Love in Contract: Episodes 9-10 MGG

Love in Contract: Episodes 9-10

by Unit

After skirting around their feelings for the longest time, the season of confession is finally here for our professional wife and her husbands. But where is the fun in that if everything goes exactly according to plan?

 
EPISODES 9-10 WEECAP

So it’s official that while Ji-ho’s aunt might have pushed him towards the antisocial cliff, his ex-wife was the one who sent him over the edge. Ji-eun hated being poor and spent her life chasing success. And the very day he wanted to surprise her with her dream house (in which he now lives), she handed him the divorce papers.

It’s been seven years since then and Ji-ho hasn’t been able to fall for anyone else until Sang-eun came into his life. According to Ji-ho, a life where Sang-eun doesn’t exist feels dreadful. But it’s not like she’s telepathic to know how he feels. And she is left to spend the rest of the day with mixed feelings from seeing Ji-eun, and not knowing the real reason behind Ji-ho’s heroic appearance at the hotel.

An overnight camping trip with Hae-jin seems like just what the doctor ordered to get Sang-eun’s mind off her Ji-ho induced confusion. But when a drunk Ji-ho shows up in her neighborhood, they have to drag him along. (I will never get over how drunk Ji-ho passes out in the funniest of ways!) It is on this trip that Sang-eun confesses that she has never received true love from anyone because everyone is out to use her.

We already know that Sang-eun was adopted to be the perfect bride, but it was a little surprising to see that she never got to meet her adoptive parents before being whisked abroad for thirteen years of bridal training. On her return, she eagerly anticipated meeting them for the first time, only to learn that she wasn’t coming back to the loving arms of a family but straight to the in-laws. No wonder she ruined the marriage meeting.

In her tipsy state on the trip, Sang-eun says that she wants to be loved and kissed, and Hae-jin is only too happy to grant her wish. I’m sure she wasn’t referring to him, but he’s so smug about it the following day with Ji-ho, and if my eyes could roll any further, they’d be at the back of my head. There’s a lot of baggage that comes with being Kangjin group’s son. And while it’s understandable that a person cannot choose the family they’re born into, Hae-jin is really not helping matters.

He is fond of doing things without thinking of Sang-eun’s feelings — from the engagement ambush, to thinking they’re now an item after the kiss (thank goodness she cleared him up on this one). And I don’t care what his intentions were — he never should have name-dropped Sang-eun as Eena group’s daughter to his brother, knowing how much she detests the whole arranged marriage nonsense. He will do well to keep her name out of his family’s business!

Meanwhile, Sang-eun gets into an argument with Ji-ho and as they fling their misunderstandings at each other, their true feelings bubble to the surface. Ji-ho admits that he went to the hotel to confess to her, but he got flustered on seeing his ex. In between Sang-eun’s processing of what he just said and arguing that he should have spoken up earlier, Ji-ho goes in for a kiss. And I am officially a finished woman!

“Does this answer your question?” He asks in between kisses. You bet, sir! This man is really out there working that jaw like his life depends on it — in the enclosed space of his car, no less, which makes the moment even more steamy — the heat of it all sending me into a melted state! Afterwards, our newly minted couple graduate into the mushiness of “you hang up first,” and get their service provider excited about the incoming bills. Heh.

It’s so cute how love can drastically change a person. Ji-ho can’t stop smiling and greeting people at work, and his co-workers are left to wonder who he is and what he has done with the Ji-ho they know. Lol. As a courtesy, Sang-eun also informs Hae-jin that she’s dating Ji-ho for real, and she plans to wrap up her contract with him as soon as possible. But she and Ji-ho have barely settled into new couple territory when everything goes south.

Detective Mi-ho matches Hae-jin and Sang-eun’s paparazzi pictures with the clothes in Sang-eun’s closet and resumes Operation Marry Sang-eun Into Kangjin Group. Sang-eun is blissfully unaware of this, but Hae-jin finds out and goes into panic mode. So who told you to run your mouth in the first place?

It turns out Ji-eun is kinda chummy with Hae-jin’s mum, and she learns that Sang-eun – better known to her as Hae-jin’s girlfriend – is the daughter of Eena group. But when she finds out from Hae-jin that it’s all contracted and Ji-ho is a part of Sang-eun’s clientele, she marches straight to Ji-ho thinking he hired Sang-eun to make her jealous. You know, since she is the center of the universe and everything revolves around her. Pfft.

Ji-ho tells her to leave because his wife (how I love the sound of this!) is on her way. But outside the building, said wife has been hoisted on Hae-jin’s shoulder amidst her protests, and carted away to prevent her from running into Ji-eun. And that’s the perfect opportunity for the ever-present paparazzi to finally get a clean shot of Sang-eun’s face. Before long, the images are plastered everywhere on the news, and good luck to them getting out of their contract so easily now.

Kang Hae-jin really stresses me out! Would it kill him to just stay put? He had zero reason for wanting to prevent Sang-eun from running into Ji-eun. I mean, what’s the worst thing that could happen if both women meet? A cat fight? In his head, he wants to protect Sang-eun, but at this point, the only person she needs to be protected from is him.

Ji-eun has also joined the ranks as a stumbling block to our newly minted relationship by outing Sang-eun as the Eena group’s daughter to Ji-ho. She even threw in the marriage plans between Eena and Kangjin — before he could even process the information that Sang-eun is a chaebol daughter. And though Ji-ho and Sang-eun have decided to accept each other at face value, how long will their misunderstandings fester until it blows up in their relationship?

I said last week that I wanted to see this quartet in action, and they really came with the drama! Sang-eun’s exposure as a professional wife was inevitable, but this was sooner and on a way bigger scale than I would have imagined. The pure shock on the faces of Ji-ho’s coworkers on recognizing his wife as someone else’s fiancée on national TV? Priceless! And then there’s all her former clients with their family and friends who have probably seen the news and recognized her too.

It’s a hazard associated with the profession, but I still feel bad for Sang-eun. With her face out there, the press and netizens are bound to dig up all the information about her life, and it’s not going to be pretty. I don’t know where we’re going from here, or how they intend to spin the story around, but whatever happens, I hope that Sang-eun is okay.

 
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