If you knew Hye Soo was Mi So,
why did you swap her with Cha Kang Ju?
It was to protect the company...
that I had built up.
What?
You looked exactly like the only woman my husband loved.
I could barely accept your existence.
And to think that I had to accept your daughter too?
That's why... Is that why...
you tried to kill her in a fire?
As if that wasn't enough,
you had Ji Ho try to kill her again?
Yu Gyeong...
You're worse than any beast alive!
You tried to kill my daughter twice?
- I will kill you myself today! - Yu Gyeong.
- You evil. Die!
Die, you evil!
Just die!
- Mr. Ko! - Die.
Die!
Ms. Seol!
- Let go of me! - Ms. Seol.
- Let go! - Please.
Seol Yu Gyeong. You wench.
Are you really going to kill me?
You tried to kill my daughter.
Do you think I'll let you off? I'll kill you myself!
Please, Ms. Seol! Calm down!
She survived the fire by the grace of the gods.
Why did you try to kill her again?
Why did she have to die?
Because she's your biological daughter.
If you wanted the legitimate heirs gone, shouldn't you have killed me first?
- Mr. Ko. - Yes, ma'am.
My throat aches. I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Bring two cups of hot quince tea.
Yes, ma'am.
You are out of your mind.
If we have something left to give and take,
even if we were at each other's throats...
just one minute ago,
we can become allies the next in my world.
What is it like in your world, Yu Gyeong?
What's going on?
How dare a mere designer wait in the director's empty office?
As if anyone could be as rude as you.
- What do you want? - Thanks for the gift.
"The gift?"
It must've had a lasting effect.
I heard you tried to kill Ji Ho in the parking lot yesterday.
Is that what he said?
He tried to kill me three years ago.
Though it's hard to believe.
He can do it again at any time.
Se Young. I should repay you for the gift.
How?
You showed me the truth,
so I should do the same for you.
What are you plotting now?
I don't care if you think it's a plot.
Ji Ho knows that...
you're not Ms. Seol's real daughter.
What? That's impossible.
Ji Ho thinks I'm Mom's real daughter.
He's convinced that I'm Ms. Seol's real daughter.
I thought you should know.
How dare you think I need your help or pity?
Ms. Seol knows too. Why would you worry?
I want you to leave.
She raised you for years. Would she abandon you?
Get out!
Darn you.
That wench.
You knew I was Yoo Min Joo,
and you still kept me close.
The thought terrifies me.
Yu Gyeong.
Unless you want to go all out, remember your manners.
What more is left?
Do you want to burn the house down...
to catch a few fleas from the past?
You replaced my daughter and tried to kill her twice,
and that's just the past?
Don't make me regret not strangling you to death today.
I'm almost 80.
I could die any day or even in my sleep.
Why would I fear death?
You must've approached me to get revenge.
How do you want that to happen?
My father, Yoo Hyung Seok, was poisoned,
and he died slowly and gradually.
The woman he loved more than anyone,
my mother.
She took her own life.
I know you're behind all that too.
Do you have proof?
I waited for my time to watch you die slowly...
and gradually yourself.
I look forward to it.
What then? What do you want to do next?
The Cheonha bloodline you severed.
You'll reinstate the Yoo family?
Isn't that obvious?
I'll make you chairwoman.
But there's something you must do for me in return.
Abandon Jung Hye Soo to the very end.
Do you still think...
I'm a subordinate who trembles at your command?
Who are you to tell me to abandon my child?
The day you acknowledge her...
is the day you lose your husband.
Seol Yu Gyeong without Joo Bum Seok...
is as good as trash to me.
If you become chairwoman,
what would that do for me?
After your reign,
whether it be In Ha, Ji Ho, or Han Byeol,
the Yoo family will stay in power.
In their veins...
flows my blood as well.
I'm fine with anyone...
that isn't Jung Hye Soo.
Hye Soo was my daughter.
Her life must've been so hard for so long.
She must've resented me so much.
That witch is worse than any beast.
Hye Soo. Mom is so sorry.
Hye Soo is the vice-chairwoman's daughter?
Not Se Young?
That's right.
Your daughter-in-law is Ms. Seol's fake daughter.
Wouldn't it have been great if you'd let Ji Ho marry her instead?
You kicked a huge blessing that was about to roll through the door.
My gosh. I can't believe what I just heard.
