I made up my mind.
(Episode 27)
I won't be your daughter.
I say no to the adoption. Officially.
Is it because...
you think I only wanted your kidney?
Yes. You could think so.
I thought only about myself.
I care a lot about you,
but I also hurt you.
With my own hand,
I took your fiancé so my daughter could have him.
I also took your daughter Han Byeol from you.
I guess I'm paying for it.
How could we be family?
How can Se Young and I be sisters?
Is that even possible?
I can't forgive them and it makes me jump up in the middle of the night.
And you want us to become family?
Don't you see how cruel that is?
Yes. It would be dreadfully cruel to you.
I thought only of myself.
I should die if that's what is meant to happen.
I guess I found that hard to accept.
Why would you die?
I won't let you die. I'll save you.
You said no to the adoption.
I will...
give you my kidney.
I'll pass the legal screening process.
You and I didn't have a reciprocal relationship.
I'll prove we had a long-standing and pure, innocent relationship.
(Cheonha)
(Managing Director Seol Yu Gyeong)
Hye Soo. Thank you.
But will the world...
view us as naively as you do?
Unless I adopt you,
you probably won't pass the legal screening.
You have to prove that you and Ms. Seol Yu Gyeong...
don't have a reciprocal deal.
That you had an innocent relationship ever since you were a kid.
How are we to prove that?
Hye Soo.
If you want to give Ms. Seol your kidney that badly,
it won't be easy, but accept to be adopted.
If you become family, it'll be much easier to say...
I don't want to be their family.
Excuse me.
Hye Soo...
Come on.
Why are you so dull-witted?
- Sun Mi. - Do you want Hye Soo...
to become Se Young's sister?
So the man she had a common-law marriage with...
becomes her brother-in-law?
And what about Han Byeol?
Should she call her daughter her niece?
You want Hye Soo to live like that?
Why are you overdoing it today?
Mr. Lee. I'm dull-witted, right?
- You are. - You didn't hesitate at all.
It's a fact.
Thanks a lot for telling only the truth.
Hey. How do you apologize sincerely to a woman?
If you solve her problem, the anger will melt away and...
She'll feel grateful?
Very good.
What every other man knows, you don't.
How do we prove she doesn't stand to gain anything?
(Resident Registration)
(Tax Payment Receipt)
(Family Relation Certificate)
"Designated organ donation."
What's this about?
Congratulations.
The main design for the new season...
was revealed to be yours.
Ms. Joo rectified the mistake herself.
As if it was a mistake.
She tried to steal Hye Soo's design,
got caught, and fessed up first.
It takes courage to admit to one's wrongdoing.
It was decided at the executive meeting...
that Ms. Joo submit a written apology admitting what she did.
Just a written apology?
Sorry for coughing.
Ms. Jung, you're pretty fantastic.
Thank you. I'll do my best.
What do you want?
- What are you doing? - I should ask you that!
You refused the adoption?
It doesn't mean I won't donate my kidney.
I'll pass the legal screening...
What if you don't?
Did you consider...
what would happen if by a slim chance you don't pass?
Do you think I want to be family with you?
I can't stand the thought of you,
but I went on my knees to beg.
I even confessed to stealing your design!
I want to live, crazily so.
I'd never seen Mom crumble like that.
I was stupid enough...
not to know she was so desperate to live.
Now, do you get why I went on my knees...
and begged you when I hated it more than death?
And what did you say?
You'll pass the legal screening? Prove your innocent relationship?
If only I could,
I'd pluck out my heart...
to save my mom.
If I were really my mom's biological daughter,
I'd have given up my unborn child...
to give a kidney to her.
I want to save Ms. Seol too.
I will save her.
But I won't be adopted.
I can't make Han Byeol wonder...
whether to call me Mom or Auntie.
I won't let her see her mom...
and the woman who stole her dad become sisters.
Whatever it takes, I'll prove Ms. Seol and I had...
an innocent relationship that wasn't reciprocal.
I swear.
(Sunshine Orphanage)
We'll begin. I'll ask some questions. You just answer them.
In 2003, when Sunshine Orphanage residents...
Jung Hye Soo, Jin Sun Mi, and Lee Kyung Won...
were brought into the police station,
you worked there, didn't you?
Yes.
Other than Cha Yong Sook, the orphanage director,
did anyone else come to the police station?
It has been 20 years but I remember clearly.
She was a striking beauty.
Seol Yu Gyeong.
At the time she was a director at Cheonha Group.
I want you to grow up well.
I want to help you and watch you achieve your dream.
