Let give up

Jung-eun has gone from sad to angry, and she takes out her frustrations on her dressmaker, as if it's the dress's fault that Ji-tae didn't show today.

Eul wakes in Ji-tae's car, where he's taken them to the Han River. She gets right to the point: If she were to date him, would his parents mind? At least he's honest that it would, and Eul quietly figures that it would be the best way she could get back at them. "Then let's date, Ajusshi."

Jung-eun mindlessly drinks shot after shot, but no matter how hard she tries, she can't get drunk enough. She staggers outside of the hotel bar to the pool area, still drinking, and she finally collapses and falls into the chilly water. Someone dives in to pull her to the surface — is that Joon-young?

He lightly slaps Jung-eun awake, and tells her that she can't die yet, because she has a lot still to do for him. She blinks up at him, but when people finally arrive to help her, Joon-young leaves again.

As he goes, he thinks about what lawyer Cha told him, that it's too late and there's nothing he can do about Eul's case. Joon-young had asked for just a name, the true killer's name, before it's too late. Lawyer Cha had told him the truth: It was Assemblyman Yoon's daughter, Jung-eun.

Joon-young continues filming his documentary with a new PD, and he says with a smile that he has a bucket list now. Joon-young invites the new PD to eat with him and his team (why he hasn't fired them and pressed charges, I'll never understand), and his new, affable attitude surprises everyone.

President Namgoong is overly solicitous, feeling guilty about replacing Eul, but Joon-young seems pretty fine with it actually.

Eul's former boss visits her at home, where she's pretty much living in unemployed squalor. Her boss says that his boss, Director Choi sent him to offer her a job reporting on a top star's movie, but he just can't do it, and begs her to say that he offered it to her and she turned it down.

But the actor is notoriously meticulous, and even demands that all women around him look like models… so Eul, who is currently wearing noodles on her shirt and sauce all over her face, just wouldn't do. Her old boss says he'll find another job more suited to her.

So Eul calls his boss, but instead of turning the job down, she accepts it.

Assemblyman Choi arrives at work to find himself picketed, with a mob of angry people demanding that he resign. Their stores have been closed because of policies he instated, but instead of cowering, he approaches them and asks if those stores had the proper governmental licensing. They admit that they didn't, and Choi tells them they were lucky to simply lose their street stalls, and that they weren't fined or sent to jail.

But a strong voice speaks up behind him, asking if he's certain he did his best to give them time to obtain the proper licenses. Choi recognizes the voice, and in shock, he turns to find Ji-tae standing there.

Ji-tae suggests that instead, Assemblyman Choi hired thugs to chase those people out of their stalls so that the government wouldn't be burdened by helping them. Choi feebly counters that it was all perfectly legal, but Ji-tae argues back that whether or not is was legal, was it truly justice?

Choi asks brings up the taxes that went unpaid for years, and how it's not fair to the shop owners who do everything by the book. Ji-tae says that if these men could have followed the law, they would have, rather than endure insults and possible loss of their livelihood.

Assemblyman Choi tells Ji-tae to stop pretending he cares, but again Ji-tae has a smart comeback, that Choi himself was once like them but now pretends he never was. His own parents even owned a street stall.

Ji-tae is yanked into his father's office, but Assemblyman Choi only asks if he worked things out with Jung-eun and her father. He says that an upcoming life-changing event can cause a man to get distracted, as once happened with him.

Ji-tae just states that he won't marry Jung-eun, and his father asks if this is about Noh Eul. Ji-tae says he won't live his life for his parents, that he won't do anything that benefits them, or would make them happy. If his father wants him out of the company or the house, he'll go.

Ji-tae's mother visits Jung-eun, and gives her, of all things, a movie script. She says that she was going to give it to Ji-tae to invest in, but she wants Jung-eun to have it "since we're family now." Jung-eun points out that Ji-tae dumped her, but his mother says with doe-eyed innocence that nothing was ever called off.

The engagement went exactly as planned, she says, seeming to really believe it. What in the what now? She pets Jung-eun's hand and says that she's her daughter-in-law from now on, and she will share her company's workload and her family's secrets with her.

The top star that Eul will be trailing, SEO YOON-HOO (Yoon Park ), is predictably behaving like a spoiled baby. He's angry that he got stuck with the PD who left Joon-young's documentary, but her old boss promises him that she's the best and that she only left the project because Joon-young kept hitting on her.

Knowing Joon-young's high standards, Yoon-hoo finds that mighty interesting, and suddenly he's eager to meet her. HAHA, Eul's old boss tells him that she's good at her job, but actually Joon-young just has weird taste and she mostly looks like a homeless person.

And then Eul walks in, looking like a million freaking bucks. She's wearing a lacy dress, her hair and makeup just so, and even heels. She's laying it on pretty thick, but the men lap it up like cream.

Ajusshi visits Joon-young's mom's restaurant and finds her doing something sneaky, directing her employee to warn her when Ajusshi arrives. He finds her packing a mountain of food and asks if it's for Joon-young, and when she stammers and gives herself away, he tells her not to do it or Joon-young will just yell at her.

Mom actually defends Joon-young, and barks that she'll take him food if she wants to take him food. Ajusshi just smiles and says that he'll start the car. Awww, he's so cute.

He drives Mom to Joon-young's house and tells her she should at least stay to see her son eat something. They argue a bit, neither noticing Assemblyman Choi's car pulling up to the driveway. Choi can only see Mom's back and doesn't recognize her… until Ajusshi spins her around, and Choi's mouth literally drops open.

Shaking, he steps out of his car and calls her name. She turns to see him, and they both stand stunned.

Jik finds Na-ri waiting for him after school, ready to walk him home in case someone else decides to hit him with a car. Haru sees them arm-in-arm and approaches, annoyed, to tell Jik that she came because he's been ignoring her texts.

With a smile for Na-ri's benefit, Haru says says that she thought they were getting close, and HAHA, Jik is all… Nope. Na-ri throws her arm around Jik and even pats his butt, and hee, Jik looks thrilled to have two women fighting over him. Na-ri asks why Haru cares anyway, and she blurts out, "Because I like him, why??"

Eul isn't quite as together as she's pretending to be, and her heels give her blisters while she's filming Yoon-hoo. She can barely walk by the end of the day, and when she trips over a heel, Ji-tae is somehow there to catch her. He doctors her blister, reminding her that he can do this because they're dating now, not that it seems to make him very happy.

Apparently Seo Yoon-hoo has agreed to be in the movie Jung-eun is investing in, though they seem to know each other already, and the two have dinner together. They discuss his costar, and Joon-young's name comes up, and Joon-young just happens to be there to overhear Yoon-hoo calling him a jerk.

Joon-young smirks that he's changed his mind about the part in the movie he originally turned down, to Yoon-hoo's dismay. Yoon-hoo gets a call from what sounds like a girl, and Joon-young teases him to watch out — there are reporters everywhere. Yoon-hoo shoots him a less-than-friendly gesture over his shoulder as he goes, ha.

Jung-eun remembers Joon-young, and introduces herself formally. As they're shaking hands, Ji-tae enters the hotel lobby, carrying Eul on his back. All four stop and stare at each other, a million questions in their eyes.