Then did my Ji Ho...
marry a fake?
- Who married a fake? - Gosh.
What's my smart son doing here?
Long time no see.
I opened a chicken joint on the first floor,
and I came by to hand out rice cakes.
Have some.
Take the rice cakes.
If you sell fried chicken, that's what you should've brought instead.
Why bring rice cakes?
She's Hye Soo's best friend.
Does Hye Soo drop by sometimes?
I happened to see her.
Very briefly, just in passing.
Sorry, I won't see her again.
She's Han Byeol's mom. And she was nice to you.
- I get it. - What if Se Young...
finds out we're in touch with her?
No secret lasts forever.
One mistake, and you could get kicked out of the Cheonha family...
I think I got rice cake lodged in my throat.
I'm talking nonsense.
You knew, Mom?
How?
You knew all about it?
I said no, that we couldn't and shouldn't do it,
but Seol Yu Gyeong...
She said we'd both die if I didn't keep my mouth shut.
I'm so scared the scary chairwoman will find out.
I barely sleep at night.
I wonder if I could get struck by lightning even on a clear day.
Don't worry. We won't get found out.
And even if we do,
I'll be so high up by then that I won't crash with just one fall.
I'll be right beneath you, propping you up.
I'm fine, so don't you worry.
(Minister Joo Bum Seok)
Why haven't I heard anything else?
Did you stop digging on purpose?
Because it puts you on the spot?
Yes.
It does put me on the spot. Very much so.
I may work for you directly, and I am your son-in-law,
but I just don't like having to dig into...
my mother-in-law's past to report to you in secret.
So what?
You have something, and you won't tell me?
More like it's possible that there's more to it.
Sir.
Can you leave me out of this?
It puts me in a rough spot.
What would Se Young think of me if she were to find out?
It's not like you'll take me in if we get divorced.
You've grown up?
You're talking back to a minister now?
Get out. I'm sick of seeing your face.
I apologize.
I'll leave before you actually get sick.
I'll give you one last chance to tell the truth.
Hye Soo.
Until now, I was really blinded,
and my heart was not in its right place.
I thought...
you'd died in a fire when you were four.
I'd suffered for a long time.
I never imagined that someone would switch...
the DNA results from when you were 12.
So naturally, I thought Se Young was my daughter.
I didn't want to lose her or be apart from her again.
Once I took her under my wing...
I guess I was blinded to the truth.
My childhood...
was cruel and so cold.
You were the only one who gave me warmth.
Those warm memories...
kept me going.
And to think that...
you're my mother who abandoned me for your own success.
You did something no mother ever could.
Hye Soo. I swear I did not abandon you.
I thought you were dead.
I wanted to kill myself as well.
How could I abandon you?
You were my everything, Mi So.
Don't even call me "Mi So."
You denied me.
Have you forgotten...
how you crushed me for Se Young's sake?
As if that wasn't enough, you tried to have me killed.
No, that's really not true.
I didn't try to hurt you. Please believe that.
I know that you can't believe anything I say right now.
But I'll reveal everything so you can believe me.
I didn't abandon you.
Why would I deny you?
I'll reveal that you're my daughter Mi So.
To the whole world? To your husband Minister Joo?
Can you really do that?
Will that day ever come?
Can you give up...
everything you have to reveal who I am?
No. You're not that kind of person.
Hye Soo.
I don't care if you don't tell anyone who I am.
If you want to clear yourself of murder, find out who really planned the accident.
You should leave.
Hye Soo.
(Ministry of Justice)
I'm glad you're okay.
I hear you work as Se Young's assistant.
I didn't expect you to call me.
Do something for me.
It's personal.
I can't let anyone from the outside find out.
Is it something you can't even have a prosecutor do?
(Personal Details: Seol Yu Gyeong)
Find out all you can about my wife.
Do you not believe her?
I just want to know the facts.
I won't answer any more questions.
Why should I do this for you?
That is also a choice.
Could there ever be someone...
more suited for the job than you?
When did you find out?
That I'm not my mom's real daughter?
Did Hye Soo tell you?
Why must I hear that from her?
Because that would hurt you even worse.
"Kang Ji Ho. I'll give you wings."
"If you leave Hye Soo for me,"
"you'll be able to rule the world."
Don't you remember saying that to seduce me?
It's true that you pretended to be the real deal when you were not.
You even knew...
Hye Soo was your mother's real daughter, you sly wench.
