We start the episode back in time a bit. A young Cha Suk Hoon is being interviewed for a job at Yoo Se Young's company. Ultimately she turns him down, though. When he barges back into the building to demand answers as to why he didn't get the job, Se Young explains to him he's too much of a goody two shoes to make it in the cutthroat world of business. So this is how Suk Hoon and Se Young knew each other from before.
Back in the present, Kang Min Woo and Roy are out shopping when they run into Na Hong Joo again. This gives Min Woo the chance to give her the eye again as well as formally introduce himself. He attempts to pay for Hong Joo's purchases but she politely refuses. A woman who doesn't want his money? Min Woo is intrigued. (He's also creepy, but that's beside the point.)
Upstairs in the hotel, Se Young and her piano music are making their dramatic offer to buy Suk Hoon for three days. She doesn't make it any easier on him when Se Young deposits some of the money into Suk Hoon's bank account. He has one hour to decide, then the offer is off the table.
Suk Hoon tells Hong Joo about Se Young's incredible offer. Understandably Hong Joo is all, "Oh, hell no!" and wants to go start a cat fight. Suk Hoon tearfully admits he's desperate enough to give the offer serious consideration. Hong Joo tells him she's going downstairs to catch a taxi to the airport. If he doesn't come down and join her, then she'll go back to Korea alone.
She goes back to Korea alone.
Suk Hoon goes to Se Young's suite where she lays down the rules to his temporary slavery. The word "No" will not be in his vocabulary. He's to not talk about Fight Club or anything about their private lives. Finally, absolutely no contact with Suk Hoon's wife. (This is all an oral agreement, and as everyone knows, an oral agreement isn't worth the paper its written on.) Suk Hoon takes the battery out of his phone (Because DramaKoreans don't know what an Off button is for.) and moves in with his new owner.
Hong Joo is at the airport, cursing Suk Hoon for being a fool, when she once again encounters Roy and his creepy dad. Womanizer Min Woo is quick to note Hong Joo is traveling without her husband. He talks Hong Joo into traveling with them up front in first class in order to help take care of the boy. On the plane Min Woo tells her all about his 99 problems but Hong Joo clams up when it comes to talking about her problems.
Se Young has an office set up for her boy toy. She claims she's going to have him do "research." Suk Hoon is tempted to try and contact his wife but he fights it. After landing in Korea, Hong Joo (upset that she hasn't gotten any messages from her husband) gives her phone number to Roy in case he ever wants to talk to her. You know Roy's creepy dad is gonna get that number.
Hong Joo returns home to her father, Na Shi Chan (played by Choi Il Hwa), and younger brother, Na Hong Gyu (played by Lee Jung Shin). She explains Suk Hoon stayed behind in Hong Kong for business reasons. One of Hong Joo's major worries is that her dad put up his house as collateral for Suk Hoon's business. Dad doesn't know about the huge troubles and that his house is in danger of being repossessed.
Min Woo decides to stash Roy away at the family's summer house. In Hong Kong, Suk Hoon tries to instill some values in Se Young. Se Young reminds him money is money, screw values. Privately, Suk Hoon sneaks around Se Young's verbal rules by calling his brother-in-law to check up on how Hong Joo is doing. Se Young busts him on it but then decides to be lenient and do away with the third rule.
Musical interlude.
Hong Joo is looking for (and not finding) work in the nursing field. So logically she blows the last of her money for a makeover. Suk Hoon and Se Young go to Engrish business meetings with Random White People. Thank goodness the music is too loud to clearly hear what they're not saying. That evening Se Young and Suk Hoon have an intimate dinner together.
Hong Gyu takes a job with the shady Park Han Soo (played by Ahn Se Ha). They apparently go around taking pictures of cheating spouses. Ah, and tonight's target is Kang Min Woo. Min Woo was really heading over to see his son when he gets a call from nagging wife Ji Sun saying their newest daughter is in NICU.
Mellowed out by good food and good wine, Se Young gives Suk Hoon permission to call his wife and explain everything. He assures Hong Joo that he's been doing nothing these past two days but writing reports and going to meetings. Hong Joo is all pissy at him for not coming home with her and selling himself to Se Young.
After hanging up on Suk Hoon, Hong Joo gets a phone call from Roy, begging her to come over and make the monsters go away. She calls Min Woo to try and get him to go check on the boy. Min Woo explains about his ill daughter and begs Hong Joo to go over and spend the night with Roy. He'll compensate her. (Yeah, I'm sure he'll compensate her, alright.)
Suk Hoon gets sloppy drunk on Pabst Blue Ribbon. (Honey, the beer is supposed to go in your mouth, not all over your chin.) But at least this finally gets us a shower scene. (About damn time, Show.) The next morning Suk Hoon is hangover-free as Se Young tells him he has fulfilled his contract. She's deposited all the money in his bank account as agreed. In return, Suk Hoon takes Se Young for a bike ride before they part ways forever.
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