Romance: Ep 13 & 14 Recap

From bblyum @soompi

Episode 13 (SPOILER BELOW!!):

so we are back to the fiasco at the hotel where in-young was called out of her vacation time off to come help look for the missing contract worth 300 million dollars that was supposedly thrown away by the cleaning lady. i guess in-young feels responsible because she was the one who told the cleaning lady to clean the room even though the guest said not to. this is when in-young sees sung-hyun get out of his car and walk into the hotel with the fiance hanging onto his arm.

in-young and crew head towards the city dump to look for the missing contract in the trash. this is when she hears all the gossip about the mystery girl who was with sung-hyun. turns out she is his fiance, and such a witch on wheels that the hotel staff has nicknamed her "nuclear explosion" because of her crazy temper tantrums. apparently she has been terrorizing the hotel staff over everything, from the cleaning, to the food, service, and even making personally insulting comments about body weight and cheap-looking lipstick. her family is some kind of japanese-korean rich family that owns an airline(?) company or something, and the new hotel branch that sung-hyun's family opened in japan is financed by the fiance's family's investment money (i think!). anyways, so the fiance walks around the hotel acting like she owns it. sung-hyun does not say anything to her though, because apparently he thinks it is easier to just let her tantrums blow over than arguing with her and making things worse.

another rumor they tell in-young about is that sung-hyun was involved in a scandal with an older married woman while he was studying in the states. the husband found out about them and divorced her, and after using sung-hyun she dumped him. the woman was also heiress to some big fortune company in korea as well, and there was a huge uproar in korea between the two families about this scandal.... so sung-hyun's grandfather was enraged and completely cut him off financially while he was in the states. later on, he brings sung-hyun back to korea to reinstate him as the hotel chain heir, but on the condition that he spends a year as a lower-level employee in the hotel. he also had to agree to the fixed engagement to witch-fiance.

in-young is digging through the trash thinking about all this, getting angrier at the situation and herself. she compares all the men in her life to trash, and also calls herself trash for once again trusting a man stupidly. she decides to give sung-hyun some trouble by texting him with lovey-dovey text messages when she knows he is with his fiance. while she is thinking bad thoughts about sung-hyun, one of the hotel staff wails "what are we going to do?? if we can't find this contract, the guest has threatened to sue the whole hotel!!" in-young perks up when she hears this, and decides that it would serve sung-hyun right to get his precious hotel in trouble by getting sued for the lost contract. she decides this is sweet revenge. she calls off the search for the contract and they all head back to the hotel.

alas, when they get to the hotel, the guest who threatened to sue does a 180 and apologizes. he forgot that he left the contract at his office, and mistakenly thought it was thrown away. in-young laments that she can't even get revenge in this way. the crew leave the guest's hotel room, and run into sung-hyun and fiance coming down the hall. they flatten themselves against the wall in fear of the witchy fiance, and she yells at them for stinking up the hotel. she tells sung-hyun to stick them all in a vat of disinfectant because they smell rotten. then she is all about to zone in on in-young and yell at her some more, when sung-hyun finally yells at her to stop. later they argue in the fiance's hotel room. fiance lashes out at him and wants to know who "the girl" is. she means who is the girl that he is dating. apparently she has heard the rumors that he has a girlfriend, and that she even works at the hotel. sung-hyun says "how many times do i have to tell you we're over? we were never in love anyway!" fiance " maybe for you, but i was in love with you from before. you just didn't know it. bring that girl to me, so i can learn what real love is for myself!"

in-young is at home, heartbroken and depressed. she decides she does not have any motivation to do anything, ditched her girlfriends when they were supposed to have a girls' night (she imagines how unsupportive they would be if she told them about her latest romance disaster anyway. during her imaginary sequence, su-hyun tells her to be cool, that she needs to give him a hot kiss then kick him in the balls before breaking it off, lol.) she spends her days locked up inside her house with pizza, pork chops, and fried chicken. she does not change clothes and she doesn't wash either.

