Forget that dinner from last night. It wasn't important in any way. It's the next morning and Monghyun is still trying to carve a place out for herself at the big house. Duk Hee criticizes Monghyun's mother for having to work outside the home and not having any time to teach her daughter how to be a housewife. Have we time traveled back to the 1950's or something?
It's a beautiful spring day outside. Just the kind of weather for a MIL to bitch at her DIL. Monghyun gets a phone call from her other MIL, Young Ae, and Duk Hee insists on listening in on the conversation. Young Ae invites her DIL over but Monghyun can see the expression of disapproval on Duk Hee's face. The poor girl is stuck between a rock and a hard place. (Move out, Monghyun. Move out.)
Duk Hee orders Monghyun not to talk to Young Ae on the phone so much. Monghyun tries to politely defy the orders but only gets chewed out for being disrespectful to her elders and being poorly brought up. (Move out. Get away. Move out.) Seongeun does manage to get a few jabs in herself, otherwise she's just there to take up space. If I were Lee Soo Kyung I would be pretty mad by now. Ten episodes in and so far her character hasn't done much of anything.
Things aren't made any easier when Young Ae comes over to pick Monghyun up for some shopping. Monghyun knows now this would piss Duk Hee off so she declines. This just pisses Young Ae off so now Monghyun has two mothers-in-law mad at her. Get a backbone, Monghyun, and tell everyone to kiss your ass as you do what you want to do. You're a grown woman, act like one.
Seongeun can't wait to get to work so she can rub it in to Yoon Shim Duk about Monghyun already getting on Duk Hee's bad side.
Late at night Big Daddy finds Monghyun is sitting up waiting for Hyun Tae to come home. Hyun Tae is out at the club with Super Freak. Big Daddy calls him on the phone demanding the boy get home in thirty minutes or the beating is free.
The next day Mong Hee is talking (and eating, natch) with Hyun Soo about this upcoming party she's so worried about. Will there be dancing like the waltz or the jitterbug? No, they're going to be clog dancing, you idiot.
Finally it is the night of the party. Hyun Soo and Mong Hee arrive in... a van? Who takes a van to a black tie event? So far so good as Mong Hee is able to get through it all, even though random white people keep trying to talk English to her. In her native language Mong Hee is able to regale the audience with the Greek myth of the origin of the amethyst. Hyun Soo thinks back to all the times Mong Hee was stuffing her face. The girl's come a long way since then.
Back to work. Hyun Soo suggests to Big Daddy that the company open up a store in Belgium and sell to the common people. Hyun Joon wants to keep selling to only the rich people. Big Daddy needs to mull over Hyun Soo's proposal. The brothers glare at each other. Hyun Joon goes home to complain to the women in his life. He blames Yoo Na for all his recent troubles, which makes sense because... wha?
Duk Hee orders "Yoo Na" to come over to the big house for a talking to. During the conversation Mong Hee slips up when she acts surprised to learn Big Daddy and Hyun Soo's mother were divorced because she was supposedly cheating. Yoo Na already knew this story. Now Duk Hee is suspicious.
The next day Hyun Soo is in crisis mode when he gets a call from Duk Hee. She's looking for Yoo Na and plans to stop by his house whether anyone is there or not. (Kinda rude in my opinion but this is DramaLand.) Duk Hee knows the code to the door so lets herself in and walks around like she owns the place. Rude, rude, rude! When she notices there is no make-up on the vanity, Duk Hee starts snooping through the drawers. Ah, I'm going crazy from her uncouth behavior. You just don't do that! And now she's opening up the closet and going through the clothes. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Anyway, Duk Hee sees that Yoo Na's things are no longer in the apartment and now she wonders if Yoo Na no longer lives there. Just then Mong Hee (Hyun Soo must have called her) runs into the apartment to see she didn't beat Duk Hee there. Duk Hee comes right out and asks if "Yoo Na" has separated from her husband. Mong Hee assures her that they are still a couple and there's a rational explanation for why there's no makeup or feminine clothing. Of course we the audience don't get to hear that rational explanation.
Fearing this may happen again, Hyun Soo asks Mong Hee to move in with him.
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