At the station, an officer tells Young-seo that the perpetrator will likely only be fined. Tae-moo, however, has Seong-hoon dig up the man’s personal information. He later informs Shin Jeong-u that he’s buying out his company and firing him. ..
He also has evidence that the man has filmed several more women and he threatens to put him in jail for a long time.
Ha-ri tries to avoid Tae-moo at work, but he texts her asking her to meet him after work to talk. ..
Tae-moo later admits to Seong-hoon that he has feelings for Ha-ri. He’s certain that he should tell her, so he practices his approach before their dinner. ..
That evening, they meet at Chairman Kang’s private restaurant. But Ha-ri doesn’t want to eat. She hands him a resignation letter for the company, thinking it was his intention to fire her all along. But she does beg for another chance.
Ha-ri realizes that Tae-moo doesn’t like her romantically, so she simply says she’ll think about his request.
Ha-ri gets dinner with a group of her friends, including Young-seo, Min-woo, Yoo-ra. At the dinner, Yoo-ra baits Young-seo into insisting that Ha-ri has a boyfriend. When Min-woo asks, Ha-ri says it was the guy she went to the concert with. Yoo-ra notices that Min-woo appears jealous.
Ha-ri plans to accompany Min-woo to Busan this weekend, where he will be featured on a TV program. Young-seo says that Ha-ri has plans with her boyfriend that weekend. ..
Ha-ri awaits Tae-moo’s decision. He tears up her resignation letter in front of her, and she thanks him effusively. He says he’ll see her that evening to work on a secret project.
Tae-moo asks his coworker out to the movies after work, where they’ll watch a film about food development as research. When she struggles to recline her chair, he does it for her, almost kissing her in the process. She quickly rushes to the bathroom. ..
Ha-ri rushes back into the theater to hide Tae-moo before they come in. When she gets out of the movie, she sees her two co-workers who came to see it together. Ha-ri quickly rushes back into the theater to hide Tae-moo before they see her. ..
Ha-ri is forced to watch the movie with her co-workers, as Tae-moo is forced to crawl out of the theatre on his hands and knees.
Ha-ri is on vacation in Sokcho-si and Tae-moo decides to take her on a business trip. He decides to take her to Sokcho-si specifically because he thinks she would enjoy it.
They go to the beach to eat at a food truck, and he starts asking her questions about her life. She wonders at his attentiveness. ..
Young-seo and Seong-hoon run into each other at a restaurant again, and Seong-hoon asks that she stop avoiding him. He follows her when she leaves, worried she might be in danger after so many drinks. ..
She tells him she fell for him the first time she saw him and they kiss in the street.
Tae-moo drives away from the beach after seeing his parents die in a car crash in the rain.
Ha-ri’s phone dies, but she sees a hotel and walks toward it. The rain dies and Tae-moo calms down, so he goes back to the stop. But he doesn’t see Ha-ri.
Min-woo’s filming was moved to the hotel, and his friends and girlfriend insist on seeing him. ..
Ha-ri and Tae-moo are dating and the episode ends with them getting married.
The Episode Review
The Business Proposal episode was full of coincidences and forced romantic progress. I can’t help but feel that the show is relying too much on luck and coincidence.
The sweet sight of Tae-moo chasing eagerly after Ha-ri is amusing, but the romantic tension between the two feels a little flat. We don’t get to see much of Ha-ri’s perspective, which makes it difficult to invest in their relationship. ..
Despite their relationship not having nearly as much build-up as Tae-moo’s and Ha-ri’s, Young-seo and Seong-hoon have their own moment. A drunken first kiss, however, kills the romance of the scenario.
While this episode was riddled with errors, it does set up some interesting new dynamics between the two couples. It seems Tae-moo and Ha-ri have new people to fake a relationship for–Ha-ri’s friends–and that will make the task feel more intimate than before. ..