Jinho tells director Choi that he loves Gae-in, and the latter goes into his room broken-hearted and holds the gift he wanted to give to Jinho and throws it on the floor... poor Choi
Gae-in takes Changryul to the hospital and stays by his side waiting for him to gain consciousness.
Sangjun and Youngsun enjoy their time in Jeju having a meal, and sangjun still calls her unni lol I love their scenes
Jinho knocks on Gaein’s door and receives no answer, inhee tells him she saw Gaein leaving with Changryul, she smirks and goes away.. so inhee-like! -,-
Jinho calls Gaein and asks if she’s with someone, Gaein mentions Changryul and Jinho immediately hangs up. Inhee wins, Jinho didn’t listen to what Gaein had to say and jumped into conclusions.
Meanwhile at the hospital Changryul wakes up and jokingly says he should’ve given his life in battle for her and that a man would run to help when a woman is in danger, Gaein thanks him for what he did. Why didn’t they call the doctor? I thought he’d have an internal bleeding or something but nah he’s okay and leaves with Gaein right away.
Jinho drinks alone at the bar, and inhee comes to join him and stays even when he tells her to leave! This girl just never listens and knows no limits, she tells him things he wouldn’t want to listen. She says Gaein and Changryul are alike, and Jinho and her are alike too; they can’t let go till they get what they want. She asks why he had to reveal everything to Choi, he says he’d be dishonest if he didn’t tell Choi the truth. Inhee questions his honesty “were you really that genuine of a person?” And asks why he had to pretend to be gay in the first place to enter sanggojae.. Jinho stares at her... she definitely caught on something.
Choi drinks alone by the beach.. he breaks my heart he thinks to himself putting Jinho in mind “if you wanted to deceive me, I’d have let you deceive me”
Jinho enters the elevator and Inhee follows him inside, saying what it’d be like if he becomes prof. Park’s son-in-law and how that would benefit him in the project, jinho pushes her and although they were almost fighting their pose was like that of a couple who were about to kiss eachother, Gaein and Changryul witness them when the elevator door opens.. drama at its finest! Inhee asks Changryul if he still wants to give up on Gaein, and for the first time Inhee disgusts Changryul wow I can’t believe how quickly Changryul is turning into a good person.
Gaein follows Jinho outside, saying how could he hang up on her without letting her finish her sentence and angrily asks if he were with inhee all this time. Jinho is even more angry at the fact she was with Chagryul this whole time, and again he doesn’t give her a chance to explain herself.
Jinho sits alone in the garden outside and Mr. Choi comes to him, they had a brief talk Jinho apologizes again for hurting him and Choi tells him he wouldn’t want to lose a friend who lies(when he said he was gay in front of Chagryul out of pity for Choi) for him.. yay he wants to keep Jinho as a friend~
Changryul asks Jinho out for a talk where he apologizes if he made him upset with his father visiting Gaein and all.. and explains Gaein was at the hospital with him, Jinho asks him to not concern himself with his woman anymore. Jinho asks Changryul if he’s okay where he got hurt and thanks him for what he did... Changryul’s apology and Jinho’s gratitude wow is this really happening? XD
Changryul admits he lost to Jinho in love, but he won’t lose to him in business and that he'd play fair without hiding any rocks in his hands.
Jinho heads to Gaein’s room, asks her why didn’t she answer her phone and Gaein plays hard to get.. it’s her turn to be cold now ^^;
They head to a duty-free department store because Gaein wants to buy something but she doesn’t tell Jinho what exactly but eventually he knows that she came to buy his mom a present and happily pinches her cheek awww
They participate in an event meant for couples, Jinho looked down on Gaein that she doesn’t use her head and that he’s a genius in these games but guess what? Gaein was the one who made them win
Inhee can’t sit for a second to maintain world peace, she tells Changryul all about the concept behind the Dam project and why Jinho would move into Sanggojae in the first place. Changryul falsely realizes that Jinho doesn’t sincerely love Gaein, that sweet moment Jinho and Changryul had earlier is vanished now and I guess Changryul is back to his old self. Damn you Inhee.
Meanwhile, Jinho and Gaein sweetly enjoy their day out as a couple deeply in love.
Changryul was in his way to kill Jinho but Inhee stops him and suggests an evil way to reveal his secret to Gaein at the most crucial time.
Jinho comes back home and mom insists that she doesn’t like that woman (aka Gaein) despite of Jinho assuring her that she’s a good woman.
For the first time, Changryul rebels against his father.. refuses going to China, stops his father from hitting him, asks his father to not interfere with him and Jinho, assures him he’d get Gaein back, asks for support inredesigning everything they did for the dam project. I’m surprised his father didn’t hit him more and actually listened to his son @@
Changryul gathers all sources available on Sanggojae and talked with someone on the phone.
The next thing we know, Jinho receives the news that he needs to vacate by the end of the month and to find himself a new space for his office because the building owner’s business is going bad.... ermmmm I see what you did there evil Changryul.
Inhee goes to Gaein to tell her that Choi wants to have lunch with her, Inhee of course mocks Gaein, how can she say what she’s supposed to say and just leave?