And give you strength.
I wish I had a daughter like you.
Consider me a mom.
You don't have to give birth to be a mom.
You were a firefighter at the time the orphanage caught fire.
Yes. The fire started in the storage area.
Three fire trucks came to the scene to put it out.
I heard that...
two people almost died before we arrived.
I found out later that a 12-year-old girl had risked her life...
to save her friend and an adult.
Do you remember...
the name of the girl who saved the two people?
Here it is. Jung Hye Soo.
The people she saved were Seol Yu Gyeong and Cha Kang Ju.
Managing Director Seol Yu Gyeong and I...
first met at Sunshine Orphanage when I was ten.
It was Christmas Day.
Hye Soo, you'll hurt...
Hye Soo. When used wrong, scissors can become a weapon,
but if you change your mindset, they can become a creative tool.
Since then, for some reason, I stopped being afraid of scissors.
I began to use them to make stuff,
and it gave me joy.
Eventually, I dreamed of becoming a designer,
and I'm getting there step by step.
(Proof of Residency)
You fall into the designated organ donation category.
We use documents and consultations...
to ensure there are no ulterior motives.
I understand.
Why do you want to give Ms. Seol one of your kidneys?
The answer's in here.
In there are the interviews of two people...
who testified to my and Ms. Seol's relationship...
when I was 12 and at the orphanage, as well as my own.
Please view it with an objective eye.
(Prosecutor's Office)
Don't.
Euldusim, The Milky Wayers, White Witch Gang.
You know they're loan sharks who also trade human organs, right?
Sir.
You want me to just sit around and do nothing?
I'm the de-facto future public prosecutor general who controls the country.
The wife who means more to me than my own life is dying.
Does it make sense that I can't find one kidney that matches?
The next prosecutor general...
shouldn't make a dent in his career.
I'll find a way...
to save Ms. Seol.
Let's say Ms. Seol gets a kidney...
and you get to keep your wife.
What do I get?
I'll do anything you want.
The path I took,
I'll help you rise through the ranks faster than an elevator.
How am I to believe that?
During the Cheonha Group special investigation,
you used my trust to shield yourself.
I mean it this time.
If you want,
I'll sign a note in blood.
A blood-signed note.
You make a man like him so weak.
Seol Yu Gyeong.
You're really something.
Spring, summer, fall, winter.
After winter, spring comes again.
The leaves that fell...
sprout again, full of life.
So why...
Why is it me?
Why must I suffer such pain?
I have so much left to do.
Why does it have to be me?
I won't go out like this.
Never.
Yu Gyeong, you go ahead...
and see how things are in the pit of fire.
I'll enjoy life until I'm a ripe old age,
so don't wait for me.
Who says we die in the order we're born?
Who knows?
When it's my time to go,
if I spend all my riches and power,
I might turn the pits of fire into paradise.
This is the kind of power I have.
I cannot end it like this.
Even if I end up stabbing you in the heart...
and that sends me directly to purgatory,
there's no way, just no way I'll go out like this.
Will you let Ms. Seol be?
What should I do, then?
Ma'am. Cheonha Group is on the brink of disaster.
That's an exaggeration.
Our stocks rose even more since she became managing director.
Can you not tell lies?
There's talk she has chronic kidney failure.
I even heard she needs a kidney but hasn't found a match yet.
Where did you hear that nonsense?
A cousin of mine is a director at SKY Group.
- It's bad if that's true. - It is.
Give me a solution.
Until Ms. Seol gets a transplant and fully recovers,
I'd like there to be a temporary managing director.
- Yes, I agree with that motion. - I do too.
A temporary managing director?
Are we running the company in secret in a back room?
Why are we having this meeting at home and not at the office?
Ma'am. It might just work.
What will?
Director Yoo has a naive charm.
He's your direct descendant and innocent too.
Ma'am, he's perfect.
What does she mean?
Do you think In Ha's capable enough?
- He's not just capable. - He should've taken over long ago.
Let's just skip the word "temporary."
If that's what you think, see how the other executives feel.
Okay. We'll get right to it.
I'm all for it.
- Sorry. Please wait here... - Just a moment, Mr. Ko.
I came to tell Grandma that I'm home.
Is something up?
She's with the executives.
It must be a secret meeting if it's this late at night.
Wait. Where's In Ha?
He's a director.
- Of course, he's... - "Of course?"
It's a group matter.
"Of course?"
I thought I was Yoo Ji Ho.
I'm still Kang Ji Ho.
Where are you?
Mr. Ko.
- Yes, ma'am. - Jung Hye Soo.
