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[Pearl in Red]

[Park Jin Hee]

[Nam Sang Ji]

[Choi Jae Sung, Kim Hee Jung]

[Kim Kyung Bo, Kang Da Bin, Cheon Hee Joo]

[Kim Bo Mi, Lee Myung Ho, Cha Kwang Soo, Kyoung Suk]

[Jung Ui Kap, Han Jae Suk, Geum Ho Suk]

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[Pearl in Red]

[Episode 26]

It seems our star witness just showed up.

It looks like the whole thing is about to come crashing down.

Park Tae Ho,

Choi Yu Na,

and every last person at Adele Group...

May they drag each other

straight down into the gutter.

Here's the guy from that setup video.

Tell us who gave you Chloe's design book

and talked you into doing this.

She did, Choi Yu Na.

Have you lost your mind?

What kind of garbage are you spewing?

There's more, isn't there?

And to shut you up,

they had you kidnapped and held against your will, right?

She threw me in a room

and forced me to record a confession!

On top of that,

she tried to ship me out of the country!

Keep your mouth shut.

Mother, stop. That's enough!

Now you're turning on me, too?

What exactly did I do wrong?

I just got mixed up with Ms. Choi for no good reason,

and now I'm caught up in this disaster without a single share to my name!

Nobody has been swindled more than me in all this.

What are you saying?

We could have dealt with this behind closed doors,

but you had to go and handle it on your own.

On top of that, you threatened me to hand over my shares.

Which makes me the real victim in all this.

- What? - Mom, that's enough!

- Tell me I'm wrong! - Choi Yu Na!

Well, this is quite a spectacle.

Under my own roof?

Right to my face? How dare you.

Every single one of you has some nerve.

Manager Kang!

Sir?

Remove this piece of trash first.

Right away, Sir.

Where the hell are you dragging me? Nobody said anything about this!

- Father. - Not a word!

Every one of you, shut up and come with me.

Choi Yu Na, you had the nerve

to deceive me and ruin Adele Group's reputation.

I can explain...

Save it.

The wife of a Chairman, a kidnapper? Have you lost your mind?

Should this leak, the whole company

could be ruined.

Someone set me up!

Would you shut your mouth?

Now, Kim Myeong Hui.

You tracked him down and brought him here

without clearing it with me?

Not one of you

has any respect for me!

Regardless, the truth has come to light.

The next step should be calling the police and pursuing legal action...

That's enough!

Bringing in the law will only make this messier.

Are you seriously just going to let this go?

His confession is already recorded on camera.

The simplest solution is to pay him off and have him surrender quietly.

Not another word on this matter.

No, I refuse to accept that.

What they did deserves proper punishment.

Were you not listening to the chairman?

He said drop it. So why is your mouth still moving?

I'm asking you to think this over.

Nothing is being resolved here. It's just being buried.

Exactly.

The Adele Group...

These are my family's skeletons.

Naturally, I'm keeping them locked away.

There will be consequences,

but I decide what they are.

Manager Kang.

Get these people out of here.

Now.

And see to it they never step into this house again!

- Understood, Sir. - What?

Darling, do you really think you can put your hands on me?

You promised to keep this quiet, and now you pull this?

Darling!

Hyun Jun!

Take your hands off me!

Sir!

You can't do this to me.

- Please go. - Get your hands off me!

Wait, let me go!

We can consider this settled, right?

No, it's not enough.

Their actions warrant criminal charges.

What about you?

Do you agree?

Well...

This much is enough.

Park Hyun Jun.

Bottom line, it's taken care of.

I only wanted to rein in my mother, not...

Seeing her behind bars is not what I want.

That's enough, you two.

And in exchange, Min Jun's wedding is off.

You think this is just going to slide?

For the chairman's sake and for Adele Group,

keep yourself in check.

My conversation with the chairman is not over!

Quit causing a scene and walk out quietly.

The whole neighborhood is watching. You're humiliating us.

B-B-But...

The nerve! You...

They'll pay for this. Mark my words.

Unbelievable!

Kim Myeong Hui.

Coming back from this won't be easy.

Who says?

Chairman Park would never throw me away.

Has he ever kicked you out like this before

rather than just sending you to the annex?

From where I'm standing, the chairman has already moved on.