Choi and Gaein sit together for lunch, he wants her to feel the awkwardness and calls this a torture lunch xD he then congratulates her for withdrawing from the unrequited love club lmao and he asks her to occasionally come and have this torture lunch with him, she happily thanks him.
Gaein receives an offer from a furniture brand to be their designer, and her friend Youngsun meets up with her at a bank to open an account and manage the money she’d get from that contract. She then learns about Jinho’s office troubles through Sangjun, she was about to offer him her future money but Youngsun stops her saying planning for marriage is different from what she was about to do.
Gaein is way too innocent and foolishly sweet.
Back at home, both Jinho and Gaein sit at the table having congratulatory drinks and share the good news of a furniture company adopting her designs. Jinho finds it a bit questionable of why would a large company seek a no name designer like our Gaein.. I find it fishy too.
She offers Jinho a loan once she signs her contract since she’ll be getting a lot of money, Jinho refuses to borrow any money from her. He instead tells her to pay off loan sharks that hold her house as collateral, she insists that he borrows her money as she’d be still having a lot after paying off her loans. Gaein is very bad at acting, when Jinho asks why is she so persistent that he takes her money she says she wants to make an investment as he’d be getting a lot of money when he wins the Dam project.
Jinho sits at his room in Sanggojae where he hears Gaein taking to her friend on the phone that she made up with her husband and he lights up grinning “that ahjumma is finally going home tonight” bwahaha. Gaein comes closer to his room and asks if he should be going home.. she opens the door and finds him asleep. Of course it isn’t for real, he’s just pretending to be asleep.
THESE NEXT FEW MINUTES ARE MY FAVORITE FROM THIS EPISODE.
They both try to fall asleep but fail to, sexually-frustrated Jinho tries doing push-ups but it doesn’t help he goes out of the room, following him Gaein gets out of her room too and asks how can he pass out from a few wine glasses and that if he’s sober he should go home. He says strangely he isn’t able to sober up and that he needs to sleep here tonight, Gaein agrees! Yas xD
They sit down and go through Gaein’s childhood album, Jinho asks why is there no picture of her mom and she says her house caught a fire and all mom pics were burnt, and dad got rid of the rest. Kind-hearted Gaein tells Jinho to not rush it with his mom and not oppose her too much, Gaein can wait till mom could accept her.
Next, they watch TV together and it gets more awkward flipping over the channels as coincidentally all of them had some sort of sexual content xD they both claim to be sleepy and head to their rooms, but none is able to sleep.
Jinho thinks of Gaein in a towel when he helped her find her contact lens in the bathroom, and Gaein thinks of when she barged into the bathroom where Jinho has just finished showering and saw his thing.
Let me quote this from dramabeans cuz it’s exactly what I'd want to say
"How much do I love that Kae-in is shown as a sexual being, with her own very natural desires, completely parallel to Jin-ho’s? It’s SO rare to see a kdrama heroine as anything but chaste to the point of being afraid of sex like it’s going to be an assault on her virtue, leading men to counter by being overly aggressive…which leads to snowballing badness on a social scale. A woman? With sexual desires? Of her very own? I could kiss you, Show!"
to distract himself, Jinho tries to work but can't so he finally decides to leave the house.. I’d have loved it if they did it already since both of them are in the mood ugh Jinho should’ve taken the initiative
Jinho finds out that Chagryul is behind the offer Gaein received for her designs, and he calls Chagryul out for a talk. Jinho finds out that Changryul is behind him getting kicked out from office as well and asks if this is what he calls fair. Changryul said he’d play fair if only Jinho played fair, says he won’t let Jinho use Gaein. Changryul claims that Jinho can’t do anything for Gaein unlike him. He leaves Jinho without mentioning anything about Sanggojae and lets him figure out on what he did wrong.
Jinho comes to find Gaein all happy about signing her contract next week and how excited she is to become a designer with her own brand, and that she finally has something to show her dad. Jinho doesn’t tell her who’s behind that contract and doesn’t spoil her happy mood.
At the office, the site crew chief visits Jinho and Sangjun and to their surprise he was someone who helped build Sanggojae, Jinho asks if there was any difficult or unique points he remembers about it, the chief mentions the basement and how tough it was to dig it out. A basement? Sanggojae has a basement Jinho had no idea about so he goes right away to Sanggojae to find that secret basement and eventually finds it.
Gaein comes home to find Jinho doing some cleaning, he happily tells Gaein that he found a picture of her mom and leads her to the secret basement. Apparently, Gaein too had no idea her house had a basement. “This must have been the entrance to your mother’s workshop” Jinho takes Gaein’s hand and they both go down the stairs and to the basement.
Jinho shows her something even more amazing and a unique feature for a Hanok house, he says there used to be a glass ceiling to let the sunlight in and while her mom used to work down here she could see her baby Gaein playing up in the living room.. just then Gaein recalls the glass breaking and crashing on her mom, and Gaein faints from the trauma while Jinho holds her in his arms.
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