After begging Gaebong/Yool for a job at the Chunghae Trading Company, (and getting konked out before he could show off his butt), Wang So is tossed into one of their back storerooms. As he slumps over some sacks, this causes his half-butterfly necklace to tumble out. Yool's hope is renewed to see that he kept her charm.
When So wakes up he starts searching the storeroom for the ledgers he needs and something to put on because he's cold. Clumsy Thumbsy knocks over several boxes and shelves as well as dislodging his butterfly necklace. When Gaebong/Yool comes back into the room she finds Wang So in the middle of a mess. She's angry and hurt at first as she thinks he's trying to rob her, but then her emotions swing the other way when So celebrates after recovering his lost butterfly. He explains it is his good luck charm and he wouldn't trade it for the world. Gaebong demands So stay and work off all the property he managed to destroy.
Yool's adoptive family isn't too sure about having Wang So around. Mother hen Baek Myo is especially against it. Yool tries to say she's doing this in order to help Wang So out of his hard luck life and find a respectable vocation. They figure it should take only five days.
Musical interlude as Bidam Wannabe #2 (what is his friggin' name?!) dreamily remembers first being ordered by Wang Shik Ryum to go work/spy on Yeo Won and how he's loved her ever since she was a young tween. Back to the present, Yeo Won figures out very quickly that her uncle suspects one of the many princes of the late king is responsible for the murder of Kim Jong Sik. Question is, is she one step ahead of Shik Ryum and suspecting her own long-absent husband?
So reports for his first day of work and I finally learn the name of Yool's (step? foster? adopted?) brother is Yang Gyu Dal. Wang So tries to learn where the ledgers are kept but Yool insists he's vigorously trained from the bottom up.
(BTW, I've had to switch to DramaFever and their player is an unholy piece of crap. Hear that, DramaFever? Unholy. Piece. Of. Crap.)
So sees Gaebong/Yool entering the bath house. Suspecting his drinking buddy may be a girl, Wang So goes to poke a hole in the paper and see for himself. Baek Myo figured he would try such a trick and has arranged for Yool's bodyguard, Kyung (lots of bodyguards in this show), to stand in for Yool in the steamy room. Now convinced Gaebong truly is a man, So gives some fanservice and takes off his shirt so Yool can rub some liniment on his sore muscles.
Yeo Won delivers a mysterious (and perhaps poisonous?) potion to Shik Ryum. In return she wants to have the exclusive rights to sell salt in Goryeo. Afterwards she decides to do some shopping... at Chunghae, where she promptly catches her husband. He explains he's slumming at the merchant's house. For him it is a mini-vacation from the rigors or royal life. Yeo Won doesn't expose him - for now.
There's this hilarious moment when Baek Myo, smiling from ear to ear, is running in slow motion. Kang Myung thinks she's running to him and he opens his arms wide open. She knocks him aside and hurries forward to greet the newly arrived Wang Uk. So I guess the couple aren't married as I previously thought.
While feminine Yool is entertaining the prince, Wang So goes searching for the ledgers and ends up in her bedroom. Uk tells his story about his long-lost love who was made to marry his own father, the late king. (So why does this woman look like Yool in your flashbacks, Uk? Don't tell me Yool has a twin sister she doesn't know about.)
Back in the bedroom, So discovers a mirror with a specific design on the back. The design is similar to the talisman Kim Jong Sik and the other Legion of Doom members have. Wang So doesn't have time to work out the connection as he's discovered by Baek Myo and Kang Myung.
Yool changes quickly into Gaebong as the family confronts So about theft. She has Kyung search So and finds a receipt on the prince's body. (The receipt was the connection between the late great Kim Jong Sik and the Chunghae Co.) Gaebong takes one look at it and declares the receipt is a fake.
Another Chunghae employee is dragged out. Turns out this guy has been selling expensive pottery on the side. He starts singing like a bird as to who else he's sold this pottery to, so now Wang So has an idea of the other members of the Legion of Doom.
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