We’re finally back to a normal schedule with two episodes this week! Per usual, there’s chaebol shenanigans, family irresponsibility, and mistreatment of the lovely Hyo-shim. She may have unfair debt and an exhausting family to her name, but she at least got the entire family’s share of charm. Even grumbling Tae-ho can’t feign indifference to her for long. He gets all huffy when she finally does what he asked and leaves him to exercise poorly on his own. To prove that he doesn’t need her help, he injures his back after going overboard and needs her help. Of course, she gets blamed for his idiocy, but Tae-ho refuses to switch trainers because he secretly enjoys her company.
However, Hyo-shim has bigger things to worry about than her confusing client. Her little brother’s loan sharks come after her when he flees. While she’s enduring being beaten and threatened in his place, Hyo-do is out gambling away more of his nonexistent money. It’s all too much for the beleaguered Hyo-shim who gets sick, probably from insane levels of stress. She barely has time to drag herself out of bed before she has to take care of her drunk mom. At least Halmeoni is nice to Hyo-shim and acknowledges her struggles. She’s clearly already a Hyo-shim fan (who wouldn’t be?) and has also started bonding with the nice downstairs neighbors. Realizing she’s safer where she is, Halmeoni becomes an official apartment resident and rents out the rooftop room.
Meanwhile, Sook-hyang is at her wit’s end what with her husband cracking under pressure and retreating to his secret shoeshine shop, and finding out Tae-ho kept his dead parents’ totaled car (which he sits next to when he’s sad). Now afraid Tae-ho can use the car as evidence against her for killing his parents, she turns to surveillance. Next thing you know, her minion is ordering Hyo-sung to spy on Tae-ho, dangling a long-awaited promotion as bait. And now all levels of our two families are thoroughly entangled. If both the families are this messy individually, imagine how messy they’ll be if they become in-laws.