Years ago, I warned you...

That if you let greed swallow you whole, you'd become a monster.

You chose to become that monster,

and look where it's landed you.

The both of you,

look at yourselves. Really look at what you've turned into.

See how far you've fallen. How pitiful you look.

Too bad I'm the only witness to this.

But then again,

considering how carelessly you treated a human life,

this is far from enough.

Should you ever disregard someone's life like that again,

it will cost you your own life.

Remember that.

Hey! You!

We're not done here.

You're dead, Kim Myeong Hui!

Darn it!

Hey!

Choi Yu Na left without even fighting back.

Seems like she doesn't have the nerve to challenge Park Tae Ho.

Open this door! Now!

Time to push her further into a corner.

Get your shoes on.

Yes, have it ready.

Manager Kang.

What happened to that man?

He was sent safely home.

Nothing to worry about.

Let me guess, you made a deal with him where he turns himself in

and keeps quiet about everything.

Those were the chairman's instructions. I simply followed them.

Now, if you'll excuse me.

Chairman Park!

Sir!

Chairman Park.

Chairman Park!

Chloe?

Why are you here?

Chloe?

Yes, you.

Whatever your name is, Chloe, that was you, right?

You stole my phone and started this whole disaster, right?

So then,

the person behind all of this...

Seriously, what is your problem?

Why do you keep interfering with me?

You ruined everything.

This is all on you!

Well, if you feel so wronged,

shall we take it to the police?

Then we'll find out whose life was actually destroyed

and taken away.

Shall we settle this properly,

through the law?

Instead of throwing a rock from the shadows.

What?

"A rock"?

What are you talking about?

"The law"? Oh, please.

Here's the thing.

Power runs this world, not the law.

You think some flimsy law can touch me

with Adele Group at my back?

Funny, though,

look at you, tossed out just like that.

- You little— - Mom!

Hyun Jun, what has gotten into you today?

What's wrong with you, Mom?

Where do you get the nerve to act like nothing happened?

Say that again.

Everything came out. I know it all.

Now I've seen exactly who you are and just how far you're willing to sink.

Does none of this make you feel any shame?

Not even a shred of guilt for letting your own son down?

Do you know why I was actually relieved every time you got sent to the annex?

Because I was so embarrassed,

that I just put on a brave face and pretended it was nothing.

You know the reason I helped Park Min Jun?

Without that, I would have ended up exactly like you.

Getting thrown out in disgrace would make me no different from you.

Hyun...

Hyun Jun.

Even so, I still worried about you.

But at this point, I can't even muster the energy to worry.

The shame is just too much.

Seriously, it's eating at me.

"A rock," of all things? Why did she say that?

It's eating me alive.

Park Hyun Jun!

Had I known it'd come to this, I would have kept quiet.

This is humiliating.

Hey, don't say that.

Actually,

what you did took real courage.

Your mom, though...

she'll most likely face a police investigation now.

Okay, come on.

Enough heavy stuff. Right now, let's just...

put on a smile.

There, you're smiling.

So this is what the Chloe effect looks like?

Smiling together like this,

the whole mood just feels different.

Almost like I've traveled back to a time...

when nothing weighed on me at all.

There was a time like that for you?

My college days.

Life was never simpler or more fun than back then.

How about you?

Well, for me...

Probably the same time, actually.

Nothing weighed on me,

and I was just happy.

Given the urgency, I let it slide,

but tailing him with only Chloe was far too risky.

Are you unhappy with the outcome?

And what about you?

Are you on board with Father's decision?

Over the 30 years I've survived in this family,

there were far more things I disagreed with than agreed with.

Had I pushed back every single time,

I never would have made it this far.

When I did push back, I always had multiple plans in place.

And when pushing back wasn't an option,

the question became what I could take away from it.

Right now,

if this finally puts and end to your wedding,

then I say we follow the chairman's call.

Is it hard for you to accept?

Disappointing? Sure, but I can live with it.

Thinking about Hyun Jun,

I can somewhat see where he's coming from.

Still...

It's Chloe you're worried about.

That girl is straightforward and honest to a fault.

Accepting that the truth got swept under the rug won't sit well with her.

Her name has been cleared,

and the wedding is cancelled.

With even Hyun Jun feeling at ease now,

she should understand once we sit down and explain everything.

