It starts with one of those stuffy dinners rich people like to throw for themselves to celebrate how rich they are. This one is to celebrate Sin Sung Dairy. No vegans allowed. Grandpa, the founder of the company (whose already got one foot in the grave) announces how after his death the company will pass to his son-in-law, President Kang Moon Do (played by Jun Kwang Ryul).
Suddenly a crazy man at the back of the banquet hall breaks a champagne bottle to use as a weapon as he shouts for Moon Do's head. This guy blames Sin Sung Dairy for driving his own little business into bankruptcy. Before anyone can get hurt, young Kang Moo Yeol (at the moment played by Lee Won Geun)comes up from behind and is able to disarm the crazed ahjussi.
While that guy is dealt with, he's not the only bitter man Moon Do has to contend with today. In the lobby he runs into Director Han Sung Bok (played by Kang Shin Il). Director Han used to work at Sin Sung but he left to start his own dairy business and to get away from the unethical evil that is Moon Do. Han's business is not booming, though, and is facing financial difficulties.
Moo Yeol catches his father trying to strong-arm the crazed man and actually comes to the little guy's defense. An enraged Moon Do slaps his son for such insolence. Grandpa just happens to arrive on the scene and chastises Moon Do both for slapping Moo Yeol as well as poorly handling the crazy man.
Meanwhile Director Han drives his really odd looking vehicle back home so we can meet his wife and two daughters: eldest Han Yoo Rim (played by Seo Joo Hyun), who is studying to be a veterinarian, and young Han Yoo Jung (played for the moment by Lee Hye In), who has a pet cow.
Moo Yeol, in his brown school uniform, must deal with a group of bullies in blue school uniforms. They're here to avenge their fallen comrade that Moo Yeol took down off screen. Lame fight scene. Moo Yeol wins the fight but is injured in the process.
Seeing his son's bruised face, Moon Do demands to know who Moo Yeol has been fighting. It hasn't been that long since the last time the boy was in trouble for the same thing. The two argue with Moo Yeol storming off to his room. He digs out an old DNA test he had found years ago in his father's office. Unfortunately I'm watching this over at DramaFever and they don't subtitle what's written so I don't know what the test results are.
Meanwhile at a posh apartment we're introduced to young Hong Soo Hyuk (right now played by Yeo Eui Joo) and his mother, Hong Nan Cho (played by Hwang Shin Hye). Soo Hyuk is Moon Do's secret son! Nan Cho thinks if she just hangs in there long enough, Moon Do will come back to her and it will be their son who inherits the dairy business. Soo Hyuk doesn't care about the money, he just wants a father who doesn't hide him.
Moo Yeol is hanging out on campus where his uncle works. This is where he first spots Yoo Rim and is instantly smitten. He knocks her to the ground in order to save Yoo Rim from being run over by a bicycle. (I think I'd rather take my chances with the bike.) This causes Moo Yeol's previous injury from the fight to start bleeding again. Yoo Rim, veterinarian-in-training, offers to tend to his wound. Yoo Rim thinks Moo Yeol is a college student like herself. He doesn't correct her.
Grandpa is in his spacious office and look, he's got a rocking chair! I think that's the first rocking chair I've ever seen in a Kdrama. I was beginning to wonder if Korea doesn't have any. But I digress... Grandpa gets a mysterious envelope. Inside are a couple of pictures of Moon Do with his secret family. Grandpa has his assistant to secretly investigate.
Soo Hyuk is in the hospital with a high fever. Nan Cho blames his illness on the pressures of being a bastard. She considers calling off her relationship with Moon Do. He asks/orders her to hang on just a little bit longer.
Yoo Rim and Moo Yeol continue to moon over each other.
Now that Grandpa knows about Moon Do's other family, he's not about to turn over the family company to his son-in-law. Grandpa contacts his lawyer to have the legal paperwork stopped. The lawyer, however, squeals to Moon Do about what Grandpa is up to. Moon Do smashes a glass cabinet and swears vengeance. (Against Grandpa, not the glass cabinet. Although I would understand if the glass cabinet swore vengeance against Moon Do.)
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