Do you know how horrible I feel?
Is that all you can say?
What's going on?
Everyone fights as they grow up.
I left the real deal for a fake. Do you get that?
Seol Yu Gyeong's real daughter, fake daughter!
What does that have to do with you and me being in love?
If you'd known then that Hye Soo was my mother's real daughter,
would you have married her instead of me?
- Is that it? - That's enough.
I don't want to say anymore.
To you,
whether I was adopted or not,
was my being Seol Yu Gyeong's daughter...
more important than my being Joo Bum Seok's daughter? Why?
Why? When you're the chairwoman's grandson?
What if she finds out that he's not actually her grandson?
In Ha, were you aware of it too?
I found out three years ago.
Why didn't you say anything to me?
Even when I tried to tell you the truth,
you covered your ears and eyes.
You didn't want to believe anything.
You wanted to believe Hye Soo was being delusional.
I was so sure about everything that I believed to be true.
That's why there was no room for anything else.
I'd tested her DNA twice,
and I really couldn't imagine that Se Young wasn't mine.
You should've listened.
Then the accident from three years ago could've been prevented.
And you wouldn't have this deep rift...
of distrust and resentment.
Yes.
But if we...
consider the family tree, I'm your aunt.
That makes you and Hye Soo first cousins.
Did she agree to be your fiancee knowing that?
Hye Soo...
doesn't yet know she's part of the Yoo family.
Why didn't you tell her?
I couldn't tell her that my grandmother...
had her swapped out for Se Young.
I was afraid...
she'd leave me if I told her.
I can't accept it myself.
If I think about the hurt it'll cause Hye Soo...
Se Young too.
If she finds out she's not my actual daughter,
she'll suffer terribly.
Ms. Seol.
You didn't know?
Ever since Se Young was Cha Kang Ju,
she and my grandma knew.
What?
Se Young knew she wasn't related to me from the start?
I heard she begged my grandmother.
To please let her live as your daughter.
(Mom)
(My Daughter)
Mom.
Is it true?
You knew from the start?
That you weren't my daughter.
- Mom. - Do not call me that.
What should I call you, then?
You were 12 years old.
How could you...
do something so cunning at that age?
Because I was sick of it.
- Why didn't you just abandon me? - What?
If you'd abandoned me, I could've been adopted...
into a great family where I could have anything.
Why didn't you abandon me? Why not?
I'll take whatever punishment I must.
I want to...
be your daughter.
The chairwoman said that day...
I'll make you Seol Yu Gyeong's daughter.
If I grant your wish, what will you give me?
"Everything but my life."
Life...
doesn't go light on you just because you're 12.
You were my only glimmer of hope.
I didn't want to lose it to Hye Soo!
That wasn't something you could take.
It's a bloodline.
That's something that can't and should never change.
Deep in my heart and mind, you're my mom.
Am I not your daughter anymore just because I'm not of your blood?
Can you switch off just like that?
You deceived me completely.
Not knowing that Hye Soo was actually Mi So,
I wronged her so much and so badly.
Stop it!
For me,
you took her fiance and daughter,
and you sent her to prison too.
So what?
- Mom. - You evil witch.
Don't you see what you did wrong?
Don't you see what a dreadful thing you've done?
I get it. I do.
No. You're incapable of telling right from wrong.
You were born that way.
Are you saying...
I'm evil?
Yes. You might be.
- Mom. - Don't come closer.
I'm terrified. Disgusted.
I raised you and cared for you for 20 years, thinking you were mine.
I covered up all your wrongdoings.
I even considered dying for you.
I had lost my mind.
Mom.
Don't go.
Please don't abandon me.
I don't want to see you again. Be gone.
I want you out of my sight.
Mom.
Can you give up...
everything you have to reveal who I am?
I don't care if you don't tell anyone who I am.
If you want to clear yourself of murder, find out who really planned the accident.
I'll make you chairwoman.
But there's something you must do for me in return.
Abandon Jung Hye Soo to the very end.
(Game of Witches)
Jung Hye Soo, who's waiting outside, is your real daughter, Jung Mi So.
Shall I tell Dad myself?
Hye Soo's accident from three years ago.
I said I'd have the case reopened.
This time, I'll get to the truth, whatever happens.
If mother and daughter get together to fight me,
the Cheonha Group that I built up will tremble from the core.
Stop them.
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