sung-soo worries about in-young because she has turned off her phone for days. he checks at the hotel then shows up at her house and is appalled at the pig-sty her house has become. he tells her to get up and throws out her food trash, vacuums, drags her to the sauna to wash up. i think sung-soo succeeds in reviving in-young's spirit, hah. they are sitting in one of the hot rooms, sung-soo complains about sitting in there too long and that it's too hot. in-young stubbornly refuses to leave, saying how she's going to be the first person ever who burned to death in the sauna. she tells sung-soo to mail her dead body to sung-hyun so he'll feel guilty about what he did to her. he tells her it's stupid to die because of a guy, and she tells him he doesn't have the right to say things like that to her. later she thanks him for taking care of her, and also sheds some tears in front of sung-soo... he tells her if she's that upset about it she should go and let it out on sung-hyun. then he asks her if she was this upset and mad at him when they broke up too. she tells him when they broke up it was much worse... she felt like everything became dark black so she couldn't see in front of her, and that she wondered how she is supposed to live from now on. with this new breakup, she feels like she is walking through a thick fog. she figures it is better than it being pitch black, and wonders if she is getting better at breaking up, or if every breakup is just different. then she suddenly asks sung-soo isn't it his younger brother/sister's death anniversary soon (must have died before). sung-soo says "why are you asking that all of a sudden? are you treating me as if i'm your sibling or something?" in-young "whatever, you're the one who first told me you thought of me as a sister/mother/family before!" sung-soo "well, you're the one who got all upset and mad at me when i said that!!" she kicks him and tells him to buy her some boiled eggs... later he takes her home and stocks up her fridge with instant package meals, he also clips her toenails while she sleeps. in-young is not asleep though... she is thinking how life is ironic the way everything can change in a split second. within a split second, the man you loved for ten years can just turn around and betray you, and within a split second, he can become like an old friend... then she farts! lol. the next day su-hyun shows up to make sure she is eating the instant meals that sung-soo left. he called her so that she will come and take care of in-young while he's busy with work.

in-young decides she is done moping around over lost love and cuts her vacation short by going in to work a day earlier than planned.
she runs into kang-hee in the restroom. kang-hee asks her not to shake up sung-soo's feelings. in-young tells her "i am not trying to shake him up. let me give you some advice. instead of worrying about what i am doing, you should focus more on doing your best to capture sung-soo's affections for yourself. also, from my experience, i can tell you that you can't make somebody love you. it's hard enough trying to control your own feelings, let alone somebody else's!" back at her office, she tells the junior concierge guy that although having time off is nice, once she puts on her hotel uniform she feels energized... this girl loves her work. the junior guy mentions that the witchy fiance has been looking for her while she was away, and sure enough, she calls in-young's desk and tells her to come see her immediately. when in-young goes up there, she starts interrogating her. fiance "hmph, you actually look cuter in person compared to the photo on file. i'm sure you've already heard from the rest of the hotel staff who i am. do you have anything to confess to me??" in-young denies, but inside she is panicking about the fiance knowing that she is the one who was dating sung-hyun. the finace continues to badger her, " sung-hyun sent me an email one month ago telling me that he's fallen in love with a girl who works at this hotel. are you sure you don't have anything to say to me?" and in-young blurts out "it's not me!!". fiance scoffs "what? well, of course it's not YOU. sung-hyun is very picky and has very refined taste in women! why would he date a nobody woman like you who is five years older than him? plus you're short, and not that attractive, etc etc." geez, she really is a witch! so she has heard that in-young is close friends with sung-hyun because of their work history, and heard that they even play tennis during their lunch break and have been seen outside the hotel having dinner together... SURELY she must know who the girl that sung-hyun is dating, he must have told her since they are such good friends! geez, the witch is evil AND stupid at the same time. anyways, in-young tells her that sung-hyun does not talk about things like that with her. so the fiance tells in-young to find out for her. if she does, then she will give in-young anything she wants, but if she doesn't, she will have her fired.

