Dong-Joo waits at the house of the Sang-Cheol in Buried Hearts Episode 1. He gives him two boxes of shirts. Sang-Cheol tries to mock Dong-Joo. But he sees the cash in the suitcase. Sang-Cheol is very happy. He lets Dong-Joo thank the chairman.
Dong-Joo catches the chance to ask Sang-Cheol to end the hearing about Daesan Group at the right time. Sang-Cheol accepts the bribe. He promises to complete the task. But he doesn’t trust Dong-Joo. He asks his follower to search Dong-Joo’s body. He suspects that Dong-Joo recorded the conversation.
The follower searches Dong-Joo’s body. He finds the camera. Sang-Cheol laughs to keep the camera. He asks Dong-Joo to leave. But Dong-Joo is calm to take out a paper. He wants to have a talk with Sang-Cheol. Sang-Cheol takes a look at the paper. He finds out that it’s a receipt. It shows that Sang-Cheol received bribe from from Daesan Group.
Dong-Joo asks Sang-Cheol to sign the receipt. Sang-Cheol rejects it. Dong-Joo punches the guy and he takes out the bell around the neck of Sang-Cheol’s cat. The bell was hidden the second camera. It recorded that Sang-Cheol accepted the bribe. Sang-Cheol has to listen to the order.
In the hearing, Dong-Joo takes out the bell. He threatens Sang-Cheol. Sang-Cheol has to have an argument with the people in the meeting. The hearing is interrupted. Dong-Joo visits the chairman Gang-Cheon after he completed the task. Il-Do appears with Dong-Joo at the same time. He was the main lead of the hearing. He’s the president of Daesan Group.
Il-Do is the son-in-law of Gang-Cheon. He’s not happy that Gang-Cheon favored Dong-Joo. He mocks Dong-Joo in front of his wife Duk-Hee that the guy became a powerful helper of the chairman. Gang-Cheon and Il-Do are going to have a talk. So they let the outsider Dong-Joo leave. Dong-Joo waits for Gang-Cheon in the living room for a long time. But the chairman doesn’t summon him. He realizes that the crisis is coming.
Dong-Joo returns home. He has happy hour with his girlfriend. His girlfriend Eun-Nam is an employee of Daesan Group. She has lived with Dong-Joo for a long time. He puts a bracelet on her and he says sweet words. He dreams of marrying her. Although he’s ambitious, he gave his true heart to her.
He wanted to marry the chairman’s granddaughter before he encountered Eun-Nam. He planned to reach the top of the group. The colleague Gi-Hyeon gave him the address of the chairman’s granddaughter. He suggested he gives the girl dried persimmon as a present. But Dong-Joo’s eyes were fixed on the girl. The girl had long hair and she wore white heels. She was charming when she played the violin. She turned around and she had a good looking face. It caught Dong-Joo’s heart.
The girl is Eun-Nam. She chased Dong-Joo to the parking lot. She scolded him for reporting it to the superior. He found out the errors in her reporting. He reported to the superior. It caused her to be scolded by the chairman. He was gentle to apologize when he looked at her angry face. He invited her to get in his car. He cancelled the plan to go to see the chairman’s granddaughter because he ran into Eun-Nam. He sacrificed his career for getting together with Eun-Nam.
Dong-Joo hears the news that the chairman’s granddaughter is going to get married. He will be in charge of the wedding. Gi-Hyeon asks Dong-Joo if he regrets for giving up the chance. Dong-Joo doesn’t regret at all. He fell for Eun-Nam. So he gave up the good future. His ambition to money and power are the same even if he’s enchanted by the beauty.
Gang-Cheon plans to choose a vice-chairman for the group. Dong-Joo mistakes that he has a chance to get the position. But Gang-Cheon leaks it to Dong-Joo that he plans to let Il-Do be the vice-chairman. Il-Do will take over the group in the future. Gang-Cheon asks Dong-Joo to go to the subsidiary companies to check out Il-Do’s reviews.
Dong-Joo has to run the task Gang-Cheon arranged. He gets in Il-Do’s personal helicopter. He begins the investigation. He gets off the helicopter and he sees Eun-Nam waiting for him on the stairs. It seems that she wants to see him very much. He hugs her and kisses her. He gets a call from someone. He leaves in a hurry. She sees her boyfriend off. Her eyes becomes unfamiliar from gentle.
The one who called Dong-Joo was the senior Gi-Hyeon. Gi-Hyeon thinks it was unfair to Dong-Joo. Gang-Cheon said that he will give the company to professional if he’s not happy with his son-in-law. But Gang-Cheon didn’t trust outsiders in the end. He gave the position of vice-chairman to his son-in-law.
Gi-Hyeon’s words hit Dong-Joo’s heart. Dong-Joo asks Gi-Hyeon to recommend him to inherit the position if the chairman’s second daughter Kuk-Hee abdicates. Kuk-Hee controls a subsidiary company of the group. But she’s incapable. She’s not trusted by the chairman. Dong-Joo promises to help Gi-Hyeon take over Il-Do’s position once Il-Do becomes vice-chairman.
You know the chairman has two daughters but he doesn’t have any son. Dong-Joo doesn’t want to give up the chance to move up. It’s the lesson Gi-Hyeon taught him ever. Dong-Joo and Eun-Nam’s love is till scorch when he exposes his ambition to his senior.
He gets her name tattooed around his wrist. Eun-Nam asks Dong-Joo what they will do to the tattoo if they break up. He claims that he will take revenge if she dumps him. He will hold another girl’s hand and appear in front of her. She thinks about the scene that he holds another girl’s hand. She’s very sad. She claims that she will dump him even if they break up. Her heart aches when she thinks about another girl standing next to him.
Dong-Joo promises Eun-Nam that he will only marry her all his life. He prefers to be lonely if they break up. She’s gentle to dry his hair. But she finds out that he had food poisoning after she answered the phone. Fortunately, he’s sent to the hospital. He’s saved.
Dong-Joo looks at Eun-Nam who worries about him. He jokes that he’s envy of the man who’s going to be her husband. He’s touched and he sleeps with the beauty. He falls for her completely. He wakes up after the sweet night. He gets a call from the chairman’s secretary. It’s the wedding of the chairman’s granddaughter today.
The chairman asks Dong-Joo to be his entourage at the wedding. Dong-Joo promises it. He finds out that his girlfriend isn’t home. He mistakes that his girlfriend went to work out. He takes out the proposal ring from the drawer. He sends a message to his girlfriend. He invites her to have dinner together. Eun-Nam receives the message. But she doesn’t reply to him.
Dong-Joo accompanies the chairman to the hotel where is held the wedding. He runs into his old classmate Hui-Cheol in the restroom. The two had a resentment when they were in the school. Dong-Joo brags to Hui-Cheol that he will be the president of Daesan Group’s subsidiary company. But Hui-Cheol mocks Dong-Joo.
Hui-Cheol became a prosecutor and he’s the lead role of the wedding. He’s the guy who’s going to marry the chairman’s granddaughter. He’s also the nephew of Jang-Sun. Jang-Sun is Dong-Joo’s teacher. He came up with plans for Dong-Joo. Dong-Joo isn’t happy after knowing Jang-Sun introduced a girl to Hui-Cheol.
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Hui-Cheol claims that Dong-Joo won’t have a place to stay in Daesan Group once he becomes the chairman’s grandson-in-law. Dong-Joo punches Hui-Cheol. He believes that he won’t be beaten down by anyone. The wedding begins. Il-Do takes the bride to appear as a father under the romantic lights. Dong-Joo finds out that the bride is the girl he loves.