So try not to overthink it.

What?

Hang on a second.

Who the hell are you people?

Darn it.

Son of a...

You punk.

You!

Min Jun!

I definitely heard it.

Why would she call out my name like that?

Darn!

Where is Yu Na at this hour?

She's not even picking up.

Geez.

Maybe she got caught taking the jacket,

and the police picked her up?

Oh, come on. If she got arrested, they would have called us already.

Plus, she takes after me.

There's no way she got caught that easily.

- Oh, she's back! - Oh my!

Oh my, Yu Na.

What in the world happened to you?

Please tell me the chairman doesn't know.

Are the police coming for you?

"Police"? Oh, give me a break.

What... what's going on?

All the chairman said was

that he'd deal with this quietly.

Once he cools off, we'll be back in his good graces.

Oh, goodness.

Seriously? Is that for real?

Whether that's true or not,

why is this woman sitting here looking so pleased with herself,

waltzing into our house?

They threw her out, too. Same as me.

- What? - Excuse me?

Say that again?

Let me make one thing clear.

You got kicked out. I'm simply keeping a low profile for a while.

Unreal.

Good grief.

What's all this fuss about?

Just calm down and listen to me.

"Calm"? You're done for today.

One simple job and you blew it!

Now I got thrown out because of you!

- I swear I tried my hardest! - Your "hardest"?

- What is all this commotion? - What on earth is this?

Of all the rooms in this house, why mine?

- Come here, you! - Oh my, Yu Na!

- That witch! - Come here right now.

- Oh my. - You useless...

Enough already.

What on earth are these idiots doing?

Come on!

Jung Ran!

Well, that got awkward.

We worked together to solve this,

so why does it feel like I'm the one who messed up?

Well...

About yesterday...

Never mind.

- I understand your position. - You do?

Do you really understand?

Because your face tells a different story.

Why are you staring at me like I'm the villain here?

That's not what this is.

The thing is...

Part of me thinks we shouldn't just let this get buried.

Got it.

Does it bother you that my mother walked free?

That's not what I said.

My concern is how Chloe will deal with this,

considering she's the one who got hurt.

There's more I've been thinking about related to Chloe.

Nobody is blaming you for anything.

Does he actually believe I closed the case without giving Chloe a second thought?

The last thing I need is to get defensive,

so why is this eating at me like this?

Are they really going to hide what Ms. Choi did?

Since the accuser surrendered,

the case should be wrapped up shortly.

Knowing Chairman Park, they'll throw money at it until it disappears.

So Oh Jung Ran just gets thrown out, and that's the end of it?

Once word spreads that the chairman's wife

held someone captive,

the stock would crash,

and the whole owner family would face massive public outrage.

No wonder the chairman wanted this buried.

Even so, what she did was a crime.

Are we really letting this slide?

Obviously, there's no way I'm letting this go.

Legal consequences might not have caught up to her,

but a smooth return? That's not happening on my watch,

even if I have to drag every last one of her crimes into the light.

What's the situation with the gallery?

That place is locked down tight.

The gallery is Park Tae Ho's pipeline

to wash dirty money and pass bribes around.

Nothing is leaking out of there.

What we need is a piece of hard evidence.

Finding some kind of secret ledger would be a game changer.

"Hard evidence"?

Digging through someone else's things like that is out of line.

This is beyond rude. You're causing a scene.

And then what happens when they throw you out of here too?

You can't so much as book a hotel room with all your credit cards shut down.

Which is exactly why I need to get back inside, and quick.

But first, I need a change of clothes.

How exactly do you plan on getting back in?

Why not keep your head down

until the chairman lets it go?

If I must wait, I'd rather wait inside.

The longer I'm left out here, that snake Kim Myeong Hui

will swallow up the house and the company whole.

Getting back in must happen now, even if it means using

my last advantage sooner than planned.

That hidden passage you made into the house, it's still intact, right?

Wait,

you're seriously thinking of sneaking in?

One wrong move and it's a disaster all over again!

Well then, I simply won't get caught.

Show me the way right now.

There's no chance Oh Jung Ran will sit still.

This is her first time being thrown out,

so she's bound to be restless.

Put someone on Oh Jung Ran.

I want her watched at all times.

Understood. I'll take care of it right away.