in-young leaves the fiance and is all like "what is wrong with my life, why do things like this happen to me??!!?" and starts banging her head on the elevator door, when it opens and she falls right against sung-hyun inside. hah. awkward silence during elevator ride. sung-hyun says to her that he had hoped she could have trusted him for one week like he had asked. in-young asks him "so was it fun, playing with me like that? is it because of your fiance that you originally told me let's have a secret affair hidden from everybody for just one year?" he tells her that she should remember that he loves her, none of this changes anything between them... and that she needs to trust and wait for him, and just give him another day or two. he says he will explain everything, just trust him. she decides to protect herself by throwing love away before love throws her away first. she tells him that it's her decision whether she waits for him or not, declares "i don't need love anymore in my life." and walks out of the elevator.


*about su-hyun:
she continues to play both joon-yi and alex. at least joon-yi knows that he is guy number 2, while alex is still mr. romantic. su-hyun goes over to joon-yi's house to chat business and he offers to cook lunch. she asks for an italian omelette, and he says he'll cook it for her if she goes out for eggs. she agrees, but as soon as she leaves he remembers that he also needs mushrooms. he runs out after her to tell her and overhears her talking on the phone with alex making a date to go swimming after lunch. she turns around and sees him, realizing that he heard her phone convo with alex. he acts all cool and tells her to buy fresh mushrooms. she feels strangely guilty. later as they're eating, she receives a text. he assumes it's alex, and know that alex is waiting for her to go swimming after lunch, he tells her to hurry up and go. she tells him she was going to stick around and do the dishes. joon-yi tells her that she should just go, and that unless she leaves in 5 minutes he is going to kiss her on the assumption that she likes him. she tells him to go ahead and kiss her if he thinks he can just stop at one kiss. he takes her up on the bet and they kiss. he says "it really is hard to stop with just one kiss..." so she ends up postponing her swim date with alex. hmph.

later su-hyun meets up with alex in his hotel room. she helps him do his laundry at the hotel, and he wants to show her something. it turns out to be a blueprint of a house plan. he describes it to her.... complete with big separate dressing room, "because it's important for su-hyun to have a nice dressing room." su-hyun: "this is a house for ME?" alex: "this is a house that i wanted to build for you and me, for us to live in after we get married." su-hyun is surprised and dismayed, because the only time she feels the urge to get married is when she sees expensive wedding jewelry/watches. she turns to alex and says "alex, listen to me. alex: "...okay?" su-hyun:"i am sorry that i am this type of woman." alex, the poor love-blinded fool of course has no idea what she's talking about.

*about hyun-joo:
poor duk-soo is in danger of closing down his business because of the crazy incident at the pin-pong center, when hyun-joo showed up and accused him of giving her aids in front of everybody. in-young and su-hyun give her the idea to put up flyers all around the neighborhood posting his innocence. duk-soo sees the flyers everywhere and also catches hyun-joo putting them up. they get drunk that night and end up sleeping together again, which she originally blames him for. he tells her that SHE's the one who jumped his bones after getting all drunk, telling him that she wants to hear the sound of bells & waves, and that she wants to experience what it's like to "become one with the sea and the sky." ahahahahahaha. this is based on the poetic descriptions of orgasm/sex that she's read about in books. hyun-joo is so crazy.

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From sherryholic @soompi :

