[Episode 65]
Shameless little...
They say others take revenge for you,
Jia will carry out mine.
When she runs the Daehae Group household.
Do you think you will continue to do well?
Very well.
The disobedient little nothings never end up well.
Welcome. Long time no see.
Rude little... not so much as a welcome back.
You got prettier.
Feeling rested?
I didn't go to rest.
Tea? Or shall we eat?
What's the rush?
We all eat to live.
You look good.
You did not...!
I do?
I thought you weren't coming.
How could I? Even though I thought to do so.
'Mother I did wrong.'
I will see you crying and begging.
I wonder which face you will put on today.
Why didn't you make wedding invitations?
You only get married once, after all.
Once, twice, who can tell?
Is that how you talk to your elders?
Twice, thrice, but everyone thinks it's only once the first time.
It was just once for you, so you wouldn't understand.
I'm only 25, but I learned you can't tell what's ahead.
We're sitting here now, but
In an hour or two, who knows what will happen?
Your tone is offensive.
You should know.
I think I grew fond of you.
I feel at ease.
I get like this when I'm comfortable.
Little...!
Should I fix it?
I'll try to fix it slowly.
I suppose your household didn't teach you anything.
I constantly feel that.
Yes.
It's enough they feed me, even though they didn't give birth to me.
How can they teach me manners, when I don't belong.
At least you shouldn't put their name in shame.
They're not even my real parents. Who would resent them?
Imagine if they did.
I've waited for today.
When did you eat breakfast?
We should eat soon.
I made rice rolls and bean sprout soup.
A feast.
Enjoy. Wedding preparations are stressful and take a lot of energy.
I don't know where to start.
Royal rice pasta.
I've only ever had the stir-fry.
It's good with the beef.
The help made this?
I thought so. It tastes like hers.
Aren't you little miss smartypants?
Very astute.
I have a taste for these things.
It's delicious.
She's not much for cleaning., but she can cook.
Are there good restaurants in the States?
Steak more than anything.
Mrs, Jang asked if we should have a formal get together.
Let's. That's why I came back.
Is something bothering you?
No.
If not for Jia...
There's no time for a fitting.
You have anything to wear in blue?
Hm.
And your dowry?
People usually do cash these days.
I'll give it to you. I brought it today.
Fruit later?
Yes. I'm full.
You didn't eat much.
No present for me?
Oh. Sorry.
You didn't buy anything?
No.
I wasn't myself when I left.
Why weren't you yourself?
Kidding.
Do you think I would have expected anything from you?
I wasn't serious. You have no parents, after all.
Shall we go out instead?
Out and do what?
To see to your gifts.
I'll only get one daughter-in-law.
I'll prepare accordingly. With assortments.
Just one thing.
Truthfully speaking, this wasn't easy for me.
They're aren't mine, but I ached for them just the same.
They're children of my heart, as they say.
I can't imagine.
You can't.
It's easy to say, but harder to do.
Rearing a child isn't like raising puppies or kittens.
Especially when they're not blood...
Will you be telling this to Nadan?
No.
We're all susceptible to greed at times.
I reared him to marry well.
Enough for the Migang girl to want him.
Wanting him to marry a good woman is definite.
Compared to jewelry, he rejected diamonds, even rubies and emeralds.
To take the metaphor further...
Imitation, no cultured pearls.
Imitation pearls?
He said he prefers cultured pearls, than diamonds.
I couldn't help but feel cheated.
His sister's manager over the heiress to the Migang fortune? For marriage?
I found that words failed me.
I had no choice but to speak harshly.
Let's forget everything and be family now.
Is that possible?
It will have to be.
I knew it wouldn’t be easy which is why I needed time.
I do things I put my mind to.
Me too.
I need your help with one thing.
After the wedding help things long with Jia and Hwaom.
He's not seeing anyone and you're not really his sister.
You won't be doubly related by marriage.
Jia is certainly good enough.
Not certainly.
True.
