

He’s happy to hear that her dad has come around about her job, but he knows that Oh-sol has something more to say to him. Just outside her house, Oh-sol sits with Mr. He tells her to do her best, and then says that he thought her CEO was a thoughtful, responsible young man. Oh-sol’s dad fusses over Oh-sol as she gets ready to head out the door, even lint rolling her coat for her. He’s even made her favorite breakfast, steamed eggs.Īt Seon-gyeol’s house, he learns of Oh-sol’s return to work from Secretary Kwon by phone, and he is way too obviously excited about it, and he spends the rest of the morning fussing over what to wear to look his best. Oh-sol begs for just a few more minutes, until she realizes her father wants her to go to work. The next morning, Oh-sol’s dad gasps at the horrific smell fermenting in his still-sleeping daughter’s room as he nudges her to wake up and get to work. The actor wonders that Jae-min is still doing roles as just an extra before he turns away. After the scene, Jae-min runs into a fellow actor who is playing a lead part in the drama. They cower, cramming rice balls into their mouths as the set rattles above them. Meanwhile, Yeong-shik has tagged along with Jae-min for a role as an extra in a historical drama. He and Oh-sol bicker like the siblings they are, as Oh-dol grabs for her food. Their reconciliation is interrupted by Oh-dol, who refuses to be left out of late night drinking. But she says that he’s never questioned any of her decisions before, so she’ll honor his request now and quit.

Oh-sol tells her dad that she’d meant to only work at the cleaning company temporarily, but that she’d found it fun, and she enjoys how it made her feel needed. He shows Oh-sol his fingernails, permanently darkened by labor, and tells her how he sees others judge him in restaurants. With some alcohol in them both, Dad laments how working in cleaning jobs all his life has affected him. While she blusters, her father suggests some late night soju. But the overgrown rat turns out to be Oh-sol, who snuck out of her room earlier to taste the supplements Seon-gyeol dropped off earlier. Dad gets up in the night, wondering if he hears a rat rustling through the pantry. It’s a night of uneasy sleep for both Oh-sol and her father after their latest confrontations with Seon-gyeol. As each of them find themselves embroiled in legal battles, they quickly discover that the law isn’t always working to protect the innocent, and that the honorable way is not always the easy way.ĮPISODE 9: “Saying ‘I like you’ isn’t always necessary” While Seon-gyeol’s own neuroses have been the culprits in the past, it’s the world around them this time that conspires to separate them.


The plot undulates in choppy waves this week, as reconciliations are quickly dashed by new problems that keep our CEO and his unkempt employee apart. 33 DecemDecemClean With Passion for Now: Episode 9 by abirdword
