Mo Ne can't believe her eyes and ears when Baek Mi Nyeo pronounces her no longer chairwoman of Ciel. Mo Ne declares she's still a major shareholder and will call for a board meeting to dismiss everyone who participated in the secret meeting. She stalks out of the room, leaving Jae Wan behind. Jae Wan glares at Baek Mi Nyeo and follows Mo Ne out. Mo Ne is standing outside, unmoving. Chae Kyung comes in time to see Mo Ne and Jae Wan's expressions. She says she won't comment on anything but both Jae Wan and Mo Ne were really late to figure this was going to happen. She goes off.
Baek Mi Nyeo and Roman come out to show Mo Ne a contract her father had made with Roman using his shares to the hotel as a collateral. I'm rather confused myself with all this jargon so I'll just say, in this drama, at this moment (neglecting how contracts are dealt with in real life) Mo Ne is pretty much penniless and her shares sort of belong to Roman for now. (I guess this is why a lot of dramas have the disclaimer that it is purely fiction so people don't try to use it as an example for things that have to do with the law)
Mo Ne and Jae Wan are completely disbelieving of the contract but it's a legit contract, as Jae Wan later finds out from his secret minion.
Jae Wan drags Mo Ne out of the hotel before she can physically attack Baek Mi Nyeo. He tells her to think rationally but Mo Ne just can't right now. She's all worked up, and even more so because she thinks Jae Wan is pretending to be nice to her. She walks off in a huff, leaving him looking on with a pathetic face. Mo Ne ya, stop breaking Jae Wan's heart even further - it wasn't even whole to start with.
Mo Ne is accosted by Soo An on the way to her next destination. She tells Soo An to contact all the board members for a meeting in two hours and not to follow her. Mo Ne enters Chae Kyung's office. It seems Chae Kyung had also been trying to find out how this situation came about (probably from Jae Wan's tip-off) because she can't believe Mo Ne's lawyer is also on Baek Mi Nyeo's side. Mo Ne begs Chae Kyung for money, first, then to save her. Chae Kyung doesn't have the power to help Mo Ne and she's also probably unwilling to do much for Mo Ne since Mo Ne crushed Jae Wan's heart.
Jae Wan is in his office talking to Joon Sung and Soo An comes in to update Jae Wan on Mo Ne's actions. They're all trying to figure out how this suddenly came about, when Joon Sung makes a curious remark about Baek Mi Nyeo having probably planned this out for a long while. Jae Wan realises there's more to it than Baek Mi Nyeo just wanting to take over the chairman's seat, but he doesn't know what it is, of course.
Mo Ne passes by Roman in the corridor. He attempts to appease her by showing he bears no animosity towards her. Mo Ne can't stand his crap and calls him a crazy bastard. Poor guy, you just need to detach yourself from your mother a bit more.
Da Jung and Jung Hyun are sitting on the stone bench. He tells her about the news of Mo Ne's dismissal. She repeats it in a loud voice, and Jung Hyun quickly covers her mouth with his hand. It's cute to see how he's all touchy with her while she doesn't seem to like it too much. Woo Hyun overhears it and goes running off in search of Mo Ne, who's about to leave her office for the meeting. He gives her some words of encouragement but she doesn't say anything and leaves.
No one turned up for the meeting, obviously because no one is on her side at all. Baek Mi Nyeo comes by to rub some salt into her wounds. She also exposes more of her true character to Mo Ne. Mo Ne can't believe her dad would ask someone like Baek Mi Nyeo to take care of his diaries but Baek Mi Nyeo insists he had done just that. Because Chairman Ah couldn't distinguish a friend from a foe (i.e. Lee Jung Gu) so he couldn't even guess what her true character was.
Jae Wan gets tipped off from his hoobaes that Baek Mi Nyeo is going to hold a little party/ceremony for her instatement as the new chairwoman. Jae Wan is also unable to use his staff ID and password to log into the hotel server. Manager Jang has also been ordered by Baek Mi Nyeo not to let Jae Wan walk through the employee area. Baek Mi Nyeo who's all dolled up with a new hairstyle. She's brought back to the day when she regained consciousness in the hospital after her accident. She comes back to the present and reassures herself there's no reason for her to feel anymore pain. When Jae Wan comes by to ask if he needs to do anything, she tells him to leave.
Baek Mi Nyeo goes off to the ceremony and gives a speech on how she promises to make sure Ciel recovers its image. Jae Wan has his hoobaes watch the entire event on his behalf. Mo Ne gate crashes and makes a commotion by throwing the ice carvings onto the floor. I could've sworn the big carving was a gargoyle :P Baek Mi Nyeo orders her men to drag Mo Ne out. Soo An tries to go to Mo Ne but is blocked by those men. Even the staff who are watching this through the TV in their rest area look stunned at the whole thing. Woo Hyun can't tolerate it anymore, and runs out to find Mo Ne. Mo Ne requests for him not to notice her anymore. He puts his jacket around her and says just let him do this one thing for her.
Soo An updates Jae Wan on Mo Ne's whereabouts. Mo Ne walks back home, only to find workers moving all her belongings out. She yells at them to get lost and in the middle of a tussle, the photo frame of a picture with her and her dad shatters. That sort of brings her back to her sorrows and she weeps on the ground, smacking herself for being a fool. Jae Wan comes round the corner and watches her. He looks more hurt than her, actually.
Jae Wan waits for Chae Kyung to close Haemil. She's surprised to see him but guesses why he's there. She promises to help him and tests him by moving forward to kiss him. He doesn't react so she gives up. She says she'll help him as long as he closes his heart off to Mo Ne, even if he can't come to Chae Kyung either. And he must keep that promise to her. Jae Wan agrees with a "mm". We all know what Jae Wan's "mm"s are. Never a committed answer.