Not certainly, but close enough.
It's not much of a difference as a diamond and an imitation pearl.
Were you offended?
No. It's the truth.
Think of the family.
It's not a bad thing, it's good for everyone.
I would like your word that you'll help.
Mm?
No.
No? Why?
Because.
What's that even mean?
You won't help your own sister-in-law?
I can't. I won't.
You...
I don't have it in me, some dollar-store pearl...
I said cultured pearl.
You meant to say 'imitation,' not 'cultured.'
So, you're using my words against me.
You shouldn't expect much from me.
I don't. I expect you to do your duty.
Duty? You know what duty is?
A commitment to meet our obligations.
Do you think you have the right to talk about duty?
Throwing water now?
What are you?
Your future daughter-in-law.
Insect.
I invite you into my home, I feed you.
I ask you to help your only sister-in-law and you refuse?
Marry him.
You think you have it all now?
You see me as a figure of ridicule now.
How long do you think that will it last?
This love of yours.
10 years? Five?
I give it less than three.
Have a healthy little boy that's the spitting image of Nadan.
Is that a blessing or a curse? You're confusing me.
One way or another...
I'll find someone prettier, younger, more talented than you ever were for him.
Are you sure?
He'll cast you aside, count on that.
You should know, you're the expert.
You crazy little... the words coming out of your mouth...
Are you out of your mind?
How dare you?
Go ahead. Get it out.
It ends here.
It may cost me Nadan...
But it's you or me, one or the other.
Go ahead? Is growing up without parents something to be proud of?
Glaring at me, breaking my glasses?
Talking down to me!
Call Nadan. Get a medical diagnosis and sue me.
I don't care if I go to jail! I don't care!
I'll teach you to behave today!
Do you know why I didn't make invitations!
You know?
It's embarrassing that both the bride and the groom's mother has the same name.
I couldn't stand to write Baek Eunha or Soh Eunha.
Baek. Sun. Ho.
Baek Sunho.
Haven't you've heard it many times before?
That's my father's name.
You might have forgotten, since it was a long time ago.
You should remember my brother's name.
Baek Yongjun.
What? What are you saying?
You're Baek Ya.
I changed my name in middle school.
From Baek Sondong.
How...?
No, this can't be.
You wish it wasn't.
But what now.
It's the truth.
But how are you living at that house?
What about your brother?
Who's making you do this? Baek Yongjun?
It's absurd, all of it.
Check the family registry if you can't believe it.
Dad had burns on his face and he limped. What can he do?
He was a servant at the house.
A gardener, an errand boy.
When I asked, he said you had the same last name, Baek.
Baek Eunha.
So his parents wouldn't allow the marriage.
Then you died in a car accident.
I believed him.
While you lived the high life.
No, no!
How can you be Sondong? How?
You expect me to believe that?
Then don't. What will that change?
And Yongjun? Where is he?
You're lying, it's a con...
Where do you think he is?
Where can he be?
You met in a cafe on October 15, and haven't heard from him since.
Weren't you curious at all?
You... you're...?
Have it tested.
I wish it wasn't.
I hate to think a person like you gave birth to me!
An insect?
You insect had a insect, how can a human being?
Yes, I'm an insect.
Not a dog, not an animal, a bug!
Sweetie... sweetie...
What can I... what...?
Sweetie, I'm sorry.
When did you find out?
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
Why didn't you come out with your brother that day?
I was so shocked, and I didn't get any calls after that.
Call him.
I wasn't myself.
He's gone.
Where? Overseas?
He's dead.
Dead.
Not suicide?
A car accident. After meeting you.
That day?
The day he met me?
In front of the cafe at the crosswalk.
It can't be, not Yongjun, not my little boy...
It can't be.
I can't believe... a crosswalk...
I couldn't believe it either.
Lord, if only it were me.
Yongjun...why...
Why!
He called me out of the blue.
'Mother, it's Yongjun.'
'I want to meet.'
My chest tightened.
