A black van drives up and dispenses Jung Jae Min (played by Lee Sang Yeob. A quick check of his biography shows me he's been in several dramas I haven't liked. It's not all his fault, though, as usually he's just a minor character. I'm just saying he has bad taste in scripts. Let's get back to this show, shall we?)
Jae Min goes into a restaurant bearing a large bouquet of flowers as zesty music plays. Inside, eating with some friends, is Song Mi Joo (played by Hong Soo Hyun). When she sees Jae Min she attempts to hide behind a large menu. She fears he's coming straight for her but instead he walks past and goes up to another woman having lunch.
Jae Min starts singing to the other woman, Seon Mi, to marry him. The beginning is alright until his voice cracks and the other women in the restaurant start giggling. Hmm, it looks like all the customers in this restaurant are women. Seon Mi is mortified and storms out of the restaurant.
Hold up, everything is not as it seems. There are a couple of men waiting outside and stop Seon Mi before she gets very far. Jae Min wasn't asking the woman to marry him. He had been hired to propose by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Seon Mi throws a hissy fit in front of everybody. This is when Jae Min notices Mi Joo is in the crowd. She quickly ducks away.
He catches up to her to ask why she acted like she didn't know him earlier. These two are already a couple but she's too embarrassed to introduce him to her friends, especially after what just happened. Not that he's so quick to introduce her to his friends or family.
Jae Min's dad, Jung Hyun Soo (played by That Old Man Who Is In Absolutely Everything Park Geun Hyung), is having coffee with his annoying friend. Annoying Friend wants Hyun Soo, a retired judge, to officiate at his kid's wedding. Hyun Soo doesn't want to do it and quickly excuses himself.
Dad seems rather depressed.
Meanwhile we learn a) Mi Joo works at a bank, b) she has a stepmother named Lee Yun Hee (played by Kim Na Woon) who tries to be nice and have a relationship with Mi Joo, c) dad Song Ho Sub (played by Kang Suk Woo) is a dick, and d) Mi Joo has a half sister, Song Eun Joo (played by the adorable Nam Bo Ra of Shark).
Hyun Soo arrives at his granddaughter's music recital and meets up with his daughter, Jung Yoo Jin (played by Yoo Ho Jung) and her husband Kang Sung Hoon (played by Kim Seung Soo). When Jae Min joins his family you can feel the Arctic air between him and dad. Cold quickly turns to hot when Jae Min butts heads with his other sister, Jung Yoo Ra (played by Han Go Eun). Seeing his kids fight makes Dad (and me) even more depressed.
Since everyone is fighting and not wanting to eat together after the recital, Hyun Soo leaves on his own. He stops by a small restaurant run by Mi Joo's mother, Hong Soon Ae (played by Cha Hwa Yun, Clingy Mom from A Hundred Year's Inheritance.) I guess there's supposed to be some chemistry between these two as they're the ones destined to get married in this show.
Later on Soon Ae has dinner with Mi Joo. When she asks if her daughter is seeing anyone, Mi Joo lies and says no. Hmm.
Jae Min goes for yet another job interview. Jae Min gets turned down for yet another job. Mi Joo is rightfully getting kind of fed up with this.
That night a drunk woman is waiting for her replacement driver. A shady character spies her alone and approaches. Drunk Woman thinks he's the driver and hands over her keys. He plays along with the mistake and gets into her car with her. Before he starts the car, Drunk Woman gets a call from Jae Min, who is supposed to be her real replacement driver. When Shady Guy realizes he's been caught, he slaps Drunk Woman hard and tries to grab her purse. Jae Min hears her high-pitched screams and comes to the rescue, pulling Shady Guy out of the vehicle and taking the criminal down.
Down at the police station, Drunk Woman - otherwise known as Eun Ha Kyeong (played by Shin Da Eun) is joined by her concerned parents. Her father, Eun Hee Jae (played by Choi Jung Woo) asks Jae Min to stop by his office tomorrow for a proper thank you for saving their daughter. Mother Lee Hye Shin (played by Yoo Ji In) calls her son Eun Ha Rim (played by Suh Ji Suk) to tell him what happened to his sister as well as to shrilly yell at him for cooking. There's a lot of cooking in this show. Mong Hee from I Summon You, Gold should be in this drama as she did a lot of eating.
Mi Joo is attending a bachelorette lingerie party in a hotel room. Now would be a good time for Jae Min to be hired as their exotic dancer but I don't expect Korea to go for that. Mi Joo gets into a fight with her so-called friends over money and status, both of which she has none. In a huff she throws her coat on over her slip and storms out into the hallway. Jae Min is down the hall knocking on a door as he has a delivery to make. He sees Mi Joo dressed - well, undressed and starts to get the wrong idea of why she's here at the hotel. At the same time the door is opened by an attractive woman and Mi Joo starts to get the wrong idea of why he's here at the hotel.
They at least clear things up as to what the real story is. Then they fight again. So naturally this leads up to Jae Min asking Mi Joo to marry him.
Gosh, this was the looooonnnngggggeeesssstttt hour of my life.
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