A Virtuous Enterprise: Episodes 5-6
by quirkycase
Our lady goes by it this week as her rocky marriage goes from unhealthy to worse when one thing new involves gentle. However at the very least she’s obtained her ride-or-die gal friends and their rising enterprise to maintain her busy. In the meantime, our detective makes just a little headway on his secret mission, however he discovers greater than he bargained for, calling all he thought he knew into query.
EPISODES 5-6
Simply when issues are beginning to go decently for Jung-sook, Sung-soo returns to city for a job alternative and has the audacity to briefly transfer in with Mi-hwa and In-tae. He calls his and Jung-sook’s separation a “tough patch” and assumes she’ll take him again ultimately. All males cheat, in any case. Why is she making a giant deal of it? Jung-sook’s disgust is palpable (and shared).
As if the dishonest weren’t unhealthy sufficient, Mi-hwa is pregnant. She insists the child is In-tae’s, however that’s unlikely given they’ve been attempting for a child unsuccessfully for eight years. When Jung-sook confronts Sung-soo concerning the being pregnant, his shock lasts barely a second earlier than he declares it doesn’t matter if it’s his or not. Min-ho is the one youngster he claims. (This man is trash.) He begins attempting to guilt Jung-sook into forgiving him by saying her hangups from rising up with a single mother shouldn’t be handed on to Min-ho. Jung-sook slaps him throughout the face with a close-by batch of chives (SO satisfying) till he actually runs away.
Thank goodness her mother is being supportive now since Jung-sook is de facto going by it. And, in fact, there’s at all times Do-hyun on her facet. He meets Sung-soo for the primary time and isn’t impressed. Understanding all he does, Do-hyun appears to be like able to homicide the person on sight.
Talking of Do-hyun, he’s additionally having a tough go of it. We lastly study extra about his background. He certainly was the child from the fireplace and is on the lookout for the girl who left him on the orphanage. She stated the child had no household and left no details about herself, however the nun noticed that she had a ticket for Geumje, which is what led Do-hyun to the village. Do-hyun suspects the girl might be his bio mother.
It seems, Do-hyun’s solutions is likely to be nearer than he thinks. His boss, CAPTAIN website positioning (Web optimization Hyun-chul), was a rookie on the time of an unsolved serial arson case from 30 years in the past the place the objective gave the impression to be kidnapping newborns. Properly, that’s a brand new one.
Digging by the information, Do-hyun is fairly sure he was one of many infants from that case. So not solely did he survive a hearth as an toddler, however he may need been kidnapped and nonetheless have bio household on the market. (Possibly now he’ll cease being so secretive and convey Captain Web optimization into the investigation?)
It’s rather a lot to soak up, so Do-hyun will get drunk and spills his woes to Jung-sook. He tells her he’s been on the lookout for one thing desperately for ten years, however now all the pieces he thought he knew has been turned the other way up. Jung-sook in flip shares her personal doubts about her household life and worries about what can be finest for Min-ho. Do-hyun provides her some sound recommendation: earlier than deciding based mostly on what she thinks will make her son completely happy, ask him immediately.
She takes his recommendation and asks Min-ho when he’s happiest. As anticipated from a younger youngster, he says it’s when the household is collectively. However he clarifies that it’s as a result of when his mother and father are completely happy, it makes him completely happy too. Assured now that Min-ho wants mother and father who’re completely happy greater than miserably collectively, she formally divorces Sung-soo. Good riddance to the egocentric man youngster.
On condition that Jung-sook is fairly nice, I’ve puzzled why she’d be with somebody like Sung-soo. Then we study that they’ve recognized one another since they have been little children, and he was the one one who stood up for her when bullies made enjoyable of her not having a dad. He was a troublemaker, however he was sort to her when nobody else was. Sadly, that didn’t final.
After her divorce, Jung-sook throws herself into work. Our enterprise girls lately realized a problem: their merchandise are one thing you run out of and restock – how do they sustain gross sales? They want a richer clientele, like perhaps the ultrawealthy wives of the boys’s Royal Membership members. The issue is HEO YOUNG-JA (Jung Younger-joo), the chairman’s spouse, hates Geum-hee and their unclassy enterprise.