Episode 14:
The fiancee finds out that IY is who SH loves and goes out on a hunt to bring IY down and grabs her hair and starts yelling at IY at the pool, while SY and Alex was there and IY gets thrown into the pool, and SY teaches that fiancee a lesson by slapping her and stating that IY would have never dated SH if she knew he was involved with someone else and a bit of advice, there was a reason why your fiancee cheated on you with IY, it's because IY knows how to love, and gets loved by someone unlike you.
Then SS comes to the rescue and takes a soaked IY to his car, then SH shows up. SS yells at SH that is this any way to tie up loose ends and ends things with your supposed fiancee or leave IY alone. SS also tells SH that during the "vacation" she took, do you even know what she did? "I've already hurt IY badly, I don't want the likes of you to hurt her as well." SH then states he has no intentions of ever hurting IY and that this is between the two of them and it doesn't involve him. Then IY comes and shouts at SS because he has no right telling SS anything that doesn't concern him and to go to his car and wait. Then SH tells IY he has something to say to her and IY then asks SH, was the year contract dating just because you had a fiancee? SH says he will explain and that "I don't ever want to see you cry, it hurts me as well seeing you like this". IY tells SH, do you want to break up now, or a year from now? SH states he has no intentions of ever breaking up with her and to don't cry. SS gets fed up in his car watching SH caring for IY. IY asks what happens next, do we act like we did before this all happened or what. SH asks her if she and him can go through this situation together and be together. Let's endure this together he says. If we get through this, nothing like this will ever happen again or hurt you again. SH tells IY that he's in the process of ending it with her and by tomorrow it will be over. SH asks IY, "can you hold my hand through this?" IY replies with a sorry, I can't do this now. SS is all fed up stating that they're filming a movie out in public, not knowing what they're saying. LOL. And then IY walks away from SH and goes back to SS's car and tells him to drive, and he yells at IY that how can you take his side when I was defending your honor?! IY defends SH that his situation and what he is going through right now, he doesn't need to hear her problems. Then SS and IY drive away from SH. (poor baby)
When IY reaches her house, SS asks IY if she wants a drink with him, and she agrees, and she's going in to change clothes. Meanwhile, IY is rethinking what happened with SH and she's slowly understanding SH and wants to forgive him. IY and SS starts drinking and says to SS that SH isn't a real bad guy (while drunk) and SS tells IY to meet a better guy who's better than him and SH put together, and IY asks SS "does me getting hurt, concern you?" SS says of course, you're my first love and I will always worry about you. IY then says even though SH did deceive me in the first place, and I hate him, she still misses him, a lot, and at the parking lot she should've listened to what he had to say. She doesn't want to be the bad guy, and listen to what he had to say. If she trusted him till tomorrow, everything will be fine, and blames SS for everything that has happened and made her come to work a day earlier. IY faints and SS carries IY's drunk state back to her house saying "how can you cry and get drunk and pass out because of another guy in front of my face".
The its the next day, the fiancee is leaving (thank god) and SH wishes her a farewell, but she has something to say to SH and then slaps him on behalf of SY who slapped her yesterday at the pool. Second slap, to even everything out. And then leaves. (GOOD RIDDANCE~!) :lol:
IY wakes up with SS on the couch, and she remembers what she said while she was drunk in front of SS's face. And tells him to get up, "we're not dating, get up!" then IY leaves to make a hungover gook, and SH calls when she leaves, so SS picks up the phone instead. IY asks SS if he's done shooting, and he said almost. SS tells IY they have somewhere to go. SS picks out an outfit for her. They arrive somewhere and tells IY that SH is inside that building and told him he resolved everything that fiancee of his, and since she wanted to hear him out, she should. And to protect her love (a bit cool on his part) IY asks SS if he's alright with his, and he says he's not, but that won't change anything.
SH explains his notorious reputation that everyone is talking about "She's a childhood friend when he was in America, she was married when they met, and she wanted to hide from her husband, and SH let her, and he was unknowingly the other guy in her marriage, even though they did nothing. The husband assumed she was cheating, and SH became the other man in her married life. And then he was labeled as a cheater and mistress(man) chaebol." then IY asks how did you get engaged with his fiancee. (A different woman, hence the crazy fiancee) SH replies it was decided through his grandpa who made them get engaged. But still, IY tells SH he should've told her everything beforehand. SH says he was wrong, forgive him. The year that he worked with her, he began to like IY. When SH realized he really liked IY, he tried to end things with his fiancee, but it just didn't go the way he wanted to. And when SH and IY officially started to date, he tried to break the engagement asap, but it wasn't so easy because the fiancee was an investor as well. But everything is solved now, and there won't be any more troubles for them. SH then tells IY to not cry again, it hurts him to ever see her cry (aww)! IY states in her perspective that her thinking was all a misunderstanding and just her overly suspicion without anything to support her reasons, that let it get to her head. IY apologizes to SH, and SH says it's okay, and can she hold his hand again. And IY does and he tells her to never let go of him.