Mo Ne huddles in her empty house and looks at the photograph she salvaged. The next day, Jae Wan hears a lot of noise outside his house and goes out to see Mo Ne's swing being carried over. A housekeeping lady informs him Mo Ne had told them to bring the swing and the cat over. Jae Wan rushes over to Mo Ne's place to find it completely empty. He sees the "memorise this" sticky note and the birthday note he had written for her on the countertop. He walks out of the house, dejected, and bumps into Woo Hyun who's looking for Mo Ne. He gives a piece of his mind about Jae Wan's attitude.
Baek Mi Nyeo and Roman went to some grassy hilly area. I don't know why Baek Mi Nyeo has to be dramatic enough to pull out the weed from the grass and blow it away. I know it's a symbolic representation of her words, but it would've been much more powerful if the weeds had really floated away instead of just dropping off when she blew them. They go back to the car, and Lee Jung Gu is waiting for them outside. Baek Mi Nyeo is all authority on him and ignores his long, sugary speech and gets into the car. Lee Jung Gu also gets in, cursing her under his breath. Baek Mi Nyeo gets Roman to pull up on some bridge and order Lee Jung Gu to leave because they were done talking. Lee Jung Gu is super pissed she just threw him out of the car like that and doesn't even know where he is. Plus, Jae Wan is not answering his calls.
Baek Mi Nyeo and Roman are just on the other side of the bridge while she watches him through the rearview mirror. She recalls the night of the accident on that very bridge and is bitter he can't remember where that place is. Turns out, Baek Mi Nyeo drove off in her car because she was on the run from the police but Lee Jung Gu was nutty enough to follow her. She was trying to shake both the police and Lee Jung Gu off her trail but she collided when his car crashed into hers because he had swerved to make way for another oncoming vehicle. Lee Jung Gu tried dragging her out of her car but she told him to die with her. Her car eventually exploded into flames and Lee Jung Gu ran away, but not far enough because he still fell down (or should I say smashed onto the ground when the car exploded).
The memory of it brings shivers to Baek Mi Nyeo and Roman quickly asks if she's okay. She addresses him as Ji Won and asks how she looks. He tells her she looks beautiful.
Mo Ne is at the holiday house and she politely asks for a watermelon the caretaker ajusshi had cut. She's in the middle of eating it while ajusshi scolds her. The moment he tells her he knew this would happen when she came for a holiday with the general manager, she loses her appetite and goes off by herself. She sits facing the sea and Jae Wan slowly comes to her but doesn't go too close. She's glad he found her and asks if he is going back to America. Jae Wan asks her if she will come with him and live like normal people. Mo Ne finds the thought appealing and wishes she had a head injury that would let her forget all about Ciel and live happily ever after with Jae Wan but she can't let go of Ciel. She says they shouldn't see each other again and walks away without looking at him once.
Jae Wan follows her from a long distance while she walks along the road overlooking the sea. The background music at this part is "Because of You" by The One. It really matches with the entire scene and I've never felt more moved before. Jae Wan sits on the rocks alone and looks out in the distance, sad.
Woo Hyun had just returned to the hotel and Captain Go asks if he found Mo Ne. Woo Hyun pretends to be content with not having any information about Mo Ne until he gets a text from her telling him not to worry. That alone brightens up his face, and Manager Jang finds it suspicious. Captain Go just tells Manager Jang he doesn't know anything about love and goes off. Manager Jang is also suspicious about Captain Go's more youthful looks recently, and No Ah feed him with the information that Captain Go has a recent interest in Botox. Lol, they never fail to amuse me!
Mo Ne is sitting penseively on the swing at the holiday house and stops herself from calling Soo An. The caretaker comes by asking if she really won't eat anything. He knocks some sense into Mo Ne's head and tells her that her grandfather started from the very bottom to build Ciel, which was why her dad could even be the chairman. That puts a spark into Mo Ne's eyes and at night, on THAT bed, she decides she will return to Ciel and not lose sight of her dad's dreams.
Jae Wan has put forth his interest in retaining his position as General Manager, even using the Chief Prosecutor to help him get his position. It's all thanks to Chae Kyung's network, of course. Baek Mi Nyeo knows Jae Wan will stay but says it's up to Roman to decide. Jae Wan goes off to convince Roman, who's at a sauna. Seriously, you two! A sauna is the perfect place to discover your tattoos! But no. Jae Wan stands there in his shirt and pants and gets completely soaked in sweat while Roman is naught but a towel. He's impressed by Jae Wan's determination but rejects Jae Wan.
Jae Wan gets Joon Sung to bring him fresh clothes but doesn't wish to take a bath at the sauna. I guess he doesn't want anyone to see his scars and tattoo. Unfortunately for him, just as he takes his shirt off, Roman walks out from the bath area and catches sight of his tattoo. I swear Jae Wan looked awkward for a moment having been seen by Roman. Roman, of course, is confused and mesmerised by the wings. If only you turned around and showed your wings to Jae Wan!
He walks out, dressed now, in a daze and thinks back to his childhood. He was told Jaden had died, so he couldn't believe he was seeing Jae Wan's winged tattoo on his back. He convinces himself it can't be true. Jae Wan interrupts his thoughts by asking if he's okay. Roman just quickly excuses himself and walks off hurriedly.
A group of housekeeping ladies pass by Jae Wan and bow to him. The oldest one is teaching the others how to behave properly. And who do we have? Mo Ne at the back of the pack, smiling at her amazing feat of penetrating into the staff without being discovered. Jae Wan looks at her back suspiciously. Well your hunch is right, Jae Wan, you just don't realise it yet :P
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