Ambition provides cold comfort
Park GaIn is facing the worst nightmare of her life, a situation so absurd that it’s hard to imagine any friend could be so cruel. GaeIn is standing at the alter, an intruder at a wedding that should have been her own, where her boyfriend and her best friend are getting married behind her back. “Gae…In,” ChangYul stutters, shocked that she’s had the nerve to actually show up. He’s even more shocked that his bumbling assistant didn’t do his job and bar her from entering the wedding hall. When GaeIn lifts the veil, InHee is cringing, looking more embarrassed than guilty about the situation. She manages a curt, insincere, “I’m sorry.” It is quite possibly the most insincere ‘I’m sorry’ ever spoken by a woman who has just stabbed a friend in the back with a wedding bouquet. GaeIn calls her on it, “That’s what you say to…a stranger on the bus when you…step on their toes…”

Poor GaIn is having a difficult time breathing, speaking, and seeing straight. GaeIn naturally wants to know when it all started but InHee snaps that it doesn’t matter, that she was the woman chosen, not GaeIn, and she simply must get married to ChangYul. It becomes clearer now that InHee’s motivations are less about loving ChangYul and more about sticking it to GaeIn. ChangYul, on the other hand, does feel guilty, to both women. Since his motives are slightly more pure, he promises GaeIn that he will accept whatever punishment she doles out later if she will just leave the wedding and let them marry in peace. On the sidelines, YoungSun has heard enough and jumps up to give the would-be bride a smack to her senses. The punch doesn’t connect and she’s forcibly restrained and hauled out with GaeIn.

In the audience, SangJoon is alight with happiness, “Isn’t that the same woman from before? What kind of crazy but awesome situation is this!?” He’s grinning from ear to ear in confused giddiness, like watching a string of police cars fly by with their sirens on. JinHo snorts, “Obviously it’s a cheating playboy ChangYul situation.” He’s no longer amused, just disgusted. He’s definitely not surprised by the disruption as he’d expected nothing less from a woman who had caused such a fuss over nothing when he’d met her on the bus. JinHo glances toward the exit where GaeIn has just left. There is room for a tiny bit of concern in his heart for the stranger.

Back at the front of the room, ChangYul quickly urges the MC to carry on. The “misunderstanding” is brushed aside and they continue with the wedding ceremony.

GaeIn is still rendered speechless and comatose by the whole thing but her friend is kicking and screaming. “Let go! Let go!” she’s yelling as both women are dragged into the audio-visual room. Secretary Kim is wondering aloud in confusion when GaeIn got her mole removed…when the piece of dirt falls off the picture. He realizes it’s his own mistake. Annoyed, he orders security to keep them in the room as he hurries back. Meanwhile, YoungSun’s little boy is ambling toward the sound system mixing board unnoticed. YoungSun tells GaeIn, “You should consider yourself lucky you didn’t actually marry that guy!” Not only is that true, it’s damn true. But a heartbroken woman doesn’t quite want to hear that sort of thing when she was dumped for another woman, and in such a spectacular fasion. GaeIn says dully, “That man…getting married…was dating me up until only yesterday.” Oops, the overhead speaker has been turned on and the volume cranked up high. Their conversation is now being broadcast to the whole building…interrupting every wedding ceremony in the building.

An innocent bride not involved with the GaeIn, ChangYul, and InHee love triangle looks up surprised by the female voice’s declaration that the man she is marrying had been dating someone else. All the guests of this completely separate wedding are also perplexed. GaeIn’s voice continues dejectedly, “The bride has been a friend for 10 years…to congratulate her…to make her a happy bride…I even built a bed for her.” To make it worse, YoungSun chimes in, “That nasty girl. Of all the many men she has had, why did she have to snatch her friend’s?!” YoungSun goes into more detail about the bride-to-be and her many ex-boyfriends…and is creating quite the havoc between the couple whose only mistake was picking the wrong hall on the wrong day. It’s the bride’s turn to proclaim her innocence, she hasn’t been sleeping around!

Now, at the wedding of the actual guilty party who are also listening to the same sob story, things are looking fairly grim as well. What’s on InHee’s face? Fury. SangJoon slides JinHo a cheeky smile, This is fun. He’s really glad they came! At the same time, the Director of the Daum Art Gallery, Choi DoBin, has had enough of the fireworks and walks out. JinHo and SangJoon follow with the intent to have a word about the gallery project when they realize reps from another architecture firm have been waiting outside with the same idea. They are coldly brushed aside as the director is in no mood to talk business. JinHo and SangJoon get the hint. An obvious approach would not be a good move. JinHo has another idea on getting Director Choi’s attention.

In pirate-broadcast land, the audio is still going. Now YoungSun is picking apart InHee’s lifted and tucked and adjusted plastic face. A mob of angry wedding guests lead by the bride and groom have formed outside the sound room to confront this woman ruining their special day. The bride and groom demand to know why GaeIn is making such wild accusations (looks like the president of A.N. Entertainment company is getting married – sorry, a You’re Beautiful reference). GaeIn and YoungSun try to meekly slide away from the angry mob.