Scene changes to a hospital with SH's parents and SH and IY. While the mother tells IY it's about time they get to see her. And tells her she looks pretty, and not her age at all. IY says that this is something she has never endured or ever been on, meeting the other party's parents. Bur regardless, IY decided to hold onto SH and believe in him again.
SS is shooting, and the hotel scenes are now officially done and over. KH tells him that he wasn't precise and she feels like the shooting was bad. But SS laughs and tells her that did something happen to her? And he tells her she's grown. (And they become friends and I guess their relationship is now over.)
Then it goes back to IY with SH's mom, and the mom is telling IY that she was worried that her son was trying to get married to a stranger that they don't know, and that IY had a guy to marry besides SH, and tells IY that she has no intentions of breaking up their relationship or getting married. And even if they disagreed, they can never win over SH. She instead tells IY to resign from her job and go away to America for just a year to hide, and they'll send SH to America shortly after as well. SH just winks at IY, there is just too many people in high places that will judge and make things just worse if they've found out IY and SH is a thing. And avoid unnecessary gossips like IY had a man, broken engagement to his fiancee, and just go to America and change her identity (wtf, change her age and name) and wouldn't she like America better than here? SH nodding his head (o.o have no comment) IY then realizes that she and SH are two totally different people, living in totally different worlds. IY is getting uncomfortable while SH and his mom are talking among themselves of their future, meanwhile IY thinks to herself that she hasn't even gone to Europe and anywhere else for the matter.
Then it goes to just IY and SH walking together, talking about where they wanted to go for their honeymoon. And SH asks IY where they should live after they get married, and she says anywhere is fine as long as they're together. Or so she would have liked to think.
Then the three girls are doing yoga, and SY tells IY that she's crazy for even considering all of this. And they discuss how she'll be rich and if they want anything when she gets married. Then it goes to her imagination as a well rich wife of a very successful businessman.
Then it goes to the photographer and SY in a photoshoot. SY starts jumping up and down and tells her one of investment came through and that she's really excited. Then it goes to her house, and Alex shows up at her place. She tells Alex, he should've called first. And SY is rushing things to hide evidence of the photographer is in her house. And the photographer is taking a shower, and he comes out. And they get caught by Alex. SY comes clean about their relationship and Alex puts two and two together and then leaves. SY just cuts her losses and the photographer feels guilty for getting in the way. And he tells her while he was with her, he felt bad on behalf of Alex. But SY loves the photographer for being so concerned for her and Alex.
Then IY shouts, what to do because of Alex because IY is obviously Alex's side. Then all three of them decide that they don't need anything, because when they're together, that's all that they need (friendship is always better).
Then it goes to IY, resigning her position, and SH asks if she's okay with this, and she says she'll be okay with it when time passes. SH is serenading her on the piano, (SH in real life is a singer)
SS is packing his things, and he sees SH serenading IY, and he just looks miserable and just leaves.
The serenading ends, SH gets up and tells IY to put her hands where his heart is at. And asks her, can she feel his heart beating out of his chest. IY nods, and SH tells can she fathom how much he cares for her. She nods, and that she now knows. SH bring a box out, and tells her that he's proposing to her right now. But then IY says, wait a moment, she can't accept his ring. And that there is someone she loves more right now. (This was really out of the blue) IY apologizes and that there is something she loves more and it is her CAREER. SH asks her what that is, and that it's INYOUNG, herself and her life that she loves and is not willing to give up so easily that she worked for. And no matter how many times she tells her that she loves SH, she can't give herself up entirely for him. SH sheds a tear, and he walks away from IY. SH looks back at her, and it ends. (BIGGEST Cliffhanger, ever!)