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Marry My Husband: Episodes 9-10
by solstices
Our heroine’s revenge mission is in full swing, upending the status quo and delivering much-deserved comeuppance. As she distances herself from her former tormentors, she finds herself growing closer to a special someone — perhaps it’s time to take the first step towards him?
EPISODES 9-10
As the party winds down, Soo-min attempts to slip back into Ji-won’s good graces, playing up her woebegone whining. When Ji-won can’t bring herself to put on a friendly act, Soo-min immediately changes tack and takes her manipulation up another notch. Stepping backwards till she’s at the edge of the pier, Soo-min pointedly remarks that she can’t swim. Then she deliberately falls into the water, as if daring Ji-won to leave her to die.
Of course, Ji-won dives in after her, but the moment she reaches her sinking frenemy, Soo-min immediately latches on and drags Ji-won down. That smug, satisfied glint in her eyes is downright sinister, and Ji-won flounders fearfully until Ji-hyuk comes to the rescue. Afterwards, while Soo-min brazenly beckons Min-hwan to warm her bed, Ji-hyuk offers Ji-won heartfelt solace through a late night heart-to-heart and a private yacht ride in the tranquil morning.
Since Soo-min has switched up her tactics in response to Ji-won’s distant behavior, it’s time for Ji-won to adapt as well. That means accepting Soo-min’s offer of a bonding session via a cooking class, which she knows Min-hwan’s mother will be attending — in other words, a perfect way to get into her mother-in-law’s bad books.
Ji-won puts on a pampered act, deliberately walking all over Mom-in-law’s nerves so that she’ll enthusiastically marry her son off to the seemingly sweet and polite Soo-min instead. It’s such a clever way of using Soo-min’s need to look good against her, all while appearing to play right into the palm of her hand. Mom-in-law already loves Soo-min, and she’s only going to hate Ji-won more.
Cue the meet-the-parents engagement lunch, where Ji-won sashays in fashionably late, donned in an all-black ensemble replete with faux fur sleeves, fishnet stockings, and knee-high boots. Defiantly self-assured, Ji-won eloquently talks circles around Mom-in-law’s snobbish misogyny, leaving her sputtering in disbelief.
When Mom-in-law insults Ji-won’s late father, it’s game over. “Ahjumma, your son isn’t all that great,” Ji-won retorts, dropping to banmal. Then she boldly calls off the wedding, declaring that she can’t stand this family, and storms out. This time, when the seething Min-hwan tries to grab her, Ji-won’s prepared — she judo flips him right onto the restaurant’s front lawn.
The next day, Min-hwan beelines straight for Ji-won the moment she enters the office, only to be greeted with a slap. Three slaps, to be precise. Dangling lacy red panties in his face, Ji-won exposes Min-hwan as a cheater in front of all their colleagues, then tosses her engagement ring across the room. (The rhinestone shatters against the wall, ha.)
Pulling Min-hwan aside, Soo-min attempts to smooth over the situation, only for Min-hwan to bluntly declare that she isn’t marriage material. “What else do you have besides your looks?” At that, the eavesdropping Manager Kim (who somehow got reinstated, yuck) launches himself at Min-hwan in Soo-min’s defense, and the resulting commotion draws so much attention that the whole office ends up learning of Soo-min’s role in the affair. The peanut gallery’s commentary is hilarious: “I don’t need to watch TV; I can get my entertainment fix at work!”
When it rains, it pours, and our cheating couple’s past indiscretion resurfaces to haunt them. Previously, Min-hwan and Soo-min had hooked up on the job, resulting in a forgotten allergen sign and a hospitalized customer. Workplace hanky-panky, on top of being the talk of the town? That’s the final straw, and Seok-joon handles the fallout by transferring “Panties Park” Min-hwan to a different department and terminating Soo-min’s contract.
Unwilling to go down without a fight, Soo-min forges an apology letter of lies in Ji-won’s name. To her dismay, it spectacularly backfires when the allergen incident victims storm into the company building, prompting Ji-won to expose Soo-min’s cowardly deceit. In an attempt to garner whatever sympathy she can, Soo-min escalates her lies and claims that she’s pregnant.