I never said your names, not even to myself.
Yongjun. Sondong.
I went.
There he was, so handsome, a grown man.
He was 8 years old the last time I saw him.
I asked about Sondong.
He said she couldn't come.
That's she grew up to be a fine girl.
I had an appointment, so I made time to go.
We agreed to meet again, but I never heard from him.
A week passed, a month. I heard no news.
I thought you didn't want to see me.
You should have called when he died.
I missed the funeral, how could I live...?
...Dear Lord...
'Do you recognize me?'
'You haven't changed. Mother.'
'How did you find me?'
'Your father?'
'He passed.'
'You heard nothing about us?'
'Now listen. What's past is past.'
'Does Sondong know?'
'No. I just found out myself.'
'Then we can remain strangers.'
'It's how I want it.'
'I never married your father. You were both accidents.'
'I met a good man, we have a family.'
'Please. Leave me alone.'
'Don't you at least want to see her?'
'Fate or dumb luck, what's done is done.'
'Your daughter misses you.'
'Your father told you I'm dead for good reason.'
'It would only hurt her.'
'She's a fine girl.'
'I'm sorry. Don't contact me again.'
That's the last thing he heard.
Not from some stranger, but the last words from his own mother.
This is some sort of game.
He's not dead, is he.
You weren't there.
You say he's dead, that you're alone?
Did he record it?
Is this blackmail?
Where's the real Sondong?
You're a fraud.
His own mother said to not find her. How can he be in the right state of mind.
The clerk said you left first.
He took his cell and went after you.
He didn't see the red light, following someone else.
Then the car hit him.
I heard the brakes squealing through the phone.
I didn't know you were meeting and called before you arrived.
He was so excited he forgot to end the call.
The phone didn't disconnect and I heard him say 'Mother.'
At first I was doubting what I heard.
Finding out, the mother I thought was dead was alive, is a shock.
'Don't contact me again.' I couldn't believe my ears.
That's what you are.
And me? A bug.
You should know, you had me.
I got a call from the cafe employee, and went to the emergency room.
Yongjun was covered cold.
The doctor said he passed.
Imagine how I felt.
Even now, my heart... feels like its getting ripped apart.
Every word a dagger. I can't forget them.
I'll never forget until the day I die.
You hear your son is dead and still you lie?
Still you rationalize?
What can I do?
You want me dead? Should I die?
Will that be enough?
You know I wasn't born in August.
How awful in the heat, you said.
How could you not know your own daughter?
When was the photo taken? In your youth?
Who took it? A friend?
Dad had the same photo in his belongings.
A cheater, a woman that abandoned her own.
Why did he hold onto the past?
Who said I cheated?
You didn't?
Hate your grandparents if you must.
Those old people wouldn't let us get married.
Old people?
They looked down on me for not having anything.
I gave them grandchildren and still they kicked me out.
How was I supposed to live after that?
I got a job at the hospital.
That's when I met him. Was that so wrong?
Who knew I would end up like this?
You think I would live well after kicking me out?
Your mother was single with a bad reputation.
The wedding was postponed because of grandfather's lungs.
Then the print shop caught fire.
So without any doubt,
You left your man, your children...
and landed yourself a doctor!
Who said that?
Someone in a position to know.
Your mother died, nasty reputation intact.
My father helped you through school and took care of you.
And you walked away without a second look.
Seeing you now, I agree when they say the bad do well.
Every word you say is a lie.
How I missed you, prayed for you.
My nephew has no father thanks to you.
Yongjun was married.
The widow living in Sonji's studio.
She's my sister-in-law.
Remember coming to the Jang's for that portrait?
And the baby crying in the next room?
That's Yongjun's son.
His wife delivered early from shock.
His birthday is the day his father died.
Look at all the lives you've ruined!
I still can't believe that he's gone. The trouble he went through to raise me.
He was mother and father to me.
And he's dead because of you!
[Subtitles provided by MBC Translated by D. Bannon]