She's trying to pass the legal screening process?
She submitted papers to show her ties with Ms. Seol are innocent,
as well as some video interviews.
Before the case goes to KONOS,
see to it that she doesn't pass.
What? Do you think I'll kill Yu Gyeong?
Ko Sung Jae.
Even if that were the case, why would you make a face?
I apologize.
She has been like a sister to me since I was a child.
I lost my...
Sung Jae.
You swore to be loyal to me as your father was.
Keep that vow.
Okay.
I'm tired. Let's keep this short and direct.
I thought you'd call me over...
and threaten to expose me for being Kang Ji Ho.
But you were quiet.
I'm in no mood for wordplay.
There was...
a secret meeting at Yusimwon just now.
I don't know for sure but I can guess.
"The managing director is gravely ill."
"Shouldn't we have her replaced?"
"Let's appoint someone temporarily."
Do you think she'll stop at that?
- What do you mean? - Yoo Ji Ho.
If I were the chairwoman,
I'd never miss out on this opportunity.
To the chairwoman, I am...
cooked chicken ribs.
Too good to give away but not good enough to eat.
Not only have I grown powerful enough to be a threat to her,
but I've become the only person...
within the group who can dethrone her at any time.
And that person...
is at death's door because she can't find one matching kidney.
Isn't it a heavenly opportunity?
- But she wouldn't... - Wouldn't she?
She'd be stupid to miss out on it.
I wouldn't if I were her.
I'd burn all the kidneys in the world...
to try to kill me.
That's the chairwoman's way...
and my way as well. Do you get that?
Then the legal screening Hye Soo's going through.
Is that pointless?
Hye Soo.
That poor girl.
Why does it have to be her kidney?
If it were anyone else's,
because my life's at stake,
I'd do anything within my power to take...
Ms. Seol. Are you all right?
Ms. Seol.
I can handle pain like this any day.
But there's still something I must do.
I must do it.
I must live and...
Yoo Ji Ho, help me.
Ms. Seol.
Wake up.
Ms. Seol!
Seol Yu Gyeong's in the ICU?
Yes. She needs a transplant soon.
I need you to help...
Jung Hye Soo pass the legal screening.
What did you just say, Ji Ho?
I'm asking you to save...
the mother of the woman I love.
Seol Yu Gyeong?
Yes.
Am I a doctor?
Am I the head of the organ transplant agency?
Why are you talking like I can control what happens?
Dr. Hong who's in charge of Cheonha Hospital's transplant team,
the social worker, and the transplant coordinator.
I know you can control them all as well as KONOS itself.
Help me, Grandmother.
Don't be silly. You're talking nonsense.
Then you will...
lose your grandson.
How dare you talk to me like that?
Fine. If you want to leave, leave!
You haven't been family for that long anyway.
You're free to leave!
Great-grandma!
Yes, hello, my dear puppy.
- You're back from kindergarten? - Yes.
- Did you have fun? - Yes.
You sweet thing.
You'll lose your great-granddaughter too.
- What? - That's not all.
You know what Mr. Joo's like.
He'll resort to smuggling if he has to.
If he were to hear you didn't help,
when he becomes prosecutor general,
the prosecutors' office will turn against you.
For that one thing, refusing to help Ms. Seol get a kidney,
Grandma... No, Chairwoman Ma,
you will lose a great deal.
What will you do?
Yu Gyeong.
You're too tasteless to eat,
but too good to throw out.
What should I do with you?
Should I help you live or let you die?
(Cheonha Hospital)
This is such a huge mess.
The chairwoman will kill me.
You didn't know?
I heard she changed her mind.
- She did? - Yes.
I thought that's why you'd changed yours too.
I gave the okay because I was so moved.
So did I. It was so touching.
Watch this.
If the heavens had sent me someone to replace my mom,
it would be Ms. Seol.
You have no idea how fortunate it is that I can give her a kidney.
She doesn't have to give birth to me to be a mom.
Please let me give her a kidney.
(Operating Room)
December 23, 2019, 9 a.m.
Recipient Seol Yu Gyeong, donor Jung Hye Soo.
We'll begin the kidney transplant.
(Game of Witches)
How do we know the child you're carrying is of my blood?
How could you say such a thing?
We'll know when we test its DNA after it's born.
Is In Ha really going to marry Hye Soo?
The chairwoman wants to marry off In Ha first.
Depending on what Hye Soo decides,
she might end up claiming her right to Cheonha before we do.
- Why would I refuse? - What?
Who says I can't date In Ha?