The results are entertainingly hilarious — Min-hwan’s loan shark debts spur him into proposing to Soo-min so he can cash in on a newlywed house from his parents, and his recycled sweet nothings about creating a family together strike a chord in Soo-min’s heart. I have no idea how Soo-min is going to keep up this ruse, but then again she’s already attempting to purchase a fake ultrasound and positive pregnancy test, so I suppose if there’s a will, there’s a way.
In the midst of all this drama, our leads have been taking tentative steps toward each other. To avoid her clingy nemeses, Ji-won moves into a spacious new apartment in the same building as Ji-hyuk, but that’s not all. For the first time, Ji-hyuk seeks Ji-won out for advice — “Take things one step at a time, and do what you want to do in the moment” — even if he doesn’t quite follow it yet.
Instead, Ji-hyuk winds up morose, moping, and eating right out of a giant tub of ice cream after instructing Hee-yeon to play wingwoman between Ji-won and Eun-ho. His angst has him chopping the tub right down the middle when Hee-yeon asks for some, LOL. It’s equal parts heartwarming and sad, since Ji-hyuk is clearly making preparations for his death a whole decade in advance; he’d rather Ji-won end up with someone who won’t bring grief upon her.
Even so, Ji-hyuk can’t stop caring for Ji-won. While waiting for her by the apartment gates, he accidentally overhears her gentle rejection of Eun-ho after their Christmas date. When a sneeze betrays how long Ji-hyuk’s been waiting for her out in the cold, they head up to Ji-hyuk’s apartment, where Ji-won is greeted with twinkling fairy lights and cozy Christmas decorations. Aww, they’re exactly what Hee-yeon had offhandedly mentioned Ji-won would like.
Moved by Ji-hyuk’s thoughtful gesture, Ji-won admits that she kept thinking of someone else during her date — the person only she can fully know, and the person who knows her best. With that, she reaches up for Ji-hyuk, tiptoeing to kiss him gently. For a moment, Ji-hyuk hesitates, only to have all his restraint crumble the moment Ji-won pulls away — and when he finally kisses back, it’s with a fervent passion that they both share.
Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Ji-won and Ji-hyuk’s romance has been such a satisfying slow burn, making the payoff feel all the more rewarding. I love that it’s Ji-won who makes the first move, acting upon her heart’s true desire for the very first time, and that it feels like a culmination of all the selfless acts of kindness Ji-hyuk has done for her. He’s never expected reciprocity, but he deserves it and more; she’s never chased her own happiness, but now she can.
On that note, Ji-won’s steadfast sincerity and newfound radiance have earned her a support system that rallies around her out of genuine affection and respect, and it’s so lovely to see. They’re united in the goodness of their hearts while each having their own little storylines, and I particularly liked this week’s cute hitchhiking scene of Joo-ran on Seok-joon’s motorcycle, though I really hope her stomach pains aren’t a sign of something worse. (Please tell me she doesn’t get Ji-won’s cancer in this timeline…)
Another scene that stood out this week was Ji-won’s conflicted reaction to Soo-min gifting her the red heels that she’d originally worn on the day of Ji-won’s death. As viewers, it’s easy to hate Min-hwan and Soo-min since we were introduced to their infidelity right off the bat, but Ji-won has sincerely loved these people for years. It shows in her wavering resolve, and in the way she bitterly thanks them for proving time and time again that they’re rotten to the core, thereby strengthening her determination to see her revenge through.
As for Soo-min, her need to be superior to Ji-won and project this for everyone to know — while simultaneously nursing a victim mentality that calls for Ji-won to cater to her — makes her so interesting to watch. Soo-min seemed genuinely hurt that Ji-won stopped unconditionally taking her side, and while part of it likely stems from how she’s always taken Ji-won for granted, it also seems like codependency on Soo-min’s part. There appears to be a deep history behind the way Soo-min immediately latched onto Min-hwan after he promised her a family, and I can’t wait to find out what it is and how it’ll cause a rift in their relationship. Surely they won’t be able to get hitched without a hitch, right?
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