If there’s one factor that may get Geum-hee fired up and decided, it’s her husband’s belittling. After he tells her she’ll by no means get Younger-ja to purchase her merchandise, she and the women hatch a plan to win her over. Geum-hee regales her with tales of how… amorous her husband was when she wore lingerie and will get Younger-ja to purchase a complete box-load of things.
They hear contradicting details about how issues panned out for Younger-ja. Her daughter, a good friend of Jung-sook’s, says that her dad laid into her mother for the lingerie and stormed out, however Younger-ja says it labored like a attraction. She even talked it as much as the Royal Membership wives who now wish to host a celebration. Whether or not she’s mendacity or there’s extra to the story (like a secret lover, maybe?), it provides our gross sales girls a brand new buyer base who’s obtained cash to blow.
Whereas the women are on an in a single day work journey to do a celebration on a small close by island, Do-hyun will get caught babysitting Min-ho and Dong-woo. He stops by to ask Jung-sook’s mother concerning the fires – she’s been residing in Geumje for many years, and Jung-sook recommended he chat along with her – and has no alternative however to supply to stick with the children after she will get a name that her son is within the hospital. (I hold forgetting that Jung-sook even has a brother.)
Do-hyun is awkward with children, however he finally ends up bonding with Min-ho, particularly after he steps in when the neighborhood children bully Min-ho for his mother and father’ divorce. Do-hyun reads him a narrative and places him to mattress, falling asleep beside him. It’s cute.
The ladies get some bonding time of their very own after a difficult however profitable gross sales occasion. They sit round and drink, speaking about their sexual fantasies. They will’t simply go round telling everybody else to be sincere and never do the identical. Solely Jung-sook isn’t positive what to say – Sung-soo wasn’t occupied with what she needed within the bed room (stunning), so she hasn’t found her personal preferences. The 4 of them drunkenly resolve she’ll be a femme fatale any further.
On a facet observe, it appears to be like like Ju-ri is likely to be getting a romance. Younger-ja’s son EOM DAE-GEUM (Kim Jung-jin), who works on the pharmacy with Geum-hee’s husband, is nursing fairly the crush on Ju-ri after she complimented him to get him to return to her salon. He’s dorky in that candy method, so we’ll see the place it goes.
Jung-sook’s dwelling life is likely to be difficult, however she’s killing it at work. She’s doing so properly the corporate asks her to grow to be a salaried department supervisor. She’s using excessive when she runs right into a highschool classmate who asks her to do a celebration for his spouse who harm her again and desires some enjoyable. One thing feels off about him, particularly when he asks Jung-sook to return to his home out within the suburbs alone.
Though she agrees, Jung-sook does need at the very least one different girl along with her, however nobody can come final minute. Fortunately, she did inform Younger-bok the place she was going, so when she casually mentions it to some neighborhood ajummas, Do-hyun occurs to overhear. His ears perk up additional when the ajummas say they thought the person break up together with his spouse (!).
Positive sufficient, Jung-sook finds herself alone and at risk out in the midst of nowhere. We don’t see what occurred, however we do see her operating and hiding. Proper as the person finds her and tries to pull her to the home, Do-hyun arrives and punches him within the face. Within the closing scene, Jung-sook is secure however understandably very shaken.
Severely, why do horrible issues hold occurring to this girl? The trauma is simply piling on to Jung-sook, and I’m prepared for her to catch a break. At the very least she’s obtained supportive individuals in her life now who care about and respect her, and she or he’s lastly despatched Sung-soo packing. Each time I believed we’d seen his worst, he confirmed himself to be much more terrible. I’m glad Jung-sook divorced him earlier than issues may get even messier now that Mi-hwa is pregnant. Jung-sook has sufficient to cope with with out all that in her life.
Though plenty of the main focus is on Jung-sook – she undoubtedly has probably the most chaotic life proper now – all 4 of the ladies are such nice characters. Younger-bok’s no-nonsense method that’s hilariously contrasted along with her ridiculous husband, Ju-ri’s vibrance and confidence (and that 90s perm!), and Geum-hee’s quiet rage and prim dedication all shine. I really like how sudden these ladies are and the way they by no means underestimate one another, regardless of everybody else doing so. Hopefully the approaching weeks will heart our different three girls a bit extra, as a result of they actually deserve their time within the solar.
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