Temptation Episode 8

Cha Suk Hoon is screeching to a halt in front of the hotel. We get to see more of what is going on inside the hotel suite before he gets there. It ain't pretty as Hong Joo is heaving her insides out. Kang Min Woo is on the phone with someone asking for them to bring medicine to help sober Hong Joo up. (Only time will do that, babe.)

 

Thinking the pounding on the door is the medicine he ordered, Min Woo opens the door only to find Suk Hoon on the other side. Suk Hoon pushes the man out of the way, storming into the room just as Hong Joo stumbles out of the bathroom. Min Woo tries to explain what's going on. Suk Hoon tells him to get lost but Min Woo won't go.

 

Drunk Hong Joo's tongue just keeps running away from her. She asks how her husband knew she was here. Was Suk Hoon already here at the hotel with his other woman? Hong Joo admits she made a pass at Min Woo but he's not offering to pay her like Se Young did for Suk Hoon. Shut up already, Drunk Hong Joo!

 

Suk Hoon leaves in disgust. Surprisingly it is Min Woo who chases after him, leaping in front of the car to stop the disgruntled husband. Min Woo tries to get Suk Hoon to take Hong Joo with him. Instead, Suk Hoon spills the beans about the Fake Doo being at the meeting and gives Min Woo the real phone number to the Real Doo before speeding off. This is so the debt between the two men is now paid. (Perhaps this also means Suk Hoon is now in the clear to deck Min Woo when the moment calls for it.)

 

DramaLaw compels Suk Hoon to go to the Han River to brood. While there he gets a phone call from Se Young who is wanting to talk business. Immediately she can tell from his voice something is wrong but Suk Hoon won't come clean about his heartbreak.

 

Min Woo drops Hong Joo off at her home. Brother Hong Gyu recognizes who Min Woo is and jumps down his sister's throat for hanging out with such riff raff. Is she crazy? What if Suk Hoon finds out? Daddy Na jumps down his son's throat for jumping down his sister's throat.

 

Se Young has lunch with her buddy/gynecologist, Myung Hwa. Without using his name, Se Young admits she's fallen in love with Suk Hoon but he turned her down. Myung Hwa rightly scolds her friend for even thinking about messing around with a married man.

 

Se Young returns to the office only to have Suk Hoon turn in his resignation. She tries to get him to stay but he wants to work on saving his marriage.

 

Roy calls Hong Joo to whine. He's interrupted by his bullying older sister and hangs up. Mama Im intercedes between the squabbling siblings. Roy tells his grandmother about Hong Joo, the pretty lady he used to live with. This is the first Mama Im has ever heard of Hong Joo. Hmm, wonder what she's thinking.

 

Min Woo - Good Lord, what is he wearing now? It's like a white polka-dotted suit. Anyway, he's meeting with Park Han Soo who has even more pictures of Ji San spending time with her old college boyfriend.

 

Far away it isn't so bad, but up close you see
all the polka dots. The pants are the same material.

 

Still wearing that odd suit, Min Woo goes to a function for the rich and richer. Se Young is there although her mind is a million miles away. They strike up a conversation when Min Woo pulls out the whammy and asks her what's up with her and Cha Suk Hoon. To my surprise, at least, Min Woo sticks up for Hong Joo and strongly advises Se Young to stop interfering in the couple's marriage. Se Young is like, "You should talk about preserving the sanctity of marriage."

 

Hong Gyu calls his brother-in-law to ask if Suk Hoon and Hong Joo have separated. Suk Hoon totally lies and says they're still together. Later he goes to a jeweler to inquire about sprucing up his old wedding ring.

 

The next day Se Young goes to her gynecologist's appointment. Just as expected, she runs into Hong Joo. Since Hong Joo is a nurse in the office, she gets to read Se Young's medical records. Myung Hwa wants her friend to go ahead and have a hysterectomy but Se Young is hesitant. Not that she wants babies or anything, but she wants to hang on to her uterus for just a little bit longer.

 

Se Young's company makes its bid on the Hong Kong hotel. Doo's representative has some demands, though. First, all the regular employees of the hotel should have a guarantee they can keep their jobs. That seems reasonable. But then the next demand is about temps being taken on as full timers. This is supposed to be some huge business hurdle for Se Young. After a private talk with Suk Hoon, Se Young decides to accede to the demands.

 

Min Woo lays a trap for his wife by giving Ji Sun a large amount of money and urging her to go on a long trip with some of her friends. (More than likely her "friends" will be male.)

 

Suk Hoon convinces Hong Joo to have dinner with him. He takes her to her favourite restaurant where they still play Sarah McLachlan. (Whatever happened to her? Is she still around?) He orders an expensive meal for them and reminisces about how they first met - he had a broken leg and she was his nurse. Hong Joo totally ruins the moment by saying the man she fell in love with and the woman she used to be no longer exist.

 

She goes to the bathroom to cry and waste water. While his wife is gone, Suk Hoon pulls out a small jewelry box that contains wedding bands. He quickly hides it when she returns to the table. Hong Joo has a present of her own to give. It's called divorce papers.