Yes." "Vice-chairman Kim." "Let's continue now." "My father sure is clever..." "Mijin." "How about we go play golf in Hawaii, just to change the mood?" "What for?" "It's not like the courses would be any different." "Ehh..." "You just don't want to get a tan, isn't it?" "I'll take care of everything." "Let's go!" "Hawaii." "Now, what, you're making things official?" "I thought you liked me?" "!" "Did I ever say you were the only one?" "So was it just a crush on my end?" "Have you found out where Yoon Nayoung got her abortion?" "It's been so long ago..." "Are you really sure she was pregnant with your child?" "I told you she showed up at my door with a belly this big." "She made a scene with my father, threatening to kill herself if he didn't let us marry." "Hey...." "You really..." "Good shot!" "If only we could find the hospital, we'd hit the jackpot." "By the way..." "Do you hold some kind of grudge against her?" "It's the tragedy of the chase." "Nam Aeri is going crazy trying to find out, and Yoon Nayoung is losing it trying to hide her past." "If I pull the right strings, I might even get something out of this." "Wouldn't Kim Taejin take care of his daughter on his way out?" " You're his only daughter." " All the more reason why we should hurry." "Before Atlantic Group goes belly up." "Mijin." "Just a moment." "Congrats." "I hear you opened another spot in Dogok-dong?" "Yeah..." "Thanks." "Looks like Dad will come back to Seoul tomorrow?" "I know." "Oppa." "Let's earn ourselves a big one this time, no matter what it takes." "Yeah." "Minjae might end in trouble any moment." "Minjae?" "So is that true?" "That Nayoung wasn't really his mother." "Don't tell anyone." "Try to mess with Minjae, and the chairman will destroy you." "Anyhow, it's a peculiar family, all right." "Fine." "Let's take this to the end, together." "What is it?" "I'll leave the house and restaurant empty by the end of the week." "Really?" "You did the right thing." "Nayoung." "What?" "You want money?" "I need no money." "Yeah, right." "I'll give it to you, so just tell me the account number." "Which bank?" "I said I need no money." "I really don't need any." "Instead, don't sell this place to anyone else, just keep it." "And what would I do with it?" "Our father left it to us." "And it's the house where both of us were born." "All right." "I'll hold it, and when you get enough money later, sell it back to you." "Thanks." "You're really testing my patience." "If you break up with Kim Youngjun, that house would be yours." "Why insist?" "If you feel lonely all by yourself, find someone to marry and get it over with." "I'll give you the house, so promise instead." "Promise what?" "That you'll never interfere in my life again." "So you're just going to keep meeting him?" "Haven't you read the papers?" "Youngmin is about to become owner of Atlantic Group." "I only asked you to help me until then, you're really something." "How can you only think of yourself?" "Help me out, Eonni." "I'm hanging up." "Eonni..." "Don't hang up, unless you want me to come there!" "How could anyone be so selfish?" "!" "How long have you been there?" "You've got a lot on your plate, it seems." "So?" "Wasn't trying to intimidate you." " You just want the department store?" " I won't say no." "Then you should ask nicely." "Think I'd let you blackmail me that way?" "If you don't give it to me, I can always go see Nam Aeri." "I know." "How you're playing with the both of us going back and forth." "I thought I could focus on whomever had more weak spots..." "Then, keep Park Deokseong quiet, so that Nam Aeri won't find out." "So we're on the same boat now." "I'll have to go to Hawaii with Deokseong, then." "All the better." "But, Eonni." "How could you fall for someone like Park Deokseong?" "I can't even imagine it." "He stinks so much." "Whenever I go meet him, I have to drown in perfume just to endure it." "I guess you weren't all that picky." "Solve one problem, and here's another." "Answer me, Honey." "Aeri, you just stay put." "Must I really go on living this way?" "Youngjun." "Yes, Father." "I'm not on my brother's side." "You know what I mean?" "I'm on Chairman Kim's side." "Can we let a boorish fool like my brother get his hands on Atlantic Group?" "How can he run a company when he doesn't have the slightest idea about management?" "So you take over for now." "Then, we'll find the right opportunity to get the two companies together." "I'll think about it." "I'm counting on you, Youngjun." "What's with all the chatter?" "Just tell him to quit." "We can just separate and get it over with." "Youngjun." "I know all too well how nasty a temper she's got." "So, please..." "Isn't life all about affection?" "But my brother knows no such thing." "Honey." "I'm at the hospital, since the surgery is starting." "Is Minjae at work?" "Is he at work?" "Take Minjae and go home." "Don't forget." "Hyung!" "What are you doing here?" "Got caught, by my mother." "She forced me to work here." "So you'll work here from now on?" "Ahh..." "How many times did I tell her this is not for me..." "Kim Seongjae." "Kim Seongjae!" "Hyung..." "He's calling you." "I even have to see him again..." "Why, have you worked here before?" "I hate having to live around the clock." "Kim Seongjae." "Come here while I still play nice." "Just go..." "Don't have him turn against me, too." "Has he become that powerful?" "Kim Seongjae!" "Yes!" "Coming." "Nah..." "Stay there." "You and Minjae are working overtime, tonight." "See?" "!" "We're both screwed." "This job makes me sick because of people like him." "The things one does to kiss up and get promoted..." "Why, have a problem with that?" "Fine, then." "Work overtime for a month." "We'll see if it changes that entitled little grin on your face." "Ahh..." "Even someone as fierce as my mother never hit me..." "Sorry, Minjae." "For getting you involved." "We can just stay here a little longer and then go." "He never complains the morning after." "Isn't Yang Insuk's surgery over?" "She's in recovery." "Did it go well?" "I don't know." "Can you open the door?" "Don't you know who I am?" "How insolent..." "Wait." "Is Yang Insuk still in the recovery room?" "You'll excuse me, but what's your relation with the patient?" "I'm her guardian." "Why, did anything go wrong?" "We moved her to intensive care." "Intensive care?" " Intensive Care Unit " "Honey..." "He said it wasn't that dangerous, the doctor." "But I lied!" "You were worried about her, so I lied to you." "What now..." "Let's leave it to destiny." "Yang Insuk's survival." "It feels empty without Youngdae around." "I said she did it because of the money!" "Don't insult my mother that way." "So why did you force her to take that surgery against her will?" "You still don't get it?" "Nobody understood Yang Insuk like I did, and the same goes for me." "How could he let Youngshik join the company?" "!" "So that's why I told you to be careful." "He might not be able to forsake his own flesh and blood, but he can surely abandon a daughter-in-law." "Starting today, you're Atlantic Group's owner." "If you don't take over, your father will be really angry." "Leave Minjae alone, no matter how he reacts." "You little..." "It's not because of that woman." "I'm not going to be my father's puppet." "If I run the group, I'll only do it my way." "He's ruining my life!" "Things will never be the same again, for the both of us."