Whatever we do, the chairman cannot find out.

Should he think we're going behind his back and stirring things up,

there will be no second chances.

With him directly shielding Adele now,

the man is more ruthless and frightening than ever.

[Chairman Park Tae Ho]

What about that little punk?

He's nothing to concern yourself with, Sir.

There's no way he'll be a problem for the group.

Obviously.

Loose ends are not something I tolerate.

I've served at your side for 20 years, Sir.

Rest assured, I'm fully equipped

to make sure he stays quiet.

Is that so?

Now that's what I like to hear.

Excuse me one moment, Sir.

Yes.

What?

Chloe hasn't arrived yet?

Reach out to Chloe and arrange a lunch.

She went through all of this.

Accepting that it's over like this won't be easy for her.

The least I can do is explain and ask for her patience.

Got it.

Quite the hectic morning around here.

An article just came out,

and nobody knows how to handle it.

The story is about the design book being stolen.

Let me see.

Of course.

Here it is.

[Large Corporation Buries Internal Design Book Theft Scandal]

A piece about the theft?

That's right, I leaked it.

And an interview could be next.

This case has already been settled.

Yes.

How you dealt with it,

I know every detail.

But, as the victim, I don't agree.

Tell me how am I expected to work alongside Choi Yu Na,

after what she did to me?

Chairman.

There's no way you understand what it's like

to have something like that done to you.

You could have done the interview from the start,

but you planted the story first, and now you're holding it over my head.

So what is it you're after?

Fire Ms. Choi.

Once that's done, I'll think twice about the interview.

And regarding what your wife did...

I'll do my best to keep quiet.

[Team Leader, Choi Yu Na]

If they actually fired Ms. Choi...

then the article was true, wasn't it?

All signs point that way.

She was behind the design book theft.

How are you holding up?

Thinking that a colleague would do something like that, it's unreal.

Getting fired is just the start. You should take legal action too.

Choi Yu Na!

You really showed up here?

With everything that went down yesterday?

The chairman said he would settle this behind closed doors.

So basically, none of it ever happened, right?

Being thrown out of your house

does not mean my job is gone.

Ms. Choi.

Your employment has been terminated.

What did you just say?

This comes directly from the chairman.

Please exit the building.

From the chairman himself?

I must see him now.

Move.

Hands off.

Let go right now!

Back off!

Get your hands off me!

It must be hitting you right about now.

What it feels like to be discarded by Park Tae Ho,

and cut loose from Adele.

Perfect.

Let that fear and rage

drive you to turn on Chairman Park Tae Ho.

Push him to the point

where he believes he has no choice but to get rid of you.

Planting that article with the press,

then having Ms. Choi let go.

All of that was your doing, right?

So this is how you chose to make Ms. Choi pay?

At Adele, it's every person for themselves.

They shut the case down

without once asking what the victim thought.

That left me no choice but to handle it myself.

I planned to sit down with you and go over everything,

and ask for your patience on this.

You mean talk your way out of it, right?

Spare me the explanation.

It's clearly for your own peace of mind.

I'll be on my way now.

[Secretary Jung]

Jung Ran is on the move.

Oh, my leg. And now my back.

How is this a secret passage? A mouse would barely squeeze through!

That was so narrow, I nearly lost my mind in there.

Even a little wider and you might as well call it the main entrance.

This is what Hyun Jun used to slip out

and go to the clubs behind his father's back.

Quit complaining and go get it already!

Close your mouth and stand guard.

Watch yourself.

Head over that direction.

All right.

Let me snag what I came for and get out.

Where is it?

Why are you in here?

What?

Hand it over! Right now!

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♪ Deep in my heart, it spreads crimson ♪

♪ Like my fate that burned away ♪

♪ Where you erased me, I leave only scars ♪

[Pearl in Red]

Kim Myeong Hui spotted me because of you! I almost died on the spot.

- So what exactly were you after in there? - A secret ledger?

A secret ledger?

Not a chance that flimsy little book proves I made you do a single thing.

Should this turn into an issue, the one who takes the fall is you, not me.

- Honey. - Choi Yu Na!

It was you who got me fired, right?

Face it, you've already been cut loose.

Mark my words. I'll show everyone I'm not someone you can throw away.

♪ ♪